Tennis Racket
| Tennis Racket | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Improvised Weapon |
| Skill | Short Blunt |
| Damage | 0.3-0.5 |
| Range | 0.61-1.25 |
| Crit | 5% x1 |
| Condition | 4 |
| Weight | 1 |
| Hands | One-handed |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.TennisRacket
|
The Tennis Racket is a piece of sports gear that serves as an improvised one-handed blunt weapon. It trains the Short Blunt skill. It is light and swings fast, with a fair reach for a one-handed weapon.
It hits very softly, though, and it breaks quickly. It is a stopgap for the first hours of a game rather than a real weapon. The Tennis Racket is a common find in school gym storage rooms, and it also turns up in closets and pawnshops.
Combat
The Tennis Racket swings faster than base speed and reaches about 1.25 tiles. Each hit deals between 0.3 and 0.5 damage, so a single zombie takes many blows. Its crits are rare and add little. With multi-hit enabled, one swing can strike up to two zombies.
The racket is one-handed, so a bag or a light can stay in the other hand. Its low weight keeps the endurance cost small. It is best used to buy time to escape or to reach a better weapon.
The Short Blunt skill raises attack speed and damage as it levels. Almost any club, pipe or tool is a better weapon. A Steel Rod or a Tire Iron, for example, hits about twice as hard and lasts more than twice as long.
Uses
A worn-out Tennis Racket can be burned as fuel in a fire.
Repair
The Tennis Racket has 4 condition and loses a point on about 1 hit in 6. The Short Blunt and Maintenance skills both lower that chance. Duct tape and adhesive tape repair it with no skill needed. Zip ties need Maintenance 1. Epoxy needs Maintenance 3, and epoxy with rags needs Maintenance 4. Each repair restores less condition than the one before.
Locations
The Tennis Racket is easiest to find in school gym storage rooms, where more than a quarter of the shelves and containers hold one. Closets and pawnshops are the next best spots. It turns up now and then in attics, halls, living rooms and storage units. Survivor safehouses can hold one, but the odds there are low.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Schoolgym storage | Metal shelves | 28.8% |
| Schoolgym storage | Other | 28.8% |
| Gym storage | Cardboard box | 17.8% |
| Gym storage | Metal shelves | 17.8% |
| Sports storage | Other | 17.8% |
| Storage unit | Other | 0.5% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Sports store | Other | 10.4% |
| Pawn shop | Other | 9.5% |
| Pawn shop | Metal shelves | 1.9% |
| Pawn shop | Shelves | 1.9% |
| Pawn shop | Display case | 1.8% |
| Any building | Small box | <0.1% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Closet | Other | 9.5% |
| Closet | Metal shelves | 0.5% |
| Attic | Cardboard box | 0.4% |
| Attic | Crate | 0.4% |
| Attic | Other | 0.4% |
| Closet | Locker | 0.4% |
| Hall | Other | 0.4% |
| Living room | Locker | 0.4% |
| Living room | Other | 0.4% |
| Garage storage | Other | 0.2% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Survivor safehouse | Cardboard box | 0.2% |
| Survivor safehouse | Crate | 0.2% |
| Survivor safehouse | Small box | 0.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Cardboard box | 0.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Crate | 0.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Small box | 0.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Cardboard box | 0.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Crate | 0.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Small box | 0.2% |
Notes
- The Tennis Racket is a reasonable pick only in the first hours, before a proper club turns up.
- Schools are the best place to look for one, in the gym storage rooms.
- Tape is the cheapest repair, and it needs no skill.
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