Fastest weapons

Shortest mean time per attack, 0% Attack Speed

13.7 attacks per second. Tooltip values: the real interval of the fastest guns is a few frames longer.

How Attack Speed changes a cooldown

The game stores cooldowns in frames (60 per second) and applies Attack Speed as frames ÷ (1 + AS) for positive values and frames × (1 + |AS|) for negative ones, truncated, with a 2-frame minimum. +100% Attack Speed halves the cooldown; −50% makes it 1.5 times longer. Each shot also gets a random delay of up to min(n × frames ÷ 5, 5n) frames either way, n being the number of weapons you hold, which averages out. Source: datamined (weapon_service.gd, weapon.gd).

Top 15

#	Weapon	Mean	Cooldown	Reload
1	Gatling Laser IVRanged	0.073 s	0.073 s	None
2	Machine Gun IVRanged	0.088 s	0.073 s	1.44 s every 90
3	Flamethrower IVRanged	0.090 s	0.09 s	None
4	Minigun IVRanged	0.090 s	0.09 s	None
5	Chain Gun IVRanged	0.093 s	0.073 s	2.04 s every 100
6	SMG IVRanged	0.150 s	0.15 s	None
7	Potato Thrower IVRanged	0.280 s	0.28 s	None
8	Blowgun IVRanged	0.370 s	0.37 s	None
9	Drill IVMelee	0.450 s	0.45 s	None
10	Medical Gun IVRanged	0.480 s	0.48 s	None
11	Wand IVRanged	0.530 s	0.53 s	None
12	Chainsaw IVMelee	0.584 s	0.56 s	1.52 s every 40
13	Fist IVMelee	0.590 s	0.59 s	None
14	Flaming Brass Knuckles IVMelee	0.590 s	0.59 s	None
15	Power Fist IVMelee	0.590 s	0.59 s	None

Fastest melee weapons

Slowest weapons

One more point of flat damage on a hit adds 1 ÷ cooldown DPS before %Damage: about 6.7 at 0.15 s (SMG IV) against 0.6 at 1.65 s (Laser Gun IV). Percentage bonuses multiply every weapon equally. Compare damage too in best Ranged weapons and best Melee weapons.

PC 1.2, 12 November 2026 patch. Reviewed 12 November 2026.