Ballista

## **Basic Information**

The Ballista is a tank made by SalaVant. It evolves from Crossbow (page soon to come,) or Ranger. it has a longer cannon than crossbow and has more bullet penetration, bullet speed, and bullet damage. It has a huge Fov (about 150x normal) but has more charge time, less max health and less body damage. the cannon is shaped like a crossbow as can be seen from the image.

The way it fires is unique to it and the Crossbow. you need to hold the fire button down and let go. kind of like a bow in real life

## **Strong against:**

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* Most tanks at long range
* Non-focused bullet spammers, like octo tank, pentashot, or cyclone
* Destroyer class. even though most of them out penetrate it, it has range and speed which the destroyer class does not. it Especially is good against shotgun, which lacks penetration compared to most destroyers.
* Gunner classes
* Dominators at long range
* Ramming tanks/builds, uness at really close range.
* Lots of low health or level tanks lined up, as it can pierce through them all.

## **Weak Against:**

* Most tanks at close range
* Drone Tanks, unless skilled or if they are noobs
* Destroyer classes at close range
* Focused bullet spammers and high dps tanks
* Skilled/fast rammers.

## **AS BALLISTA**

* Avoid close range fights, as you will lose most of the time unless their health is low.
* Charge up before entering battle so that you won't have to give up precious seconds and health to charge a shot. Plus, you can do some good opening damage, and will most likely force the other tank in retreat, if not kill it on the next shot.
* You can kill a LV 45 glass tank in 2 shots if your bullet stats are upgraded. even then, the first shot leaves them at around 20-40% health
* While you can easily fight rammers at long range, avoid fighting them anyways unless they go after you from afar. your charge time is to slow to kill them quickly and they can take 3-5 hits of your bullets.
* Its Recommended to use a mouse with this tank. it will not leave your fingers cramped from holding down the aim button.

## **AGAINST BALLISTA**

* Fight it at very close range. not only will it have a hard time fighting, but if close enough, you enter its **blind spot**. This means it can't hurt you by shooting at you. it can only ram you or try to get some distance. This leaves you plenty of time to deal some heavy damage and/or kill it.
* If fighting it from long range, Use a fast tank or upgrade movement speed to dodge the bullets.
* Avoid using tanks like pentashot, spreadshot, octotank, and cyclone at long range. It can easily punch through your weak, low-concentrated bullets and still do some good damage.
* Unless you're close up, as a slower tank, avoid conflict with this tank. if it shoots as you, you will most likely lose unless you block it, retreat to a safe distance, or get closer up,

## **Trivia**

* This would have been a LV 60 (or tier 5) tank, but it was turned into a LV 45 (or tier 4) last minute
* Its predecessor, Crossbow, has also been reduced for LV 45 to LV 30
* This is probably the first tank with a close up and ring-shaped blind spot. This takes the sniper class's vulnerability to the extreme.
* This wiki page had to have been done over completely because of a saving error. the current version is merely a filtered copy and paste of the first.
* This tank is the first ftb tank to have a "pierce". To get the "piercing" effect, simply stack multiple cannons on top of eachother. Warning: this causes a side effect of slight drop in graphical quality.