EquipmentmajorGhost Weapon

Sticky Bomb

An explosive that attaches to a target before it detonates — the answer to a single heavily armoured enemy rather than to a crowd.

Type
Ghost Weapon
Role
Ghost weapon
Importance
major
Sticky Bomb — weapon art
Ghost of Tsushima · equipment
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Overview

An explosive that attaches to a target before it detonates — the answer to a single heavily armoured enemy rather than to a crowd.

Where the black powder bomb is thrown at a group and kills whatever is standing together, the sticky bomb is aimed at one specific problem: the brute or armoured officer that a sword takes too long to open up.

It adheres to what it hits, which removes the timing guesswork of a thrown explosive and makes it usable at closer range than you would risk a black powder bomb.

A Black Powder Bomb you do not have to aim, which matters when a Brute is already swinging. The standard answer to Khotun Khan.

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Stats & Performance

Weapon stats
StatValue
TypeGhost Weapon
How to get itLegend rank, in any order after the Kunai
AimingQuick throw — no manual aim needed
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Passive Effects

EffectSticks to a target, then explodes for area damage and stagger
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Builds & Best Uses

Strengths

  • Reliably kills or opens single heavy targets
  • Adheres, so no detonation-timing guesswork
  • Usable closer than an area explosive
  • A Black Powder Bomb that needs no aiming, which is why it is the standard answer to bosses.

Weaknesses

  • Loud — ends any stealth approach
  • Scarce; not worth spending on ordinary troops
  • Single-target, unlike the black powder bomb
  • Sticks to the target, so a moving Brute carries it.

Best uses

  • Removing an armoured brute before a fight starts
  • Opening a duel-like encounter against a heavy officer
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Tales that call for it

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Upgrading it

Weapons and tools are improved through the skill trees, spending Technique Points earned as your Legend rank rises. Legend itself comes from tales — main and Mythic Tales give the largest steps, side tales, liberated settlements and cleared encounters the smaller ones.

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Sources

  • All Ghost Weapons List and Guide — Samurai Gamers
  • Written from model knowledge of Ghost of Tsushima (2020); mechanics only, no numeric values asserted — Unverified — pending editorial review