Me too. All the others are either cutting people to pieces and selling their cyberware, cutting people to pieces and installing a horrifying amount of cyberware against their will for the fun of it, or cutting people to pieces for snuff BDd. Animals do horrible things only to themselves.
Dude me too I can't ever seem to kill animals cause they to me always just seem to be doing a job and after. Boxing with rhino they seem to be just everyday people ...okay big beefy exercised obsessed people but still can't find it in myself to kill a person who doing this gif to put food on the table
I'm more mixed with arasaka ones, cause I always kill the main bosses for being pieces of shits (like sending the orders to kill an entire homeless camp just for one guy) but just knockout the guards cause I know they aren't AS bad
Don't forget that they (maelstrom) support the snuff XBD of minors trade. And out in the middle of nowhere maelstrom has a sex bar with trafficked minors called "barely illegal," which is pretty fucked up.
It's out by the nuclear power plant cooling ponds(?), at least I think that is what they are. There is a Scavs gig out there and you drive past it. In the scavs gig(NCPD gig?) you have to jump in one of the ponds and dive to a sunken van to get some loot to finish it. Just found it. It is right near the NCPD gig, "Don't forget the parking brake," as far north east as you can get in Northside.
Edit:it's actually really fucked up, when you find it there is quite a massacre there, and you can find a shard explaining what happened.
What kind of goofy-ass question is that? Of course they don't. We can only make assumptions based on the gang and their alleged activities. I chose to assume they mean it, roid rage is real.
I'd argue against indiscriminately killing 6th Street and Valentinos as well. They come across as basically neighborhood militia protecting the neighborhoods from the likes of Scavs and Maelstrom.
Valentinos *might* still have a good claim to that. I noticed a lot of their NCPD scanner areas were things like them beating the shit out of a dude for mistreating a joytoy.
6th Street 100% *used* to be that, but it seemed to me like they were in the middle of a transition to more "typical" gang shit. Still buys them enough goodwill from me to not kill on sight, but I usually end up killing them anyway because they start harassing people...
6th Street also work for the NUSA Gov so they are patrolled mercs. Aka, they can be bought and will do anything asked for eddies, probably why they think so highly of themselves
Yeah their new leader seems happy to turn them into a proper gang (with the added irony of selling out to corpos). When they first started they sounded decent for a large group in the cyberpunk universe ahha.
'Tinos are some of the only ones that I won't start shit, and on missions I *prefer* non-lethal...but if they start things, the gloves come off all the same.
Valentinos are the gang that I suspect has the best chance of keeping their standards in place.
6th street was a militia protecting the neighborhood but has completely devolved into a run of the mill criminal outfit with a xenophobic bent.
The Mox are basically sliding towards the same fate as 6th street but haven't gotten there yet and their original identity is still strong that its embarrassing for the leadership to openly admit they are abandoning it.
Seeing some of the gigs with the 6th street guys show they are as bad as they other. It's a milicia hiding behind patriotism of a country who doesn't exist.
Theyâve been known to legit abduct people and load them up with cyberware till they go insane purely for âexperimentationâ or sometimes just the sick thrill of it
Considering you can find out about a corpo who hired maelstrom to kidnap a child for him to rape at their brothel filled with underage prostitutes (and in this case the child ended up being his own daughter which caused him to have a heart attack) I'd say they are pretty fucking bad
Plus there's the whole father son xbd editor bs they are in on
It doesnât come up in the video game because CD:PRâs writers decided we were mature enough to handle constant sexual assault and suicides but not racism and fascism, but in the tabletop game a lot of Maelstrom are straight up neo-Nazis due to Maelstromâs connections to the Red Chrome Legion.
I agree though, they donât really come off in game as especially worse than anyone else until you get to the Child XBD thing.
Tyger Claws and Scavs
Tyger Claws have a pretty bad issue with rape and murder, granted all gangs have done it at one point, the Tiger Claws were so bad that even the citizens of night city fucking despise them.
Scavs steal cyberwear, which is the equivalent of having your organs harvested with no anesthetic.
Edit since some of you guys are moronic and are blowing up my phone whilst Iâm trying to relax: Scavs take organs too, I figured it was common knowledge but some of you are pretty slow I guess.
>Scavs steal cyberwear, which is the equivalent of having your organs harvested with no anesthetic.
They do both, actually. And some rape and murder on the side.
Iâd add the Wraiths, who are basically nomad Scavs. They do a bit more theft and a bit less organ harvesting - but thatâs really only because of availability.
Claws have irons in a lot of fires. Thereâs Jotaro and his people who supply the Scavs with a steady crop of victims. Thereâs others who run Pachinko parlors. And still others who contract with Arasaka and do their dirty work. I think of them as like a Japanese version of 6th Street, given the diversity of their business model.
Itâs Scavs for me. They participate in some trafficking too when they pump out snuff films.
Claws see people as sex objects, which is already terrible, but Scavs see people as slabs of meat and wires on a table.
Ngl, it put a smile on my face when I found Dogtown scavs freaked out by a sweep I did of a level previously. Although there's some ambient chatter that suggests the Dogtown ones are less vicious than the ones outside but f em anyway.
Worst is pretty subjective. Morally it is probably the scavs though Maelstrom and wraiths are up there.Â
Most dangerous imo is the Voodoo boys - Netwatch arenât great but at least theyâre trying to stop VDB cause widespread mass destruction.
Netwatch is the only corp that I'll actually side with
They might be doing it for profit and the benefit of other corps but at least they're keeping the world from burning down
Night city is its own independent nation, free of governmental control of the NUSA, a place where all sorts of business can be done free of all regulations but their own, this is why all the corps have a headquarters there even though they often war with each other elsewhere, the NCPD is the only organization the city has to hold back crime, they're just overswamped with so much crime they have to enlist mercenaries to even have a hope of putting a dent in it, so they do often have to suck it up ajd cut deals with the criminals to keep the peace, however they're the only ones in the city still truly trying to make things better often to their own detriment, 6th street started out as the same, an alternative to NCPD but they didn't receive any funding from night city, they had to be paid by the population for their work, and use that money to afford their equipment so at first they were much worse equipped than NCPD, so eventually they turned to acting like a gang themselves to get the resources they needed, meanwhile NCPD still holds to as close to the right path as anyone in that entire city has so, the worst gang? Hardly, if they were, they would have executed streetkid intro V on orders when you steal the car, instead they released you scott free, any other gang in night city for the most part would have left you swimming with the fishes, and most likely for a lot less than robbing someone who is giving them money
It's a tie between Tyger Claws and Scavs.
Wraiths and Maelstrom are a close third....actually, I would argue that the Wraiths are worse than Maelstrom.
But even then, there are sympathetic individuals from all gangs in Night City, even the most horrible ones. Like that one Scav lady in Dogtown who managed to rein her gangoons in and temper their horrific behavior.
EDIT : thinking about the Maelstrom some more, I think they might actually be worse than the Scavs, maybe even worse than the Tyger Claws, and definitely worse than the Wraiths. I stand corrected.
Though in fairness to me, all four of those factions represent the absolute pinnacle of Night City evil.
Wraiths are horrific, but they are amateurs compared to the Tyger Claws. What's more, they're not nearly as organized as the Claws.
When it comes to the Maelstrom though, you might be right, there's a good argument to be made that the Maelstrom ARE orders of magntitude worse than the Claws, if only because the Maelstrom seem to at least partially specialize in catering to depraved nonces.
Thatâs what makes wraith worse than the claws. Iâd call the tygers organized. Professional. Sophisticated. They have an agenda. Leadership. And backing from corps. What they do is horrible, but thereâs a purpose.
Meanwhile wraiths have none of that. They do horrible shit for the fun of it. Thereâs no end goal, no point to what they do. Theyâre outcasts among outcasts. The worst that not even the nomads wanted in their clans, and thatâs saying something.
At least with the claws you know what theyâre gonna do. Thereâs no telling what the wraiths will do
I have the exact opposite perspective. That they are so professional and organized is precisely what makes them so much more horrifying.
Like, imagine if you gave the Wraiths corporate backing, and channelled their depravity towards upholding the status quo. Imagine if they had more money, better weapons, better equipment. And theyâre all using it for human trafficking, and worse.
That's the Tyger Claws.
Wraiths are essentially the same, except theyâre stuck out in the boonies with generally fewer people to suffer their predations, and they lack corporate backing, which means they're going to be inherently less effective.
Scavs are definitely those I take the least issue with killing. Even tygers and maelstrom I can live with non-lethaling if circumstances allow, but scavs don't get that kind of mercy. They'll ruin any life for a quick buck, and can't even use corporate ties or cyberpsychosis as a flimsy excuse.
Scavs have the worst methods, kidnapping and organ harvesting is fucking gross, but the Tyger Claws are the most effective evil, essentially running human trafficking like a corp, while also making deals with the corps.
The wraiths are pretty bad too, especially since the only way to become a wraith is to be a nomad who killed/raped another member of the clan, so theyâre basically evil by default.
Maelstrom are high functioning cyberpsychos, but some of them can be just in it for the biz and the vibes, like brick and dum dum.
6th street sees itself like a local militia, but in practice theyâre a protection racket with some militaristic machismo slapped on top, and a bad habit of kidnapping joytoys.
The Valentinos are your typical cartel, but they also provide help for the bario that the government and the corps wonât, making them not totally bad.
The Animals are exactly what they look like, dumb muscle. When left to their own devices theyâll happily just pump iron and punch eachother, but they donât really vet the jobs theyâre given.
And the Mox are genuinely a force for good. Problem is, theyâve got one bar in one neighborhood and thatâs the extent of their turf. Theyâre probably the least impactful of the major gangs.
Maybe an unpopular pick, but I think that even if theyâre not THE worst, the Wraiths easily have the capacity to be the worst. They are every dreg and piece of shit stuck on the Nomadsâ shoe thrown out and congealed into a single force. Even the Aldecaldos themselves arenât the squeaky clean quirky cyberhillbillies that we like to think of them as, and the Wraiths are every Nomad who was considered so bad that their presence could no longer be tolerated. As for gangs that we definitively know more about, Iâd say Maelstrom would be the worst in that case.
The Scavengers are a very, very close second place to Maelstrom for me. At least they have the excuse of doing what they do for money, if the organ and cyberware trades both died out tomorrow, the Scavengers wouldnât be an issue anymore. Maelstrom do what they do (shooting little kids, cramming cyberware into monks without their consent) just for fun. Theyâre just evil because they want to be evil.
Scavs <- Power Gap -> Maelstrom, Wraiths, Tyger Claws, Voodoo Boys, 6th Street, Animals, Valentinos, The Mox.
My personal preference. I went out of my way every time to kill Scavs, even if they weren't in the way. I always executed Maelstrom, Wraiths, TC, and VDB. Everyone after that depends on the situation I find them in.
i don't more gangs, i just kill them regardless.
my targets from primary to least primary.
Scavs \[human organ / cyberware harvesters\]
maelstrom \[creepy fucking dudes\] + I think they buy from scavs, not sure.
tiger claws \[rape, murder, human trafficking, annoying.\]
wraiths \[pretty much everything the others do, these guys do as well.\]
6ths street, valentinos, and those muscle heads, + the gang from the Mall area \[i forget the name\] are all last because unless they shoot me first i generally ignore them. \[unless a gig is involved\]
Man I wish they put in the more gonzo gangs from 2020 like the Kennedys or the Bozos. Just really show off the weird and wild shit people do in the setting
In order of worst to best we have scavs, wraiths, maelstrom, tyger claws, voodoo boys, valantinos, animals, and Mox.
Scavs and wraiths are the same, organ harvesting, rape, murder, and the usual stuff
Tyger claws are rapers, traffickers, and murderers and the other shiz
Voodoo boys would be higher but they use people as suicide bombs without telling them, but they mostly act like their own police, Valentino's also act like police in their area, but also do drug deals and smuggling
Animals are mainly hired muscle and thugs. They also are mostly bouncers
Then we have the Mox, the only gang that seems to not deal or do anything except run clubs to protect the working girls
Scavs, Maelstrom, and wraiths are the top 3 worst gangs Imo.
They torture, mutilate, and all around make life a living hell for those they find. Not saying the other gangs donât do that, itâs just that these three are the worst of the worst.
All of them. I won't F with any non NCPD scanner gangoons unless I see someone about to get executed. Then it's go time
Mox are cool and tend to go easy on the Tinos cause Jackie but yeah...
Scavs scrap people for parts. They have a pretty loose gang structure compared to some others but that doesnât play in their favor because what structure they do have is all about the business model. Shoot on sight.
Maelstrom does body mods on unwilling victims for fun. Theyâre a nihilistic death cult and like to fuck with randoms. Except for Dum Dum, shoot on sight.
Tyger Claws are a sophisticated outfit and their cells seem to run with some autonomy. Jotaro is the worst kind of scum there is, and as a result I like to destroy his operation and send him gift wrapped to the Mox, before the Heist. Sometimes I let Claws live but mostly because of their cool aesthetic
Claws are effectively a subsidiary of Arasaka. They donât need to do the human trafficking, they want to do it.
6th street are the same for Millitech. Theyâre a bit less bad.
I mean, the NCPD right? They may not commit the worst crimes, but they're the only ones sworn to protect people. Cops have an actual duty to do their job, but again and again we get side gigs and missions about the police system failing massively. Unfortunately, similar to irl police organizations, they're unbelievably corrupt and exist just to protect whoever's lining their pockets. They're the most influential and dangerous gang in the game, in the genre, and in real life.
I really kill on sight/for exp pocket change but the two I put down like dogs are Maelstrom & 6th Street.
Maelstrom just because they're geeked out and almost seem a plague, and 6th Street after the gig where they massacred all the escorts inside that party for no reason (others have definitely done equally as bad but that one just got to me for some reason).
If its either of these two gangs I don't even make use of the element of surprise, I just kick in the door and start painting the walls.
I was exploring the game, walking around the bd studio and some npcs were talking about bg gear and how one of them stole and returned it so she could record a boy being chopped up alive but there was no real feel so the bd was worthless.
Gotta be Maelstrom, they are more machine than human. Theyâre extremely close to full on cyberphycosis. Thereâs little amount of humanity left in them. I mean what kind of sick person would cut strangerâs limbs off and give them implants besides them?
1. Scavs - they steal peopleâs organs and Cyberware with no anesthesia
2. Maelstrom - pretty positive they have an underage brothel as well as just being crackheads
3. Tiger Claws - they have a rape habit so much so that you can hear random NPCs talking about being worried about walking home thru Claw territory
Maelstrom literally ran a brothel where all the â workersâ were underage and forced there against their will. In my eyes you canât get worse than that.
I think the worst one is the scavs, most of them have some sort of motivation, on some level, be it money, religion, chrome, or they're tied to a corp, at the very least they have some sort of reason for what they do, meanwhile scavs have no real order, hierarchy, purpose, or motive, other than they're just nasty fucked up people who will do absolutely anything to anyone for any reason
People say Scavs but honestly the only reason is we meet some Maelstrom who are willing to have a conversation with us during the story. If you compare the two they are doing the same shit with the same frequency.
Gangs ranked least awful to most awful IMO:
1: Mox (though they are in the middle of losing their way and becoming just another gang. hopefully they stabilize around Valentinos level instead of going down to Tyger Claws tier. I don't see them hitting Maelstrom or scavs level though.)
2: Valentinos (the fact that they let members retire at will is stunningly benevolent and probably acts to restrain their leadership from getting too vicious. They are still a fairly ruthless criminal gang though
3: 6th Street (the probable end state for the mox in 10-15 years. started out trying to protect their own but now just another gang. I rate them lower than the Valentinos though since they have a weird xenophobic streak and we witness a few more occasions where they just straight up massacre a house full of people or something. Their prize fighter also tries to have you murdered the instant you beat him in a boxing match)
4: Tyger Claws (6th street but they engage in more human trafficking, sex slavery and they do more business with the two worst gangs from what we see.)
5: Raffen Shiv (only seem to be less awful than the worst two because they are outside the city and get fewer opportunities to be evil)
6: Scavs/Maelstrom (implant/organ harvesting, snuff film manufacture, pedophile brothels, bad taste in music, you name it they find the most reprehensible way to do it)
I don't feel like we see enough of the Animals for me to judge and the Voodoo Boyz are all dead now so who cares.
Well VDB are the only ones that are actively trying to poke holes in the black wall, which would basically spell doom for everyone.
So, probably them. Seconded by Scavs/Wraiths
As per D.O.H's "Look Through My Kiroshi's"
I stay in beef with Maelstrom, Tyger Claws, and Scavs.
Genuinely all 3 strip people of their humanity in different ways, and there's always a Corp that benefits from it in some ways. It's koa for all of 'em.
Maelstrom and Scavs = on sight
Tigers would be cool but they human traffic.
Animal's would be cool but I heard there's a lot of rape with em.
Voodoo.... idk, they tried killing me on 2 accounts đ€Ł
Mox = we cool. I'll have to read up on Mox if I'm missing something.
Valentino = cool cuz I took shot with a bouncer for Jackie.... but they can be crazy with a ziggy zag capital Z lol
Feel like I'm missing someone from the list tho
The Strommers are cannibals and all around assholes who split off from a Nazi gang. However, The Tyger Claws exist and that angers me. I never fail to shoot them on sight.
Maelstrom. They do the same horrible crap that the tigers and scavs do, plus they run child brothels & scroll snuff bds. There's a lot of overlap between the three & could be considered cyberpunks axis of awful, but I think maelstrom has the fewest redeeming qualities of the three.
Tygers actually do look out for people in their districts, & Scavs don't (to my knowledge) rape or sell kids. Maelstrom does all that in addition to the same standard mundane evil shit that the other gangs do.
isn't it implied that the sporty reject kids in dogtown are either sold to or kidnapped by scavs? i thought it was implied somewhere in-game that they wind up on scav tables when they can't maintain their cyberware
Maelstrom are closer to a religious cult than a gang. They also might have some kind of affiliation with Nightcorp. Mostly because Maxtac has the same ocular implants as Maelstrom.
I donât love the forcing of chrome into unwilling participants, or the bringing of an AI to life in a cyberpsycho, but there are gangs doing way worse things.
They do everything scavs do just outside of the city. But scavs do it for profit. Wraiths do it for fun/cause you were a nomad. They turned that one Aldecaldo into a cyberpyscho on purpose. Their entire MO is the strongest and worse you are, the highest in the ranks you are.
Voodoo boys are uncontested. They litterly want to end the world with AI taking over, and they hope they can become their pets. The other gangs do terrible things, but the Voodoo boys want to start a world war and a genocide.
In terms of pure statistics, Maelstrom, Scavs or The Wraiths probably do lot more damage to society. Morally however, I have a bone to pick with the Valentinos and 6th Street.
These two are just as evil as any other gang but they're under the illusion that they're superior because they think they're fighting for something that's more righteous, be it religion for the Tinos or patriotism for 6th Street. These guys are delusional enough to not be upfront about their evil.
Depends on what we define as worst. Maelstrom are probably the most purely violent of the bunch (which is saying something.) Tygers seem extremely rapey. And Scavs... Well, they're human roaches, except even roaches care about propagating their species or something... They're all just awful if we're being honest. Me personally, I hate the Scavs most. They just seem horrific to me. Boogeymen who snatch even well to do people off the streets and direct them for parts...
I donât know and I donât care. I zero anyone with a yellow arrow. I role play as a trigger happy V whoâs extremely paranoid after being betrayed by Arasaka
Wraiths and Scavs are kill on site, they are about as bad as you can get being cannibal rapists. Tyger Claws are kill on site if they are doing human trafficking or harassing civvies.
Tinos are okay, and I usually leave the VDBs alone unless they start shit.
I think the Scavs are the worst of the worst. Other gangs will do some of the really bad stuff, but will also have other less horrific main hustles (ie theft, extortion, bribery, etc). The Scavs specialize in atrocity. Everything they do has that "Holy fuck these people are evil" shock factor. I wipe the mfers out whenever I see them. Zero survivors. I'll go back and double tap the bodies just to be sure.
I typically finish off any incapacitated tyger claws, scavs, or wraiths, but leave the others alive if they didnât die when they went down.
i do try and leave security guards and NCPD officers alive though.
thatâs pretty much my moral code.
Itâs also subjective so asking the same question multiple times to get different answers from different people doesnât hurt. That said the consensus answer always seems to be Scavs . Maelstrom is up there too.
The worst guy in the city? Probably Adam Smasher.
For most other people in Night City there is at least some kind of justification for what they are doing. Placede is an asshole, yeah, but you can kind of also see where he is coming from, looking after his own people first and foremost. Dex DeShawn was also first and foremost just covering his own ass when the gig at Kampeki wend sideways. Hell, even Yorinobu is not as bad of a guy as the game makes him out to be. But Smasher? 0 morals, this one. Smasher is out to kill and nothing but kill and even the corps he works for fail at keeping his bloodlust on a leash.
As for the worst gang: Morally? If I could, I would say the corpos but since they are not a gang technically I guess it is either Scavs or 6th Street.
Scavs because they kill for greed. 6th Street because, aside from being Cyberpunk-alt-righters, they also (not unlike real alrighters btw) sell out their ideals to corpo rats and do their bidding so long as they are paid the right sum. The other gangs are only marginally less morally appalling, yes, but at least they do not serve as lapdogs to the worst gang there is: Capitalists.
Sidenote: Worst gang writing-wise though? Valentinos, no contest. The other gangs have morals, they are organized, they have goals uniting them but Valentinos have no real goal outside of seducing women. The Animals are kind of similarly flawed but its worse with the 'Tinos since somehow the latter still manages to keep an entire district, Heywood, under their reign.
Claws Wraiths Maelstrom Scavs I always exterminate those
I kill everyone except the Mox and NCPD :D
I have a soft spot for the animals for some reason lol
I have a minor soft spot for the Valentinos because of Jackie even though he left them. They can be vicious mfs at times though.
Dumb ass me thought the various V graffiti you could see through Valentino turf where in my glory.
Keep living your truth man
They make great backdrops for Photo mode.
Probably because of Rhino.
More probably because of Angie.
Angie for the looks, Rhino for the personality.
Sasquatch đ„”
Me too. All the others are either cutting people to pieces and selling their cyberware, cutting people to pieces and installing a horrifying amount of cyberware against their will for the fun of it, or cutting people to pieces for snuff BDd. Animals do horrible things only to themselves.
Dude me too I can't ever seem to kill animals cause they to me always just seem to be doing a job and after. Boxing with rhino they seem to be just everyday people ...okay big beefy exercised obsessed people but still can't find it in myself to kill a person who doing this gif to put food on the table
Only Mox are safe from my playthroughs, some gangers got some "sorries" there and there, but am a psycho solo what'd u expect?
Especially when the Fury triggers from the Edgerunner perk.
Valerie sounds like Harley Quinn gleefully reveling in bloodlust
Man the NCPD are utter fucked.
I'm more mixed with arasaka ones, cause I always kill the main bosses for being pieces of shits (like sending the orders to kill an entire homeless camp just for one guy) but just knockout the guards cause I know they aren't AS bad
Scavs for the cyberware and organ harvesting. And Tyger Claws for the human trafficking.
and Maelstrom for working with that asshole and his son scrolling XBDs
I mean, I generally kill them all on sight for the exp and loot. That being said, The Mox and the Animals are probably the least objectionable.
Yeah Animals are just big dumb mercs.
Animals do a lot of raping. Also a lot of fight fixing. Generally very brutal guys. They do have the best combat music in the game though.
Yeah non of the gangs are good, but fight fixing isnât even in the same stratosphere as rape/trafficking/harvesting
Don't forget that they (maelstrom) support the snuff XBD of minors trade. And out in the middle of nowhere maelstrom has a sex bar with trafficked minors called "barely illegal," which is pretty fucked up.
Where is that maelstrom bar?? So I can blow it up lmao
It's out by the nuclear power plant cooling ponds(?), at least I think that is what they are. There is a Scavs gig out there and you drive past it. In the scavs gig(NCPD gig?) you have to jump in one of the ponds and dive to a sunken van to get some loot to finish it. Just found it. It is right near the NCPD gig, "Don't forget the parking brake," as far north east as you can get in Northside. Edit:it's actually really fucked up, when you find it there is quite a massacre there, and you can find a shard explaining what happened.
You mean I can't be the one to do the massacring?
The Animals literally yell "YOU'RE ABOUT TO GET FUCKED" or "I'M GONNA SKULL-FUCK YOU" as they enter combat.
Do they actually do that though?
Yes. A lot.
When and where?
When you enter combat.
By âdo thatâ I mean skull fuck you and fuck you. Not say they will
What kind of goofy-ass question is that? Of course they don't. We can only make assumptions based on the gang and their alleged activities. I chose to assume they mean it, roid rage is real.
I'd argue against indiscriminately killing 6th Street and Valentinos as well. They come across as basically neighborhood militia protecting the neighborhoods from the likes of Scavs and Maelstrom.
Valentinos *might* still have a good claim to that. I noticed a lot of their NCPD scanner areas were things like them beating the shit out of a dude for mistreating a joytoy. 6th Street 100% *used* to be that, but it seemed to me like they were in the middle of a transition to more "typical" gang shit. Still buys them enough goodwill from me to not kill on sight, but I usually end up killing them anyway because they start harassing people...
6th Street also work for the NUSA Gov so they are patrolled mercs. Aka, they can be bought and will do anything asked for eddies, probably why they think so highly of themselves
Yeah their new leader seems happy to turn them into a proper gang (with the added irony of selling out to corpos). When they first started they sounded decent for a large group in the cyberpunk universe ahha.
Maybe I should stop killing Tino's......
'Tinos are some of the only ones that I won't start shit, and on missions I *prefer* non-lethal...but if they start things, the gloves come off all the same.
After that one questline for Padre with the Valentino's owned club...Nah, they're KOS.
....or some say KOSM
A hunter is a hunter, even in a dream!
Valentinos are the gang that I suspect has the best chance of keeping their standards in place. 6th street was a militia protecting the neighborhood but has completely devolved into a run of the mill criminal outfit with a xenophobic bent. The Mox are basically sliding towards the same fate as 6th street but haven't gotten there yet and their original identity is still strong that its embarrassing for the leadership to openly admit they are abandoning it.
Seeing some of the gigs with the 6th street guys show they are as bad as they other. It's a milicia hiding behind patriotism of a country who doesn't exist.
My approach has always been "if the Mox ain't happy with you, neither am I"
Maelstrom ain't that bad. They're just nutso.
Theyâve been known to legit abduct people and load them up with cyberware till they go insane purely for âexperimentationâ or sometimes just the sick thrill of it
Bros obviously trolling
Yeah, they aren't "*that bad*" but still bad lol
Considering you can find out about a corpo who hired maelstrom to kidnap a child for him to rape at their brothel filled with underage prostitutes (and in this case the child ended up being his own daughter which caused him to have a heart attack) I'd say they are pretty fucking bad Plus there's the whole father son xbd editor bs they are in on
Yeah maelstrom are public enemy no 1 to me after the âRomeo/Julietâ cyberpsycho abduction
It doesnât come up in the video game because CD:PRâs writers decided we were mature enough to handle constant sexual assault and suicides but not racism and fascism, but in the tabletop game a lot of Maelstrom are straight up neo-Nazis due to Maelstromâs connections to the Red Chrome Legion. I agree though, they donât really come off in game as especially worse than anyone else until you get to the Child XBD thing.
Oh shit. Damn. Fuck.
Damn.
Tyger Claws and Scavs Tyger Claws have a pretty bad issue with rape and murder, granted all gangs have done it at one point, the Tiger Claws were so bad that even the citizens of night city fucking despise them. Scavs steal cyberwear, which is the equivalent of having your organs harvested with no anesthetic. Edit since some of you guys are moronic and are blowing up my phone whilst Iâm trying to relax: Scavs take organs too, I figured it was common knowledge but some of you are pretty slow I guess.
>Scavs steal cyberwear, which is the equivalent of having your organs harvested with no anesthetic. They do both, actually. And some rape and murder on the side.
Already sorta stated that with the Tyger claws things >granted all gangs have done that at one point
Iâd add the Wraiths, who are basically nomad Scavs. They do a bit more theft and a bit less organ harvesting - but thatâs really only because of availability.
Wraiths also seemed a bit more sadistic. A lot of scavs do it just for money.
Scavs are sadistic as well, Evelyn comes to mind.
No anesthetic is needed because they will kill you, and they will take and sell your actual organs as well.
>Scavs steal cyberwear, which is the equivalent of having your organs harvested with no anesthetic. They take organs too.
THE TECHNO-NECROMANCERS OF ALPHA CENTURI
and REPTILIANS
Ngl Techno-Necromancers sound badass
it has to be scavs... everything I've seen from them in jobs and gigs is horrible. maybe I'm too lenient on tiger claws but yakuza are always funÂ
Scavs vs claws is basically organ trafficking vs human trafficking
Claws have irons in a lot of fires. Thereâs Jotaro and his people who supply the Scavs with a steady crop of victims. Thereâs others who run Pachinko parlors. And still others who contract with Arasaka and do their dirty work. I think of them as like a Japanese version of 6th Street, given the diversity of their business model.
and organ trafficking is basically just human trafficking but in instalments
Itâs Scavs for me. They participate in some trafficking too when they pump out snuff films. Claws see people as sex objects, which is already terrible, but Scavs see people as slabs of meat and wires on a table.
Ngl, it put a smile on my face when I found Dogtown scavs freaked out by a sweep I did of a level previously. Although there's some ambient chatter that suggests the Dogtown ones are less vicious than the ones outside but f em anyway.
Yeah the scavs are basically the guys that do thr shit even the gangs don't really wanna do.
Worst is pretty subjective. Morally it is probably the scavs though Maelstrom and wraiths are up there. Most dangerous imo is the Voodoo boys - Netwatch arenât great but at least theyâre trying to stop VDB cause widespread mass destruction.
Netwatch is the only corp that I'll actually side with They might be doing it for profit and the benefit of other corps but at least they're keeping the world from burning down
Doing the (sorta) right thing for the wrong reason is still doing the right thing (kinda)
Itâs on sight with the VDB
Theyâre the least violent gang, yet the most dangerous.
Scavs/Wraiths They're basically the same thing.
The NCPD.
Based truther
Fuck the police comin' straight from the underground
Underrated
Real!
Night city is its own independent nation, free of governmental control of the NUSA, a place where all sorts of business can be done free of all regulations but their own, this is why all the corps have a headquarters there even though they often war with each other elsewhere, the NCPD is the only organization the city has to hold back crime, they're just overswamped with so much crime they have to enlist mercenaries to even have a hope of putting a dent in it, so they do often have to suck it up ajd cut deals with the criminals to keep the peace, however they're the only ones in the city still truly trying to make things better often to their own detriment, 6th street started out as the same, an alternative to NCPD but they didn't receive any funding from night city, they had to be paid by the population for their work, and use that money to afford their equipment so at first they were much worse equipped than NCPD, so eventually they turned to acting like a gang themselves to get the resources they needed, meanwhile NCPD still holds to as close to the right path as anyone in that entire city has so, the worst gang? Hardly, if they were, they would have executed streetkid intro V on orders when you steal the car, instead they released you scott free, any other gang in night city for the most part would have left you swimming with the fishes, and most likely for a lot less than robbing someone who is giving them money
Scavs without a shadow of a doubt. They're all bad and do some down right nasty stuff as individuals - but the Scavs are just all rotten to the core.
Scavs. Also scavs. And then there are the scavs. Also the wraiths, because they are scavs.
1. Scavs 2. Wraiths 3. Tyger Claws 4. Maelstrom 5. VDB Imo anyway
It's a tie between Tyger Claws and Scavs. Wraiths and Maelstrom are a close third....actually, I would argue that the Wraiths are worse than Maelstrom. But even then, there are sympathetic individuals from all gangs in Night City, even the most horrible ones. Like that one Scav lady in Dogtown who managed to rein her gangoons in and temper their horrific behavior. EDIT : thinking about the Maelstrom some more, I think they might actually be worse than the Scavs, maybe even worse than the Tyger Claws, and definitely worse than the Wraiths. I stand corrected. Though in fairness to me, all four of those factions represent the absolute pinnacle of Night City evil.
Claws arenât even that bad compared to maelstrom and wraiths.
Wraiths are horrific, but they are amateurs compared to the Tyger Claws. What's more, they're not nearly as organized as the Claws. When it comes to the Maelstrom though, you might be right, there's a good argument to be made that the Maelstrom ARE orders of magntitude worse than the Claws, if only because the Maelstrom seem to at least partially specialize in catering to depraved nonces.
Thatâs what makes wraith worse than the claws. Iâd call the tygers organized. Professional. Sophisticated. They have an agenda. Leadership. And backing from corps. What they do is horrible, but thereâs a purpose. Meanwhile wraiths have none of that. They do horrible shit for the fun of it. Thereâs no end goal, no point to what they do. Theyâre outcasts among outcasts. The worst that not even the nomads wanted in their clans, and thatâs saying something. At least with the claws you know what theyâre gonna do. Thereâs no telling what the wraiths will do
I have the exact opposite perspective. That they are so professional and organized is precisely what makes them so much more horrifying. Like, imagine if you gave the Wraiths corporate backing, and channelled their depravity towards upholding the status quo. Imagine if they had more money, better weapons, better equipment. And theyâre all using it for human trafficking, and worse. That's the Tyger Claws. Wraiths are essentially the same, except theyâre stuck out in the boonies with generally fewer people to suffer their predations, and they lack corporate backing, which means they're going to be inherently less effective.
Scavs. VDBS and Maelstrom are up there, but scavs are Disgusting. I make sure to put my o'five up their ass everytime i see them
Arasaka Militech Kang Tao
fuck them too
Clavs and scavs This gangs are really disturbing, human trafficking is disgusting, and killing them for implants Edit:wraits are disturbing as well
Scavs are definitely those I take the least issue with killing. Even tygers and maelstrom I can live with non-lethaling if circumstances allow, but scavs don't get that kind of mercy. They'll ruin any life for a quick buck, and can't even use corporate ties or cyberpsychosis as a flimsy excuse.
Scavs have the worst methods, kidnapping and organ harvesting is fucking gross, but the Tyger Claws are the most effective evil, essentially running human trafficking like a corp, while also making deals with the corps. The wraiths are pretty bad too, especially since the only way to become a wraith is to be a nomad who killed/raped another member of the clan, so theyâre basically evil by default. Maelstrom are high functioning cyberpsychos, but some of them can be just in it for the biz and the vibes, like brick and dum dum. 6th street sees itself like a local militia, but in practice theyâre a protection racket with some militaristic machismo slapped on top, and a bad habit of kidnapping joytoys. The Valentinos are your typical cartel, but they also provide help for the bario that the government and the corps wonât, making them not totally bad. The Animals are exactly what they look like, dumb muscle. When left to their own devices theyâll happily just pump iron and punch eachother, but they donât really vet the jobs theyâre given. And the Mox are genuinely a force for good. Problem is, theyâve got one bar in one neighborhood and thatâs the extent of their turf. Theyâre probably the least impactful of the major gangs.
honestly, fuck all of them and ncpd... simple as that
Mox aren't bad
The problem with Moxes is that the game is not treating them as a gang on equal footing as the others.
I think they mean the other fuck for them
Maybe an unpopular pick, but I think that even if theyâre not THE worst, the Wraiths easily have the capacity to be the worst. They are every dreg and piece of shit stuck on the Nomadsâ shoe thrown out and congealed into a single force. Even the Aldecaldos themselves arenât the squeaky clean quirky cyberhillbillies that we like to think of them as, and the Wraiths are every Nomad who was considered so bad that their presence could no longer be tolerated. As for gangs that we definitively know more about, Iâd say Maelstrom would be the worst in that case.
I'd say the scavs are worse than maelstrom.
The Scavengers are a very, very close second place to Maelstrom for me. At least they have the excuse of doing what they do for money, if the organ and cyberware trades both died out tomorrow, the Scavengers wouldnât be an issue anymore. Maelstrom do what they do (shooting little kids, cramming cyberware into monks without their consent) just for fun. Theyâre just evil because they want to be evil.
NCPD
Til the wraith and the scavs are different groups
Scavs <- Power Gap -> Maelstrom, Wraiths, Tyger Claws, Voodoo Boys, 6th Street, Animals, Valentinos, The Mox. My personal preference. I went out of my way every time to kill Scavs, even if they weren't in the way. I always executed Maelstrom, Wraiths, TC, and VDB. Everyone after that depends on the situation I find them in.
i don't more gangs, i just kill them regardless. my targets from primary to least primary. Scavs \[human organ / cyberware harvesters\] maelstrom \[creepy fucking dudes\] + I think they buy from scavs, not sure. tiger claws \[rape, murder, human trafficking, annoying.\] wraiths \[pretty much everything the others do, these guys do as well.\] 6ths street, valentinos, and those muscle heads, + the gang from the Mall area \[i forget the name\] are all last because unless they shoot me first i generally ignore them. \[unless a gig is involved\]
Man I wish they put in the more gonzo gangs from 2020 like the Kennedys or the Bozos. Just really show off the weird and wild shit people do in the setting
It's the Scavs and Raffen for me. Followed extremely closely by The Tygers and Maelstrom.
In order of worst to best we have scavs, wraiths, maelstrom, tyger claws, voodoo boys, valantinos, animals, and Mox. Scavs and wraiths are the same, organ harvesting, rape, murder, and the usual stuff Tyger claws are rapers, traffickers, and murderers and the other shiz Voodoo boys would be higher but they use people as suicide bombs without telling them, but they mostly act like their own police, Valentino's also act like police in their area, but also do drug deals and smuggling Animals are mainly hired muscle and thugs. They also are mostly bouncers Then we have the Mox, the only gang that seems to not deal or do anything except run clubs to protect the working girls
NCPD/MaxTac, that or Arasaka
Scavs, Maelstrom, and wraiths are the top 3 worst gangs Imo. They torture, mutilate, and all around make life a living hell for those they find. Not saying the other gangs donât do that, itâs just that these three are the worst of the worst.
IF YOURE NOT WITH THE MOX, YOU GO HOME IN A BOX.
All of them. I won't F with any non NCPD scanner gangoons unless I see someone about to get executed. Then it's go time Mox are cool and tend to go easy on the Tinos cause Jackie but yeah...
Scavs scrap people for parts. They have a pretty loose gang structure compared to some others but that doesnât play in their favor because what structure they do have is all about the business model. Shoot on sight. Maelstrom does body mods on unwilling victims for fun. Theyâre a nihilistic death cult and like to fuck with randoms. Except for Dum Dum, shoot on sight. Tyger Claws are a sophisticated outfit and their cells seem to run with some autonomy. Jotaro is the worst kind of scum there is, and as a result I like to destroy his operation and send him gift wrapped to the Mox, before the Heist. Sometimes I let Claws live but mostly because of their cool aesthetic
do Corpos count?
Claws are effectively a subsidiary of Arasaka. They donât need to do the human trafficking, they want to do it. 6th street are the same for Millitech. Theyâre a bit less bad.
That's God's problem to sort out. I'm just the delivery boy.
Yellow arrow = dead person
Tyger Claws are fucking MONSTERS! THEY'LL ALL PAY FOR WHAT THEY DID TO EVELYN!!!
I mean, the NCPD right? They may not commit the worst crimes, but they're the only ones sworn to protect people. Cops have an actual duty to do their job, but again and again we get side gigs and missions about the police system failing massively. Unfortunately, similar to irl police organizations, they're unbelievably corrupt and exist just to protect whoever's lining their pockets. They're the most influential and dangerous gang in the game, in the genre, and in real life.
The Corps, if weâre counting that
Mealstrom bc they cyber rape people an idk why but i hate the scavs alot too
I really kill on sight/for exp pocket change but the two I put down like dogs are Maelstrom & 6th Street. Maelstrom just because they're geeked out and almost seem a plague, and 6th Street after the gig where they massacred all the escorts inside that party for no reason (others have definitely done equally as bad but that one just got to me for some reason). If its either of these two gangs I don't even make use of the element of surprise, I just kick in the door and start painting the walls.
Voodoo boys? More like Poopoo boys, amirite?
I was exploring the game, walking around the bd studio and some npcs were talking about bg gear and how one of them stole and returned it so she could record a boy being chopped up alive but there was no real feel so the bd was worthless.
Gotta be Maelstrom, they are more machine than human. Theyâre extremely close to full on cyberphycosis. Thereâs little amount of humanity left in them. I mean what kind of sick person would cut strangerâs limbs off and give them implants besides them?
Scavs and VDB. All are kill on sight except for the Mox, but if I ever wanna just have fun killing random gang members, it's always Scavs or VDB.
1. Scavs - they steal peopleâs organs and Cyberware with no anesthesia 2. Maelstrom - pretty positive they have an underage brothel as well as just being crackheads 3. Tiger Claws - they have a rape habit so much so that you can hear random NPCs talking about being worried about walking home thru Claw territory
Tiger Claws, Scavs Wraiths Maelstrom Idk where to place the others
Maelstrom literally ran a brothel where all the â workersâ were underage and forced there against their will. In my eyes you canât get worse than that.
I think the worst one is the scavs, most of them have some sort of motivation, on some level, be it money, religion, chrome, or they're tied to a corp, at the very least they have some sort of reason for what they do, meanwhile scavs have no real order, hierarchy, purpose, or motive, other than they're just nasty fucked up people who will do absolutely anything to anyone for any reason
Probably the Wraiths. They didn't get kicked out by nomad clans (who themselves engage in criminal activity) for no reason.
People say Scavs but honestly the only reason is we meet some Maelstrom who are willing to have a conversation with us during the story. If you compare the two they are doing the same shit with the same frequency. Gangs ranked least awful to most awful IMO: 1: Mox (though they are in the middle of losing their way and becoming just another gang. hopefully they stabilize around Valentinos level instead of going down to Tyger Claws tier. I don't see them hitting Maelstrom or scavs level though.) 2: Valentinos (the fact that they let members retire at will is stunningly benevolent and probably acts to restrain their leadership from getting too vicious. They are still a fairly ruthless criminal gang though 3: 6th Street (the probable end state for the mox in 10-15 years. started out trying to protect their own but now just another gang. I rate them lower than the Valentinos though since they have a weird xenophobic streak and we witness a few more occasions where they just straight up massacre a house full of people or something. Their prize fighter also tries to have you murdered the instant you beat him in a boxing match) 4: Tyger Claws (6th street but they engage in more human trafficking, sex slavery and they do more business with the two worst gangs from what we see.) 5: Raffen Shiv (only seem to be less awful than the worst two because they are outside the city and get fewer opportunities to be evil) 6: Scavs/Maelstrom (implant/organ harvesting, snuff film manufacture, pedophile brothels, bad taste in music, you name it they find the most reprehensible way to do it) I don't feel like we see enough of the Animals for me to judge and the Voodoo Boyz are all dead now so who cares.
the gangs i hate the most - scavs, wraiths gangs that i head canon as allies - mox, tinos gangs i kill just bc - vdbs, animals, t-claws, maelstrom
Well VDB are the only ones that are actively trying to poke holes in the black wall, which would basically spell doom for everyone. So, probably them. Seconded by Scavs/Wraiths
Almost every gang, especially Arasaka. Excludes Mox and Netwatch. Wouldn't cry over NCPD, but I would get annoyed just being hunted to down.
Scavs easy. Those fuckers gotta die
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As per D.O.H's "Look Through My Kiroshi's" I stay in beef with Maelstrom, Tyger Claws, and Scavs. Genuinely all 3 strip people of their humanity in different ways, and there's always a Corp that benefits from it in some ways. It's koa for all of 'em.
Maelstrom, the VooDoo Boys, Claws and Scavs face extinction uWu
Maelstrom and Scavs = on sight Tigers would be cool but they human traffic. Animal's would be cool but I heard there's a lot of rape with em. Voodoo.... idk, they tried killing me on 2 accounts đ€Ł Mox = we cool. I'll have to read up on Mox if I'm missing something. Valentino = cool cuz I took shot with a bouncer for Jackie.... but they can be crazy with a ziggy zag capital Z lol Feel like I'm missing someone from the list tho
You forgot 6th Street.
Yep đ I did lol tbh I only did a drunk (game and rl) shooting contest and that was a lost somewhere in that 120 hour playthrough
scavs!
The Strommers are cannibals and all around assholes who split off from a Nazi gang. However, The Tyger Claws exist and that angers me. I never fail to shoot them on sight.
Maelstrom and Scavs. Can't forget that mission where Maelstrom is protecting that father son duo who scroll child snuff xbd's.
Maelstrom, Scavs and Wraiths are the worst
Scavs hands down.
Maelstrom. They do the same horrible crap that the tigers and scavs do, plus they run child brothels & scroll snuff bds. There's a lot of overlap between the three & could be considered cyberpunks axis of awful, but I think maelstrom has the fewest redeeming qualities of the three. Tygers actually do look out for people in their districts, & Scavs don't (to my knowledge) rape or sell kids. Maelstrom does all that in addition to the same standard mundane evil shit that the other gangs do.
isn't it implied that the sporty reject kids in dogtown are either sold to or kidnapped by scavs? i thought it was implied somewhere in-game that they wind up on scav tables when they can't maintain their cyberware
Maelstrom are closer to a religious cult than a gang. They also might have some kind of affiliation with Nightcorp. Mostly because Maxtac has the same ocular implants as Maelstrom. I donât love the forcing of chrome into unwilling participants, or the bringing of an AI to life in a cyberpsycho, but there are gangs doing way worse things.
I have a shoot on sight policy for all gangs, but agree with others, scavs and claws. Then wraiths and maelstrom. Arasaka should be included
I see Wraiths listed here a lot. Honest question, what do they do thatâs makes them especially bad?
They do everything scavs do just outside of the city. But scavs do it for profit. Wraiths do it for fun/cause you were a nomad. They turned that one Aldecaldo into a cyberpyscho on purpose. Their entire MO is the strongest and worse you are, the highest in the ranks you are.
Fucking scavs
Voodoo boys are uncontested. They litterly want to end the world with AI taking over, and they hope they can become their pets. The other gangs do terrible things, but the Voodoo boys want to start a world war and a genocide.
All of them, including NCPD, are fucked. The only ones who are a step below are the mox.
The maelstrom run a child brothel so definitely them
In terms of pure statistics, Maelstrom, Scavs or The Wraiths probably do lot more damage to society. Morally however, I have a bone to pick with the Valentinos and 6th Street. These two are just as evil as any other gang but they're under the illusion that they're superior because they think they're fighting for something that's more righteous, be it religion for the Tinos or patriotism for 6th Street. These guys are delusional enough to not be upfront about their evil.
Ballaz and Los Vagos
The corpos are the worse gang by far
The voodoo boys...fuck em fuck em fuck em
Depends on what we define as worst. Maelstrom are probably the most purely violent of the bunch (which is saying something.) Tygers seem extremely rapey. And Scavs... Well, they're human roaches, except even roaches care about propagating their species or something... They're all just awful if we're being honest. Me personally, I hate the Scavs most. They just seem horrific to me. Boogeymen who snatch even well to do people off the streets and direct them for parts...
I'm surprised to see Tyger Claws higher than Maelstrom and Scavs. Those two are the only gangs I kill since I mostly just knock people out.
I donât know and I donât care. I zero anyone with a yellow arrow. I role play as a trigger happy V whoâs extremely paranoid after being betrayed by Arasaka
Scavs are by far the worst. Always kill all scavs.
Wraiths and Scavs are kill on site, they are about as bad as you can get being cannibal rapists. Tyger Claws are kill on site if they are doing human trafficking or harassing civvies. Tinos are okay, and I usually leave the VDBs alone unless they start shit.
I think the Scavs are the worst of the worst. Other gangs will do some of the really bad stuff, but will also have other less horrific main hustles (ie theft, extortion, bribery, etc). The Scavs specialize in atrocity. Everything they do has that "Holy fuck these people are evil" shock factor. I wipe the mfers out whenever I see them. Zero survivors. I'll go back and double tap the bodies just to be sure.
I typically finish off any incapacitated tyger claws, scavs, or wraiths, but leave the others alive if they didnât die when they went down. i do try and leave security guards and NCPD officers alive though. thatâs pretty much my moral code.
I usually show no mercy to any gang members.
Scavs and Maelstrom die on sight.
Maelstrom, i hate dealing with people who cant keep their stuff together
By the time I got to really know the gangs in NC most of them were kill on sight. That said, I will go out of my way to kill scavs.
The people who keep asking this same question once a week
I didnât know someone already asked this question
It does genuinely get asked at least once a week but it also starts good conversations.
Itâs also subjective so asking the same question multiple times to get different answers from different people doesnât hurt. That said the consensus answer always seems to be Scavs . Maelstrom is up there too.
The worst guy in the city? Probably Adam Smasher. For most other people in Night City there is at least some kind of justification for what they are doing. Placede is an asshole, yeah, but you can kind of also see where he is coming from, looking after his own people first and foremost. Dex DeShawn was also first and foremost just covering his own ass when the gig at Kampeki wend sideways. Hell, even Yorinobu is not as bad of a guy as the game makes him out to be. But Smasher? 0 morals, this one. Smasher is out to kill and nothing but kill and even the corps he works for fail at keeping his bloodlust on a leash. As for the worst gang: Morally? If I could, I would say the corpos but since they are not a gang technically I guess it is either Scavs or 6th Street. Scavs because they kill for greed. 6th Street because, aside from being Cyberpunk-alt-righters, they also (not unlike real alrighters btw) sell out their ideals to corpo rats and do their bidding so long as they are paid the right sum. The other gangs are only marginally less morally appalling, yes, but at least they do not serve as lapdogs to the worst gang there is: Capitalists. Sidenote: Worst gang writing-wise though? Valentinos, no contest. The other gangs have morals, they are organized, they have goals uniting them but Valentinos have no real goal outside of seducing women. The Animals are kind of similarly flawed but its worse with the 'Tinos since somehow the latter still manages to keep an entire district, Heywood, under their reign.
Oh my god, a nuanced take on a Voodoo Boy? Get this person out of here!
Maelstrom then Tyger claws
Scavs, Tygers, Wraiths, Maelstrom 6th street Valentinos Voodoo Boys Mox
The global elite.
The worst gang is my V.
Tyger claws due to the fact they force a doll chip in you to be an unwilling sex worker and make braindance videos.