Renegade build

+2 projectiles
Projectiles pierce through 1 additional target
+10% Damage for every different Tier I item you have
You can't equip melee weapons
-400% Damage
-50% Accuracy
Damage modifications are reduced by 80%

Unlock and starting weapons Open Flamethrower in the calculator

How players win with Renegade Community consensus

Use single-projectile weapons that gain most from the +2 projectiles: SMG with Ranged Damage and Life Steal, Revolver or Laser Gun, or Ghost Scepter. Buy every new tier-1 item to offset the -80% Damage; explosive guns, Javelin and Flute builds are also reported.

Stats: Ranged Damage, Attack Speed, Life Steal, Crit Chance. Weapon classes: Gun.

Avoid: Double Barrel Shotgun (gains proportionally less from extra projectiles).

ArosRising's Brotato Character Guide (undated; written before Primal Dread): Danger 5 oriented Google Doc; the author says it has not been updated for Primal Dread or Update 1.2.
Beginners/Achievement Guide - How To Win As Every Character (+D5 Tips) - Brotato (AdamsIdeas) (last updated 2026-02-12): Predates Update 1.2 and Primal Dread.
Brotato + DLC!! - Danger 5 Runs and Tips (All Characters) +UPDATES (B the No-Self) (posted 2023-08-12; last updated 2026-11-05): Character sections are undated and many were written before Update 1.2 (2 Nov 2026); Danger 5 wins.
Renegade - Brotato Wiki (Spells & Guns) (revision date not shown; fetched 2026-11-12): CC BY-SA 4.0.
SMG spamming Renegade - brotato-builds.com (undated; tagged Danger 5): User-submitted build by Cheese.

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

Weapons Renegade boosts most Computed from rules

Renegade: ordered by how much Renegade's modifiers raise each weapon's damage compared with a character without modifiers, then by damage per second; weapons Renegade doesn't boost fall back to raw DPS. Reference profile: Renegade's own stats plus 20 points bought in the weapon's main scaling stat, both multiplied by Renegade's modifiers; one weapon, its highest tier, no items, single target, every projectile hits. 38 of 40 equippable weapons scale with a stat Renegade can raise.

#	Weapon	Boost	DPS	Main stat	Hit	Cooldown
1	Flamethrower IV	×1	11.1+ burn 6×5	Elemental Damage	1	0.09 s
2	Combat Shotgun IV	×0.19	65.7	Ranged Damage	6 ×8	0.75 s
3	Minigun IV	×0.20	45.8	Ranged Damage	4	0.09 s
4	Machine Gun IVStarting option	×0.18	45.6	Ranged Damage	4	0.09 s
5	Obliterator IV	×0.20	44.6	Ranged Damage	140	3.23 s
6	SMG IVStarting option	×0.21	33.5	Ranged Damage	5	0.15 s
7	Double Barrel Shotgun IVStarting option	×0.21	30.9	Ranged Damage	6 ×6	1.20 s
8	Revolver IVStarting option	×0.20	27.7	Ranged Damage	16	0.59 s
9	Laser Gun IVStarting option	×0.20	27.5	Ranged Damage	44	1.65 s
10	Icicle IVStarting option	×0.20	24	Elemental Damage	12	0.70 s

Starting weapons by the same measure

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 131.4 DPS; Gatling Laser 98.6 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): Wand 6×12, Particle Accelerator 6×10, Molotov Cocktail 5×7, Flamethrower 6×5, Fireball 6×5, Carbon Bow 2×12.

Items for the stats this build buys Computed from item data

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

Elemental Damage main stat of the top weapons

Ranged Damage main stat of the top weapons

Items that turn Renegade's stats into more

What the modifiers change Computed from rules

Renegade has no stat multiplier, so the weapon decides the stat. Restrictions: ranged weapons only. At the reference profile the highest single-target damage comes from Flamethrower IV (11.1 DPS).

Damage ×0.20: Counts ×0.20, including its penalties, which shrink by the same factor.
different Tier I item → Damage: +10% Damage for every different Tier I item you have.

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.