Rodeo, known as Rodeo Addiction in Japanese (ロデオアディクション Rodeoadikushon), is a Raven in Armored Core: Silent Line. His rank is D-3 in the Arena.
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He compares operating his AC to "riding a wild, untamed bronco." The high performance booster and generator equipped on the unit make it extremely agile, but as the pilot himself is willing to admit, perfecting the controls takes time.
He can be hired as a consort in the following missions:
AC Unruly[]
Unruly is a hover AC equipped with an OB core, a machine gun, a rifle, and long-range radars.
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Strategy[]
This is another Raven with an extremely specialized AC, and Rodeo's Unruly is defined with one word: speed. His only strategy is going at breakneck speed and spraying machine gun fire. That might sound underwhelming, but Unruly is so fast that it is very hard to keep it in your sights, much less keep up with its pace. That means that most ACs will be hard pressed to respond to the machine gun strafes of Rodeo. If you do not want to play his game and build an AC of matching celerity, your best bet is participating in a different kind of race: the damage race.
The key to beating him is to be able to avoid as much as his shots as possible and hit him as hard you can. He has good firepower and mobility but lacks defense, you can use high DPS weapons or missiles against him to bring him down. Do note that his dual machine guns are complemented by the ORCA-class EO, making it three rapid fire weapons raining down projectiles at a dazzling rate - do whatever you can to stay under the triple gun fire the least time as possible. Other than that, Rodeo proves to be an especially one-dimensional opponent, so when the shock of speed wanes he is going to have nothing to spare when the match goes awry for him.
Lastly, one might wonder why this pilot needs two copies of a super heavy and energy expensive radar unit on his back, when it comes to building a speed-focused close-range AC.