Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Weapons Guide: Best Weapons Ranked

Q: What is new in the map compared to the first two games?

The map is roughly twice the size at about 20.8 square kilometres across 14 districts. Manhattan returns and Brooklyn and Queens are added: Brooklyn splits into Downtown Brooklyn, Williamsburg and Little Odessa, while Queens splits into Astoria and Downtown Queens. The Coney Island stretch and the Brooklyn Bridge are both on the map, and the lower-rise outer boroughs are why Web Wings exist.

Q: Do Peter and Miles share progress?

Partly. City activities, gadgets and the 26-skill shared tree apply to both. The exclusive trees do not: Peter has 19 skills of his own and Miles has 17, and those points come from playing as that character. Switching between them regularly in the open world keeps both trees filling rather than leaving one behind.

Q: How many gadgets are there?

Five. Web Shooters and Upshot are available from the start, then Web Grabber, Concussion Burst and finally Ricochet Web, which takes the longest to unlock. Concussion Burst becomes Sonic Burst later in the campaign when Peter and Miles retune it to disrupt symbiotes. The Web Grabber is generally considered the strongest of the five once Grabtastic and Heave Ho are bought.

Q: What does New Game Plus add?

It carries your progress into a fresh run and converts levelling into Ultimate Levels, each costing 40,000 XP against the 4,000 that regular levels need. Every Ultimate Level unlocks a new suit style, and getting all of them means reaching Ultimate Level 9. Ultimate difficulty also becomes available once the campaign has been finished once.

Q: How does the PC version hold up?

Nixxes handled the port and it launched on 30 January 2025 with ray tracing, DLSS 3 upscaling, ultra-wide support and DualSense features when the controller is wired. It is the same content as the PlayStation 5 release rather than a cut-down version, and the graphics options go well beyond the console presets.

Complete Marvel's Spider-Man 2 weapons guide. Every weapon ranked with stats, best builds, and how to get them.

EarlyGuides Editorial Team

Researched and editorially reviewed. Updated August 12, 2026.

Insomniac's sequel came to PC on 30 January 2025 in a port handled by Nixxes, and it roughly doubles the map of the first two games to about 20.8 square kilometres across 14 districts. Manhattan returns, and Brooklyn and Queens are new, including the Coney Island stretch. You switch between Peter Parker and Miles Morales in the open world, and each has his own skill tree alongside a third tree they share: 19 skills for Peter, 17 for Miles and 26 in the shared tree. Peter's line runs through the mechanical Spider-Arms into the symbiote and out the other side into Anti-Venom, while Miles builds on the bio-electric Venom powers he had in his own game.

Your choice of weapons defines your damage output and playstyle. This guide ranks every major option, explains what makes each one strong, and tells you which builds they pair best with.

Weapons Rankings

Weapon	Tier	Best For	Notes
Web Shooters	S	Webbing enemies to walls, stealth takedown setup, keeping Focus topped up	The default gadget and the one you never unequip.
Upshot	A	Starting air combos and buying breathing room from melee enemies	Fires a volley that suspends enemies in the air, leaving them open to aerial combos.
Web Grabber	A	Crowd control, setting up area abilities, the single best gadget in the game	Fires webbing across a radius and then yanks everything inside it, enemies and throwable objects alike, into a single point.
Concussion Burst	B	Panic clearing when you get surrounded, and disrupting symbiote enemies after the upgrade	Knocks back everything nearby with a concussive blast, and becomes Sonic Burst later in the campaign once Peter and Miles retune it to disrupt symbiotes.
Ricochet Web	B	Webbing scattered enemies who are too spread out for the Web Grabber	The last gadget to unlock.

S-Tier: Web Shooters

The default gadget and the one you never unequip. Increased Capacity adds 4 shots, Splash Zone turns the third shot into an area effect, and Web Burst knocks enemies back at point-blank range. Recycle boosts the Focus you gain from hits, which quietly supports every other build.

Attribute	Detail
Tier	S
Best For	Webbing enemies to walls, stealth takedown setup, keeping Focus topped up
Key Mechanic	Two Spider-Men on one save
Recommended Role	Peter with Spider-Arms

How to get it: Available from mid-game onward. See our walkthrough for the exact progression point.

Best builds using Web Shooters: Pairs naturally with Peter with Spider-Arms thanks to how their stat scaling lines up.

A-Tier: Upshot

Fires a volley that suspends enemies in the air, leaving them open to aerial combos. Heavy Pop Up extends it to Brute-class enemies and Fire Power raises the number of projectiles per volley, so a single use can lift a small group.

Attribute	Detail
Tier	A
Best For	Starting air combos and buying breathing room from melee enemies
Key Mechanic	Parry and Perfect Dodge
Recommended Role	Peter with the symbiote

How to get it: Accessible in the early-to-mid game. Check our maps guide for the location.

Best builds using Upshot: Pairs naturally with Peter with the symbiote thanks to how their stat scaling lines up.

A-Tier: Web Grabber

Fires webbing across a radius and then yanks everything inside it, enemies and throwable objects alike, into a single point. Grabtastic raises the capacity from 4 to 6, Heave Ho adds Brutes, and Remix electrifies the objects it deploys.

Attribute	Detail
Tier	A
Best For	Crowd control, setting up area abilities, the single best gadget in the game
Key Mechanic	Three skill trees
Recommended Role	Peter with Anti-Venom

How to get it: Accessible in the early-to-mid game. Check our maps guide for the location.

Best builds using Web Grabber: Pairs naturally with Peter with Anti-Venom thanks to how their stat scaling lines up.

B-Tier: Concussion Burst

Knocks back everything nearby with a concussive blast, and becomes Sonic Burst later in the campaign once Peter and Miles retune it to disrupt symbiotes. Burst Disarm makes enemies drop weapons and Shockwave widens the radius.

Attribute	Detail
Tier	B
Best For	Panic clearing when you get surrounded, and disrupting symbiote enemies after the upgrade
Key Mechanic	Symbiote Surge and Mega Venom Blast
Recommended Role	Miles Venom powers

How to get it: Found in later areas. Our walkthrough covers when you can access this.

Best builds using Concussion Burst: Pairs naturally with Miles Venom powers thanks to how their stat scaling lines up.

B-Tier: Ricochet Web

The last gadget to unlock. It fires a projectile that bounces between enemies and webs each one it touches. Increased Potency adds bounces and Split Shot divides the projectile on ricochet, which turns one shot into a webbed group.

Attribute	Detail
Tier	B
Best For	Webbing scattered enemies who are too spread out for the Web Grabber
Key Mechanic	Web Wings and wind tunnels
Recommended Role	Shared tree generalist

How to get it: Found in later areas. Our walkthrough covers when you can access this.

Best builds using Ricochet Web: Pairs naturally with Shared tree generalist thanks to how their stat scaling lines up.

Weapons Progression Path

The order you should acquire weapons as you progress:

Starting gear → Enough to clear Astoria
Upshot → Your first real upgrade, available early
Web Grabber → Mid-game upgrade with good scaling
Web Shooters → Best-in-slot, aim for this by late game
Upgrade to max → The power spike from max upgrades is enormous

Weapons Tips

Always upgrade your primary weapon before diversifying. One strong option beats three mediocre ones.
Match your weapons to your build's stat priorities for maximum scaling.
Learn the flash colours before anything else. Blue means dodge, yellow means parry and cannot be dodged at all. Coming from the 2018 game with dodge muscle memory is the single most common reason Kraven's Hunters feel unfair.
Check our tier list for how weapons rankings affect overall build effectiveness.

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