Mercury or Rayker Wins?

Rayker with Quantum Radar will win, hands down. With the non stop suppression in a 1 on 1 the mercury just can’t do 「dookie」. It would be less certain if Rayker doesn’t have Quantum Radar.

You might say what if the Mercury has AC. Well, anti control has a much longer cool down than Rayker suppression so at the end it will still be a Rayker win.

Both have advantages. If I had to choose, I would go with Rayker. I did choose Rayker actually.

- Better mobility
- Better range versatility due to greater range of special ability
- Quick reload multiple suppression/damage blasts on multiple target

I have both. They are both great and do different things. Both are fun to pilot. But I get godlikes in my mercury. Only get occasional kills with my raker. For me the jump is more useful than the suppression. But that may be just me. I do try and help out teammates by suppressing a red giving them grief.

if you deciding which bot to use, i will say Rayker is better at midrange, Mercury better at close quarter.

Since the weapons have range and Rayker is faster and it’s built in weapon has range, the Rayker will win by keeping its distance. Mercury won’t be able to get close enough to use hell dive while repeatedly being suppressed which also causes significant damage.

Seems to be a mixed result. Rayker is overall a more powerful bot then the Mercury. I get consistently more kills than the Mercury all the time. Just one match a few moments ago, I took out 2 Inquisitors, 1 Spectre and a Ares, in just that one Rayker, CQC.

Rayker is just way under appreciated. I've tried countless times, same load out , L12 Avenger with L8 Shredders, it is just not working out for the Mercury. Putting the same load out on the Rayker, it kicks ?multiple dookie delivery chute?. The suppression ability is just powerful and you have 3 at your disposal, only 10 seconds to recharge. I brawl with my Rayker, it takes on Bulwarks, Fenrirs and Falcons , head to head, no problem. With glance ability, Ares, AJs, Spectres, Mercuries, Inquisitors, or just about any bots, they stand no chance at all. Even if these bots has PS/AC, I can always wait for it to cool off, then hit the ability again. Overall, the firepower of the Rayker is higher than the Mercury due to it's 3 suppression abilities. I probably would need to level up the Shredders higher if I am gonna use them on the Mercury. Currently Mercury runs on L12 Leadhouse.

The Rayker is probably the best bot other than the Blitz for the Alien bots. The glance hits 600m away too, great for helping out your blues. Inquisitors, Mercuries, Spectres, Stalker and Lokies in stealth, you do not need Quantum Radar to kill them, it is just low to the ground. It has 60km/h speed at L9, fast.

Yesterday...I had a Bulgasari/Scourge just beside me. LOL....I immediately hugged him, almost climbing over it's shoulders. I was moving left and right, no chance for him to take proper aim at all. Finished him off in seconds...that was so funny.

I like both bots, they are always in my hanger. But if you are going to build one in WS, the Rayker is the one you should go for, it is cheaper too.

I actually faced a Rayker this morning in my Mercury. At the end of the battle I noticed his weapons and bot were just a tiny higher than my Mercury. I helldived on him and did some initial damage and started shot gunning him and then when my stealth wore off he tried to suppress me but I run AC so it was a no go. He was running advance healing so he healed back up quite a bit and I had to hit my regular heal button to stay afloat. His suppression came back around and he did get me this time. We were on moon at one of the beacons so we had those metal things to dance around as we fought each other. I manager to stay alive long enough to get him one last time with my helldive and killed it barely.

It was really close. Either one of us would have won if the other didn't have advanced healing or AC. Hats off to him whoever he was (Cant remember his name), nothing like a good close battle like that.

I run Last Stand, SB, Armor Expert and Mechanic skills on it due to it's low HP.

You need to face a Rayker in order to know how powerful it can be. Once a bot is suppressed by it , as long as it is not a tank, the bot will be melted in seconds. I've killed full health T-Fals with it. Why I like Rayker over the Mercury better is because I don't have to hide all the time, I just go head on to enemy bots.

Whenever I see another Rayker...and I am not in one, better to just run away. lol.

I agree. It depends on the map, pilot skills and modules. On short maps, mercury has the advantage of ambushing rayker. On long maps, rayker will not let mercury approach close. With AC on both bots, their abilities are a bit useless: rayker will be unable to suppress mercury, and mercury is not likely to helldive on a highly mobile rayker. With Quantum Radar on rayker, mercury will not take full advantage of its stealth.  They have identical HP (mercury can equip healing module though), and by choice identical weapons (their damage output might vary though). It will be a close call, but I voted for mercury mainly because by choice of active modules mercury will be on slight advantage. 

Yes, would be great to have a custom battle. But, putting aside modules and skills, the Rayker will beat the Mercury anytime. It's 3 ability charges is enough to kill the Mercury. The Mercury might jump and escape the first glance, but once it lands and it gets hit by the 2nd glance, the Mercury will be killed in seconds. I remember there was once on carrier map, this Spectre got suppressed before he did the jump over my head. By the time he landed, he got glanced again, gone in less than 2 seconds.

I will try to get footage of how good the Rayker is as a silent and aggressive bot. I have a lot of fun piloting this little spider. I tried recording using the Windows 10 game recoder, it lags the whole game.

It might just be me then, I have mine at lv9 with maxed Last Stand and NR, got a lv40 pilot on it, and it is probably the most effective bot I have. And that is why that setup is ideal for tanks, you need massive damage output at close range.  But the rayker doesn't need to be close range for it's ability so it's good to have longer ranged weapons on it.
If I had to build something now in the game it would not be the mercury, I got mine around the spectre nerf, and the rayker is something I would consider when starting over.

What league and platform are you in OP? If you're killing full health t fals you sure aren't in middle or upper champ.

With PS I have zero fear of any rayker.. One gets me now and then in my Ares by surprise but much more often I hit them with retribution and they are left crippled or dead without harming me at all. Ao Jun laughs and melts them. I faced one in my brand new phantom last night on dreadnought. Despite my inexperience in that bot and modest level I tore him apart.

You just don't see LL players using raykers. Mercury is a bit of a has been now but rayker is a never was.

I somewhat agree because i like the rayker, but alot comes down to the pilot. I have killed plenty, but i have used my merc since the day i got it, i know when to jump, when NOT to jump, where, which bots to go after, etc. A decent amount of merc pilots i have seen out there are sloppy, might get a kill or two with it, but otherwise use it to break up an ares train, cluster damage, etc. Without ps, Last Stand, and a good route out, jumping in means death. One on one, same build, mods, comparable skills, etc, depending on map, good possibility i could finish the altercation with minimal damage. Not at all saying it would happen, but out of all my bots, other than my blitz, i can hold my own against way higher leveled bots and meta because i am extremely comfortable in it and spent a year+ piloting it every match. But like i said, if i don't kill it, i left it barely alive. Wins a win, no matter how ugly.

I am building a rayker though