Gladiator build

How players win with Gladiator Community consensus

Summarised in our own words on 13 November 2026; check the patch date of each source against PC 1.2.

Weapons Gladiator boosts most Computed from rules

Gladiator: ordered by how much Gladiator's modifiers raise each weapon's damage compared with a character without modifiers, then by damage per second; weapons Gladiator doesn't boost fall back to raw DPS. Reference profile: Gladiator's own stats plus 20 points bought in the weapon's main scaling stat, both multiplied by Gladiator's modifiers; one weapon, its highest tier, no items, single target, every projectile hits. 51 of 55 equippable weapons scale with a stat Gladiator can raise.

#	Weapon	Boost	DPS	Main stat	Hit	Cooldown
1	Mace IV	×0.98	101.6	Melee Damage	165	1.72 s
2	Torch IVStarting option	×0.88	23.2+ burn 9×12	Melee Damage	26	1.12 s
3	Stick IV	×0.83	24.6	Melee Damage	37	1.53 s
4	Hand IV	×0.84	13.1	Melee Damage	13	0.99 s
5	Knife IVStarting option	×0.78	105.7	Melee Damage	45	1.06 s
6	Circular Saw IV	×0.79	69.1	Melee Damage	50	0.87 s
7	Whip IVStarting option	×0.80	56	Melee Damage	46	1.23 s
8	Chainsaw IV	×0.80	55.9	Melee Damage	45	0.82 s
9	Light Saber IV	×0.78	54.4	Melee Damage	68	1.29 s
10	Pruner IV	×0.79	44.9	Melee Damage	50	1.25 s

Starting weapons by the same measure

• Torch#2 of 51, 23.2 DPS at tier IV
• Knife#5 of 51, 105.7 DPS at tier IV
• Whip#7 of 51, 56 DPS at tier IV
• Flail#11 of 51, 43.4 DPS at tier IV
• Quarterstaff#12 of 51, 43.4 DPS at tier IV
• Lightning Shiv#15 of 51, 35.3 DPS at tier IV
• Ghost Flint#16 of 51, 31.2 DPS at tier IV
• Crowbar#17 of 51, 24.5 DPS at tier IV
• Fist#21 of 51, 108.3 DPS at tier IV
• Meat Tenderizer#30 of 51, 65.4 DPS at tier IV
• Thief Dagger#33 of 51, 57.5 DPS at tier IV
• Spear#37 of 51, 50.4 DPS at tier IV
• Cacti Club#38 of 51, 46 DPS at tier IV
• Plank#41 of 51, 39 DPS at tier IV
• Jousting Lance#42 of 51, 34.3 DPS at tier IV
• Ghost Axe#43 of 51, 31.7 DPS at tier IV
• Sharp Tooth#46 of 51, 24.5 DPS at tier IV
• Hatchet#47 of 51, 72.4 DPS at tier IV
• Shovel#48 of 51, 53.9 DPS at tier IV
• Claw#51 of 51, 40.4 DPS at tier IV

Legendary-only weapons

These exist only at tier IV, cost a Legendary shop slot and carry the Legendary set penalty of −20 Max HP per weapon of the class. At the same profile: Excalibur 311.1 DPS; Scythe 178.8 DPS; Drill 97.6 DPS; DEX-troyer 69.1 DPS.

Items for the stats this build buys Computed from item data

Ranked by points per base material after Gladiator's multiplier; prices rise each wave. Downsides are listed because they hit other stats.

Items that use Gladiator's effects

What the modifiers change Computed from rules

Gladiator has no stat multiplier, so the weapon decides the stat. Restrictions: melee weapons only. At the reference profile the highest single-target damage comes from Mace IV (101.6 DPS).

different weapon → Attack Speed

+20% Attack Speed for every different weapon you have.

Never offered to Gladiator

• Seashell

Item groups: ranged damage.

Assumptions and method

• Damage per hit = round(trunc(base + Σ stat × scaling) × (1 + %Damage/100 + class %Damage/100)); crits average in as chance × round(hit × multiplier). Formulas are datamined from the game code; weapon numbers come from the game-file tables.
• Cooldown is the tooltip value, which includes the attack animation. Reload weapons average the long cooldown over its shot count. Attack Speed divides the tooltip, an approximation: the game divides only the cooldown frames.
• Not modelled: pierce, bounce, explosion splash, knockback, on-hit and kill-count effects, structures, and how often the weapon actually reaches enemies. Multi-projectile weapons assume every projectile hits the same target, which favours shotguns.
• Version: Brotato PC 1.2 with the 12 November 2026 patch. Reviewed 12 November 2026.