Water damaged so got new phone. Restore from iCloud? or Older iTunes backup?

Hi. My wife bricked her old iPhone 6 by water damage. We now have a new unactivated phone from Verizon. My question is...how should I restore her new phone? From her daily iCloud backup? Or from the older iTunes backup from a few months ago?
I've heard that iCloud restores don't typically restore everything like Photos, etc, so I'm wondering if I just try to restore from the older iTunes backup to get more of the photos back.
Any help would be appreciated.

If the photos were in the Camera Roll then they will be in the iCloud backup.
See here: iCloud: iCloud storage and backup overview

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