Viking vs Dictator

[r_TheShadowDragon0 8]

The two greatest rivals in tanki viking and dictator but who will be victorious!We will find out after this battle!

Viking is the most versatile tier 2 hull in Tanki Online, suitable for all game modes (and especially CTF and TDM modes). Viking combines great performance characteristics with good stability, which makes it especially good under fire of enemy Twins and Ricochet guns. Want a tank hull good for close combat and having moderate speed? Viking is the obvious choice.

 

Great performance characteristics combined with good handling and stability.

There are basically two reasons not to buy Viking: you are a hard-headed caper (buy yourself a Hornet) or you are focused on playing Deathmatches (then Mammoth is maybe a better choice).

 

M0 M1 M2 M3

Price: 600 +1800 +5400 +16200

Armor: 100 109 125 150

Speed: 5.5 5.84 6.5 7.5

Agility: 110 117 130 150

Mass: 1250 1250 1250 1250

Viking is just awesome for playing with Twins. Though if you're planning to focus on Deathmatches you better choose Mammoth.

 

Choosing Viking for playing with Railgun will give you an opportunity to save crystals on this comparatively cheap and overpowered turret and upgrade your tank hull to M3, and then switch to tier 2 weapon.

 

Though many tankers use it to mount Isida, it's not the best choice for using with Viking. Cos Isida requires maximum speed from your tank hull to catch up patients. Though there is an exception: if you're a drugger and you're playing against unskilled enemy team, then Viking + Isida combination will make you almost invincible.

 

Viking is great for playing with any tier 2 weapon, be it Thunder, Freeze, Ricochet or Shaft.

Pro:

This tank hull has no significant drawbacks.

Viking is the most balanced tank hull in Tanki Online.

You can always buy a new turret without thinking whether it will suit your tank hull.

Con:

Versatility means that Viking is not always the best tank hull for attaining specific combat tasks.

 

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Dictator occupies the place in between of tiers 1 and 2 hulls, which makes it the best tier 1 or the worst tier 2 hull of Tanki Online, depending on your point of view. All in all a high-end Dictator surpasses Wasp (and even its rival tier 2 hull Viking!) in its speed and equals Titan in its armor.

 

Quickly upgrading Dictator to M3 you'll get a huge advantage! And loose a lump sum of crystals.

When comparing Dictator to tier 1 hulls it becomes apparent that low-end modifications of Dictator are well underpowered, while high-end modifications are pretty expensive. Medium tank Dictator is almost 5 times more expensive than medium tank Hunter. Though when comparing Dictator to tier 2 hulls (especially vs. Viking) ist drawbacks are not so evident. So what's wrong with Dictator and why is it almost 3.5 times less expensive than Viking?

 

Though its tech specifications are awesome and it looks like Dictator M3 has just 30 h.p. less armor than Viking M3, its less obvious drawbacks are:

 

oversized dimentions (Dictator is much bigger and taller tank, which makes it an easy target);

low stability under fire (especially when playing vs. Ricochet and Twins guns);

offset to the back turret and hence long "hood".

All the above results in overall poor handling, which means that sooner or later you'll end up in buying yourself a new tier 2 hull to play. So if you want to buy a decent tier 2 hull, why spending crystalls on Dictator?

 

M0 M1 M2 M3

Price: 150 +500 +1500 +5000

Armor: 60 70 90 120

Speed: 5.0 5.5 6.5 8.0

Agility: 100 110 130 160

Mass: 1200 1200 1200 1200

Because Dictator lacks stability, the obvious choice is to use it with long range weapons and the ones that does not require aiming skill.

 

Rail is maybe the best gun for using with Dictator. Of course it's a dead end, but buying and upgrading this low cost gun and hull you'll be able to buy expensive protective paint, or spend all your gain on consumables. Because Rail is meant for sniping, poor stability of Dictator is not really a problem. Just avoid close contact with enemy tanks.

 

Though Thunder is a middle range gun, it's still good when using with Dictator hull. High speed and medium armor of Dictator combining with this awesome tier 2 gun makes it a very compatible combination. Just avoid close contact with enemy tanksm which is going to be much more difficult when playing with Thunder, than with Rail.

 

Firebird and Freeze require no aiming skill, so Dictator's poor stability under fire is not a major problem. Which makes these combinations quite tolerable.

 

Using Dictator with Twins or Ricochet is not advisible since its poor stability (and these weapons assume close combat and skirmishing). Using Dictator with Shaft is not advisible eather, cos this way revenging enemies will knock down your aim hence leaving you without a frag.

Pro:

Very cheap compared to tier 2 tank hulls.

Second fastest hull in Tanki Online.

With such a price you'll be able to upgrade it to M3 pretty soon and have an advantage.

Con:

Too expensive compared to tier 1 tank hulls.

Very unstable under fire. Not sutiable for close combat fighting and skirmishing with high precision weapons.

Too big with offset to the back turret.

okay Pm me or reply here to tell me who is better at Thursday i will say who is better

[r_DanTheTank0 0]

Stop copying & pasting.

[HichigoShiiro 4,378]

You got this from a website...what was it called ? v-v ah, tankipedia or something o:

[SilentShadow 104]

You got this from a website...what was it called ? v-v ah' date=' tankipedia or something o:[/quote']

 

PlayTanki :P

[r_Robi.P0 4]

I think dikdator looks really cool with thunder freeze ricochet

but i would recommend viking more because it is much better wirh shaft

[r_Robi.P0 4]

I think dikdator looks really cool with thunder freeze ricochet

but i would recommend viking more because it is much better wirh shaft

[damn_skippy 2]

I think dikdator looks really cool with thunder freeze ricochet

but i would recommend viking more because it is much better wirh shaft

+1

[Gannen56 0]

I think dikdator looks really cool with thunder freeze ricochet

but i would recommend viking more because it is much better wirh shaft

Why did u say the EXACT thing twice

[Gannen56 0]

I think dikdator looks really cool with thunder freeze ricochet

but i would recommend viking more because it is much better wirh shaft

Delete your first post.