Ratchet & Clank: The 15 Wildest Weapons In The Series, Ranked

We take a peek at some of the weirdest weapons to have ever been featured in the Ratchet & Clank franchise.

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When it comes to talking about the most over-the-top weaponry featured in video games, it’s only a matter of time before Ratchet & Clank takes center stage in this conversation due to its vast array of weapons, most of which are perfectly absurd in the best of ways.

Today, we’ll go over some of the weirdest, wildest, or outright strangest weapons to have ever been featured over the breadth of the series. Most of them end up being quite a blast to use — quite literally at times!

Updated on June 17, 2021 by Ritwik Mitra: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart has released on the PS5, with fans salivating at the opportunity to finally get their hands on the latest entry in the beloved series. Players are now witnessing firsthand just how well this ambitious game is showcasing the generational leap in power from the PS4 to the PS5. Thankfully, that’s not the only thing that Rift Apart does — the game has also contributed to the franchise’s legacy of including some hysterical, terrifying, and wild weapons.

15 Blackhole Storm

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is easily one of the best games in the entire series, and it’s rather fitting that this landmark title also features a new and powerful weapon that will fit right at home with fans of the wacky series.

The Blackhole Storm is a powerful gatling gun that can decimate any foe in Ratchet’s path… provided he doesn’t waste too much time when charging the gun’s spin and preventing it from overheating.

A major reason why the Blackhole Storm makes this list is that upgrading it allows the weapon to straight-up explode enemies after they’re peppered with enough shots.

14 Topiary Sprinkler

The idea of a weapon that shoots out mini-sprinkler turrets is an idea that could’ve only taken root in Ratchet & Clank, and a weapon like this appears in Rift Apart to add to Ratcher and Rivet’s bizarre expanding arsenal.

The Topiary Sprinkler is easily one of the wackiest weapons in Rift Apart. It allows players to plant turrets that spray water onto enemies, turning them into foliage that can be blown up to cause area-of-effect damage. It’s an extremely unique weapon that feels right at home in the Ratchet & Clank series.

13 Tornado Launcher

The Tornado Launcher is a weapon that arrived in the Ratchet & Clank series with the release of Ratchet & Clank: Tools For Destruction and re-appeared in several other games in the franchise. Tornadoes are a natural disaster that most people overlook until they’re directly affected.

Luckily (or unluckily) for enemies in Ratchet & Clank, they had a first-hand account of just how destructive a weapon that shot tornado-generating discs can be.

12 Bouncer

Anyone afraid of spiders will say that their fear of stepping on a spider is it being pregnant and the force of the smash birthing hundreds of spiders. In Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, there was a gun that did exactly this… except, instead of spiders, it used bombs instead.

The Bouncer would shoot a rather large bomb and upon explosion, it would turn into smaller bombs called bomblets. With a rather slow rate of fire, it can make the user compromised in a firefight, but the cluster of explosions can be used rather effectively.

11 Rift Inducer

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal was a rather aggressively cheeky title for a game, but it ended up being a solid entry in the beloved series. A gun manufactured in the game by Gadgetron that’s rather wild is the Rift Inducer.

It fires a small black hole that sucks up any nearby enemies and kills them almost instantaneously. It’s one thing to be shot and bleed to death, but another thing entirely to be sucked into the cold depths of space only to be consumed by nothingness in the blink of an eye.

10 Sheepinator

The Sheepinator is easily one of the goofiest yet most enjoyable weapons that players can use in Ratchet & Clank, largely due to the fact that this weapon turns full-blown enemies into meek sheep! This Sheepinator can also be upgraded to turn it into a Black Sheepinator, turning enemies into black sheep that explode after some time.

There are various weapons present in the Ratchet & Clank series that morph enemies into something different, but the Sheepinator stands out in this regard due to its hilarious morphing ability — it never fails to elicit a guffaw whenever it’s used.

9 R.Y.N.O.

Outside of the OmniWrench, many fans would consider the Rip Ya A New One or R.Y.N.O. for short to be one of the more iconic weapons in the franchise. It’s seen many different forms and iterations over the years and is commonly recurring throughout the series.

It’s a missile launcher, that when fired targets specific enemies on the battlefield. Unlike normal missile launchers, it has the ability to shoot up to nine missiles per fire. It is best known for having a high range and a medium rate of fire.

8 OmniWrench

Speaking of the OmniWrench, it would be remiss to not talk about the most iconic weapons in Ratchet & Clank without paying homage to this iconic melee weapon.

The OmniWrench has seen various minor variations throughout the series, but its reliability in a pinch has always remained constant no matter what. Long-time fans of the series will always have a blast as they whack enemies with this iconic futuristic wrench.

7 Bee Mine Glove

Humans as a species have a lot of natural fears that came about over the course of time and evolution. They were instilled with these fears as a biological mechanism to protect themselves and survive. This is why a weapon like the Bee Mine Glove seems like something inhumane in a real-world context.

It made its mark in Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters and unveiled its ability when fired to launch a swarm of bees at the enemy. These bees are not only robotic, but they also happen to explode on contact.

6 Pixelizer

Some of the weapons on this list are wild due to how violent or scary they are, but the Pixelizer made the list due to how out there it is. This gun turns whatever it hits into 2-dimensional pixel images and when the enemy is killed they shatter into a collection of pixel blocks.

This is meant to invoke old-school video games and the weapon made its series debut in the most recent Ratchet & Clank entry, the 2016 re-imagining that launched alongside a feature animated film featuring the titular characters from the video game franchise.

5 Seeker Gun

In Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando a weapon manufactured by Megacorp that shot seeker missiles was capable of being used by Ratchet. The gun was named the Seeker Gun due to the missiles it shot being capable of locking on to the first target it comes in range of and launching itself into them at full velocity.

In a real-world context, it’s rather terrifying to think about a weapon that can be fired with no direct target, that can simply seek out something or someone worthy of blowing up without a second thought.

4 Disc Blade Gun

Ratchet & Clank has always done a good job at feeling somewhat family-friendly due to the inherent wackiness of the violence in the games. One thing that’s hard to make feel as though it’s intended for children is the disc blade gun.

Appearing in Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal this gun, when upgraded, shot up to 16 metal discs when that were pointed and sharp on all sides. The sight of a cute furry mascot character shooting metal blades at enemies is almost as bold as the name of the game that featured the gun.

3 Groovitron

The Groovitron is one of the most unique weapons in the entire game, fulfilling the rather helpful task of distracting enemies… albeit in a unique manner that only Ratchet & Clank would be able to pull off with such finesse.

Using the Groovitron forces any enemy within its range to stop whatever they’re doing and start dancing to the beat of the music, allowing players to take their sweet time as they fire potshots at their helpless foes. It’s easily one of the most unique and powerful weapons in the entire series, though it might not damage enemies directly.

2 Glove Of Doom

Ratchet is a pretty effective fighter, but allowing him to wield the power of a god is incredible. The Agents of Doom happen to be these small kamikaze robots that are shot out of a weapon known as the Glove of Doom.

This weapon was in the original Ratchet & Clank and even made a re-appearance in the 2016 re-imagining of the classic tale. The tiny agents will run straight towards enemies and explode, which all happens shortly after they hatch from the DoomEggs that the glove shoots out containing the tiny explosive warriors.

1 Mr. Zurkon

Mr. Zurkon is a weapon that first made its debut as a device in Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction, before being a fully-fledged weapon in Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time. The weapon itself is a synthenoid robot that can be deployed by Ratchet while in combat.

While its laser-based firing attack is pretty run-of-the-mill, it happens to spit out sadistic jokes and one-liners at the expense of the enemies. This means that Ratchet is defeating these enemies while they’re feeling at their absolute lowest.

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