The best way to kill a swordsmachine is forget he's there until the better enemies are dead and slowly punch him to death afterwards because he can't do anything about it

23:46 "Stay on high ground and in open spaces when facing malicous faces" BARS 🥶🥶

You think people love ULTRAKILL too much, then you play it and realize it truly is the most perfect feeling of any game

Just wanted to mention that green railcannon is very useful on mind flayers for safe kills as they cannot teleport. Prolly niche but worth mentioning and keeping as an option

I honestly can't believe how underrated this video is, it is an amazingly complete resource that no one should miss. You even make it enjoyable and entertaining to watch. Thanks a lot for the tips and knowledge!

The reason you find masses so difficult to kill is because you neglect the nailgun (more specifically, the sawblade). Putting a magnet on the stomach of the mass and then spamming the 10 sawblades makes them be in the perfect position to all hit the mass's tail. This will install it in a few seconds and you can just walk away after shooting them.

I have a faster trick for insta riding try this: First look a little lower then Freeze, shoot and dash at the same time then unfreeze its a faster and more precise way to insta rocket ride

some notes about whiplash (one of the most useful tools in cybergrind imo) 1. whiplash has aim assist. just throw it in the general vicinity of an enemy and it'll connect. 2. holding the whiplash button for longer extends its range, and whiplash won't start pulling until the button is released. 3. punching, jumping, or whiplashing while grappling will cancel the grapple while preserving momentum. Useful if you've hooked an enemy and realize you don't actually want to go there. You can also chain whiplash jumps on light enemies to stay airborne. 4. Dashing while whiplashing does NOT cancel whiplash. Useful if you want to get out of the way of incoming projectiles without cancelling the grapple 5. Whiplashing into a maurice and shooting it twice with shotgun + red fist punch kills it extremely quickly + heals you for a ton + is likely to cause collateral damage from the falling head. An enraged malicious face dies in one shotgun blast + punch. 6. Whiplashing into a mind flayer right as they use the homing attack will make the homing balls miss (initially, at least) 7. (not about whiplash) like all explosions, knuckleblaster's explosion reflects projectiles, INCLUDING YOUR OWN, so if you fire your shotgun at the same time as a point blank knuckle blast, your shotgun will do 0 damage. This is why malicious faces sometimes survive getting shotgun swap + KB'd - just don't knuckleblast or time the blast so it doesn't come out at the same time as the 2nd shotgun blast. 8. DASH STORAGE: Dashing, then quickly sliding before your dash i-frames run out, will make you invincible for the duration of the slide. You can find a safe spot on the edge of the arena to land, do a dash-stored slide across the whole arena, overpump blast, fall off, and rocket ride back up to repeat as many times as needed. AzrilAdni's video of them making it to wave 180+ features this a lot; using this will vaporize ground enemies and cause a fair bit of collateral damage to mindflayers and malicious face while maxing your style and healing you to full.

If you get harpooned by a Hideous Mass, you can look down and punch it with the Knuckleblaster to remove it more quickly. Overheat Saw can chunk them with good magnet placement if they’re out in the open (screw the one that spawns by some stairs).

12:38 As a Stock Nailgun kon-o-sooer, i'd say that it is not a trash weapon and it is actually freaking good for covering your **midrange**. To any Sawlauncher enjoyers reading this copium-ridden commenter's rebuttal, I will have to apologize in advance as I don't use it and would have to leave that job to someone else. Yes, shotgun swapping has much higher dps and whiplashing to enemies makes it significantly easier. The main weakness it has is that you are functionally confined in a small area when doing this to larger enemies, particularly the ones that stand still. The stock nailguns cover this weakness by giving you a larger area to work with to keep shooting while moving and dodging away from projectile spam which is way more prominent in higher waves. Virtues are also way less cancerous to take out with the nailguns compared to peppering them with your revolvers, whiplashing to them with shotgun swaps or overpumps, or just seeing them line up for the perfect railcannon shot. Virtues take extra damage from nails and can be combined with magnets so that you don't waste damage with the nails and/or you can stockpile frozen rockets on the damn thing to home into it as you move on to the next virtue. The nailguns don't do a lot of damage and are generally mid for taking out groups, but they recover freshness for your other weapons FAST, so that those freshened weapons can take out the groups for you. This makes it easier to achieve S+ style ranks as you wittle down the enemies with the nails (or any other weapons) and finish them off with your railcannons and shotguns as the style meter rewards more style with kills than the damage you dealt. (It is why nukes can still make you jump up to S rank or higher even when it gets dulled after the fact.) The fact that you didn't even mention overheat cycling circumventing the ammo issue entirely since the green nailgun's ammo is technically infinite, or even the magnets' synergy with the rocket launcher shows how much you are gimping yourself by sleeping on the nailgun. I know i am kind of not in the position to say this as i average low 40s and only recently *reached* wave 50, but y'all really should use the nailguns more or I will take all your mothers out to dinner and commit Spy Team Fortress 2 with just my fingers.

Few notes: Movement: I'd recommend learning the fast rocket ride. It's looking down slightly, right click, left click, dash, right click (extremely fast). It's a lot easier than it seems at first, trust me, it's like a free +10 waves once you learn it since it's basically infinite mobility, especially offstage. Stick either to the side of the stage or just off of it entirely, especially when you are low health. This means that you only have to deal with attacks from one direction and there's gonna be more friendly fire, rather than getting demolished by everything at once. Weapons: Nailgun is extremely good, and pretty vital for when you're in waves 60+ since it allows you to 1v1 enemies at mid range with damage quite similar to the shotgun. If you shoot from the blue nailgun, the overheat on the green one will fill up. If you fire a green overheat and then switch to blue and shoot once, the green overheat will recharge, allowing for infinite overheat. Overheat does around 11 DPS (The railcannon does 8 damage, and the default pistol does 1, for reference). The saws are more for setting traps at the start of waves - not as good but it's free. I'd recommend at least 1 nailgun for that mid-range DPS. This is probably ppart of the reason why mal-faces are so high on your list. Coin punching is useful as it allows you to use a coin without depleting it's charge and the damage stacks, meaning a coin will do more damage overall. If you're a GOD you can punch the coin and then just shoot it but I tend to punch a coin, throw another coin, and shoot that instead. Nukes should be 100% of your railcannon uses unless you're doing some coin tricks with the blue one. It does 14 damage in a huge radius. Again, the standard blue railcannon does 8ish. Enemies: Sword Machines in Stage 2 are actually more threatening than stage 1 by a little bit since they learn to throw their swords, giving them some attack that's threatening when you aren't ground level. Ferryman will die spontaneously. Listen to their spawnsound and look for +zapped popping up for no reason in your style meter. Also, that lightning attack can be chargebacked, meaning you can throw a coin upwards and the lightning will re-divert to the nearest enemy. Mal-faces are much easier when you pay attention to their attacks - zooming in for a shotgun swapping attack when you know they /aren't/ gonna be shooting projectiles. They actually become actively helpful for the player at a certain point because parrying their charge attack is easy and refills health even when everything is sanded, and their projectiles don't have tracking, meaning you can dodge it by simply moving. Hideous Masses aren't so bad - yes, they have huge map control, but the thing is; you shouldn't be on the map anyway. Their attacks are slow and their lack of mobility makes them easy targets for high DPS attacks. It does impact strategy too much, since you should already be playing extremely mobile and edge-camping, which is the counterplay to the HiM. Also, the aforementioned railcoin combo means you should only ever be dealing with one at a time. The Mindflayer is THE most threatening enemy in the game right now. Instakill her as soon as the wave starts by exploding her orbs as she summons them. You show the instakill in this video, but it's important to say that that is the best counterplay against her. You can also instakill her by waiting for her to teleport to you in under that red layer where all enemies get instakilled consistently on some maps. Do that, if you can. A good combo is an overpump instakill, and if it fails, then a nuke right in her face should be enough to finish her off.

I agree with the assessment of nailgun being an underpowered weapon, but I will vouch for its usability. I'm still stuck around wave 38, and it has been very useful for when I need to slow my play down and assess the situation. Throw a magnet into a group of enemies, repeat overheat-storage as I take it all in. It's not the best DPS, but it's a great way to let people hang back and assess the situation whIle they're still becoming familiar with the behavior of cybergrind waves as a whole.

Here’s the thing with the ferryman. The only good move that it has, the lightning strike, can be nullified with a single coin toss…

Before I knew it, the lecture was over. Extremely entertaining and informative video dude; this’ll be one of my go to recommendations for newer players. It's awesome that I still manage to learn some juicy bits of info with guides like yours.

for nailgun i usually run blue nail / green saw, since blue nail is surprisingly useful in taking out virtues (and specifically virtues), and with a hotswap, you can set up an overheat saw trap in under a second which fits the bursty nature of the game screwdriver is also surprisingly good in cybergrind due to cybergrind counteracting screw's main weakness: lack of thicc bois to screw with it. it can save you in a pinch due to the ridiculous healing radius it has, and if you play CG at all you know the amount of cerberus and swordsmachine in higher levels gets fucking ridiculous

tip: you don't have to click repeatedly to fire during a shotgun swap, you can actually just hold down the fire button and tap E, and the shotgun will fire automatically when it comes out.

The real way to get to wave fifty is to make a custom layout with no enemies and play that on repeat

this is a certified cybergrind classic

I love when there are 4+ Cerberus's and you kill one and just +ENRAGED +ENRAGED +ENRAGED +ENRAGED +ENRAGED

Personal recommendation: set the weapon variant swap to your scroll wheel to make shotgunswaping faster, it will also make it easier to access the other variations when we get red pistol, shotgun, and nailgun.

“I am a mindflayer, and I’m here to take your undivided attention while actually threatening enemies kill you” -mindflayer

this was actually a really good tutorial, and the production value was WAY higher than i expected props, man, you deserve more subs

Really great video! Truly shows how Ultrakill is in a whole another level

Pov: you are watching this after the cyber grind update

Fantastic guide. Exactly what I have been hoping to see.

The editing in this made an educational video simultaneously entertaining. Incredible job, honestly bravo

Absolutely amazing video, deserves wayyyy more than 200 views

Idk if it's niche or unknown, but a thing I sometimes do on Malicious Faces is use the shotgun to parry. You can parry the laser beam right when it flashes if you're at point blank, dealing lotta damage and giving style since it's a parry. Also, lazy way to deal with sentries: ground slam to launch in the air, knuckle blaster to yeet them to the Shadow Realm

ayo great video man, got a lot of useful info out of it!

Really good video! I completely agree on the nailgun thing, but I think just a slight buff like making it's shots spreading less would make it a good weapon for dealing with enemies at medium range For now the saw is better

I think green railgun is still good for hideous mass and mindflayer on some really rough waves. Being able to easily take one out without needing good setups or to wait for a certain attack can be helpful.

wow this is probably THE best ultrakill guide on the entire internet. not just for Cyber Grind but as a whole! thankssss

how to kill the hideous mass fast 1: get up close 2: shotgun swap and keep punching it with the knuckleblaster if you need style do core > pump > rocket launcher > repeat

Video unironically helped me a lot, thanks bro

I was trying to find a good introduction video pretty recently I have less than 40 hours and damn I could've used a video like this a while ago, Awesome stuff

Great video and information! I feel educated now.

Loved the video, Thanks man.

In my personal experience the mindflayer is easily the most dangerous if not handled, as someone who only gets to rank 25 consistently. The combination of indefinitely breathing down your throat (putting the virtues to shame), staying out of sight through teleporting requiring constant camera panning and reassessment, and huge health bar make them incredibly difficult to track, remove, or escape. Virtues though obnoxious are incredibly fragile, and the HiMs can be ignored through kiting. The mere presence of a mindflayer and trying to keep it downsight is enough to cause numerous problems.

Insanely good video keep it up

Even though theres been like a thousand updates since this video comes out most things you covered here are still incredibly valid Really shows how well made this was although i'd really suggest making a revamped video covering radiance and the violence enemies alongside the new weapons

You're not only informative, but also REALLY funny

Awesome Video, Awesome Edits and Awesome advice It's a shame you don't have more views a crime even!

You know its a good game when “disrespect” and “friendly fire” gives you points

god i love the editing in this video

Great vid, subbed

youre a lifesaver, man, thanks

Keep screwdriver equipped on railcannon 3rd slot. It's useful for a fire-and-forget way to almost entirely deal with a Hideous Mass, and it pins Mindflayers in place so you can unload on them with shotguns or nailguns. Also, nailgun isn't bad, you just need to learn how to quick swap it to extend the overheat. I run both nails in CG and can unload an overheat nailgun burst into a Malicious Face in under a second, almost totally resetting other weapons' freshness. It's a good tool to use for added style points and the magnets help maintain accuracy at range if you use them right. Good for clearing out Virtues too, in between railcannon charges and overpumps. Great editing and delivery, one of the better Ultrakill guides out there other than the wrong opinions listed above. Definitely earned a subscriber here. Keep up the good work!

the overheat nailgun can be used with a thing called "overheat storage", if you shoot one nail with the blue one, it insta charges the green one, and if you use the overheat and swap back to the blue one and back to the green, it goes back to full and you can continue to chain these to keep the overheat theoretically forever

Finally, i needed this

If I can make a point for the saw blade launcher on the first variant it is very good to charge the green version as only a few shots are necessary to get it to full strength and Cleaners that run after you like to dodge to the side so if there would be a saw trap they would dodge into the incoming saw and die otherwise. Attaching a nail to a low danger enemy that runs after you and using him as a murder ball is quite funny in the earlier waves.

One thing you forgot: Ferrymen, in addition to being glorified swordsmachines, kinda just die. If you go anywhere near the edge of the arena, they just roll off. And if that somehow doesn't happen, Maurice them. Basically, I just hear the bells then watch a blue corpse fall off the arena.

astounding video

I was hard stuck at wave 30, after learning the "more style = less hard damage" I immediately changed my strats and I was easily able to get wave 33 on the next attempt. Thank you skeleblood

This is a piece of art

Crazy good video

Magnet + Rocket Launcher makes mindflayers trivial

6:09 this is the greatest use of testaments theme i've ever seen.

this video is really nice!! tysm!! very funny and im bad at the game so ty

Cool video! I am happy to be your 1000th subscriber.

26:03 you can actually punch the harpoon (2 times with feedbacker; 1 time with knuckleblaster) to release yourself early. This is a life-saver if you get mysteriously harpooned whilst rocket-riding or otherwise off-stage, as it is the onlt thing standing between life and falling into the void

I have now learned how to officially cybergrind

4:50 Skeleblood caught trying to parry with the knuckleblaster!!

the editing on this vid is that of a pyrocynical video without like a million breaking bad references love it

For the harpoon from the hideous mass, you can look down and aim two punches from the counter arm with it to break it. An easy way to kill them is to fire a magnet and a saw from sawblade, switch to overheat nailgun, run up to their squishy part, right click once, dead. This is the only reason I still carry overheat nailgun.

Bro mastered the gaming skill tree

Personally I like to use the overheat sawblade with the blue nailgun, since the blue nailgun does extra damage against maurices (sometimes I just don't have the health to get up in their face.... or everything in this case) and the overheat saw is a great for just damaging swordsmachines, cerberi and streetcleaners by making a certain zone yours. Many maps have good spots for placing a magnet and overheat saw to lure enemies in without breaking it with bouncing. If a swordsmachine goes down while being hit by the saw it's basically already dead unless it breaks

In my opinion the best way to deal with fodder and Streetsweepers is pretty cool, slam jump, whiplash the Streetsweeper (if they dodge just try again), then knuckleblast them into the fodder, causing them to explode, giving you a massive style bonus for all the friendly fire bonuses as well as being cool as shit

awesome video!

A counter to the hideous mass hook is when you get by the harpoon, you hit it with the knuckle duster

The nailguns main purpose is increasing your damage by what i'd call 'storing damage'. You shoot the enemy while you shoot the enemy. its not meant to be shot at enemies while you use high-damage combos, but whenever you're not doing those, you put some magnetic ouch (that also refreshes your style meter very effectively!) somewhere - and that's how you maximize your dmg potential.

God bless the algorithm, nice video!

I love how bro just roasted my whole load out

this vid is class

Nailgun is a nice addition for me. Yes shotgun can do a lot of what nailgun can but if I’m a bit out of reach and have no style to back up my whiplash, I leave a magnet on any tanky enemy, do a quick overheat and get back into action. Also it’s great for taking out hideous mass if you have no railgun since the tail is the weak spot and easiest way of dealing a lot of damage there is throw a magnet and shoot few nails with one or two overheats. Overall, nailgun actually needs a rework, maybe faster firing speed to catch up with other damage dealers or at least not staying too much in the screen

My favorite combo is to slam store into the stratosphere, spin around, throw coins, shoot them, and dash while blasting the ground with pro boost, rail cannon, etc

I completely agree with your summation of the Nailgun, but there are a few applications in which it’s better than other weapons in the Cybergrind. You can take out Hideous Masses in under 2 second with the overheat and just blasting his tail (before you say you can do that with Railcoining, yes, you can, but you waste your Railgun shot and 2 coins). If you mess up the Mindflayer instakill, slam-storage your way into the air, Whiplash to her when she teleports, then unload with the overheat Nailgun at point-blank range. Virtues at point-blank are just straight-up super weak to the overheat. Whiplash, point-blank, overheat. Fastest way to kill them with proportion to resource (they are not worth the Railgun shot). I can’t find a good use for the sawblades or magnet so far, though. There’s maybe one good use for the sawblade launcher on this configuration of the stage in which there’s a long, narrow hallway in which you can fire sawblades down and kill a bunch of common enemies really quick, but that’s situational at best. However, I’m always looking for more ways to incorporate it into my play style. This is unconnected to the Nailgun, but a good opening move to the start of a round is slam-storaging your way into the air, looking directly down, toss all of your coins, wait a second for them to sing, then shoot one. It’ll get rid of 5 drones on the higher rounds (not that big, but I find drones annoying) and give you a bit of time to breathe and assess the battlefield at the beginning of the round, since you’ll be above them all. Great tutorial, though. Can definitely imagine this helping out some people who are new to the Cybergrind and maybe giving some more experienced players a bit of extra knowledge

0:24 bro pulled the smoothest transition ever

About the screwdriver railgun variant, yes it is usless in the cybergrind but it is legitimatley super effective on ingame bosses like gabriel.

The algorithm is strong in this one. good things shall come [edit: told ya]

Every time this best youtuber says "sadly rocket launcher has one variant" and etc I pause, inhale, and when say "IT HAS 3 VARIANTS"

Welp, time to find my nearest asylum cause I love using the alternate pistol on the marksman

The Nailgun has one use, with the blue version you can hit a magnet onto the mind flayer and it will stay there even after it teleports. This makes so much easier to hit without even getting close because the nails will go to the mind flayer even after it teleports.

What I sometimes find easier to do is to hold the fire button while shotgun swapping. Then it's only about timing the swap.

Im pretty sure you can hold the variant swap or shoot button so you can shotgun swap even lazier, and its still very fast.

Nailgun users typing their comments faster than the overheat fire rate

14:05 on the cybergrind the screwdriver isn't always optimal but does have some niche uses on the mass and mindflayer. In the standard game the screwdriver is great for bosses like Minos Prime, Gabriel (more so the second one), and the leviathan because being close to a screwdrivered enemy deals blood and regens your hp which is great for bosses you get pretty close to like Minos Prime.

New style ranking for that intro: GODFIST

Can't wait for an update to this when the Cybergrind Update comes out April 27 2023

I stopped worrying about Hideous Masses as much after I started using slam storage to bounce up before using a charged piercer shot + a shot from the electric railgun on it's tail, a couple follow-up shots from the marksman or another piercer shot will usually kill it right after.

Im here on the behalf of the sawblade launcher, the sawblade launcher should be used to override your attractor nailgun. Personally i use it to take out groups of enemies if my core eject nuke is on cooldown, because it makes a big circle of damage plus it adds style meter, it also does critical and fatal damage to enemies like filth and the other 3 peashooter enemies, making them spill more blood, while yes its a much more riskier option for health, it should mostly be used to deal with smaller enemies if you are busy with stuff like the malicious faces or mindflayers.

Saws if placed correctly can basically kill a HiM instantly paired with red arm shotgun to the chest, to leave you able to perform a more costly instakill on the other one

love the pyro august incident reference

6:08 TO BE THE WINGS OF THE FLIGHTLESS RATHER THAN THE BREATHLESS VASTNESS OF THE WORLD

You can punch the hideous mass’s harpoon with the feedbacker or the knuckle blaster by looking down and punching

26:36 btw you can perry the "thing",and if the "think" grab you,you can punch he

11:35 "hold up pause" had me rolling

there is a way to Spam the overheat nail gun, which would be heat storage heat up the overheat nail gun, start the barrage of nail but let it not finish, that can be accomplished by switching to the attractor nail gun or sawblade launcher, a few nails from said gun and then switch back to the overheat and you will see, the heat bar is filled up again do that fast enough and you have heat spam

another tip about slam storage: strafing into the wall while slamming is much easier to preform than juming off it (imo)

I use slab with the marksman, and I'm very much enjoying my stay at this asylum.

I definitely think the nailgun is great at single-target (magnet, fire for a bit, switch, dump an overheat railgun, repeat, railcoin is enough to consistently P-rank the first V2 fight very rapidly!), but needs some way to be more useful outside of single-target situations.