What is the best build for Sailor in Brotato?

In the site's simulation, starting with Anchor: it won 99 of 400 runs on Danger 5; the winners bought Turret, Plant, Alien Worm, Mushroom and Ratzilla most.

What weapon should Sailor use?

Anchor (25% wins), Blunderbuss (8% wins), Trident (1% wins).

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

Sailor builds

In 400 simulated runs per weapon on Danger 5 (Brotato 1.1.15.4), Sailor wins most often starting with Anchor (25% of runs), Blunderbuss (8% of runs), Trident (1% of runs). The winning Anchor runs bought Turret, Plant, Alien Worm, Mushroom and Ratzilla most often.

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Quick answers (2)

What is the best build for Sailor in Brotato?: In the site's simulation, starting with Anchor: it won 99 of 400 runs on Danger 5; the winners bought Turret, Plant, Alien Worm, Mushroom and Ratzilla most.
What weapon should Sailor use?: Anchor (25% wins), Blunderbuss (8% wins), Trident (1% wins).

Sailor — what the builds are made from

+200% damage with Naval weapons against cursed enemies
+25 Curse
-25 % Damage
You can only equip tier II weapons or above
Dodge is capped at 20%
Harvesting modifications are reduced by 100%

Build 1: Anchor · Melee Damage

Start with AnchorNaval, Heavy · buy copies and these classes

25%won 99 of 400 simulated runs on Danger 5

19.2average wave reached

Weapons the winning runs ended with

Naval set bonus at 6: +5 Curse

Heavy set bonus at 6: +25 % Damage

Items the winning runs bought most

Build 2: Blunderbuss · Ranged Damage

Start with BlunderbussNaval, Gun · buy copies and these classes

8%won 30 of 400 simulated runs on Danger 5

18.9average wave reached

Weapons the winning runs ended with

Naval set bonus at 6: +5 Curse

Gun set bonus at 6: +50 Range

Items the winning runs bought most

Build 3: Trident · Melee Damage

Start with TridentNaval, Medieval · buy copies and these classes

1%won 5 of 400 simulated runs on Danger 5

18.6average wave reached

Weapons the winning runs ended with

Naval set bonus at 6: +5 Curse

Medieval set bonus at 6: +3 Armor, +6 % Dodge

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
Anchor	21.6	19	29	36
Blunderbuss	19.7	19	19	36
Trident	19.0	19	19	28

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: Heavy · Melee Damage

6× AnchorTier IV · 231 damage every 1.29s on the build's stats · 191 DPS each

1,146 DPS from 6 weapons

Heavy set bonus with 6 weapons

+25 % Damage

Stat line it is judged on

40 Melee Damage
15 % Damage
40 % Attack Speed
10 % Crit Chance
25 Curse

Level-up order

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

Build 2: Medieval · Melee Damage

6× TridentTier IV · 152 damage every 1.02s on the build's stats · 169 DPS each

1,014 DPS from 6 weapons

Medieval set bonus with 6 weapons

+3 Armor
+6 % Dodge

Stat line it is judged on

40 Melee Damage
15 % Damage
40 % Attack Speed
10 % Crit Chance
25 Curse

Level-up order

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

Build 3: Gun · Ranged Damage

6× BlunderbussTier IV · 161 damage every 3.71s on the build's stats · 52 DPS each

311 DPS from 6 weapons

Gun set bonus with 6 weapons

+50 Range

Stat line it is judged on

40 Ranged Damage
15 % Damage
40 % Attack Speed
10 % Crit Chance
25 Curse

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.

Jack96% Nightmare · 99% Danger 5
Cyborg92% Nightmare · 97% Danger 5
Masochist90% Nightmare · 98% Danger 5
Sick90% Nightmare · 92% Danger 5
Arms Dealer87% Nightmare · 92% Danger 5
Renegade87% Nightmare · 88% 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.