What's your go-to Beacon Rush 1st spawn capper?

DB Rhino. Speed to get where it's going and the firepower to clear out almost anything that might come along to challenge it 1v1.

Orkan Rog or DB Rhino. Rog is faster than Stalker if continually jumping toward beacon and Rhino will get there to eliminate a Stalker before any reds die to respawn at center.

I think the Stalker fans as a 1st round BR choice are forgetting that you have to hold the beacon until another red dies and Stalker might get there first, there's no red to respawn since they are behind you and no one has engaged them yet. Now if you say you will kill your Stalker and respawn immediately to defend the beacon, what bot will you bring on to fend off a DB Rhino ------ that will 100% have you covered when you drop back in (cause it was on 5-7 seconds slower than you to the center in the first place) and those Orks/Pinatas will be be firing at point blank range (like inside an Ancil shield close) while you are disoriented with the 3-4 second drop-n-spin respawn motion.

So I think the clan setup of choice for assaulting a center beacon or red far hone beacon will be 2-3 DB Rhinos or Orkan Rogs rather than Stalkers. IMO, its not a good idea to have any throwaway bots in your lineup and using a dedicated light bot runner in BR is a big handicap to your team.

Bottom line is that if you are going to play BR and make yourself a 1st round beacon grabber, consider that you might have to actually have to be around the beacon for more than just 5 seconds to defend it. If you think otherwise, then you'll probably be burning through your first 2 bots inside a minute of the game start. To me, the only logical choice for this job today is the DB Rhino or Orkan Rog.

Like Team Alpha Strike said, DB rhino

Carnage with double thunders is better suited for me to capping the 1st beacon.After the recent ancile update of it now its really viable in defending a beacon.

I thought about this but the Carnage is too slow to cap center beacon before a Rhino gets there first.

Ork Rog

Really? What server and league are you in? In Android Champions league I have only seen 1 Stalker but plenty of Rhinos as 1st beacon capper during BR. I met that Stalker at center on Yama about 1-2 seconds after he arrived, then destroyed him quickly once his stealth wore off. No contest.

As Team Alpha Strike noted, a stalker cannot hold a beacon so it becomes a wasted bot.

In either game mode, I lead with DB Rhino since the it received it's amazing buff. Potent and fast.

once you do you will regret maxing your stalker

Rhino, all the way. Get those light bots out of my face, we need to fight over the first key beacon.

I'm doing something unorthodox with it's loadout. Orkan/punishers. When my shield is up, I'm doing more damage per reload, plus I can wear down anciles on my way there. But when the shield is down, I need to do as much damage in as short of time as possible.

Canyon and Yamantau are straight runs to center. Shentzen can be a straight run if you spawn in the right position.  Power Plant has straight runs, but there's no real center beacon on PP.

Moon is a straight run to the enemy side beacon - as the center beacon is not the priorty in BR for that map.

Speed to center though isn't the factor that determines who hold the beacon though.  On most maps (especially Canyon and Shentzen, and arguably Yamantau and DC), the center isn't even desirable to expend bots on in a first run blitze, as dropping into the center puts guns on you from virtually every angle.

When you throw out the entire idea of a center beacon, dedicated runners like the Stalker or Gareth start to lose appeal as the runs to the critical side beacons make light runners unsuitable either because they can't survive a long run or that they can't survive a beacon defense long enough to flip a beacon or before help arrives.  This is why in the Champion levels of play the Rhino and Rog are the choice fior BR, not Stalkers or Gareths.  I've always run beacons, but long ago the Power Runner bots (Rog, Rhino, Carnage, and now Doc and soon to be here Dash Mk2) became the only real choice for this job at the highest levels of play.

Lvl 9 Gary/ECU/punisher MK2. Gets you in and out fast. Once the center is capped, ill re-spawn with a heavy if the situation looks tenuous. If not, I'll look to cap the next, keeping reds occupado... I said it in another thread, a 5 bot hangar isn't a necessity but it sure doesn't hurt.

I have ~14k wp. Using lvl9 garry as rusher in BR. Should I replace it with Rhino (dont have one, would have to spend all my wp)?

I dont have some good weapons for Rhino also, would have to spend gold for orkans (saving for dashes) or wait for more wp for plasma.

I don't cap beacons unless I can hang around and defend it. So, DB rhino.

Even if someone beats you to CB, you'll have the fire power to retake it.