If players want to get the best possible performance from their horse inRed Dead Redemption 2, then they are going to need to equip the best saddle and stirrups. There are countless saddles and stirrups, but the best of the bunch will offer players an immense increase in stamina, speed, and a reduction in drain rate.
The best saddle inRed Dead Redemption 2will provide players with an immense performance so that they can beat any race, counter any lawman or bounty hunter, and reach their destination with the wind behind them at incredible speeds.
Purchased Stirrups will not work with Pre-Purchased Saddles from the Trapper.
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The Panther Trail Saddle is arguably the best saddle inRed Dead Redemption 2due to its stats as a pre-purchased saddle. All players need for this saddle is a perfect panther pelt, and then they already have everything they need to dominate the competition. With so little required for this saddle, it’s a no-brainer when it comes to actually equipping this on your favorite horse.
The Panther Trail Saddle beats out the competition with its superior stats, boasting a massive increase to speed and acceleration, stamina regeneration, along with a reduction in stamina drain rate. No saddle compares to this beauty.
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The Bear Dakota Saddle is acquired after players manage to nab themselves a perfect bear pelt, and considering that’s all players need, they are already on their way to success. The Bear Dakota Saddle provides great stats for players, allowing them to easily negate the impact of stamina drain rates for the attribute and core.
Along with a slower drain of stamina, players can also enjoy a greater recovery of stamina regeneration along with a faster movement for the horse itself, providing a great performance for players all thanks to one bear in the wild.
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The Rattlesnake Vaquero Saddle might be a tad harder to grab as a pre-purchased saddle due to the fact that it requires a whopping 10 perfect snake skins, and considering horses are skittish around snakes and they are so low to the grass that they can be hard to spot until Arthur gets bitten by one, this is a hard challenge to master.
However, those who do manage to grab all 10 perfect snake skins will be able to purchase the Rattlesnake Vaquero Saddle, which is not thebest of the pre-purchasedsaddles, but it’s certainly a fine choice indeed. The stamina regeneration is exceptional, as is the core Health drain decrease, and core Stamina drain decrease.
The Alligator Ranch Cutter Saddle will perhaps be the easiest saddle that players can craft at the Trapper, since it just needs one perfect alligator skin. Considering the Trapper is located in Saint Denis, and the outskirts of Saint Deniscontains the Bayou Nwa, players are never going to be out of alligators to hunt.
The abundance of alligators makes crafting the Alligator Ranch Cutter Saddle all the easier, and the saddle itself provides great stat bonuses to the horse to warrant a faster performance as well as a more reliable trail at high speeds due to its increase in stamina.
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The Boar Mother Hubbard Saddle is extremely easy to obtain, as perfect boars can be found almost anywhere in Lemoyne, but more easily near the Bluewater Marsh and upper region of the Bayou Nwa near Saint Denis. Suchan easy animal to huntwith a rifle provides the Boar Mother Hubbard Saddle with just one pelt.
With the Boar Mother Hubbard Saddle, players are going to have an easy saddle to obtain that also has great stats that they can grab from as early as Chapter 2, upgrading the performance of their horse with stats to increase the stamina and health regen of the horse, along with faster speeds.
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While the Strenger Roping Saddle (Improved) might offer the best possible protection for core HP drain, the Gerden Vaquero Saddle (Improved) also gets the job done alongside great stats for the more important stat: Stamina. With the Gerden Vaquero Saddle (Improved), players will see an advantage to their health and stamina cores, as well as their stamina regeneration rate.
This saddle is best used on horses that don’t exactly have the best health cores, as although the increase to stamina regeneration is nice to overwork any steed, having a sustainable resource for the health core is essential for keeping horses alive, andit’s relatively cheap.
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The Gerden Trail Saddle (Improved) is amore expensivevariant of the stock version, but far superior in every way. Gerden Trail Saddle (Improved) provides the best core stamina drain, core HP drain, and stamina regeneration for the saddles that are not pre-purchased, meaning it can be best used alongside the best stirrups.
Having the Gerden Trail Saddle (Improved) might not provide the same effects as the pre-purchased saddles, but it’s cheap and effective, and doesn’t require players to hunt perfect pelts so that they can use it.
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The Hooded Stirrup are without a doubt, the best stirrups inRed Dead Redemption 2. The one objective of the Hooded Stirrup is to increase the power of the horsefor any challenge that awaitsby upgrading the speed and acceleration rate, along with a reduction to the core drain rate for stamina.
The Hooded Stirrup boasts the best performance for speed, acceleration, and drain rate, and for such a low price of $36. Players who purchase the Hooded Stirrup are in for an easy and good time, but customized stirrups can only be used on saddles that are not pre-purchased like the animal pelt saddles.
