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Best Knives
| Rank | Weapon | Reason |
| 1st |   Primal Knife | - With Exclusive Upgrade, its durability becomes infinite. - All Clockwork Castellans needs to be destroyed to unlock. (Post-Game Only). - The power of the knife itself is lower than Fighting Knife. |
| 2nd |  Combat Knife | - Higher Durability than Fighting Knife when upgraded. - Subtle rise of ATK Speed with Exclusive Upgrade. - Power is very low. |
| 3rd |  Fighting Knife | - Knife that focuses on Power. - Similar to Combat Knife, it can be reused by repairing them. - With Exclusive Upgrade, it becomes more powerful than a Handgun. |
| 4th |  Boot Knife | - Durability is a bit higher than Kitchen Knife. - The difference is minimal so it can be used to not decrease the durability of your main Knife. |
| 5th |  Kitchen Knife | - Both power and durability are very low, - Mainly used to not reduce the durability of your main Knife. |
Best Handguns
| Rank | Weapon | Reason |
| 1st |  Blacktail | - Overall high performance in all aspects of Handugn. - It is very easy to use and popular pick by many. - With exclusive upgrade, its power also catches up with Red9. |
| 2nd |  Matilda(With Stock) | - With stocks, it allows you to deal 3 point burst of damage. - Best gun for quick firepower. - Doubles the ammo with Exclusive Upgrade. - It consumes a lot of Ammo, unfortunately. |
| 3rd |  SG-09R | - Standard performance for Handgun. - Increases CRIT Rate 5x with Exclusive Upgrade. - A weapon useful on the battle against Ganado. |
| 4th |  Sentinel Nine | - Stats wise, it is similar to SG but there are close to twice amount of bullets. - Very quick fire rate. - Less effective against boss since the Exclusive Upgrade is CRIT Rate boost. - At final upgrade, it is less powerful than SG. |
| 5th |  Red9(With Stock) | - A gun for one shot power. - With Stock, it becomes easier to use. - Has a firepower comparable to a rifle with Exclusive Upgrade. - On stats other than power, it is very weak. |
| 6th |  Punisher | - Handgun that has penetrating ability. - Stable and easy to use even when holding a shield. - Can damage multiple enemies when they are lined up. - Can be replaced by any wepaon with penetrating ability. |
Best Shotguns
| Rank | Weapon | Reason |
| 1st |  Riot Gun | - One shot deals high amount of damage making it have powerful breakthrough power. - The exclusive upgrade increases power making it have no stats that go to waste. - At your first run, where you lack money, Striker can be easier to use. |
| 2nd |  Striker | - Rate of fire, power and speed are all top-class. - Small for a shotgun. - It shoots bullets at a wide range making it amazing against group of enemies. - You need to be close to deal damage. - The exclusive upgrade does not provide impactful effect. |
| 3rd |  W-870 | - A Standard pump-shotgun. - Balanced amount of bullets released and power. - Very powerful if you ignore its fire rate. |
| 4th |  Skull Shaker | - Sacrifices the number of bullets to reduce reloading time. - You can use it right away after shooting the first shot. - Power is the lowest among Shotguns. - Small so it does not take much space. |
Best Submachine Guns
| Rank | Weapon | Reason |
| 1st |  TMP(With Stock) | - Amazing load speed. - With stock, it becomes significantly easy to use. - With exclusive upgrade, it becomes more powerful than LE5. |
| 2nd |  LE 5 | - Submachine gun with Penetrating ability. - Great for slowing down enemies. - In the end, its stats becomes weaker than TMP. |
Best Rifles
| Rank | Weapon | Reason |
| 1st |  Stingray | - SR M1903 without its weakness. A very versatile sniper. - Less firepower but is very easy to use. - The exclusive Upgrade is fire rate buff so priority is not very high. |
| 2nd |  CQBR Assault Rifle | - Full-auto shooting is possible. - If you hit can continuously hit the weakness, you can deal, large damage can be dealt. - Exclusive Upgrade increases firepower so it is good. - It uses a lot of bullets, however. |
| 3rd |  SR M1903 | - Worst fire rate since it needs to load every shoot. - Missing your shoot will leave you vulnerable for a long time. - Its power however, is very strong. |
Best Magnums
| Rank | Weapon | Reason |
| 1st |  Broken Butterfly | - A Magnum that specializes in power. - Shots are very strong great for instantaneous damage. - Reload speed is slow. |
| 2nd |  Killer7 | - Ammo Capacity and Reload Speed has been improved making it easy to use. - If both without Exclusive upgrade, it is more powerful than Broken Butterfly. - Critical Rate Up on Exclusive Upgrade which is very situational. |
Other Weapons
Weapons listed below has their own unique use and abilities so they are not ranked.
| Weapon | Reason |
 Bolt Thrower | - You can retrieve the bullets you shoot. - Great for saving bullets at early-game. - You can do a follow-up attack on downed enemies. - You can also ambush with explosives. |
 Rocket Launcher | - Single-use, super powerful ranged weapon. - Can defeat the last boss in one hit. - You can buy the unlimited Rocket Launcher from second run with 2 million Ptas. |
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