Toothpick

	Toothpick
	General information
Classification	Artificial Intelligence
Gender	None
	Affiliation and military information
Affiliation	None
Occupation	Raven
Craft	AC Fracture
	Real world information
Appearances	Armored Core Last Raven

Toothpick, known in Japanese as Yang (楊) is an AI Ranker in the Last Raven VR Arena. Its rank is 24.

AC Fracture | La Rue[]

Lightweight, two leg model equipped with auxiliary boosters. Equipped laser rifle offers good firepower, but doesn't mesh well with the lightweight design. Equipped with the late 3rd generation Karasawa laser rifle, back-mounted auxiliary boosters, the starter laser blade and a lightweight solid-shell E.O. core for additional firepower. Due to the aid of OP-INTENSIFY, the unit has prolonged boost duration and mobility is also not affected by the unit being overweight.

In Japanese, the AC is referred to as La Rue (ラ･ルー Ra rū).

Strategy[]

The Silent Line poster AC, it will be overweight under normal circumstances, but thanks to OP-I, it can jet around continually without issue.

For an AC ranked on the lower ladder, Yang presents something of a challenge for all players. The real danger lies in her ability to remain airborne for extended periods of time, making an exceedingly annoying one to keep a constant lock on. Although her equipped Karasawa does pack a punch, her targeting accuracy isn't quite on par, often shooting before she has fully locked on or just missing wildly. She will often compensate for this by trying to hover close to you while deploying her EO core to supplement her firepower, but it doesn't quite mesh with her Karasawa, as the descripton states.

Due to her affinity for flying around constantly, aiming up will help, though her repeated lowering and raising of altitude while flying makes it very tricky and cumbersome to target her properly, not to mention her light frame means she can easily dodge slower attacks. Despite having OP-INTENSIFY, her energy is not unlimited, and at some point Yang will descend to recover energy while walking or she lands hard on the ground. Hit her as hard as you can when this happens, before she starts jetting about again and floating high above you.

Thankfully, Yang's AC is not built to withstand punishment, and is cannon fodder for most weapons. Because of her constant changing of altitude when flying, it is not advised to use slow, heavy weapons on Yang, as they will be more likely to miss as she has the affinity for projectile avoidance. Instead, close-to-mid range weapons with a high rate of fire are more effective as Yang will have a harder time avoiding them, not to mention her choice of FCS and the Karasawa makes it very difficult for her tiny lock reticule to track/line up properly against fast, ground-strafing ACs.

To sum up, Yang can be quite a frustrating opponent, but she is not unbeatable. Keep experimenting with different strategies for her, and she will eventually fall.

Parts[]

Head: CR-H98XS-EYE2
Core: CR-C98E2
Arms: CR-A92XS
Legs: CR-LH84L2
Booster: B03-VULTURE2
FCS: CR-F91DSN
Generator: CR-G91
Raidiator: R02-HAZEL2
Inside: None
Extension: None
Back Weapons: WB31B-PEGASUS
Arm Unit R: WH04HL-KRSW
Arm Unit L: CR-WL69LB

Gallery[]

Armored Core: Last Raven Portable[]

Trivia[]

Fracture is the Crest Assault Type AC seen in the Armored Core: Silent Line opening movie, with the exception of not having the CROW extensions, as they were removed after Silent Line. It is still overweight when the player tries to build up her AC as Human PLUS is only available to the AI in Last Raven.
The pilot of this AC is apparently female. If you look at the back of the manual of Armored Core Silent line, you can see Fracture overlooking a city, with a woman (presumed to be the pilot, Toothpick) standing next to it, her back to the viewer.