Weapon class

Blade builds

The characters that do most with Blade weapons in Brotato 1.1.15.4, by the site's build model: Knight (6× Sword, 2,265 DPS), Multitasker (12× Chopper, 2,116 DPS), King (6× Circular Saw, 1,609 DPS). 22 characters can run it.

Blade set bonus with 6 weapons

+5 Melee Damage
+5 % Life Steal

Characters ranked

#	Character	Weapon	Stacks	Build DPS
1	Knight	6× Sword	Melee Damage	2,265
2	Multitasker	12× Chopper	Melee Damage	2,116
3	King	6× Circular Saw	Melee Damage	1,609
4	Golem	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	1,032
5	Cryptid	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	1,003
6	Well-Rounded	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	939
7	Druid	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	939
8	Chunky	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	926
9	Old	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	926
10	Saver	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	926
11	Glutton	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	926
12	Demon	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	926
13	Vagabond	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	926
14	Wounded	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	926
15	Captain	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	926
16	Creature	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	926
17	Chef	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	926
18	Romantic	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	859
19	Ogre	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	682
20	Explorer	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	661
21	Lich	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	635
22	Lucky	6× Chopper	Melee Damage	595

How the builds are worked out

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.