The best beginner weapon in Combat Warriors is the Fire Axe — $1,450 Credits, 38 damage, 27.14 DPS. That is 96% of the output of the $36,570 Glaive and more than the $39,090 Dragon Slayer. The strongest weapon overall is still the Mythical Energy Blade at 69.23 DPS, but it only drops from crates. Re-checked September 9, 2026.
Below: what to buy first, then the full DPS ladder for all 92 melee weapons — 45 heavy, 47 light. Ranged weapons are a separate class and are not ranked.
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Best Weapons in Combat Warriors for Beginners
A raw DPS ranking is the wrong answer for a new account: its top is crate-only, and the best buyable weapon sits $665,440 down a purchase chain. These four you can hold in your first few hours.
| Beginner pick | Class | Shop price | Total to unlock | DPS | Hits to down |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fire Axe — best overall | Heavy | $1,450 | $2,695 | 27.14 | 3 |
| Bat — best light | Light | $1,450 | $2,695 | 49.09 | — |
| Bo Staff — free heavy | Heavy | Free | Free | 25.00 | 3 |
| Baton — free light | Light | Free | Free | 46.42 | 4 |
Fire Axe — the best value in the game
Fourth weapon in the heavy chain: 38 damage on a 1.4-second cooldown for 27.14 DPS, three hits to knock an enemy down. Three wiki sources — the master Weapons table, the Fire Axe page and the Heavy Melee breakdown — give identical numbers. At 27.14 it is the sixth-highest-DPS heavy in the game, above the $34,050 Dual Naginata and $35,310 Colossal Greatsword. Trade-off: short range, easier to parry.
Bat and the free starters
If you prefer light weapons, the Bat costs the same $1,450 for 27 damage on a 0.55-second cooldown, 49.09 DPS — nothing in the chain beats it until the Pipe Wrench and Sickle hit 50. The Bo Staff (35 damage, 1.4s, 25 DPS, three hits) and Baton (26 damage, 0.56s, 46.42 DPS, four hits) are handed to you at level 0. The Bo Staff out-damages 25 of the game’s 45 heavy weapons, including the $39,090 Dragon Slayer (24.00) and the $37,830 Yoru (23.52).
What a Weapon Really Costs
The light and heavy shops are sequential chains. The wiki’s Light Melee page says weapons “will always require the previous weapon in the list to be bought in order for them to be bought,” and the Roblox badge 001: Dragon Slayer words the heavy side the same way — “Master Heavy weapons and unlock the Dragon Slayer” — with 401,100 earners.
So a shop price is never the real cost. The Fire Axe is $1,450, but you must own the Shovel ($405) and Golf Club ($840) first: $2,695. Credits come from kills at $50 each, $55 for a glory or ranged kill, putting the Fire Axe about 54 kills from a fresh account. Our Combat Warriors free Robux guide covers funding that grind, and live Combat Warriors codes have their own page.
- The wiki totals the light chain at $665,440 (Light Melee page, stamped v3.6.1) and the heavy chain at $606,770 (Heavy Melee, stamped v3.0.0). Both stamps predate later weapons, so treat them as floors.
- Mythicals come only from Energy Crates: 400 Robux or 5,000 Credits a crate, base chance 0.1% on the Robux crate and 0.001% on the Credits crate.
- Prestige weapons come from Adoration Crates, unlocked only once you own the Dragon Slayer and Chainsaw: 1,000 Credits each, 1.25% Legendary rate, pity counter 125.
- Two Robux shortcuts, both one-time sign-on bonuses: VANGUARD (499 Robux, price checked September 9, 2026) gives $2,000 Credits, 650 Aether, 4,000 XP and a permanent 2x XP rate; GOLD (999 Robux) gives $4,000, 1,500 Aether, 8,000 XP and 3x XP. The wiki still says VANGUARD is 799 — stale.
The Shop Order Is Not a Power Order
DPS goes down as often as up as you move along the chain. Four light weapons you are forced to buy are worse than the free Baton’s 46.42 — the Rapier ($15,670, 45.60), Lance ($6,240, 45.81), Dual Machetes ($16,600, 45.93) and Club ($7,370, 46.15). The Katana line repeats it at the top: 55.93, then 55.83, then 55.73 — each step buys hitbox size and a faster glory kill, and each lowers your DPS. Equip the highest-DPS weapon you own, not the newest one you bought.
The Tiers Explained
S Tier is the Energy Blade, Hell’s Excalibur, Dual Tomahawks and Glaive. The Energy Blade’s burn is widely misquoted: the wiki’s Status Effects table gives Energy Rush as 3 damage per second for 2 seconds, 6 in total — not 6 per second. Hell’s Excalibur carries Thunderflame Encapsulation on the same profile and is a one-shot with a bodyshot Kunai. The Dual Tomahawks (59.99) and Glaive (28.33) are the best buyable light and heavy weapons, and both are correct long-term goals.
A Tier is everything within a couple of DPS of those, plus the Prestige weapons. Two corrections: the Stygian Hammer (27.77 DPS) is not an Adoration Crate weapon — it came from the Old Saint Nick boss fight in the 2025 Stygian Winter update — and the Fire Axe belongs in this tier on merit, at a fraction of the price of everything around it.
B Tier light: Shikomizue (55.55), Flail (55.35), Gladius (55.17), Dual Cleavers and Chainsaw (54.54), Dual Hatchets (54.40), Leviathan Axe (54.16), Combat Knife (53.70), Liuyedao (53.50), Khopesh and Kusarigama (51.92), Metal Bat (51.66), Scissor Blades (51.47), Sabre (51.23), Dual Hook Swords (50.90). Heavy: Poleaxe (25.94), Halberd and Moonwave Heavy Scythe (25.76), Domination Halberd (25.74), Odachi (25.55), Curved Greatsword (25.30), Anchor (25.28), Heavy Scythe (25.26), Palm Axe (25.14), Naginata (25.00). From the Khopesh on, every light sits between 50 and 60 DPS — you buy hitboxes and reach, not damage.
C Tier is the expensive end of the heavy chain, which sells burst rather than sustained damage: the War Hammer (24.44), Yoru (23.52) and Dragon Slayer (24.00) all sit below the free Bo Staff. What they buy is the two-shot and the Kunai-headshot one-shot — which the Glaive, Dual Naginata and Colossal Greatsword share anyway. On the light side the Sickle has the fastest swing in the game at 0.48s, but 24 damage needs five hits to down an enemy.
Full DPS Reference Table
| Tier | Weapon | Class | Damage | Cooldown | DPS | How you get it | Beginner? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | Energy Blade | Light | 45 (+6 burn) | 0.65s | 69.23 | Energy Crates (Mythical) | Crate only |
| S | Hell’s Excalibur | Heavy | 72 (+6 burn) | 2.4s | 30.00 | Energy Crates (Mythical) | Crate only |
| S | Dual Tomahawks | Light | 33 | 0.55s | 59.99 | $29,510 (light) | Later goal |
| S | Glaive | Heavy | 51 | 1.8s | 28.33 | $36,570 (heavy) | Later goal |
| A | Stygian Hammer | Heavy | 50 | 1.8s | 27.77 | Old Saint Nick boss / 500,000 Melt | Event only |
| A | Sea Beast | Heavy | 62 (+9 burn) | 2.25s | 27.55 | Energy Crates (Mythical) | Crate only |
| A | Fire Axe | Heavy | 38 | 1.4s | 27.14 | $1,450 ($2,695 total) | Yes — best |
| A | Dual Naginata | Heavy | 50 | 1.85s | 27.02 | $34,050 (heavy) | No |
| A | Flag | Heavy | 45 | 1.68s | 26.78 | $2,540 after Halberd | No |
| A | Wukong Staff | Heavy | 56 | 2.4s | 26.66 | Adoration Crates (Prestige) | No |
| A | Colossal Greatsword | Heavy | 50.5 | 1.9s | 26.57 | $35,310 (heavy) | No |
| A | Dual Daggers | Light | 29 | 0.51s | 56.86 | $18,440 (light) | No |
| A | Dual Hammers | Light | 32.5 | 0.58s | 56.03 | $25,820 (light) | No |
| A | Katana | Light | 33 | 0.59s | 55.93 | $32,270 (light) | No |
| A | Ceremonial Katar | Light | 33.5 | 0.6s | 55.83 | $75,000 (v3.21.0) | No |
| A | Chainsword | Light | 38 (19×2) | 0.69s | 55.07 | Adoration Crates (Prestige) | No |
| B | Khopesh | Light | 27 | 0.52s | 51.92 | $10,140 (light) | Mid-game |
| C | Bat | Light | 27 | 0.55s | 49.09 | $1,450 ($2,695 total) | Yes — light |
| C | Baton | Light | 26 | 0.56s | 46.42 | Free (starter) | Yes — free |
| C | Bo Staff | Heavy | 35 | 1.4s | 25.00 | Free (starter) | Yes — free |
| C | Sickle | Light | 24 | 0.48s | 50.00 | $4,120 (light) | No — 5 hits |
| C | War Hammer | Heavy | 44 | 1.8s | 24.44 | $26,480 (heavy) | No |
| C | Dragon Slayer | Heavy | 54 | 2.25s | 24.00 | $39,090 (heavy) | No |
| C | Yoru | Heavy | 60 | 2.55s | 23.52 | $37,830 (heavy) | No |
Combat Warriors in Numbers
From games.roblox.com and Rolimon’s on September 9, 2026, for place ID 4282985734 — the PlayCombatWarriors original, not a clone.
- Players (median): 1,950, from 1,009 ten-minute readings between September 2 and September 9, 2026. The week ran 1,058 to 2,852.
- 1,448,270,071 visits and 2,367,949 favourites; 83.5% like ratio (1,364,796 to 270,115).
- All-time concurrent peak: 76,948, set December 24, 2022 — long past its spike.
- Average session 14.63 minutes; 45 per server; live since November 3, 2019.
- Latest update announced through Roblox’s event feed: v6.2.0, “Chaos Blades”, June 14, 2026. Nothing since — these balance figures have had three months to settle.
For context see Combat Warriors vs The Strongest Battlegrounds and Blade Ball vs Combat Warriors, or the hubs for The Strongest Battlegrounds, Blade Ball and Rivals.
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How We Verified This List
We have no in-game access, and we do not claim any. Damage, cooldown and DPS come from the Combat Warriors Wiki’s raw wikitext via its API — the master Weapons table (45 heavy and 47 light rows, last edited February 25, 2026), the individual weapon pages, and the Light Melee and Heavy Melee breakdowns; where two disagreed we took the more recently edited one. Burn values come from the Status Effects table, the only place they are given as a rate. Badge dates and holder counts come from the Roblox badge API for universe 1390601379, version numbers from the developer’s virtual-events feed, and prices and player counts from the game-pass API, games.roblox.com and Rolimon’s.
Corrections this pass. The Energy Blade’s burn is 3 damage per second, not 6 — the wiki’s “+6 tick damage” is the two-second total, and an earlier version of this page read it as a rate. The Stygian Hammer is an event weapon, not a crate weapon. The Dragon Slayer is 2.25s / 24.00 DPS, not 2.2s / 24.5. The Anchor is 25.28 DPS, not 24.8. The Flag, Ceremonial Katar and Prototype 003 were missing entirely.
More Combat Warriors
- Combat Warriors hub — guides and news.
- Combat Warriors codes — active and expired.
- Free Robux guide — funding the Credits grind.
- Combat Warriors vs The Strongest Battlegrounds.
- Gakuran vs Combat Warriors.
- Anime Punch Simulator vs Combat Warriors.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Fire Axe. It costs $1,450 Credits, deals 38 damage on a 1.4-second swing for 27.14 DPS, and downs an enemy in three hits — 96% of the DPS of the $36,570 Glaive, and more than the $39,090 Dragon Slayer manages. The shop is a sequential chain, so you must buy the Shovel and the Golf Club first: $2,695 in total, about 54 kills at $50 each.
The Bo Staff, the free starter heavy: 35 damage on a 1.4-second cooldown for 25 DPS, three hits to down an enemy. On the wiki’s own tables that beats 25 of the game’s 45 heavy weapons, including the $39,090 Dragon Slayer and the $37,830 Yoru. The free light starter, the Baton, does 46.42 DPS and still beats four light weapons you have to pay for.
The Energy Blade, a Mythical light weapon: 45 damage on a 0.65-second cooldown for 69.23 DPS, plus an Energy Rush burn of 3 damage per second for 2 seconds. It only comes out of Energy Crates, and just 1,860 accounts hold its badge as of September 9, 2026. The strongest weapon you can buy with Credits is the Dual Tomahawks at 59.99 DPS.