Assemble! - Custom Shooter Squad - The Stealth Expert

Welcome to Assemble!

Here, we'll look at several different characters across multiple series to see who would form a perfect team for a certain genre. From fighting game rosters to RPG adventuring parties, different types of characters tend to show up frequently. What we'll do here is look at those archetypes to see what character is the best fit for that slot, and in the end, we’ll have the best team for the job. These articles will also be shorter entries, compared to some of the more long-form articles here, focusing on one or two characters at a time.

Despite a perception of a lot of these titles as generic war games, some shooters allow players to dive into an engaging story in a captivating world, taking the role of interesting characters with varied weapons, abilities, personalities, and motivations, especially with the popularity of hero shooters like Team Fortress 2, Overwatch, and Paladins. In this series of Assemble articles, we will be assembling a hero shooter roster using characters from several different shooters, based on different character archetypes.

The picks will be based on the different themes and tones of the characters and the worlds they inhabit as well as the roles they fill on a team or the kinds of weapons they use. Only characters that originated from video games, shooters particularly, will be observed here. Both first and third-person shooters will count and so will first and third-person action games if their main method of combating enemies is gunplay. Finally, I’ll only be discussing games and characters that I am at least somewhat familiar with. While this means I won’t discuss every shooter in existence, there should still be a good amount of variety with the series explored.

THE STEALTH EXPERT

While many shooter characters, protagonists especially, like to rush in guns blazing and mow down hordes of enemies, this character prefers a more subtle approach. Instead of being the big, bombastic action hero, the Stealth Expert prefers to sneak around, avoiding detection, to accomplish their mission with as little of the enemy as possible even knowing they were there. They take full advantage of their surroundings or the tech they’re equipped with to avoid detection and they tend to only fight when absolutely necessary, but when they have to fight, they are more than capable of handling themselves, whether with gadgets, gunplay, CQC (close-quarters combat, for those who don’t know), or a combination of the three.

While other characters work like a hammer, they prefer a scalpel.

Our pick for the Stealth Expert is…

The Spy from Team Fortress.

While his slick suit and gentlemanly demeanor give the outward appearance of a James Bond-type figure, what really gives him the edge for his slot as the Stealth Expert is his equipment. Apart from his standard weapon, a revolver, he is armed with several gadgets that aid in his job of sneaking around the enemy to accomplish his objective. They include a cloaking watch that can turn him invisible for a short time, a disguise kit that can make him appear as one of the enemy team, and Sapper devices that can disable and destroy equipment set up by an Engineer. Also, his other main weapon, a knife, when used effectively to sneak up on an opponent, can one-hit kill them with a backstab. His kit is geared toward penetrating enemy lines, disabling their defenses, and taking them out when they don’t expect it, making it easier for the rest of the team to come in and finish off whatever is left.

For serving as an effective silent assassin, we now add The Spy to our roster.

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