Ranking EVERY Primary Weapon After Patch Helldivers 2 Polar Patriots Update

So today we're going to be ranking all of

the primary weapons after the new patch

and update, and also after the new

Warbond, Polypatriots. There's new weapons

introduced in this Warbond and they are

quite interesting, so I thought we would

have a look at all of the primary weapons

and make a list of which weapons are the

best. So starting off first, I would like

to talk about the— let's look at the

Liberator Penetrator, one of my favorite

assault rifles. It has medium armor

penetrating. Okay, so the Liberator

Penetrator is a single-shot assault

rifle, and it can do medium armor

penetrating. So against Chargers, it will

do nothing, bounce off like that. But

against— against—

hold on— against medium armored

enemies like that, it can easily go

straight through their armor, and you can

do headshots on these armored walkers.

Which is very useful. It isn't very good

at clearing crowds because it's only

single fire, so I wouldn't recommend it if

you needed to do crowd control. You might

need to pair it up with an SMG defender

like this so you can easily do some crowd

control. But other than that, it's a

pretty good weapon. And if you go into the

options, you can actually change it from

semi to burst or auto, and then it becomes

a bit more useful. So you can do this,

and it's pretty stable. The recoil's not

too bad. And it's medium armor

penetrating, so it will do quite a good

bit of damage. Next, we're going to have a

look at the Liberator Concussive. It has

light armor penetrating, and it can fire

concussive rounds which do less damage but

stagger enemies. So with this machine gun,

you can do this, and it will push

the enemies back slightly. You see, it

will push them back slightly, give them a

stagger, and it will take a few more shots

to kill the enemies. But what you get in

return is the staggering effect. The fire

rate is not that rapid, as you can see,

but if you want to be able to stagger the

enemies backwards, then this is the weapon

to choose. Give this a B tier if you're

trying to do crowd control and you have

some allies that can bring a bit more

Next we have the AR-61 Tenderizer,

another light armor penetrating assault

rifle. Okay, so here we have the

Tenderizer. It's a pretty cool-looking

weapon, as you can see, and you've got

options like auto, semi, and burst. It

shoots pretty rapidly, as you can see,

empties the magazine pretty quickly. So

against enemies, since you've only got

light armor penetrating, it's not great

against enemies with armor. It does have

quite good stopping power, and it can

shred light armored enemies pretty

And next we have the BR-14 Adjudicator.

This is another medium armor penetrating

weapon. It does the most damage out of all

of the assault rifles with 80 damage, so

it's pretty good. Okay, so here we have

the Adjudicator, very good for medium

armor penetrating. As you can see, you

just shred anything that has medium armor,

which these guys do. It's got a nice

scope, it's a pretty rapid fire

as well, but the recoil— damn,

the recoil really makes me hate this

weapon. Look at this,

it doesn't even feel that powerful, to be

I'm really struggling to take this out.

I'd give this like a trash tier level. I

would not use this weapon over the

Liberator Penetrator. The recoil is just

absolutely crazy on this thing. Nah,

this gun's rubbish. Okay, moving on to the

marksman rifles. We have the Diligence and

the Diligence Counter Sniper. Start off

with the Counter Sniper with medium armor

penetrating. Okay, so we have the Counter

Sniper Diligence. This is a great

long-range weapon. It's got great armor

penetration. As you can see, these guys

take full red dot damage.

And if you can get to a safe place, do

some sniping, you can really clear out

crowds of enemies.

See, those are dead. It's even better

if you go prone, you get more stability

when aiming. It is a pretty good

long-range single-shot rifle.

And then looking at the Diligence, it's

basically the same as the Counter Sniper,

but it just has light armor instead of

medium armor penetrating, and it does 15

less damage. I don't think we really need

to test it out. You can kind of just guess

what that's like. Okay, moving on to the

submachine guns. We've got the Defender

and the Pummeler. So the Pummeler is

basically the same as the Defender, but it

does slightly less damage, and it can do

staggering concussive rounds.

Okay, so the Pummeler is a great

one-handed weapon, meaning you can run

backwards and still shoot it. So it's

like this, it can stagger the enemies,

it's got a good rate of fire, and And it

does pretty good damage as well for an

SMG.

Now you can see the staggering effect when

you shoot the enemies. It will knock them

back and also interrupt them when they're

trying to call for reinforcements.

Okay, moving on to the shotguns. Got the

Punisher, Slugger, Breaker Spray and Pray,

the Breaker, and the Breaker Incendiary.

Let's test out the Punisher, the highest

damage shotgun with 405 damage. So this is

actually one of my favorite weapons. It

does massive damage. It's really good. It

doesn't really do medium armor

penetrating. For that, you need the

Slugger Punisher. But this is a pretty

good slugger as well. Watch,

it's not too rapid-fire,

but it's fast enough for clearing a lot of

enemies. And because of the extremely high

damage output on light armored enemies,

you can really wreck them. Watch this. So

just get rid of that guy first and get rid

of— so

I can't really do anything to these guys

because they've got medium armor, so I'm

just grenading them to get rid of them.

But when you've got a Charger with his leg

exposed, you can do some really good

damage against his leg, just like,

like that.

See, I just blew his leg off with the

shotgun. It's actually also pretty good

from a ranged distance like that. You can

still take enemies out even if they're far

away. Just because it's a shotgun doesn't

mean it's not good when you're far away

from enemies. It's still pretty good. So I

give this weapon an A+ grade. It's pretty

But what's even better is the Slugger

Punisher— I mean, the Shotgun Slugger with

medium armor penetrating. It does less

damage, 250, but it's got medium armor

penetrating, so it's pretty good. Okay,

so as you can see with this weapon, you

can shoot medium armor and do damage. It

won't deflect or reflect or blow away. So

I just killed that thing with the shotgun.

That's medium armor. This Brood Command

also has medium armor, so you can see I'm

doing red damage on its head. Blew its

head off already. So yeah, this shotgun is

really powerful. It might do less damage

than the Punisher, but you can actually

penetrate medium armor, which is extremely

useful in certain situations. I rate this

gun a 4 out of 5, S tier plus, one of my

favorite weapons. In the game.

Okay, next we have the Breaker, a very

light armor penetrating but rapid firing

shotgun, very useful in many situations.

Okay, the Breaker shotgun, probably the

most efficient shotgun at clearing lots of

enemies. Look at this. So it doesn't have

medium armor penetrating, but because of

the rapid fire and the damage, I'm easily

able to take out medium armor enemies

without too much difficulty.

Wow, I just blew myself under the map. Oh

my god, the gun's so good you can go under

the map. Oh my god, I am dead.

Every time I spawn to try and test out the

weapons, I get mobbed by an absolutely

massive swarm of fucking enemies.

So again, let me demonstrate the full

firepower of this shotgun. Look at the

speed, Jesus!

Oh, look at this! I actually really love

this gun. I forgot how good it was. It

used to be so good everyone was using it,

so they had to nerf it, but it's still an

S-tier weapon.

Look at that, I'm just destroying these

guys. It's got the speed and the firepower

that most assault rifles just can't really

match. Okay, next we have the Breaker

Spray and Pray. This thing wishes it was

the Breaker, but it just does less damage.

It's got 330 fire rate compared to 300,

so it's a bit faster.

Okay, so this is the Breaker Spray and

Pray, indicated by the name, it is very

rapid-fire. Look at that. For taking out

light mobs like this, it is great, but

against harder enemies, it's pretty

rubbish, as you'll see.

So it really is good at crowd control and

just spraying enemies,

but against tougher enemies, it is not

that amazing.

I give this a B5 out of 6 grade

tier. It's not bad.

It used to be really rubbish and then they

buffed it, so it's a bit more usable now.

Okay, next we have the Breaker Incendiary.

It is kind of like the Breaker spray and

pray, but the bullets set things on fire.

Okay, so the Incendiary Breaker, as you

can see, sets things on fire. It's pretty

good if you want to set things on fire.

Don't know how much damage the fire thing

actually does. So this thing's on fire and

eventually dies. That's on fire.

You can just set everything on fire. So if

you like fire, I recommend this weapon as

a B+ tier weapon, but only if you like

fire. Problem is it runs out of bullets

really quickly, watch.

And next we have the Jar Dominator and the

Eruptor, 2 explosive weapons. Let's have a

look at these. Okay, so here we have the

Jar Dominator. It is an explosive round.

Some people say it's like the Boltgun from

Warhammer. I don't know about that. Oh my

god, I just one-shot that thing in the

head and it's dead already. I just

one-shot that thing. 2 charges doesn't

really do anything against Chargers.

So yeah, against— see,

I one-shot that thing too. It is pretty

good. Well, look, a mini nuke. Let's blow

that up. Oh, I just killed 14

of them. Look at my torso. Where are we

Okay, like I was saying, you can one-shot

basically anything that has light or

medium armor. I don't know if it's

possible to kill a Charger using it

because you need something to crack open

its armor first. It's not very good

against them. These. Okay, next we have

the Eruptor, another explosive weapon.

420 damage versus 275 with the JAR-5

Dominator. Also has medium armor

penetrating. So let's have a look at this

gun. Okay, let's have a look at the

Eruptor. It is a single-shot

bolt-action. Got reload— we don't have to

reload it, it just does like a little

animation between each shot before you

have to reload it. It is pretty powerful.

Look, why do they keep spawning

Chargers when I'm trying to test these

weapons? Goddamn it.

The problem is it is explosive, so you

gotta be careful. Otherwise, he just

melted his own person.

Oh, I just 2-shot that Brood Commander.

Oh, I just killed 4 of them.

I couldn't even get up.

And then against these small ones, they

usually get killed in the explosion, so

it's pretty good at crowd clearing. Oh,

it just killed the Charger with its vomit,

idiot. Oh, I can shoot its leg. Oh,

I killed myself nearly. And then I

should be able to blow off its leg.

Watch.

Oh my god. Oh, I got it, I got it! And

look at all these little guys. Oh, I just

killed 5 with the AoE. This gun can be

pretty good. Okay, moving on

to the energy-based weapons. We've got the

Punisher Plasma, the Blitzer, the Sickle,

the Scythe, the Scorcher, and the

Purifier. Sound like products on some kind

of air purifying website. Okay, so this

is the Blitzer. It's actually one of my

favorite weapons. It is an energy shotgun.

It's kind of like the Arc Thrower, but

it's short-ranged and it can zap things.

It's a great bug zapper. Watch this.

Watch, watch, watch. Oh my god, I just

one-shot that thing. Oh, it even pushes

them back. You can 2-shot the Brood

Commander's head off. Oh, look at that.

Oh, I just killed 4 of them. It chain

links if the enemies are nearby, and it's

got infinite ammo, no reload. It's just

single shot, but there's no reload,

there's no reheats or recharge. Infinite

ammo. It really is one

of the best weapons. I think I give this

an S tier. This is like god tier. Look at

this, I'm just wiping out all these guys

now against armored enemies like this one.

Yeah, you can still zap them and blow them

up. Watch, you see? So it's not medium

armor penetrating, but you can still take

down medium armor enemies.

How am I still alive? Jesus Christ, the,

the Biotizer is really helping me destroy

these guys.

Oh, he got me. Okay, next we have the

Punisher Plasma. It's like a grenade

launcher, but it shoots balls of plasma.

Okay, here we have the Punisher Plasma.

Shoots these little explosive balls of

plasma. Can't see anything.

Where are the enemies? Okay, here's some

enemies. It's just

tickling them.

It's not great, to be honest. It's kind of

rubbish. I give this a D tier.

Dead already. Next we have the scythe,

a laser weapon. Okay,

so this weapon's pretty cool because it

can do this— shoots like

a little laser. It's pretty good for

enemies like this where you've got loads

of swarms because it's very rapid firing.

You do have to make sure you don't

overheat it, otherwise you have to reload

it. As long as you don't let it overheat,

you don't have to reload it, so it's

pretty good that way.

So it's just a beam weapon like that, and

then if you use it too much, you gotta

I give this a C tier. It's okay. It does

overheat pretty quickly, and the damage is

not— it's not amazing.

Next we have the Sickle, a laser-firing

rifle firing in short bursts. It's kind of

like an assault rifle but shoots lasers.

So here is the sickle. It's basically

like the scythe, but instead of a laser

beam, it just shoots out little bolts of

lasers.

It's kind of rubbish, to be honest.

Look, it takes 2 entire magazines and I

still haven't killed this Brood Commander.

It took 2— I emptied 2 entire magazines

into this thing. It is so

rubbish. Look at that,

it's so

bad.

And then finally you got the Scorcher and

the Purifier, but I can't really be

bothered to test it. I mean, they're okay.

I give this one a C and give this one an

A. It's pretty good against automatons.