AK-12/Strategy

AK-12

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Individual Performance

Skill

Snow Wolf's Gaze is AK-12's unique skill, upon activation AK-12's damage, rate of fire, accuracy and critical hit rate are all increased by a maximum of 35%, as oppose to the usual single / dual stats increase skill on other AR T-dolls. Her own damage output is boosted by a great magnitude when this skill is active.

The skill itself takes 6 seconds to activate, lasts for 5 seconds and the reactivation delay is 8 seconds. This means AK-12 will benefit from the skill effect for 5 seconds and only has to wait 3 seconds for it to be available again. In terms of total skill empowered uptime this skill is the same as the typical 10s duration 16s total cooldown style skills, 62.5% of total uptime. But AK-12 activate her skill later than most other AR dolls, with 6s initial cooldown.

Stats

For an AR unit, all of AK-12's attributes (except HP) are rated above average, combined with her S rank growth rate, she boasts a very formidable stats at max level when compared to all the other AR type dolls, her stats are considered remarkable even when compared only to 5* rarity AR dolls. Comparison graph listed below, green indicates AK-12, red indicates AR average, while orange indicates average stats from 5* rarity AR dolls only (excluding dolls that reached 5* rarity through digimind upgrades).

Combat Performance

At max skill level, AK-12 is capable of reaching 92%(27% without telescopic) crit rate, 105 cyclic rate of fire on skill activation. The 35% damage increase may not seen significant when compared to other AR units but the crit rate and rate of fire boost alone is enough to boost AK-12's damage output by a large margin. The effectiveness and the short cooldown of her skill, combined with her high innate attribute, AK-12's damage output at late game places her among the top ARs in terms of damage output in the game.

Formation

Tile Bonus

AK-12 features a very large front row buff tile, she provides offensive orientated buffs, increases damage and rate of fire attributes suitable for offensive type SMG units.

Tiles

Affects Submachine guns

Increases damage by 25%

Increases rate of fire by 15%

High magnitude

AK-12's tile bonuses are considered high for how many tile it effects, she is able to provide 25% damage and 15% rate of fire for up to 3 SMG units.

T-Doll ^AR G36G36  has a similar tile bonus to AK-12, capable of providing 30% damage and 10% rate of fire, to an extend it is more desirable than AK-12's due to the fact that SMGs have high rate of fire by default. But however G36 can only provide such bonus to a maximum of two SMGs, the smaller tile also mean G36 is less flexible in terms of placement when compared to AK-12.

Flexible placement

AK-12 is often placed in position 1 within an echelon, so the entire front row benefits from her bonus tiles. However similar to G36's case, despite the tile coverage is large, having more than one DPS type SMG in one echelon will have reduce the chance of the squadron's survival, so realistically AK-12's boost only really applies to one frontal SMG unit, since the main tank benefits little from damage and rate of fire.

For players who enjoys running more than one DPS SMG in the echelon AK-12 is great news to them, a full frontal coverage tile of damage and rate of fire bonus boosting up to three DPS SMG units is pretty much everything they could ask for.

For standard ARSMG echelons AK-12 can actually be placed directly behind the DPS SMG doll for the sake of better protection and to receive their tile bonus, since she can boost the tile directly in front of her. Even if not all the tiles are being used, a large coverage tile contributes to the idea of flexible placement, meaning AK-12 is more compatible with ARSMG echelons since she can be placed easily.

A good comparison example being ^AR K2K2 's tile shape, despite having the high magnitude 25% damage and 50% accuracy bonus, K2 is not able to buff the tile directly in front of her, which restricts her potential placement within an echelon.

Compatibility

The primarily tile bonus AK-12 should be receiving is damage. Being able to reach 105 cyclic rate of fire means any additional rate of fire bonus will likely push AK-12 over the 120 cap, no more than one rate of fire tile bonus should be given to AK-12 for the sake of not wasting bonuses. Though keep in mind AK-12 is able to reach 100% crit rate on skill activation with just one critical hit rate tile boost. Providing other bonuses can easily exceed AK-12's own stats and hit the cap, the only real viable option for AK-12 is boosting damage.

Examples of dolls with damage boosting tiles such as ^SMG Type 79Type 79 , ^SMG PP-19PP-19  and ^AR AUGAUG .

Examples of dolls with critical hit rate tiles are ^SMG SR-3MPSR-3MP , ^HG Five-seveNFive-seveN  and ^SMG JS 9JS 9 .

^SMG UMP45UMP45 , ^HG PythonPython  and ^SMG Honey BadgerHoney Badger  has damage and critical hit rate bonus on their tile.

Skill sync with Ribeyrolles

It is worth mentioning that AK-12's 6 second initial skill cooldown syncs very well with ^AR RibeyrollesRibeyrolles 's skill which is also of a 6 second initial, if auto cast is toggled, every odd number casts of AK-12's skill will be synced with Ribeyrolles' skill cast. Ribeyrolles provides a very hefty rate of fire bonus to anyone standing on her tiles at the time of skill activation, pushing AK-12 to the 120 RoF cap right away. Though the downside to Ribeyrolles' skill is that dolls are locked in place, moving out of her bonus tile will resulting in not receiving the RoF boost at the time of activation. Down side is with Ribeyrolles as part of the echelon, RoF bonuses from SMG tiles may go to waste. It is debatable that AN-94 benefits from Ribeyrolles more than AK-12 does.

Ribeyrolles' interesting tile shape allows AK-12 to benefit from both the increasing damage tile buff, and the RoF skill boost while standing in slot 1.

Equipment

Slot 1

VFL 6-24x56	With a fully upgraded telescopic sight equipped AK-12 is able to reach 92% crit rate on her own, equipping a telescopic sight will boost AK-12's damage output far greater than other optic types.
PEQ-16A	Even high innate accuracy and additional bonuses will not help during night sorties when all player unit's accuracy are reduced by 90%, AK-12 cannot effectively deal with high mobility enemies without a night combat optic.

Slot 2

APCR High-Velocity Ammo

Mandatory equipment for all ARs. Increasing damage will not only allow AK-12 to kill enemy units faster, but can also help her overcome enemy armor units.

Slot 3

IOP X4 Exoskeleton

Basic equipment for ARs. As ARs are not meant to be taking direct fire, it is best to reserve your best exoskeletons for dedicated tank classes like SMGs or high-evasion support classes like HGs. However if one plans to put AK-12 in the middle row where she might be more exposed to enemy fire, it is advised to take an X-type exoskeleton as it can drastically improve survivability without penalizing her offensive capabilities.