Time Shifter build

You can shift time when you take damage
Some waves come out of order (the first and final waves never move)
+5% Speed
Dodge modifications are reduced by 100%

Unlock and starting weapons Open Boomerang in the calculator Time Shifter on Nightmare

How players win with Time Shifter Community consensus

Slow, hard-hitting weapons such as Spear let the bullet-time positioning catch many enemies; items that drain 1 HP per second, such as Blood Donation, keep bullet time active.

Primal Dread Nightmare Mode Guide (jldark89) (2026-11-07): Posted after Update 1.2; Nightmare difficulty. Mentions Mech being nerfed in a beta at the time of writing.

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

Weapons Time Shifter boosts most Computed from rules

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

#	Weapon	Boost	DPS	Main stat	Hit	Cooldown
1	Boomerang IV	×1.03	59.5	Melee Damage	34	0.60 s
2	Jousting Lance IVStarting option	×1.03	48	Melee Damage	62	1.33 s
3	Combat Shotgun IV	×1	350.6	Ranged Damage	32 ×8	0.75 s
4	Machine Gun IVStarting option	×1	250.7	Ranged Damage	22	0.09 s
5	Minigun IV	×1	228.9	Ranged Damage	20	0.09 s
6	Obliterator IV	×1	223.2	Ranged Damage	700	3.23 s
7	Flaming Brass Knuckles IV	×1	170.3+ burn 7×18	Melee Damage	100	0.59 s
8	Power Fist IV	×1	170.3	Melee Damage	100	0.59 s
9	SMG IV	×1	160.8	Ranged Damage	24	0.15 s
10	Double Barrel Shotgun IV	×1	149.4	Ranged Damage	29 ×6	1.20 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 722.9 DPS; Gatling Laser 493.2 DPS; Excalibur 418.2 DPS; Scythe 243.2 DPS.

Items for the stats this build buys Computed from item data

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

Melee Damage main stat of the top weapons

Ranged Damage main stat of the top weapons

What the modifiers change Computed from rules

Time Shifter has no stat multiplier, so the weapon decides the stat. At the reference profile the highest single-target damage comes from Boomerang IV (59.5 DPS).

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

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.