I got some tips for style. Every time u do something to increase style it gains some "fatigue" so the more u use it the less style it will increase, the only ways of removing this is either waiting or changing to another technique, the latter can include: Taunting, dashing near enemy projectiles, shooting, changing weapons and using the newly selected weapon for a while and I think reflecting a big projectile or getting reflect kills works too. Another thing about fatigue is that the less u use a different technique the less fatigue goes away... Okay u need an example lol, lets say ur shooting with pistols and you get full fatigue, then u change to white and if u shoot too little and change back to pistols there won't be much of a difference in style increase, but if you shoot more with white the pistols' fatigue will be reset.
And another tip would be that using slow motion when u taunt it makes taunting a lot safer since enemy projectiles make it only halfway than normal.

lol, i dont think anything beats S rank white.

anyways thanks for the guide, i just wanted the classic rocket launcher so i did a whole run of mostly it. i was surprisingly pleased with it though.

you did a arcade run on hard??? wow.... ill check it out

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Also, considering that I did a SSS Hard Arcade run once, which I luckily recorded as it was on the old leaderboards , and never really used a rocket launcher probably means something as well--

TL;DR: Might work, but it's probably not the easiest or safest strategy for this matter, even more so as time isn't the most difficult aspect of it.

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@Ithurtwhen_ipee I'll be perfectly honest, you probably have a point (even though I don't actually think that the rocket launcher is a massive damage increase over pistols and definitely weaker than S-Rank White), this is a guide for how to easily get SSS-Ranks. Additionally, time matters little as the pace required to actually get an S on Time is relatively lenient.

Aiming with the rocket launcher at a moving enemy (which most Bosses aren't actually, now that I'm thinking about this), definitely doesn't match the description of that. Even against Valentine's attacks, where she is either alone (more DPS from White, possibly Laser Rifle) or her minions are very spread out (making taking out more than 1 per shot harder, especially on Easy when there are less IIRC).

@Dplay i feel it does, im sure its to compensate for the fact it has a travel time. like the old revolver in bleed 1 and more. its dps is arguably the same, or less than defaults because of the travel time.

against Valentine though, no matter what fight shes in, rockets are better against all her attacks, switch to katana something when needed to reflect bullets.

not just agianst her either, rockets absolutely demolish all bosses that are hit by the aoe and are slow or immobile. thats been my experience doing just an almost full rocket run a few days ago.

@Ithurtwhen_ipee I'll be perfectly honest, the rocket launcher seems to deal a little more damage than just using the pistols, however using the pistols is probably still safer . Also, during her last phase, yes, just keeping on shooting her with rockets works, she however takes way more damage once the shield is actually down (which only happens once her stun animation end). You can swap to the rocket launcher when she becoms invulnerable again; this should break the shield again before she can launch any more attacks.

yeah the first phase of guppies and more all die to the large hit box of rockets. she also gets stunned if you just keep the rockets on her, though idk if its more effective to let the shield break or not.

tbh, the rocket absolutely demolishes valentine in everything but her quick aimed lasers.

@ANGERY that's actually a good tip! I'll add that.

During phase 1 of Valentine, you can easily avert the fly attack with the katana due to its large hit radius.