Red Devil

*There is no thumbnail for the Red Devil | Ruin, they look identical.*

The **Red Devil** (sometimes known as "**RD**") is a Rifle released on version 5.2.0 as one of the winning custom weapons for the 1st Easter Crafting Event. The weapon remains in the store to purchase for  500. It is the only S Quality rifle that can be bought from the store.

## Description

The Red Devil is a rifle with very high power and extremely high armor penetration but with extremely low fire rate and accuracy. Due to it's low accuracy it is usually only effective when playing with tap fire, however it is still considered quite powerful otherwise. This rifle is the only one that can be purchased with Gems in the store.

This weapon compares to the Broken City in stats, however the Broken City is purchased with Coins and doesn't start with high base stats. Because of the high base stats from purchase and it being the maximum level and quality, it can have S quality enchanted cards equipped, which allows it's best card choice to be equipped immediately.

The Red Devil kills in 2-3 shots, but with equipment it kills in a guaranteed two.

## Gameplay Tips

You should equip the Red Devil | Ruin skin if you have it equipped, as it's skin's chance of bypassing armor can be useful. The best card for the rifle is Crack Shot, which allows it shoot straight when fire is held for a brief moment.

### In-Game

It is best to fire this weapon when defending by tap-firing and moving slow or standing still or with a Crack Shot enchanted card. Using the Red Devil at a medium to short range distance is the only time you should hold fire otherwise. It is very hard to get hits at a far range due to it's extremely poor accuracy and fire rate.

The RD has invisible bullets, which means it could be good for prefiring corridors or predictable positions.

### Armor

Even with high accuracy armor it will still be too low to hold fire, however it will make tap firing more effective. The fire rate of the Red Devil is also extremely slow so a high fire rate buff (like +12) is recommended when using this weapon. Clips and reload buffs may make using the Red Devil less of a hassle if you are using it as a main weapon since the stats are quite low.

### Enchanted Cards

Due to the high power the weapon has, most power boosting cards are redundant, an accuracy boosting card like Crack Shot should be used if you are using it in ranges. Some power boosting cards of your choice could also be used to make it a confirmed two shot.

Cards like Dying Strike and Berserker can make the RD one-shot kill, however the circumstances of this to occur is difficult due to the need to be low on health.

## Appearance and Origin

The Red Devil is an original design although it might be a derivative of the M4's model. The gun was designed for the 2017 workshop crafting contest and was one of the winning weapons. It is a dark red rifle with bright red spikes surrounding it's body with a white core in the centre of most spiked areas of the gun. When the Ruin skin is equipped, the gun fades into black slowly and turns back to normal.

## History

This weapon is popular with traditional rifle users, who use this weapon as a challenge or to practice tap firing due to it's slow speed and low accuracy, while guns with the same power stat but far greater accuracy and fire rate exist such as the Savior AR and Pioneer AR, the RD is used for novelty. The gun is also popular with newer players, who may consider it the strongest rifle as it is the most expensive in the store, which sadly is not the case.

Because it is the first weapon to be made as a result of a workshop competition it is a mascot weapon for the Workshop and some workshop creations are built off of the Red Devil's model - usually colour reskins.

## Skins

The Red Devil has only one skin, Ruin, which cosmetically looks the same except the gun will turn black occasionally.

## Trivia

* The RD is the only rifle purchasable in the store whose base quality is S.
* It is the least accurate rifle store rifle in the game, but not the least accurate of all rifles.
* The RD can one-shot kill with double attack power cards however due to the tricky circumstances a player would need to make this happen, it is insufficient.
* The second most downloaded custom weapon is a blue reskin of the red devil, the 10th is also a Red Devil clone.