Masochist build

How players win with Masochist Community consensus

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

Weapons Masochist boosts most Computed from rules

Masochist: ordered by how much Masochist's modifiers raise each weapon's damage compared with a character without modifiers, then by damage per second; weapons Masochist doesn't boost fall back to raw DPS. Reference profile: Masochist's own stats plus 20 points bought in the weapon's main scaling stat, both multiplied by Masochist's modifiers; one weapon, its highest tier, no items, single target, every projectile hits. 89 of 95 equippable weapons scale with a stat Masochist can raise.

#	Weapon	Boost	DPS	Main stat	Hit	Cooldown
1	Flamethrower IV	×1	11.1+ burn 1×5	Elemental Damage	1	0.09 s
2	Pan Flute IVStarting option	×0.09	5	Luck	1 ×5	1.03 s
3	Hand IV	×0.09	1.4	Melee Damage	1	0.71 s
4	Machine Gun IV	×0.05	11.5	Ranged Damage	1	0.09 s
5	Minigun IV	×0.05	11.4	Ranged Damage	1	0.09 s
6	Combat Shotgun IV	×0.03	11	Ranged Damage	1 ×8	0.75 s
7	SMG IV	×0.04	6.7	Ranged Damage	1	0.15 s
8	Double Barrel Shotgun IVStarting option	×0.03	5.2	Ranged Damage	1 ×6	1.20 s
9	Taser IV	×0.04	4.3	Elemental Damage	1 ×4	0.95 s
10	Blowgun IVStarting option	×0.04	4.1	Ranged Damage	1	0.37 s

Starting weapons by the same measure

• Pan Flute#2 of 89, 5 DPS at tier IV
• Double Barrel Shotgun#8 of 89, 5.2 DPS at tier IV
• Blowgun#10 of 89, 4.1 DPS at tier IV
• Carbon Bow#13 of 89, 2.1 DPS at tier IV
• Wand#15 of 89, 1.9 DPS at tier IV
• Scissors#20 of 89, 1.6 DPS at tier IV
• Sickle#22 of 89, 1.5 DPS at tier IV
• Sharp Tooth#25 of 89, 1.3 DPS at tier IV
• Torch#28 of 89, 1.3 DPS at tier IV
• Lute#36 of 89, 0.9 DPS at tier IV
• Molotov Cocktail#38 of 89, 0.7 DPS at tier IV
• Medical Gun#40 of 89, 2.1 DPS at tier IV
• Icicle#41 of 89, 2 DPS at tier IV
• Spiky Shield#61 of 89, 1 DPS at tier IV
• Shovel#67 of 89, 0.9 DPS at tier IV
• Rock#68 of 89, 0.9 DPS at tier IV
• Meat Tenderizer#70 of 89, 0.8 DPS at tier IV
• Cacti Club#73 of 89, 0.8 DPS at tier IV
• Brick#74 of 89, 0.7 DPS at tier IV
• Sticky Grenade#75 of 89, 0.7 DPS at tier IV
• Ghost Axe#80 of 89, 0.7 DPS at tier IV
• Crowbar#82 of 89, 0.6 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: Chain Gun 33.3 DPS; Gatling Laser 16.4 DPS; Drill 4.4 DPS; Excalibur 1.8 DPS.

Burning weapons

Burn damage is not in the DPS column. Per application at the same profile (damage per tick × ticks; the strongest burn on an enemy is kept unless you own Pyromaniac): Flaming Brass Knuckles 1×18, Carbon Bow 1×12, Wand 1×12, Torch 1×12, Particle Accelerator 1×10, Molotov Cocktail 1×7.

Items for the stats this build buys Computed from item data

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

Items that turn Masochist's stats into more

• Frozen HeartWeapon and pet damage additionally scales with 10% Elemental Damage
• Pearl+1% Damage for every permanent 10 Luck you have
• Strange Book+1 Engineering for every permanent 1 Elemental Damage you have

What the modifiers change Computed from rules

Masochist has no stat multiplier, so the weapon decides the stat. At the reference profile the highest single-target damage comes from Flamethrower IV (11.1 DPS).

Masochist has no stat multiplier, conversion or class bonus. Pick weapons by the stat they scale with and buy that stat.

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.