Radii Battleship

## Description

Radii Battleship is an NPR ship belonging to the Radii. Radii Battleships are black-and-blue circuit-patterned fighters that feature large, beveled, prism-like central hulls with rearward dorsal, ventral, and pectoral fins. Radii Battleships also feature a massive rear-situated electromagnetic ring that spins around the ship, leaving behind a transparent blue propulsion trail.

## Combat and Strategy

All associated items can be found on the Radii page.

In general, the radii are defensive, long-ranged fighters that feature heavy staying power at range whilst simultaneously featuring a challenging defense up-close.

For Primary Weapons, Radii Battleships come equipped with both the Radii Pulse Beam and the Radii Projectile Cannon: the former of which deals solid unavoidable burst damage up-close, and the latter functioning as a rapid-fire HV Projectile that can pester ships at range.

For Secondary Weapons, Radii Battleships are notorious for their Radii Slugs and variants - guided, high-speed, long-range, solid-damage projectiles that feature 360 degree tracking and a short acquisition time. They are also known for Radii Photon Bombs and variants, of which they use to fire unguided, high-damage barrages at range - sometimes even one-shotting unaware endgame ships.

For Utilities, the Radii feature a unique Radii Barrier that perfectly reflects incoming unguided energy weapons and constantly angles itself to protect the user. The Radii also feature an Energy-Based Decoy, the Radii Decoy, that they use to counter guided weaponry. They also feature a unique version of the Shield Repairer. Radii Nanite Repair, that they use to regain shields and Energy during combat.

For Mines, Radii feature energy-based Radii Photon Mines and variants, which have a light homing functionality that they use to deter enemies up-close.

For Proximity Weapons, Radii feature the Radii Repulsor - which is capable of dissuading ram builds due to its heavy knockback. They also feature a fast-firing Radii Revealer, which can shut down Stealth builds if they get too close.

For Large Weapons, the Radii Battleship features the Radii Mass Driver Shot - a devastating long-range, high-speed large variant of the Railgun. Players must execute evasive maneuvers once they see the aiming laser and hear the windup of the mass driver, lest they take massive damage and are left spinning for easy follow-up damage. Players must pay attention to how many mass drivers are being fired at once: radii battleships are known for queuing up multiple mass driver shots at once, then unleashing a devastating chain of projectiles in quick succession.

Notably, Radii also have the Shield/Energy Balancer, which, when in tandem with the higher capacity and Status Effect resistance of the Radii Adaptive, allow the Radii to resist a wide variety of effects and Damage.

In general, Radii are vulnerable to smart weaponry to bypass decoys, beam weaponry to bypass barriers/shields, and really any weapons that are capable of piercing barriers or ignoring decoys - allowing players to deal direct damage to ignore the effect reductions of the radii shield.

Players should attempt to close the distance between themselves and the radii, but not approach so close that they are vulnerable to proximity weapons or allow them to get hit by a barrage of slugs. Utilities such as Reflecting Stealth System and Shield Bubble are useful for singling out radii at mid-range to prevent being slugged from multiple angles at once. Unique weapons like Teleporting Stingers and Tornadian Plasma Storms are also useful for safely ignoring most of the radii kit. Players should avoid relying on weapons that inflict negative status effects when combatting radii. It is worth noting that Resonite Refractor Shields will negate all photonic and laser damage from radii bombs and mines, as well as their pulse laser primary, allowing players to only worry about slugs and projectile cannons during combat,

Players may be tempted to use Radiation Damage against the radii battleship, but due to their effect reduction combined with the puzzlingly low mass of the battleship makes radiation damage unviable. An unorthodox strategy is to use Devimon glyphs, such as the Devimon Curse or Devimon Unseeing, to apply effects to the radii, as the effect is constantly re-applied when enemies are within range of the glyphs - negating the effect reduction of their shields.

## Notes

* More info about the respective NPR in general can be found on the Radii page and the Radii category page.
* The radii battleship has very low mass for its size, and can turn quicker than expected in order to land radii mass driver shots.