All stats for characters health, speed, special weapon properties, and damage.

This is all the numerical data I could find over two days of matchups.  To my knowledge, it is accurate, but please let me know if you find anything that needs amending.

Character HP:
Roadkill: 120
Twister: 95
Axel: 130
Mr. Slam: 140
Shadow: 120
Sweet Tooth: 140
Minion: 230
Hammerhead: 130
Outlaw: 120
Warthog: 150
Mr. Grimm: 85
Grasshopper: 110
Thumper: 120
Spectre: 110


Top speed/Turbo speed
Roadkill: 117/156
Twister: 140/178
Axel: 101/138
Mr. Slam: 91/138
Shadow: 112/149
Sweet Tooth: 91/138
Minion: 126/168
Hammerhead: 94/138
Outlaw: 126/168
Warthog: 100/138
Mr. Grimm: 124/166
Grasshopper: 119/157
Thumper: 110/147
Spectre: 129/171
(Note: some of the faster characters like Grasshopper and Spectre can use a glitch to add 2 mph to their max turbo speed when turning off a ramp)


Special weapon generation time in seconds/maximum number of specials in inventory
Roadkill: 35/5
Twister: 18/3
Axel: 35/5
Mr. Slam: 50/3
Shadow: 20/5
Sweet Tooth: 18/5 
Minion: 18/5
Hammerhead: 60/5
Outlaw: 55/3
Warthog: 35/5
Mr. Grimm: 70/3
Grasshopper: 35/5
Thumper: 80/5
Spectre: 35/4


Pickup weapons:
Fire missile: 7 dmg
Homing missile: 10 dmg
Power missile: 15 dmg
Remote bomb: 25 dmg on direct hit, decreases with distance from bomb
Napalm: 10 base dmg plus fire damage
Ricochet: 7 base dmg, increases to up to 15 dmg with rebounds (note: the first rebound adds pushback, but does not add damage.  Damage increases after several rebounds)
Lightning: 20 dmg (2 hits, 10 dmg each)


Universal damagers:
Freeze missile: 7 dmg
Mine: 15 dmg
Machine gun: ~2.9-3.6 dmg per second (bullets do not guarantee damage.  Pressing the R2 button does not fire a bullet, but instead plays the firing animation for however long the button is held.  The rate of damage is partly randomized.  Bullets that do hit deal 1 dmg each)
Fire damage: ~4-6 dmg per second (flames stay for 5 seconds if not extinguished with water or turbo.  Rate of damage is partly randomized)
Lava damage: ~2.7 dmg per second


Specials:
Roadkill: 10 dmg on initial fire, increases to 40 dmg on return trip
Twister: Minimum dmg is 4 on drive-by hit, maximum is 30 when opponent's grill faces tornado upon activation.  Total damage depends on the angle of impact and how long opponent is held in tornado, and can be potentially increased with collisions.
Axel: 15 dmg
Mr. Slam: 10 dmg per slam, special includes up to 4 total slams for maximum of 40 dmg total.  Against Hammerhead and Minion, special never allows more than 1 slam, but damage is always 25.
Shadow: Base damage ranges from 9-24.  24 dmg on direct hit, damage decreases to minimum of 9 with distance from detonation.  If the special is detonated on a sloped angle (e.g. Amazonia bridges), 24 dmg is added to the base dmg for a maximum of 48 dmg.
Sweet Tooth: 15 dmg
Minion: 10 dmg per missile plus 7 dmg from freeze for total maximum of 37 dmg.  Missiles decrease to 2 dmg each if fired from long distance.
Hammerhead: 15 dmg added onto base ram damage
Outlaw: 2 hits, 10 dmg each for 20 dmg total.
Warthog: 6 dmg per missile for total of 18 dmg, missiles decrease to 2 dmg each if fired from long distance.
Mr. Grimm: 40 dmg
Grasshopper: 15 dmg
Thumper: 1-60 dmg over time plus fire damage
Spectre: 12 dmg


Ram damage:
Many variables affect ramming damage to the point that it's impossible to give an accurate summary of how it works without accessing the source code and creating various matchup charts.  Below are notable variables.

Armor of the attacker in relation to the victim:  Characters with higher armor deal more ramming damage to those with lower base HP.  Mr. Grimm takes the most damage from rams and deals the least damage while Minion takes the least damage and deals the most, save for Axel.

Speed of attacker at impact: Nudging the opponent at minimum speed deals zero or low damage while faster rams or turbo ramming increases damage.  Most low speed rams deal 3 damage or less.

The angle of impact:  Characters take more damage at different angles.  For example, certain characters are most vulnerable on the driver side door.  Damage increases accordingly.

Ramming is most important for higher armor characters.  These are some damage ranges I've found when comparing ramming Mr. Grimm and Minion.
Axel: 15 base damage against all characters (low speed nudging included), maximum ram damage increases to 20-45 dmg based on opponent.
Hammerhead: Max damage 20-40 based on opponent.
Mr. Slam, Warthog, Sweet Tooth: Max damage 25-32 based on opponent.
Minion: Max damage 35-40 based on opponent.

Character specific strategy guide- tips to maximize efficiency for all characters

Overclocking (for MODS only/Applies to TM 2/3/4)

At the top left when opening Duckstation, go to "Settings", then click on "Console"

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From here look at the CPU Emulation section, click the box next to "Enable Clock Speed Control" then adjust accordingly to what % the game needs.



*Twisted Metal 2:* **175% Speed**

*Twisted Metal 3:* **175% Speed**

*Twisted Metal 4:* **200% Speed**

MissRaven

Dolphinchucks

Twisted Metal 2

PlayStation 2

PlayStation

PlayStation 5

inSAMity

Najawa11

Roadkill

Twister

Axel

Mr. Slam

Shadow

Outlaw 2

Hammerhead

Warthog

Mr. Grimm

Grasshopper

Thumper

Spectre

Sweet Tooth

Minion

Easy

Medium

Hard

test 1

test 2

test 3

Character

Difficulty

test

PlayStation 3

PlayStation Portable

PlayStation Vita

PlayStation 4

PlayStation TV

PlayStation 4 Pro

PlayStation Classic

Twisted Metal

Rules should ban ePSXe like all other competitive games. Maybe show settings for others.

Name	Author
All stats for characters health, speed, special weapon properties, and damage.	Dolphinchucks 5 years ago
Character specific strategy guide- tips to maximize efficiency for all characters	Dolphinchucks 4 years ago
Overclocking (for MODS only/Applies to TM 2/3/4)	MissRaven 11 months ago