Ranking Every Halo Weapon Ever - Tier List (Halo CE & Halo 2) 

The CE plasma pistol absolutely shreds though, it’s much better for outright killing than every other iteration by a long shot.

CE Plamsa pistol is unironically the best weapon in the game baring the magnum

Honestly I’m shocked you put the CE plasma pistol that low. It has pretty decent damage and you can shoot it fast af. I think it’s around the same in effectiveness as the plasma rifle

Did you play halo 1? The plasma pistol is one of the best guns in the game.

I DOUBLE dare you to replay Halo 1 and 2 on legendary solo without using the plasma pistol.

I was skeptical when you put the Assualt rifle at C tier, but the CE plasma pistol at D tier? That’s comedy

Definitely would have rated the CE plasma pistol higher. I find it very useful in campaign. Also 5:34 it’s an 8 gauge shotgun 😤

Just a note on the halo 2 needler, it fires faster when you spam the trigger instead of holding it, single or dual wield, which can actually make it pretty deadly as it probably doubles the fire rate

When you first saw the CE Magnum, were you blinded by its majesty?

The Halo 1 Plasma rifle stuns enemies real good. Can't even turn around when you're being hit by that. And the Halo 2 needler is a hell of a lot better than the Halo 1 needler. I can get kills with that One but not the one from CE that's totally useless.

"the normal spam firing is pretty unneffective" he tells, while showing spamming on flood shreds them appart.

In this case, you have to compare weapons within their respective game. In this context the Halo 2 BR is WAAAAY better than the CE pistol. The H2 br IS Halo 2. Utterly over powered, nothing can contest it. Mean while CE's sandbox is fairly balanced, just for a faster ttk over all. The CE pistol really is not op and the Assault rifle is significantly better than you're describing. I made an entire video about this on my channel. Extremely misunderstood weapons.

NICE! (also the plasma rifle GREATLY stuns enemies in mutltiplayer)

awesome video...at last a tier list of ALL Halo weapons!! can't wait to see additional parts!

An ADHD Plasma Rifle. That's a new one.

I'm a little confused about the placement of the CE Plasma Pistol. Are you ranking it purely by its own merits, ignoring its part in the noob combo?

Amazing video agreed with most of the list tho I thought the shotgun in CE would be higher up but great video

Halo CE needler is great on legendary as the full clip hit one zealot and combined 3 times killing him instantly Also the shotgun is 8 gauge

The Brute Shot's grenades always explode in the exact same amount of time after they bounce off any surface that isn't an enemy. That's, like, literally the exact opposite of unpredictable.

I find CE's AR is a B tier personally. While not the best at damage, it's decent for knocking out shields and hordes of weaker enemies. While the magnum is incredibly powerful, it doesn't do as well against hordes of small enemies compared to the AR given it's precision and fire rate. The plasma pistol is also underrated I find. It's a must for legendary playthroughs as it cuts through shields like butter. All you need is one or two shots to the head. Plasma pistol paired with magnum is pretty kickass in CQC, useful for many of the missions.

Stay tuned to see this sublime list completed in full!

OK hear me out. I'm not here to offend anyone nor am I here to say anyone is bad at halo, but it seems to me that this tier list is inspired less by personal experience and more by what the halo community says in general about these weapons. I just have to disagree with a some examples, the MA5B, The CE and Halo 2 Needlers, and the plasma pistol. Now here's the controversial part: these weapons would be absolute beasts if you knew how to properly use them. The MA5B is good at mid to long range if you fire in short controlled bursts like the game repeatedly tells you to do. The CE Needler is actually not bad. you just have to keep the target between the reticles at all times and the needles will track the target with some freakishly good precision. as for halo 2, dual wield them!!! they reload fast and they shred at close range. and then the plasma pistol. Overcharge, then spam shot. fast. that's all it takes. I got an overkill with a plasma pistol once. My friend bet me $20. you just have to learn how to use each weapon properly, and don't be so picky.

CE plasma pistol is one of the best weapons in the game. Providing stuns, shield EMP, shielding shredding, large ammo capacity, and good shredding ability in general

Good tier list but a couple of things: -The H2 Magnum, Brute Shot and Sentinel Beam got buffed in H2A multiplayer and are much stronger than their H2 Classic counterparts. H2A also has an Assault Rifle that should be on the list. -The Halo 2 Fuel Rod Cannon did end up getting added to MCC multiplayer around a year ago, although not a weapon pickup on any maps you can get it in fiesta or by choosing it as a starting weapon.

I definitely felt the same way about the beam rifle. It's way easier to do no scopes with than the sniper.

The Halo 2 fuel rod actually is in multiplayer. If you load up MCC and turn on fiesta you can gain access to it and it defo is the most broken in the series. The splash damage against enemy Spartans and elites in multiplayer is insane.

Wow I actually received an ad for this video going to watch them

Damn bro, a lot of work seems to have gone into this so everyone lets blow this up!!!

Halo ce plasma pistols overcharged blast can kill unshielded enemies and it tracks enemies pretty well

The plasma pistol in CE is the best in the series. WTF. If you want stats. Range: 60 Velocity: 25-15 damage: 20 Charge time: 0.6 Charge range: 40 Charge velocity: 15-10 Charge damage: 70

8:36 Rewatching this Halo 2 multiplayer footage just gives me a feeling of legitness. Halo 2 multiplayers feel isbjust great based on this footage, halo infinite 2 needs to take notes.

Nice to know me getting sent to moon by the fuel rod cannon is in this video Anyway this is a great video

CE Magnum is my favorite weapon in the series, i played halo 1 again recently and oh my god it's so beautiful, it's just so fucking good and i love its design

Is this for Multiplayer or Story because there is a big difference in how weapons function.

Bro hate to do this to you but you claimed the CE shot gun to be a 20 gauge. It’s an 8.

Halo 2 BR > every other weapon known to man

Halo 1 Shotgun is an S Tier weapon in any video game.

uhhhh, my dude? the halo1 plasma pistol has no max fire rate: it's supposed to deal more damage and use more ammo the longer you hold the button down, thing is? the damage bottoms out at about what you get from a normal casual trigger pull but the fire rate doesn't cap out and the ammo cost never stops scaling down so there is *_no_* lower cap on how short your button press can be up until you hit the limit at which the game can accept inputs. even just twitchy fingers on a controller render the plasma pistol the highest dps weapon in the game by a comfortable margin and give it a couple thousand shots in the pack, if you're playing it on a pc and have a trigger bound to scrollwheel or a repeater macro or somesuch (or a turbo controller for your console...lots of games included what amount to legalized cheats for those which is probably the real reason something this insanely abusable made it into the game) you can get the plasma pistol producing more than 1 shot per frame at cap frame rate and firing for a couple minutes straight at several thousand RPM, at that point it doesn't just out dps and outlast any other weapon, it deals more damage and has more ammo than every other weapon combined...sans the vehicles on the ammo part.

Plasma pistol is A tier, decent damage, you can spam it, plentiful and can overcharge.

This honestly made my day better, another great tier list by the man Nikos

I feel like just saying the Carbine can't keep up with the BR without making a point that it's only because the BR makes far better use of the various animation cancel glitches in the game is a disservice. The Carbine can't make effective use of the rapid fire, or BxR (on full health targets*) bugs, so it only benefits from reload cancelling. But if those bugs weren't in the game, it would stand toe to toe with the BR in H2. I agree with the placement. Just think the reason why should have been brought up.

Plasma pistol from CE is godlike

Halo 2 fuel rod gun is also objectively one of the best guns in the entire history of the halo sandbox so idk what you thought you were doing there.

Hey, uh, you're gonna have to remake this tier list soon...

Needles in ce is amazing it does huge huge damage only issue is that it has no ammo whatsoever

Duuuuude you can't have the CE shotgun and the Halo 2 shotgun at the same level. The CE shotgun slays.

5:35 m90's an 8 gauge, and yeah the needler's not great on CE but hey the melee is pretty brutal.

in ce campaign, plasma pistol is the best gun in the game. idk how you can say its spam firing is innefective its insanely op dps at close range

Dude I have the same quirk with the beam rifle. I always pull off no scopes with that thing. It has to be the reticle. Maybe it’s shape helps too. Basically a big triangle pointing at your target

I absolutely love CE's Flamethrower. It's so much fun and I really hope a future game brings it back. I enjoyed 3's Flamethrower but it wasn't as good as CE's

The Halo CE shotgun is 8 gauge not 20

6:36 Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the Halo 2 Anniversary multiplayer pistol was actually *buffed* from 14 headshots to 12. That may have been the infection variant but I remember learning it had a slight buff.

2:26 Ok, I can’t take this list seriously anymore…

will you stream season 2?

Battle Rifle is my favorite weapon in the series, because of its perfect accuracy, and how it sounds, at least in the older games. Halo 2 is my favorite because without the assault rifle, the battle rifle was much more abundant.

Funny how me and green arc were here when you were making list

Nice! Another tier list! Keep up the good work! By the way, when I say keep up the good work, I mean keep making good content like you do.

I’m sorry but double needlers helped me so much on my recent H2 heroic run I think they are OP in H2

this tier list would be a lot different if the guns were judged based off of campaign

This video shows you didn’t play CE campaign

The beam rifle has a faster time to kill with body shots than the human sniper with body shots

I'd put the brute plasma rifle in either A or S tier. That thing shreds in cqc.

pov this us exactly what you were looking for

Halo ce plasma rifle absolutely shreds

Not sure if you do this but in halo 2 if you had a sniper rifle and energy sword you could scope in until the Crosshair turned red and quickly switch to the energy sword and lunge across the map!

Shotgun should be top tier with the pistol. Arguably one of the best weapons in every Halo game. Pistol, Shotgun and plasma pistol are top tier weapons

i wish the fuel rod and flamethrower couldve been added to CE campaign somehow

if you have a jitter finger u can ultimately kill any elite with it so its ss or s

Any reason why halo CE sniper isnt double S? The fire rate was like a beam rifle but with a 4 shot capacity

I dunno man, the brute shot is great for killing charging brutes and even flood forms!

I have no idea what you're thinking with those CE rankings

plasma pistol in D tier is crazy

I'd argue SSS for H2 Br because of the glitch moves like the double shots, BxR and BxB

You didnt mention how CE plasma rifle has a stun effect that is super useful in any team senario, and the AR has a faster melee than every other gun in CE. Plasma pistol also shreds in CE. Its like you didnt really play CE at all dude...

It kinda feels like the ranking is based on mixture of normal difficulty campaign and multiplayer. It would definitely better if you mention what difficulty you based on as every gun performs differently in different difficulty level.

Great list from a greater RU-vidr

Halo 2's magnum should be next to Halo CE's needler

Why so much hate for the needler? It has always been my favorite.... I guess it matches my gameplay, it has a lot of advantages if you know how to play with it. It always depends on the gamer, for example I find the pistol the weakest weapon.

i would put halo 2 in A as i liked its sound in h2a it satisfies me

Can you link whatever you used for the tierlist?

Putting any plasma pistol in D shows a large lack of knowledge. As well as a lack of experience playing on legendary. You literally cannot play Halo 1 or 2 on legendary without either a plasma pistol or plasma rifle.

I know you say you've played CE a bunch, but I become untrusting of your ranking when you first say the Magnum is overpowered. Powerful, yes. But 3 shot kills are inconsistent because of its accuracy. Then saying the CE plasma pistol is trash when it's probably the best plasma pistol in the series makes me question it the most. I almost always have it in a slot when my other weapon is the magnum. It's accurate, stuns, shoots as fast as you, strips shields like nothing, and is found in every Covenant encounter, making it abundant. In my honest opinion, it should be S tier next to the Magnum and Shotgun. It's just too good when you understand it.

If you do reach, and Needle Rifle isn’t near the top. I’ll be shocked. That thing could Legit carry you through many Reach Legendary Solo missions (if you could manage ammo for it well)

You know the the needler in halo 2 is kinda useful in campaign against brutes if you don't know

I'd throw the Halo:2 RL in SS tier, the lockon ruined many Banshee Players on console! I've slowly got better where I can get dumbfire hits, the Halo 2 RL feels like cheating. Looking forward to more! Also, the Noob combo in Halo 1 should bump the Plasma Pistol up, it becomes a solid choice for Legendary Campaign!

Brother AR doesn't mean what you think it means, it doesn't mean assault rifle, it means ArmaLite Rifle

Halo 2 beam rifle is a SSS in the hands of a jackle

The CE Ar... If it was accurate enough it would be very nice...

MC firing magnum for the 1st time in halo 2: -look how they massacred my boy...

Part two please

You forgot ce grenades. I'm biased towards the Shotgun, (S tier) I agree with pretty much everything else

You already lost me with your CE PP rating. It has 500 shots per battery, does double damage to elite shields, and 4x to Sentinels. The melee is fast enough to stunlock and the weapon works very well even at medium range. The two pistols pair perfectly in any difficulty.

Putting the CE plasma pistol at D? That’s how I know you don’t know what you’re talking about LOL.

No no no I think smg is super good bc if your geting shot by a smg the shield well fill your screen it needs to be in S I love it but battle rife is the best in halo 6 it can not be beat sorry I'm not being in your streams that much bc my Xbox game pass needs to be renewed :( i love your videos cya

ce plasma pistol is better than plasma rifle and h2 carbine is A tier at least

I would have to disagree on the halo 2 needler, well in the campaign at least, I don't think I use it in multiple player

Glad these comments are shredding that CE plasma pistol take. Wildly incorrect. Pretty off base about the carbine too. Oftentimes it’s the only precision weapon you have access to which immediately makes it one of the better weapons in the game. Don’t think this list was particularly researched other than just how you felt about them when playing.

Am I the only one that noticed that in halo ce clip ~3:50 he dropped a magnum for a rocket launcher even tho he ranked the magnum 2 tiers above the launcher?

Damn, i’m really late to the party here

halo ce shotgun is an SS, it's the best shotgun in all versions of halo, and the needler should be higher halo 2 shotgun should be lower it got dogshit range