Shooter

“	A Shooter can manipulate bullet properties at will. Power, range, speed. You can adjust these three parameters in every attack. You can scatter small shrapnel or fire one big blast. The drawback is all that manipulation takes time, and you have to account for accuracy as well. You need good instincts to be effective.	”
–Kyōsuke Karasuma about Shooters, in Osamu Mikumo 5.

A Shooter (射手(シューター), Shūtā ^?) is a Border agent who specializes in the use of Gunner Triggers without relying on a firearm.

Specifics

The Shooter 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 Gunner Trigger without a firearm out of all the Triggers in their set are counted as Shooters, however if they have 6,000 points with a Gunner Trigger and any Attacker Trigger, they are classified as All-Rounders. On the other hand, users of Gunner Triggers who utilize firearms are known as Gunners.

Overview

Much like Gunners, Shooters specialize in middle-range combat, with an emphasis on controlling the enemy's position. Due to to the effectiveness of Shield, Shooters are mostly relegated to support roles, assisting allies from afar and regulating the flow of the battle. Since they must also be able to take into account factors such as the goals of both teams, the conditions of the battlefield and the location of allies, frequently on the spot, Shooters are considered intellectual fighters, even more so than Gunners: their Triggers are in fact more complex, and although this makes them more versatile, it also makes them more difficult to master. Nonetheless, they can become quite dangerous when they use Full Attack, and since they do not need their limbs to fight, they remain a threat even if their Trion Body is mutilated.

Shooters fire bullets without summoning weapons, but by creating constructs, known as Trion cubes, which they can then divide into multiple parts or shoot whole: the more bullets are fired, the lower their individual power. Furthermore, Shooters can modify the parameter ratio of their bullets on the fly, as well as scatter and delay the shots to an extent. These additional abilities give them an advantage over Gunners at shorter distances, although the number of operations a Shooter must perform before firing compared to a Gunner can potentially tip the scales back in the latter's favor.

The four bullet types available to Shooters are Asteroid, Hound, Meteor and Viper, which they can combine in real time to create composite bullets. The amount of trion the user possesses determines the overall power and size of the trion cube, which is always at its biggest when summoned. Since Shooters need to expend a lot of trion to be effective in combat, many of them have abundant trion reserves.

Solo Points

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

• No. 1 Shooter, Masataka Ninomiya (Asteroid): 12,042+ (Feb. 5)
• No. 2 Shooter, Kōhei Izumi
• No. 3 Shooter, Nozomi Kako
• Rei Nasu: 8,395 (Feb. 6)
• Osamu Mikumo (Asteroid): 4,282 (Feb. 15)

List of Shooters

Currently, there are 12 known Shooters in Border, corresponding to the Shooters who participate in Rank Wars.

The following Shooters are listed by their Squad's ranking at the end of the most recent season of Rank Wars. When known, their individual ranking in the Shooter class is reported under their name.

Shooters
Kōhei Izumi Tachikawa Squad 2nd	Nozomi Kako Kako Squad 3rd	Masataka Ninomiya Ninomiya Squad 1st 2nd Overall	Osamu Mikumo Tamakoma Second ???
Satoshi Mizukami Ikoma Squad ???	Kazuki Kurauchi Ōji Squad ???	Rei Nasu Nasu Squad ???	Keizō Mamiya Mamiya Squad ???
Mitsuya Koinuma Mamiya Squad ???		Minoru Hata Mamiya Squad ???
Trainees
Teruteru Kōda		Fumifumi Saotome

Trivia

• Shooters are occasionally considered a sub-class of Gunners, despite having been created first.