Ranking EVERY Primary Weapon Tierlist After Patch Helldivers 2 Polar Patriots Update

What is the best primary weapon? I tested all main weapons against both factions. Showing the best primary's for Bile Titans and Chargers, as well as all automatons and terminids. We also included the new warbond from the update. #helldivers2

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00:00 Ranking All Primary Weapons
00:24 How my tierlist is ordered
01:52 Liberator
02:36 Liberator Penetrator
03:10 Liberator Concussive
03:57 Tenderizer
04:43 Adjudicator
05:55 Blazing Boost
06:27 Diligence
07:31 Diligence Counter Sniper
09:00 Defender
10:18 Pummeler
12:43 Punisher
14:08 Slugger
15:06 Breaker
16:53 Breaker Spray and Pray
17:47 Incendiary Breaker
19:42 Explosive Crossbow
21:41 Dominator
23:04 Eruptor
24:01 Punisher Plasma
25:54 Blitzer
27:21 Scythe
29:13 Sickle
31:03 Scorcher
32:21 Purifier

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[isaacdelima]

The devs skipping to the end to see what weapon to gut next

[MisterBlaargh]

Oh yes, I too enjoy weapons like [redacted] and find [redacted] especially fun to use.

[deathberry]

Alexus: "That's a nice list you got there, it'd be a shame if someone was to nerf the ones you like..."

[cyan]

You gotta stop telling the devs which guns are good.

[nmsixko]

As someone who used Punisher Plasma against bots religiously before the buff, I can attest that it did take so getting use to. However it was just as strong then as it is now. The only difference is that the handling is WAY better now. The projectile speed is up, making it much easier to hit targets and cover greater distances. Love it so much.

[torgmeister]

8:50 "a lot of people are enjoying this weapon right now" - haven't you heard? "Sharing your fun will nerf the gun! Do your part and zip your lips!" 😅🤣😂

[Mlgpug]

"pummeler can stun lock anything below a charger". Fun fact! it can also stun lock chargers and hulks if shot in their weakspots. If you continuously shoot a charger in the butt or if its armor is shot off then you stun lock it. Hulks get stun locked if you shoot their back continuously. I love this gun against the bugs

[clintmcbride]

The Purifier needs a rework. It needs to start at 200 damage and the damage increases as you charge, up to 350 damage (similar mechanic to the Railgun). But the fire rate with no charge needs to be slower than the Scorcher as to not replace it. It needs to have a risk vs reward feeling to charging up shots. It would fill a solid niche as an explosive type sniper replacement similar to how the Eruptor uses to perform but with less damage/explosive area to balance out the magazine size.

But thats just my idea.

[Mr_Big_Head]

The scythe buff basically just made people try it again. It’s a dot dmg weapon 50 extra dmg per second didn’t really change any breakpoints when it was already doing 300 per second.

Would rather see the size of the beam increased to make it easier to stay on target and or give it a variable scope

[Yutiradon]

I really like how the ranking splits up use cases (especially vs bug or bot) rather than generic f-a/s tiers

[thatch]

they really gutted the erupter so hard i can't bear to use it anymore until they fix it if that even happens

[garathminis]

Two things about both SMGs.

You can fire while moving, so hip fire. This lets you dodge attacks while shooting. It lets you play aggressive, move to the side of bugs armour and go for close up head shots.

The pummeled is especially good since it can stun lock even stalkers.

Top of the line weapon. I play on suicide difficulty . Max one death per mission .

[Canis.Lupus.Arctos]

This is a solid upgrade to the tier list, you know the worst thing about the constant rebalancing? Is that you need to constantly retest stuff, cuz is interesting how a little change will swap weapons from awesome to awful and vice versa.. now, some might say it keeps game from getting stale, fine I agree, but ATST not everyone has the time to retest the whole arsenal every couple of weeks, not to mention that by design the game relies heavily on the relationship between primaries and stratagems/support-weapons...
(Note when I rebalancing I'm referring to the game as a whole, not just weapons)

[MEDUSAvsSHOE]

When "not that bad" & "average" used as the main descriptors for the weapons should be worrisome for the devs.

[JusuchinPanjirinanu]

With the slight buff they did to the Adjuticator, it's great. Though pre-buff, I always thought "fix the scope and it'd be fine". I'll take the buffs though.

[LeafMaltieze]

Can we all agree that Marksman rifles should all deal at least 50 more damage than they currently do? It make no sense to me that a sniper rifle shot is dealing less damage than the liberator does in burst fire mode. At least the Anti Material Rifle feels pretty decent.

[LeafMaltieze]

Slugger 1 taps devastator heads. It's not the best, but it's better than you give it credit against bots. It's a Diligence without the scoped zoom.

[alppac]

Alexus is watching this video and he is moving everything to average.

[Super_AC]

Breaker Incendiary vs bugs is the only weapon in the entire game I have fun with