In Strinova, Kanami is a Sniper agent to use as an Attacker. Find this character key features, best build for demolition, and guides down below.
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Kanami Key Features
Kanami is one of The Scissors agent with an official role of Vanguard. She is great for providing recon of enemy position to her team.
Kanami primary weapon is call Finale, it's a Sniper rifle that deal insanely high damage with great accuracy and fast bullet velocity that can hit the target easily.
Kanami playstyle fit for player that like to take down long range enemy with 1 or 2 shot, she can also get information of the enemy position and feed it back directly to the team.
Down below we cover every aspect of this character from how to effectively use her skill and ultimate, his weapon stats details, to the best kanami build in buy phase, and best awaken.
Kanami Skills Details & Best Way To Utilize
Kanami skills consist of Echo Reveal, Echo Chamber, and Showtime. This 3 skills are very important to provide enemy position to your teammate as well as disabled any enemy that run past your ultimate.
Echo Reveal (Passive)
In-game description: Kanami's shots generate a Sonar Zone at the impact point. Enemies within this area are exposed.
Tip: Having good knowledge of the map will allows you to spot where the enemy hide before you blindly walk into them.
Echo Chamber (Q)
In-game description: Kanami's next shot fires a Sonar Disk that scans for unobstructed enemies within a 180 degree arc in front of it. Detected enemies are revealed to all allies.
Tip: This ability is great to use for spotting the enemy as well and it's also stay longer then the passive.
Showtime (Ultimate)
In-game description: Kanami summons her holographic figure that pulls in enemies within a certain range, reducing their movement speed and accuracy.
Tip: This ultimate is a great zoning area that will drag down the enemy into a single position so that you have more chance of hitting your shot.
Kanami Weapon: Finale Stats & Reocil
Finale is a sniper rifle that fire a very accurate shot with 1 shot eliminate to the head at any range. Find more detail about this sniper down below:
Note: This is base stats. No build apply on it yet.
- Damage (10M): Head: 262 | Body: 105 | Leg: 73
- Damage (30M): Head: 258 | Body: 103 | Leg: 72
- Damage (50M): Head: 238 | Body: 95 | Leg: 66
- Rate of Fire: 24
- ADS Speed: 38
- Accuracy: 15
- Handling: 60
- Magazine Capacity: 6
- Reload Speed: 10
- Rechambering Speed: 60
The Kanami weapon prime range is unlimited as long as you hit the head are of the target, however, when your shot hit body area you will need more than 1 ammo to eliminate an enemy.
Since this weapon is a Sniper, we don't have any recoil pattern guide for you, you just need to be accurate with each shot and get used to good shot placement.
Understand our skills and weapon guide will help you improve as Kanami players, down below you going to understand how to properly build her to suit her playstyle.
Best Kanami Build in Strinova
Disclaimer: This build is only for Demolition game mode. Please read the awaken list first.
Kanami Awaken List
Awaken # | Details |
Awaken 1 1 Blue 1 Yellow | Kanami's primary weapon now deals explosive AOE DMG. |
Awaken 2 1 Blue 2 Yellow 1 Green | Enemies detected by the Sonar Disk are tracked. If they stay within range for a set duration, they will become disoriented, experiencing a reduced firing rate. |
Awaken 3 1 Blue 1 Yellow 2 Green | Allies within the Sonar Disk's effect range receive increased movement speed, weapon usability, and firing rate. |
When reading our build guide, please pay attention to our color: blue, yellow, green.
1st Awaken Build
The first awaken is call Sonic Blast, this awaken is really good to for your sniper because it can deal good blast damage to multiple enemies.
In order to activate this awaken you need to buy 1 blue and 1 yellow. Here are our recommendation build:
- First Blue: Increase Charging Speed
- First Yellow: Echo Reveal: Duration +1s
This is the best awaken for Kanami, it make her sniper charge up very fast and the reveal last longer from the shot which is very good to gain enemy position.
2nd Awaken Build
The second awaken is call Echo Shock, it nerfs the enemy that walk past your shot.
In order to activate this awaken you need to buy 1 yellow and 1 green. Here are our recommendation build:
- Second Yellow: Echo Chamber: Duration +2s
- First Green: Heavy Armor
We build this second awaken to make Kanami more stronger in gunfight and also make her skill duration longer.
3rd Awaken Build
The third awaken is call Melodic Boost, this awaken boost the your teammate that walk past your teammate, now you can use as offensive and defensive.
In order to activate this awaken you need to buy 1 green. Here are our recommendation build:
- Second Green: Stringified DMG Reduction +25
This awaken build to make you more tanky when turning into paper mode, this way you can survive any enemy that catch you off guard.
Overall, All 3 Kanami awaken is very good to upgrade, however if you are losing the lead in the match, you should prioritize the first awaken and the second awaken.
Best Secondary for Kanami
Kanami primary is a Sniper that fire 1 shot after another, we need to pick a secondary that you can support well when your Sniper is in rechambering.
Here are our recommendation:
Secondary | Summary |
Stinger | Stinger is a fully automatic SMG that deals good damage with low recoil control. |
Emberspit | If you want to deal more close range damage but you don't want to aim, you can use Emberspit instead. |
This 2 secondary are very good to use when the enemy are close to you and you don't want to use the sniper rifle.
Best Tactical Items for Kanami
Here are our Tactical items that we recommend to use against Kanami:
Tac Items | Summary |
Healing Grenade | Combine Healing Grenade with Healing Drone you sort of become an ultimate supporter. |
Slow Grenade | Slow Grenade is really good for escort game mode, it can slow down the enemy. |
You can also swap Slow grenade for Windstorm Grenade if you feels like the slow grenade did not fit your playstyle.
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End of Best Kanami Build Guide.