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Highguard: Weapon Tier List - Complete Ranking!
Content creator Staycation makes a complete tier list of all the weapons in Highguard, ranking them from S tier to F tier, and offers information on their strengths, weaknesses, and situational use cases.
1. 🪓 S Tier: The Axe - A surprising necessity with instant finisher potential
- ✅ The axe is essential for playing the game, making it an S tier.
- ✅ It can be used to farm Vesper and has a finisher animation that triggers when enemies are below a certain health level.
- ✅ Using the finisher animation is the best option instead of continuing to shoot when within range, as it guarantees an instant one-hit kill.
00:00 - 01:25
1. 🪓 S Tier: The Axe - A surprising necessity with instant finisher potential
- ✅ The axe is essential for playing the game, making it an S tier.
- ✅ It can be used to farm Vesper and has a finisher animation that triggers when enemies are below a certain health level.
- ✅ Using the finisher animation is the best option instead of continuing to shoot when within range, as it guarantees an instant one-hit kill.
01:26 - 03:29
2. 🎯 C Tier: The Ranger - Powerful in open fields, but lacks versatility in close quarters
- ✅ The Ranger is the least versatile weapon in the game, best suited for open field fights.
- ⚠️ It has great poke and initial pick potential, but struggles in bases, especially when defending bomb sites.
- ⚠️ Switching to the Ranger as a last-minute secondary is risky compared to other options.
03:30 - 04:14
3. 🔫 A Tier: The Saber Rifle - The best assault rifle with minimal recoil
- ✅ The Saber rifle is considered the strongest assault rifle in the game due to its negative recoil.
- ✅ It has an impact round variant that turns into a two-shot burst and excels in close-quarters fights.
- ✅ The hip fire is very consistent, making it an all-around weapon.
04:15 - 05:16
4. 💥 S Tier: Big Rig - Powerful weapon that requires strategic positional play
- ✅ The Big Rig is an S-tier weapon that requires strategic positional play.
- ✅ It is very powerful and excels at breaking shields and securing initial picks.
- ⚠️ While the content creator would like an optic sight, they have grown accustomed to the iron sights.
05:17 - 06:29
5. 🔥 A Tier: Longhorn - Versatile and sexy weapon with long-range poke potential
- ✅ The Longhorn is an A-tier weapon and the content creator's favorite in the game due to its versatility.
- ✅ It has the long-range poke potential of a Ranger and can be used in dice fights like a Kraken.
- ✅ The Longhorn is an all-purpose weapon reminiscent of the Wingman from Apex Legends, but with a different playstyle.
06:30 - 07:29
6. 🐍 A Tier: Viper - Consistent automatic submachine gun, but can be a crutch
- ✅ The Viper is a consistent automatic submachine gun with great DPS and a smooth feel.
- ⚠️ Many players rely on this weapon, causing them to overlook other weapons with poke potential.
- ⚠️ The Viper can fall short unless you're wiping enemies from a single mag.
07:30 - 08:41
7. 💥 C Tier: Paladin - Hyper-specialized for stuffing barrels at point-blank range
- ✅ The Paladin is a C-tier weapon that excels at stuffing barrels at point-blank range.
- ⚠️ The damage falls off significantly at short distances of five to seven meters.
- ✅ It is excellent in bases and during raids around bomb sites, but has limitations.
08:42 - 09:50
8. 🏴☠️ B Tier: Corsair - Finicky weapon with high DPS but a short mag
- ✅ The Corsair is a finicky weapon with more potential than people give it credit for.
- ✅ It has better DPS than the Viper submachine gun, but has a very short mag.
- ⚠️ It has a lot of visual recoil and is a strange weapon to use.
09:51 - 10:52
9. 🏯 A Tier: Dynasty - Viable and consistent weapon with subtle preferences
- ✅ The Dynasty is an A-tier weapon that is very viable and consistent.
- ✅ All the assault rifles in the game are good and have small preferences.
- ✅ The Dynasty is good at damage and feels like a submachine gun when hip-firing at close range.
10:53 - 13:39
10. 🐙 A Tier: Kraken - Powerful with visual recoil, but the Longhorn offers a preferable alternative
- ✅ The Kraken is a powerful weapon that could be in B tier due to the visual recoil.
- ✅ The Longhorn is preferred over the Kraken because it can be played the same way without screen shake.
- ✅ The Kraken is extremely powerful, especially its legendary tier with the double shot, making it a gold shield destroyer.
13:40 - 16:22
11. 🛡️ A Tier: Vanguard - Consistent with long-range capabilities
- ✅ The Vanguard is an A-tier weapon that is more consistent than the Dynasty due to its range capabilities.
- ✅ It feels good at close range and is very accurate at long ranges with a 3x scope, especially on mouse and keyboard.
- ✅ The Vanguard is better than the Dynasty due to its consistency and manageable recoil.