Damage
DPS
Attack speed
Unlock level
Blueprint cost
Category
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XP multiplier
Pellets
Compatible joker stacks
These joker rows stack linearly and only roll for this weapon. Max × per-stack effect gives the cap.
- Attack Speed
- +5% × 8 = +40%
- Charging Speed
- +15% × 4 = +60%
- Damage
- +5% × 8 = +40%
- Draw Speed
- +30% × 3 = +90%
- Range
- +4% × 10 = +40%
Builds
- Basically immortal tankTanks every nightmare threat, clear every storm and sit in a chair for bossfight+9
- Knuckleblaster+3
- The Iron Punching Bag (Hammers Edge) {WIP}Take big damage DEAL big damage save yourself at the brink of death with Ritual + Ice Cube. Use swap to throw yourself into and (if need be) out of fights.+2
- Fus Ro DAHA LOT of dmg but alongside some healing essentially, needs work+2
- Icy GraspExcels at Movement, AoE, Crowd control, Support, Relatively cheap, adaptability.+2
- Frost KnucklesA loadout built around a Knuckles primary, Boomerang sidearm, Ice spells, 15 jokers.+1
How it playsShort range, big impact. A primary that requires no ammo, no aim, and no thoughts: punches at melee range, and a charged attack that spends the charge bar. No magazine means no reload and no ammo to run down. Stay inside the crowd. The charge bar is the only resource you manage, and Charging Speed (+15% per stack, four stacks) brings the charged attack back sooner. Fist Rage turns the damage you take into charge and grants +30% attack speed for 2 seconds. Fist Ro Dah goes the other way: the charged attack propels you backwards and has a 20% chance to apply Frost. Frost Bite pays 2 shield points for every melee kill on a frozen enemy.
Strategy
Strengths
- No ammo, no reload, no magazine to run down
- Fist Rage: taking damage generates charge and +30% attack speed for 2 seconds
- Charging Speed goes to +15% per stack, four stacks deep
Weaknesses
- Melee range only, so anything at distance is your secondary's job
- Nothing to spend clip, reload, or ammo upgrades on
- The charged attack is gone until the charge bar refills
How to unlock
- Blueprints drop during missions. Bosses and loot Coyotes drop them, and surviving the storm at an Anvil forges one.
- Blueprints are one shared currency, not a per-weapon count. Every Blueprint you pick up counts toward any weapon.
- Spend them on this weapon between runs. Unlocking it with Blueprints buys it outright, with no Gold cost on top.
Comparison
Knuckles against the top weapons by DPS. Every spoke is scaled to the best value in the arsenal; a faster rate or reload fills more of it.
| Knuckles | |
|---|---|
| Damage | 10 |
| DPS | 20.0 |
| Rate | 0.50s |
| Magazine | 1 |
| Reload | - |
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