If there's only one Mod you do for this event, get her. Her upgrade is quite comprehensive and turns her from finnicky and awful to legitimately one of the strongest ARs in the game. Also, she has a secondary tank mode that in 99% of cases, wont come up, but is actually ridiculously strong if it does (of course, it comes up for some things like Theater). Note that M4 and STAR don't count as DEFY anymore.

Still gets outshined by clever little tricks in the story though, because she's still dumb like a gorilla.

Myeeeep. Sad to say it, her Mod doesn't buff her much. It improves her skill cycling and gives her stat boosts and all that, but her performance is not significantly improved. Her new skills are all about AK-12, who actually does get buffed pretty hard back into relevance, but not enough so that you'd pick her preferentially. Still a nice boost though I guess. Will probably fuck when AK-12 Mod inevitably comes out.

She still doesn't compete with SOP or 416, but her ability to debuff enemies AND remove their buffs gives her value. Not a grenadier you'll use often, but she definitely has her uses now that Mica team are throwing bullshit enemies at people during events regularly.

Another of Imoko's daughters, and somewhat more spoiled than the other Chinese Rifle. As far as dealing with high-threat enemies goes, she is the last word. She does AoE damage as she attacks the same enemy, can silence enemies to stop skills, and is usable in general AR formations. At full tilt vs the right formations (clusters of high threat enemies with echelons), her effective DPS outclasses any other normal AR (outstripping powerhouses like G11 and AN94 due to her AoE power). As an odd quirk, the silence doesn't just affect her targets, but all enemies on the field. She does have weaknesses (small, loose formations of tough enemies being the most obvious, so don't send her to fight tanks or gundams), but she's useful in enough situations to be worth having.

Also, because I know people are going to ask, just check the index entries for what counts as high threat for her skill. If it says "High Threat", it counts. And if you're wondering how she does targeting with multiple different high-threat targets, there's a table describing threat level each enemy has. No, I don't have it on hand. She goes from the highest threat level enemy (lol) to lowest threat level enemy that is still classified as "High Threat".

Performance-wise, she's not impressive, but isn't the worst. Honestly, I mostly only remember "she exists and has a dog."

Also the dog for some reason inherits their night accuracy debuff so she still needs the laser pointer to tell her dog where to bite or something, or else it'll miss a lot at night. I don't fuckin' know.

She suffers from a deceptively long initial cooldown, since not only does it need to pass, but she also has a delay before it pops. Makes her very hard to use for most people. There are options that enable her to pop off, but if you can make use of these options, why are you here?

APC is kinda one of those things that could work, but if you can make it work, you really don't need this website.

(Not a xecty review, take with a grain of salt)

She allows you to completely forego crit scopes in shorter fights with her skill. This can be particularly useful at night since you’re now able to crit consistently despite having a PEQ. With her passive 20% boost to crit damage, even in a chip-filled world, she provides a damage increase for the entire echelon. The "target elite enemy" part of her skill isn’t of too much consequence as only A-545 herself will target the elite enemy. Her DPS alone wouldn’t do much to the majority of elite enemies. Do note that her accuracy takes a sharp drop after skill usage, and after two uses she’ll be sitting around the accuracy of an MG, which may or may not impact your damage.

(Not a Xecty review, take with grain of salt)

The most notable thing about her is the fact that she has perfect accuracy during her battle rifle mode. This could be pretty useful if not for the fact that generally that’s not really needed, and AS Val mod would outperform her at night. Day battles currently don’t have anything that needs perfect accuracy outside of specific enemies which are better fought with rifles (striders). While you can use her in conjunction with AS Val if you were to use her at night, her performance is very middling. From some observations, ST AR-15 can outdo her in simple DPS tests.

One of the major contributors to that is the requirements to effectively use her skill. Supplying a large variety of buffs can just be very awkward to do. To add to that, she stops firing entirely to swap to her battle rifle ammo, which kills some of her DPS uptime.

Where the hell is G&K digging these up? She starts off eh (though a zero second initial cooldown means she has a better opener than many ARs at least), and gets stronger as the battle goes on longer. 33% Damage up and 15% RoF up by about nine seconds in isn't too bad, but for the most part, ARs are the one gun type you probably already have enough of.

Oh right and Fairies proc her as well.

A fan doll that got so much traction that MICA brought her in. Do you REALLY like the AKs? Do AKs make you feel all tingly inside?

Her own buffs to herself count herself as an AK, so no matter what you get at least a 5% boost if you send her by herself. But frankly if you're not using at least two other AKs, why the fuck are you even using her? If you have AK47's best special equipment, she becomes a proper lord of war with very high DPS. Likewise, she makes AK-15's janky skill work (pre mod, post mod she doesn't really need AK-74M she's just busted), boosts AK-12's DPS a considerable amount, and amazingly, solves AK-74U's problems with uptime.

While the percentages don't seem impressive for her self-buff, it's a passive, so you get a 44% boost from the very first shot no matter what in a four AK echelon (74SU + pick 2 other AK dolls you like), which gives her a decent start.

Basically what you'd expect from something that's the standard of the Mexican Army. Frankly, at this point there's so many good ARs that another one would have to be REALLY good to get a real recommendation, and this one isn't going to win any medals, but she has good uptime and is cheap.

Status warfare doesn't come up too much in GFL too much given bosses are routinely immune to it and elites get shortened status effect durations, but if you actually need status effects from an AR, the stun is surprisingly far-reaching behind the initial target, and she prioritizes enemies suffering from debuffs.

Finally adjusted so she can stop being perpetually narcoleptic (sort of) through the power of energy drinks. She was already a decent AR whose weakness was that she couldn't hurt armor. Well, they solved the armor problem by doing percentage-based damage. Her damage is still affected by armor, but often she'll just do enough damage that you won't care anyway and can contribute to the fight regardless. She still has the issue of the poor uptime due to her long skill cooldown, but you should be smart enough to deal with that.

No, she's not a video tape. One of her skins shows her recent arrival in the US has apparently given her quite the dump truck ass. Must be all the McDonalds. Her skill powers her up with extra stats relative to the enemies she's fighting, meaning she has basically no real use vs. mooks. Potentially handy vs. bosses, but being a RoF-focused AR, she suffers from chips existing.