Borderlands 2:Grenade

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.)

Grenade Type	Manufacturer	Description
Standard	Bandit Tediore	Grenade simply explodes when fuse runs out.
MIRV	Bandit Torgue	Grenade explodes into a shower of more grenades.
Bouncing Betty	Dahl	Grenade bounces and showers the surrounding area in bullets.
Area of Effect	Vladof	Grenade afflicts anything that comes near with a particular type of damage.
Singularity	Hyperion	Grenade pulls in nearby enemies before exploding.
Transfusion	Maliwan	Grenade siphons health from the target and grants it to the user or nearest allies.

Delivery system	Level available
Lob	1
Lob sticky	6
Rubberized	11
Longbow	15
Longbow Sticky	15
Homing	18
Homing Sticky	18

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.

List of Unique and Legendary Grenades

Name	Image	Manufacturer	Rarity	Characteristics
Fuster Cluck	File:Fuster Cluck.png	Bandit	Rare	Throw a handful.
				Elemental versions possible.
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Kiss of Death		Maliwan	Rare	Spawns child grenades.
				Deals bonus explosive damage.
				Homing saps health.
Bonus Package		Torgue	Legendary	Spawns child grenades.
				Deals bonus explosive damage.
				Initial Explosion creates child grenades, which explode and create children once more.
Bouncing Bonnie		Dahl	Legendary	Rubberized grenade bounces until impact, spawning a bullet and grenade area of effect fountain.
				Deals bonus Explosive damage.
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Fastball		Tediore	Legendary	What an arm!
				Deals bonus Explosive damage.
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Quasar		Hyperion	Legendary	Shock.
				Singularity.
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Fire Bee		Vladof	Legendary	Fire.
				Grenade becomes flamethrower fountain and flaming grenade spout.
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Rolling Thunder		Torgue	Legendary	Rubberized grenade explodes each bounce.
				Deals bonus explosive damage.
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Leech		Maliwan	Legendary	Spawns child grenades.
				Elemental Damage.
				Homing.
Storm Front		Vladof	Legendary	Shock damage.
				Area of effect grenade spans area of effect children.
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