"Praetorian"

## Attributes

* Automatic
* Fletchette Rounds (alt-fire)
	+ Piercing Shot
	+ Bleeding
* Grenade Launcher
	+ Rockets
	+ Area Damage
* Reload Boost (reload speed is decreased when switching to flechette rounds)
* Armor Bonus

Flechette rounds:

* 16 (base)
* 23 (headshot)

Grenade launcher: 140

## Gameplay Information

The **"Praetorian"** is a Primary weapon introduced in the 12.0.0 update.

## Appearance

It is a cumbersome and old-looking bullpup fletchette gun with the 60-round detachable box magazine, grenade launcher and a handle on the breech.

## Strategy

It has insane damage, fire rate, average capacity and atrocious mobility.

### Tips

* Consider it vaguely similar to Engineer Exoskeleton due to its special ability.
* This weapon could be used to spray and pray, but be aware of its high fire rate. As it is over four times the fire rate of Dual Laser Blasters, try to conserve ammo since it will run out of ammo fairly quickly throughout the match.
* Aim at the head to deal massive damage.
* Pair it with a Turbo Charger module combination to make full potential of its insanely high fire rate (when using normal rounds)
* This weapon is perfectly accurate at long range. This can be used to eliminate snipers, albeit with difficulty without a scope.
* It has a somewhat large amount of capacity, but use it wisely when attacking groups of enemies as the ammo can be drained very quickly.
* Benefit from its Reload Boost and the Armor Bonus altogether.
* The "Praetorian" has a long reload time. Have a reliable secondary weapon if the ammo runs dry or if an enemy catches you reloading.
* This weapon always travels directly down the center of the crosshair. Be sure to aim first at opponents before taking aim to conserve ammo.
* Don't stop strafing with a more mobile weapon. When a player comes, attack, then continue on strafing with the weapon that is more mobile than the "Praetorian" itself.
* Due to this having a slightly-prolonged reloading time, it is recommended to reload at a slightly non-exposed spot. Once done reloading, continue on attacking.
* Useful for heavily damaging heavily armored enemies due to its fire rate.
* Due to this introducing a low mobility, it is best capable of running with a really mobile weapon like the Fire Demon.
* Target weakened players for quicker kill registering and better ammunition conserving.
* Use this weapon while ambushing players, so that you can get some damage in before they react.
* Conserving ammo is key to great gameplay and high killstreaks, so conserve ammo and only use this in emergencies or in close ranges to minimize the amount of ammo wasted in battle.
* Use the Flechette rounds when dealing multiple enemies, as it has piercing shot.

### Counters

* Move around a lot and stay mobile, or even rocket jump if you need to. The weapon's pinpoint accuracy can be a disadvantage when fighting against mobile opponents.
* The "Praetorian" has a long reload time. Try to waste the enemies' ammo and attack when he/she is reloading.
* Equip armor if you can/already haven't. This weapon will mow down unarmored opponents in the blink of an eye.
* Most enemies don't stop firing the weapon when attacking groups of enemies, so avoid the bullets as good as possible and attack when the enemy has to reload.
* This weapon has atrocious mobility, therefore strafe and jump around and use speedy weapons with high mobility to render the user defenseless.
* Pick off its users from long ranges, as its user(s) will be an easy target for snipers.
* Blast off its users with area damage weapons at close to medium range.
* This weapon does not have a scope so using snipers would prove to be very effective counters, however, be mindful that they are still highly accurate and skills players could still hit you.
* Be wary when its users switch to Flechette mode if he is low on HP.
* Any one-shot kill weapons can down its users easily.

## Performance Analysis

 Fire Rate
 Capacity
 Mobility
 Accuracy
 Range
 Cost to buy

*Cost to buy depends on the ease of obtaining*

## Trivia

* It is based on the Special Purpose Individual Weapon (SPIW) Project SALVO, a long-running United States Army program to develop, in part, a workable flechette-firing "rifle", though other concepts were also involved.
* It seems to be the complicated counterpart of Dater Hater, due to it featuring Flechette rounds.
* The word "praetorian" is an adjective derived from the ancient Roman office of praetor.
* It was given "Lifesteal" in 13.7.0 update.
* The flechette round became an alt-fire mode, had its mobility raised to 100 (55 in post-13.5.0 update) and at the same time had its price reduced to 350  from 650  in the 15.0.0 update.
	+ However, it no costs only gears as of the 17.9.0 update since it is redundant.