STEN MkⅡ is a Hand Grenade SMG, dealing medium impact damage in a medium sized AoE with a low ICD.

Hand Grenades deal the same initial impact damage as Incendiary Grenades’ initial impact, but deal far less total damage as their slightly bigger AoE does not make up for the loss of burning damage. As SMGs already have very low Damage stats, Incendiary Grenades are preferred over Hand Grenades in the early game, and both fall off hard in the late game. As such, STEN MkⅡ is not recommended for use.

Check the mod priority guide: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ty239kyJbBs1sLhTo1JvSWuN0mIJsK1nwVdI6OLLtXo/view?rm=minimal

Sten MOD packs a decent boom, but it’s far from enough to make her a worthwhile investment.

One the one side of good, her Hand Grenade does pack a decent punch after her upgrade thanks to the buffed Skill 1 and improved Damage stat. Her new art is also really good, but that’s hardly going to help her in combat.

Her new Skill 2 is Valiant Shield. She places down a shield that reduces incoming damage by 35%. It’s a decent defensive multiplier, but marred by a poor uptime and cooldown. It lasts for just 5 seconds and comes with a 16 second cooldown, which simply cannot compete with other SMGs like Suomi MOD who have insane 180% Evasion buffs with double the uptime, not to mention the other survivability buffs.

To make matters worse, she continues to maintain her trademark awful tiles. Evasion and Accuracy is the worst practical combination you could have for ARs, especially with Evasion being largely irrelevant for backline units. If this was changed to something like Damage, then we would’ve had a good set of tiles. Alas, that is not the case.

All in all, Sten MOD is a completely forgettable upgrade when it comes to gameplay investment. Nobody but her biggest fans will be in a rush to perform this upgrade, but her fans will be happy at least, since she is a real cutie after all with a great set of MOD 3 art.