Guide [Issue 3] All You Need To Be a Pro - Paints

[chriswu 25]

In the post-sale season, I'm sure you see some of your friends parading around in their newly bought protection paints, boasting about their new resistance to different guns. You may be thinking that they chose poorly in their selection, or you may not. Indeed choosing the best paint is difficult. Here's a guide which will help the relatively low budget buyer to decide.

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There are many characteristics and factors which affect a protection paint's appeal. Depending on your particular interests, you will choose your paints accordingly.

~designed by chriswu

Visual Appeal

The first thing, obviously, is if you like how a certain paint looks. It's clear that some paints are more decorative than others, even within the same price range. For example, Rock is not nearly as colorful as Clay.
Visual appeal also is closely related to your personal taste. I love the look of Inferno, but I've heard comments saying that it's a little "cartoonish".

Low cost Protection

Assuming you don't have all the money in the world to spend on paints, the first things to consider in your earlier Tanki days are cheaper protection paints. In my opinion, it's not worth your money buying protection from teir 1 weapons, as they aren't particularly deadly in battle. Invest instead on protection against tier 2 weapons.
If you still want to buy a cheaper protection paint, buy one which also has good camouflage. Camouflage can actually help you more under the right conditions than a protection paint contrasting starkly with its surroundings. Some good camouflage protection paints on the cheaper end include Swamp, Dirty, and Tundra, and Dragon (depending on map). Since camouflage can be so helpful, you may end up buying a paint with good camouflage but NO protection like Forester.

Choosing A Paint With Good Characteristics

Here's some advice on choosing a good protection paint.

First, what do you use as your primary weapon? It's wise to buy paints which protect you from the gun you use. For example, if you have rico, and you are fighting a freeze, you can use rico's relatively long range to defeat the freeze. Or, if you're a freeze attacking a thunder, you can slow down the enemy tank and destroy it. However, if you have freeze and are fighting another freeze, it's only a matter of who has more hitpoints. Because of each gun's specialty, there are ways to defeat tanks with different weapons, but it's hard to fight someone with the same configuration. Invest in a paint with protection from your primary weapon.
This is especially helpful for thunders or ricochet's who can inflict self damage.

The second component in terms of actual tank hardware is what hull you use. Make sure you do your math before buying a paint for you hull, otherwise your paint won't make a difference. For example, a fully discharged isida m3 can destroy a hornet even with isida protection paint. Another example is how shaft protection on a weak hull like hornet or dictator doesn't make much of a difference, because an m3 shaft can still kill you in one shot either way. Make sure your paint is appropriate to your hull by doing the math before buying.

Playing Style

Lastly, choose a paint which suits your playing style. If you enjoy camping at your base with a large hull such as mammoth, pick a paint which protects you from shorter ranged weapons which typically charge the enemy base, such as freeze or ricochet. On the other hand, if you are more of an attacker, select paints which will protect you from long range snipers, like railgun, thunder, and shaft. These weapons can easily pick off approaching targets under good conditions (have you ever played in a shaft infested Kunger?).

Edited July 31, 2017 by Hexed

[Raphael2 3,263]

:thumbup: :thumbup:

[r_peccinator0 2]

Storm and Loam, and maybe Corrosion are the best low-price paints, while needle is the best paint :D

[chriswu 25]

I can say yes to that! :D

[CleanFight 3]

Love the arttical, you did good chris...;)

[cookiemonster321 37]

I personally like Electra! Nice article. :mrgreen:

[r_galiant0 33]

I personally cosider spark, pythone and needle the best paints.

[Fjelstad1678 186]

I use flora quite a bit. id say it does decent camo.

[THE_MK 13]

I got jade and python guys .... I really love that paints...They'r protects are awesome :mrgreen:

[raptoraatank 0]

i have none of those paints only see them in garage i dont even pass 1000 crystals or 900.so i can only dream of buying those paints.lol

[chriswu 25]

You'll get there eventually. :wink:

[WookySpolf 63]

Doesn't anyone like Cedar?

(Edit was spelling correction)

[chriswu 25]

Ceder is meh

[Tommy60 406]

 

 

Here are the most-pro paints. :thumbup:

[Fjelstad1678 186]

 

 

Here are the most-pro paints. :thumbup:

How i long for one of those. :shock:

[WhiteKnight170 2]

btw do you have to be a marshal to get acid or champion paint??

[Tommy60 406]

Nope. All ranks can get those paints.

[chriswu 25]

"Correlation does not imply causation."

[2strong4u_is_beast_1 0]

SPARK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[tankcalm 324]

 

 

Here are the most-pro paints. :thumbup:

 

the most pro paints? champion and acid are the most pro paints. Alligator, the reporter's paint and consultant's (microchip) are distinctive paints. Indeed you're not humble at all.

[Bowzie 64]

 

 

Here are the most-pro paints. :thumbup:

 

Micro-Chip :mrgreen:

[ALEXBOOT 0]

ill never get a good paint so can you please tell me the cheap good ones, I'm wo5.

all i have now is swamp...

i use rico and shaft with viking.

and i don't have a lot of crystals and never will.(so don't tell me to buy the most expensive paints)

[chriswu 25]

I think a good "lower range" paint is probably storm. All the 3k paints are really worth anything. 5k paints aren't really that worth it either except for Storm.

[ALEXBOOT 0]

I think a good "lower range" paint is probably storm. All the 3k paints are really worth anything. 5k paints aren't really that worth it either except for Storm.

that's 5k crystals :shock: i cant afford that.

also what do you think of safari? will it survive two m3 rail shots?(viking m2,m1)

i might buy storm if for some reason i get at least third place in the designer contest. (which is not going to happen because i don't have a lot of friends that play tanki)

[chriswu 25]

Safari is ok, but tbh 10% is that much of an advantage.