What's the most average weapon in Terraria? I already have a (now-unlisted) video on
what I believed at the time to be the most "mediocre" weapon in Terraria, but this
video I'll be looking at it differently. Instead of taking "average" to
mean something like mediocre, unimportant, or conventional, I'll
be taking it more literally - as in, of all the weapons in Terraria, when looking
at their stats, which one is the most average? This would have nothing to do with a
weapon's abilities, placement in the game, obtainability, or anything - only being
based on pure stats, so it would not be indicative of the usefulness of the weapon,
but, it is an intriguing subject to look into. To figure this out, I would first need to
go through a full list of every weapon in Terraria. Luckily, the good people at the wiki
have already documented that years ago. Everything that deals damage from the Blade of Grass to
the Bloody Water is in this list, excluding ammunition, accessories, and placeable items.
Now, obviously, I'm not going to sort and average this 563 item long list manually, since that would
take forever, so I'm going to scrape it instead. Some of you might not know that, using Excel, you
can download most tables straight off websites, which is what I did. Now, this data isn't pretty,
but that's nothing a little work can't fix. So, I and a few helpers went ahead with
cleaning up the data - removing garbage strings and formatting all the values
consistently, much of which was manual. The sell data I scraped from the wiki
was so borked that we had to source the sell price data externally from
Terradle, which is a wordle-like game, but for Terraria weapons. It's a
pretty interesting site and game. After that, we then went ahead and removed tools
and classless weapons from this list, since those aren't really weapons in the purest sense.
In the end, this left us with 419 unique weapons in a well-formatted table
to deal with and average out. So then, what is the most average weapon?
Well, it depends on which average you use. While "average" most often means the mean - a
method of averaging where you divide the total by the number of values - it can actually mean
any method of simplifying a data set. That is, we can also consider the median and mode
to fall under the umbrella of "average". Now, mode is relatively useless for what
we're looking at here, so we'll be defining the most average weapon in Terraria to be
either the mean or median weapon, or both. So, based on this, you can now make
your prediction. What do you think is the most statistically average
weapon? I'll give you a minute. Well, the answer is probably not too surprising.
The mean weapon in Terraria deals 44.65 damage, has a knockback value of 4.15 or "Weak", a
critical strike chance of 4.20%, a use time of 23.4 or "Fast", a rarity of Light Red, and a
sell price of 4 gold, 3 silver, and 14 copper. The median weapon in Terraria deals 38 damage,
has a knockback value of 4 or "Weak", a critical strike chance of 4%, a use time of 22 or "Fast",
a rarity of Light Red, and a sell price of 2 gold. Based on these, the Terraria weapon that is
most close to the mean weapon is the Amarok, deviating only 4.8 points off the mean.
Second place goes to the Hel-Fire, and third goes to the Mythril Halberd.
As for the median, the Terraria weapon that is most close to the median weapon is the Palladium
Repeater, deviating only 3.65 points off the median. Look at how close that is! Second place
goes to the Mythril Repeater, then the Dark Lance. Are these what you expected them to be? I
mean, all of us probably expected the most average weapon stat-wise to be a kind
of non-descript early Hardmode weapon, which these two fit quite well.
At least, it's about what I expected. As for which one of these two mean and median
weapons I would consider to be more "average", I'd say the median weapon, the Palladium Repeater.
Not only is it closer in deviation, I'd say for a data set like this, the median is more reliable as
an indicator, as the mean can be easily thrown off by outlier end-game items which have crazy stats.
So, at least in my opinion, the most average weapon in Terraria, is the Palladium Repeater!
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assisting me in combing through and sorting the data. Either way though, thank you for watching,
and good day and good bye. See you next week.
