Calico's Leaping Slash procs Heavy Melee Charge's extra damage (videos)

[peyote queen]

Calico's Leaping Slash (2), despite being light melee damage, currently procs the extra damage from Heavy Melee Charge on (potentially) every attack where the HMC item proc is not on cooldown. Note that this does not trigger the HMC item cooldown.

This will happen an infinite amount of times once in a bugged state, but triggering this for the first time and repeated times seems to be inconsistent:

• having bonus ammo in the mag will sometimes prevent additional damage on Slash - however, I have gotten this to trigger infinite times with bonus ammo present AND without proccing HMC even once
• a single light melee attack from Calico will reset the Leaping Slash damage to 136 until HMC is triggered via a heavy melee, at which point the HMC damage will begin proccing on Leaping Slash again

To replicate:

With Calico at level 0 in the sandbox, purchase Melee Lifesteal, Spirit Strike, and Heavy Melee Charge. Her heavy melee does 187 damage with the HMC proc and 156 without. Her slash should do 136 damage.

Proc the HMC item via a heavy melee punch, then shoot your ammo down to below the base 12 bullets - Calico's slash now does 163-164 damage every time.

This video shows:

1. Leaping Slash/heavy melee without HMC at 10/12 bullets
2. HMC purchase, instant +38 damage on two uses of Leaping Slash
3. a heavy melee punch to trigger the item cooldown + bonus ammo
4. one use of Leaping Slash that does NOT proc the HMC damage (item is on cooldown)

View attachment Deadlock - 2025-01-26 5-17-11 PM.mp4

The other video shows:

1. three uses of Leaping Slash that all proc the HMC damage
2. a heavy melee punch to trigger the item cooldown + bonus ammo
3. one use of Leaping Slash that does NOT proc the HMC damage (item is on cooldown)
4. final use of Leaping Slash that DOES proc the HMC damage (WITH bonus ammo available)

View attachment Deadlock - 2025-01-26 4-30-05 PM.mp4