Sailor build

How players win with Sailor Community consensus

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

Weapons Sailor boosts most Computed from rules

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

#	Weapon	Boost	DPS	Main stat	Hit	Cooldown
1	Flamethrower IV	×1	11.1+ burn 21×5	Elemental Damage	1	0.09 s
2	Captain’s Sword IV	×0.97	110.6	Melee Damage	102	0.95 s
3	Anchor IVStarting option	×0.91	71.8	Melee Damage	128	1.81 s
4	Trident IVStarting option	×0.84	61.4	Melee Damage	84	1.41 s
5	Potato Thrower IV	×0.78	50.8	Ranged Damage	14	0.28 s
6	Combat Shotgun IV	×0.75	263	Ranged Damage	24 ×8	0.75 s
7	Machine Gun IV	×0.77	193.8	Ranged Damage	17	0.09 s
8	Minigun IV	×0.75	171.7	Ranged Damage	15	0.09 s
9	Obliterator IV	×0.75	167.4	Ranged Damage	525	3.23 s
10	Flaming Brass Knuckles IV	×0.75	127.8+ burn 5×18	Melee Damage	75	0.59 s

Starting weapons by the same measure

• Anchor#3 of 89, 71.8 DPS at tier IV
• Trident#4 of 89, 61.4 DPS at tier IV
• Blunderbuss#87 of 89, 15.9 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 559.1 DPS; Gatling Laser 378.1 DPS; Excalibur 313.6 DPS; Scythe 183.1 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 22×12, Particle Accelerator 23×10, Molotov Cocktail 19×7, Flamethrower 21×5, Fireball 21×5, Flaming Brass Knuckles 5×18.

Items for the stats this build buys Computed from item data

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

Items that turn Sailor's stats into more

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

Items that use Sailor's effects

What the modifiers change Computed from rules

Sailor has no stat multiplier, so the weapon decides the stat. Restrictions: tier II and above. At the reference profile the highest single-target damage comes from Flamethrower IV (11.1 DPS).

Harvesting ×0

Always 0, whatever you buy: items adding it are wasted.

Dodge cap 20%

Dodge above 20% is wasted, so armor and Max HP carry the defence. Armor vs dodge

Never offered to Sailor

• Peaceful Bee
• Ghost Outfit

Item groups: harvesting, dodge.

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.