Myles' Mechanic Guide

I believe Punch Launcher gets a bigger damage boost than Atomic Hammer when you have Accelerator out. I'm pretty sure they're equally strong

Vs a 10 PDR monster:

Atomic Hammer 20 + Metal Fist Mastery 20 without Accelerator 15 - 599,85%
AH 20 + MFM 20 with Accelerator 15 - 619,2%

Punch Launcher 20 with Accelerator 15 - 530,1%

Equally strong, huh?

Personally I used them both a lot, but Punch Launcher has a nice horizontal range that allowed me to avoid using rush at Duals.

Only use a pre-Chaos Mechanic will ever have for Punch Launcher.

Another thing is, if you need like 3 hits to kill a mob, you can't spam Hammer. Hammer makes your mobs fly up and your next hit will miss if you try to Hammer again. So in that situation Punch would be the better choice.

Jump-cast Atomic Hammer. You could also jump onto a box or any item on the background and attack from there. Either way, it IS possible to spam Atomic Hammer.

But I suppose if you 1 hit everything anyway you can just Hammer + Rush your way to 120.

Actually, you can just RnS + Drillhands from 105 to 120 on Captains and Krus.