There is no flat ranking — only tiers and fit
Enter the Gungeon has 243 guns (191 base + 15 from Supply Drop + 15 from Advanced Gungeons & Draguns + 22 from A Farewell to Arms). Any honest “best guns” page ranks by tier and then by fit, never by a single damage number — because the same gun can be dead weight or run-defining depending on your loadout.
The five quality tiers are the actual tiers
Every gun carries one of five qualities, and these are the game’s built-in tiers:
| Tier | What it means |
|---|---|
| D | Lowest band. Common early loot; rarely worth a slot past floor 1. |
| C | The workhorse band on early floors. |
| B | Solid; the backbone of most winning runs. |
| A | Strong; appears more often on later floors. |
| S | Top band. Rare everywhere, essentially only from floor 2 onward (see the chests guide for the per-floor odds). |
Starter guns sit in a separate N (starter) band below D — they are not part of the D–S ladder.
Style decides whether you can use the gun
All 243 guns fit one of five shooting styles (full detail in the gun types guide): Automatic, Semi-Automatic, Charged, Beam, Burst. A gun’s tier is its ceiling; its style is whether you reach that ceiling under fire. Rank within a tier by:
- Feel — does the fire pattern match your dodging? Semi-Automatic rewards tapping; Automatic rewards sustained pressure.
- Room role — some guns clear crowds, some delete a single target. Carry both; do not force one to do everything.
- Synergy — a mediocre gun that triggers your run’s synergy out-damages a top-tier gun that does not.
A worked example: reading the table
Take the Rusty Sidearm (The Hunter’s starter): the wiki lists it as quality N, Semiautomatic, 16.4 damage, fire rate 6, Infinity ammo. Read it as: it is a starter-band semi-automatic that taps fast (fire-rate 6) and never runs dry. That is a complete, decision-ready profile — better than any “tier letter” alone, because it tells you the rhythm.
When you pick up an unknown gun, ask the same three questions: what quality, what style, what does its stat line imply about the rhythm? That is how you rank guns without a fake master list.