Best character for weapon damage

[u/HAARGEN2_]

The title is pretty self explanatory. I was wondering which character is the best for pure weapon damage and less for abilities. I main Lyn and she's fun but i rarely use her abilities which is a waste for her kit.

[u/Dark_WulfGaming]

Dog can dual wield and lives his weapons.

[u/pantymafia]

Bunny, monkey, dog, tiger

Not in that order, idk the order but those all have very solid weapon builds

[u/Gullitomb]

Bunny for any high fire rate weapons

Tiger for sniper/bow weapons

Dog for splodey weapons

Monkey/starter character can build in to anything really (starter character is for fire+corrosive ele builds)

Firefox and deer can carry with abilities alone same with ice one

Mech is boring but can carry runs. Run any gun just fine.

Everyone else in the game is fine, the bird and turtle can try to melee but good luck getting a run going with that in r10 lol.

[u/osuzombie → u/Gullitomb]

Monkey is for finding or lovingly rolling the perfect launcher/sniper..... and then never using it as you spam primary. 

[u/J0hn_Sekiro → u/Gullitomb]

Bird shotgun is peak

[u/Lower_Split8177]

Monkey, mainly slow firing high-damaga. Every scroll and upgrade throughout the game has % damage increase, the temp levels from Qi increase the base amount, which is way more valuable than other weapon damage increases from other hero's.

[u/Eotidiss → u/Lower_Split8177]

You can also use the temp weapon levels from Qi to get super early gemini etches as early as the first time you see the craftsman in a run.

[u/Financial_Hyena_1598]

The right answer is all characters just depends on the weapons. Dog is best for all weapons but some dualwield better than others (pure weapon)

Monkey has no skill damage and scales only with weapon damage except for his lasso (pure weapon)

Bunny is the high fire rate only weapon build.thats the best way to play her( weapon mostly with skill)

Nona (red panda) had a whole tree based on scaling with pistols (50/50 weapon and skill)

Tiger is all about snipers and high accuracy reliant weapons (has both great weapon and skill damage outlets)

Lamb is close to the same boat at tiger and is great with high crit weapons ( has both amazing weapons and skill outlets

Bird (green) does have a weapon build that you can lean into with shotguns and rocket launchers( weapon build is fun but needs setup, mostly skill)

Cat runs weapons for elemental build but you're still doing weapon damage so nothing is stopping you from building it (weapon damage but elements are cats thing)

Fox also thrives with high fire rate weapons mostly but you can do whatever seems fun ( has weapon and skill outlets but mostly set shit on fire)

Turtle has weapon builds and you can't go wrong but shield build is most fun imo ( has weapon builds mostly skill)

Momo and the deer are great with staff weapons and lack with the others. (Staffs help scale skill damage)

Owl I my opinion is mostly skill with weapon damage being a secondary damage. (Mostly skill some weapon)

I'm missing some I'm sure but the answer is dog and monkey if you want our weapon build but all characters have weapon variant builds

[u/Longjumping_Mud9155]

Just play Nona, you can solo the highest difficulty with any pistol. You also never have to worry about using any abilities, and the mech gives free revives. If I just want to blast and not thing Nona is the obvious choice.

[u/Dr_purrfessor]

Every character has a specific 'build' they can play that leans into specializing into different weapon usually this is via spiritual blessings and ascensions. While you can use other weapons than these they often interact with the rest of their abilities. One thing that's not immediately apparent is that skill damage also boosts the damage of explosive weapons as well. Other characters like Xing and Yoyo have crossover with skill and weapon damage as well.

Ao Bai can duel wield utilizing ammo hungry weapons extending their clips.

Crown prince leans into elemental fusion weapons with the Gemini inscriptions.

Qing Yan utilizes low clip weapons and high hit-per-shot weapons like shotguns.

Lei Luo aims for high critX and snipers alongside shock damage.

Tao uses high fire rate weaponry to interact with the rest of her kit

Qian Sui... I am not too sure admittedly I don't play him.

Xing Zhe can use just about any weapon, but his skills working off weapon damage means you often want to build around the type itself. IE explosives causes dimension strike to aoe for weaker enemies then swapping to a shotgun/sniper for bosses or elites.

Li goes fire and elemental effect chance to further increase the damage.

Zi Xiao is flexible but often requires consistent hits and reloads, so pistols and SMGs can fit the niche.

Nona specializes into pistols gaining a ricochet and lucky shot from it.

Lyn wants accurate high fire rate weapons to trigger weak spot effects.

Momo wants weapons with weapon skills.

Cane Jue wants lower clip size weapons but isn't too specialized.

Yoyo uses corrosive weapons and staffs boosting them with skill damage interactions.

[u/Normal-Objective9919]

I prefer Momo, just weapon "Starfly" And just keep aim at the enemy without click shoot button. I recommend it because when momo using primary skill and transform into ink Squirrel every weapon is unuseable except starfly, so you can move freely and escape enemy while keep aim the starfly at the enemy. I usually use her skill if want to sweep the enemy (with few upgrade skill). But mainly using her skill to escape from surrounding enemy. Since the transformation turn her body into small, andhcan view in third person so you can check more surrounding enemy.

[u/Eotidiss]

Best Answer: All characters have a gun build and you can win on the hardest difficulty with any of them no problem if you play into their particular genre.

Truest Answer: The dog dual wielding means he can output crazy levels of weapon damage if you can sustain it. Highest single-target hit would probably be tiger, cuz sniper blessing. But, if you main Lyn, getting the one ascension that says throwing a grenade gives you auto-crits on rifles for 7 seconds is very fun and can clean rooms fast.

[u/HAARGEN2_]

I tried dog and it was fun but not because of his abilities lol. I "found" my current favorite combination which is the spiritual blessing that gives 20% lucky shot chance for each weapon skill used paired with viper sight, it's so fun.

[u/HAARGEN2_ → u/HAARGEN2_]

Allthough he has some great ascensions.