WA2000

Overview

WA2000 is a craftable five-star tsundere rifle that doesn’t like you or anything. She boasts amazing base stats that allow her to one-shot or two-shot most mobs with barely any Damage buffs, but her strengths don’t end there. WA’s relatively high base RoF helps her make good use of her Skill and other RoF buffs provided by HGs in the form of tiles and Skills, making her an amazing fit for almost any Echelon that uses RFs in its composition. Additionally, even though generally RFs as a whole have innately high Damage and Crit modifiers, WA2000’s fast firing nature allows her to perform extremely well when paired with hybrid buff (DMG/Crit & RoF) HGs or alternatively, a high Damage per shot approach with specialized Damage buffers can be taken. Due to her overall versatility and strength, WA2000 is one of the strongest generalists and should not be passed on.

Strengths

Great Stats

WA’s stat base is very strong across the board. Possessing 130 Damage and 39 RoF, WA2000’s stats perfectly complement her Skill.

Wonderful Skill

WA2000 carries the strongest Skill out of all RFs. Since her class has innately high Damage and Crit values that leads it to suffer from overkill, WA2000’s RoF self-buff helps her compensate for her single weakness. This makes it simply unmatched in effectiveness by any other RF Skill.

Amazing Generalist

It is no secret that RFs benefit from RoF the most due to their high Damage and Crit modifiers but rather low RoF. This fact makes WA2000 — the fastest firing RF in the game — an amazing RF for nearly all situations.

Full Analysis

For such a ruthless killing machine, WA2000 sure has unstable mood. She doesn’t let it affect her job in any way, though — she has a reputation to uphold!

WA2000’s stat base is the perfect balance between speed and strength. Sporting 130 base Damage and 39 RoF, she sees significant returns from any boosts to these stats. WA2000 does not need much RoF to reach the frame-imposed cap of 116 — an additional 70% RoF boost that can be provided mostly by tile buffs will suffice along with her Skill. Because of WA’s ease of reaching the RoF cap, she can get away with receiving hybrid buffs which boost her RoF and Damage/Crit Rate instead of needing to focus solely on boosting her RoF.

Another reason that WA2000 is so amazing is because of overkill, which is a problem that plagues the RF class as a whole. Overkill is the act of dealing too much damage to a single enemy — and RFs, with their generally high Damage but low RoF, will often perform worse than they should due to having high damage-dealing potential but low Rate of Fire. It is this stat distribution that prevents them from quickly switching from foe to foe, making them inefficient. RoF self-buff RFs, though, do not suffer from overkill as much due to their almost AR-like nature. WA2000 in particular happens to possess an extremely strong RoF self-buff Skill that completely nullifies overkill’s disadvantages, thus rendering her exempt of her to a weakness inherent in her class.

Additionally, in a game where the ability to deal damage is paramount, having one of the highest DPS among RFs and being able to quickly reach her peak performance in battle means WA2000 will rarely find herself outdone by any other RF. These strengths even help her perform in some niches such as boss-killing better than some RFs particularly geared for a specific job.

In summary, WA2000 is without a doubt one of the the strongest and most versatile RF in the game, and she features no particularly notable weaknesses. Due to her ability outperform any other RF throughout most stages of the game, it is impossible to not recommend her.

Team Options

Stechkin

Makarov

PPK

SVD

Grizzly

Calico M950A

Welrod MKII

Damage/RoF buffs

Due to WA2000’s ability to reach RoF cap with little assistance, it is recommended to pair her up with HGs that sacrifice overall buff strength to enhance two stats such as Stechkin, PPK and Makarov instead. Otherwise, a more specialized approach with Grizzly and Calico M950A could be taken. The latter provide a more satisfactory performance against heavily armored enemies and high HP targets such as bosses. 

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