Fastball

The Fastball is a standard-type Grenade Mod manufactured by Tediore. The

Special Effects
0.0 fuse time. Greatly increased damage and travel speed. Dramatically decreased blast radius. Uses special physics as if it were a baseball.

Usage & Description
The special effects from the Fastball come from its unique delivery method part. When the Fastball is thrown it follows an arc similar to lobbed grenade, but traveling at extremely high speeds, while also bouncing off of surfaces. The higher speed also makes the grenade travel longer distances than common lobbed grenades. The Fastball can only spawn with the lowest trigger component, and as such will always have a fuse time of 0.0.

Even if the Fastball has an increase to base damage, its greatest drawback is the blast radius. Like fuse time, the radius is always fixed and, even if the card shows an 85 blast radius, in practice the blast radius is almost null. With practice it can do massive damage to a single enemy but it is difficult to use and highly impractical for crowd control.

Trivia

 * The flavor text is a reference to the line James Gammon's character, Lou Brown, says during the final at bat in the film Major League.
 * The Fastball had a high chance to drop from the Sheriff in Lynchwood on Week 2, Day 14 of the Borderlands 2 Loot Hunt.  This was rewarded for completing all the community goals for that week.
 * As of Week 2, Day 14 of the Borderlands 2 Loot Hunt, the Fastball has gotten a massive damage increase, with level 72 variants having over 10 million damage.