Avenger

US$ "Heavy machine gun, most effective at short to medium range. The longer the distance, the lower the accuracy"

Introduction
The Avenger is a close to mid-range (up to 500 meters, with a 275 meter optimal range) heavy kinetic weapon.

Strategy
This machine gun has an effective range of 200 meters and a maximum range of 500 meters. At its maximum range of 500 meters, very few bullets will hit the target decreasing its damage substantially. It can be lethal at close range, but it becomes increasingly inaccurate as the range increases due to bullet spread. However, due to its extremely high fire rate, it can still deal significant damage even at its maximum range.

It has a light and medium counterpart, Punisher and Punisher T, respectively.

All machine guns (Punisher, Punisher T and Avenger) and auto-cannons (Molot, Molot T, and Tempest) accelerate fire rate up to 1.5x its usual speed, if fired continuously for longer time than 3 seconds. The accelerated state ends if firing is stopped for more than 1 second or if the ammo is depleted.

The Avenger can do an excellent job at depleting an energy shield because the large area of the shield catches almost every bullet up to 500 meters, and due to the high firing speed of this weapon, it can achieve this quickly. The Avenger is also extremely powerful against physical shields, due to physical shields taking double damage from kinetic weaponry.

Mark I Statistics

 * This table shows the damage for each individual round.

Mark II Statistics

 * This table shows the damage for each individual round.

Poll
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Trivia

 * The term 'Avenger' means to return harm to someone that did something bad to you, also known as revenge. This relates to how this weapon is able to deal huge damage
 * With a maxed workshop it takes players 11 hours and 5.5 million silver in order to create enough components for one avenger
 * This is currently the weapon boasting the highest possible burst DPS, almost twice that of the Orkan.