The Best Battery Powered Nerf Guns 2023

Making its way to the top of the list, the Rival Nemesis is a high-performance and fully automatic beast that is perfect for heavy gunners and precision players alike.

The Nemesis shoots soft foam balls called High-Impact Rounds, and with its inboard hopper, it’s rated to carry 100 balls—however you can easily fit up to 130.

Like most Rival series guns, the Nemesis is exceptionally accurate and can rocket rounds at a whopping 100 fps at four rounds per second!

The gun itself is very comfortable to hold and includes a built-in stock and a Rival tactical rail on top for accessories—such as a red dot sight.

6 D-cell batteries power the Nemesis; however, it is also compatible with Nerf’s Rival Rechargeable Battery, which gives the gun more power and increases the fire rate!

Additionally, it is ambidextrous, so the gun will feel great regardless if you’re right-handed or left-handed.

If you’re serious about slinging some foam, the Nerf Rival Nemesis is your huckleberry!

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The Nerf Modulus Stryfe is a re-release of the insanely popular, but recently discontinued Strike Elite Stryfe—with some upgrades!

This automatic Nerf pistol focuses on customizability and can be upgraded using any N-Strike Modulus accessories.

Out of the box, the Modulus Stryfe comes with six elite nerf darts, a six-round magazine, and two accuracy-increasing attachments—the IonFire barrel extension and the Drop Grip.

It has two tactical rails—one under the barrel and another on top—for extensions such as scopes, flashlights, foregrips, or even dart storage, and is also compatible with shoulder stocks and barrel extensions.

The Modulus Stryfe has an impressive fire rate of 3-4 darts per second and can shoot up to 90 feet.

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The Elite 2.0 Phoenix easily takes the prize for the best budget battery-powered nerf gun, but don’t let that fool you. This gun is a true gem that is highly customizable and very similar to the fan-favorite Stryfe!

Rocking a blue and orange theme, this automatic nerf gun is semi-automatic and can wail darts up to 90 feet at 70 fps.

The stock magazine holds up to six elite darts, but the gun is compatible with any N-Strike magazine—such as a 30 dart drum!

It also has attachment points for a shoulder stock and longer barrel, as well as five tactical rails—two on top, two on each side of the gun, and one below the barrel—that can be upgraded with any N-strike attachments such as assault grips, red dots, or ammo clips.

The NERF Elite 2.0 Phoenix CS-6 easily shoots above its class and is an excellent battery nerf gun when you don’t want to break the bank.

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Prometheus was the Greek Titan god of forethought who molded humanity from clay and brought us the gift of fire—this nerf gun is no less significant.

The Nerf Rival Prometheus is a beautifully designed, fully automatic monster that carries 200 High-Impact Rival Rounds, and rockets 8 rounds per second at 90 FPS—making it one of the most powerful and terrifying Nerf guns around.

One of its best features is the massive hopper on top that includes a large reloading door. You can literally dump handfuls of balls back into your gun and be back in action within seconds.

The gun includes 2 tactical rails for Rival attachments and includes a rechargeable battery and battery indicator light.

The Rival Prometheus is one of the more costly guns on this list, but regardless, this gun is top tier and you get a ton of firepower for your money.

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Nerf may be the most well-known name in dart blasters, but there are some other companies out there releasing some very cool dart guns!

One such gun is the high-velocity Dart Zone Pro MK-3 which can fire darts at an incredible 140 feet per second!

It has a 15 dart capacity and is compatible with any N-Strike magazines so you can easily drop a 30 drum in this bad boy!

Something really cool about this gun is that with the flip of a switch you can toggle between full-automatic and semi-automatic.

In semi-auto mode, it has a snappy action with little delay between pulling the trigger and the dart being released—which makes it a very tactical precision nerf blaster.

With the Pro MK-3, you get two types of darts—long darts for semi-auto precision and short darts for full-auto spray and pray! Both the short and long darts come with their own magazine.

In addition to being an amazing dart blaster, it also comes with a nice rubber grip, a functioning red dot sight, and a comfortable shoulder stock.

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If you want to leave nothing to chance and upgrade your blaster will all the bells and whistles, you’ll definitely want to check out the Nerf Modulus ECS-10.

This gun is an awesome upgrade to the extremely popular Stfye and adds more customizability and an increase in accuracy due to its longer barrel.

This semi-automatic blaster can fire nerf darts up to 90 feet at 70 fps! It holds 10 Elite Darts in a banana magazine and can be upgraded with any N-Strike magazine or drum.

Additionally, the shoulder stock can carry an extra magazine for hasty reloading! However, one drawback to the stock is the thin orange connectors are rather flexible and bendy—which can be offputting to some. But you can always upgrade the stock with any other N-Strike compatible shoulder stock.

There are 7 total tactical rails on the Modulus—three on top, two on the bottom, and two on each side of the blaster. Included with this blaster are a top optic sight, foregrip, barrel extension, shoulder stock, and 10 Elite darts.

If you’re looking to deck out your gun, the Modulus leaves nothing on the table!

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If you want to bunker down at your base and bravely defend it against hoards of enemies, the Nerf N-Strike Elite Rhino-Fire is your ultimate weapon!

This fully automatic mammoth holds two 25-dart drums on both sides of the gun and fires rounds up to 90 feet through two individual turrets. These turrets also alternative back and forth between shots to really sell the heavy-gunner experience!

The Rhino-Fire also includes an awesome tripod that is removable in case you need to take your beast for a walk. Additionally, this blaster has 3 tactical rails—an extra-long rail centered on top and two above each magazine insert.

You can also upgrade the included 25-round drums to any other N-Strike magazine—such as two 50-round drums. That’s 100 darts!

If you want to spray lines of foam that your enemy can never hope to cross, the Rhino will get the job done! Due to its amazing firepower, this is now one of the most expensive Nerf guns!

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If you need some heavy fire-power the Nerf Modulus Demolisher is a satisfying way to bombard tougher targets!

This semi-automatic blaster can rocket darts up to 90 feet at 70 fps, but what makes it truly unique is the pump-action missile launcher built into the bottom of the gun that can nuke a target up to 50 feet away!

The Demolisher includes 2 foam missiles, 10 Elite Darts, and a 10-round banana mag—which can be upgraded with any N-Strike magazine or drum. Can you say 50 rounds?

Includes a detachable shoulder stock that gives the gun a tactical feel and has a slot to store your secondary missile. The stock can also be swapped out with any N-Strike stocks.

This battery-powered nerf blaster also has two tactical rails—one on top and another on the right side of the blaster—that can be upgraded with N-Strike accessories such as ammo clips, flashlights, or even red dot optics.

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The Nerf Rival Perses MXIX-5000 is a fully automatic, SMG-type blaster with a huge hopper capable of holding 50 Rival rounds—small yellow foam balls.

The Perses has an insane fire rate of 8 rounds per second at 100 fps, which means you can blow your entire hopper of 50 balls in about 7 seconds!

The hopper also has a massive door on top that makes dumping handfuls of rounds back into the gun a breeze! Within seconds you can be back in action pew-pewing and filling the air with high-velocity foam!

This blaster comes with a rechargeable battery, one tactical rail below the barrel, and has an ambidextrous design for both left-handed and right-handed users.

The Rival Perses is a ton of fun and terrifying to encounter as an enemy!

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Named after the mighty, but extinct Mastodon, the Nerf N-Strike Mega Mastodon is a powerful blaster that is a blast to use! With every bullet, there is a powerful and vibrant thud that reverberates through the air.

It’s big, bad, and heavy—not exactly your run-and-gun blaster!

The Mastodon uses a 24-dart drum, fires Nerf’s large Mega Darts at 80 feet per second, and is one of the only fully automatic Nerf Mega blasters.

It comes with 24 Mega Darts, a shoulder strap, and includes three tactical rails—two on top and one underneath the barrel.

This massive Nerf gun has sadly been discontinued, but there are still quite a few on the market—so get yours before they go extinct like the animal they were named after.

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Last, but certainly not least, is the mad-horse of the motorized nerf gun world, the NERF Hyper Mach-100!

This awesome Hyper series blaster shoots Hyper Rounds, which are very similar to NERF’s Rival Rounds, but smaller and made of soft rubber—making this the hardest-hitting battery-powered motorized Nerf blaster there is!

But don’t worry, they don’t hurt, but you will definitely know if you’re hit.

The Hyper Mach-100 is marketed to hold 80 rounds in its hopper, however, you can easily fit up to 100 without any issues.

This blaster also has a large hopper window that allows you to easily reload by dumping handfuls of balls back into the gun! One drawback of this gun is that its hopper feed system is a little wanky and the rubber Hyper rounds tend to stick to each other.

Overall, if you want to bring the pain, the Hyper Mach-100 delivers!

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