Red Rider

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**Red Rider** is a Fire, Gold Black Dahlia variant.

**HOT PURSUIT**

## Tips and Tricks

### Role & Strategy

* Red Rider is an offensive fighter who can inflict WITHER and HEAL BLOCK with point-blank STANDARD SHOTS, giving her excellent meter control and a way to shut down healing variants. On top of that, she regenerates health by dealing damage while the opponent is suffering from HEAL BLOCK. All of these abilities make Red Rider a sturdy damage dealer who has an answer for several problematic abilities.

* Black Dahlia's kit lacks health regeneration. Hence, Red Rider provides a very unique niche in the pool of her variants, and can be used reliably against opponents with reflect damage. Furthermore, easy access to HEAL BLOCK allows Red Rider to be a reliable counter against opponents that regenerates a lot of HEALTH such as Valentine variants with the ICU Marquee Ability or Black Dahlia variants with the NO TIME TO DIE Marquee Ability.
	+ Splitting Image is another notable variant that is hampered by HEAL BLOCK, as long as it is inflicted before she gains IMMUNITY. Once inflicted, Splitting Image will miss out on 30% of her MAX HP being regenerated, something that can be extended by tagging in Claw & Order or Shadow Puppet after inflicting the debuff.

* Since Red Rider relies on DEBUFFS to activate her Signature Ability, she is ineffective against variants that have frequent access to IMMUNITY or DEBUFF clears such as Splitting Image, Dream Band and support variants such as Rose-Tinted and Model Leader.

* While Red Rider has good utility and a decent ATK stat, she lacks ways to increase her own damage aside from what Black Dahlia's base kit gives her. This means she's more geared toward Rifts rather than Prize Fights.
	+ In Rift Battles, it can be beneficial to build her "critless" by intentionally avoiding upgrading her skill tree, more specifically the parts that increase Crit Rate. This allows her to be a reasonable counter against crit-punishing defenders such as Painwheel variants with TAINTED BLOOD as their Marquee Ability and Black Dahlia variants with NO TIME TO DIE. To fare against reflect damage, it is recommended to invest in HP, ATK, and Meter Gain/Special Cooldown.

* **Marquee Ability**: As an offensive variant, Red Rider will benefit from METAL BREAKDOWN as her Marquee Ability in order to increase her damage output through ARMOR BREAK and the extra damage boost to her SPECIAL SHOTS.

* **Stat Investment**: Like other offensive variants, Red Rider will benefit from investment in ATK and Piercing to increase her damage output. Since Red Rider can easily inflict DEATH MARK and gain DEADEYE through Black Dahlia's Prestige Ability, Piercing can be reduced to accommodate Critical Rate and Critical Damage to further amplify her overall damage. Meter Gain is another useful stat to quickly charge blockbusters faster.

### Trivia

* This variant is a reference to Baby Bonnie Hood, a character from *Darkstalkers*, a series of 2D Gothic horror-themed fighting games produced by *Capcom* with its caption being a direct quote from the character in *Darkstalkers 3*.

### Gallery

Fighter Trailer- Black Dahlia - RED RIDER - Skullgirls Mobile