The First Descendant Ultimate Weapons Tier List

The Last Dagger is a weapon that rewards aggressive play, and it is highly effective for any character who wants to increase their critical hit rate and damage output. However, it requires stacking buffs for maximum benefit.

• Type: Ultimate Handgun
• Special Ability: Ultimatum
• Best Characters: All characters
• Ammunition: General Rounds

The Restored Relic might not be the best weapon in The First Descendant, but it has a powerful grenade launcher and applies a damaging fire effect over time. It has a good AOE effect, but it requires precise targeting for guided rounds.

• Type: Ultimate Launcher
• Special Ability: Ancient Technique
• Best Characters: Lepic
• Ammunition: High Power Rounds

The Blue Beetle offers a good mix of offense and defense skills, making it a solid choice for versatile characters such as Bunny, Valby, and any other Descendant who uses Fusion or Singular skills. Unfortunately, its buffs depend on skill usage for activation, which is often considered very inconvenient.

• Type: Ultimate Scout Rifle
• Special Ability: Arcane Wave
• Best Characters: Bunny, Valby, Gley, Jayber, Viessa
• Ammunition: Impact Rounds

The Fallen Hope assault rifle is one of the most effective weapons against large groups of enemies. Although it's great for crowd control, spreading poison, and causing explosions, you cannot really use it against enemies that aren't in big clusters.

• Type: Ultimate Assault Rifle
• Special Ability: Perdition
• Best Characters: Freyna
• Ammunition: General Rounds

The Sigvore's Proof weapon has amazing abilities, such as sticking and detonating bombs. It deals a lot of damage, but it could definitely be improved in terms of detonation timing required.

• Type: Ultimate Launcher
• Special Ability: Mad Bomber
• Best Characters: Sharen, Bunny
• Ammunition: High Power Rounds

The Final Masterpiece handgun is very versatile, and it provides a different buff with each reload, such as critical hit rate and fire rate. Although it's a fairly good weapon, the fact that the buffs are random isn't helpful in every situation.

• Type: Ultimate Handgun
• Special Ability: Masterpiece
• Best Characters: All characters
• Ammunition: General Rounds

If your main focus is on critical builds, the Smithereens weapon is perfect for you. It can increase the critical hit rate and damage, which makes it a very good fit for characters like Sharen and Bunny. Be careful, though! This shotgun requires a long time to recover its aim.

• Type: Ultimate Shotgun
• Special Ability: Fearlessness
• Best Characters: Sharen, Bunny, Gley
• Ammunition: High Power Rounds

Greg's Reversed Fate increases AOE damage immensely, and it can be very useful for characters that are lacking in this area, such as Enzo and Yujin. However, this weapon reduces aimed shot and hip-fire accuracy by 20%.

• Type: Ultimate Tactical Rifle
• Special Ability: Shaping Destiny
• Best Characters: Blair
• Ammunition: Special Rounds

The King's Guard Lance is a very specific beam rifle that deals significant damage. It's great in terms of area control. Its special ability can be extremely helpful, and it increases its duration and range with each activation. The biggest disadvantage here is that it requires a long setup time.

• Type: Ultimate Beam Rifle
• Special Ability: Guardian
• Best Characters: All characters
• Ammunition: Special Rounds

The Wave of Light submachine gun brings a lot of benefits to solo players who are looking to boost critical rate, reduce recoil, and cut down opponent regeneration. However, it requires constant reloading to activate its benefits.

• Type: Ultimate Submachine Gun
• Special Ability: Splendor
• Best Characters: All characters
• Ammunition: Imapct Rounds

Piercing Light definitely excels at precision and debuffing, and it's a good choice for all characters, especially Bunny. When two or more enemies are hit by its special ability, there is a very high chance of landing a critical hit. Moreover, it removes all buffs from hit opponents.

• Type: Ultimate Sniper Rifle
• Special Ability: Purification of Light
• Best Characters: Bunny
• Ammunition: High Power Rounds

Although the Afterglow Sword weapon is tailored for taking down tough enemies and benefits from its enhanced critical hit rate, it requires an insane amount of time and effort to master. If you're not afraid of a little challenge, you can give it a try.

• Type: Ultimate Sniper Rifle
• Special Ability: Nightmare Reaper
• Best Characters: Gley, Kyle, Lepic, Valby
• Ammunition: High Power Rounds

Thunder Cage offers a lot of benefits, and it's ideal for fast-paced combat situations. It releases electric shock waves upon defeating opponents, and the good news is that you can gain access to this weapon very early in the game. Its disadvantage lies in its reliance on defeating enemies to trigger those effects.

• Type: Ultimate Submachine Gun
• Special Ability: Overcharge
• Best Characters: Bunny, Kyle, Lepic, Sharen, Valby
• Ammunition: General Rounds

Enduring Legacy can boost status effect triggers and reduce the opponent's fire resistance. It's a versatile weapon that suits characters like Blair, Freyna, Jayber, and even Viessa to a certain extent because of her Chill ability.

• Type: Ultimate Machine Gun
• Special Ability: Craftmanship
• Best Characters: Blair, Freyna, Jayber
• Ammunition: General Rounds

Albion Cavalry has no equal when it comes to maximizing damage against stunned enemies, and it's the perfect weapon for Sharen, Ajax, and Blair. Its abilities create a powerful mix of control and damage, and it has a chance to reapply stun on critical hits against stunned opponents.

• Type: Ultimate Machine Gun
• Special Ability: Stun Synergy
• Best Characters: Ajax, Sharen, Blair
• Ammunition: General Rounds

Characters that frequently use Dimension or Tech skills will benefit immensely from the Secret Garden weapon due to its resource recovery and attack buffs. It increases firearm attack and skill power, but it depends a lot on skill usage for achieving maximum effect.

• Type: Ultimate Tactical Rifle
• Special Ability: Gardener
• Best Characters: Ajax, Kyle, Blair, Jayber, Viessa
• Ammunition: Special Rounds

Divine Punishment is designed for utility builds and supportive roles, as it grants you buffs every time you help an ally. It increases defense, reduces skill cooldown, and boosts firearm attack. However, unless you are helping others, you will not be able to unleash its full potential.

• Type: Ultimate Assault Rifle
• Special Ability: Prayer
• Best Characters: Jayber, Viessa, Yujin
• Ammunition: General Rounds

The Executor is one of the most powerful weapons in The First Descendant. It can increase attack power and inflict electrocution on targets. Each hit increases your accuracy, but it loses stacks if bullets miss.

• Type: Ultimate Shotgun
• Special Ability: Impending Judgement
• Best Characters: Bunny, Sharen
• Ammunition: High Power Rounds

Nazeistra's Devotion is the best weapon for supporting characters. It reduces the opponent's defense and restores the shields of your allies. However, if your MP is low, the weapon will become almost useless, so make sure to keep an eye on that.

• Type: Ultimate Hand Cannon
• Special Ability: Fanaticism
• Best Characters: Jayber, Yujin
• Ammunition: Impact Rounds

The Perforator can break any shield and stun enemies like nobody's business. It's the perfect weapon to use at the beginning of every fight to disorient the opponent and then you'll have enough time to switch to a more powerful weapon to deliver the final bullet.

• Type: Ultimate Hand Cannon
• Special Ability: Detect
• Best Characters: All characters
• Ammunition: Impact Rounds

Clairvoyance is perfect for those who can maintain precision, and the longer you use it on a single target, the more powerful it becomes. Be aware that to use this weapon effectively, you need to be able to consistently hold the trigger for a few seconds without interruption to get the most out of it.

• Type: Ultimate Beam Rifle
• Special Ability: The Thing Beyond
• Best Characters: Viessa
• Ammunition: Special Rounds

Python is easily the best weapon in The First Descendant, but you should keep in mind that it has a few restrictions. Although it can be beneficial for all characters, Freyna is considered the best fit for it since it enhances her toxic damage capabilities very well. Generally, when it hits an enemy's Weak Point, Python inflicts the unique ability Prey on the target and reduces their DEF stats.

• Type: Ultimate Submachine Gun
• Special Ability: Python Instinct
• Best Characters: Freyna
• Ammunition: General Rounds