Wounded build

This character dies in One Hit
You start with 1 Tardigrade
+5% Speed
+8 Harvesting
Shop items and crates are cleared of items focusing on Max HP, HP Regeneration, Life Steal and Armor

Unlock and starting weapons Open Boomerang in the calculator

How players win with Wounded Community consensus

One hit ends the run, so use long-range high-DPS guns: SMG, Double Barrel Shotgun, Icicle or Rail Gun, prioritising Ranged Damage and Range. Laser Guns are advised for Nightmare, where a mutated enemy releases bullets when struck by ranged attacks.

Stats: Ranged Damage, % Damage, Range, Dodge. Weapon classes: Gun.

Avoid: Melee weapons.

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.
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.

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

Weapons Wounded boosts most Computed from rules

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

#	Weapon	Boost	DPS	Main stat	Hit	Cooldown
1	Boomerang IVStarting option	×1.03	59.5	Melee Damage	34	0.60 s
2	Sickle IV	×1.06	48.6	Melee Damage	33	0.70 s
3	Jousting Lance IV	×1.03	48	Melee Damage	62	1.33 s
4	Combat Shotgun IV	×1	350.6	Ranged Damage	32 ×8	0.75 s
5	Machine Gun IVStarting option	×1	250.7	Ranged Damage	22	0.09 s
6	Minigun IV	×1	228.9	Ranged Damage	20	0.09 s
7	Obliterator IV	×1	223.2	Ranged Damage	700	3.23 s
8	Flaming Brass Knuckles IV	×1	170.3+ burn 7×18	Melee Damage	100	0.59 s
9	Power Fist IV	×1	170.3	Melee Damage	100	0.59 s
10	SMG IVStarting option	×1	160.8	Ranged Damage	24	0.15 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 Wounded's multiplier; prices rise each wave. Downsides are listed because they hit other stats.

Melee Damage main stat of the top weapons

Items that use Wounded's effects

Shop items and crates are cleared of items focusing on Max HP, HP Regeneration, Life Steal and Armor

What the modifiers change Computed from rules

Wounded 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).

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

Never offered to Wounded

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.