How to 1 Tap Throwing Hammer (A Titan Guide)

In this guide, you will learn how to 1 tap anything with your throwing hammer. This includes weapons, armor, and some mods to enhance your game play.

Patched

With the release of the Witch Queen DLC, this titan hammer build has been patched. Thankfully, there is a new way to 1 tap everything with the void shoulder charge. I have made a new guide here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2779709676

Roaring Flames

The first step of being able to 1 tap anything with your throwing hammer, is of course, the throwing hammer itself. To get the hammer doing more damage, you need stacks of Roaring Flames. Roaring Flames stacks up to x3 for the highest damage. You can get x3 Roaring Flames by getting kills with your grenade, throwing hammer, and super. The Roaring Flames damage buff lasts for 20 seconds, but refreshes on each throwing hammer and grenade kill. Always have Roaring Flames at x3 for the highest damage potential.

Weapons to Use

Now that you know what roaring flames does and how to activate it, you'll need some weapons to enhance the throwing hammer's damage. You'll need a spread shotgun with the perk 1-2 Punch and a Tractor Cannon. The best shotguns to use with 1-2 Punch are One Small Step and The Deicide. Both are 140 rpm shotguns. One Small Step is kinetic, and The Deicide is void. I recommend these shotguns the most because of the good perk combinations with 1-2 Punch. The best roll you want on One Small Step is Auto-Loading Holster + 1-2 Punch. The roll for The Deicide that you want is Grave Robber + 1-2 Punch. Both are the best options to use with the throwing hammer.

Why These Weapons?

One Small Step, or The Deicide and Tractor Cannon are the best weapons to use for this build because of the synergy with the throwing hammer. Tractor Cannon is a constant 30% damage bonus, and 1-2 Punch is a 3x Damage Bonus to your melee (throwing hammer). Auto-Loading Holster reloads your shotgun whenever you stow it, and Grave Robber reloads your shotgun whenever you get a melee kill.

Exotic Armor

There are two options for exotic armor that you can use. Synthoceps or Wormgod Caress. You will want to use Synthoceps instead of Wormgod Caress and here is why.

Synthoceps increase melee damage and are passively activated, meaning you don't have to do any work to get the Intrinsic Perk to activate (improved melee and super damage when surrounded). You just need to be surrounded by a group of 3 enemies.

Wormgod Caress is on a 5 second timer at all times. You have to melee something every 4 seconds or the perk goes away. This is the only reason that I would use Synthoceps over Wormgod Caress. Synthoceps are simply easier to use and they both provide a melee damage increase.

Helpful Armor Mods

These mods are highly recommended, but not needed for your damage build. What these mods will do is increase your grenade ability regeneration, recovery regeneration, and damage resist.

The mods you will need are Melee Wellmaker, Well Of Ordnance, Well of Life, Elemental Charge, and Protective Light.

Melee Wellmaker will create wells matching your subclass when you get a powered melee final blow. This means if you kill things with your throwing hammer, you'll get Solar Wells to spawn. These Solar Wells will play into the rest of the mods on your armor.

Well of Ordnance is another mod that benefits from Solar Wells. Well of Ordnance gives grenade energy when you pick up Solar Wells. This makes it much easier to get roaring flames going because you will get grenades very easily.

Well of Life benefits from Solar Wells as well. Whenever you pick up Solar Wells, you get increased regeneration for a short period of time. This helps with the survivability of this build. You not only get health for picking up your hammer after a kill, but from this mod as well.

Elemental Charge works with Solar Wells too. By picking up an elemental well. (solar, arc, void, stasis) you become Charged with Light. If the well type matches your subclass, it grants x2 Stacks of Charged with Light. You will always get 2x Charged with Light from the wells you produce because they will always be Solar Wells with this build.

Protective Light will be working in hand with Elemental Charge. By getting Charged with Light from Elemental Charge, you will be granted damage resist when you get to red on your health bar.

Bring it all Together

By now you should have all the weapons, armor, and hopefully mods equipped on your Titan. Middle Tree Solar, Synthoceps, One Small Step or The Deicide with 1-2 Punch, Tractor Cannon, and some Well Mods.

First, get Roaring Flames x3 by killing ads with your grenade and throwing hammer.

Second, shoot the boss once with Tractor Cannon to give a 30% damage buff.

Third, shoot the boss once with your 1-2 Punch shotgun. This will provide a 3x melee damage increase.

Fourth, throw that throwing hammer. If the boss has a bigger health bar, throw it twice and then reproc 1-2 Punch.

For the biggest of health bars, I apply tractor cannon, then 1-2 punch, throw the hammer twice, 1-2 punch again, throw the hammer twice. and repeat until the boss dies.

Ending Statement

Alright, hopefully you learned how to 1 tap everything. If you did, leave a review on this guide and comment something if you want to.

Thank you,
TurtleneckPants

[basilbob37]

Python(gambit masterwork) and the new rahgnild-d or whatever its name is also have 1-2-punch

[Reiko]

You should add a special clause to the wormgod and that is, if the boss has no adds around them during dps, or simply if they'll go into hiding if not oneshot, like strike bosses such as the witch boss and corrupted tartarus for example (there are many more added to that list... sadly)

[Not Aventurine]

Yeah, just bind a key to charged melee in settings.

[Zeed]

I have more of a controls question, is there a way to use my melee ability even when I'm close to whatever I'm wanting to hit? I hate when I want to use like a ranged melee ability but I just end up slapping whatever grunt is within the default melee attack range.

[IvanNewb]

They laughed at me for saying the hammer was the best titan weapon out there.

*insert todd howard who's laughing now*

[Daave]

is this patched i want cheese

[Lv1 Skeleton]

Finally, someone put it into writing. Good post.

[Hi Cheese]

bonk

[Finder]

great guide, i give this a 10/10