Editing Lever-action rifle (section)

== Tactics ==

* The most newbie friendly weapon to get warmed for the ongoing challenges. It's dirt-cheap, very accurate and very powerful compared to other moderate weight rifles and assault rifles.
*The reload process is interruptible, much like the [[Shotgun]]'s and [[Combat Shotgun]]'s. It is advantageous to reload whenever possible, as firing or aiming down the sights will instantly stop the process.
*The very low price and high potential damage output make this weapon desirable for other perks, such as the [[Field medic]], [[Berserker]] or [[Commando]]. One of the hardest hitting rifles out there with only 200£ price tag and a generous headshot multiplier of 2.0x. However, its weight may be an issue.
*Thanks to its raise animation frames are missing, just like [[MAC-10]], it allows the bearer to stack nades two times faster when wielded.
*At the long range, ideal for threat removal with dead accurate sights. Even off-perk pretty ideal for decapping [[Siren]]s and [[Husk]]s, at any given difficulty one-shots [[Crawler]]s and quickly dispatches the lot of em from range. Starting from level 4, rifle's headshot damage become high enough to one headshot any medium threat at any difficulty.
*Sharpshooter gains reload and secretly fire rate bonus for every level. That's because Sharp also gets a bonus from handling the lever faster to eject the brass jacket as well. When paired with any pistol or [[M14]] for fending the small trash, Lever-action can be kept for dealing bigger targets or spared for [[Scrake]]s, [[Husk]] and [[Siren]].
*When used off perk, Lever-action rifle still capable of packing a punch by flinch locking Scrakes with no penalties in high difficulties unlike melee weapons and can stun [[Husk]]s upon a headshot if not enough to outright killing them. At any given difficulty Lever-action rifle can finish medium threats like [[Siren]] and Husk in two headshots at off perk use, one shots [[Crawler]]s and flinches Scrakes on a headshot. At the hands of a sufficiently leveled on Sharpshooter, a single headshot from the Lever-action can deal 672 damage per headshot; enough to kill any medium specimens.
*Rifle is capable of killing any big specimen such as [[Scrake]] or [[Fleshpound]] when used on perk. In the former case, a level 6 Sharpshooter can successively stun a Scrake with headshots until it dies from up to 5 rounds depending on the difficulty. Lower level Sharpshooters starting from level 4, is capable of causing heavy flinches to override his enrage trigger. The Fleshpound is more difficult because it has a 25% headshot resistance to rifle headshots.
*As a level 5-6 Sharpshooter, the lever-action rifle is capable of inflicting comparable DPS to the [[Crossbow]] against the Fleshpound, even on Hell on Earth difficulty. It is possible to kill a Fleshpound with at most 7 consecutive rapid head shots from the lever-action rifle as a level 5-6 but this comes with the immense recoil per shot and a delicate accuracy that can be interrupted by any trash specimen.
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Here's the mathcraft regarding the above paragraph <140*2,0*2,4*0,75>=504 damage can be dealt with single shot by counting the Fleshpound's head resist. FP has 3063 head health on a HoE, 6-man game. <3063/504>=6.07~ near 7 shots required to decapitate an FP as level 6. For the level 5, <140*2,0*2,25*0,75> = 472,5 and this way <3063/472>=6,48~ near 7 shots as level 5 again but reload time is slower. This can be reduced to 6 shots if head is pre-damaged by a simple pistol bigger than classic 9mm for one shot or up to three headshots at least for 9mm. Scrake has no resistance against LaR; Scrake has 2843 head health on HoE, 6-man game <2844/672>=4.2~ near 5 shots required to decapitate him considering all shots hit by an experienced level 6 Sharp.
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