Why the hell are these Phantoms so hard to kill?!

What is a t-falc? Is it a thunder falcon?

- Higher hp the higher they’re leveled
- 33% damage resistance during ability
- Possibly equipped with leveled Battleborne/s and/or Heavy Armor Kits
- Advanced Repair Unit
- Pilot skills like Armor Expert, Invulnerable Raider, Adamant Guardian
- Durability booster or possible stacking of these in squad

oh, and the extra durability paint job

I can say this much for Phantoms...since their release, my pinpoint targeting skills have improved greatly.

That is interesting

Yes, the outer two weapons (and the jump ability) are negated. Which I find was useless anyway unless you are not brawling.
A Falcon using 3 weapons is one waiting to be quickly killed. Unless they are sniping with trebs, which can be really effective. And annoying.

So basically the t falcon is the invinicible shutze

Haha, yes. An old school bot that one for sure. Which was still common when I started.

One on one invincible. Sometimes. But I do get a bit fool hardy and try to take on two or three. Then it's not so invincible

I did the math from the wiki and the Phantom can have up to 56% DR with Battleborn. warrobots.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_Born and Invulnerable Raider: After capturing a beacon, the robot has increased resistances for 30 seconds.

Max: 25 defense points.

Adds up with Phantom's 50 Def Pts during ability to 125 Defense Points

Tell you what, my Phantom is only 2.10, and I don’t currently use a Heavy Armor Kit or BB, and it’s such a beast I literally have to purposely stay exposed and stop activating the Advanced Repair Unit to be taken out. Imagine if I finished the last two levels and added a maxed Heavy Armor Kit and maxed BB. Insane. Anyways, never mind what makes them durable, let’s talk about how to take this thing out.

1) Of all weapons, the most effective I observe have a significant impact on me are:

- tasers (sustained damage)
- cryo weapons (burst, slowing, deathmark-like effects), and
- flames


2) It is better to fire at me when the damage resistance icon disappears from over my head.


3) If you see a Phantom capture a beacon and they’re barely taking any damage, they have Invulnerable Raider and it is better, if possible, to withdraw from their direct line of fire until 30s has passed from them capping the beacon.

Although cryos and flames do well, they cannot outperform a strong taser Phantom due to the prolonged and sustained damage of the Scourge and Sparks. This is where hitting and withdrawing comes in helpful against the taser Phantom, using a gradual degradation rather than hoping for a quick kill.

4) If a mech has activated the Advanced Repair Unit, stop firing. Wait until the module stops healing your opponent.

5) Make sure your weapons are leveled enough and supported by as many different damage enhancements as you can.

This is actually why I contrast Advanced Repair Unit with a maxed Thermo Nuclear Reactor, because with durability booster, armored paint, Armor Expert, Invulnerable Raider, and the Advanced Repair Unit, my durability is sufficient, so I add Raider Gunsmith, damage booster, and the Thermonuclear Reactor to help my cryos or my tasers do extra damage to tough opponents. This combo allows me to go and go and go and well, clearly seems to piss people off ?

This ^^^ 

AVC since you're almost finished making one, you could also get the foolhardy pilot skill. It is costly in PCs but can keep you alive long enough to win that beacon especially if your phantom isn't fully levelled or hasn't got the maxed modules. You just need to make sure you trigger the first bout of counter healing before you health drops to 50%. Then, moments later when foolhardy is triggered you get to counter heal some more. Against the ravana this is probably not as effective.

Nah.  I meant wade.  It’s so slow that by the time I reach the beacon, it’s flooded with bots. ?

Aha, that explains a lot. I just looked it up. Most of the time I come up against them it's rushing the CB. I get beaten TO it, then I get beaten AT it.

The good old pilot skills.

See, I remember you could math it out. Up against a 100K HP bot with 4 x 25K weapons? No problem.

Now you can have pilot skills, modules, boosters, team boosters. You don't know what you're shooting at. That 100K bot could be equivalent to 200K. 

Thanks for the info. I'll be using that as a reference guide in a few more days, lol. 

56% DR is a lot, but not much more than Fenrir (50% DR if I'm not mistaken) and Phantom has much less HP. It is when you combine that with high mobility that things get more complicated. I would say the same thing about a DR Blitz (with Legendary Pilot) (and Scorpion). 

With all the supression going on right now I've noticed a lot more anticontrol in use, so much that I stopped using my rayker. I'd stick with anticontrol over Thermonuclear Reactor.