Ikwa

Ikwa

"A short spearhandle attached to a long bladed point, designed to be driven into vital organs with a quick thrust."

Base Stats

Type

Equipment – Weapons

Weapon Class

Neolithic

Mass

1.1 kg

Ranged Combat

Mode

Melee

Melee Combat

Mode

Melee

Melee Attack 1

Handle
9 dmg (Blunt)
13% AP
2 seconds cooldown

Melee Attack 2 

Handle
9 dmg (Poke)
13% AP
2 seconds cooldown

Melee Attack 3 

Head
15 dmg (Stab)
22% AP
2 seconds cooldown

Melee Attack 4 

Edge
15 dmg (Cut)
22% AP
2 seconds cooldown

Creation

Work To Make

5,000 ticks (1.39 mins)

Stuff Tags

Metallic, Woody

Resources to make

50

The ikwa is a neolithic melee weapon that deals heavy stabbing damage.

Crafting

It is crafted at a smithy using 60 units of any metallic or wooden material, and 5,000 ticks (1.39 mins) of work.

Ikwa vs. Comparable Weapons

This section goes over how well the ikwa fares against comparable weapons (similar value, tech level or similar characteristics) in 1 vs. 1 combat.

Methodology

• All testing is semi-automated which allows for large sample sizes to be gathered per set of results with ease
• All pawns have a skill level of 8 in melee
• No pawns have any traits that affect combat performance
• All pawns are of 18 years of age and completely healthy

Results in the table below are the percentages of battles that ikwas either won or tied against the weapon listed in the first column of said table, with a sample size of 2,000 battles per result. Higher percentages are better.

The following armor categories are:

• Unarmored - Plainleather button-down shirt and plainleather pants
• Flak - Steel simple helmet, flak jacket, flak vest, plainleather button-down shirt and flak pants
• Marine - Marine helmet, marine armor, plainleather button-down shirt and plainleather pants

Steel ikwa vs.	Unarmored	Flak	Marine
Steel knife	52.95%	54.00%	57.15%
Steel gladius	45.00%	46.50%	51.10%
Steel spear	49.05%	37.40%	27.15%
Plasteel ikwa	26.30%	27.55%	29.38%

Plasteel ikwa vs.	Unarmored	Flak	Marine
Plasteel knife	55.70%	55.85%	57.55%
Plasteel gladius	46.35%	45.85%	48.20%
Plasteel spear	50.65%	40.00%	33.10%
Steel ikwa	73.70%	72.45%	70.62%

Trivia

Unlike the other melee weapons, the ikwa doesn't exist in real life with the same name; the real life equivalent of the ikwa is the iklwa.

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Weapons

Melee | Neolithic

Breach axe • Club • Ikwa • Knife (Jade) • Spear

Medieval

Gladius • Longsword • Mace • Axe • Warhammer

Ultra

Eltex staff • Monosword (Persona) • Plasmasword (Persona) • Zeushammer (Persona)

Improvised

Beer • Elephant tusk • Thrumbo horn • Wood

Ranged | Neolithic

Greatbow • Pila • Recurve bow • Short bow • Flamebow

Medieval

Nerve spiker

Industrial

Assault rifle • Autopistol • Bolt-action rifle • Chain shotgun • Heavy SMG • Launcher (EMP, Incendiary, Smoke, Toxbomb ) • LMG • Machine pistol • Minigun • Pump shotgun • Revolver • Sniper rifle • Hellcat rifle • Incinerator

Spacer

Charge lance • Charge rifle

Consumables

Doomsday rocket launcher • Triple rocket launcher

Throwables

EMP grenades • Frag grenades • Molotov cocktails • Tox grenades

Mechanoid

Heavy charge blaster • Inferno cannon • Needle gun • Thump cannon • Beam graser • Charge blaster turret • Hellsphere cannon • Mini-flameblaster • Mini-shotgun • Slugthrower • Spiner • Toxic needle gun

Structures

Autocannon • Mini-turret gun • Mortar (Weapon) • Uranium slug cannon • Auto-mortar • Inferno cannon (Turret) • Light charge blaster • Mini-slugger • Tactical turret gun

Related | Body part weapons

Prosthetic arm • Bionic arm • Archotech arm • Power claw • Field hand • Drill arm • Venom talon • Venom fangs • Knee spike • Elbow blade • Hand talon • Flesh whip

Integrated weapons

Grenadier armor • Phoenix armor