Knuckle Knife family
Knuckle Knife
The savage knuckle knife is a roughshod specialization for close quarters combat, suited for both bludgeoning and brutal thrusting deathblows.
- Cycle
- -
- Velocity
- -
- Drop
- -
- Falloff
- -
- Ammo
- -
- Heavy
- 92
- Light
- 58
Damage
The damage model
- Raw projectile
- 66
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 58
- Heavy 92
Once your stamina is spent the cooldown stretches to 1.6s - 3.6× the rested heavy swing.
Against monsters, and who hears it
Attacks
Its attacks are not one damage type - light attack deals Melee Blunt, heavy attack deals Melee Stab - so which one you pick below changes what it is strongest and weakest against.
Light attack
- Damage
- 65
- Damage type
- Melee Blunt
- Cleave cap
- 1 body
Swing cadence
- Light attack
- 0.7s before the next light attack
- Heavy attack
- 0.45s before the next heavy attack
- Tired
- 1.6s - the delay once you are out of stamina
Against a hunter, by hit zone
- Head 130
- Upper torso 58
- Torso 58
- Left arm 58
- Right arm 58
- Left leg 39
- Right leg 39
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 Blunt damage. It hits Immolator hardest (1.44x) and Water Devil softest (0.45x).
Two hits
Doctor Grunt HeadGrunt HeadLantern or Torch Grunt HeadMuzzled Hellhound Jaw
Four hits
Water Devil BodyArmored HeadImmolator Head
Five or more
Concertina Armored HeadAssassin HeadRotjaw WeakspotHellborn HeadMeathead Torso UpperSpider HeadButcher HeadScrapbeak 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.
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.