I own a Sterling Sub Series Stingray and a P bass. The Stingray is my favorite and it keeps me wanting to play daily. I love the tone I get from it. It’s also awesome for slap, but I first learned how to slap on the P bass and got a great sound out of it.
The Stingray won’t make you better at slap, your technique will. So I wouldn’t get it for just that reason. I would get it if you love the tone a Stingray gives you.
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My humble suggestion here, if you want a bass to slap and are looking at a sting ray, don’t get the HH. The neck pickup can get in the way as you are learning how to slap. (speaking from experience) You can slap one, but I didn’t like it. I sold mine and bought a G & L Kiloton tribute and that is one of my favorite basses to play.
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There’s a whole school of female bassists who primarily slap. In Japan. It started with F-Chopper Koga who was denied a record contract because she was told by the suits “no one wants to see a girl slap”. So she started a new band, Gacharic Spin, and influenced a whole generation of female bassists. None on Stingray.
Koga in easy mode.
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Here’s Fami, who I swear emulates Koga. Fami is the bassist in the metal band Lovebites.
They asked what pickups Bootsy wanted and he answered yes.
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I own an EBMM MIA Stingray 4 string and recently acquired an Indo made Ray 35. The thing that draws me to these basses are the necks, easily the nicest necks Ive ever played, both in looks and feel!
The EBMM is super punchy and the Ray35 is warm and mellow. I’m not a slapper but couldnt see why you couldnt learn to slap on them.
Shouldn’t we be focusing on obese black men though?
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She’s one of my heroes actually 
I’m not sure it started with F-Chopper but she’s certainly great at it. My fave is still from her slap lessons disc, with her and Hana jamming:
Here’s most of the rest of the lessons disc:
If I wanted to slap, I would learn slap from F-Chopper.
You first - I’m happy to just have beers with them while focusing elsewhere 
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I don’t know any so that probably makes me racist in 2025?
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Probably just location.
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You could be right, but just several self taught young female bass players in rock bands are clones of how Koga plays. Maybe I shouldn’t connect the dots
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F Chopper definitely deserves accolades and is still driving a great career with a cool, funky and weird band and bandmates. All four of their main members are awesome and really talented.