Talk:Braton/@comment-2.248.171.143-20130717212724/@comment-13117751-20130723205427

It's really a question of where things are effective.

Shot-for-shot, due to its armor ignoring quantities the kunai are probably better than the braton, especially for higher-level enemies (this is especially true for 70+ )...at least this is true for close-range encounters where you are likely to land every kunai that you throw into the target that you want to hit.

The braton truly 'excels' at being an "all-around" type of gun. It can fight at almost any range (burst-fire for distance, but can still bullet-hose at near-gorgon-speed like a submachine gun at close range with no recoile whatsoever). So really the advantage to the braton is that you can swap engagement roles in a pinch, whereas the kunai is more restricted to closer fights and learning to hit moving targets at long range requires considerable practice.

You might also consider that pistols are, frankly, easier to mod since hornet strike jumps by 20% a level while serration only jumps 15%, so you see much faster returns on high-DPS secondaries like the Kunai/Despair than you see on high-DPS primaries like the braton.