Refined Slingshot
Refined Slingshot is a Rare gun that serves as a slight upgrade to the standard Slingshot, but it does not significantly change how the weapon performs. Its damage, utility, and overall effectiveness remain fairly limited compared to many other guns available at similar stages of progression.
Its main advantage comes from the healing provided by Ink Swarm, which offers stronger sustain than players might expect from a weapon in this category. This can help improve survivability and reduce downtime between encounters.
Outside of its healing utility, the Refined Slingshot lacks standout strengths and does not offer any unique mechanics or major performance advantages that set it apart from competing weapons. Players looking for higher damage, stronger utility, or a more specialized playstyle will usually find better options elsewhere.
Obtainment:
The Refined Slingshot can be purchased for $30,000 from the Advanced Weapon Dealer located at Marine Fortress
Refined Slingshot
Strengths & Weaknesses
A quick breakdown of where this build shines and struggles.
Strengths
Cheap and easy to obtain, making it a practical early-game weapon.
Low mastery requirements allow players to use its full kit quickly.
Works well as a secondary weapon for starting or extending combos.
Useful for farming, thanks to its AoE attacks that can damage groups without scattering enemies too much.
Ink Swarm provides crowd control, helps keep enemies in place, and can restore some health.
Both abilities can break Instinct and help pressure opponents.
Fast basic attacks with decent range and firing speed.
Good option for Aura mastery farming, especially through repeated use of Ink Swarm.
Weaknesses
Low overall damage compared to most other guns.
Requires aim and prediction to use effectively.
Most attacks have short to medium range and are largely ground-based.
All abilities can be avoided with Instinct.
Rubber users are immune to its attacks.
Ink Swarm is much less effective against airborne targets and rarely provides meaningful healing in PvP.
Cluster Bomb can be difficult to land consistently.
Verdict
The Refined Slingshot is a budget-friendly early-game gun focused on utility, crowd control, and farming rather than raw damage. Its healing and enemy-stalling tools give it some niche value, but its low damage output and unreliable PvP performance make it difficult to justify outside of early progression or specific farming setups.
Abilities
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10Fires a pellet toward the cursor that functions similarly to the standard Slingshot's basic attack but deals higher damage.
Single-target ranged attack with manual aiming.
Deals more damage than the regular Slingshot's pellet.
Useful for applying steady pressure between abilities.
Requires accuracy to consistently land hits.
Fires a pink and green squid-like sticky projectile in an arc that latches onto any surface it lands on, including walls and roofs, and transforms into a pink octopus that briefly keeps enemies within its radius from moving away.
After 1.25 seconds, the octopus breaks into six smaller octopuses.
The smaller octopuses attach to enemies when stepped on and drain their health over time.
The attack provides healing to the user based on total health, number of octopuses that successfully latch, and timing, with faster attachments resulting in higher healing.
Launches a spiked bomb in an arc that detonates on impact or after a short delay, then fragments into multiple secondary explosions that knock enemies back.
Explodes on direct hit or after 4 seconds from first surface contact.
Initial explosion deals area damage and triggers knockback.
Splits into four smaller spiked bombs after detonation.
Secondary bombs explode shortly after, adding additional multi-stage AoE pressure and crowd control.
Fires a pellet toward the cursor that functions similarly to the standard Slingshot's basic attack but deals higher damage.
Single-target ranged attack with manual aiming.
Deals more damage than the regular Slingshot's pellet.
Useful for applying steady pressure between abilities.
Requires accuracy to consistently land hits.
Fires a pink and green squid-like sticky projectile in an arc that latches onto any surface it lands on, including walls and roofs, and transforms into a pink octopus that briefly keeps enemies within its radius from moving away.
After 1.25 seconds, the octopus breaks into six smaller octopuses.
The smaller octopuses attach to enemies when stepped on and drain their health over time.
The attack provides healing to the user based on total health, number of octopuses that successfully latch, and timing, with faster attachments resulting in higher healing.
Launches a spiked bomb in an arc that detonates on impact or after a short delay, then fragments into multiple secondary explosions that knock enemies back.
Explodes on direct hit or after 4 seconds from first surface contact.
Initial explosion deals area damage and triggers knockback.
Splits into four smaller spiked bombs after detonation.
Secondary bombs explode shortly after, adding additional multi-stage AoE pressure and crowd control.
Upgrade
Showcase Video
Update Logs
- Complete Rework
- The Refined Slingshot received a full redesign, replacing both its visual model and core abilities. Its kit was restructured to shift away from simple projectile attacks toward more utility-focused crowd control and area pressure.
- Ability Changes
- [Z] Sticky Pellet was reworked into Ink Swarm, introducing a more persistent control effect with additional utility.
- [X] Explosive Pellet was replaced with Cluster Bomb, changing its role into a multi-stage explosive attack with broader area impact.
- Visual model updated to a redesigned version of the weapon.
- Major Changes
- The Refined Slingshot was added to the game as a Rare ranged weapon.