Talk:Tekko/@comment-71.20.37.65-20151003080801/@comment-10114595-20151004045636

Darthmuffin is right. Make a fist, hold it up like you're going to punch someone.

You'll notice that the back of your hand is almost parallel with your arm. The points on the Tekko are oriented so that they'll catch on whatever you're punching, but that's only minor damage compared to their real purpose: helping to start/guide in the very nastily-curved blades that they lead into, which would pretty much turn any bare flesh passing by the back of your hand into delicious barbequeable chops.

I'd expect something like the Venka to have primarily piercing damage if they were punched with, but these should be primarily slash, piercing secondary and a tiny bit of impact. I would imagine that the piercing and impact being switched as they are is meant as more of a gameplay thing to help with punching shields down, since the slash procs and ever-popular corrosive take care of armored stuff anyway.