How to Play Rhino Well and Make the Other Team Salty

This is my guide, as a Rhino main myself, to teach new players how to effectively play the merc Rhino.

Intro

Rhino is, in my opinion, the most powerful merc in Dirty Bomb. He has the highest health in the game, at 180, and has the most DPS in the game through his one and only ability, the all-powerful minigun. Rhino is best suited to defense, but in the right hands and in the right scenario, he is just as powerful on offense. He is exeedingly situational, and 60% of Rhino is, quite simply, game sense. In the next few sections, I'll cover the specifics of the god that Rhino can be.

Weapons

THE MINIGUN
In close quarters, the minigun does 18,000 damage per minute. However, you should completely disregard this statistic. The minigun has ridiculous plume, and if you hold down the trigger, you won't hit jack unless you're right next to the enemy. If your enemy is far away, you can still use the minigun, though! The key is to tap shoot. You will probably think I'm insane for telling you to tap shoot with a minigun, of all things. The reason to do this is that every time you stop firing, even for a few milliseconds, the plume resets.This allows you to semi-accurately kill people from a farther distance. Also, you DON"T rev up your minigun if someone suprises you. You will be dead before you can shoot. Use your other weapons! Also, if you suspect there are enemies nearby, rev up your minigun before engaging.


THE SHOTGUN

Congradulations! As Rhino, you can join the shotgun cancer race too! The one you have, however, depends on your loadout card, but for my preferred loadout, I have a Remburg 7, so that's what I'll talk about. You use the other two in the exact same way, however. This shotgun does the highest damage per shot in the game if all the pellets hit, exactly 96 damage for a body shot, and 192 damage for a headshot. This is enough to drop any merc exept for another Rhino in one headshot. However, the chance to hit all the pellets is low. So spam it in close quarters! Again, only use the shotgun if someone suprises you in close range or if your minigun overheats and there are enemies close to you and you can't retreat. You ability and other gun are better at medium and long range.
EDIT: With the recent shotgun nerfs, they're not as good as they used to be. The only things us Rhino players need to know are that you can shoot people from farther away, and up close, you don't do as much damage (No more cheeky one-shots).

THE PISTOL

Rhino draws from the heavy pistols, the Simeon .357 (trash), the DE .50 (okay), and my preferred hand cannon, the Smjuth & Whetsman .40. This gun should be used in two scenarios.
1) Medium range tap shooting, if you get suprised and can't retreat and pull out your minigun, use the revolver! It does 34 damage a shot to the body, and 68 as a headshot. This means you can drop anyone with 100 health or less with a two-tap. (One in the head, one in the heart)
2) Close range spamming if you get suprised, or if your minigun overheats. In either case, in close combat USE YOUR SHOTGUN FIRST. it does more damage up close. The revolver can still dish out a ridiculous amount of damage, so click click click!

MELEE

Rhino can have the Stilnotto Stileto (trash) the Cricket Bat, (good) or the Beckhill Combat Knife. (best) Whichever one you have, this will primarily be used to run as fast as your tubby ass can.

Movement

Rhino is slow. This is common knowledge. This does not, however, mean that you should be the last one in. Quite the opposite, in fact. With your 180 health and minigun, you should be the FIRST one in. You are a human battering ram, used to force your way into defended enclosures.

BASIC MOVEMENT

Long jump and wall-jump EVERYWHERE. It is the fastest way to get around. Always move around with your knife out, unless you know there are enemies nearby. One of the greatest mistakes you can make is to have your minigun out all the time. That just makes you slower and easy to shoot.

MINIGUN MOVEMENT

Walking around with a revved up minigun is very bad. It does make it so you are ready to fight at a moment's notice, but by the time you get to the battlefield, someone will have won already!
Only walk around with a revved up minigun if you suspect you will be fighting soon.

What Card To Use

The best card for Rhino, in my opinion, is the R93 Power Close Assault. It has the AMAZING augment Nitros, which provides 50% increase to barrel acceleration that allows you to quickly duck behind cover and reemerge, fully ready to cut people in half with the minigun. Quick slash is useless for Rhino, but Unshakeable is very good because explosives counter you like hell.


The A51 Vanguard Close Assault (first edition) is quite useful. However, Focus is useless, but Tough is good because it allows you to get back health faster, so you can get back into the action. See above for Unshakeable.


The last card I personally have played with is the A61 Power Close Assault. See above for why Tough is good, Chopper isn't very useful, but Ice Cold is very useful because the 40% increase in barrel overheat time allows you to cut more people in half, and do more damage to objectives.
EDIT: After a comment I liked that said this card would be good for a tank melee, I have tested this and found it to be effective against noobs. 10/10 for fun, 3/10 for practicality.

Defensive Strategy

Rhino is best used when he can hunker down with a medic or two and a sniper for killing anyone either trying to run away or killing any other snipers. The best medic to pair with him on defense is, of course, Aura for her ridiculosly powerful healing station. Any sniper will do, but I prefer Aimee because her SNITCH debuffs enemies, making them easier to cut in half with your minigun. Always lurk around corners, so you can suprise your enemies and murder them!
EDIT: Aura's jesus tower got nerfed. You can't camp as well now, but you can still camp! You just have to duck behind cover more often to fully replenish your health. You can also camp under Guardian's sky shield or behind Turtle's shield to make it even more difficult to kill you.

Offensive Strategy

Rhino on offense is best used as a human battering ram, tanking for other mercs and using your minigun to keep all the enemies heads down. Always attack in close quarters, as that is where your minigun is most effective. Follow a different, but similar merc pairing with Phoenix to heal you and keep you up, as he can revive himself if he is hit by stray fire. Stoker is the other pairing, as his molotov grenade is perfect for taking out pesky healing stations. Again, a sniper for killing other snipers.

Other Tips

Run away from snipers unless they're in minigun range. You can take ONE headshot from the MOA and FEL-IX, but unless you're some kind of revolver jesus, you'll be dead before you can take them out.

Anyone with deployable explosives is your enemy, too! They can sit around a corner and kill you before you can see them.

Outro

Rhino can be the most powerful merc in Dirty Bomb, but only in the right hands and scenario. It's your job to become those hands and seek out those scenarios! As with everyone else, good aim is everything, and practice is the best thing ever. So get your ass online, and recruit the fat man with the mingun.

Thanks to CombatMist for helping me with the updates!

[Rhino Guy]

MOST POWERFUL MERC IN DIRTY BOMB BAHAHAHAHAAA
i wish

[OPFOR]

Well the far fuck is a like a real rhino the most effective when living in a herd.

[Exfil Redneck]

>Chopper
>On Rhino
>On Beckhill
>The ULTIMATE TANK MELEE
>Useless

whats wrong with you

[DRAAGBAREDRUIPER]

work, alone hes (srry)

[DRAAGBAREDRUIPER]

the only thing wrong about this is: rhino is the most powerfull merc in dirty bomb
he needs snipers healers and everything he is not the most powerfull aura kinda is but what i mean is that he requires a team to work alone hes not that bad

[Steppa60]

Youre actually the first person ive seen to nail all the pros and cons about Rhino. I applaud you.

[TraderJoesOfficial]

Good to hear...gl ;)

[Kramer]

im a fat man , but i dont have a minigun

[^_^]

This merc is a jew who deserves to die in Stokers nerfymolys