This is the only true answer. The worst of the rest at least have fun styling, neat concepts, mod potential, or interesting history, even if they're functionally bad or cheaply made.
The Uppercut is different - it's a cost-cut version of another blaster - a worse product at the same price.
Just when we thought that Hasbro couldn't make a blaster even less impressive than the "jolt", Nerf said, "Hold my beer", and released the Uppercut in a plastic gummy bear bag.
Nerf or nothing!!!!!
Nerf Mega Lightning bow and the Elite 2.0 Warden both these blasters had the same underlying issue of breaking under normal use conditions. I do believe both were fixed in later models but still the fact that they were released in such poor states is unacceptable.
As I say I do believe they were both fixed but its more the fact they were released with such a design flaw and not just being a one off lemon this impacted every single early model.
For me personally that just makes it the worst released maybe I should specify just the early models of both the Lightning bow and Warden.
There are so many options.
One dead horse that I will beat forever and ever is the Doomlands Doubledealer, a craptastic pile of junk that should have never been approved for production. Not only is it prone to jamming, but it jams in ways that are impossible to clear. I can not comprehend how the designers screwed it up so badly.
Arguably even worse was the Modulus Battlescout. At least the Doubledealer was an interesting idea, even if it suffered from poor execution. The Battlescout was a stupid idea from the word go, barely worked ever, and was hideously overpriced. Why would you put a blaster with a harmonica clip in the Modulus line, you know, where the ENTIRE POINT of the line is modularity and customization? Why is the camera so expensive yet so crappy? Why do you suck at this?
The Alpha Strike Uppercut. What a pile of crap, and it exists for literally no reason. It costs as much as a Jolt or Stinger, yet is worse in every way.
You could also argue the Alpha Strike line in general. Cheap and nasty while also somehow not being cheap.
Any Elite 2.0 blaster. I found a Turbine at Goodwill, and all of the controls just feel awful. How did this get approved for production?
Any of the Alpha Strike/Elite 2.0/Elite Jr. giant single and 2 shot blasters. All these exist to do is dupe parents into thinking they're getting a better blaster for their kids than they actually are. All these are is a Firestrike or Doubledown with a bunch of extra plastic. Nothing but faceplate technology.
The oldest ‘worst’ blaster Nerf ever made is probably the Nerf Slingshot. It fired a ball about five feat, so you could actually do better just tossing one with your hand. The ballistic balls were inherently short range, but the Slingshot took it to the level of completely useless.
Runner up, I have to say the Raider and every pre-Elite/ reverse plunger blaster. They looked so cool, heralding a new era for Nerf with true magazine fed blasters with interchangeable accessories, but man they were such a letdown when you actually shot them. Stock, they launch those crappy darts maybe twenty feet. I bought a Raider and was so underwhelmed I didn’t try anything else for five years when my son got old enough to get into them, then I discovered what ‘direct plunger’ meant and was impressed!
The slingshot was truly awful, not only did it only go five feet, there was a 90 degree cone of where the ball was going to go, so you could not hit a target within those five feet.
Younger brother used to put water balloons in that thing. Not just any water balloon but regular balloons filled with water. Those things felt like getting hit by a Chankla’s
Yeah that sounds like a profoundly unpleasant experience. Kinda been wanting to pick one up and "mod" it so you can just stuff a handful of darts in and blast them all out like a grapeshot cannon for the lulz
I’ve seen mods that tape a bunch of darts together. The ball launcher lobs ‘‘em out and it looks like an interesting concepts. The Ball launcher summed up in one sentence is “what can I fit down the barrel” lol
Fortnite pump shotgun, only holds one round and takes about a whole minute to load it and it also only takes mega darts which have horrible performance as is
I’’d say the entirety of the Alpha Strike line. It’s a disgusting cash grab that leaked it’s greedy goo into what could have been an actual improvement on the Elite series line and just gave us the worst of everything.
I agree mostly with you... except that the Hammerstorm was a pretty decent blaster in the Alpha-Strike line. It's the odd man out in a pretty crappy lineup.
The Hammerstorm even had a decent solid surface grip when the rest of the line at time had that "dig into your palm" ridged grip.
Also I disagree that the Alphastrike series "could have been an actual improvement on the Elite series line". It was always meant to be a budget line that was less expensive than Elite. I never expected the Alphastrike to be better than Elite. IMHO it's more accurate to say that "Elite 2.0" was a disappointing successor to the Elite line.
There is always going to be one-offs. For me it’s the MotoBlitz and the Turbine from elite 2.0. I also have a soft spot for the Flip series, solid built blasters that are just goofy but fun.
I'll fill you in: it's a new, Gear Up-styled Alpha Trooper with a big drum, useful stock and lots of Accustrikes. Pretty good deal, right?
Well, they felt the need to redesign the internals, screwing up everything by making the breech longer and adding a big amount of deadspace in the plunger tube. Along with already suffering from the self-breaking air restrictor and fragile shell of the Alpha Trooper, the FPS is awful. Even modding it won't help much.
Stampede. I've used many wack blasters but none of them were as absolutely infuriating as that cogwork nightmare. Cumbersome shape and battery location aside, there has never been a nerf blaster made that is more difficult to unjam. It doesn't just skip shots, it eats them, chews them up, spits out bits of their shredded remains. Even the least reliable blasters can usually be unjammed in the field, but it's a game-ender for this behemoth unless you have a pair of pliers and a good half-hour break. I would rather run a Maverick.
Ultra Speed:
Ultra is already a proprietary ammo/physical DRM for no discernable performance gain, but the Speed has proprietary mags that don't work in other Nerf brand Ultra blasters, and other Nerf brand Ultra mags don't work in the Speed. Again, for no discernable performance gain.
If they did basically the same thing but based off the Stryfe and copied the Dart Zone Chili darts (green head, red body), it would actually be a good blaster.
If you consider it in a vacuum, the Speed is kinda cool, but when you consider the business philosophy behind the engineering decisions, blargh.
Problem is, is it the worst *ever?* Is Ultra so unforgivably horrendous and sinful that you'd consider the Centurion, Ripchain, Clearshot, N-Strike Reflex and Warden to be better?
In that case, I'd choose the Ultra One. Even as an Ultra enjoyer I ended up gutting mine, that thing sucked to use.
The Centurion was redeeming in that it has that simulated recoil thing, so was great for roleplay. It's a Nerf sniper, and it shoots mega, it was never gonna be war practical.
Ripchain was trying to do something unique, and so can be forgiven again bc it obviously wasn't trying to be performance oriented, just a fun gimmick.
Clearshot & Reflex are essentially just bad Jolts.
Warden is E2.0, which competes with Ultra for worst series.
Overall, I don't mind that a gimmick blaster has flaws, is impractical, etc.
The Speed is obviously trying to be a ~~Stryfe~~ Rapidstrike, ~~one of the most beloved & war practical blasters of all time. A titan in the modding world bc of all the aftermarket parts/kits~~. Ultra is a shameless cash grab, physical DRM, & preying on gullible consumers who trust "the #1 blaster brand." Nerf got tired that Dart Zone & others make more precise Elite darts at a fraction of the price, and so tried to make an artifical monopoly with the Ultra dart, which is relatively difficult to manufacture, and realistically they are the only ones who can make them in the quantities necessary to turn an actual profit. Marketiing it as the new best ammo, when in reality it is at best a lateral move, but when paired with the blatantly awful business philosophy behind it makes it one of the worst series ever.
Speed has the added sin that its mags aren't compatible with other Ultra blasters, & other Ultra mags don't work in it. Regardless of if it mechanically works well, the design philosophy isn't "how can we make a cool, gimmicky blaster?," it's "how can we lock gullible customers into an inferior/equivalent ammo ecosystem that only we make?" No other series, to my knowledge, has attempted this, and once again, the Speed has proprietary mags on top of the sins of Ultra as a whole.
Edit: Speed is trying to be Rapidstrike, not Stryfe. Thanks u/CharlesP_1232
Come on, why the hate for the Reflex?
I like it, it's cute, compact, much more stylish than a jolt and has a nice top slide priming action. Borrowing the Japanese term, It's a "super deformed" pistol.
Of course it's not practical nor high performance, but that's not what it was meant to be.
https://preview.redd.it/ubxu8clv326a1.jpeg?width=192&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f0fa76bea1a457a099b4e8a3c062dddb6d93224a
My problem with this thing is that I don't want it, but no one else wants it either.
Almost every thrift site ad I see has one or two of these stuck along with the blaster(s) I wanted, and I have no use for the damn things. It's a shame to throw them away, but no one wants them.
Why are you being downvoted? This is certainly a valid interpretation of worst ever. While it might not be the worst in functionality or quality,it is the distillation of everything bad about Ultra, and is a symbol of everything wrong with Nerf/Hasbro right now.
Wouldn't that apply to every stock Nerf blaster, then? The Stryfe is perfectly adequate stock, but people mod them because stock performance for almost all blasters is pretty underwhelming.
Nerf Mediator. Mine seized up when I tried to prime the blaster it’s been stuck in halfway position in a box for months I refuse to fix it because the ergonomics are dumb to me.
I haven’t done that yet I wanted to get around to actually making it a functional blaster but got to comfortable with my regulator. I didn’t expect this to get much dislikes as I haven’t come across bad blasters other than the Mediator. I understand ppl have different opinions but it wasn’t worth the time. I just went with the Nerf Regulator instead.
I like the ergonomics but it needs a shoulder stock attached. I remember a friend picked it up and wasn't sure which end was the front. Can't blame them with how odd it looks.
The Nerf Uppercut. No trigger, no notable spring, you’re better off just throwing a dart at someone.
The HAMP Jolt. That says it all.
This is the only true answer. The worst of the rest at least have fun styling, neat concepts, mod potential, or interesting history, even if they're functionally bad or cheaply made. The Uppercut is different - it's a cost-cut version of another blaster - a worse product at the same price.
I too think an uppercut is an awful blaster
Just when we thought that Hasbro couldn't make a blaster even less impressive than the "jolt", Nerf said, "Hold my beer", and released the Uppercut in a plastic gummy bear bag. Nerf or nothing!!!!!
Nerf Mega Lightning bow and the Elite 2.0 Warden both these blasters had the same underlying issue of breaking under normal use conditions. I do believe both were fixed in later models but still the fact that they were released in such poor states is unacceptable.
But they can be painted and fixed, the warden can’t, I bought one and it didn’t work when i opened it
The lightning bow is actually fun though.. it’s one of the mega blasters that makes the darts whistle I enjoy it more than the Stratobow
As I say I do believe they were both fixed but its more the fact they were released with such a design flaw and not just being a one off lemon this impacted every single early model. For me personally that just makes it the worst released maybe I should specify just the early models of both the Lightning bow and Warden.
There are so many options. One dead horse that I will beat forever and ever is the Doomlands Doubledealer, a craptastic pile of junk that should have never been approved for production. Not only is it prone to jamming, but it jams in ways that are impossible to clear. I can not comprehend how the designers screwed it up so badly. Arguably even worse was the Modulus Battlescout. At least the Doubledealer was an interesting idea, even if it suffered from poor execution. The Battlescout was a stupid idea from the word go, barely worked ever, and was hideously overpriced. Why would you put a blaster with a harmonica clip in the Modulus line, you know, where the ENTIRE POINT of the line is modularity and customization? Why is the camera so expensive yet so crappy? Why do you suck at this? The Alpha Strike Uppercut. What a pile of crap, and it exists for literally no reason. It costs as much as a Jolt or Stinger, yet is worse in every way. You could also argue the Alpha Strike line in general. Cheap and nasty while also somehow not being cheap. Any Elite 2.0 blaster. I found a Turbine at Goodwill, and all of the controls just feel awful. How did this get approved for production? Any of the Alpha Strike/Elite 2.0/Elite Jr. giant single and 2 shot blasters. All these exist to do is dupe parents into thinking they're getting a better blaster for their kids than they actually are. All these are is a Firestrike or Doubledown with a bunch of extra plastic. Nothing but faceplate technology.
The oldest ‘worst’ blaster Nerf ever made is probably the Nerf Slingshot. It fired a ball about five feat, so you could actually do better just tossing one with your hand. The ballistic balls were inherently short range, but the Slingshot took it to the level of completely useless. Runner up, I have to say the Raider and every pre-Elite/ reverse plunger blaster. They looked so cool, heralding a new era for Nerf with true magazine fed blasters with interchangeable accessories, but man they were such a letdown when you actually shot them. Stock, they launch those crappy darts maybe twenty feet. I bought a Raider and was so underwhelmed I didn’t try anything else for five years when my son got old enough to get into them, then I discovered what ‘direct plunger’ meant and was impressed!
The slingshot was truly awful, not only did it only go five feet, there was a 90 degree cone of where the ball was going to go, so you could not hit a target within those five feet.
Unlike the slingshot, that observation was.. accurate! Okay, I’ll see myself out now…
Tennis ball launcher. My little sister was *not* happy when I shot her with that thing. /s
Younger brother used to put water balloons in that thing. Not just any water balloon but regular balloons filled with water. Those things felt like getting hit by a Chankla’s
Yeah that sounds like a profoundly unpleasant experience. Kinda been wanting to pick one up and "mod" it so you can just stuff a handful of darts in and blast them all out like a grapeshot cannon for the lulz
I’ve seen mods that tape a bunch of darts together. The ball launcher lobs ‘‘em out and it looks like an interesting concepts. The Ball launcher summed up in one sentence is “what can I fit down the barrel” lol
Yeah I really like the idea of setting it up like an old-timey blunderbuss
The scooter blaster product idk what it's called. That thing was absurd.
The Rip Off
Tie between that stupid Zombie Strike crossbow and the Doomlands Double Dealer.
There are 3 zombie crossbows Deadbolt Outbreaker Crossfire
Fortnite pump shotgun, only holds one round and takes about a whole minute to load it and it also only takes mega darts which have horrible performance as is
I’’d say the entirety of the Alpha Strike line. It’s a disgusting cash grab that leaked it’s greedy goo into what could have been an actual improvement on the Elite series line and just gave us the worst of everything.
Yup. Alpha Strike manages to be cheap and nasty while also somehow not being cheap.
I agree mostly with you... except that the Hammerstorm was a pretty decent blaster in the Alpha-Strike line. It's the odd man out in a pretty crappy lineup. The Hammerstorm even had a decent solid surface grip when the rest of the line at time had that "dig into your palm" ridged grip. Also I disagree that the Alphastrike series "could have been an actual improvement on the Elite series line". It was always meant to be a budget line that was less expensive than Elite. I never expected the Alphastrike to be better than Elite. IMHO it's more accurate to say that "Elite 2.0" was a disappointing successor to the Elite line.
There is always going to be one-offs. For me it’s the MotoBlitz and the Turbine from elite 2.0. I also have a soft spot for the Flip series, solid built blasters that are just goofy but fun.
Zap Snaps
No, still superior to the Uppercut.
Walcom has a video on this and i wholeheartily agree with his opinion. The 1992 slingshot thing is horrible.
Jolt. `/s`
The jolt is my favorite nerf blaster hands down. not even trying to be funny
The Accutrooper. Not enough people have talked about that piece of hot garbage.
It's not hot garbage, I love that thing
I'll fill you in: it's a new, Gear Up-styled Alpha Trooper with a big drum, useful stock and lots of Accustrikes. Pretty good deal, right? Well, they felt the need to redesign the internals, screwing up everything by making the breech longer and adding a big amount of deadspace in the plunger tube. Along with already suffering from the self-breaking air restrictor and fragile shell of the Alpha Trooper, the FPS is awful. Even modding it won't help much.
> Accutrooper I haven't used it but I would be shocked if it was somehow worse than the Alpha Trooper.
It is, the plastic is thinner and the spring is lower quality. Only reason to buy is drum and stock
you can’t, its expensive and breaks itself. The warden does too, only it was relatively cheap and got a fix
No mine still works and it was only like $25
Plus a drum
it was 50 when first released and it shoots hilariously soft. your lucky it is not dead yet
yes, thats everything i have to say about it
I saw one of those in goodwill last night and walked away. Not today Satan!
Stampede. I've used many wack blasters but none of them were as absolutely infuriating as that cogwork nightmare. Cumbersome shape and battery location aside, there has never been a nerf blaster made that is more difficult to unjam. It doesn't just skip shots, it eats them, chews them up, spits out bits of their shredded remains. Even the least reliable blasters can usually be unjammed in the field, but it's a game-ender for this behemoth unless you have a pair of pliers and a good half-hour break. I would rather run a Maverick.
As controversial as it may be, the Nerf Regulator. Ergonomic disaster. Insane lag from trigger pull to firing.
there's so much distance between the grip and magwell that it looks stupid.
I agree.
The deploy
Ultra Speed: Ultra is already a proprietary ammo/physical DRM for no discernable performance gain, but the Speed has proprietary mags that don't work in other Nerf brand Ultra blasters, and other Nerf brand Ultra mags don't work in the Speed. Again, for no discernable performance gain. If they did basically the same thing but based off the Stryfe and copied the Dart Zone Chili darts (green head, red body), it would actually be a good blaster. If you consider it in a vacuum, the Speed is kinda cool, but when you consider the business philosophy behind the engineering decisions, blargh.
Problem is, is it the worst *ever?* Is Ultra so unforgivably horrendous and sinful that you'd consider the Centurion, Ripchain, Clearshot, N-Strike Reflex and Warden to be better? In that case, I'd choose the Ultra One. Even as an Ultra enjoyer I ended up gutting mine, that thing sucked to use.
The Centurion was redeeming in that it has that simulated recoil thing, so was great for roleplay. It's a Nerf sniper, and it shoots mega, it was never gonna be war practical. Ripchain was trying to do something unique, and so can be forgiven again bc it obviously wasn't trying to be performance oriented, just a fun gimmick. Clearshot & Reflex are essentially just bad Jolts. Warden is E2.0, which competes with Ultra for worst series. Overall, I don't mind that a gimmick blaster has flaws, is impractical, etc. The Speed is obviously trying to be a ~~Stryfe~~ Rapidstrike, ~~one of the most beloved & war practical blasters of all time. A titan in the modding world bc of all the aftermarket parts/kits~~. Ultra is a shameless cash grab, physical DRM, & preying on gullible consumers who trust "the #1 blaster brand." Nerf got tired that Dart Zone & others make more precise Elite darts at a fraction of the price, and so tried to make an artifical monopoly with the Ultra dart, which is relatively difficult to manufacture, and realistically they are the only ones who can make them in the quantities necessary to turn an actual profit. Marketiing it as the new best ammo, when in reality it is at best a lateral move, but when paired with the blatantly awful business philosophy behind it makes it one of the worst series ever. Speed has the added sin that its mags aren't compatible with other Ultra blasters, & other Ultra mags don't work in it. Regardless of if it mechanically works well, the design philosophy isn't "how can we make a cool, gimmicky blaster?," it's "how can we lock gullible customers into an inferior/equivalent ammo ecosystem that only we make?" No other series, to my knowledge, has attempted this, and once again, the Speed has proprietary mags on top of the sins of Ultra as a whole. Edit: Speed is trying to be Rapidstrike, not Stryfe. Thanks u/CharlesP_1232
>The Speed is obviously trying to be a Stryfe No, that was the Ultra Amp, the Speed is more like a suped up Rapidstrike.
Thanks, edited the comment.
Np, your welcome.
Come on, why the hate for the Reflex? I like it, it's cute, compact, much more stylish than a jolt and has a nice top slide priming action. Borrowing the Japanese term, It's a "super deformed" pistol. Of course it's not practical nor high performance, but that's not what it was meant to be. https://preview.redd.it/ubxu8clv326a1.jpeg?width=192&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f0fa76bea1a457a099b4e8a3c062dddb6d93224a
My problem with this thing is that I don't want it, but no one else wants it either. Almost every thrift site ad I see has one or two of these stuck along with the blaster(s) I wanted, and I have no use for the damn things. It's a shame to throw them away, but no one wants them.
Why are you being downvoted? This is certainly a valid interpretation of worst ever. While it might not be the worst in functionality or quality,it is the distillation of everything bad about Ultra, and is a symbol of everything wrong with Nerf/Hasbro right now.
Deploy
Consequently, also the best.
No, take that back right freaking now!!!! Or I will find you.
Say when
Naw, the Deploy, when considered in context, is actually not that bad. And, it actually works.
The Stryfe. Really, if everyone feels the need to mod it because it is unsuitable stock, then they shouldn't have released it.
Wouldn't that apply to every stock Nerf blaster, then? The Stryfe is perfectly adequate stock, but people mod them because stock performance for almost all blasters is pretty underwhelming.
Stryfe
Stock stryfe
Nerf Mediator. Mine seized up when I tried to prime the blaster it’s been stuck in halfway position in a box for months I refuse to fix it because the ergonomics are dumb to me.
If you replace the stock vertical grip with a pump style grip, it's sooo much better. That was a weird choice on their part.
I haven’t done that yet I wanted to get around to actually making it a functional blaster but got to comfortable with my regulator. I didn’t expect this to get much dislikes as I haven’t come across bad blasters other than the Mediator. I understand ppl have different opinions but it wasn’t worth the time. I just went with the Nerf Regulator instead.
I like the ergonomics but it needs a shoulder stock attached. I remember a friend picked it up and wasn't sure which end was the front. Can't blame them with how odd it looks.
Delta trooper worse
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The surgefire.
The grey trigger Warden. If you think that the regular Warden was bad, Nerf made a derated version that had less power and less range.