Suomi

Overview

Suomi is subpar in almost every possible way, making for a very disappointing unit. She does have some use as a tank against bosses, however, meaning she isn’t completely irredeemable.

Suomi’s kit is all around mediocre for several reasons. While her high HP is a good quality for a tank to have, her low Evasion means she won’t be dodging many attacks. This further affects her Skill, which buffs her low Evasion after a whopping 6 second initial cooldown, all but guaranteeing she’ll be hit hard before her Skill even activates. When combined with subpar buff tiles, the result is an all-around lackluster kit that doesn’t excel in most situations particularly well. The sole exception to this is boss tanking, as Suomi’s high HP and Skill allow her to absorb a lot of damage while dodging most attacks – assuming she survives 6 seconds into the battle.

Strengths

Incredibly High HP

While other stats can be somewhat compensated for through various means, HP is the only stat that cannot be changed. Therefore, a high base HP is a good trait in any tank.

Weaknesses

Subpar Evasion

Suomi’s Evasion is way below average, making it hard for her to tank, even though that’s the primary role she is meant to fill. 

Bad Skill

Suomi’s skill increases her Evasion by 150%, but it has a 6 second cooldown, almost guaranteeing she’ll be hit hard before it activates.

Subpar Tiles

Suomi buffs ARs with RoF and Accuracy. While RoF buffs are useful to some ARs, it does not synergize with many others, and Accuracy buffs are overall useless to ARs.

Full Analysis

Suomi is a very mediocre unit with barely any positive qualities.

To start off, while Suomi’s kit seems focused on Evasion tanking as much as possible, there are multiple qualities that prevent her from doing this efficiently, the first being her Skill. Its first problem is its lengthy initial cooldown. The best SMGs have short cooldown Skills in order to reduce as much incoming damage as possible, but because Suomi has a Skill with a 6 second initial cooldown, she’ll more than likely be hit several times before her Skill actually procs. In addition, it’s likely that her Skill won’t even get to see full uptime, making it overall very inefficient. Another downside to her Skill is the buff itself, which increases Suomi’s Evasion by 150%. As most lategame enemies have incredibly high Accuracy, pure Evasion tanking is possibly one of the worst ways to tank the further you get into the game. Other SMGs that instead use Smoke or Stun Grenades at least have other ways of mitigating damage, even if these Skills have their own downsides.

Another blemish in Suomi’s kit is her stats. To be fair, Suomi doesn’t have as bad stats as her Skill -- her very high HP stat at 220 per dummy is one of the highest values out of SMGs. HP is a very important stat for tanks, as while Evasion can be somewhat compensated for through equipment and various other means, there’s no way to increase max HP. This, however, unfortunately does not make up for, her incredibly low Evasion. Even though HP is the more important stat for tanks, SMGs still require some level of Evasion tanking to sustain their HP since they have no way of mitigating damage like SGs do. Suomi’s low base Evasion also hurts her Skill’s effectiveness by quite a bit. Even if a 150% increase is impressive, a high multiplier of a low value still equals an underwhelming result.

Suomi’s tile buffs don’t help her case much either. She buffs diagonally, which makes her hard to use as a subtank as she won’t end up buffing the main damage dealer from the subtank position. In addition, her buffs are for 15% RoF and 30% Accuracy. As Accuracy buffs have diminishing returns the higher the stat goes, Accuracy buffs on ARs, who already have high Accuracy, are near useless. While the RoF buff isn’t bad, it isn’t very flexible, as it ends up being useless on many ARs with self-buff RoF Skills.

One use that Suomi does have is prolonged battles against enemies with mediocre Accuracy, which are usually bosses. If Suomi can sustain her health for the first 6seconds of the battle, her Evasion will be boosted to levels high enough to dodge virtually every hit with her Skill while her high HP allows her to take a couple of hits. Since the amount of these kinds of battles in the game is rather low, though, it is hard to recommend investing in Suomi since she isn’t suited for general use..

Overall Suomi is a largely substandard unit that’s difficult to use in most scenarios.

Team Options

Vector

Skorpion

ST AR-15

Gr G41

FF FNC

Z-62

Gr G11

Type95

SR-3MP

• Offtank SMGs - As Suomi fulfills the role of main tank, she needs someone to fill the position of offtank in the Echelon. Some examples are Vector and SR-3MP.

• ARs - Although Suomi does appreciate Evasion buffs from ARs to make up for her paltry Evasion stat, it doesn’t matter as much which ARs are used with her as dealing more damage is more important than having her tank better. Examples include G11, G41 and Type 95.

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