Grenades

Grenades are explosives that complement your normal, regularly scheduled gunplay. Like guns, there are several types of grenades, which come from different manufacturers and do different things. (Or, at least they find different ways to blow up.)

Apart from how a grenade goes off, there’s also the matter of how it is delivered. Any grenade type can be built using any grenade delivery system, so distinct grenades are plentiful just like guns. Some of the more advanced delivery system types don’t show up on random looted grenades until you’ve leveled up sufficiently.

As with guns, there’s variance even within seemingly identical grenades. Apart from the particulars of the grenade type and its delivery system, there are several more variables:

• Is the explosive fuse instant, short, or long? (Shorter is nearly always better, with grenades… enemies are quick to react to a rolling, ticking bomb!)

• Does the grenade feature an elemental property, or does it just deliver explosive force? If an element is present, what’s the power of the elemental blast, and then the severity of the elemental aftereffect?

• Is the blast radius small or large? What level of force, and thus damage, is delivered to that blast radius?

• If the grenade spawns smaller “children” grenades, as MIRV types and many unique grenades do, how many does it create?

So even comparing functionally identical grenades, or even different versions of the same unique, legendary grenade, you may find aspects you like better on one or the other.

Effective grenade use should supplement your wartime tactics with your guns and skills. You can equip a grenade that allows you to leverage an element that you don’t have a good gun for at the moment… a few Corrosive grenades chucked at a group of loaders can soften them up quite nicely. If you DO have a Corrosive gun against loaders, then a Slag-capable grenade is just the thing to amplify your already terrific Corrosive damage. Grenades don’t just have to be for pushing damage advantages, though—Singularity grenades can be incredibly valuable for crowd control, giving essentially any class Maya’s Converge skill. And Transfusion grenades can keep you alive in a pinch—think of them as health pickups you have to detonate in an enemy’s face in order to receive.

Unique & Legendary Grenades Gallery

Fuster Cluck

Location: Mission: “Pretty Good Train Robbery”

Bonus Package

Location: Boom & Bewm, Southern Shelf

Kiss of Death

	Characteristic 1	Characteristic 2	Characteristic 3
	Spawns child grenades.	Deals bonus Explosive damage.	Homing; saps health.

Location: Mission: “Hell Hath No Fury”

Bouncing Bonnie

Location: Loot Midgets

Fastball

Location: Boll, Three Horns

Quasar

Location: Ultimate Badass Varkid

Fire Bee

Location: Get lucky and tell us!

Rolling Thunder

Location: Old Slappy

Leech

Location: The second target of mission: “The Talon of God.”

Storm Front

Location: Anywhere or nowhere… maybe.