Correction: the worst weapon in halo 5 online is

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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Please keep in mind I’m only talking about Slayer/Arena, no BTB (turrets) or Warzone (REQ weapons)

In my previous topic, I said the suppressor was the worst weapon. The forum argued the plasma caster was the worst, and well, that myth was busted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evgMCBJAD0o

Plasma pistol doesn’t count b/c it’s a support specialty weapon.
Hydra does not count because it’s a specialty power weapon.
I’m talking about weapons you use in your primary weapon slot. The PP and Hydra would be your backup weapon realistically.

With that being said, the worst weapon is the:

bolt shot.It doesn’t edge out the suppressor by much, but I believe the suppressor will have a quicker TTK 1v1 against it.
If you don’t believe me, I can prove it to you 1v1.

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PP and Hydra shouldn’t even be considered because they are very good weapons, and the Hydra is good as a primary.

Everytime I pick up the Bolt Shot I get atleast 1 kill and it tracks my target. It can’t be that weak. I never use the Suppressor because it’s not placed frequent enough nor in ideal positions. I think those just aren’t used that much, therefore they get put down as the worst weapons.

I’m curious what is the TTK compared to the Magnum, though, because the balancing of H5 overall leads me to believe that it’s very close to the Bolt Shot.

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The bolt shot has a low skill requirement and a very respectable kill time (capable of challenging all but a perfect kill from precision weapons, in my experience). I would use it over the suppressor in literally any situation.

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> The bolt shot has a low skill requirement and a very respectable kill time (capable of challenging all but a perfect kill from precision weapons, in my experience). I would use it over the suppressor in literally any situation.

…wanna put it to the test?

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Bolt Shot is actually pretty good, imo, if you’re accurate enough with it. It might not have the range of the Magnum, but (correct me if I’m wrong) it is about a 4 shot kill weapon if all the tracking bolts connect. I use it frequently in Arena, and replace my AR with it. Magnum/Bolt Shot combo is fairly decent if you can do work with the Bolt Shot.

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Oh, it’s going down! I agree with the OP, from my experience with both weapons I’d say that the Bolt Shot is slightly worse.

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> Oh, it’s going down! I agree with the OP, from my experience with both weapons I’d say that the Bolt Shot is slightly worse.

:sigh: noone does 1v1 customs anymore. I miss Halo 2. :stuck_out_tongue:
That’s how you settled -Yoink-.

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This was tested before your forum.

I went 5-0 with the boltshot on overgrowth once.
You just need really good accuracy. It is a 4 shot straight if weel accurate and is headshot capable. It is 6 ionized particles (bullets) to take down the shield and another 6 to kill.

The suppressor is not exactly the same thing. It takes 7 shots to take down the shield and another 7 to kill. What makes up for it is the automatic fire on it.

During my plays, I find people choosing the boltshot over the suppressor. And when going against the suppressor, you need to gain every from start to point in order to kill the person faster… Meaning you need more accuracy with that weapon against another player.

I even taken these weapons to campaign. I found out two things:

Suppressor, it is good for taking out soldier’s armor but takes a hell of a time to kill it when glowing. Same for the knight,it does aim for the glowing lights on the side but when the small killbox, you need to be slow and still enough to shoot it. It is best effective against crawlers. On grunts, elites and jackels… It kills grunts, it kills jackels (and aims for hand when shielded) and it terrible at knocking out shields on elites. Its pretty much the bad assault rifle in original Halo.

Bolshot: It takes 2 triggers for taking down soldiers armor and another 3 aiming for the chest…but 2 if akming for the head. On a knight, as long as the light is in its seek range, you dont need to aim and it takes thr light out within two and a half shots. On a crawler, it also aims for the head if in the seeking rage and in the aimed area. On a grunt it is 2 shots, jacel is like 5… and it has the same effect with the suppresso the elite. So, id say that it plays as a better plasma pistol. Used two shots on a soldier and get a ptecision weapon for kne shot to the head.

Back to multiplayer, the suppressor does no headshot damage. However, the boltshot does (when shields are down). The suppressor needs focus fire for 14 shots to kill. Bolshot takes 12 or less if head hit. The bolshot and suppressor have same accuracy from hip fire to aiming. However, the suppressor suffers from charging up to shoot faster while also is bullet consuming. Of stop shooting for 2 seconds sith suppressor, it goes back to thr charge up routine. As the bolshot can peak and shoot 3 perfectly aimed, same speeded shots as also can rebound many other shots if missed with its massive clip size.

But have bad tracking aystem but I feel that the boltshot’s burst fire makes it up for that. And I think that the suppressors weakness is in cover or enclosed spaces. The tracking system and charge up system is too bad for it to do any damage more than the opponent doing it to the user. The suppressor is really terrible on Coliseum and eden.

As for the bolshot’s weakness, id think the tracking aystem does not work well if using the bolshot in close range or better to say, if close range and needing to turn a lot. The thrusting speed is faster or jumping over the head is better than the seeking bullets close up and will mess with the bullet’s tracking. But the only map that really does that is Overgrowth and the Rig.

But id rather use the boltshot as that ive done betyer and more expierienced using it on tactics. And I would love to go against you in Halo 5. But that is if I can fix the Xbox…

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The suppressor has tracking rounds I think. Buffing it would be a mistake.

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Boltshot bad? I disagree. Time-to-kill isn’t everything when it comes to a gun being useful.

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The Mantis is the worst weapon in Halo 5 :wink:

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Hydra is a 2 shot it’s great if you can scope.

But getting a kill with a plasma pistol. ( Any variant)
Has never been harder, than it is in halo 5

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Suppressor is far from the worse weapon and my overkills on Antifreeze Stronghold proves that. Same can be said with the boltshot on Recurve. The worst weapon in Halo 5 is, as with every other Halo, the plasma pistol simply because you never get kills with it, you get kills using your other weapon or grenades after EMPing it with the PP. Unless you have Void’s Tear of course.

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This is what I’ve been saying all along. The Boltshot is garbage

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Yeah I thought the suppressor was really bad but then I found out it’s super effective against commander locagos

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The worst weapon in Halo 5 Arena is…

The Plasma Pistol.

Don’t get me wrong, the Noob Combo is as effective today as it was back in Halo CE.

But, we’re talking about single weapons, not a weapon combination. How effective is the Plasma Pistol all by itself, without the support of a magnum or BR?

Would you even consider killing an enemy Spartan using the Plasma Pistol alone?

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Honestly I don’t really care that much, however, there is a big issue with your argument here. In your video you have unlimited ammo, do you realize how many times you spammed multiple clips all over the map without doing any damage? That’s not somethin you can actually do during a match, you have only a couple of clips to be able to be effective and then you’re out of ammo, and I guarantee the way you play with it, you probably run out of ammo all the time without having gotten a kill. I am not saying it is the worst weapon in the game, like I said, I don’t really care. However your argument is flawed based on the video you posted. The gun cannot be used the way you were using it during a regular match… Which makes it a lot less powerful than your video says…just saying…

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There’s a Youtube channel by the name, The CageyBee, who compares different weapons and aspects of Halo 5, and he’s really good at it, he has many in depth weapon analysis videos. His videos shows that every weapon has its upsides and downsides, and they have a use for certain situations, and are useless in others. I wouldn’t say that there’s one “worst” weapon in Halo 5, except for the Binary Rifle, that one sucks a lot.

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Honestly couldn’t disagree more. I love both weapons but the boltshot in H5 I think is brilliant. Better not to use it in very close quarters as the tracking suffers there. The two variants of the boltshot are insanely useful too. And I have found on Noctus the Hydra dominates due to the long sightlines and open spaces.

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Interesting…