CL-40

CL-40
“Pump-action grenade launcher”
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Magazine Size	5
Price	800
General Data
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The CL-40 (China Lake Model Pump 40mm) is a Medium class grenade launcher designed to reliably damage opponents at a close distance thanks to its high area damage.

Usage

The CL-40 can be selected as the weapon of any Medium build loadout.

The trigger can be pulled to fire a grenade projectile that explodes upon impact, dealing damage to nearby opponents. The trigger must be released before firing again. The explosion also deals 1.25x more damage to its user if they are too close.

The secondary trigger can be used to zoom in slightly, though this does not affect the CL-40's accuracy. Its accuracy also remains stable while moving, but decreases slightly when going airborne.

The CL-40 reloads by inserting one round at a time, making its reload very slow. However, the reload can be interrupted before the magazine is full to reload fewer rounds. The reload can be cancelled by firing, using quick melee, or switching weapons.

The weapon automatically reloads when its magazine is empty, or the user can do a tactical reload before this point.

Controls	PC	PS	XBox	Key
Equip CL-40	1	△	Y	Weapon
Fire grenade (Tap)		R2	RT	Primary fire
Zoom (Hold)		L2	LT	Secondary fire
Tactical reload	R	◻	X	Reload

Stats

Damage Profile

Build	HP	Shots to kill	Time to kill (Body)
Light	150	2	0.8
Medium	250	3	1.6
Heavy	350	4	2.4
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Properties

Weapon

Ranged — Strikes targets by aiming and firing at them from a distance.

Single Fire — Fires once when the trigger is pulled. The trigger must be released before firing again.

Round Reload — Inserts a single round on reload. The next round(s) will also start reloading automatically until the magazine is full.

No Aiming Down Sights — Cannot use sights. Zooms in slightly instead, but doing so does not significantly affect accuracy.

Unstable Accuracy — Keeps a stable accuracy even while moving, though going airborne specifically does decrease accuracy.

Projectile

Projectile — Gets affected by gravity and has a travel time.

Trigger on Impact — Can fly for any amount of time and triggers when the projectile collides with a surface or contestant.

Interceptible — Can be removed by the APS Turret, nullifying its effects. This causes the turret to lose some health.

No Critical Hit — Does not critically hit for increased damage, even if the target was struck on the head.

No Falloff — Does not deal reduced damage when hitting targets at long distances.

Explosion

Explosive — Deals damage in an area of effect that can be intercepted by structures and shields.

Moderate Structure Damage — Damages structures. Takes a few seconds or multiple charges to break a concrete wall.

No Friendly Fire — Can damage the user, but not their teammates.

Guide

Strengths

• The CL-40 is one of the best Medium weapons against teams with multiple Light contestants, as it can eliminate them with two grenades and will easily strike them despite the Light class' slippery movement.
• The explosions can strike multiple opponents at once if they are grouped up such as near a cashout station.
• The explosions deal high damage to the arena, making it very useful for quickly destroying gadgets deployed by enemies.

Weaknesses

• Reloading the CL-40's shells takes a long time, leading to long downtimes between firing.
• Once a reloading animation is started, it cannot be cancelled until that shell has finished being loaded.
• The CL-40's small magazine size makes missing a shot very punishing.
• Since the CL-40's grenades are interceptible, the APS Turret is a direct counter to the weapon.
• The user will take significant damage if they are too close to the CL-40's explosions (125 damage at point blank range)

Tactics

• The projectiles from the CL-40 can be bounced off of a Jump Pad, which can be useful for shooting around a cover such as by placing it on the wall in a doorway. However, placing the Jump Pad can only be done from a short distance making it less effective as an attacking tool, and the gadget can be disposed of easily by opponents.
• The CL-40 can combo with mines for extra damage and effects, taking advantage of the gun's splash damage to detonate them. Gas Mines can be detonated mid-air immediately after a throw for their full effects. Due to the nuke nerfs in Season 2 however, the Explosive Mine must arm first (1.6 seconds after throw) to get its full damage, otherwise it will only deal a heavily reduced 20% damage.
• While the CL-40 can destroy APS Turret placements with 3 shots in its radius, contestants should be aware of the long reload time. Having a Glitch Barrel on hand can save you some ammo in this situation.

Item Mastery

Item mastery XP can be earned by damaging and eliminating opponents with the CL-40.

Each time a certain XP threshold is reached, the item levels up. This does not improve the item, but rewards a unique item customization.

XP Breakdown
Source	XP Reward
Damage dealt by the CL-40	0.2 × Damage Dealt
Opponent eliminated by the CL-40	50
Assist on an opponent damaged by the CL-40	20

Level 1 0 XP CL-40

Level 2 9,000 XP Dye Job (Yellow)

Level 3 9,000 XP Dye Job (Blue)

Level 4 36,000 XP Dye Job (Red)

Level 5 54,000 XP Dye Job (White)

Level 6 162,000 XP Triangle Twinkle

Level 7 144,000 XP Striped Grazer

Level 8 136,000 XP Painted Predator

Level 9 200,000 XP Predasheen

Weapon Skins

LEGENDARYEPICRARECOMMONLEGACY

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  ANCIENT SECRETS - 800
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  ECLIPSE SHADE - 800
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  SPLAT SPLENDOR - 800

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  CHROMIUM FUTURA - S2 BP Level 50
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  IMPROMPTU PICTURES - 1,150 (Bundle)
• TRADITION KEEPER - 300
  TRADITION KEEPER - 300
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  TRIANGLE TWINKLE - Weapon Level 6
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  URBAN REACTOR - 500

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  OFF PANEL - 150
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  PAINTED PREDATOR - Weapon Level 8
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  POSH TERRAZO - 150

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  DYE JOB - Weapon Level 2
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  DYE JOB - Weapon Level 3
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  DYE JOB - Weapon Level 4
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  DYE JOB - Weapon Level 5
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  STANDARD ISSUE

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  METALLIC WHORL
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  SECRET SCRAWLS

Trivia

• The CL-40 exists in real life as the China Lake grenade launcher, a pump-action grenade launcher. It was developed in 1967 at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, a large military installation in California, United States. The dry lake, China Lake, got its name from Chinese prospectors harvesting borax (a type of salt) from the Californian lake bed.
  • The 40 in CL-40 refers to its 40mm cartridge.
  • See also: List of Gun Origins.

History

Patch	Changes
6.0.0	Increased the size of the inner blast radius radius from 30cm to 60cm, meaning it should now be easier to do maximum damage Increased the speed of the grenade projectile from 35m/s to 42m/s Decreased the projectile gravity modifier from 1 to 0.9, giving projectiles a slightly flatter arc
5.8.0	Decreased the radius of the weapon’s projectile from 10cm to 5cm, making it easier to avoid accidentally hitting nearby surfaces Decreased self-damage multiplier from 1.6 to 1.25, meaning it will now do less damage to the player using it should they accidentally hit themselves
4.4.0	Updated the ammo count on the item overview screen
4.2.0	Decreased damage from 117 to 100 Increased ammo from 4 to 5 Increased self-damage multiplier from 0.75 to 1.6 Updated damage fall-off curve so that damage drops to 90% at the edge of the 30cm inner radius, with damage falling off linearly from that point to 0 at the outer edge of the blast radius
4.0.0	Increased max damage from 93 to 117 Decreased fire rate from 275 RPm to 210 RPM Increased the max damage radius from 9cm to 30cm
3.4.0	Decreased minimum damage applied at outer edge of explosions to 0 Increased damage radius from 2.6m to 3m Set damage fall-off to scale linearly from the max damage radius to the outer radius
3.0.0	Decreased damage from 110 to 93 Increased fire rate from 250 RPM to 275 RPM Decreased pump-action duration from 0.7s to 0.65s Decreased self-damage multiplier from 1 to 0.75, reducing how much damage the grenades do to the player using them
1.5.5	Increased player damage to 110 from 100
CB1 Patch 3	Increased max damage: 80 -> 84 Increased min damage: 30 -> 45