Sledgehammer

The Sledgehammer is a Melee weapons acquirable in game as a world loot item, found in the Home Improvement Store across the Mall in Keithmman.

Overview
Sledgehammers are heavy tools featuring a large head for applying massive amounts of force to an area. The word sledge is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word "slægan", which essentially means "to strike violently". Sledgehammers, unlike standard hammers, are generally intended for the purpose of destruction. The incredible mass in the head of the sledgehammer combined with the amount of leverage makes the sledgehammer less about precision hammering and more about the indiscriminate destruction of whatever it hits.

Sledgehammers are commonly found in construction (or rather, deconstruction), such as when working with masonry, concrete, and drywall, where everything must go and precision is not required. Sledgehammers are also used when the maximum amount of force is required to dislodge and/or loosen an object that is stuck.

Law enforcement uses sledgehammers as well as battering rams in raids on a property to gain entry by force, commonly through barricaded doors. The level of kinetic force applied allows sledgehammers to destroy most locking mechanisms, or straight up destroy the obstruction in the first place.

As makeshift weapons however, Sledgehammers can be incredibly potent as even a lightweight (the lightest being around 3kg) sledgehammer can easily crack the skull of a human wide open and pulverize the brain with little issue and against the body, a blow from a sledgehammer can easily shatter bones which will cause internal bleeding.

In-game
The sledgehammer is a melee weapon acquirable in AniPhobia, located in the Home Improvement Store in Keithmman. Compared to all of the other melee weapons that have a quick swing speed with decent damage, the sledgehammer sacrifices speed and instant swings in exchange for the ability to deal devastating damage as even a swing to the body is capable of dealing a single hit kill to standard enemies, even a none-fatal hit can send a target flying back a little thanks to the knockback.

Trivia

 * Strangely the swing animation of the Sledgehammer can be deceiving as the player can still kill an enemy while the animation after swinging is nearly finished.