Best Items in Cuphead

The items in Cuphead all have a particular purpose and are all fairly balanced, that said, there are reasons to choose certain items over others. This list won't include supers.
The Top Ten
1 Smoke Bomb

The best weapon is the Charge, and the best item is the Smoke Bomb. This is because the Smoke Bomb 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 you're a speedrunner like me, then I would put it on full blast so you could do the most damage as you could.

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

2 Charge

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!

3 Spread

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.

4 Roundabout

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

5 Lobber

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

6 Heart Charm

It's very good because you have extra hearts to survive with. I suppose you use this every time.

7 Peashooter

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

8 Chaser

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.

9 Coffee

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.

10 Double Heart Charm
The Contenders
11 Boomerang Bullets
12 Parry Sugar
13 Whetstone
14 Crackshot
15 Converge
16 Twist-Up
17 Astral Cookie
18 Heart Ring
19 Broken Relic
20 Cursed Relic
21 Divine Relic
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