ROB RUN Best Weapons Tier List

ROB RUN Best Weapons Tier List Quick Overview:

• DRM-14, SR Reaper, and AP Scalar are the best weapons in the game, although accessing them can be difficult.
• LM 249, STAR-H, and PDW-90 are second-best options, with STAR-H being the easiest to obtain.
• Shotguns and pistols in ROB RUN are generally not as good as SMGs and Rifles, so you should prioritize the latter.

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ROB RUN — All Weapons Ranked

Before I get into the tiers themselves, let me explain the reasoning behind the rankings.

First off, this tier list is upgrade-agnostic, since most upgrades don’t really change all that much about how the weapon functions, and the core idea of what it does matters way more. It is also much easier to compare all the weapons this way.

I also decided against separating weapons by rarity, since it would overcomplicate things unnecessarily. Essentially, the best weapons you can get in the game, regardless of how easy or hard it is to obtain them, are going to be in the top tier.

Secondly, ROB RUN has some balance issues tied to its overall design philosophy. The game imposes many challenges for certain weapons, and their usability suffers greatly because of that. You spend most of the time in a mostly open world, and everyone is kind of a mobile bullet sponge compared to how it typically works in dedicated shooter games.

As you can imagine, this results in a certain meta that favors consistent damage spread instead of bursts. From my experience, good fire rate and a reasonable range beat everything else in ROB RUN, and it’s not even close. Using anything other than an SMG or an assault rifle kinda feels like shooting yourself in the foot. I can excuse weapons like pistols, which are deliberately designed to be less effective than other guns, but I have to draw the line somewhere.

Tier	ROB RUN Weapons
S	DRM-14, SR Reaper, AP Scalar
A	LM 249, STAR-H, PDW-90
B	TAG-12k, KL-545, RC 5.56, CB45, JP-7, MC-10
C	LBR-44, Vulture 50, Harris 500, ORDR-12
D	DP-9

S-Tier ROB RUN Weapons

DRM-14

DRM-14 is a semi-automatic rifle that removes a third of your target’s HP with a single shot at almost a 100m distance. Admittedly, unlocking it is going to take a lot of money and quite a lot of time, but in my mind, it is definitely one of the two best weapons in the game alongside SR Reaper. You could argue that its downside is low fire rate, which can matter in close range, but a long-range monster has got to have at least some weaknesses for balance’s sake.

Also, Legendary weapons are probably the only ones where I felt the upgrades truly felt impactful. In the case of DRM-14, getting to Mk3 literally doubles your magazine size.

SR Reaper

Now, I’ve literally just said that a balanced weapon should have a weakness. The SR Reaper doesn’t really have one, aside from being very hard to obtain. It is by far the best full-auto assault rifle in the game, with premium damage, fire rate, and range.

Its somewhat lackluster 20-round magazine can also be doubled through upgrades, leaving you with the only weapon you’ll ever need.

AP Scalar

AP Scalar is the best SMG in the game because it out-SMG’s the rest of them with its absurd 1000 rounds-per-minute fire rate, making close- and mid-range encounters way too quick for your opponents to react. One second they’re fine, the next second they have 25 to 45 bullets in their back, depending on your upgrades.

While it does get worse at range and you need to learn to land your shots so that you don’t waste your entire magazine, it’s still the perfect choice for many players who love the aggressive playstyle AP Scalar enables.

A-Tier ROB RUN Weapons

LM 249

This is your only light machine gun in ROB RUN, but it does the heavy lifting for its entire weapon class. If anything, it’s one of the best-fitting weapons for the kind of game ROB RUN is — just shoot 200 rounds in the general direction of your enemy, and you ought to hit enough times to guarantee their death. The damage, the fire rate, and even the range are superb as well.

The only struggle with LM 249 is reload time, but it’s usually not a problem, since everyone else’s magazines’ capacities are six times smaller anyway.

STAR-H

STAR-H is the only easily obtainable weapon in this tier, but I feel like its stats are good enough to justify it. While its magazine is a bit small, with only 20 rounds to shoot at a rapidly moving enemy, the range and the firepower make it very reliable in basically any scenario.

PDW-90

For a weapon that cannot be obtained through Shipments or the Black Market, PDW-90 is a bit uninspired, but it still beats most other SMGs in a square fight. While it fully deserves to be in the A-tier based on its fire rate to damage ratio and an exceptionally large 50-round magazine, I just feel like it could be even better, and that wouldn’t hurt anyone.

Rifle and SMG Rankings in ROB RUN Explained

As I’ve said earlier, rifles and SMGs are by far your most reliable weapon choices in the entire game, so I highly recommend sticking with them and upgrading those that get meaningful improvements.

As far as many of them go in terms of performance, I felt that there is no significant difference between the mid-tier representatives of each class. For instance, KL-545 is technically worse than RC 5.56 by basically any metric, but it doesn’t drastically change the outcome of the fight. If you were in a good spot, both worked as intended, and if you ended up in a messy situation, a bit of extra range and fire rate didn’t save you.  

Shotgun Rankings in ROB RUN Explained

I’ve mentioned that ROB RUN heavily favors certain playstyles, and in my opinion, shotguns are the weapon type that suffers the most from it. They require you to get in close range first, which is already quite a tall order in a game with quick movement, large open spaces, aggressive multiplayer groups, and easily available vehicles.

If you manage to do this, you learn that your shotgun deals around 70% of enemy health at point-blank range, unless you shoot them directly in the head. Your fire rate is really bad compared to a full-auto weapon, and you don’t even win on damage most of the time. It’s simply not good enough to justify all the disadvantages that come with this weapon type.

Now, as for the rankings, the three shotguns available in the game feel very similar, except each one is essentially an upgraded version of the previous one. The jump between Harris 500 and ORDR-12 didn’t feel substantial enough to me, so they end up in the same tier. Reluctantly, I placed TAG-12k higher in the rankings, because the numbers might budge it over the edge if you are really-really good with it.

Pistol Rankings in ROB RUN Explained

As for DP-9, this is your basic weak pistol, only usable for threatening store employees. If you have absolutely nothing better at hand, you will still shoot it, but don’t expect much. All of that makes sense considering that it costs 300 bucks in a game where the next cheapest weapon option is ten times more expensive.

Now, I generally love huge handguns in video games, but both LBR-44 and Vulture 50 are disappointing. The damage is very solid, but the limited fire rate and magazine make these rather difficult to use in hectic shootouts. I still would prefer these to DP-9, of course, but the gap isn’t as big as I would like it to be.

 

 

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