Arty has 120 HP. Skyhammer also has 120.
Kira fulfills the same role, but she has only 90 HP and an artillery strike she has to continue to aim manually.
What is the purpose of her having 30 less HP than her counterparts?
EDIT: Fixed the health differential.
To counteract the lower HP she has a higher movement speed, which is quite nice for moving around the map, great for strafing while in combat… etc.
To answer the question “What is the purpose?” to make her different from the other assault-classes.
Isn’t her health at 90? (been awhile since I played her)
[quote=“MvMArcher;88587”]To counteract the lower HP she has a higher movement speed, which is quite nice for moving around the map, great for strafing while in combat… etc.
To answer the question “What is the purpose?” to make her different from the other assault-classes.
Isn’t her health at 90? (been awhile since I played her)[/quote]
Nope, 80. Played her about an hour ago. And yes, she has better movement speed, but that doesn’t really help when you have to slow to a crawl to aim your orbital laser.
Flanking is really the only option she has.
EDIT: Actually loading the game now. I may have taken a stray bee sting.
EDIT: Yep, it is 90. Fixing my original post.
[left][quote=“toolboxRhyme;88602”]Nope, 80. Played her about an hour ago.[/quote]
Just checked the wiki, both gamepedia and [url=“http://dirtybomb.wikia.com/wiki/Kira”]wikia, they both say 90.
You can aim the laser from across the map, just gotta know how to use it.[/left]
As @MvMArcher wrote, Kira compensates her lack of HP with her speed.
She’s my main and I find her absolutely awesome.
She has access to powerful burst rifles such as Stark & BR-16.
They are absolutely devastating when the bullets hit the head.
Use her speed to flank and do quick corner peaks so that you are able to avoid shots.
Also, the laser moves faster the longer distance you asign it to move.
Here an example:
A—B---C
Let’s say you are at A. Your victims are at B.
Now, what do you do?
You tell the laser to move to C.
That way it’ll move a lot faster than if you asigned it to move to B.
Try it out. 
Kira has 90 hp and you just have to point the laser where to go then u can just hold your normal gun.
I love Kira, the laser is just a plus, for me it’s all about that blazing movespeed + the crazy damage output of the BR-16 at range. You should be constantly moving around doing hit-and-run attacks, she is like the ultimate peeking merc. Once you master Kira you can be a major pain in the ass for the enemy team.
Kira is great and like these people are saying less health for blazing move speed for those toasty flanks. Kira is love,Kira is life.
Laser is incredible. The cooldown is short and sweet, it has incredible killing potential, and is controllable.
Understand the low HP now?
Kira is really hard to hit when she’s moving around. It allows her to be highly mobile and menacing. The BR-16 and the Stark have the highest DPS out of all the weapons if you can fire it perfectly. You can 1 burst headshot any merc that has less than 90 hp if you’re close enough. And the laser is very versatile.
Shes a Female thats why! Men are superior. Come at me with your feminist tears. (jk)
Even tho i got u as many times while playing as Phoenix and Phantom @Kirays also why werent u using that shiny cobalt u crafted even tho the card you were using when playing against me was better?
@TheOrangePhantome
Because that card has Dreiss.
However, once it’s buffed you may see it again in my hands.
I really hope the buff comes next patch.
@Kirays I have a Crown Gold D82 Kira card, and it’s aching for the Dreiss to get buffed.
[quote=“CCP115;88772”]Laser is incredible. The cooldown is short and sweet, it has incredible killing potential, and is controllable.
Understand the low HP now?[/quote]
exactly, lazor has the highest potential kill power out of all the fire support abilities. If Kira had 120hp she could just lazor everyone to death while taking the pain, with 90hp it requires a little more brainz