The weapon if all weapons... Melee Zer0 No just joking I think Id choose a broken gun like... Lucky 7 It may be luck based but u can be lucky and get all rolls
surprised the bl2 sand hawk didn’t make the list. same w the bl1 bessie. granted, the crit damage isn’t as high as something like the lady fist, but the bessie was strong enough to one-shot each of craw’s weak spots with a decent mordecai or lilith build
God, those 3 nomad taskmasters in sawtooth cauldron were impossible before they patched there AI. My cousin and I both got spawn locked at the new-U by them on 2 different playthroughs. And in those days quiting out of the game and reloading didn't put you back at the area entrance, so you would load back into the same Insta-death mess you were in before. The only recourse was to start a new playthrough entirely.
Combining the "Inconceivable" and "Money Shot" skills to proc Money Shot multiple times with the DPUH is how I basically never died and destroyed raid bosses
Sand hawk + Bee in BL2 was pretty bad ass. Would have had it in my top10 list. I probably would have had Norfleet as #1, as with the right gear (like you mentioned) unlike the plasma coil (unless using Moze) you had infinite ammo and destroyed anything on screen.
Maybe not for VS Boss gameplay, but the Hellwalker completely broke my progression in my first playthrough. Oneshots small enemies almost all the way up to the final boss, and considering how early I got it it absolutely destroyed my want for any other gun... also the doom music that plays when you use it helped with that too
ridiculous, i'm currently at level 38 and I'm using it since level 34. the game already felt too easy using amara close-range one-shot fists, now this weapon deals 38k damage at level 35? ooook
I’d like to give an honorable mention to the Lady Fist from Borderlands 2. This is my favorite gun in the series, and I’m totally not peeved that they cut it from The Pre-Sequel at all! That sucker did 800% crit damage! It was also a Hyperion pistol, meaning it was super easy to hit headshots with it. I wish they would have made a follow-up for BL3, maybe the Lady Arm, a Hyperion SMG with 1000% crit damage? At the very least, they could’ve passed that insane crit damage to the Unforgiven. It pains me to see a weapon with such a cool and unique reload animation end up sucking.
The BL1 hellfire on Lilith felt so nice to use no matter what, I remember using a level 30(ish) one at like level 50 and it still wrecked everything I went against
I’m kind of surprised the Hellwalker didn’t even get an honorable mention. The Hellwalker with a good crit build with Fl4k absolutely rinses waves of enemies in very few shots.
I am SO hyped the Double Anarchy made it in! This is the gun that made me fall in love with farming in borderlands. Lilith + Double Anarchy was just pure joy,
@@Ki11ersix your basing everything off of specific builds, hellwalker is crazy strong no matter what character, the hellwalker is stronger than a complex root on flak or amara or non hustler zane. same with harold from bl2, its insane and is used on every single build, unlike the complex root or pimpernel or kickcharger. im not saying non of these guns arent strong but the monarch is pretty useless away from flak or moze compared to the harold in bl2 or coil and radical in bl3 which do very well on any build. also where's the grog? did you not include it because it's not used as a weapon?
I had a plasma coil on what I called "Bloodwish Moze", using Infernal Wish with a Bloodletter, and Seer was the only enemy in the game that survived longer than 5 seconds on M11. Funny enough though I rarely used it because I thought Flippers were more fun.
Man, so many weapons that should totally come back to BL3, The Machine, The Norfleet, The Double Anarchy, Captain Scarlett's Pimpernel, Miss Moxxi's Kitten, Miss Moxxi's Grog Nozzle, The Defiler, The Pearl God, The Lady Fist, The Surkov, so much loot to implement, gotta keep that tradition going
@@nt1388 no its not, its probably one of the best guns against terramorphous or son of crawmerax, of any big target where u can get most of the pellets to hit.
Top 10 most op weapons in my opinion (Only 1, 2, and the pre sequel) 10. Lyuda During my early playing of borderlands 2, i used this so much, it shreds. 9. Absolute Zero Best laser in the pre sequel, yes. 8. Unforgiven masher 3rd Highest dps weapon in borderlands 1? Yup. Oneshot every enemy. 7. Hellfire (Borderlands 1) Want a fast firing smg that OBLITERATES flesh enemies? This is the gun for you! 6. The machine In vendors, theres a weapon that commonly spawns, is a sniper and is godly compared to the lyuda. 5. Norfleet One shot. 3 enemies gone. 4. Grog nozzle If I wanna slag an enemy with a gun that is better than the rubi, I would choose this. 3. Double penetrating unkept Harold Savage lee was killed 100 times. 2. Ajax ogre Extremely low recoil Very fast firerate Amazing accuary X4 explosive multiplier Good zoom Very very very high damage Super high dps You got a perfect combat rifle, pure perfection. 1. Double Anarchy Who wants a very fast firing smg With high damage High zoom With a X4 projectile You've got yourself a very vErY good smg.
I think borderlands 1 sledge's shotgun was pretty op not because of damage (which it wasn't lacking) but because you could fling badass enemies away from you and stun them longer than your reload speed with the right builds. This meant you shut down any melee enemy by having it in your inventory, and the 30 projectiles meant you never had to worry about any flying enemy. Not op enough to be on the list but still wanted to bring it up
Definitely appreciate the anarchy on the list. Got a 100x4 blue rarity around lvl 20, and it carried me to lvl 35-40 before I got something different. Now at lvl 69 I have a 233x4 with 13.8 fire rate, and 82 rd mag.
I just love how much k6 clearly knows about the games and has been around forever. This was an awesome trip down memory lane for a series that has been dear to my heart for nearly a decade now.
The Unkempt Harold is my fav weapon in BL2 and BL3. I even think that it is even stronger in BL3, so I would have given the #10 spot to the BL3 version. But all in all a great list and a great video.
Borderlands 1 ogre I feel shoulda been on here somewhere near the middle spots a good role on it and it pretty much invalidates most enemies that don’t have high resistances to explosive damage and even those that do take a massive beating from it.
Well the only issue with the gun is that it isnt very good with half the vault hunters, its only really good on brick and roland, but kinda lacking on Lilith and mordecai.
Major kudos for shouting out to the Bandit Show machinima series in the countdown, that series was an underrated gem and a relic of TH-cam's past in all the best ways. Also god damn I feel old for remembering and playing BL2 when the Bee/Conference Call and Evil Smasher glitch ruled the roost.
In my personal list, I would have had the Hellfire from BL1 somewhere in there. That SMG could carry you for ages and the spreading fire dot just made it absolutely bonkers when mobbing any sort of enemy. Gawsh I wish they did it justice in the later games
It is very underrated people who play borderlands mostly remember borderlands 2 or 3 not many people have played the original and the hell fire in borderlands 2 wasn't really that good but I'm borderlands one it melted every thing
Couldn't agree more. The holy elemental trinity of hellfire, defiler and orion. Paired with a skullmasher or some other strong non-elemental gun could take on anything.
Btw. the Blade Fury does not only do melee damage but splash as well. Add that it tears through immune phases and boom it sends the boring ass coil packing..
The grog nozzle should’ve definitely been mentioned, because most of the OP legendaries in BL2 were even BETTER with the grog nozzle bc of the slag and the healing
the current lob is still in a playable category at least, i wouldnt waste my rockets trying to run yellowcake now, but the lob can still be fun for mobbing and will work on bosses you can get close enough to with it. its right there for me with roisen's thorns for being a currently non meta but still fun and good gun to use. Also its one of those guns that if youre just starting and havent climbed to M10 endgame yet and still pushing the story for a first playthru, its the kind of gun that will absolutly tear
If I had to add one to the list, it would be the Redundant Fibber from BL2, especially on Gaige. That thing made the concept of aiming fly out the window.
I would include the ogre from Borderlands 1 and I also remember a Hyperion gun that fired the electric and corrosive element very quickly at the same time, that gun caused a lot of damage. Also from Borderlands 1.
Surprised the Bonus Package didn't make it here as well, once got a level 2 from Boom Bewm and it lasted throughout the entirity of Borderlands 2's Normal mode on Zer0.
I thought of the Interfacer but I'm not certain it's OP for anyone but Sal. Also Grog Nozzle was pretty OP heck most people playing OP levels relied on a Grog Nozzle.
Another good honorable mention would've been the Flakker/Torgue Launcher combo in BL2. Absolutely shredded as long as enemies didn't resist explosive damage👍
HOW HAS NOBODY MENTIONED THE GROG NOZZLE????? It is literally an absolute must on every single character in borderlands 2 no matter what build you have or what character you are using you have a grog nozzle, period. 65% healing on damage per pellet is completely overpowered a single shot will heal you from 1% to the equivalent of 3,000% you overheel yourself you just get so much health back that it's ridiculous because the highest health character you can have is a Salvador built with full health health relic full build he has 1.8 million health op10 and you're doing about 300 million damage per bullet 65% of that is still over 150 million a single shot from even the weakest guns is going to keep you full healed and because of health gate you can't get one shot so with that gun I'm just about any character you're invincible until you reload but again on Salvador that's not an issue
@Rhyleigh Mackenzie true I tried playing today on my OP 10 Salvador and I just get one shot by everything I have a perfect Harold a grog nozzle I have a perfect antagonist and I still get one or two shot uvhm is just completely broken that's why on all new characters I make I refuse to do overpowered levels because they are completely useless
The Maliwan Hellfire from Borderlands 1 was pretty OP, especially if you got good rolls on it. I had one that I took from level 25 playthrough 1 all the way to Baron Flynt in playthrough 2. Also, the Volcano in BL1 I found to be pretty beastly as well.
i think IB wasnt scaled so in Mayhem anything could 1 shot him and he tickled even the weakest enemies, and this was before we got DLC 3 i believe (cant remember if it was before 2) but I know 3 gave us alot of goodies. BUt yeah, OPQ was the DPS and the 'Cake rolled with 300% x2 was a boss deleter lol. now that gun just hogs ammo and isnt worth it, but the OPQ is still a good one. Backburner has been around since Base game though, just really low drop rate
@@LordZeroTheNightmare It's annoying that each character doesn't get their own drop for it or the back burner wouldn't be too bad farming from agonizer. True trials it drops a lot but that's longer farming
Absolutely! They really broke the game and GB had to work a lot to rebalance things. I feel like they should've been included, at least honourable mention
There was basic ass green rarity Atlas assault rifle in BL1 that carried me through the entire game, and the knoxx dlc. It had insane ammo capacity and great damage with decent fire rate. Just the perfect combination of stats to make for a fantastic gun. I was amazed how long it kept being good for something that wasn't even unique.
most of these I only toyed around with but yeah, they're ridiculous! I have to say that there were 4 that I was kinda surprised weren't on the list (but that could just be me) the Hellfire and Defiler from BL1 and TK's Wave/ hellwalker from BL3.
I'm not really a meta player so I don't know where it would fit, but I always thought the BL1 Vitriolic Crux was unbelievably op. Also, idk of it counts as op, but the Grog Nozzle is still my favorite BL gun of all time.
I got that maliwan pistol when my buddy and I reached hammerlock in 3. The smile is still on my face today when I think of how much destruction it brought.
The butcher is the most broken for me a shotgun that have insane fire rate like a minigun with the secret ability to recharge ammo depending on you fire rate so basically infinite ammo and infinite magazine capacity just insane man
I am kinda surprised that the hellwalker, at least in the honorable mention parts was not included. I mean, this shotgun, was sooooo good for so long, I mean seriously , if you got this shotgun early/mid game, it would carry you through most of the end game, and if not somewhat thru mayhem levels within reason(a level 23 hellwalker ain't going to carry you through mayhem 11 at level 35 or so, at least not efficiently). Yet again, there are a LOT of good guns throughout the borderlands games, so maybe I'm not that knowledgeable about what guns were that overpowered or not.
When Moxsy said he preferred to use 300/90 anoint on his Plasma Coil, I knew something was wrong Also, you talked about how good the Pimpernel is under NORMAL circumstances. You didn't even mention its insane skill interactions.
I'd add the Morningstar as it still has the glitch similar to the Evil Smasher, where you can get an insane crit damage boost to one tap literally anything with a crit spot.
Would've put the unkept herald akimbo as an honorable mention, since it's not technically the weapon itself but the weapon together with a certain class
Oh man the days of the Evil Smasher glitch. Late 2012/early 2013. Helped me get thru the first DLC and get all achievements for BL2 at the time on Xbox 360.
Huge Shoutout to Gemstone Purples in B2 for being better than 75% of legendaries and B2 purple with correct parts for being better than 50% of legendaries
I really really wish more from TPS was bringed back to BL3(like The Machine and Excalibastard(that one specific would be an amazing cryo melee weapon)), hoping Wonderlands bring some back! 😀 And plz, balance them, don't just throw power crap items in the game...
Excalibastard was such a fun gun. Melee and novas with lasers as well? Wouldn't be surprised if they bought it back for wonderlands because it fits the theme perfectly
I personally love using the Breath of the Dying in bl3. The on kill splash damage orbs are way too strong on mayhem 10/11. And with the clone using it aswell i can 1 shot enemies just from the kill effect
I can't help but feel like this weapon is more dangerous to me than the enemies when using my elemental Amara, definitely needs guardian angel to shield yourself from instant death! 😂
@@MLWJ1993 i run it constantly on zane. Sometimes it does knock me down but i can always get up. And the best part is i dont even know why it works so well with my build
@@MLWJ1993 I think it works best on Moze if you can dodge the orbs and Zane with Duct Tape Mod, since it gives him immunity to grenades and the effects of guns like the BotD and Sand Hawk.
Shoutout to any x5 or higher revolver in Bl1 easily the most devistating weapons in the game, super accurate and could easily carry 10 levels above if you can land crits.
Borderlands 1: Unforgiven Masher Borderlands 2: Norfleet Borderlands TPS: One Shot Canon Borderlands 3: Plasma Coil These are my personal favorite powerful weapons.
Perma-sharp Baby Maker was a great weapon that did insane damage if threw at an enemy upon reloading it. Melted certain bosses whilst you were underleveled in BL2.
I hear it so often bud I just don't feel the lob. Idk if it's because of my build for Mose but yeah the Lob never did much damage for me. (playing mayhem lvl11)
If you are playing with a friend and you double dupe the DP Unkempt Harold on gunzerker, it is the most Op thing I have ever seen in BL2. You can kill the Warrior or terramorphis in under a minute.
I'm surprised "The Bitch" from Borderlands 1 didn't make it to this list. I don't know if I got a god roll on it or something but all I remember is it didn't have recoil, unbelievable accuracy, and would instamelt health bars.
What's the most OP weapon YOU can think of in the franchise?
Trickshot
@@EpicNNG
Does Sal count as a weapon XD
The weapon if all weapons...
Melee Zer0
No just joking
I think Id choose a broken gun like...
Lucky 7
It may be luck based but u can be lucky and get all rolls
surprised the bl2 sand hawk didn’t make the list. same w the bl1 bessie. granted, the crit damage isn’t as high as something like the lady fist, but the bessie was strong enough to one-shot each of craw’s weak spots with a decent mordecai or lilith build
the grog nozzle deserve an honorable mention for being apart of every uvhm play through
BS i practically never used it unless i was riding
@@HexxuSz riding what?
@@HelloThere-bj9rw deez
I agree
Grog nozzle was literally required to use it was nuts
You should do a playthrough of pre patched borderlands 2 to show all the new people to the game how crazy it was at launch
Omg that is such a good idea!
God, those 3 nomad taskmasters in sawtooth cauldron were impossible before they patched there AI. My cousin and I both got spawn locked at the new-U by them on 2 different playthroughs. And in those days quiting out of the game and reloading didn't put you back at the area entrance, so you would load back into the same Insta-death mess you were in before. The only recourse was to start a new playthrough entirely.
And how much the drop rate SUCKED ASS
Conference Call go brrrrr
So basically play with the community patch? I'm kidding that's such a good patch it does better at balance than gearbox
The DPUH Grog combo with Salvador will always have a special place in my heart.
Combining the "Inconceivable" and "Money Shot" skills to proc Money Shot multiple times with the DPUH is how I basically never died and destroyed raid bosses
Try Grog + lady fist. Even better than grog + dpuh
He is THE CHARACTER OF ALL TIME
Sand hawk + Bee in BL2 was pretty bad ass. Would have had it in my top10 list. I probably would have had Norfleet as #1, as with the right gear (like you mentioned) unlike the plasma coil (unless using Moze) you had infinite ammo and destroyed anything on screen.
Yeah I was surprised the Sandhawk wasn’t on this list
It's kind of useless to use the bee shield combo in solo raids since most of the time you are getting hit :(( otherwise it is so op
@@mostafasultan9118 well, in solo raids most vault hunter except sal are weak,
Ill take beehawk over plasma coil any day
Trueeee
Maybe not for VS Boss gameplay, but the Hellwalker completely broke my progression in my first playthrough. Oneshots small enemies almost all the way up to the final boss, and considering how early I got it it absolutely destroyed my want for any other gun... also the doom music that plays when you use it helped with that too
Read the wiki paige for it
i got it at the start of my first tvhm playthrough and it carried me from lvl 50 to lvl 65 enemys | the hellwalker was lvl 50
ridiculous, i'm currently at level 38 and I'm using it since level 34. the game already felt too easy using amara close-range one-shot fists, now this weapon deals 38k damage at level 35? ooook
I love this weapon a level 31 carried me to 54 haha. Then I got the butcher that carried me to 65
@@AksenowtCc yeah bl3 is way too easy until you reach mayhem and tvhm
I’d like to give an honorable mention to the Lady Fist from Borderlands 2. This is my favorite gun in the series, and I’m totally not peeved that they cut it from The Pre-Sequel at all! That sucker did 800% crit damage! It was also a Hyperion pistol, meaning it was super easy to hit headshots with it.
I wish they would have made a follow-up for BL3, maybe the Lady Arm, a Hyperion SMG with 1000% crit damage? At the very least, they could’ve passed that insane crit damage to the Unforgiven. It pains me to see a weapon with such a cool and unique reload animation end up sucking.
You can do some cool stuff with the unforgiven in BL3. It just sucks if uou want to actually shoot to things to death with it.
With Gibbed you could add the Lady Fist in the Presequel. Try it with dual wielding Nisha and 11/5 in Tombstone and youll see why it was cut lol
And grog noozle buff it up to 2400% crit damage
Agree , with the bee so much fun
The BL1 hellfire on Lilith felt so nice to use no matter what, I remember using a level 30(ish) one at like level 50 and it still wrecked everything I went against
Had a lvl 36 carry me to 69 til I farmed a new one
YES! I was just gonna comment this, that thing was a monster! I still think of it sometimes playing borderlands all these years later
The hellfire and then the pestilent defiler could do just about everything in that game
Sledge's shotgun from the first Borderlands-aside from the Elephant Gun, was my go-to murder toy.
The "One Pump Chump" in BL3 reminds me of that!
I’m kind of surprised the Hellwalker didn’t even get an honorable mention. The Hellwalker with a good crit build with Fl4k absolutely rinses waves of enemies in very few shots.
I'm surprised the fire storm and lightning storm sniper rifles didn't make it on here either
Early game bl3
@@FaithfullyExvyendgame as well
@@eyoshinthemaximum pretty much my go to Shotgun for crit fl4k at any level/mayhem
I have a hellwaker that gets stronger with each kill and I do the 1 point of health build with moze and it kills everything with one to two shots
I am SO hyped the Double Anarchy made it in! This is the gun that made me fall in love with farming in borderlands. Lilith + Double Anarchy was just pure joy,
Between that and the hellfire combustion, you could do anything. Using a HC with Lilith pimped for elemental fire damage and everything just melted.
A little surprised the Hellwalker isn't in the Honorable mentions considering how stupid that gun can be.
Isn’t the hellwalker kind of build specific? All the guns on the list are op no matter the build
@@Ozzyozzysheesh not at all , hellwalker is always op just helps to have a artifact/Com with mag size increase
Hellwalker is amazing in normal mode but in Mayhem it’s not even the strongest shotgun
@@Ki11ersix your basing everything off of specific builds, hellwalker is crazy strong no matter what character, the hellwalker is stronger than a complex root on flak or amara or non hustler zane. same with harold from bl2, its insane and is used on every single build, unlike the complex root or pimpernel or kickcharger. im not saying non of these guns arent strong but the monarch is pretty useless away from flak or moze compared to the harold in bl2 or coil and radical in bl3 which do very well on any build. also where's the grog? did you not include it because it's not used as a weapon?
@@Ben-tg1sn no, once you get into high mayhem, the hellwalker falls off significantly sadly. It doesn't matter what build you use.
I had a plasma coil on what I called "Bloodwish Moze", using Infernal Wish with a Bloodletter, and Seer was the only enemy in the game that survived longer than 5 seconds on M11. Funny enough though I rarely used it because I thought Flippers were more fun.
Omg! Imagine if they brought back the machine in bl3…. That would be amazing for moze!
Like how the monarch is a mayhem upgrade of the dictator but for the lyuda
@@munchies982 Exactly! That would be so dope!
The fast ball
Have you tried The Boogeyman. It's a Machine that regens ammo and shoots splash skulls
*Ammo Regen intensifies*
Back from basic training on victory block leave so good to see my favorite borderlands content creator still on the grind
Man, so many weapons that should totally come back to BL3, The Machine, The Norfleet, The Double Anarchy, Captain Scarlett's Pimpernel, Miss Moxxi's Kitten, Miss Moxxi's Grog Nozzle, The Defiler, The Pearl God, The Lady Fist, The Surkov, so much loot to implement, gotta keep that tradition going
Brooooo! The Lady fist, that would be dope.
Or the Ajax Ogre
What element the grog nozzle gonna shoot?
@@keirwilson7361 slag
@@cb41503 they aren't just going to add a while new element for one gun dude
The evil smasher glitch was hands down the most op. That thing would melt any and everything.
Conference Call, espically with the Bee AMP Damage where each projectile got the Full Damage Buff instead of Split.
Overrated trust me
That one was good when the level cap was at 30, but once they raised it, it wasn't nearly as effective.
@@nt1388 no its not, its probably one of the best guns against terramorphous or son of crawmerax, of any big target where u can get most of the pellets to hit.
@@nt1388 It used to quite literally one shot Terra and be the strongest combo in the whole game by far
@@nt1388 Man it was so overpowered they nerfed that shit straight away, 100% not overrated
Top 10 most op weapons in my opinion (Only 1, 2, and the pre sequel)
10. Lyuda
During my early playing of borderlands 2, i used this so much, it shreds.
9. Absolute Zero
Best laser in the pre sequel, yes.
8. Unforgiven masher
3rd Highest dps weapon in borderlands 1?
Yup.
Oneshot every enemy.
7. Hellfire (Borderlands 1)
Want a fast firing smg that OBLITERATES flesh enemies?
This is the gun for you!
6. The machine
In vendors, theres a weapon that commonly spawns, is a sniper and is godly compared to the lyuda.
5. Norfleet
One shot.
3 enemies gone.
4. Grog nozzle
If I wanna slag an enemy with a gun that is better than the rubi, I would choose this.
3. Double penetrating unkept Harold
Savage lee was killed 100 times.
2. Ajax ogre
Extremely low recoil
Very fast firerate
Amazing accuary
X4 explosive multiplier
Good zoom
Very very very high damage
Super high dps
You got a perfect combat rifle, pure perfection.
1. Double Anarchy
Who wants a very fast firing smg
With high damage
High zoom
With a X4 projectile
You've got yourself a very vErY good smg.
I came to the comments because I felt the Ajax ogre deserved to be at least top 3, glad to see others feel the same
I think borderlands 1 sledge's shotgun was pretty op not because of damage (which it wasn't lacking) but because you could fling badass enemies away from you and stun them longer than your reload speed with the right builds. This meant you shut down any melee enemy by having it in your inventory, and the 30 projectiles meant you never had to worry about any flying enemy. Not op enough to be on the list but still wanted to bring it up
5:50 my god that transition was smooth af
Still love the Light Show. So many variations and it just melts your ammo and enemies. Zane clone combo with it is just so satisfying
Definitely appreciate the anarchy on the list. Got a 100x4 blue rarity around lvl 20, and it carried me to lvl 35-40 before I got something different. Now at lvl 69 I have a 233x4 with 13.8 fire rate, and 82 rd mag.
I just love how much k6 clearly knows about the games and has been around forever. This was an awesome trip down memory lane for a series that has been dear to my heart for nearly a decade now.
I've seen you comment on older k6 videos, I couldnt forget that Z, nice to see ya again
Thanks man
The Unkempt Harold is my fav weapon in BL2 and BL3. I even think that it is even stronger in BL3, so I would have given the #10 spot to the BL3 version. But all in all a great list and a great video.
Borderlands 1 ogre I feel shoulda been on here somewhere near the middle spots a good role on it and it pretty much invalidates most enemies that don’t have high resistances to explosive damage and even those that do take a massive beating from it.
Well the only issue with the gun is that it isnt very good with half the vault hunters, its only really good on brick and roland, but kinda lacking on Lilith and mordecai.
Major kudos for shouting out to the Bandit Show machinima series in the countdown, that series was an underrated gem and a relic of TH-cam's past in all the best ways.
Also god damn I feel old for remembering and playing BL2 when the Bee/Conference Call and Evil Smasher glitch ruled the roost.
In my personal list, I would have had the Hellfire from BL1 somewhere in there. That SMG could carry you for ages and the spreading fire dot just made it absolutely bonkers when mobbing any sort of enemy. Gawsh I wish they did it justice in the later games
It is very underrated people who play borderlands mostly remember borderlands 2 or 3 not many people have played the original and the hell fire in borderlands 2 wasn't really that good but I'm borderlands one it melted every thing
It's been so long since I've played the OG borderlands, didn't the hellfire's burn stack on itself?
Couldn't agree more. The holy elemental trinity of hellfire, defiler and orion. Paired with a skullmasher or some other strong non-elemental gun could take on anything.
Btw. the Blade Fury does not only do melee damage but splash as well. Add that it tears through immune phases and boom it sends the boring ass coil packing..
prepatch yellowcake with the 300% roll was insane in either x1 or x2 variant, and the URAD version was no slouch either.
The grog nozzle should’ve definitely been mentioned, because most of the OP legendaries in BL2 were even BETTER with the grog nozzle bc of the slag and the healing
Not to mention the drunk effect
The Yellowcake and the originally buffed Lob were also insane, and would just melt bosses
the current lob is still in a playable category at least, i wouldnt waste my rockets trying to run yellowcake now, but the lob can still be fun for mobbing and will work on bosses you can get close enough to with it. its right there for me with roisen's thorns for being a currently non meta but still fun and good gun to use. Also its one of those guns that if youre just starting and havent climbed to M10 endgame yet and still pushing the story for a first playthru, its the kind of gun that will absolutly tear
Im surprise SMG Sand hawk wasnt mentioned.
It’s weak sauce without the Bee
@@Ki11ersix hm, all weapons like a crit sauce without the bee => only norfleet good weapon to borderlands2?
@@Ki11ersix i mean kinda but its still pretty powerful without it.
If I had to add one to the list, it would be the Redundant Fibber from BL2, especially on Gaige. That thing made the concept of aiming fly out the window.
Yep, always collected limbs before heading out to fight Saturn.
Pestilent Defiler from og borderlands. If their head didn't explode from the first shot, the dot damage will do them in
Defiler! I couldn't remember the gun's name (and didn't want to look it up). Excellent gun from BL1 & ridiculously OP.
The early days of BL2. What a time to be alive. Some of the finest gaming me and the boys have ever done.
I would include the ogre from Borderlands 1 and I also remember a Hyperion gun that fired the electric and corrosive element very quickly at the same time, that gun caused a lot of damage. Also from Borderlands 1.
My favorite is the Casual Swordsplosion from TTAODK. That thing demolishes. And the arc on the blades makes it fun to use.
Scrolled this far down to find the Swordsplosion.
Dual wield on Salvador ❤️
Surprised the Bonus Package didn't make it here as well, once got a level 2 from Boom Bewm and it lasted throughout the entirity of Borderlands 2's Normal mode on Zer0.
Longbow Bonus Package with a 0.1 fuse time is a mass murderer of a Unique Legendary.
I thought of the Interfacer but I'm not certain it's OP for anyone but Sal. Also Grog Nozzle was pretty OP heck most people playing OP levels relied on a Grog Nozzle.
Solid list. In addition
BL1 Hellfire.BL2 Grognozzle. BL3 Flipper
Right. Addicted to ease of Plaguebearer+Guardian Angel
Conference Call was my first experience with a truly op weapon. Loved it for soooo long.
Another good honorable mention would've been the Flakker/Torgue Launcher combo in BL2. Absolutely shredded as long as enemies didn't resist explosive damage👍
I think the Lightshow should be on here, or at least in the honorable me mentions. That thing is a beast!
Sandhawk from BL2 and the Casual Swordsplosion both are deserving of this list.
As an honorable mention, the back burner because you can knock down your own teammates and Essential AI.
I know it's not the strongest but the law and that other shield is just a combo I love
Im gonna go with Pestilent Defilier, Borderlands 1. Or Chimiera. both revolvers are absolutely ridiculous.
HOW HAS NOBODY MENTIONED THE GROG NOZZLE????? It is literally an absolute must on every single character in borderlands 2 no matter what build you have or what character you are using you have a grog nozzle, period. 65% healing on damage per pellet is completely overpowered a single shot will heal you from 1% to the equivalent of 3,000% you overheel yourself you just get so much health back that it's ridiculous because the highest health character you can have is a Salvador built with full health health relic full build he has 1.8 million health op10 and you're doing about 300 million damage per bullet 65% of that is still over 150 million a single shot from even the weakest guns is going to keep you full healed and because of health gate you can't get one shot so with that gun I'm just about any character you're invincible until you reload but again on Salvador that's not an issue
Thats what I said, grog is a gun that always takes a spot no matter what so how is it not on the list over a shitty bl3 sniper?
@Rhyleigh Mackenzie true I tried playing today on my OP 10 Salvador and I just get one shot by everything I have a perfect Harold a grog nozzle I have a perfect antagonist and I still get one or two shot uvhm is just completely broken that's why on all new characters I make I refuse to do overpowered levels because they are completely useless
@@theshadowking9626 what game are you playing bro??? Run a rough rider if ur running sal with harold and use sheriffs badge 🤣
@@jemgg your crazy if think groz is an option
@@theshadowking9626 i ran through an op10 run with an underleveled dpuh and grog. Idk what op10 you’re playing bro i think you’re on op20 or something
The Maliwan Hellfire from Borderlands 1 was pretty OP, especially if you got good rolls on it. I had one that I took from level 25 playthrough 1 all the way to Baron Flynt in playthrough 2. Also, the Volcano in BL1 I found to be pretty beastly as well.
When the OPQ/Yellowcake first were introduced, they were practically the only viable weapons in the game.
i think IB wasnt scaled so in Mayhem anything could 1 shot him and he tickled even the weakest enemies, and this was before we got DLC 3 i believe (cant remember if it was before 2) but I know 3 gave us alot of goodies. BUt yeah, OPQ was the DPS and the 'Cake rolled with 300% x2 was a boss deleter lol. now that gun just hogs ammo and isnt worth it, but the OPQ is still a good one. Backburner has been around since Base game though, just really low drop rate
@@LordZeroTheNightmare It's annoying that each character doesn't get their own drop for it or the back burner wouldn't be too bad farming from agonizer. True trials it drops a lot but that's longer farming
Absolutely! They really broke the game and GB had to work a lot to rebalance things. I feel like they should've been included, at least honourable mention
The Gub is the real number 1 most OP weapon we all know it.
The Bee and Conference Call, oh man that takes me back.
There was basic ass green rarity Atlas assault rifle in BL1 that carried me through the entire game, and the knoxx dlc. It had insane ammo capacity and great damage with decent fire rate.
Just the perfect combination of stats to make for a fantastic gun. I was amazed how long it kept being good for something that wasn't even unique.
Mashers, hunter shotguns and double anarchy were so hype to get in borderlands
most of these I only toyed around with but yeah, they're ridiculous! I have to say that there were 4 that I was kinda surprised weren't on the list (but that could just be me) the Hellfire and Defiler from BL1 and TK's Wave/ hellwalker from BL3.
Sandhawk bee combo needs a spot! Will always be my favorite borderlands combo. Even without the bee its a monster
I'm not really a meta player so I don't know where it would fit, but I always thought the BL1 Vitriolic Crux was unbelievably op. Also, idk of it counts as op, but the Grog Nozzle is still my favorite BL gun of all time.
I got that maliwan pistol when my buddy and I reached hammerlock in 3. The smile is still on my face today when I think of how much destruction it brought.
Good to see the Pre Sequel getting some love.
Rowan's Call and the butcher are personal favourite OP weapons, especially a good butcher shotgun
Yeah, I was there for the Conference Call + Bee combo. Good times.
Lucky 7 should've been a honorable mention, that thing is an absolute life bar melter
Its only drawback is (ironically) the casino roll gimmick
hopefully wonderlands has some amazing legendaries, especcially assault rifles
The butcher is the most broken for me a shotgun that have insane fire rate like a minigun with the secret ability to recharge ammo depending on you fire rate so basically infinite ammo and infinite magazine capacity just insane man
though it's not a weapon I think the fastball deserves an honorable mention as it would quite literally one shot nearly any enemy in bl2
OPQ System when it first came out shredded literally everything
I am kinda surprised that the hellwalker, at least in the honorable mention parts was not included. I mean, this shotgun, was sooooo good for so long, I mean seriously , if you got this shotgun early/mid game, it would carry you through most of the end game, and if not somewhat thru mayhem levels within reason(a level 23 hellwalker ain't going to carry you through mayhem 11 at level 35 or so, at least not efficiently). Yet again, there are a LOT of good guns throughout the borderlands games, so maybe I'm not that knowledgeable about what guns were that overpowered or not.
When Moxsy said he preferred to use 300/90 anoint on his Plasma Coil, I knew something was wrong
Also, you talked about how good the Pimpernel is under NORMAL circumstances. You didn't even mention its insane skill interactions.
Borderlands 1 Hellfire was super strong.
I'd add the Morningstar as it still has the glitch similar to the Evil Smasher, where you can get an insane crit damage boost to one tap literally anything with a crit spot.
Would've put the unkept herald akimbo as an honorable mention, since it's not technically the weapon itself but the weapon together with a certain class
Imagine the hellwalker in bl 1 or 2. It would feel like a modded weapon
The Invisible Shotgun from BL1 was the source of a lot of good times back in the day.
Oh man the days of the Evil Smasher glitch. Late 2012/early 2013. Helped me get thru the first DLC and get all achievements for BL2 at the time on Xbox 360.
Huge Shoutout to Gemstone Purples in B2 for being better than 75% of legendaries and B2 purple with correct parts for being better than 50% of legendaries
The Machine is the strongest weapon in the entire pre-sequel there's no question about it... totally broken...
The breathe of the dying is better than the soul render imo, especially with the amara build I have going
I really really wish more from TPS was bringed back to BL3(like The Machine and Excalibastard(that one specific would be an amazing cryo melee weapon)), hoping Wonderlands bring some back! 😀
And plz, balance them, don't just throw power crap items in the game...
Excalibastard was such a fun gun. Melee and novas with lasers as well? Wouldn't be surprised if they bought it back for wonderlands because it fits the theme perfectly
I still would love to see the boomacorn making it back to borderlands 3. Is it a good gun? No but its very unitque and fun shotgun to use
Infinity is one of if not the best pistol in border lands 2 just deserved an honerable mention
I personally love using the Breath of the Dying in bl3. The on kill splash damage orbs are way too strong on mayhem 10/11. And with the clone using it aswell i can 1 shot enemies just from the kill effect
I can't help but feel like this weapon is more dangerous to me than the enemies when using my elemental Amara, definitely needs guardian angel to shield yourself from instant death! 😂
@@MLWJ1993 i run it constantly on zane. Sometimes it does knock me down but i can always get up. And the best part is i dont even know why it works so well with my build
@@MLWJ1993 I think it works best on Moze if you can dodge the orbs and Zane with Duct Tape Mod, since it gives him immunity to grenades and the effects of guns like the BotD and Sand Hawk.
Surprised you didn't mention the Yellow Cake. It was incredibly op when first released.
The Plasma Coil is easily my favorite. It's just too good. I've never felt as overpowered as I do with it.
Shoutout to any x5 or higher revolver in Bl1 easily the most devistating weapons in the game, super accurate and could easily carry 10 levels above if you can land crits.
Borderlands 1: Unforgiven Masher
Borderlands 2: Norfleet
Borderlands TPS: One Shot Canon
Borderlands 3: Plasma Coil
These are my personal favorite powerful weapons.
The mashers from borderlands 1, the skullmasher, cold torment borderlands 1, sledge’s shotgun….
The machine was beautiful 🤩
BL2: Slagged Sandhawk w/ Bee was f’n insane.
The conference call in BL2 converted me from pistols to shotguns.
The wedding invitation was the best gun of all time when it first released. One shotted everything in the game with it . Also never have to reload
One bullet and everything is dead
Light show is definitely in my top 3 most favorte weapons to use in Borderlands history
stagecoach on flak was always my favorite and sticky nades + high crit weapon swap
Perma-sharp Baby Maker was a great weapon that did insane damage if threw at an enemy upon reloading it. Melted certain bosses whilst you were underleveled in BL2.
Perma sharp is one of the worst versions of the baby maker tho just FYI. Refill probably the best
Genuinely shooketh that The Lob from BL3 didn't make this list, that thing is easy mode no matter what element, character or skill level you have
I hear it so often bud I just don't feel the lob. Idk if it's because of my build for Mose but yeah the Lob never did much damage for me. (playing mayhem lvl11)
TPS vibra pulse made most runs easy mode, on a shock Athena, you could take a massively underleveled vibrapulse and beat everyone with it
That gun was busted on everyone was glitched that when you keep swapping it out the damage increased
If you are playing with a friend and you double dupe the DP Unkempt Harold on gunzerker, it is the most Op thing I have ever seen in BL2. You can kill the Warrior or terramorphis in under a minute.
I'm surprised "The Bitch" from Borderlands 1 didn't make it to this list. I don't know if I got a god roll on it or something but all I remember is it didn't have recoil, unbelievable accuracy, and would instamelt health bars.
A very good group. (and thank you for spotlighting my favourite!)
Lucky 7+ Bulletstorm Moze = modded weapon. You get the right roll and as long as you don’t reload you can solo every boss and every raid
Bl2 UH: 2 layers of bullets
BL3 UH: extra horizontal bullet
Also BL3 Harold: doesn’t need to be perfect parts to destroy enemies. Technically stronger than the BL2 version