Barrett

The Barrett is a precision class sniper weapon which holds one bullet that can instakill a player. The bullet can penetrate players and ricochet off walls at certain angles. The crosshair for the Barrett will shrink or enlarge depending on how fast your character is going. This weapon excels at accurate, precise, long range combat, but falters with reload speed and flinch upon taking damage.

## Strategies

### **With the Barrett**

* **Carry a secondary.** You might miss your shot, and then you'll be left defenseless, so always have some secondary on you to defend yourself when you don't have time to reload.
* **Prone when possible.** The Barrett is best used while laying down, as it makes you harder to hit. Don't forget that you can prone in mid-air. Supposedly this provides you with better aim, but either way the smaller profile is always a benefit.
* **When camping** in any sandbag, note that the Barrett has to have its scope part (at least a little bit of it) sticking out of the sandbag in order to get the bullet to travel forward.
* **Predict where your opponent is going to be.** This is extremely important component to blindshotting and ricochets, and you can use sniper camera to see where they are.
* **Take your time.** Many new Barrett users try to shoot fast without aiming, causing them to miss most of their shots. If you take just a little bit of time to correct your aim, you'll get a much higher chance to kill your opponent. Do remember that taking too *much* time to aim just leaves you vulnerable to attacks.
* **Stay low, but not too low.** Being close to some form of terrain allows you to get down and cancel the accuracy debuff when you need to aim at someone. The crouching sniper statistically will have better aim than if the same sniper were flying. At the same time, keep off open ground to avoid as much danger as possible.
* **Consider your surroundings.** When fighting in the water keep in mind that your bullets go slower and may not reach your target if they are farther away, so try and stay close to them so that you don't miss your shot.

### **Against the Barrett**

* **Move continuously.** By moving erratically and unexpectedly, you can get opponents to miss their shots. Moving fast is the ideal option, as it can bait them to waste their bullet, making them vulnerable to a counterattack. Random patterns of movement will throw them off and will minimize your chance of getting hit. And remember, it's always harder to hit a moving target, so keep running, rolling, jumping, etc. to make it harder for your opponent to hit you.
* **Stay smart.** Barrett users always have the accuracy advantage unless taking damage. With the exception of high-speed movement or baiting, there is almost no way to escape an experienced sniper's shot. Instead, try to flank or get the jump on them to catch them off guard. Alternatively, make efforts to damage the Barrett player to decrease their gun's accuracy with the flinch mechanic.
* **Spam.** As much as you may be ridiculed for this behavior, you may usually win a fight against inexperienced players because the damage dealt to the Barrett user will negate their accuracy, even if they are completely still. Just remember to keep firing as this will keep pressure on your opponent.
	+ Throwables on hand are also able to "flinch" Barrett users and/or kill them quickly if they hit.

### **Secondary weapons for the Barrett:**

* **MAC-10** with 16 bullets, is a mid-range weapon that can kill someone in a few shots if aimed at the head/chest/torso or someone with low health.
* **RPG** can only be used if you are crouching (S) or proning (X). Though it only has one rocket like the Barrett, it can easily kill your opponent if aimed properly (aim at where your opponent's going; only aim slightly higher over the line of fire). Just make sure to reload between altercations, but do so wisely. RPG loads slower than Barrett, so choosing to do so might not be worth it when Barrett can deal with an enemy faster.
* **Deagles** can kill your opponent if they escape your Barrett bullet. Aim above the player to account for its bullet drop.
* **Bow** with its effectively infinite magazine can suppress anyone and anything, provided you use it the right way.

## Trivia

* Since the Barrett's shots can penetrate players, you can kill multiple enemies with a single bullet if they're right next to each other. This is how a lot of players have gotten double, triple, etc. kills with the Barrett.
* The Barrett is the most popular weapon in the entire game. As of now, over 182 million kills have been made with it. The hand grenade in second place, only has around 28 million.
* Because many experienced players are so good at aiming with the Barrett, a common accusation that players say is "aimbot". Aimbot is the hack mechanism in a game that allows players to cheat by having an auto-aim. Although there are such hacks for Ninja.io, so far there are no verified cases of someone hacking, only exploiting.
	+ It is worth noting that Discord staff member DetectiveDemon. did in fact test and verify aimbot hacks being sold. He does not use them in-game, and the seller of the hacks was appropriately banned.
* Barrett is pronounced like "bear it".