[@Lugubrious]

If we're going by DMC/action game rules, proper etiquette mandates mook waves before sub-bosses before bosses. Even then, I don't really need to worry about Tickler, because Gene's got that locked down what with the liver shot and all. Lastly, having Devil Arms doesn't really matter if you're a total scrub. And these are nameless mooks. Therefore, total scrubs, no matter how fancy their guns.

As an aside, where'd you get a mook army's worth of Devil Arms? They only spawn from rather powerful demons. Even the Order of the Sword, which was an extremely powerful organization concerned with fighting said demons and [i]taking over the world[/i] only managed to find four on its own. One of which was snapped in half. Hell, even [i]Dante's[/i] collection numbers at maybe ten.