What is the best build for Arms Dealer in Brotato?

In the site's simulation, starting with Pistol: it won 287 of 400 runs on Danger 5; the winners bought Sharp Bullet, Feather, Alien Worm, Plant and Lens most.

Simulated: every Danger level and endless, up to 400 runs per build

Arms Dealer builds

In 400 simulated runs per weapon on Danger 5 (Brotato 1.1.15.4), Arms Dealer wins most often starting with Pistol (72% of runs). The winning Pistol runs bought Sharp Bullet, Feather, Alien Worm, Plant and Lens most often.

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Quick answers (2)

What is the best build for Arms Dealer in Brotato?: In the site's simulation, starting with Pistol: it won 287 of 400 runs on Danger 5; the winners bought Sharp Bullet, Feather, Alien Worm, Plant and Lens most.
What weapon should Arms Dealer use?: Pistol (72% wins).

Arms Dealer — what the builds are made from

-95% Weapons Price
+30 Harvesting
Damage modifications are increased by 33%
You start with 1 Dangerous Bunny
Shops always sell at least one weapon
All of your weapons are destroyed when entering a shop

Build 1: Pistol · Ranged Damage

Start with PistolGun · buy copies and this class

72%won 287 of 400 simulated runs on Danger 5

19.7average wave reached

Weapons the winning runs ended with

Gun set bonus at 6: +50 Range

Items the winning runs bought most

Endless mode

The three best Danger 5 builds, 200 endless runs each: the wave each run died on (runs stop at 100).

Start with	Average	Median	Top 10%	Best	Longest runs bought
Pistol	25.1	26	28	37

Start with

Average

Median

Top 10%

Best

Longest runs bought

Pistol

25.1

How the simulation works

Every Danger level and endless mode, Crash Zone; each starting weapon gets a first pass and the best ones many more runs. The game's waves (enemy groups, sizes, repeats and wave lengths from its wave files, the boss at wave 20, two on Danger 5), enemy HP and damage by wave and Danger.
Every material dropped is picked up; it is also XP. Harvesting pays at the end of each wave and grows 5% a wave. Crates drop at the enemies' own rates (more with Luck) and give an item of the wave's tier.
Shop: 4 slots a wave, each a weapon 35% of the time (a copy of one you hold 20%, one of the same class 35%), tier by the game's odds for the wave and Luck, prices by the game's formula; up to 3 rerolls. Two copies of a weapon combine into the next tier. Level-ups offer 4 upgrades of the game's tiers for that level.
Purchases and level-ups are chosen greedily: whatever raises damage-to-clear and survival most per material. Damage: every weapon's DPS by the game's formulas plus pierce, bounce, burning, explosions, lightning and other on-hit projectiles, turrets, landmines and pets; 60% of the wave spent hitting; melee hits 1.5 enemies, explosions 3.
Survival: 1% of a wave's enemies land a hit when the wave is cleared in time, more the longer they live; damage reduced by armor and dodge (the game's formulas), healed by HP regeneration and life steal. A run ends when a wave's hits exceed what the character can take. That share is the one tuned number: it was set so that the strongest builds win most Danger 5 runs, the weakest few.
Endless: after wave 20 the game repeats waves 11–20 at 60 s each and adds int(wave ÷ 10 × 2) groups of its endless enemies; enemy HP grows by the endless factor × 2.25 and damage by the endless factor (RunData.get_endless_factor), prices and rerolls too, and harvesting shrinks 20% a wave. Runs stop at wave 100.
Not modelled: dodging by moving, knockback, elites and hordes, curses, item effects that trigger on conditions (on dodge, on pickup, below HP…), consumables' healing, recycling and locking.

Damage model by weapon class (no run, one stat line)

Build 1: Gun · Ranged Damage

6× PistolTier IV · 158 damage every 0.61s on the build's stats · 350 DPS each

2,100 DPS from 6 weapons

Gun set bonus with 6 weapons

+50 Range

Stat line it is judged on

53.2 Ranged Damage
53.2 % Damage
40 % Attack Speed
10 % Crit Chance
30 Harvesting

Level-up order

Items with the most of the build's stats per material

Player builds

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How the damage model works

Stat line of a late run: 40 in the build's damage stat, 40 % Damage, 40 % Attack Speed and 10 % Crit Chance, each times the character's own gain modifier (×1.25 for +25%, none for −100%), plus the character's flat stats. A stat the character converts into damage ("+2 Melee Damage for every 1 Armor") also gets 40.
The main weapon is one the character can start with — the one you pick at the start, buy copies of and combine up. Weapons that first appear at Tier III or IV (Minigun, the Legendary class…) are never starting weapons, so they are only alternatives. Judged at Tier IV (or the highest tier the character may hold), with the character's bonuses for that class or type. DPS as on the weapon pages: damage × projectiles × average crit ÷ cooldown; weapon effects, set bonuses, pierce and bounce not counted.
Engineering builds deal most of their damage through structures, which the DPS leaves out: their structure items are listed apart.
Items ranked by their plain stat changes per 100 materials of base price, weighted: the damage stat, % Damage and Attack Speed 1; % Crit Chance 0.5, Max HP 0.5, Armor 0.5, HP Regeneration 0.4, % Dodge 0.3, % Life Steal 0.3, % Speed 0.2, Luck 0.2, Harvesting 0.2; other damage stats 0. Each weight times the character's gain modifier; penalties count against the item. Items the character is never offered are left out.
Each build is one weapon class the character starts with or is boosted for; the three with the most DPS, each with a different main weapon.