tierliststuff

Why is X top tier?

Dagger and Shadow Dagger,
basically reskins of one another, it's critical damage is enough to one shot most people who aren't complete shitters even with little investment such as using a raw dagger and slowly becomes completely ridiculous with more investment up to a mundane dagger.

Black Dragon Sword and Drakekeeper's Sword,
Black Dragon Sword actually bumped the longsword to the lower tier simply enough because it's a straight upgrade and when made raw will almost always output more damage with the same moveset. Drakekeeper's sword has a great moveset and reach as well as the ability to stun havelmonsters. Tanimura rush is pretty much THE reason Drakekeeper's will stay top tier for a long time.

Warped Sword and Falchion,
always strong weapons with great movesets and the ability to stunlock. They carry buffs well and have a great ability to run people down as well as being decent parrying weapons. Warped sword can get you surprise kills with it's powerstance spin and this class combine with a longsword has a decently long combo making these two go up from high to top.

Chaos Blade and Washing Pole,
literally no downside to using a chaos blade and washing pole has so much reach it's maddening. These weapons if untouched will dominate wherever they are used and are strong enough to be banned in many fight clubs just because of it. Both carry buffs incredibly well and their moveset's along with their damage output just become silly.

Lightning Defender Greatsword,
straight up a wonderful DPS weapon with a good moveset. It's S scale in faith means that faith investment is good as well since it implies you may have WoG underneath of a very good weapon. Overall theirs no real reason to use any other weapon with high enough faith scaling since greatswords in general are very strong this time around. Coupled with a buff that gets around profound still and high special scaling and you got a monster.

Mastadon and Helix Halberd,
the boogyman of the meta at the moment with surprise powerstance pokes doing upwards of 1700 damage a pop safely it's no wonder these have moved up in the list to become powerhouses capable of being hated by most people, and used by the rest. These two are also the final nail in the coffin for syan's and santier's spear, displacing them entirely.

Homonculus Mace,
blunt damage and the ability to Tanimura means that it can potentially infinitly stunlock a havelmonster to death so long as they dont have numbness+blue tearstone ring. Being able to infintly stunlock is insane.