despite lacking in the flare department the pistols and call of duty have actually been
pretty solid over the last decade or so every call of duty games since cod 4 has had at least
one really beefy kind of special pistol in the sidearm category it's been greatly expanded in the
last few games especially with the introduction of gunsmith but what pistols were the absolute best
what were the sidearms that made people drop their primary weapon and just run around with a pistol
kind of like han solo on today's list that's what we're going over welcome to the channel everybody
chaos here today we're going to take a glimpse into cod history and we're going to analyze 10
pistols that more or less broke the game they were in now many of these may have been patched
out others they're still alive and well and you could use them right now if you wanted to so
let me know which pistol you think broke the game the most drop a like we're going to start off
with an obvious choice the 357 snake shots in modern warfare and war zone i really
feel like i've been mentioning these a lot recently but one more time 357 on its own
not very good i think i may even have called it one of the worst pistols in cod history at
one point it's much better with the snakeshot ammo conversion everybody knows that turns into
a slightly better version of the black ops 2 executioner but when the akimbo option is added
well that's when the snake shots kind of go full form there's lots of janky aspects to the modern
warfare kimbo feature when it was added with a lot of guns being much more powerful than antenna it
seems the snake shots were the worst offender you could delete people instantly with these things
because of the ridiculous one-shot kill range and since you had six rounds in each one of your hands
you could get some feeds without even really trying after a while iw realized what they
had done and they nerfed it today they're in a decent state in multiplayer and they're not
very good in war zone but back in my day they were ridiculous at number nine the amp 63 in cold war
and war zone now the pm 63 in the original black ops was one of the worst things ever put into a
game treyarch managed to fix that when they brought back the amp in black ops cold war
the weapon was reworked into a machine pistol while it didn't make a huge impact at first
it did not take long for the wizards in the gunsmith community to break the game with it
a lot of people were calling this gun the secret smg because it was essentially a high tier smg
stuck in the body of a machine pistol and with that added mobility it became a great weapon
for playing aggressive it's not the first machine pistol in cod history to do this it was extremely
popular in both cold war and war zone and once a series of nerfs brought it down a bit it wasn't
as game breaking still very solid secondary but it's more of a machine pistol than a miniature smd
smg today the oni cakin in infinite warfare i'll say it again infinite warfare had some really cool
weapon design the oni was a full auto laser pistol with a fire rate that got gradually faster as you
held down the trigger the harder you squeeze the faster it fired but since it was iw there was a
whole slew of variants for it and one of them was called the cake it's basically the gun but
in reverse so instead of a full auto weapon that fired faster over time it was now a one-shot rail
gun that had to charge before firing genius right it was a little difficult to use because you had
to hold on to your target for longer and the one shot was enough to instantly kill people from any
distance it didn't matter if you hit them in the head or the toe one single shot from the
oni kaiken was going to drop them even though it wasn't the most popular pick in infinite warfare
i remember the variant i i remember it the akimbo diamattis in warzone dm bodies just rolls off the
tongue another gun that i feel i've been talking about a lot three-round burst pistol similar
to the iconic m93 rafika but less damage it couldn't two-shot people like it's modern warfare
2 counterpart but it could three shot people if you had good aim and that was pretty intimidating
in a game like black ops cold war now where the diamond really shined was war zone for some reason
it was ridiculous one diamond alone was a high tier secondary but in a kimbo form the pistol
shattered the game running the diamonds into kimbo allowed you to take full advantage of its insane
damage per shot and since you had six shots coming out altogether it was more than enough
to essentially insta-kill anybody you you came across it dominated warzone for weeks until they
were nerfed a number of times they've recently made a bit of a comeback but they're nowhere near
what they used to be in that previous version i think is deserving of a spot on today's list
at number six the 1911 in black ops 3. i love the gun it's an iconic handgun it's appeared in almost
every single call of duty game in some form or fashion and black ops 3 added it post launch
via supply drops now i'm not sure if treyarch was trying to make it more desirable to make you spend
more money on it but for some reason the black ops 3 1911 it was insane it was basically a pocket
dmr you could carry i mean uh it could two shot people it really could pretty impressive distance
span tune if it didn't have much recoil to add to it well it was insane i mean maybe treyarch
was trying to correct for the 1911's infamously poor performance throughout the franchise but
they they may have over corrected this version of the 1911 is hands down the best in cod history and
the fact that it was exclusive to supply drops yeah that stung a little bit at number five
the cap 40 in black ops 2 one of the first weapons to ever be flat out banned in competitive play it
was certainly one of the best machine pistols ever now i don't just mean in call of duty i
mean in in first person shooters in fps games the cat 40 featured a very intimidating fire
rate and high damage giving it a time to kill comparable to a standard smg in fact the cap
it actually killed faster than a number of the primary weapons in black ops 2 which of course
led to people ditching their smg and just running around kitting out the cat treyarch tried to tame
the beast once or twice before just banning it from competitive play it still dominates pubs with
the mobility of a pistol in the performance of an smg it's really hard to find a better gun for
super aggressive play it slapped in every form and fashion but the fact that it's only at number five
that should give you a precursor to how insane things are about to get
at number four the m93 rafika and modern warfare 2 the pocket m16 the first burst pistol in cod
history arguably the best the damage profile was literally the exact same thing as a cod 4 m16
meaning if you were using stopping power it was a two shot kill up close and a one burst kill from
any distance on the map it was a pistol people it did have a couple downsides like the fact that
it literally all the optics were misaligned in the fact that it had a 20 round mag but
it was really weird because 20 is not divisible by three but whatever so the last burst was always
cut short but with damages high and the mobility this fast it was hard to complain about things a
lot of the guns in modern warfare 2 had little quirks like this but they didn't have nearly
as good of damage as the rafika so people were willing to overlook it i remember watching people
get nukes with this thing i remember cnner's nuke video to this day and i mean in cod history
it's just it's unheard of but we still have three to go so it is actually heard of number three
the mp9 in modern warfare 3 may be a hot take maybe a left field pick but let me explain it
was always a popular secondary in the game and i'm sure plenty of you thought it was really good but
i honestly think it's a top three for the entire franchise it was literally just an smg but put in
the machine pistol category for some reason let's go through the stats of this machine pistol with
air quotes and you tell me if you think it should have been moved to the primary 32 round magazine
48 rounds with extended max fired at almost 900 rounds per minute could kill with two shots
up close and four shots at any distance and had relatively low recoil so i asked you dear viewers
why would this gun be in the machine pistol category it was literally a high tier smg
stuck in the machine pistol category so literally anyone could have it in
their pocket at all times or just use it as a primary for extra mobility it was ridiculous
i think the reason why people don't talk about it much anymore is because i legitimately think
people forgot it was a pistol it was bananas it was at number two the akimbo marshall 16s in
black ops 3. now when guns were added to bo3 and supply drops opinions were mixed at that time on
one hand people were excited new content new guns getting a number of new guns in the mix was cool
on the other hand one of the first new weapons to be added was the blatantly overpowered martial 16.
shotgun pistol hybrid could only be fired once before you had to reload but that one shot well
it had enough power to instantly drop an enemy within 10 meters but if you ran the makimbo guess
what the hitbox was so massive and the damage was so high it became one of the most obnoxiously
overpowered pistols in cod history carry their one shot kill range pretty impressive distance hit
fire spread covers about half the screen for some reason i don't know enough to kill almost anybody
the akimbo marshals were not only great weapons but they were easy to use that's what made them
so frustrating to go against and that the fact that they were locked behind supply drops so
a lot of people never even got to experience them but those days are behind us at number one today
here it is to me the most broken pistol in cod history the mozu with skull splitter black ops
4 if we look at all the stats this wasn't really even close i may not have played black ops 4 a lot
but i played enough to know the mosu with the skull splinter mod was the single best pistol
in cod history and here are the facts six shot revolver decent damage moderate recoil had a speed
loader attachment pretty standard but when the skull splitter operator mod was added the revolver
became a one-shot kill to the head no matter what it did not matter the distance it did not matter
the enemy's health it did not matter if they had armor it didn't matter if it was going through
a wall if that bullet hit the target's head they were dead and that alone made it the best
pistol in cod history we may have pistols that are basically smg's we may have shotgun pistols with
stupid ranges but the mozu is the only pistol that can insta-kill in any situation and that alone
gives it the top spot it was the golden gun from freaking goldeneye people you factor in that the
mozu had six rounds a speed loader attachment a three by scope and you now perhaps have the best
gun in cod history a one shot kill a dmr mobility of a pistol literally there's no downside that's
why it was so broken the mosus skull splitter was broken while it may not be a cod legacy weapon
it has to be at the top of the list and there you have it my friends let me know if you agree
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