Best handgun

[REhorror]

Let's start the debate, gentlemen.

I'm gonna go with the Sentinel9 here, my reasons:
1. It's free if you have the deluxe edition.
2. Highest capacity, less reload, and it means even more handgun ammo drop.
3. Cheap to upgrade.
4. Comes with the 5x critical bonus, which actually boosts your melee critical too.

The Maltida is technically the best handgun but if you go NG, you get it late and have to spend the spinel.

[Dou B Jin]

I always stuck the starter handgun. Ammo drop was never an issue either way. Sentiel without a doubt has a higher damage per second because the increase in fire rate at the cost of 0.1 power is ignorable when you can trigger so many more critical hits in a shorter amount of time. I just never used it because I didn't like the look for the muzzle and extended clip. The fact the 5x crit affects melee makes both weapon great for conserving ammo and dealing high melee damage which can outright one shot some enemies.

If I had to pick the gun I think the the most powerful without considering ammo consumption it would be Matilda the thing is basically a machine gun but it absolutely eats up ammo and ammo drop isn't always abundant enough to feed it and I've had times in my HG only run where I run out of ammo and barrels to break using it.

After that it would be Blacktail. I know Red 9 does more damage but its got such a horrible bloom in comparison. Red 9 was way stronger in RE4 original since it also had a laser sight with the downside being it had a high recoil but in the remake it has a high bloom even with stock. Original red9 was easily top in my opinion.

Worst gun for me is punisher just because of its over all low power and how niche penetration is. It's useful to break shield units but not worth upgrading just for that imo. I would rank it higher if the penetration can actually be used to hit regenerator but as far as I can tell neither LE 5 nor punisher seems to be able to pop their weakspots despite being treated as weapons with penetration.

So tldr for me
1. SG/Sentinel (I treat them as the same weapon since one of them is DLC and unobtainable through in games means and they're functionally the same weapon)
2. Matilda (only down side is how much ammo it eats up)
3. Black Tail
4. Red 9
5. Punisher

[ggAkatsukiP]

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I have not done ng pro run with loadout included Sentinel Nine/Punisher/Blacktail (I'm doing Blacktail in current run), so I will not be making tier for pistol.

[REhorror]

Originally posted by ggAkatsukiP:

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I have not done ng pro run with loadout included Sentinel Nine/Punisher/Blacktail (I'm doing Blacktail in current run), so I will not be making tier for pistol.

Bruh, CQBR as B tier, you serious?

1. Its damage is actually only 2nd to the Bolt action.
2. It's very cheap to upgrade due to mag reload, and no firing-rate upgrade.
3. If you lightly tap, you can do 2-round burst with, which is the most efficient and damage-burst of all weapons (even more than magnum).
4. Last but not least, it spawns rifle ammo due to the huge capacity.

I think it's only flaw is that you get it half-way in.

[ChiefMendez]

Blacktail with laser sight mod and exclusive upgrade ticket is a beast. Get that and turn your hud off for ultimate immersion.

[ModernSamurai]

It has been discussed many times. Different handguns with different traits. But they all get the job done. I played the majority of the game using Red9 and Punisher.

[REhorror]

Originally posted by Cutt:

Blacktail with laser sight mod and exclusive upgrade ticket is a beast. Get that and turn your hud off for ultimate immersion.

I actually like my HUD on.
Nowadays hudless is the rage but I want my cool looking hud.

[ggAkatsukiP]

Originally posted by REhorror:

Originally posted by ggAkatsukiP:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2968760349
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2958167358
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2966260398
I have not done ng pro run with loadout included Sentinel Nine/Punisher/Blacktail (I'm doing Blacktail in current run), so I will not be making tier for pistol.

Bruh, CQBR as B tier, you serious?

1. Its damage is actually only 2nd to the Bolt action.
2. It's very cheap to upgrade due to mag reload, and no firing-rate upgrade.
3. If you lightly tap, you can do 2-round burst with, which is the most efficient and damage-burst of all weapons (even more than magnum).
4. Last but not least, it spawns rifle ammo due to the huge capacity.

I think it's only flaw is that you get it half-way in.

Yep, its pretty weird. All I can say is Harris made the tier list way too early, when there's tons of in deep game mechanics yet to be considered.

Which is why I opt to at least once use each weapon on ng pro.