Annihilator

The Annihilator is one of the final upgrade choices from the Destroyer and may be selected at level 45. The upgrade furthermore increases the barrel size and bullet size. Bullet Damage and Penetration is surprisingly not affected.

Design
The Annihilator features a circular base with a huge barrel like the Destroyer but as large as the tank itself, which fires enormous bullets smaller than Arena Closer's but larger than the Destroyer's bullets.

Technical
The Annihilator is slow and has low bullet speed and reload, but it also has high bullet penetration and damage. It suffers from extreme recoil that knocks it back (7 background squares) when firing. In general, it serves as a more harder-to-avoid version of the Destroyer. Upon upgrading, Bullet size is increased. Compared to Hybrid and Destroyer, it shoots slightly slower, but has a higher recoil and moves back faster overall.

The Annihilator has also been noted to be more powerful than the Destroyer, possibly because the larger bullets have a larger hitbox and thus are in contact with the object for a longer period of time, dealing more damage. However, the bullets do exactly the same damage as a Hybrid's bullet.

Strategy

 * Strong Against: Slow tanks, melee tanks
 * Weak Against: Buffed Destroyers & Bullet Spammers

As the Annihilator
Tactics with the Destroyer apply to the Annihilator as well. Perfectly suitable for ramming builds as well, thanks to its extreme recoil balancing out the lower movement speed. The Annihilator is extremely effective against Alpha Pentagons.

It's best if players stay away from other Annihilators, as it is almost impossible to hit them; the bullets are most likely to collide with each other and thus, both bullets will be wasted.

Against the Annihilator
Players must remain extra vigilant when against the Annihilator, as its bullets are far larger than that of its predecessor and suffer no actual downsides, thus are much harder to avoid if you are caught by surprise, especially if you are using a rammer build. Necromancer can serve use against this tank, as you could swarm the Annihilator with your drones, but make sure that the Annihilator cannot one-shot all of your drones. You could also fight this class from a distance with long ranged classes (Like the Ranger, for example). Try using a bullet spammer, like the Triplet, the Annihilator has less reload than most tanks. However, the bullet can also be considered as a downside because of it's larger bullets take generally more bullets. This is especially useful as a triplet, as from around 15 squares, your bullets can destroy it before the bullet hits (with maxed damage penetration and reload).

Trivia

 * This class was added on the 10th of September, at the same time the Destroyer was buffed.
 * This tank shoots the largest bullet in the game aside from Arena Closers.