Knuckles

The knuckles skill is a combat skill that governs your ability to use augmented fist-type weapons to increase your punching power. Note that naked fists count as natural weapons on a character the same way biting does for wildlife, and therefore do not use this skill. The knuckles skill becomes relevant only when you are fighting with a fist-style weapon on your hands, at which point your ability to strike your opponent becomes the aggregate of both your knuckles skill and offense.

Knuckles in general have a balanced swing speed and armor penetrance, but do less damage on auto-attacks compared to other weapon attacks. As you improve with knuckles, you will begin unlocking special weapon attacks that have increasing chance to activate when you attack with knuckles. Knuckle weapons compensate for their low damage by having an increased likelihood to trigger special weapon attacks. Knuckles have a broadly distributed array of special attacks to capitalize on this increased likelihood, rather than specializing in effects as other weapons do. Knuckle weapons are favored by enforcers, household guards, and other irregular fighters.

Knuckles train similarly to base offense, whenever swung at an opponent that has sufficient lethality to be a challenge.

Skill with knuckles is governed by strength (primary) and agility (secondary).