Katana family
Katana
Two-handed, single-edged sword. Swift and sharp enough to pierce the sturdiest armor.
- Cycle
- -
- Velocity
- -
- Drop
- -
- Falloff
- -
- Ammo
- -
- Heavy
- 280
- Light
- 165
Damage
The damage model
- Raw projectile
- 220
Handling
Swinging it
A melee weapon records none of the firing stats. What it records is the trade between the two swings - a heavy costs stamina and time for the damage it adds.
- Light 165
- Heavy 280
Once your stamina is spent the cooldown stretches to 1.85s - 5.3× the rested heavy swing.
Against monsters, and who hears it
Attacks
Its attacks are not one damage type - light attack deals Melee Slash, heavy attack deals Melee Stab, gated swing deals Melee Slash - so which one you pick below changes what it is strongest and weakest against.
Light attack
- Damage
- 110
- Damage type
- Melee Slash
- Cleave cap
- Not stated - the files disagree with themselves
Swing cadence
- Light attack
- 0.7s before the next light attack
- Heavy attack
- 0.35s before the next heavy attack
- Tired
- 1.85s - the delay once you are out of stamina
Against a hunter, by hit zone
- Head 330
- Upper torso 165
- Torso 110
- Left arm 110
- Right arm 110
- Left leg 77
- Right leg 77
Against a hunter's 150 health, from the game's own hunter hit-zone table. Melee carries no falloff, so these do not change with distance.
Against the bestiary
Light attack
Deals Melee Slash damage. It hits Firebreather hardest (4.4x) and Bloodskin softest (0.44x).
Killed outright by one hit
Bileweaver HeadBloodweaver Head
One hit
Hive HeadFirebreather Head
Two hits
Water Devil BodyArmored HeadImmolator Head
Three hits
Concertina Armored Head
Five or more
Meathead Torso UpperAssassin HeadRotjaw WeakspotSpider HeadHellborn HeadButcher Torso UpperScrapbeak HeadBloodskin Weakspot
Computed from each creature's own hit-zone table against this attack's damage type.
Traits and perks
Traits that apply
Every trait this weapon's own data references. A recommendation is the game's own; the numbers above are the ones we can prove from the weapon's attribute presets.
Martialist Recommended 2 pts Sheath a Katana to enable a first strike attack that does extra damage.
Silent Killer Recommended 3 pts Reduce noise when performing melee attacks.
A few perks carve out exceptions in their own description - Crack Shot excludes shotguns and sawed-off variants - so read the perk text, not just the listing.