Trident Natasha, Trident Carnage, or RDB Griff?

I have fielded all three of these combos at one time or another and I come back to the Trident Carnage. I just like the mobility. I only have a single leveled Griff but I run it as a Pinata/Ork or Aphid/Ork. I have had pretty good success with a Tulu-Pin Griff but as mentioned the reload offset is sort of a downer. My Nat is sitting idle as although the Tri-Pin is a solid option I just can't get past the slow movement. Sooner or later a Thunder Carnage, Plasma Gary or Aphid Stalker comes along and that is the end.

You owe it to yourself to find out where the mid-range game is for you. Some people lead with it. I tend to leave it off till late in the match.

They all have totally different play styles.

The Natasha is slow AF and should be considered more of a semi-stationary turret. I have heard some folks swear by molots instead of pins for the extra range and ancile abatement. Your biggest enemies will be other mid-rangers and knifers that slip past. If you like that playstyle, consider the natasha.

The Carnage is super mobile and is very strong against splash damage. Your biggest threats will be plasma (especially ranged plasma). You can get into position and usually stay out of knifer range using sprint. The damage isn't anything to write home about (I prefer the zeus). If you enjoy being mobile and don't mind being slightly more fragile this might be the bot for you.

The RDB griffin has excellent mobility and decent burst (equivalent to trident fury). The strength of this bot is that it is usable on EVERY map (although it isn't the best on any either). If you enjoy the knife fighter play style but want a mid-ranger, this is the bot for you. Just beware that all the energy shields have severely weakened this bot and its reload is mismatched and slow AF.

Trident Pin Natasha: Slow mobility and DPS = Fury
Trident Carnage: Very fast, Ancile but low firepower and it's a Trebuchet magnet.
Russian Griffin: Jump, decent DPS and works well in close ranged maps.

I would run a Trident Pin Natasha if I were you.

Yes it does. As a midranger, you usually want to be parked in a spot to defend a beacon from away. 

Atm I have TriMolotTasha - better setup than Tri Pin imo.
For Carny I got pair of zeuses - better match for highly-mobile platform like carny.
500/600m in TriPinTasha made it very exposed - with clumsy tashy, besides all 600m setups that I could not avoid, I was also making red RDB griff pilots happy. Even worse with PDB's as they are <50m + 1 jump away at 500m.
Having 600/800m TriMolotTasha, since tashy stays alive quite a while longer, I can deal much more damage over time. Added range of molots allows also to engage 200m "earlier"...by the time the fat girl crawls those 200m you can see a nice piece of red bar nipped off; moreover it allows more continuous output, chipping off that last few HPs from the red guy before the tridents reload, saving them for next customer.
Other bonus is when dealing with carnys - molots have enough output to melt the Ancile and keep it down so Tridents can chew the actual meat.

I'll chime in even though I've only used two of these set ups. RDB Griffin is quite nice! I loved in on canyon, and on yama. Sure, the reload time does take some getting used to, but as long as your not standing in one spot and taking shots at different targets its great! And does some nice damage. I've never owned a Nat, but as stated, mobility is my thing and I wouldn't go with a Nat. Even if i've had bots destroyed by trident nats in game play, I'd never get one. I've recently upgraded my RDB Griffin with a Carnage Zeus. And have added a second midrange set up to my hangar, another Carnage equipped with Tridents. I LOVE both set ups. They are both fun to play. I'd suggest a Carnage for mobility. But, if your short on funds and not really into midrange I'd say the RDB Griffin would be a wise choice as well.

RDB is a special thing. Takes more patience and planning than any other setup imo. Learning curve is slow and long...but once you get a grip, you can influence the game quite a lot. In case pix decides to introduce orkan firing mechanics to it, I'm surely taking it back to my lineup.


Same was with me. I'm a huge gep fan (no clubbin' though!) for it's agility and grace in the fight. I did my share of laughing at Natty until the upgrade...then one day I put Thunders on my Carny and started to look around for a better place to put my 2 shelved Tridents on. Natty is chap, so why the hell not? 1st I went for obvious TriPin setup and despite the clumsy nature of that fat ballerina I did quite a lot of damage. Later, following some ideas from the forum I swapped Pins with Molots. To my surprise, that setup is now permanently present in my hangar (with bunch of bots on standby and 41k WSP unused).
Try it one day maybe. Cheap like dirt (upgrade it to L8 min though) and can perform very well in MR. It takes kind of a mental step for someone who loves highly mobile bots to accept Natty's clumsiness, but in the end can be quite rewarding especially on Yama, Canyon and Shenz.

Theres many great answers here, but check out this pic, for your consideration.
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I have a hard enough time using lance, and if it were for the boost button i'd be cursing the whole way back to center beacon with it. This is the main reason why I don't see myself getting fury. I understand fire power and what not. And maybe I won't be as competitive as a player with a Fury if I ever make to TT. But that staggering pace makes me bite my fingers!!!