Protonic Inversal Axe

The protonic inversal axe is a weapon in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.

Characteristics
The protonic inversal axe is a variant of the proton axe, having a dark blue-violet blade, whitish capacitors, and a black handle. Compared to the standard proton axe, it deals increased damage and much more critical damage, in addition to being much more durable. It is a very effective melee weapon against just about any enemy, especially robots or power armor users.

Special attack
It has a special Inversal Scarifier attack that does 200% damage in V.A.T.S. at the cost of 10 more action points (requires a Melee skill of 50). Note that this attack may strike more than one opponent, but is not guaranteed to do so even if the animation indicates that it passed through other opponents.

It is possible to execute Inversal Scarifier outside of V.A.T.S. (without the required Melee skill of 50 to perform the move) by initiating a power attack (hold attack button) while moving forward.

Durability
The protonic inversal axe can successfully strike about 1245 times from full condition before breaking.

Variants

 * Proton axe - the standard variant
 * Proton throwing axe - the thrown variant
 * Protonic inversal throwing axe - the stronger, thrown variant

Locations

 * The Cuckoo's Nest, found on Test Subject 1.
 * Big MT, found on Number 27 and Number 34, ghouls near Little Yangtze.
 * X-13 research facility, found in Test Chamber #2, on the walkways to the right of the elevator (Hard Lock door).

Behind the scenes

 * The technology used by this weapon appears to be similar to the electric weapons created in the Secret Vault by Vault-Tec.
 * The protonic inversal axe is based on the proton ax of Wasteland, the 1980s game which is considered to be Fallout's predecessor.

Sounds
Протонно-инверсная секира Інверсійна протонна сокира