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Harpoon a Fish Harpoon Tier List: Loadout Priorities

Last updated 2026-10-18Unofficial player article

Harpoon Tier List

  • Answer: Start from your strongest available active set with Equip Best.
  • Use it: Prioritize an extra slot when you have another useful tool to field and the cost fits the plan.
  • Next step: Treat named crate weapons as acquisition goals, rather than guaranteed rewards or automatic wins.

Put the set you can use ahead of the collection you want

For a practical harpoon priority, start with the tools already available to equip. Use Equip Best, then look at the active set before planning the next acquisition. The tutorial demonstrates that equipment management belongs between dives. A promising weapon sitting outside the fielded set does not answer the immediate question of what you are taking fishing. Use the Harpoon a Fish experience for the current in-game task.

Harpoon a Fish island and capture tutorialFollow the opening captures, island interactions, crafting and equipment menus, then use this guide for the particular decision you want to make.

This is an equipment priority for your own progression, rather than an official damage chart. It keeps the first decision concrete: organize the available set, then choose the next improvement. That is more useful than treating every unfamiliar name as a reason to abandon the tools already carrying your catches.

Choose the slot when it has an immediate job

Place an additional equipment slot high in your spending plan when you have another harpoon you want to field. The tutorial shows slots being purchased with money and the set being equipped afterward. The slot has a purpose when it changes what you can actively carry, rather than simply adding another purchase to the island visit.

Keep the actual price in view and leave room for the other task you selected. If deeper access is the goal, weight progression at the Mukbang table remains relevant. A loadout priority should serve the next dive, so a slot can wait when it would spend the money you meant to use for reaching the target in the first place.

A loadout decision before the next dive
SituationPriorityReason
Available tools need arrangingSet the active equipment first.Use what you already own.
A useful tool has no active slotConsider the displayed slot purchase.The purchase has an immediate equipment job.
The desired tool is still a crate goalKeep it as an acquisition plan.A possible reward is not an already equipped weapon.

Use weapon names to set an acquisition goal

Recognize Lava Harpoon, Shadow Harpoon and Love Harpoon when looking at equipment. Recognizing those names helps you connect a menu or reward to the equipment you are pursuing, while keeping the route to it separate from the name itself.

For a crate weapon, plan around an opportunity to obtain equipment instead of assuming the next box must supply the desired tool. Match the key requested by the crate and choose an opening budget you are comfortable using. Once a reward arrives, return to the active-set decision. An acquisition becomes useful when it changes the equipment you can actually field.

Keep the ranking tied to the catch you want

An equipment priority should end at an action: an accessible target, a completed reel or a deliberate contested attempt. After arranging the set, choose that task and follow it through. The developer’s stealing rule still gives one trophy to one winner, so a new tool should not become a guarantee about every rival’s fish.

Use the crate route if the next step is obtaining another weapon. If the catch is reachable but your timing is the issue, return to reel practice instead. The order is personal to the current equipment and goal: make use of what you have, give a slot a real job and pursue the next tool without confusing a possible reward with a result already secured.

Next step

CratesMatch the requested key, inspect the opening result and equip a useful new tool.