Piercing

Piercing

Piercing is a secondary stat that applies to projectiles. A projectile with piercing x, will have its projectile continue through that amount of enemies instead of disappearing. Weapons have a default 50% damage falloff on each pierce unless another number is stated. Meaning that the attack deals 50% less damage on the next hit after piercing an enemy.

Some Weapons have piercing by default, and piercing can be gained on all projectiles with the Bandana item.

If a projectile has both Bounce and Piercing, the Bounce occurs first. Be wary of buying Ricochet with weapons that relies on piercing, as the Damage falloff of the bounce will cause all the following piercing hits to do -50% damage.

• Explosive projectiles explode on every bounce and pierce.
• Piercing affects all projectiles. This includes ranged weapons, Turrets, and projectiles spawned by weapons such as Cacti Club.
• A piercing projectile will inflict knockback on each hit, unless it has bouncing. A projectile stops knocking enemies back once it bounces.

Damage falloff

Every weapon has a damage falloff. The default is 50%, but some weapons like the Crossbow (0%) or Double Barrel Shotgun (30%) have different amounts. This falloff means that the attack deals x% less damage rounded down after piercing a target.

For example if you have a Tier 1 Double Barrel Shotgun which pierces 2 times with -30% damage on each, and a bandana which adds +1 piercing, the damage would be as follows:

Say the first enemy takes 10 damage, it then pierces to the next target, dealing 7 damage. It then pierces again, dealing 70% of 7= 4.9 which is rounded down to 4 damage dealt. Finally, the bandana enters and the shot pierces the third time, dealing 2 damage on the final hit. - A total of 10+7+4+2=23 damage.

If you had a pumpkin in the same example, the first shot would deal 10, pierce dealing 85% damage, rounded down to 8 damage. Then Pierce again dealing 6 damage. Then the bandana pierce would deal 5.1 rounded down to 5 damage. A total of 10+8+6+5=29 damage.

Piercing works with any projectile. Even the ones from Alien Eyes, Baby with a Beard, Cacti Club, and Turrets.

Sharp Bullet

Sharp Bullet is a cheap tier 1 item that gives you +1 Piercing, just like the Bandana. But it comes at the cost of increasing the damage falloff by 20%. So this means that instead of the default 50% damage on the second hit, you're only doing 30%. You can overcome this by getting an extra pumpkin or two. Sharp Bullet tends to be a quite powerful option on most ranged weapons that don't have piercing by default. On the other hand it often isn't worth it on weapons that have piercing by default such as Double Barrel Shotgun.

Critical Hits

Piercing attacks deal critical hits on individual basis. If the first target hit is dealt a critical hit, it doesn't make the rest of the targets hit also be critical hits, nor does it increase the damage dealt to the next target. So if you in the former example crit on the first hit and deal 20 damage, the next target still takes 7 damage.

Items

Name	Rarity	Effects	Base Price	Limit	Unlocked By	Tags
Bandana	Tier 3	Projectiles pierce through 1 additional target -10 % Damage	75			Ranged Damage
Sharp Bullet	Tier 1	Projectiles pierce through 1 additional target -20% Piercing Damage -5 % Damage -3 Knockback	25	1		Ranged Damage
Pumpkin	Tier 2	+15% Piercing Damage. Can't go above base damage -2 % Damage	40			Ranged Damage

Weapons

Name	Class	Damage	Attack Speed	DPS	Crit Damage/Chance	Range	Knockback	Lifesteal	Special Effects	Base price	Unlocked by
Crossbow	Precise, Medieval	10(50%10%) 12(50%10%) 15(50%10%) 18(50%10%)	1.13s 1.13s 1.13s 1.13s	8.8(44%8%)/s 10.6(44%8%)/s 13.3(44%8%)/s 15.9(44%8%)/s	x1.5 (30%) x1.75 (35%) x2 (40%) x2.25 (45%)	350 350 350 350	8 8 8 8	0 0 0 0	Pierces up to 1/2/3/4 times on critical hit	16 34 62 132	Default
Chain Gun	Legendary, Gun	- - - 2x3(100%100%)	- - - 0.073s	- - - 82.2(4110%4110%)/s	- - - x1.5 (3%)	- - - 500	- - - 5	- - - 0	Cooldown is 2.04s every 100 shots. Pierces 1 enemy dealing -50% less damage with each pierce.	- - - 300	Default
Double Barrel Shotgun	Gun	3x4(80%) 6x4(85%) 9x4(90%) 9x6(100%)	1.37s 1.28s 1.2s 1.2s	8.8(233%)/s 18.8(265%)/s 30.0(300%)/s 45(500%)/s	x2 (3%) x2 (3%) x2 (3%) x2 (3%)	350 350 350 350	8 8 8 8	0 0 0 0	Pierces 2/2/2/3 enemies, dealing -30% less damage after each piercing	20 39 74 149	Default
Flamethrower	Elemental, Heavy	- 1(1%) 1(1%) 1(1%)	- 0.12s 0.12s 0.09s	- 8.3(8%)/s 8.3(8%)/s 11.1(11%)/s	- x2 (0%) x2 (0%) x2 (0%)	- 250 300 400	- 0 0 0	- 0 0 0	Deals -/1x3/3x5/5x8(100%) burning damage Pierces 99 enemies dealing 1 damage	- 56 103 207	Default
Gatling Laser	Legendary, Heavy	- - - 10(100%)	- - - 0.073s	- - - 137.0(1370%)/s	- - - x3 (10%)	- - - 500	- - - 5	- - - 0	Pierces 3 enemies dealing -25% less damage with each pierce.	- - - 290	Default
Laser Gun	Gun	40(400%) 55(450%) 70(500%) 100(600%)	1.98s 1.90s 1.82s 1.65s	20.2(202%)/s 22.9(237%)/s 38.5(275%)/s 60.6(364%)/s	x2 (3%) x2 (3%) x2 (3%) x2 (3%)	500 500 500 500	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	Pierces 1 enemy dealing -25% less to the second enemy	15 31 61 122	Default
Minigun	Heavy, Gun	- - 1(50%) 3(75%)	- - 0.09s 0.073s	- - 11.1(555%)/s 41.1(1027%)/s	- - x1.75 (1%) x2 (3%)	- - 400 450	- - 3 3	- - 0 0	Pierces 1/2 enemies dealing -50% less damage with each pierce.	- - 127 255	Default
Obliterator	Gun, Heavy	- - 250(1000%) 350(1500%)	- - 3.23s 3.23s	- - 77.4(309%)/s 108.4(464%)/s	- - x2 (3%) x2 (3%)	- - 800 1000	- - 0 0	- - 0 0	Pierces through enemies	- - 127 255	Win a run with Demon
Pistol	Gun	12(100%) 20(100%) 30(100%) 50(100%)	1.2s 1.12s 1.03s 0.87s	10.0(83%)/s 17.9(89%)/s 29.1(97%)/s 57.5(114%)/s	x2 (5%) x2 (10%) x2 (15%) x2 (20%)	400 400 400 400	15 15 15 15	0 0 0 0	Pierces 1 enemy dealing -50% less to the second enemy	10 22 45 91	Default
Shredder	Gun, Explosive	5(50%) 10(50%) 15(50%) 25(50%)	1.3s 1.22s 1.13s 1.05s	3.8(38%)/s 8.2(40%)/s 13.3(44%)/s 23.8(47%)/s	x2 (3%) x2 (3%) x2 (3%) x2 (3%)	450 450 450 450	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	50%/65%/80%/100% chance for projectiles to explode on hit. Pierces 3 enemies dealing 100% damage	15 31 61 122	Default