Interesting thing about Chalice: I started using Chalice when I first started playing, so I learned how to use her dash parry as if it was the default parry mechanic. Thus, I've actually grown to PREFER her parry over Cuphead's and Mugman's by a very large margin. The only main weakness with Chalice is that she came out 5 years after cuphead did, so people were too used to Cuphead's mechanics too really get good at using her. Besides that, Chalice is superior to mugman and cuphead in every way (besides plane levels, you cannot convince me chalice is good for plane levels)
@@AWholeBunchaLeonDecoys For Dr. Kahl Cuphead is better since you can angle him towards the top of the screen to take out the laser before it fires a single shot. Ester is debatable, but personally I find heart ring to more useful then chalice in that fight for the free HP. Just an opinion though, if Chalice works for you that's amazing.
@@aarav6947 Thank you but I use Miss chalice for Kahl because when I have to hit the heart, I can use 1/2 to hit it and the other half to hit the bombs. And for Eastern she just moves around a lot in the 3rd and the first phase but her attacks handled them well
Honestly the fact that the only charm that can out class the smoke bomb is a charm one that gives you 1 more HP, gives you a dash that replaces your parry, gives you better plane weapons, AND gives you another version of it shows how awesome it is
Chalice's dash parry is extremely generous against King Dice, you can just spam the dash above the cards and they'll trigger parry when you're nowhere close lmao. If anything, the only boss I find harder with Chalice rather than Cuphead/Mugman is Hocus Pocus, because the suite parry, unlike King Dice's cards, is very tricky to dash into without taking damage.
İ dont know why no one realises this but if you play as Charles the Pink cards have extra heart particles to parry this is why it is possible to parry without getting hit
Yeah, if you’e playing as Ms. Chalice hearts come out the top of the cards. I recently replayed the game with the DLC from the beginning and that was SO helpful.
With Hocus Pocus, just stand on the ground and roll as soon as the suites are about to touch you, and if they start on the ground instead of the sky, just stand on the card in the middle and roll like on the ground
For me the astral cookie was amazing. When I beat the first mausoleum I immediately got the Astral cookie and the crack shot making Ms chalice’s move set easy as pie. Because of this a consequence is that I have to adjust to cup-heads move set
I think they purposefully nerfed the divine relic to be the way it is. I mean you do get 4 other charms in 1, so it makes sense the weapon swapping is a hinderance
@@bloemkoolendestreetgang450 True, however it is a DIVINE relic so technically it should be the charm in existence so the access to all weapons at will instead of "you stop shooting/dash now change weapon"
Best charms for literally everything with just 1 or 2 exceptions: -plane stages: heart ring -ground stages: astral cookie NO DLC: -plane stages: coffee -ground stages: smoke bomb
Call me crazy but I would put divine relique above heart ring. When you get used to it the divine relique really shines. I challenged myself to beat the whole game with it and actually it turned out to be way easier than I thought. I got used to the random switching weapons and dashed only when necessary. This way I basically played like I could choose each weapon I wanted by mashing the attack button until I got the one I wanted, which usually took only one second or maybe two.
I'd say the devine relic is the best. Randomizing your weapons isn't really a big deal once you learn to use it and it gives you heart ring, coffee AND smoke bomb.
I'm S-ranking every boss without Chalice or Heart Ring (because they make the game way too easy) and him putting Heart Charm so low made me shocked because that thing saved me on a ton of bosses on my journey, more than even Smoke Bomb
I remember playing Cuphead right before the DLC came out and not being able to get pass King Dice's last phase, but Chalice made it so much easier to parry off his cards
I think that extra heart is a little low on the list becuase the extra hit point helps a lot on s-ranks but heart ring or astral cookie are much better options
Whetstone is actually the best charm in my opinion, the amount of phases and bosses you can cheese is insane, its also great on plane bosses, and you can absolutely abuse run and guns, it is also able to deal lots of damage when paired well with any weapon like spread, roundabout, charge, or lobber.
4:24 to help with here, equip the super 3. It makes it to where you have to go back and forth over and over to keep doing damage, so this is good practice to not fall off and get near falling points.
Parry sugar is the best one out of everything to me. I’ve used it for almost every single boss in the game. My entire setup is Chaser Peashooter Super 1 P sugar. I’ve used it all the way to the devil. The only times I’ve ever swapped were when I felt like I level was better for chalice in bullet terms and during airplane levels with the parry ring cause I didn’t know what the parry sugar did in plane levels XD It’s not hard to master at all. In fact, once you’ve got it down, it’s actually hard to go BACK to the normal way. Plus, some bullets you don’t have time to double click the jump button super quick, you just get hit. The p sugar solves it but just letting you go “jump” and it parries. And then you build up parries so much quicker to use your super to do heavy damagex
Actually I used Divine relic to get P rank on most hard Run ‘n’ Guns: just select Super II, sit still at the start of the level parrying pink enemies for a total of 6 HP, plus a full invincibility super to get through a tough spot. The only thing you need to worry about is the whetstone effect, that may lead to killing an enemy accidentally, although you can just not parry when enemies are around
I remember when I first played Cuphead and my main charm was always Twin Heart (I S ranked most of the bosses with this btw, and I didn't care much about the damage nerf). However, after testing other charms and learning the attack patterns of the bosses, I ended up changing my builds for different bosses and I also became a Whetstone enjoyer (I love this thing, extra damage by parrying go brrr) When the DLC came out, I didn't used Twin Heart, since Heart Ring kinda replaced it and my damage wouldn't be nerfed. However, I must agree that Astral Cookie is the best charm, since Ms. Chalice is basically a bunch of charms combined (her exclusive double jump, extra heart, invincibility roll, extra parry window for plane levels...)
One thing I gotta bring up with Whetstone is that I devised a strategy where you can use the Morph Bomb's invincibility frames during plane bosses to get a few axe swings in, which I called the Nukeslap. Cuphead speedrunner and fellow collab partner Alex S. Warrior loved this strategy and it helped him get better at the plane fights.
Chalice is extremely good for King Dice. The double jump is well, good. The invincible roll can be used on a lot of mini bosses like the Tipsy Troop, Chips Bettigan, Pip and Dot, Hocus Pocus (I think his name is slightly different but the rabbit), Periletta (Spelt wrong, just the Russian Roulette girl idk), and Mangosteen. The dash parry can make parrying the dice easier because time won't be taken up by the first jump. It is especially good when you fight the sleazy manager himself, King Dice, usually it would be impossible, but they added hearts that float above the cards that can parry which makes it easier. The double jump can also be used here to stay in the air for quite a while using the parry dash and double jump. The extra hit point is also just a blessing, and all those reasons were just the King Dice fight alone. The Astral Cookie is really an Astral Blessing.
and its not just her super is a shield her 1st super is a vertical of cupheads, which is awkward but can be used on certain bosses the 2nd super was the one i talk about the 3rd which makes her invulnerable for a time and calls in the ghost army which dmgs the whole screen plus it leaves a pink spear to were it was activated makes the 3rd one the most
The thing with getting parries on the heart ring tho is not that hard, you can just you crack shot and use it’s EX move which gives to a free Larry that counts as extra life’s with the charm
as a completionist i choose divine relic at 1st place cuz plane levels are hard and im tring to do S ranking on all of them, but with divine relic u have all the charms and u dont need to worry for the randomized ammo cuz there is only 2 on plane levels
Isn t roundabout widely considered the best? Also twist up isn t underrated.It s just bad.Has about the same dps as peashooter but missing even 1 of its 3 bullets makes its average damage abysmal
@@haxel8929 As someone who was used for weapons that gives you a break from aiming and you can focus on avoiding damage (Roundabout, Crackshot, Chaser) I heavily disagree. Twist-Up if aimed is one of these better weapons you can actually use, it does go well with most of the boss phases. For example, it's a divine weapon when you are fighting Brineybeard, if you use aimlock it actually does shot most of the boss too, even Grim Matchstick. The only boss I wouldn't actually recommend Twist-Up is the Chef Saltbaker and maybe Baroness Von Bon Bon. You can also bring 2nd weapon with you so it's not a problem to cover Twist-Up's cons. It is underrated, mainly because of Crackshot's existence and that people get used to not aiming properly at most of the time.
Cool story btw: Astral cookie was my first charm, (and still is to this day) so I’m getting used to using her dash parry, and maybe starting to PREFER it over Mugman and Cuphead’s parry, it’s really good when you try to do the King’s Challenge with the Pawn’s, overall, it deserves the #1 rank, and don’t get me STARTED on the roll ability, great for the second phase of Moonshine Mob if you have Roundabout, just camp in the middle left corner, duck down, shoot your Roundabout shots, roll if needed, and then you’re just done, like that.
Phase Survival: Put every phase in the game on a wheel. everyone spins it. You go to the phase you land on (with full HP so eliminate stuff like saltbaker phase 3 or Cala Maria phase 3) And see who lasts the longest in their selected phase. You could get lucky with P1 (you) getting goopy phase 3 while P2 gets esther phase 3 and P3 gets pirouletta. You cannot shoot during this as its up to how long you can survive. Whoever lives the longest wins. (also no using safe spots like in djimmi and brineybeard) Please do this cuphead challenge with some friends like beaver I think you would have fun
My only question: did they eventually patch how S+ ranks are earned? Because I seem to remember you weren't judged based on having 3 or more health, you were judged based on how many times you got hit at all, making the original heart charms less than worthless for S+ ranks.
@@SirPilky I do know there was one very large non-DLC patch a while after launch, which was when I did most of my playtime, so maybe they shifted it then.
Just finished playing the DLC, and nah I never played Chalice in any momwnt, I love me Smoke bomb, it has helped me get the S rank in all of cuphead, and now its helping me with the DLC bosses (the plane dogs are gonna be a pain tho'...).
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Okay, be real here, this plane level "debuff" is more of a *_skill issue_* then a charm issue, because nothing about it makes you more vulnerable, and if it's to do with tiny plane mode, idunno what to tell you, but I almost never use tiny plane
@_Ecliptic No worries 👍 I more so just don't like the plane mechanics of P. Sugar personally. I don't think it would cuase me to take a lot of extra damage if I used it more often but more so something that could result in damage if you not very experienced at the game. It all just my own opinion though and thanks for sharing yours!
Hey thanks so much I really appreciate that! I'm not happy at all with my upload schedule either, but I'm hoping to get another Cuphead video posted by the end of the month and do my best to stay more consistent from there
I would also like to add on to all of the HP buffing charms, its very helpful for the run and guns (though i didnt use them) but particularly for getting P rank
it's a little funny because i so much prefer ms. chalice dash parry i played cuphead for like 100h and every world i just not do any run & guns just go straight to botanic panic and after to ribby and croaks and quick to the museum and ta da ms. chalice in the game and ONLY using her for the game and your opinion so right
Here’s my ranking: 11: Broken Relic - You might as well not even take a charm. Very strange that you decided to put this over the Cursed Relic imo. 10: Cursed Relic - While having 1 Hp at the start sucks and the weapon switching is annoying, I’d rather come in a plane level with this and having 2 Hp just off of my first parry rather than coming in with the broken relic. Putting the Broken over the Cursed was a strange choice imo. 9. Parry Sugar - I agree with this placement because it’s decent for noobs but as for someone who isn’t a noob, I don’t find this useful since I already know how to parry efficiently and effectively. 8. Heart - Valid placement. Like #9, great for noobs but for players who aren’t noobs why use this and reduce your attack when Heart Ring exists? 7. Twin Heart - also valid but same reason as #8. 6. Whetstone - I can see why Speedrunners like this one I didn’t know you can do certain things like what you were showing with Whetstone (I learned something new) but this is very situational for me imo. Personally, in regular boss fights, I’d always take Smoke Bomb (I can avoid damage and make certain fights easier), Heart Ring (helps me with health and party requirements for S-Ranking), or Ms. Chalice (who is OP and I wanna work on getting the Chalice Filter for beating the game and DLC with her). In plane fights, I’d take Coffee back when the DLC didn’t exist (I’d rather build free super on top of the super I’m earning then parry a boss in the face), The Divine Relic (literally every good charm combined into one including Whetstone), or Ms. Chalice (I already explained). Overall imo: Coffee > Whetstone. The second placement where I disagree with you. 5. Coffee - I’m getting my super faster than usual thanks to me get free Super on top of the Super I’m already earning. If you had Coffee above Whetstone I would be fine with the placement. 4. Divine Relic - Similar to reasoning the Cursed Relic but without the negative side effects of the Cursed Relic. The weapon Switch is annoying on ground boss fights but my god is this broken in plane levels! Get health for parries, my shrink makes me invincible temporally, Whetstone gets me out of some tricky situations and I can use it to exploit certain bosses (thank you for teaching me about that btw), and I get the benefits of coffee!?? SIGN ME UP! 3. Heart Ring - Valid! Very helpful for racking up health, healing yourself, and meeting the requirements for getting an S Rank. 2. Smoke Bomb - VALID! Not counting DLC, this is the go to and the BEST charm to use in the game. First charm I bought and didn’t regret it one bit. Very helpful for getting you out of a pinch on ground boss fights, but man it’s definitely not as great in plane levels which would be my only gripe with it. 1. Astral Cookie/Play as Ms. Chalice - VALID!!!! Ms. Chalice not only makes it easier to parry, she also has a very useful double jump, and a dodge roll that gives you Invincibility-Frames. Also starting with 4 Hp as opposed to 3 Hp definitely is helpful for reaching your HP requirement because you basically get 2 chances to meet said requirement instead of 1. Her Supers are even better than Cuphead and Mugman, All of them are pretty good to use whereas the “Ding Dongs” (Yes I’m referencing the show), their supers is in the order from best to worst: 1 (is better than Chalice’s since her’s is situational), 2 (I only use this Super on Run and Gun Levels, Rumor HoneyBottom, and Chef Saltbaker. It’s not useless, I just would rather have my super deal damage than be invincible for 5 seconds), 3 (EXTREMELY situational, unless you can find a spot to lock on and move the ghost left and right or up and down, this super BLOWS). My only gripe with Chalice is since she counts as a charm rather than her own character, she can’t use other charms (which makes sense otherwise she’d be broken, although it would be cool if I could equip her with Heart Ring, Coffee, even the Divine Relic).
I don’t know why but I went on a streak yesterday I beat so many bosses Phantom Express,Rumor Honeybottom,Mortimer freeze, The rook, Dog gone dog fight, the queen,and the cursed relic secret boss my favorite boss so far is the dog gone dog fight it was really unique and fun!
One thing about Whetstone in plane levels: if you parry and don't hit anything, you simply can't parry for a good second or so. Really annoying if you miss the parry window, and try spamming parry; and it just hits.
As someone who has S ranked the entire game, this is my ranking 9: Wheatstone 8: Heart 7: Coffee 6: Twin heart 5: P. Sugar 4: Smoke bomb 3: Parry ring 2: Divine relic 1: Astral cookie Change my mind.
Of course some charms are better in some situations than others. You're meant to switch up your loadout depending on the situation. Whetstone is stupid useful against bosses with non-damaging hurtboxes, or even ones you can just bounce on top of, like Beppi in most of his forms (charging you? Just bounce on him as he goes by). Pair that with Spreader, and his final phase just eats damage. Same goes for Super Arts. Sometimes you want some invulnerability, other times you won't be able to really effectively use SA3 (the ghostly Senpuu Gouken) because you won't get to control him and keep him in the boss's hitbox(es), so you go with SA1. Other times you can, and so you pick it instead. Smoke Bomb shuts Chips Bettigan right on down, because all he can do is make you dodge his Yellow Devil-lite segmented motion, so once you can just dash through what would hit you, he's completely free. You should know your movement range on a dash _anyway_ from playing, so even that shouldn't be much of a drawback. Coffee in plane levels is stupid good too, as he noted.
Hey Pilky sorry for not saying bye in live stream when left I was really tired because woke up at 2am and love the video but I don't really agree with Chalice being number 1 charm I would probably put Smoke bomb or Whetstone in number 1 but it's opinion and I respect it ya know
Ok, let me cook(not). Whetstone. During my usual gameplay through main game and dlc i did not used to it much. Divine Relic. I think it should be at 5, 'cause when the way i needed to obtain it... One word: PAIN. Smoke Bomb. I agree with you with this one, since it really helps out many players out of very edgy situations. Astral Cookie. Ok, new character, new moveset.
I also disagree with the 2nd it's so hard to do that that I can't still make it good after months of trying, I'm someone who rather dodges then to endure attacks
You didn’t mention this, but the divine relic is the absolute best if you want to do Pacifist, as the weapon swapping is no longer an issue. If you want to do Pacifist, ALWAYS equip divine relic.
Divine relic is great for plane bosses if you don't have that yet, but other than that, I would say make really good use of the shrinking feature. Plane levels mostly just take a lot of practice, but you could also save up a super and use it when you're about to get hit so you're saved by the invincibility frames. Hope these tips were able to help!
I'll never not favor the Divine Relic. I'm good enough at the game that upgrading to it isn't usually too stressful and I love how it makes me slightly more skilled at using weapons outside of my comfort zone.
That's true I think the divine relic is a great way to practice and get better overall, especially with weapons that may not be particularly favorable!
You’re talking about smoke bomb you could equip the divine relic. It gives you like more things and including smoke, but I get it like switching to weapons is quite annoying.
Yeah, that's why I like the charm so much for plane levels cause there are only two weapons to swap between. I can see why many people might use it for regular levels as well, though cause the divine relic still has its upsides
Dude I have a question, do you have to beat a boss for the first time for the broken relic to upgrade or can I get the divine by just bullying isle one and two bosses again?
You can definitely go back to isle one or any boss you've already beaton 👍 The broken relic will upgrade as long as you haven't beaton a boss with it equipped before
Why dlc made the game easier: A new character which is op A new charm that rewards parries A new charm which is basically another adventure on its own with it's treasure, and it's op A new shot which is op (crackshot) Why dlc made the game harder: *Shef Saltbaker.*
I love miss chalice because her double jump paradise and invincibility roll is super duper helpful I'd be a few regular bosses with her And lots of simple bosses No there would just wait to easy So I can consider buying the DLC to get chalice as 1 of your characters but tip you have to equip her as a It's It's pretty unhelpful if you're using like smoke ball But it's helpful if you're But if it's helpful if you're in But it's helpful if you're in sticky things
This may be irrelevant, but I have a question regarding mangosteen ( the 8ball ) is he hard or easy to beat?? I only need to beat kahl so I’m wondering..
Interesting thing about Chalice: I started using Chalice when I first started playing, so I learned how to use her dash parry as if it was the default parry mechanic. Thus, I've actually grown to PREFER her parry over Cuphead's and Mugman's by a very large margin. The only main weakness with Chalice is that she came out 5 years after cuphead did, so people were too used to Cuphead's mechanics too really get good at using her. Besides that, Chalice is superior to mugman and cuphead in every way (besides plane levels, you cannot convince me chalice is good for plane levels)
I totally agree, and it's super interesting how you learned the game with Challice!
Miss chalice is useful in certain plane bosses for me. Take Dr kaul and Esther Winchester for example
@@AWholeBunchaLeonDecoys For Dr. Kahl Cuphead is better since you can angle him towards the top of the screen to take out the laser before it fires a single shot. Ester is debatable, but personally I find heart ring to more useful then chalice in that fight for the free HP. Just an opinion though, if Chalice works for you that's amazing.
@@aarav6947 Thank you but I use Miss chalice for Kahl because when I have to hit the heart, I can use 1/2 to hit it and the other half to hit the bombs. And for Eastern she just moves around a lot in the 3rd and the first phase but her attacks handled them well
I think in sum run n gun too, Mugman/cuphead is little bit nettet
Honestly the fact that the only charm that can out class the smoke bomb is a charm one that gives you 1 more HP, gives you a dash that replaces your parry, gives you better plane weapons, AND gives you another version of it shows how awesome it is
For real!
You're even given shield pal which is imo the best super and why I use Ms. Chalice for ground bosses and Divine Relic for plane bosses
And the charm that gives you access to all weapons, heart ring, whetstone, better coffee, and also smoke bomb?
@@STNDD It randomizes shots so it is not near perfect
@@alexgreer6336 It is probably the best charm in the game
Just edges out chalice cause of plane levels
Chalice's dash parry is extremely generous against King Dice, you can just spam the dash above the cards and they'll trigger parry when you're nowhere close lmao. If anything, the only boss I find harder with Chalice rather than Cuphead/Mugman is Hocus Pocus, because the suite parry, unlike King Dice's cards, is very tricky to dash into without taking damage.
I guess I never noticed that all that much, but I definitely agree hopus pocus is pretty tricky with her
İ dont know why no one realises this but if you play as Charles the Pink cards have extra heart particles to parry this is why it is possible to parry without getting hit
Yeah, if you’e playing as Ms. Chalice hearts come out the top of the cards. I recently replayed the game with the DLC from the beginning and that was SO helpful.
With Hocus Pocus, just stand on the ground and roll as soon as the suites are about to touch you, and if they start on the ground instead of the sky, just stand on the card in the middle and roll like on the ground
For me the astral cookie was amazing.
When I beat the first mausoleum I immediately got the Astral cookie and the crack shot making Ms chalice’s move set easy as pie. Because of this a consequence is that I have to adjust to cup-heads move set
Thanks for sharing!
You're true intention: you picked her BCS you're a simp
I would love if divine relic only randomly swapped when you hit the swap weapon button, so you get the versatility without the annoyance
That would be great in my opinion as well!
Then it would be better than cookie
True
I think they purposefully nerfed the divine relic to be the way it is. I mean you do get 4 other charms in 1, so it makes sense the weapon swapping is a hinderance
@@bloemkoolendestreetgang450 True, however it is a DIVINE relic so technically it should be the charm in existence so the access to all weapons at will instead of "you stop shooting/dash now change weapon"
Best charms for literally everything with just 1 or 2 exceptions:
-plane stages: heart ring
-ground stages: astral cookie
NO DLC:
-plane stages: coffee
-ground stages: smoke bomb
Thanks for sharing 👍 Valid picks!
Call me crazy but I would put divine relique above heart ring. When you get used to it the divine relique really shines. I challenged myself to beat the whole game with it and actually it turned out to be way easier than I thought. I got used to the random switching weapons and dashed only when necessary. This way I basically played like I could choose each weapon I wanted by mashing the attack button until I got the one I wanted, which usually took only one second or maybe two.
Thanks for sharing 👍
I'd say the devine relic is the best. Randomizing your weapons isn't really a big deal once you learn to use it and it gives you heart ring, coffee AND smoke bomb.
Thanks for sharing!
The divine relic deserves to be put behind heart ring and the heart and twin hearts suck. 😢
@@highbonoisealright little bro
I'm S-ranking every boss without Chalice or Heart Ring (because they make the game way too easy) and him putting Heart Charm so low made me shocked because that thing saved me on a ton of bosses on my journey, more than even Smoke Bomb
Ok the charms mixed are cool but changing your weapon every time you DASH?
I remember playing Cuphead right before the DLC came out and not being able to get pass King Dice's last phase, but Chalice made it so much easier to parry off his cards
I think that extra heart is a little low on the list becuase the extra hit point helps a lot on s-ranks but heart ring or astral cookie are much better options
Seeing someone who also enjoys the whetstone is genuinely near impossible lol
I like whetstone because it's good while I'm trying to p rank a run and gun
@@NicholeKeeney Fr, parrying off of enemies can allow you to just bypass em sometimes lol
@@NicholeKeeney You can use whetstone for p ranking?
Whetstone is actually the best charm in my opinion, the amount of phases and bosses you can cheese is insane, its also great on plane bosses, and you can absolutely abuse run and guns, it is also able to deal lots of damage when paired well with any weapon like spread, roundabout, charge, or lobber.
4:24 to help with here, equip the super 3. It makes it to where you have to go back and forth over and over to keep doing damage, so this is good practice to not fall off and get near falling points.
Dash Parry is actually insane. I love it, though there are a few places where i would rather have the default parry
Parry sugar is the best one out of everything to me. I’ve used it for almost every single boss in the game.
My entire setup is
Chaser
Peashooter
Super 1
P sugar.
I’ve used it all the way to the devil. The only times I’ve ever swapped were when I felt like I level was better for chalice in bullet terms and during airplane levels with the parry ring cause I didn’t know what the parry sugar did in plane levels XD
It’s not hard to master at all. In fact, once you’ve got it down, it’s actually hard to go BACK to the normal way.
Plus, some bullets you don’t have time to double click the jump button super quick, you just get hit. The p sugar solves it but just letting you go “jump” and it parries. And then you build up parries so much quicker to use your super to do heavy damagex
Thanks for sharing!
The Astral Cookie taught me one thing.
There's Cuphead mains, and there's Ms. Chalice mains.
what about mugman
@@Lolcat326NO
For whet stone my main problem with it is that you don’t get an ex meter card
Edit:Never mind I am a dumass do not listen to me
This was a very entertaining video! I love it! And I totally agree with you with almost everything!
Thanks I appreciate it, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
Chalice is my go to charm and sometimes whenni use a different charm I forget I have to hit jump again to parry
Twin hearts also has a big use in Run N' Gun levels if you want to go for P ranks. Although half of the time smoke bomb is still better.
Actually I used Divine relic to get P rank on most hard Run ‘n’ Guns: just select Super II, sit still at the start of the level parrying pink enemies for a total of 6 HP, plus a full invincibility super to get through a tough spot. The only thing you need to worry about is the whetstone effect, that may lead to killing an enemy accidentally, although you can just not parry when enemies are around
I remember when I first played Cuphead and my main charm was always Twin Heart (I S ranked most of the bosses with this btw, and I didn't care much about the damage nerf). However, after testing other charms and learning the attack patterns of the bosses, I ended up changing my builds for different bosses and I also became a Whetstone enjoyer (I love this thing, extra damage by parrying go brrr)
When the DLC came out, I didn't used Twin Heart, since Heart Ring kinda replaced it and my damage wouldn't be nerfed. However, I must agree that Astral Cookie is the best charm, since Ms. Chalice is basically a bunch of charms combined (her exclusive double jump, extra heart, invincibility roll, extra parry window for plane levels...)
Thanks for sharing!
My experience disagrees
One thing I gotta bring up with Whetstone is that I devised a strategy where you can use the Morph Bomb's invincibility frames during plane bosses to get a few axe swings in, which I called the Nukeslap.
Cuphead speedrunner and fellow collab partner Alex S. Warrior loved this strategy and it helped him get better at the plane fights.
Great strategy! This is probably one of my favorite uses of Whetstone
Chalice is extremely good for King Dice. The double jump is well, good. The invincible roll can be used on a lot of mini bosses like the Tipsy Troop, Chips Bettigan, Pip and Dot, Hocus Pocus (I think his name is slightly different but the rabbit), Periletta (Spelt wrong, just the Russian Roulette girl idk), and Mangosteen. The dash parry can make parrying the dice easier because time won't be taken up by the first jump. It is especially good when you fight the sleazy manager himself, King Dice, usually it would be impossible, but they added hearts that float above the cards that can parry which makes it easier. The double jump can also be used here to stay in the air for quite a while using the parry dash and double jump. The extra hit point is also just a blessing, and all those reasons were just the King Dice fight alone. The Astral Cookie is really an Astral Blessing.
Thanks for all the info and I totally agree!
The names are Hopus Pocus and Pirouletta.
Want to simp more for her? What a slave you are to her
and its not just her super is a shield
her 1st super is a vertical of cupheads, which is awkward but can be used on certain bosses
the 2nd super was the one i talk about
the 3rd which makes her invulnerable for a time and calls in the ghost army which dmgs the whole screen plus it leaves a pink spear to were it was activated makes the 3rd one the most
did u know that djimmi cheat works with using cursed relic to have 2 hp instead of 1
That does honestly make it a lot easier to unlock the divine relic, but I try to avoid the Djimmi trick as much as I can cause I find it a bit op lol
@@SirPilky yeah me too it's just REALLY hard without i did try to do most of it without but towards the end of the upgrade i did start using it
@@sigmaPickle400 No shame there 👍
@@SirPilky this is random but my dog steve's 1st(which is technically his 7th) birthday is on november 19th
If you level up the cursed relic to full level will be starting with the normel 3 hp
The Smoke Bomb And Invincible Roll Really Do Make Me Feel Like I’m Cheating The Game
The thing with getting parries on the heart ring tho is not that hard, you can just you crack shot and use it’s EX move which gives to a free Larry that counts as extra life’s with the charm
The 2 heart charms are handy for p ranking run n guns in cuphead.
as a completionist i choose divine relic at 1st place cuz plane levels are hard and im tring to do S ranking on all of them, but with divine relic u have all the charms and u dont need to worry for the randomized ammo cuz there is only 2 on plane levels
Thanks for sharing!
Roundabout and twist up are underated
Isn t roundabout widely considered the best? Also twist up isn t underrated.It s just bad.Has about the same dps as peashooter but missing even 1 of its 3 bullets makes its average damage abysmal
Twist up*
@@haxel8929uhm accually twist up is good for most bosses you're just bad at aiming🤓
@@haxel8929 As someone who was used for weapons that gives you a break from aiming and you can focus on avoiding damage (Roundabout, Crackshot, Chaser) I heavily disagree. Twist-Up if aimed is one of these better weapons you can actually use, it does go well with most of the boss phases. For example, it's a divine weapon when you are fighting Brineybeard, if you use aimlock it actually does shot most of the boss too, even Grim Matchstick. The only boss I wouldn't actually recommend Twist-Up is the Chef Saltbaker and maybe Baroness Von Bon Bon. You can also bring 2nd weapon with you so it's not a problem to cover Twist-Up's cons. It is underrated, mainly because of Crackshot's existence and that people get used to not aiming properly at most of the time.
Cool story btw: Astral cookie was my first charm, (and still is to this day) so I’m getting used to using her dash parry, and maybe starting to PREFER it over Mugman and Cuphead’s parry, it’s really good when you try to do the King’s Challenge with the Pawn’s, overall, it deserves the #1 rank, and don’t get me STARTED on the roll ability, great for the second phase of Moonshine Mob if you have Roundabout, just camp in the middle left corner, duck down, shoot your Roundabout shots, roll if needed, and then you’re just done, like that.
Thanks for sharing! I started playing a bit before the DLC came out, so it's cool to hear someone's experience who learned the game with Challice
@@SirPilky YOOO BRO REPLIEDDDDD
If you master parry sugar in plane lvs it can be very usefull (its only my opinion tho)
I would put parry ring 2nd because I don't utilize smoke dash that much.
Thanks for sharing!
Phase Survival: Put every phase in the game on a wheel. everyone spins it. You go to the phase you land on (with full HP so eliminate stuff like saltbaker phase 3 or Cala Maria phase 3) And see who lasts the longest in their selected phase. You could get lucky with P1 (you) getting goopy phase 3 while P2 gets esther phase 3 and P3 gets pirouletta. You cannot shoot during this as its up to how long you can survive. Whoever lives the longest wins. (also no using safe spots like in djimmi and brineybeard)
Please do this cuphead challenge with some friends like beaver I think you would have fun
Thanks for the suggestion I don't know if I've heard a challenge idea like this before!
My only question: did they eventually patch how S+ ranks are earned? Because I seem to remember you weren't judged based on having 3 or more health, you were judged based on how many times you got hit at all, making the original heart charms less than worthless for S+ ranks.
For the 2 years that I've been playing, it's always been based on how much hp you have at the end of the fight, but I don't know about before that
@@SirPilky I do know there was one very large non-DLC patch a while after launch, which was when I did most of my playtime, so maybe they shifted it then.
@@edfreak9001 Hmmm maybe
Yo best video so far keep it up
Thanks I appreciate it!
Just finished playing the DLC, and nah I never played Chalice in any momwnt, I love me Smoke bomb, it has helped me get the S rank in all of cuphead, and now its helping me with the DLC bosses (the plane dogs are gonna be a pain tho'...).
It took a whole new character with different abilities to outclass the smoke dash
Awesome video
Thanks I appreciate it!
I watched your master quest cuphead video and I am excited and surprised you replied to my comment
@KidNova-ph5io Thanks for watching it, and I always try to respond to as many comments as I can!
I subscribed.
I appreciate it!
Nice vid perfect for backround video when playing cuphead just beat phantom express during the vid keep up the content
Thanks I appreciate it!
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Okay, be real here, this plane level "debuff" is more of a *_skill issue_* then a charm issue, because nothing about it makes you more vulnerable, and if it's to do with tiny plane mode, idunno what to tell you, but I almost never use tiny plane
Which charm are you talking about?
@@SirPilky The double parry one. Also I noticed this comment is very rude, whoops
@_Ecliptic No worries 👍 I more so just don't like the plane mechanics of P. Sugar personally. I don't think it would cuase me to take a lot of extra damage if I used it more often but more so something that could result in damage if you not very experienced at the game. It all just my own opinion though and thanks for sharing yours!
Its really unforunate that u stopped uploading i would be so happy if u post cuz i absolutely love ur videos dude
Hey thanks so much I really appreciate that! I'm not happy at all with my upload schedule either, but I'm hoping to get another Cuphead video posted by the end of the month and do my best to stay more consistent from there
@@SirPilky im so happy dude u actually replied such a good thing to see i joined ur discord btw
@Alieeeeeen. Sweet I thought that might be you since the usernames looked pretty similar
@@SirPilky yeah u replied keep up the good work u deserve more dude!
@Alieeeeeen. Thanks I appreciate it ❤️
If you use crackshot ex and heart ring, the parry from the crackshot ex counts towards the parries required to exhaust the heart ring
Definitely one of my favorite combos in the game!
@@SirPilky yep. Sure does come in handy if you go below 3 hp and hadn't exhausted the heart ring yet
That parry at the start of the video was neat
Thanks!
The bomb is bad and you can get 9 heart with the twin hearts
Whole video is wrong he's a simp
@@adnan_honest_jihadist5775your right
Smoke bomb is way too overrated
this is the second video i watch, and i love this man. also WHERE ARE YOU!
Thanks, I appreciate it! I'm working on a Minecraft video at the moment, but videos will be returning this summer 👍
Divine relic at least goes into number 2. Sure the weapons are random but it’s 4 charms In one.
Fun fact: Ms.Chalice jumping once is half the height of Cuphead and Mugman’s jump
Yey new video
I would also like to add on to all of the HP buffing charms, its very helpful for the run and guns (though i didnt use them) but particularly for getting P rank
that's true
@@SirPilkyI agree. I’m kinda sad the DLC didn’t add any run and guns
it's a little funny because i so much prefer ms. chalice dash parry i played cuphead for like 100h and every world i just not do any run & guns just go straight to botanic panic and after to ribby and croaks and quick to the museum and ta da ms. chalice in the game and ONLY using her for the game and your opinion so right
thanks for sharing 👍 This is honestly a very valid strat, and I'm glad they made Challice easy to unlock early on
I believe Coffee should’ve been Number 5 over Whetstone, but other than that, I agree with this list for the most part.
Here’s my ranking:
11: Broken Relic - You might as well not even take a charm. Very strange that you decided to put this over the Cursed Relic imo.
10: Cursed Relic - While having 1 Hp at the start sucks and the weapon switching is annoying, I’d rather come in a plane level with this and having 2 Hp just off of my first parry rather than coming in with the broken relic. Putting the Broken over the Cursed was a strange choice imo.
9. Parry Sugar - I agree with this placement because it’s decent for noobs but as for someone who isn’t a noob, I don’t find this useful since I already know how to parry efficiently and effectively.
8. Heart - Valid placement. Like #9, great for noobs but for players who aren’t noobs why use this and reduce your attack when Heart Ring exists?
7. Twin Heart - also valid but same reason as #8.
6. Whetstone - I can see why Speedrunners like this one I didn’t know you can do certain things like what you were showing with Whetstone (I learned something new) but this is very situational for me imo. Personally, in regular boss fights, I’d always take Smoke Bomb (I can avoid damage and make certain fights easier), Heart Ring (helps me with health and party requirements for S-Ranking), or Ms. Chalice (who is OP and I wanna work on getting the Chalice Filter for beating the game and DLC with her). In plane fights, I’d take Coffee back when the DLC didn’t exist (I’d rather build free super on top of the super I’m earning then parry a boss in the face), The Divine Relic (literally every good charm combined into one including Whetstone), or Ms. Chalice (I already explained). Overall imo: Coffee > Whetstone. The second placement where I disagree with you.
5. Coffee - I’m getting my super faster than usual thanks to me get free Super on top of the Super I’m already earning. If you had Coffee above Whetstone I would be fine with the placement.
4. Divine Relic - Similar to reasoning the Cursed Relic but without the negative side effects of the Cursed Relic. The weapon Switch is annoying on ground boss fights but my god is this broken in plane levels! Get health for parries, my shrink makes me invincible temporally, Whetstone gets me out of some tricky situations and I can use it to exploit certain bosses (thank you for teaching me about that btw), and I get the benefits of coffee!?? SIGN ME UP!
3. Heart Ring - Valid! Very helpful for racking up health, healing yourself, and meeting the requirements for getting an S Rank.
2. Smoke Bomb - VALID! Not counting DLC, this is the go to and the BEST charm to use in the game. First charm I bought and didn’t regret it one bit. Very helpful for getting you out of a pinch on ground boss fights, but man it’s definitely not as great in plane levels which would be my only gripe with it.
1. Astral Cookie/Play as Ms. Chalice - VALID!!!! Ms. Chalice not only makes it easier to parry, she also has a very useful double jump, and a dodge roll that gives you Invincibility-Frames. Also starting with 4 Hp as opposed to 3 Hp definitely is helpful for reaching your HP requirement because you basically get 2 chances to meet said requirement instead of 1. Her Supers are even better than Cuphead and Mugman, All of them are pretty good to use whereas the “Ding Dongs” (Yes I’m referencing the show), their supers is in the order from best to worst: 1 (is better than Chalice’s since her’s is situational), 2 (I only use this Super on Run and Gun Levels, Rumor HoneyBottom, and Chef Saltbaker. It’s not useless, I just would rather have my super deal damage than be invincible for 5 seconds), 3 (EXTREMELY situational, unless you can find a spot to lock on and move the ghost left and right or up and down, this super BLOWS). My only gripe with Chalice is since she counts as a charm rather than her own character, she can’t use other charms (which makes sense otherwise she’d be broken, although it would be cool if I could equip her with Heart Ring, Coffee, even the Divine Relic).
Thanks for sharing such a detailed list!
@@SirPilky Np, I’m just glad we can share opinions without getting upset over it.
@@Flamemaster78 So true!
Love your videos and keep up the good work
Thanks I appreciate it!
I don’t know why but I went on a streak yesterday I beat so many bosses Phantom Express,Rumor Honeybottom,Mortimer freeze, The rook, Dog gone dog fight, the queen,and the cursed relic secret boss my favorite boss so far is the dog gone dog fight it was really unique and fun!
I love the Howling Aces!
One thing about Whetstone in plane levels: if you parry and don't hit anything, you simply can't parry for a good second or so. Really annoying if you miss the parry window, and try spamming parry; and it just hits.
This is a really good point that I probably should have brought up 👍
I agree with your rankings.
As someone who has S ranked the entire game, this is my ranking
9: Wheatstone
8: Heart
7: Coffee
6: Twin heart
5: P. Sugar
4: Smoke bomb
3: Parry ring
2: Divine relic
1: Astral cookie
Change my mind.
I mean whetstone should at least be above twin heart, but everything else is at least somewhat agreeable.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Of course some charms are better in some situations than others. You're meant to switch up your loadout depending on the situation.
Whetstone is stupid useful against bosses with non-damaging hurtboxes, or even ones you can just bounce on top of, like Beppi in most of his forms (charging you? Just bounce on him as he goes by). Pair that with Spreader, and his final phase just eats damage.
Same goes for Super Arts. Sometimes you want some invulnerability, other times you won't be able to really effectively use SA3 (the ghostly Senpuu Gouken) because you won't get to control him and keep him in the boss's hitbox(es), so you go with SA1. Other times you can, and so you pick it instead.
Smoke Bomb shuts Chips Bettigan right on down, because all he can do is make you dodge his Yellow Devil-lite segmented motion, so once you can just dash through what would hit you, he's completely free. You should know your movement range on a dash _anyway_ from playing, so even that shouldn't be much of a drawback.
Coffee in plane levels is stupid good too, as he noted.
These are some really great points thanks for sharing!
Hey Pilky sorry for not saying bye in live stream when left I was really tired because woke up at 2am and love the video but I don't really agree with Chalice being number 1 charm I would probably put Smoke bomb or Whetstone in number 1 but it's opinion and I respect it ya know
Thanks for sharing and no need to apologize!
Your welcome hope to catch the next live stream,
Ok, let me cook(not). Whetstone. During my usual gameplay through main game and dlc i did not used to it much. Divine Relic. I think it should be at 5, 'cause when the way i needed to obtain it... One word: PAIN. Smoke Bomb. I agree with you with this one, since it really helps out many players out of very edgy situations. Astral Cookie. Ok, new character, new moveset.
Thanks for sharing you did cook 🔥
What I did while trying to get the divine relic was I used the dijimi cheat to start boss fights with 2 HP instead of 1 HP
Massive respect for putting whetstone on top 5!
Just bringing two charms can successfully beat the entire game. P-ranks and plane fights: Divine Relic.
Ground fights: Miss Chalice.
Curiosity about the Wetstone: A brazilian man was beaten Cuphead without shooting using the wetstone, it was 350+ hours to go
Please make a boss ranking video about how fun the bosses are. Or how easy or hard just please, I beg you
I knew that the Astro cookie was the number one because at the thumbnail I knew it was Miss chalice
Yes
7:53 a guy of my country defeat all bosses in cuphead without use shots and he use this charm to do it, and he post the vídeos in RUclips
I am endlessly confused by how he thinks divine relic is worse tham two subsections of it. Also weapon randomness is bad
9:12 this exact scenario has killed me so many times
I also disagree with the 2nd it's so hard to do that that I can't still make it good after months of trying, I'm someone who rather dodges then to endure attacks
Thanks for sharing 👍
I think whetstone is good :( edit:thx for hearting,start the whetstone army
No problem thanks for sharing!
You didn’t mention this, but the divine relic is the absolute best if you want to do Pacifist, as the weapon swapping is no longer an issue. If you want to do Pacifist, ALWAYS equip divine relic.
True that's a good point
Hey im new in cuphead do you have any good tips for plane bosses i gave a hard time with them
Divine relic is great for plane bosses if you don't have that yet, but other than that, I would say make really good use of the shrinking feature. Plane levels mostly just take a lot of practice, but you could also save up a super and use it when you're about to get hit so you're saved by the invincibility frames. Hope these tips were able to help!
technically the broken relic is the worst since it does *literally nothing*
I guess but I think a hinderance (cursed relic) is worse than nothing
@@ThatOneKidYT272 fair.
I’ve been playing since the beginning I’ve always used smoke dash until the dlc
Divine relic is a life-saver for plane levels and pacifist Run-n'-Guns.
For sure! I definitely should of brought up P ranks
Actually, I’m surprised that Divine relic was a number one because I think you’ll have a great use which it probably will
Under rated
Thanks!
i say 1.divane relic 2. astral cookie3.whetstone
Thanks for sharing 👍
I'll never not favor the Divine Relic. I'm good enough at the game that upgrading to it isn't usually too stressful and I love how it makes me slightly more skilled at using weapons outside of my comfort zone.
That's true I think the divine relic is a great way to practice and get better overall, especially with weapons that may not be particularly favorable!
When the new cuphead video?
No news on a Cuphead video, but I'm working on a big Minecraft video at the moment
@@SirPilkywait youre now doing minecraft videos?
@SomeAverageGuy I wanna give one a try, but if it doesn't perform very well, then I might return to Cuphead or try something else 👍
You’re talking about smoke bomb you could equip the divine relic. It gives you like more things and including smoke, but I get it like switching to weapons is quite annoying.
Yeah, that's why I like the charm so much for plane levels cause there are only two weapons to swap between. I can see why many people might use it for regular levels as well, though cause the divine relic still has its upsides
4:19 wait wait wait wait, those are ingots? I thought they were bars of soap!
The wiki said they were ingots, but they do honestly look like bars of soap lol
@@SirPilkyyeah, i thought the "soap" made the wheels slippery and thats my they went foward/backward
Pretty good ranking overall, but whetstone over coffee I dunno
Thanks for sharing!
Dude I have a question, do you have to beat a boss for the first time for the broken relic to upgrade or can I get the divine by just bullying isle one and two bosses again?
You can definitely go back to isle one or any boss you've already beaton 👍 The broken relic will upgrade as long as you haven't beaton a boss with it equipped before
@@SirPilky oh Ty
The divine relic is my favorite. After playing as Chalice, I try to dash for parry double jump as cuphead or his pal mugman
Why dlc made the game easier:
A new character which is op
A new charm that rewards parries
A new charm which is basically another adventure on its own with it's treasure, and it's op
A new shot which is op (crackshot)
Why dlc made the game harder:
*Shef Saltbaker.*
I thought The hardest part is the Cursed Relic challenge
No no no, "fucking cow"
I love miss chalice because her double jump paradise and invincibility roll is super duper helpful I'd be a few regular bosses with her And lots of simple bosses No there would just wait to easy So I can consider buying the DLC to get chalice as 1 of your characters but tip you have to equip her as a It's It's pretty unhelpful if you're using like smoke ball But it's helpful if you're But if it's helpful if you're in But it's helpful if you're in sticky things
Twin heart isnt really that good
thats just because the heart ring and divine relic out perform it significantly for no damage decrease
Are you sure 🫤
@helixshoto yes, a few years back its how I s ranked nearly all of the game excluding bosses like Hilda berg and dr kahl
Oh
Whetstone slander will not be tolerated
Yes it will
Coffee above wet stone is crazy
Divine relic deserves number two of the rank
Thanks for sharing 👍
This may be irrelevant, but I have a question regarding mangosteen ( the 8ball ) is he hard or easy to beat?? I only need to beat kahl so I’m wondering..
I've always found mangosteen to be one of the easiest of King Dice's minions and I think a lot of other people generally agree
I put divine relic at the top personally. The versatility is amazing
Thanks for sharing 👍
İ didnt even watch the video but i bet 1. İs smoke bomb
You're almost right about that 👀
Ok astral cokie makes sense
12:25 due to double explosion glitch it’d be 11/10
Can you do dlc master quest if your up for the challenge
The developer never made a version for the dlc actually 😥
@@SirPilky ok