What is the best build for Ranger in Brotato?

In the site's simulation, starting with Double Barrel Shotgun: it won 123 of 400 runs on Danger 5; the winners bought Feather, Sharp Bullet, Mutation, Lens and Coffee most.

What weapon should Ranger use?

Double Barrel Shotgun (31% wins), Revolver (26% wins), SMG (26% wins).

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

Ranger builds

In 400 simulated runs per weapon on Danger 5 (Brotato 1.1.15.4), Ranger wins most often starting with Double Barrel Shotgun (31% of runs), Revolver (26% of runs), SMG (26% of runs). The winning Double Barrel Shotgun runs bought Feather, Sharp Bullet, Mutation, Lens and Coffee most often.

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Quick answers (2)

What is the best build for Ranger in Brotato?: In the site's simulation, starting with Double Barrel Shotgun: it won 123 of 400 runs on Danger 5; the winners bought Feather, Sharp Bullet, Mutation, Lens and Coffee most.
What weapon should Ranger use?: Double Barrel Shotgun (31% wins), Revolver (26% wins), SMG (26% wins).

Ranger — what the builds are made from

+50 Range
You start with 1 Pistol
Ranged Damage modifications are increased by 50%
You can't equip melee weapons
Max HP modifications are reduced by 25%

Build 1: Double Barrel Shotgun · Ranged Damage

Start with Double Barrel ShotgunGun · buy copies and this class

31%won 123 of 400 simulated runs on Danger 5

19.3average wave reached

Weapons the winning runs ended with

Gun set bonus at 6: +50 Range

Items the winning runs bought most

Build 2: Revolver · Ranged Damage

Start with RevolverGun · buy copies and this class

26%won 104 of 400 simulated runs on Danger 5

19.3average wave reached

Weapons the winning runs ended with

Gun set bonus at 6: +50 Range

Items the winning runs bought most

Build 3: SMG · Ranged Damage

Start with SMGGun · buy copies and this class

26%won 104 of 400 simulated runs on Danger 5

19.3average wave reached

Weapons the winning runs ended with

Gun set bonus at 6: +50 Range

Items the winning runs bought most

Every starting weapon on Danger 5 (9)

Weapon	Wins	Avg wave
Double Barrel Shotgun	123/400	19.3
Revolver	104/400	19.3
SMG	104/400	19.3
Rail Gun	89/400	19.2
Shredder	8/40	19.2
Laser Gun	7/40	19.2
Pistol	6/40	19.1
Crossbow	4/40	18.7
Slingshot	1/40	19.0

Weapon

Wins

Avg wave

Double Barrel Shotgun

123/400

19.3

Revolver

104/400

19.3

SMG

104/400

19.3

Rail Gun

89/400

19.2

Shredder

8/40

19.2

Laser Gun

7/40

19.2

Pistol

6/40

19.1

Crossbow

4/40

18.7

Slingshot

1/40

19.0

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
Double Barrel Shotgun	22.3	19	29	36
SMG	22.3	19	27	36
Revolver	22.0	19	26	36

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× SMGTier IV · 78 damage every 0.105s on the build's stats · 785 DPS each

4,713 DPS from 6 weapons

Other Gun weapons for this build

Gun set bonus with 6 weapons

+50 Range

Stat line it is judged on

60 Ranged Damage
40 % Damage
40 % Attack Speed
10 % Crit Chance
50 Range

Level-up order

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

Build 2: Heavy · Ranged Damage

6× Rail GunTier IV · 133 damage every 0.68s on the build's stats · 229 DPS each

1,372 DPS from 6 weapons

Heavy set bonus with 6 weapons

+25 % Damage

Stat line it is judged on

60 Ranged Damage
40 % Damage
40 % Attack Speed
10 % Crit Chance
50 Range

Level-up order

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

Build 3: Precise · Ranged Damage

6× CrossbowTier IV · 74 damage every 0.8s on the build's stats · 157 DPS each

939 DPS from 6 weapons

Precise set bonus with 6 weapons

+15 % Crit Chance

Stat line it is judged on

60 Ranged Damage
40 % Damage
40 % Attack Speed
10 % Crit Chance
50 Range

Level-up order

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

Best co-op partners

Two-player runs with each character's best solo weapon, simulated on Nightmare and Danger 5.

Jack99% Nightmare · 100% Danger 5
Masochist97% Nightmare · 100% Danger 5
Brawler97% Nightmare · 98% Danger 5
One-Armed95% Nightmare · 100% Danger 5
Knight95% Nightmare · 100% Danger 5
Cyborg95% Nightmare · 98% Danger 5

All co-op combos and how co-op scales

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.