Attacker

“	Attackers like to, well, attack.	”
–Shiori Usami about Attackers, in Kei Tachikawa.

An Attacker (攻撃手(アタッカー), Atakkā, Lit. Attack User ^?) is a Border agent who specializes in the use of Attacker Triggers.

Specifics

The Attacker position is one of the 9 official positions available to Border agents, one of the 7 directly involved in combat, and one of the 4 a trainee can seemingly be. Any combatant who have scored the most points with a Attacker Trigger out of all the Triggers in their set are counted as Attackers, however if they have 6,000 points with a attacker trigger and any Gunner Trigger, they are classified as All-Rounders.

Overview

Attackers specialize in melee combat and fight almost exclusively at close quarters, although each of the 3 basic Attacker Triggers enables them to execute mid-ranged attacks in certain conditions, often with the help of additional Triggers. As their name implies, Attackers are the most offensively-oriented fighters. Their Triggers grant them excellent raw power, being surpassed in destructive abilities only by Ibis, as well as the highest damage-per-second ratio. Furthermore, Attacker Triggers are the ones consuming the least Trion, which means that a high trion capacity is of secondary importance to Attackers, and in fact many of them have relatively low trion levels.

Due to the characteristics of their Triggers, Attackers often serve as the main damage dealers of their Squad, fighting at the front of their formation. When this is not the case, their considerable offensive power can be used to break through the enemy's defenses; otherwise, they can serve as decoys or defend themselves and their teammates with Shield while moving into a more favorable range. This Defense Trigger is in fact essential to them, as it allows them to approach foes who specialize in mid-range without risks. Others prefer to use Grasshopper to close the distance or Gunner Triggers to hold their own from afar. For similar reasons, Border's most agile fighters are all Attackers. The three basic Attacker Triggers are Kogetsu, Raygust and Scorpion. Sōgetsu and the Spear are also used by Kirie Konami and Yōsuke Yoneya respectively.

Solo Points

Since points fluctuate constantly, most of the following scores are likely to be obsolete.

• No. 1 Attacker, Kei Tachikawa (Kogetsu): 45,961 (Feb. 22)
• No. 2 Attacker, Sōya Kazama (Scorpion): 12,042+ (Feb. 5)
• No. 3 Attacker, Kirie Konami (Kogetsu): 12,042+ (Feb. 5)
• No. 4 Attacker, Kō Murakami (Kogetsu): 12,042 (Feb. 5)
• No. 5 Attacker: 11,177+ (Feb. 22)
• No. 6 Attacker, Tatsuhito Ikoma (Kogetsu): 11,177 (Feb. 22)
• No. 7 Attacker: 10,000-11,177 (Feb. 22)
• Yōsuke Yoneya (Kogetsu: Spear): 9,825 (Feb. 5)
• Shun Midorikawa (Scorpion): 9,721 (Feb. 5)
• Shinnosuke Tsuji (Kogetsu): 8,393 (Feb. 22)
• Hisato Sasamori (Kogetsu): 7,452 (Feb. 22)
• Yūta Miura (Kogetsu): 7,407 (Feb. 22)
• Noboru Koarai (Kogetsu): 7,280 (Feb. 22)
• Tsuneyuki Okudera (Kogetsu): 7,188 (Feb. 15)
• Yūko Kumagai (Kogetsu): 7,119 (Feb. 5)
• Yūma Kuga (Scorpion): 5,172 (Feb. 15)
• Masato Kageura (Scorpion): 4,780 (Feb. 15)
• Hyuse (Kogetsu): 4,016 (Feb. 22)

List of Attackers

Currently, there are 29 known Attackers in Border, roughly corresponding to the Attackers who participate in Rank Wars. Tetsuji Arafune, Kyōko Sawamura and Raizō Terashima previously held this position as well. Among the All-Rounders, Yōko Katori is known to have started out as an Attacker. Masafumi Shinoda utilizes an Attacker Trigger, but it is unknown if he is classified as an Attacker.

The following attackers are listed by their squad's ranking at the end of the most recent season of rank wars, with the exceptions of Konami and Jin, who do not belong to a ranked squad. When known, their individual ranking in the Attacker class is reported under their name.

Attackers
Kei Tachikawa Tachikawa Squad 1st 1st Overall	Sōya Kazama Kazama Squad 2nd 3rd Overall	Shirō Kikuchihara Kazama Squad ???	Shun Midorikawa Kusakabe Squad ???
Futaba Kuroe Kako Squad ???	Yōsuke Yoneya Miwa Squad ???	Yukimaru Ichijō Katagiri Squad ???	Kirie Konami Tamakoma First 3rd
Yūichi Jin Solo Agent ???	Shinnosuke Tsuji Ninomiya Squad ???	Yūma Kuga Tamakoma Second ???	Hyuse Tamakoma Second ???
Masato Kageura Kageura Squad ~20th	Tatsuhito Ikoma Ikoma Squad 6th	Kai Minamisawa Ikoma Squad ???	Kazuaki Ōji Ōji Squad ???
Yutaka Kashio Ōji Squad ???	Noboru Koarai Azuma Squad ???	Tsuneyuki Okudera Azuma Squad ???	Yūko Kumagai Nasu Squad ???
Kō Murakami Suzunari First 4th	Yūta Miura Katori Squad ???	Hisato Sasamori Suwa Squad ???	Shō Motegi Ebina Squad ???
Hanao Tsukimi Yoshizato Squad ???	Yūya Tsuchisaki Matsushiro Squad ???	Mamoru Tokiwa Tokiwa Squad ???	Yoshinobu Kera Tokiwa Squad ???
Trainees
Hidehide Hinoe

Trivia

• Due to Kyōsuke Karasuma's statement, it is safe to assume that Yukimaru Ichijō is either the no. 5 or the no. 7 Attacker, and that he has more than 10,000 points with Raygust.
• Yūichi Jin formerly held the position of no. 2 Attacker.
• When Osamu Mikumo joined Border as a trainee, his Trigger of choice was Raygust, however when he was promoted to B-rank, he was immediately categorized as a Shooter for unknown reasons.