Heavy Assault Rifle

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Heavy Assault Rifle
Details
Rarity	Common Uncommon Rare Epic Legendary
Class	Assault Weapon
Bullet Type	Medium Ammo
Statistics
DPS	140.25 (Common) 174.25 (Legendary)
Damage	33 (Common) 41 (Legendary)
Fire Rate	4.25
Magazine Size	25
Reload Time	3.1 Sec (Common) 2.5 Sec (Legendary)
Critical Hit Damage	1.5x

The Heavy Assault Rifle is an Assault Weapon in Fortnite: Battle Royale. It was added in Season 6. The Mythic variant of this weapon is Meowscles' Peow Peow Rifle.

Functionality

The Heavy Assault Rifle is a fully automatic, slow firing, medium ranged weapon. It excels at medium ranged combat, but has the ability to perform decently at long ranges. The Heavy Assault Rifle has first shot accuracy enabling longer ranged engagements to be useful.

Stats

Heavy Assault Rifles range from dealing 33-41 damage per shot (140.25 - 174.25 Damage per second). All Assault Rifles use Medium Ammo. The Heavy Assault Rifle has a Headshot Multiplier of 1.5x.

Heavy Assault Rifle	Heavy Assault Rifle	Heavy Assault Rifle
Common	Uncommon	Rare
DPS: 140.25	DPS: 148.75	DPS: 157.25
Damage: 33	Damage: 35	Damage: 37
Fire Rate: 4.25	Fire Rate: 4.25	Fire Rate: 4.25
Magazine Size: 25	Magazine Size: 25	Magazine Size: 25
Reload Time: 3.1s	Reload Time: 2.9s	Reload Time: 2.8s

Heavy Assault Rifle	Heavy Assault Rifle
Epic	Legendary
DPS: 165.75	DPS: 174.25
Damage: 39	Damage: 41
Fire Rate: 4.25	Fire Rate: 4.25
Magazine Size: 25	Magazine Size: 25
Reload Time: 2.7s	Reload Time: 2.5s

The Heavy Assault Rifle is a hitscan weapon, with First Shot Accuracy enabled.

Damage falloff:

• Damage falloff begins at 50 meters (10 tiles).
• Damage steadily decreases down to 80% of its maximum at 75 meters (15 tiles).
• Damage reaches its minimum value of 66% of its maximum at 100 meters (20 tiles).

Sounds

Sound Type	Rarity	Sound
Pullout	Common, Uncommon and Rare
	Epic and Legendary
Shooting	Common, Uncommon and Rare
	Epic and Legendary
Reload	Common, Uncommon and Rare
	Epic and Legendary
Pickup	Common, Uncommon and Rare
	Epic and Legendary
Drop	Common, Uncommon and Rare
	Epic and Legendary

Obtained

From when the weapon was last available in Chapter 2: Season 5

Rarity	Chest	Rare Chest	Floor Loot	Supply Drop	Fishing (Plain)	Fishing (Hole)
Common	✓	✖	✓	✖	✓	✖
Uncommon	✓	✖	✓	✖	✓	✖
Rare	✓	✖	✓	✖	✓	✖
Epic	✓	✓	✖	✓	✖	✓
Legendary	✓	✓	✖	✓	✖	✓

A Legendary Heavy Assault Rifle was also obtained from eliminating the Ruckus AI.

Strategy Guide

The risk was calculated... but I'm bad at math.

This section outlines a strategy. Feel free to add tips, tricks and general advice about the topic.

• When you use a Heavy Assault Rifle, it is preferable to use at medium range. Long range is still powerful due to its high damage, however.
• It is important to note that the weapon has a very large spread when firing at full auto, and also is very weak up close due to hipfire spread. It is advised to wait for its first shot accuracy to reset before firing each shot.
• Despite its high damage, the low accuracy and fire rate of the Heavy Assault Rifle make it generally unsuited to destroying structures.
• All Heavy Assault Rifles can eliminate a player in 4 well placed headshots, aside from the Common Heavy Assault Rifle.

History

Season 6

• Update v6.21: Added Heavy Assault Rifles in Rare, Epic and Legendary rarities.
  • Hotfix: Increased Accuracy by 20%, Decreased Recoil by 20%.

Season 7

• Update v7.10: Adjusted the Heavy Assault Rifle.
  • Increased ADS accuracy bonus by 10%.
  • Increased accuracy while standing still by 10%.
  • Reduced vertical recoil by 6%.
  • Base accuracy reduced by 30%.
  • Reduced accuracy while jumping and falling by 60%.

Season 8

• Update v8.10: Rare, Epic, and Legendary rarities demoted to Common, Uncommon, and Rare.
  • Damage decreased from 44/46/48 to 36/38/40.

Season 9

• Update v9.30: Increased Damage values from from 36/38/40 to 38/40/42.

Chapter 2: Season 1

• Update v11.40: Re-added Epic and Legendary variants of the Heavy Assault Rifle in with a new icon and model.
  • Can be sidegraded to an Assault Rifle.
  • Damage decreased from 38/40/42/44/46 to 33/35/37/39/41.
  • Fire Rate increased from 3.75 to 4.25.

Chapter 2: Season 3

• Update v13.00: Vaulted the Heavy Assault Rifle in all rarities.

Chapter 2: Season 5

• Update v15.00: Un-vaulted the Heavy Assault Rifle in all rarities.
  • Increased Accuracy across the board.

Chapter 2: Season 6

• Update v16.00: Vaulted the Heavy Assault Rifle in all rarities.

Trivia

• The Common, Uncommon, and Rare rarities of the Heavy Assault Rifle are based on the Russian AK-74 / AKM. This icon was previously used for all rarities of the weapon before Chapter 2: Season 1.
• The Epic and Legendary rarities of the Heavy Assault Rifle appear to based on the American CMMG Mk47 Mutant.