Wildling build

+30% Life Steal with Primitive weapons
You start with 1 Stick
You can’t equip weapons above tier II

Unlock and starting weapons Open Combat Shotgun in the calculator

How players win with Wildling Community consensus

Six Sticks (the starting extra Stick included) with the +30% Primitive Life Steal is the default; Spear, Javelin, Hatchet and Slingshot are alternatives within the tier-2 weapon cap.

Stats: Melee Damage, Attack Speed, % Damage, Max HP, Armor, Dodge. Weapon classes: Primitive.

Avoid: Sharp Tooth (Wildling's Life Steal does not scale it).

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.
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.
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.

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

Weapons Wildling boosts most Computed from rules

Wildling: ordered by how much Wildling's modifiers raise each weapon's damage compared with a character without modifiers, then by damage per second; weapons Wildling doesn't boost fall back to raw DPS. Reference profile: Wildling's own stats plus 20 points bought in the weapon's main scaling stat, both multiplied by Wildling's modifiers; one weapon, tier II, no items, single target, every projectile hits. 77 of 77 equippable weapons scale with a stat Wildling can raise.

#	Weapon	Boost	DPS	Main stat	Hit	Cooldown
1	Combat Shotgun II	×1	183.1	Ranged Damage	25 ×6	0.84 s
2	Machine Gun II	×1	113.7	Ranged Damage	13	0.12 s
3	SMG II	×1	96.3	Ranged Damage	16	0.17 s
4	Laser Gun II	×1	78.6	Ranged Damage	145	1.90 s
5	Double Barrel Shotgun II	×1	74	Ranged Damage	23 ×4	1.28 s
6	Revolver II	×1	70.5	Ranged Damage	46	0.67 s
7	Flaming Brass Knuckles II	×1	55.1+ burn 5×10	Melee Damage	40	0.73 s
8	Brick II	×1	53.3	Melee Damage	73	1.39 s
9	Medical Gun II	×1	51.5	Ranged Damage	35	0.70 s
10	Knife II	×1	51	Melee Damage	29	0.91 s

Starting weapons by the same measure

Items for the stats this build buys Computed from item data

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

Ranged Damage main stat of the top weapons

What the modifiers change Computed from rules

Wildling has no stat multiplier, so the weapon decides the stat. Restrictions: tier II and below. At the reference profile the highest single-target damage comes from Combat Shotgun II (183.1 DPS).

Primitive weapons +30% Life Steal: +30% Life Steal with Primitive weapons. Eligible: Hatchet, Blowgun, Whip, Rock, Spear, Boomerang, Flail, Javelin and 6 more.

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.