Best Items in Cuphead

The best weapon is the charge and the best item is the smokehouse. This is because, the smokehouse can let you dodge 99.99% of the attacks in the game. Also the charge is the best weapon because, it does the most damage. If you want to strategize with a boss fight, you can control how much damage you want to do, but if your a speedruner like me then, I would put it on full blast so, you could do the most damage as you could.

It trivialises so many of the bosses in the game by allowing you to dash straight through their attacks. This item is one of the 2 in the game that I believe should be nerfed somehow, because it breaks the game so much.

A necessity to beat the later bosses.

I want to play Cuphead soon.

This weapon nearly has the dps of a spread shot, but has the range of your basic shot, eliminating the issue with spread, where you have to get up close. If the game had more enemies that could summon things to block these shots, it would be fine, but most bosses leave themselves wide open as you melt them, this weapon should do less damage.

This weapon literally does 46 damage from the charged shot!

The damage that this weapon can do is amazing, it also usually isn't that difficult to get up close once you know the game well. It also handles groups of enemies very well.

I find this to be a fairly underrated item, while the range might be annoying, the bosses in which it works for become pushovers. Grim Matchstick becomes easy with this.

I don't understand how so many people swear by this item. It's just the peashooter, but with half range, unless you shoot backwards, in which case there is the delay before you start attacking.

By turning around on some of your shots you can drown the boss in damage

I don't think that this item is anywhere near as good as people say it is, the damage lost almost balances out the extra heart, at least based on my experience.

Its very good because you have extra hearts to survive with I suppose you use this every time

I always use this.

The basic weapon in the game works well in most situations, yet is still not too bad offensively, as the weapon has ok dps and great range.

I appreciate the fact that aiming isn't an issue, but the amount of dps is very low, I only find that this is good on bosses that move a lot.

I find this to be a fairly underrated item. While it isn't as good as the smoke bomb, it is a massive help in getting the pacifist ranks in each of the run and gun levels when combined with the invincibility super.

This item is the worst in the game simply because it doesn't give you anything new, it just makes it slightly easier to parry, making you worse at the game as you are not truly learning how to play the game properly.

While the concept is cool, I never found a time where using it would be better than just shooting the enemies.