As a new player, you're not going to be punching anything in one hit, not even a frog. And they've got 1 HP. Even with a low Q soldier's sword, a new player will do just enough damage to kill a boar or fox.
The point is to provide a weapon that does something more than a stone axe so that you don't have to chop the target up into diced pieces to kill it. I'm not sure what your original idea was, but that gap is what needs filled (which was my understanding of the original item). Nothing you put in that gap will allow a new character to 1-hit kill anything bigger than a fox at low quality.