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Affects SMG

Increases accuracy by 60%
Increases evasion by 20%

High-Explosive Grenade

ICD: CD:

Launches a grenade that deals ($damage_value)x damage to enemies within a radius of 1/2.5/4 units.

Skill level: 1

Firestorm

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Base grenade damage increased by ($dam_value)%, and will explode 3 times, dealing damage to enemies on the edges of the 1, 2.5 and 4 explosions radius. Enemies will receive multiple hits when standing in overlapping areas.

Skill level: 1

Doll review

Overview

Being an HE Grenadier AR is enough to seal StG’s fate as an AR best left forgotten, which is ironic, given that the StG44 rifle is what cemented the Assault Rifle class in real life. High Explosive grenade, unlike normal Anti-Personnel grenade, has three different multipliers and blast zones radius, with the smallest blast radius having the highest multiplier. While on paper that sounds great for nuking meatshields, and inflicting damage on the fragile DPS backline, in practice it does the opposite: it’s not strong enough to kill the meatshields, and it’s weak enough to make the backline laugh at your echelon while they tear apart your tanks. StG44 is as cute and precious as she is useless. Keep the career reward one in your armory as a reminder of how much injustice this cute, pretty german hard worker was by MICA, or as an expensive dummy.

Or scrap her. Sorry StG44 lovers (a.k.a. Red), I feel your pain.

Pros

Decent tiles

60% Accuracy and 20% evasion means that StG could theoretically buff a direct fire SMG, as they need Accuracy to hit enemies, and the evasion helps keep links alive longer.

HP stat

Bearing a high HP stat of 635, for an AR, means that, since she can’t be used to kill enemies, you can at least use her as a last measure to tank enemies as her garbage DPS let your SMG tanks die. In all seriousness, don’t do that, just don’t use her.

Cute

StG is a cute hard worker that puts a lot of emphasis on looking professional. Look, I ran out of strengths to write about okay? At least she is pretty.

Cons

High Explosive grenade

A grenade skill that deals 4.5/1.8/1x damage to enemies within a radius of 1/2.5/4 units. On paper, the multipliers would have been big enough to significantly damage meatshields, and weaken the backline, where fragile, high DPS enemy units usually are. Guards + Jaegers, an enemy comp often seen in early to mid content, would have been child play for HE grenadiers. But, in reality, it’s the reverse, as the multipliers are too low to weaken the frontline, and too low to even chip the backline.

Awful base stats

HP stat apart, StG44 has an awful Accuracy stat, awful Damage stat, awful RoF stat, and awful Evasion stats. This means she can’t hit enemies well, can’t damage enemies well, can’t nuke enemies well, and can’t tank enemies well. But at least she looks professional enough to be an example for the other dolls.

Career reward

By being rewarded half levelled upon completing 2-5, StG is taking the spot that a more useful doll could have had. Commanders are rewarded M4A1 after completing 2-6, and by this point they usually have M14 and Galil/OTs-12/FNC in their teams, which means StG is only useful to fill up logistics teams early on.

Mod review

Overview

With much needed Damage, Accuracy and RoF stat buffs, StG44 mod also gets a 20% buff for her standard grenade, and explosions that explode depending if the enemy is on an overlapping radius. In theory, this would make StG44 one hell of a grenadier, possibly rivaling Soppo. In practice, it’s not enough to bring StG44 anywhere close to the meta. She becomes an okay AR, and okay Grenadier, so she is actually usable for events and story chapters. Situations that need meta dolls, like Dual Randomness nade fest, are wholly out of her reach.

Pros

EXPLOSIONS, TONS OF EXPLOSIONS

By having her base nade damage increased by 20%, on top of explosions in the overlapping areas, StG actually manages to be a decent Grenadier

Stats increase

The buffs she received from her Mod I, Mod II and Mod III actually leave her with decent stats, bar her accuracy. That means she actually turns out to have a decent DPS outside of her skill. She will still lag behind her grenadier counterparts, namely 416 Mod and M4 SOPMOD II with MOD II, as well as typical self buffer ARs.

Cons

SPEQ fix

Part of her fix involves maxing her SPEQ and getting her to Mod 3, which is incredibly expensive for a doll that will rarely see the battlefield.

Tough grenadier competition

Being a grenadier in essence still means StG44Mod competes with 416 Mod and a neural upgraded SOPMOD II, both the gold standard in grenadier T-Dolls.

Utterly unable to farm 12-4E

416 Mod requires 115 FP to consistently farm 12-4E. Mod 2 M4 SOPMOD II has a similar requirement, although her farm is much less consistent; Uzi Mod requires 50% FP, on top of maxed HP and EOT to consistently farm 12-4E. K11 needs 63% FP buff to consistently farm. FAL at SL10 requires 90%. STG cannot farm 12-4E consistently even with over 100% Damage buffs.