This is a guide I never thought I would need but oh damn, I just spent the past 6 hours playing this game so here I am and thank you so much for this !

For cacti club, on any other character than the generalist you just ignore the ranged damage portion and use it to boost your lifesteal. Basically you can think of it as a swingable weapon with a lifesteal boost.

Fantastic video, great objective analysis of the weapons, and explanation of use and edge cases. Well done!

Think worth noting on the scythe that it has secret lifesteal built in like the medical weapons, which helps mitigate the damage ticks

Nicely done, for future tier list videos consider ranking them against other entries within the same tier by putting them in left -> right order. So 1st entry in S-tier is better than the last entry in S-tier and so on. I'm trying to win a D5 run using 6x of the same weapon for every weapon, a self-imposed challenge I guess you could say. So a lot of times the question becomes "okay I'm going to pick X weapon because I need to win with it, so which character should I pick to give myself the best chance?" Perhaps an idea for a future video, or maybe it's too niche, idk.

Thanks for doing this video!

Thanks! Really enjoying your content. As Brotato explodes so too shall your market share :D. This wasn’t the video you asked about it but public transit sucks in NC too 😂

I needed this!

I watched this solely for confirmation that the potato thrower is dog. You didn't disappoint. 😂

thank you for the guide!

Omg i watched non stop 55 min video, well done

Another list, and another job well done =) BUT: The minigun is just a better smg overall (faster attacks for lifesteal, integrated pierce), and totally fine at epic rarity. So it's S tier for me.

Great video, just considering apprentice i would have put Cactus in C tier. He is carrying fully with only this weapon.

I really like Ethereal weapons, and the most success I've had with them is when I pivot off of them at some point. I find the game rewards you for doing this, too -- early on, we don't mind if we lose armor, and we can get that armor back late game when we replace most or all of our ethereal weapons. I haven't won very often on Danger 5, so we'll see how long I hold onto this valuation!

Hey man this is a great video, agree with almost everything on the list but personally I dont like spiky shield all that much, there are a lot of items I wanna take that reduce my armour for other stats and (mainly) the really good armour items are pretty expensive I feel. but its definetly not bad by any means

Huh... I didn't know I was playing on hard mode. I generally go with ethereal (changing it occasionally for fun) and thought the potato gun was fancy... I didn't know about synergies either. I just play it for fun via. mobile (I live in a rural area). I'll have to try a few different tweaks to my builds.

I would be interested to see if you can make the best plank run possible. I was thinking GMO mod with Apprentice for flat scaling + Artificer for explode synergy?

Good video, it seems as elemental weapons seem to be the weakest of the groups, since I the only S tier is flamethrower and you only want 1 of those.

Power fist - it dealt more dmg on level 20 then 3 of my orange regular fists, it is S in my opinion because it can carry your below average build Torch - is not that bad just because of attack pattern, it has pretty nice slash and can carry early game with play style of hit and run in big circles for Lightning Sword and Plasma hammer - you usually get in after wave 10 and it solves something that you struggle at that point with melee, aoe so it is almost always S Ghost Scepter - splashing it in early-mid game to any range build will give you crazy hp return even if only one of the 6 weapons and it will not cause issues with its tags, just treat it not as a weapon but as a +hp (it doesn't impact dmg much) Laser Pistol - another safety gun, it will do comparable dmg to something like SMG, But it will kill chargers efficiently, so also good as splash weapon, and vs elites Sniper Gun - oh boy, you should look at its interaction with pierce and how many projectiles it produces, with minimum range it will outdps All other weapons, in my book its place is near Nuclear launcher because you can pretty much sell all other weapons when you get it if you have a bit of range and some pierce. Try endless with it, it's hilarious, I replaced 6 slots with it once and it felt insane even after wave 40.

Stick is S Tier. It builds off itself, which is fun.

My answer to like a quarter of these is "this is all true but have you considered that it's cool as hell 🤔 " The nice thing about being too bad at the game for danger 5 is that, when I lose, it's because I took avoidable damage, not because I decided to go all in on screwdriver on my alchemist run.

i did jack with only laser guns and it was pretty good

I personally disagree with how low you rate Range as a stat. One of my primary rules in playing is to always be killing, and with extended Range you can do this much more reliably as you stay centered. The build I made to get the +300 Range achievement was SMGs with that range, and from waves 14-19 I literally only had to move to tap trees and dodge Elite charges (on 20 I had to move more due to boss attack patterns). It will never be primary, but on any Ranged build I’m always happy to have 100-ish bonus to it.

Make the weapon you are discussing’s icon larger when you are discussing it. Do it. Just. Do it.

Disagreed about the Crossbow. It’s just not worth to upgrade ranged damage on it, just go with pure range, crit and attack speed, and boom, no one can even get close to you. Maybe I’m biased, but after seeing how it makes Hunter easy win I easily put it in A or S tier, it also works with Soldier nicely. Just forget about ranged damage, upgrade range, damage%, crit and attack speed. That’s all you need to make it perfect.

SMG YEA IS VERY GOOD IF YOU GET 6 OF THEM AND MAX LVL IS OPPPP

So the Pruner is D because it's weak...but the even weaker Hand is in A? Why is the Hand in A?

what a bad tier list, really. SMG is in S-tier but minigun in B-tier... Laser gun in C-tier... Stun gun in C-tier... Flamethrower in S-tier... I mean most of weapons are placed in right tiers but too many are in wrong ones...