416

Overview

416 Mod comes to show she will still be all you need, even when AR Team mods exist. Her improved initial cooldown and unparalleled grenade strength with its secondary explosion make her incredibly potent in a variety of scenarios. At Mod III she has strong base stats that, coupled with both SPEQs, makes her DPS comparable with sustained ARs. Her Skill either cements her position as top Grenadier when she manages to activate her secondary grenade, or gives a burst damage amp that the whole team, and even HOCs, can take advantage of.

In essence 416 Mod becomes a great hybrid unit that excels as a grenadier and works well as a sustained DPS AR. Commanders absolutely should raise her, at the very least to Mod II.

AR chip

With the release of the AR chips, investing in acquiring her SPEQ, and enhancing it, becomes a matter of how much 416 Mod will be used. Trading 25+ ROF, 15+ FP and -50% critical damage for +10% critical damage and 25+ FP (post buff rework) certainly cements 416 Mod as the top AR in Ranking and Horde killing. However, that comes bundled with the cost of getting a 6 star unit to Mod III, and an equipment with thrice the cost to level.
Her SPEQ is a big help in Ranking, and other situations that demand as much DPS as possible, but if Commanders lack the FCCs to Mod III 416, or won’t field her in high stakes situations, her SPEQ may either be left at +0 or be skipped entirely by leaving her at Mod II.

Strengths

She is all you need in Strong Stats

WIth both her SPEQs and a HV equipped and maxed, on top of great base stats, 416 Mod has 83 FP, 79 ROF and 65 Accuracy, which means her stats are comparable to the best ARs in the game. For contrast, AR-15 at Mod III, with both her SPEQs, sits at 75 FP, 78 RoF and 75 Accuracy while AK-12, another AR with excellent base stats, sits at 76 FP, 78 RoF and 62 Accuracy.

She is all you need in Burst Damage

Her first burst is at the 6s mark when she fires her grenade. That allows her to kill otherwise dangerous backline enemies, such as Gunners or damage/significantly weaken High HP frontline enemies such as Guards or the Punishers (Mirror Stage). This is dependent upon grenade target however.

Her second burst comes in the form of a damage amp of 20% that her Skill offers when the target of her grenade isn’t killed. It can be taken advantage of by other team members, and even HOCs, meaning that she provides a meaningful damage boost for the entire team during the 3 seconds it's active. Essentially, 416 goes from a bad choice against bosses to a decent option.

She is all you need in 12-4E

416 Mod is the best DPS for corpse dragging 12-4E for a number of reasons: first and most importantly she has a cooldown of 6s, which means that she can one-shot some nodes before the enemies have a chance to shoot. Secondly, her secondary grenade, which is procced if she kill her main target, thins out the enemies left alive by grenade targeting RNG, which means less enemies to wipe out, and less enemies to shoot at the SG tank.

She is all you need in Grenadier AR class

416 Mod’s has numerous increments: great base stats, an SPEQ with crit damage buff (and FP buff post rework), a 6 star 16x grenade, and an initial cooldown reduction to 6s when she is modded. That means she manages to handle the ballooning HP in later content better by having a strong FP and grenade multiplier, while other Grenadiers struggle to keep up.

She also enables RF+Grenadier teams, and does well against groups of beefy enemies paired with dangerous enemies, like Gladiators + Gunners seen in Shattered Connextion Ranking, where she kills enemies (Gunners in this case) that would otherwise give trouble to a standard RF team.

Her Singularity SPEQ is all you need

Her SPEQ provides 25% crit rate, 8 FP and 14 Accuracy at max. It not only fixes her below average Accuracy, but also makes her grenade even more potent. It actually competes with a maxed VFL, thanks to the FP buff, even though it has a lower crit rate buff.

In practice, 416 has similar DPS with either scopes. The advantage of her SPEQ, however, becomes evident when she shoots her grenade, which may be the difference between one-shotting beefy enemies or not.

Weaknesses

She is all you need in expensive equipments

Having 2 SPEQs, Tactical Hairband and EOT XPS3 (also known as Hybrid Sights) means that maxing her equipment is significantly more expensive, compared to standard equipment. Commanders should focus on levelling her EOT SPEQ first, as it has a more significant contribution to her DPS than her Hairband does.

She isn’t all you need among us 6 star units

Being a 6 star unit means that she is prohibitively expensive to raise to Mod III, especially because of how limited FCCs supplies are. Commanders are advised to level her to Mod II first, and only Mod III her when they have FCCs to spare.

Team Options

Vector

JS 9

X95

Despite now being able to buff Position 5 when she is on Position 1, buffing only FP means that the maintank rarely, if ever, uses it. Thus, the same standards for her premod version apply.

RF+Grenadier setup is a niche setup that's a case of role compression to fight enemies that have a high armour or high HP single targets, as well as high HP mobs that would give a typical RFHG team trouble. Those enemies can either be paired up, such as Gunners and Gladiators comps seen in Shattered Connexion ranking, or separate compositions that shows up in the same area of a mission map. 416 Mod helps at thining out the mobs with her 6s ICD Grenade and to a lesser extent her second grenade.

For that, she is usually left at Position 7 so HGs on Positions 5 and 2 can benefit from RF cooldown reduction tiles.

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