| “ | Sakura's blossom is one of the most beautiful things on Earth. But even it can't compete with a headshot done from this gun. | ” |
—Weapon’s description in Gallery | ||
The Sakura is a Sniper weapon introduced in the 13.2.1 update.
Description
It is a blossom-themed sniper rifle that shoots bursts of bullets. It has good damage, a good fire rate, high capacity, and decent mobility.
Appearance
It is a reskin of the Semi Auto Sniper Rifle.
It is a bullpup sniper rifle with a pink cherry blossom flower skin on the body of the weapon, as well as having pink decals on the scope, handguard, barrel, and compensator.
Performance
It semi-automatically shoots regular bullets that have instant bullet travel time. This means that it shoots bullets in bursts. Moreover, it possesses a 10x zoom optic sight which allows it to fight in a long range.
When reloading, the magazine is taken out and is replaced by a spare one. It has no delay mechanics.
Strategy
Tips
- This gun is useful in taking down air targets with its high damage and fire rate and low recoil. The same goes for ground targets while you are in the air.
- If using this weapon in Sniper Tournament, it is absolutely recommended to equip Steel Hands.
- Make sure to aim and fire effectively. As one tap may expend ammo inefficiently. Although it can take down multiple severely injured opponents in a linear direction, it is no good when dealing with jumpers.
- Treat this rifle as an Assault Rifle, as its fire rate is quite high.
Counters
- Strafe around the player to avoid being shot by the weapon.
- Hide behind an object, or outflank the user.
- Try using fast firing and shotguns at close range.
- Flamethrowers and melee weapons are also a good alternative at very close ranges.
- Try strafing around these users, as their shots are not accurate.
Recommended Maps
Equipment Setups
Have a Backup weapon if engaged in close quarters.
Changelog
13.2.1
Initial release
Trivia
- The name is based on a cherry blossom tree, also known as Sakura in Japan.
- It is somewhat based off of the Barrett M95 or the Barrett XM500, a similar bullpup rifle.
- The pistol grip and handguard are fairly similar to that of the conceptual MR-C assault rifle.
- It has the highest firing rate of any weapon located in the sniper section.
- It is a re-skin of the Semi Auto Sniper Rifle.
- It may be based on Respawnables' Semi-Automatic Sniper.
- All burst-fire sniper rifles seem to have the fire rate of 98, which is somewhat misleading.
- This weapon used to be fairly overpowered, being 4 headshot while its original counterpart was 13 headshots kill in vice versa.
- However, in the 15.10 update, it got severely nerfed into a 15 shot headshot.
- As of the 16.5.0 update, this weapon is 7 headshots kill.
