What is the best weapon in Torn?

No single weapon is best. The answer depends on the slot, your budget and how much accuracy you will give up for damage. In the 2025 wiki Primary table, the Nock Gun has the most damage (95 - 100), but its accuracy is only 45 - 50 and it only drops as loot from Leslie^[1]. The Gold Plated AK-47, sold in the UAE, has both high damage and high accuracy (75 - 80 / 62 - 67)^[2]. On a budget, Canada sold the Ithaca 37 (49 - 54 / 62 - 67) for $10,000 and the Lorcin 380 for $300 in 2024^[2][3]. The newest melee figures available are from 2020. There were no current secondary or temporary tables to compare^[4][5].

You can equip up to four weapons, one in each of the Primary, Secondary, Melee and Temporary slots^[6]. Patch list #341 (2024-06-04) moved the MP5k, Skorpion, TMP and Pink Mac-10 from the Primary slot to the Secondary slot^[7]. Weapon stats sit on top of your battle stats: Strength raises damage per hit and Speed raises your chance to hit^[8].

Primary

The table below shows selected rows from the 2025 wiki Primary table, which has 43 rows. It is not the full table^[5][2][1][9].

• Most damage: the Nock Gun, but it has only 45 - 50 accuracy and you can only get it as NPC loot^[1]
• Damage and accuracy together: the Gold Plated AK-47, at 75 - 80 damage and 62 - 67 accuracy, sold in the United Arab Emirates^[2]
• Rifles bought abroad: the ArmaLite M-15A4 (68 - 73 / 57 - 62, Mexico) and the Enfield SA-80 (63 - 68 / 55 - 60, United Kingdom) are more accurate than the Dual SMGs but do less damage^[2]
• The Dual SMGs and the Minigun give up accuracy for damage: the Dual Uzis have 36 - 41 accuracy and the Minigun 28 - 33^[2][1]
• The Benelli M1 Tactical (65 - 70), Sawed-Off (63 - 68) and Mag 7 (62 - 67) have the highest accuracy of the shotguns listed, but lower damage^[2][1]
• Not every shotgun is accurate: the Nock Gun (45 - 50) and Jackhammer (52 - 57) are shotguns with lower accuracy^[1][2]

Each weapon rolls its own accuracy and damage, between +0.00 and +5.00 above the minimum for its kind^[5]. Some weapons have a built-in Weapon Bonus. Ranked War cache weapons with a General bonus can go above the table values; the wiki says it is still researching the details^[5]. Unarmed, Fists do 10 damage at 50 accuracy, and Kick (unlocked through Education) does 30 damage at 40.71 accuracy^[5]. The 2025 capture has no clip or rate-of-fire data. In the 2020 table, from before the Damage Revamp, the ArmaLite had a 15-round clip and a rate of fire of 3 - 5, the Dual Uzis 60 and 15 - 25, and the Dual P90s 100 and 10 - 20^[10].

Secondary

The wiki has a current Secondary table with 39 rows, but it was not in the captured sources, so this slot is not ranked here^[5]. The sources show only that the MP5k, Skorpion, TMP and Pink Mac-10 have been Secondary weapons since June 2024^[7], and that Canada sold the Lorcin 380 for $300 in 2024^[3].

Melee (2020 figures)

The current melee table (69 rows) was not captured^[5]. The newest figures available come from the February 2020 wiki, before the 2021 Damage Revamp^[4][5]. Values have changed since then: the Bo Staff was 14.68 - 15.03 damage in 2020 and is 13 - 18 on its 2025 page^[4][11]. Use the figures below as a rough guide only.

Among the weapons listed here, the Flail had the most damage but poor accuracy, while the Handbag and Macana combined solid damage with high accuracy^[12]. The four Dual melee weapons came from the Old Mission System, and the sources do not say how to get them now^[4].

Temporary

There was no temporary weapon table in the captured sources, so temps are not ranked here. Temporary Mastery raises only temporaries that do damage^[14]. For history only: Beerstein's 2017 Combat Guide advised equipping only damaging temps for defence, because attackers can wait out the effects of items like flashbangs^[15].

By budget and source

The 2024 Canada prices are the only recent prices in the sources. For history only, the 2017 wiki listed the Sawed-Off at $2,400, the Benelli M1 Tactical at $4,900 and the XM8 at $12,500 at Big Al's^[16]. It listed the Enfield SA-80 at $250,000, the Jackhammer at $5,000,000 and the ArmaLite at $20,000,000^[17], and the Gold Plated AK-47 at $25,000,000,000^[18]. Those prices date from before the 2018 accuracy rebalance and the 2021 Damage Revamp^[19][5]. Weapons bought with mission credits are the best of 100 generated variants^[20].

Mastery, mods, ammo and armour

• Each weapon mastery level adds 1% damage and 0.2 accuracy for that weapon type^[14]
• Primary and Secondary weapons take attachments (mods) that improve parts of the weapon^[5]
• Critical hit chance starts at 12%; Laser mods add +2-5% and a weapon with Expose adds +7% to 21% (2021 wiki)^[21]
• A rate of fire mod exists; since 2020 it stacks additively with the rate of fire educations^[22]
• Special ammo: hollow point adds damage but cuts armour penetration, tracer adds accuracy, piercing adds armour penetration, and incendiary adds damage^[23]
• Armour only protects where a hit visibly lands on it, and overlapping armour uses the highest value^[24][25]
• Riot, Assault, Dune and EOD armour bonuses apply only when the covered area is hit^[26]

Ranked wars and defence

The research found no player consensus on the best ranked war (RW) or chain weapons. In 2025, one player described a defence loadout of a rifle primary, chosen for damage and ammo economy, and a pistol secondary with a defensive RW perk that they limit to one clip^[27]. Defence settings are relative weights: staff gave the example that with Primary 80, Secondary 40, Melee 60 and Temporary 100, the chance of using the temp on each turn is 35.71%^[28].

Where sources disagree

• The 2020 wiki gave narrower, pre-Revamp damage ranges, such as 69.86 - 71.59 for the ArmaLite^[10]. The 2025 table gives 68 - 73^[2], after the Damage Revamp (2021)^[5]. The 2025 figures apply now.