Slayer

Slayer is a perk in Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout Tactics and a skill in Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.

Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics


All hand-to-hand attacks cause critical hits.

Fallout: New Vegas


Increases the speed of all melee and unarmed attacks by 30%.

Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel


+5% chance for Critical Chance.

Fallout: The Roleplaying Game


+5% chance for Critical Chance. Damage with a melee or unarmed attack can be turned into a critical hit with the spending of 1 luck point.

Behind the scenes
* The Vault Boy image for the Slayer perk references the throne scene from the 1982 action-adventure fantasy film Conan the Barbarian.
 * According to Tim Cain, the perk was given its name because Chris Jones was a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 