Cyberpunk 2077 Best Netrunners

[Actalo]

I put together a tier list of Cyberpunk 2077's Netrunners. In order to be on the list, they have to be human and alive, at least, at the beginning of the game.

S Tier: Basically Net God
1. Song So Mi aka "Songbird" - NUSA's top Netrunner whose accomplisments are too spoilery.

A Tier: Best of the best.
2. Wilky LaGuerre aka "Slider" - Hacked the Blackwall to communicate with Songbird.
3. Bryce Mosley - Top Netwatch runner who trapped a cohort of VDBs.
4. Nix - Former Arasaka netrunner, Rogue's personal netrunner, hacked MaxTac in a few hours, and nearly hacked Bartmoss' deck.

B Tier: Highly proficient and sought after.
5. B@D - Freelance merc runner who hacks Arasaka, Tygers, and just about anyone else.
6. TI Neptune - Top VDB netrunner.
7. Milko Alexis - Top VDB netrunner who hacks megacorps for blackmail.
8. Sanda Dorsette - Hacked Nightcorp and Maxtac.

C Tier: Proficient journeymen in all things netrunning.
9. Brigitte - VDB leader with extensive knowlege of AIs.
10. Yoko Tsuru - Mr Hand's personal netrunner, colleague of T-Bug, and hacked MaxTac.
11. T-Bug - Hacked Arasaka and Militech.
12. Beatrice Ellen Trieste aka "8ug8ear" - Tyger Claw netrunner who hacks megacorps and is good enough for Wakako to hire a merc to save.

D Tier: Only proficient in certain aspects of netrunning or use-to-be.
12. Carol Emeka - Nomad netrunner who hacked Militec.
13. Chang Hoon Nam - Has-been netrunner and "friend" to Wakako who can hack Tyger Claws but gets ICEd 'easily' and nearly dies hacking MaxTac.
14. Ben DeBaillon - VDB netrunner who couldn't hack Netwatch or the guy he hired to hack Netwatch.
15. Spectral Kid - Associate of Hoon Nam's who gets fried trying to hack VDBs.
16. Vortex - Hacked Tyger Claws but was discovered.
16. Juliet Horrigan - Barely worth mentioning as there's little evidence of her netrunning ability before getting ganked by her sister.

Any difference of opinion or netrunners I should have included?

[NorthernDavid]

Spider Murphy could easily be still around, though she doesn't appear in game she hasn't been killed off in the lore as far as I know.

Edit: Spider doesn't appear outside of the Johnny flashbacks which she does survive.

[Silverbane7]

Originally posted by NorthernDavid:

Spider Murphy could easily be still around, though she doesn't appear in game she hasn't been killed off in the lore as far as I know.

Edit: Spider doesn't appear outside of the Johnny flashbacks which she does survive.

Maximum like sideways mentions her.
that 'friend' of his, who told him the Net is Hell (the place, not the concept) and that Rache just found the place.

[NorthernDavid]

Originally posted by Silverbane7:

Originally posted by NorthernDavid:

Spider Murphy could easily be still around, though she doesn't appear in game she hasn't been killed off in the lore as far as I know.

Edit: Spider doesn't appear outside of the Johnny flashbacks which she does survive.

Maximum like sideways mentions her.
that 'friend' of his, who told him the Net is Hell (the place, not the concept) and that Rache just found the place.

Sill implies that she is still around and should be on the above list then.

[Actalo]

Originally posted by NorthernDavid:

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Sill implies that she is still around and should be on the above list then.

I think so, if it was a list about the Cyberpunk universe, but Murphy doesn't have any presence in 2077 to indicate she's alive, much less still netrunning. I mean, to be fair, Hanako was supposed to be a netrunner too but 2077 seem to retcon that. Notice her distinct lack of netrunning cyberware.

[Silverbane7]

Originally posted by Actalo:

Originally posted by NorthernDavid:

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Sill implies that she is still around and should be on the above list then.

I think so, if it was a list about the Cyberpunk universe, but Murphy doesn't have any presence in 2077 to indicate she's alive, much less still netrunning. I mean, to be fair, Hanako was supposed to be a netrunner too but 2077 seem to retcon that. Notice her distinct lack of netrunning cyberware.

think it's more of a hobby for her.
a well brought up Lady does not sport 'overt' or 'vulgar' visible cyberware.
Kei Arasaka (Saburo's first son) was the real Netrunner of the family.

[Dark Blead]

Originally posted by Actalo:

I put together a tier list of Cyberpunk 2077's Netrunners. In order to be on the list, they have to be human and alive, at least, at the beginning of the game.

S Tier: Basically Net God
1. Song So Mi aka "Songbird" - NUSA's top Netrunner whose accomplisments are too spoilery.

A Tier: Best of the best.
2. Wilky LaGuerre aka "Slider" - Hacked the Blackwall to communicate with Songbird.
3. Bryce Mosley - Top Netwatch runner who trapped a cohort of VDBs.
4. Nix - Former Arasaka netrunner, Rogue's personal netrunner, hacked MaxTac in a few hours, and nearly hacked Bartmoss' deck.

B Tier: Highly proficient and sought after.
5. B@D - Freelance merc runner who hacks Arasaka, Tygers, and just about anyone else.
6. TI Neptune - Top VDB netrunner.
7. Milko Alexis - Top VDB netrunner who hacks megacorps for blackmail.
8. Sanda Dorsette - Hacked Nightcorp and Maxtac.

C Tier: Proficient journeymen in all things netrunning.
9. Brigitte - VDB leader with extensive knowlege of AIs.
10. Yoko Tsuru - Mr Hand's personal netrunner, colleague of T-Bug, and hacked MaxTac.
11. T-Bug - Hacked Arasaka and Militech.
12. Beatrice Ellen Trieste aka "8ug8ear" - Tyger Claw netrunner who hacks megacorps and is good enough for Wakako to hire a merc to save.

D Tier: Only proficient in certain aspects of netrunning or use-to-be.
12. Carol Emeka - Nomad netrunner who hacked Militec.
13. Chang Hoon Nam - Has-been netrunner and "friend" to Wakako who can hack Tyger Claws but gets ICEd 'easily' and nearly dies hacking MaxTac.
14. Ben DeBaillon - VDB netrunner who couldn't hack Netwatch or the guy he hired to hack Netwatch.
15. Spectral Kid - Associate of Hoon Nam's who gets fried trying to hack VDBs.
16. Vortex - Hacked Tyger Claws but was discovered.
16. Juliet Horrigan - Barely worth mentioning as there's little evidence of her netrunning ability before getting ganked by her sister.

Any difference of opinion or netrunners I should have included?

what about Alt Cunningham?

[tbloyzz]

Originally posted by Actalo:

A Tier: Best of the best.
2. Wilky LaGuerre aka "Slider" - Hacked the Blackwall to communicate with Songbird.
3. Bryce Mosley - Top Netwatch runner who trapped a cohort of VDBs.

Bryce Mosley?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3446804693

[valium]

Mosley is kicking the ass of a bunch of Voodoo Boys, and would have succeeded if you didnt intervene. Dude is good. Being backed by a government body is cheating a bit though.

[tbloyzz]

Originally posted by valium:

Mosley is kicking the ass of a bunch of Voodoo Boys, and would have succeeded if you didnt intervene. Dude is good. Being backed by a government body is cheating a bit though.

That may be, but who is the Bryce Mosley that has been killed on the Pacifica underpath?

[valium]

Bryce Mosley is the character you interact with in the movie theory in the GIM.

[tbloyzz]

Originally posted by valium:

Bryce Mosley is the character you interact with in the movie theory in the GIM.

Of course. I know that. Or maybe he is not, because he is just using the ID of the dead guy on my screenshot.

[Balekai]

My V is A tier (S tier in combat)!! :p

V is a walking talking Netrunner doom machine that hacks anything, anywhere, instantly thrown her way and survives tons of Blackwall stuff.

On a more serious note, It's actually sort of true when comparing in game power late game, because I feel some blackwall or pro hacker story events in game are on or below my V's netrunning and quickhack power.

It's like "Really that's the big thing my ally set up to disable the defences? I could have done that just by walking in the door myself" :D

And of course all that dialogue where you help a pro Netrunner hack and they compliment you, sometimes admitting you may be better than them on how skilled you are.

A Netrunner Corpo V like mine being formerly the second in command at NC Counter Intelligence division for Arasaka, means that headcanon wise, there's room for V to have been the "best of the best." Just no one knew about it cause Arasaka Corpo Rat in Counter Intelligence.


Anyways on a more, more serious note: Alt Cunningham if you count her present form as "alive," is obviously S tier on par and greater than Songbird. That's proven in game as both pull off similar power, but Alt is more controlled/restrained and what she pulls off makes V and Johnny go "Oh ♥♥♥♥ she can basically do whatever she wants to any and all technology and there's likely nothing we can do to stop her."

The world is lucky that Alt is technically a benevolent AI that doesn't care to interfere with the real world, but still has the power to easily cross the Blackwall lol. :p

[Silverbane7]

except V is not a Netrunner.

V is a Quickhacker.

V uses quickhacks to hack. V has not been into the net 'officialy' till V meets up with the VDB's and Alt.
(even tho our V might be spec'd into Int and is wearing all netrunner gear, they still dump us into an ice bath lol)

they didnt want to have to create a 'game within a game' as it were, to allow for our smart V's to be actual netrunners. not create the actual networks we could run.
understandable, as the way the tabletop handles a netrun has changed from the original way, but is still confusing, and i'm not sure they could come up with a concept to do it.

[Apex Artist]

Originally posted by tbloyzz:

Originally posted by Actalo:

A Tier: Best of the best.
2. Wilky LaGuerre aka "Slider" - Hacked the Blackwall to communicate with Songbird.
3. Bryce Mosley - Top Netwatch runner who trapped a cohort of VDBs.

Bryce Mosley?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3446804693

I'm of the thinking that Bryce wasn't stupid enough to be that dead guy, and the dude we meet and have the chance to cut a deal with, is very likely him.
Afterall, he basically proves he knows what he's doing in the short time we deal with him.

[Silverbane7]

i thought maybe NetWatch have a bunch of names, and many people use them at once?

so maybe there are a lot of 'Bryce Mosley's around, and NC just took two of them out.