Just How Useful are Supers?

[E3kHatena]

I'm a couple bosses into World 2 and it feels to me that Supers (or at the very least, the first one), is doing significantly less damage than 5 individual EX attacks would. Am I mistaken or is that how it actually goes? Additionally, do Supers II and III do more damage, or are they all about equal? Thanks in advance!

[Terratoast]

Someone dug into the game using a cheat engine to find the damage numbers here;
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cuphead/comments/73jzst/table_of_exact_damage_values_for_cuphead_weapons/

So yeah. At the time of that test 5 EX peashooter attacks would outshine the Super 1, but they also take more time to fire off and you don't get invincibility frames during the move. It's also a move that's useable regardless of which weapon you're using.

Super II is temporary invinciibility, so no damage there.

Super III is a controllable damage area. This does do more total damage but you need to constantly tell it what direction to go to for maximium damage, which is difficult to do while dodging attacks most of the time.

[Discreet_Pigeon]

Supers are extremely useful:
Super l: It is ok it deals a huge burst damage at once which doesn't require you having to get 5 precise attacks in.
Super ll: Invincibility just allows you to play riskier to get in a ton of damage with your stronger guns or to just help avoid the harder to dodge boss attacks/ possible mistakes that the player made.
Super III: probably the worst since it is the hardest one to contol while trying to dodge and shoot but has the potential to cause the most damage out of all the supers.

Overall I would say Super ll is the best since it can allow you to due tremendous damage to the boss in most situations in comparison to super l and leaves you less vulnerable than both Super l and Super lll may cause.

[E3kHatena]

Originally posted by Terratoast:

Someone dug into the game using a cheat engine to find the damage numbers here;
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cuphead/comments/73jzst/table_of_exact_damage_values_for_cuphead_weapons/

So yeah. At the time of that test 5 EX peashooter attacks would outshine the Super 1, but they also take more time to fire off and you don't get invincibility frames during the move. It's also a move that's useable regardless of which weapon you're using.

Super II is temporary invinciibility, so no damage there.

Super III is a controllable damage area. This does do more total damage but you need to constantly tell it what direction to go to for maximium damage, which is difficult to do while dodging attacks most of the time.

This was useful information, thank you!