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Super Battle Golf
An online 1-8 player golf game where everyone plays at the same time. Swing, shoot, sabotage, and finish first by any means necessary in a free-for-all rush to…
Super Battle Golf looks like a party game about goofy putts and silly costumes, but the items turn it into a low-key arena brawler. The fastest route to a win is not always the cleanest line to the cup. It is the moment you knock the lobby’s score leader flat with a rocket right as they start their backswing, then calmly chip in while they stare at the respawn timer.
After a bunch of lobbies with friends and randoms, certain items kept deciding rounds over and over. Not just because they are strong on paper, but because they are easy to use, show up often enough to matter, and fit the chaos of eight people sprinting between bunkers and explosions. That is the lens for this tier list: actual influence on the average match, not theoretical damage numbers.
S-tier items are the ones that feel borderline unfair in the current build if you use them half-competently. A-tier tools are strong and very playable, but either more situational or easier to waste. B-tier items are niche or clunky, yet still capable of disgusting highlight-reel moments when your timing is on point. Every item has a job, but some make that job a lot easier.
This list sticks to the core offensive and mobility tools you actually see in live lobbies right now, ranked by how often they swing a hole in your favour. Expect it to age the moment a balance patch lands, but that is part of the fun with a game this chaotic.
The Rocket Launcher is the item that made me realise Super Battle Golf is absolutely not about playing nice. The first time it locked on and deleted my approach mid-charge, I stopped thinking about wind and club choice and started thinking about target priority. It fires a homing missile that tracks a player, detonates on impact, and leaves them stunned long enough for you to line up a free shot. You do not need great aim or positioning, just a rough line of sight and basic awareness.
What pushes Rocket Launcher into S-tier is how forgiving it is. In the mess of carts, jumps and bunkers, manually aimed projectiles are easy to whiff. Here, the auto-aim does the heavy lifting, and the travel time is short enough that players often cannot react, especially when they are tunnel visioning on their power bar. The stun window is generous, so even if you are not the most confident player mechanically, you still get a clear opening to advance your ball or finish the hole.
In practice, Rocket Launcher warps the flow of the round. Whoever is in the lead becomes a glowing bullseye, and you can delay their progress on demand. It punishes greedy long charges, punishes players who park perfectly by the cup, and even acts as a defensive peel when someone in a cart barrels toward you. It is not subtle, but it appears often enough and is so easy to convert into value that it sits comfortably at the top of the meta.
Spring Boots are the item that made me stop walking like a normal golfer. The first time I chain-jumped over a bunker, cleared a water hazard, and landed right next to my ball while everyone else slogged around the edge, it felt like turning on noclip. You tap the item, get a big forward leap, and suddenly terrain that normally costs precious seconds turns into a shortcut. In a game where your ball, your body, and incoming projectiles are all racing each other, that time swing is enormous.
The strength of Spring Boots is how consistently useful they are. Most items in Super Battle Golf are reactive: you wait for someone to line up a shot, or wander into a trap, or bunch up in a choke point. Movement, on the other hand, is always relevant. Every hole, every layout, every lobby becomes easier when you can reposition faster, reach your lie before the crowd, or shortcut back to the tee after a disastrous shot. There is no learning curve beyond basic spacing, so you get value from the first use.
Spring Boots also stack beautifully with map knowledge. Once you know which hills you can crest and which hazards you can clear, you start planning routes around jumps instead of fairways. You can even use them aggressively, leaping into perfect body-block positions or dodging incoming rockets at the last second. They do not directly disrupt opponents like a cart hit, but they let you win the race to the ball so consistently that, in the current build, they feel almost mandatory.
The Dueling Pistol is the item I grab when I am feeling a little mean and a little confident. It is a simple concept: a single-shot pistol that stuns an opponent if you hit them. No splash damage, no auto-aim, just a clean projectile. On paper that sounds weaker than a homing rocket. In practice, the pistol hits instantly, has no self-penalty, and spawns often enough that you can treat it as a pocket interrupt for any crucial swing near you.
The skill requirement nudges it just below Rocket Launcher in terms of pure ease, but the ceiling is incredibly high. Walking up close to someone who is laser-focused on their power bar, lining the barrel up with their model, and firing right as they release the swing feels glorious. They lose their timing, their ball goes wild or never leaves the tee, and you bought yourself several seconds of uncontested play. Unlike the Elephant Gun, you are not eating blast knockback or sacrificing your own position to do it.
What keeps Dueling Pistol in S-tier is how flexible it feels once you are comfortable with it. You can deny putts at the cup, protect teammates in co-op lobbies, or act as a roaming menace that keeps a whole area nervous about winding up. The item rewards good reads and bold positioning without ever feeling unusable to newer players. As long as you remember to get close and aim, it hands you control over the rhythm of nearby shots, which is everything in a game this frantic.
The Air Horn is the purest form of psychological warfare in Super Battle Golf. It does not deal damage, it does not stun, and it will never knock someone into a bunker. Instead, it waits until a player starts charging their shot and then shreds their concentration, forcing an overhit that sends the ball sailing. When I first picked it up, I treated it as a joke item. After a few rounds of sabotaging clutch putts, it felt more like a precision scalpel for tilting rivals off the face of the earth.
The catch is that Air Horn is purely reactive. If nobody around you is lining up a shot, it might as well not exist. You have to hold it, watch for animations, and pull the trigger at the exact moment their power meter climbs. Used early in a round on a random mid-fairway stroke, it is funny but forgettable. Used on the final green when someone is about to sink the winning putt, it can absolutely rewrite the scoreboard. That dependency on opponent behaviour is what keeps it out of S-tier.
In the right hands, though, Air Horn has real strategic weight. It punishes players who tunnel on their swing and ignore what is happening around them. It also synergises with aggressive items like Rocket Launcher, forcing people to second-guess lining up long charges when you are nearby. It does not provide personal mobility or safety, and it does nothing in empty space, but as a targeted grief tool around the cup or tight approach shots, it earns its A-tier spot.
The Golf Cart is the item that makes Super Battle Golf feel like a destruction derby. It spawns you behind the wheel of a multi-seat cart that lets you blast across the course and ram into other players. On paper it is mobility plus disruption in one package. The first time my squad piled four deep into a cart, screamed down a hill, and pancaked the lobby’s frontrunner off their perfect lie, it felt like we had discovered a different genre hiding inside a golf game.
As a pure movement tool, Golf Cart is fantastic. The speed boost lets you recover from bad lies, chase your ball across awkward terrain, or rotate between pressure points faster than anyone on foot. It is also one of the few items that lets your whole team benefit at once, since up to eight players can ride along. That turns it into a moving rally point in chaotic lobbies, especially on larger, more open courses where walking feels painfully slow.
The disruptive side is where the Cart slips just short of S-tier. Experienced players learn to sidestep the hitbox or jump out of the way, especially if you telegraph your line from far away. You can absolutely ruin someone’s shot with a well-timed sideswipe, but whiffed rams waste a lot of the item’s potential. Golf Cart still earns A-tier because its mobility value alone matters every single round, and when opponents lapse in attention, it turns into a battering ram that hijacks the pace of play.
Coffee is the quiet workhorse of the A-tier. Pop it and you get a speed boost for around ten seconds, enough to feel like your character suddenly remembered they are in a race, not a Sunday stroll. It does not flip the table the way a Rocket Launcher does, and you will not get the same clip-worthy moments, but Coffee keeps showing up in games where the difference between first and second place is a single scramble to the ball.
The main appeal of Coffee is how flexible the buff window is. Use it off the tee to explode out of the starting area, chase down a drive that landed in an awkward corner, or sprint to the green ahead of a pack that still has to trudge uphill. On tight maps, that ten seconds can be the gap between setting up a clean approach and arriving just in time to eat someone else’s projectile. It also helps you recover from mistakes, letting you erase some of the time lost to a bad shot.
The downside is vulnerability. If someone stuns you during the buff, you waste precious seconds of movement, and Coffee does nothing to protect you from being targeted. It also requires a bit of route planning to avoid over-running your ball or overshooting important angles. Those limitations stop it from climbing into S-tier, but in a meta where tempo and positioning decide who gets to swing in safety, Coffee is an excellent secondary pick that amplifies smart pathing.
Electromagnet is the item I almost ignored until it saved me on match point. It gives you a short-duration shield that blocks all incoming projectiles and item-based attacks. While it is active, rockets fizzle, pistols do nothing, and even the Orbital Laser cannot stun you. On paper that sounds absurdly strong. In reality, the shield window is brief, and most of the round you are better served by tools that help you move faster or directly harass other players.
The reason Electromagnet sits in B-tier is that it is incredibly timing-dependent. If you pop it in the middle of the fairway with no threat nearby, you get nothing. If you trigger it half a second too early on the green, a patient opponent simply waits out the buff and shoots you after it fades. The high points are undeniable, though. When you are one clean putt away from winning and the whole lobby suddenly remembers they all have guns, Electromagnet turns that last swing into a tiny invincibility phase.
In my experience, Electromagnet shines when you treat it as a finisher rather than a general-purpose defensive. Save it for the exact moment you need to guarantee a stroke, especially if you can see people lining up Air Horns, pistols, or rockets. The rest of the time, it feels like a dead slot compared to tools that let you actively shape the map. That combination of low baseline impact and huge clutch potential makes it a classic B-tier speciality pick in the current build.
Landmine is the kind of item that rewards players who think two or three strokes ahead. Activate it and you drop three explosives on the ground. Anyone who walks over them gets stunned, buying you time and disrupting their position. The first time I used it, I dumped all three mines in a random patch of fairway and watched everyone casually walk around them. That summed up the Landmine experience for a while: powerful on paper, underwhelming when placed lazily.
The trick is that Landmine is only as good as your placement. On wide-open holes, opponents have no reason to step on obvious glowing danger zones. On tight bridges, narrow walkways, or the short path up to a popular green, those same danger zones become brutal chokepoints. Dropping mines just beyond blind corners or in the rough where players instinctively cut across can lead to hilarious chain-stuns. When it works, it feels like you booby-trapped the level designer’s favourite routes.
Even with smart placement, careful players can avoid your traps entirely by paying attention to their feet. That is why Landmine stays in B-tier. It rarely decides a round on its own, and it demands much more foresight than something like Rocket Launcher or Spring Boots. Still, if you love learning layouts and predicting traffic patterns, Landmine turns that knowledge into real leverage. It is the underdog pick that occasionally creates the loudest reactions in voice chat when an unsuspecting rival detonates the perfect setup.
Orbital Laser is the item everyone talks about and almost nobody actually uses consistently. It calls down a gigantic laser strike on a marked area, stunning anyone caught in the blast. The first time I saw it in a lobby, play stopped for a solid second while everyone processed the beam coming down from space. It feels like a superweapon in a game of party golf. The problem is that you see it so rarely, and it is so easy for opponents to wander out of the target zone by accident, that its real impact is limited.
From a pure power standpoint, Orbital Laser is ridiculous. The telegraph is huge, the effect is dramatic, and any unlucky soul left in the circle eats a long stun. In terms of usability, it is almost the opposite. You have to predict where people will be, not where they are, and in a game built on constant movement and random knockbacks, that is a tall order. Half the time someone moves out of the zone without even noticing, and your god-tier item fizzles into a light show.
That is why Orbital Laser lives in B-tier as a clip generator instead of a reliable win condition. When it hits a packed green or a scrum on a bridge, you own the entire area for several seconds and it feels completely unfair. The rest of the time, you would rather have a common, straightforward tool that affects the game every round. Fun, flashy and meme-worthy, but not something to build a serious strategy around under the current balance.
The Elephant Gun looks like the ultimate answer to nearby players, and in some ways it is. You get two extremely powerful shots that can send opponents flying and leave them stunned. The catch is that the recoil also punishes you. Fire it and you suffer knockback yourself, often bouncing away from your ideal lie or off the angle you carefully set up. The first time I blasted someone off the green and then watched my own character tumble down a slope with them, I realised this thing is as much a prank on its user as on the target.
Compared to the Dueling Pistol, Elephant Gun is all about chaos rather than control. It is easier to land hitboxes thanks to the big blast radius, but any gain in disruption comes with the risk of ruining your own position. In a tight race, that self-sabotage can undo the advantage you just earned. I often found that even when I won the trade in terms of stun, I lost precious seconds jogging back to a workable spot while my victim respawned closer to the action.
That is why Elephant Gun sits firmly in B-tier. It is hilarious in casual lobbies and perfect when you are already behind and just want to drag everyone else down with you. It also has niche uses for emergency self-repositioning if you are willing to embrace the knockback as a weird mobility tool. For serious play, though, it is hard to justify over the cleaner, low-risk disruption of the Dueling Pistol. High spectacle, low consistency, and a reminder that not every loud gun is actually meta-defining.
Right now, the items that shape Super Battle Golf are the ones that are easy to use and show up often enough to matter. Rocket Launcher and Dueling Pistol dictate how safe any charged swing feels, while Spring Boots, Golf Cart and Coffee define who wins the race between lies. The B-tier tools still have teeth, but they demand tight timing, smart map usage, or a willingness to risk your own position for chaos.
The fun part is that this balance is not fixed. A small tweak to spawn rates, shield duration, or projectile behaviour could send half this list shuffling up or down. For now, though, if you want to win more lobbies, prioritise S-tier disruption and mobility first, then layer in A-tier tempo and mind games. Keep an eye on the so-called low-tier picks as well. With the right timing and a bit of map knowledge, even a B-tier Landmine or Electromagnet can hand you the kind of stolen victory that makes this game so addictive.
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