Am I a tanker or a fader?

You're a player, nothing more nothing less. Do you and just enjoy yourself.

In the end, who gives a flying 「fluffernutter」 what anyone thinks about how you play? If they don't like it they can always find another game or play with people of a similar mindset.

Just have fun and 「fluffernutter」 pleasing anyone. Because then you're playing for them instead of you.

It's different if you're squadding as you may know, but in the end you also gotta have fun.

tsunkai Welcome!

My thoughts on all this... please forgive the rambling...

I think you sound like you have a good grip on the game.  A tanker, in my mind... are like those POSs that take maxed hangars and drop to Bronze.  

Practicing with weapons and experimenting is not purposely fading or tanking.  

Is there a line that faders can cross and go from "playing their way" and dropping to a lower league, to becoming a detriment to the Blues enough that they are worthy of shunning?  Prolly... but it's very hard to tell that from another player's POV, just looking at a hangar shot.  I don't even try, personally, unless it is a clan member.   I don't have any say in anything anyone does in the game, and neither does anyone else.  I just help determine if we want someone who does that in our clan or not.  If a player decides they want to drop to Bronze and then club, for example, well, they can do it somewhere else. That's as far as my involvement goes in anyone else's hangar unless they ask for advice or I want to know how a build acts for them.

I have tried almost every weapon config, on one account or another... and even on the Leo Zenit Nori I tried on the FB server, I was killing folks and trying to win.  I just used the hangar like it was a 4 slot hangar and used the experimental 5th bot once the win was assured, or close to it.  Not fading... but still, very much non-meta and not the most damage based build... Same with the Spydra Griff I ran, recently, on my main Diamond 2 acct.  So what?  Just a couple of examples.

The point is... there is a variety of bots and weapons here that are meant to be played.  Arguing effectiveness is what we are here to do... but even so, what you play is all you.

You can't know A.) how best to counter a build, or B.) whether you like it, if you don't run whatever build it is you are interested in.  The players I look down upon are the ones that deliberately try to feed on extremely new noobs with max or close to max hangars, because the tanker lacks the skill of my 5 year old nephew, and can't hang in higher leagues against peeps with similar bots (I'm sue they would say it's to farm, but whatever, I call them no skill hacks ).  But, even if I do look down on them... it doesn't make a damn to them, and I don't expect them to care.  It is what it is.

As far as this forum goes... it doesn't allow threads that encourage or instruct how to engage in un-sportsman like behavior or cheating, true... but it sounds like you are just a normal player trying to have a good time in a game.  The Forum is here for that.  The thing is, there are many voices here.  No one expects anyone to NOT experiment and try new things.  The arguments arise when someone tries to pass off dubious and incorrect advice, as a proper way to play.  We started as, and are still, affiliates of the Wikia.  As such, what works is what we try to stick to when someone asks "how to do better in my hangar," or something like that.  I won't call out names or instances, but it's only when the path one takes, and advocates as advice, is very ANTI playing fairly and sportsmanlike, or misleading, that I say my piece about it.

By the same token... If someone here says "That 4 slot all Cossack Hydra hangar is crap, no wonder you are losing," it is not trying to dictate what to play, it is pointing out that the poster may be complaining about losing but not running what it takes to win.  Some folks look for fights and trolling opportunities, and make a fuss about it.... but they are not who we are trying to help.  They have their minds made up.

My humble advice:  Try the builds you like, choose to go for Beacons or damage if you want, and play for fun or for the "W".  Up to you... but realize that the other 5 players on your team probably DO care and ARE affected by your play.  That fact is what drives people here to comment on things that are obviously detrimental to the win.  If they are pointing stuff out that you don't care about, ignore them and focus on whatever it is that you are trying to discover by posting and on the people who are actively trying to help you.  If someone wants to debate and you do to, by all means.  But don't let it get to ya if they disagree.  As long as you aren't advocating for obvious noob killing and seal clubbing MM manipulation, it's not a big deal if you want to run 4 level 12 Cossie Hydras and need to know the best spots to hide and shoot from.  We may gag and scoff and point at you... but so what?  If you are effective with it and enjoy it... meh.  But if you are telling a noob that 4 Level 1 Hydra Cossies are the key to victory and farming, well, you will draw some ire that is justified.

In closing... 

Enjoy yourself and post about your findings and let us know what you do to handle the league placements you get in with that 6/7... if you want to and feel like it.  (That really is a low hangar to reach Diamond in... so I understand why you are asking about at all this.  BTW, it takes a good amount of skill to do that... if you DO get some meta builds that are Dash this or Death Button that... you will prolly do VERY well with it.)


FWIW, JMO.

Yeah, there's no sense in being "legalistic" about tanking/fading etc. No one is obligated to bring as many weapons and hp to each battle as they possibly can. It'd be an all out Griffin-Rhino-Leo fest, and who'd want that?

I like a mostly medium hangar. I have heavies and I have lights. I break them out when I feel like it. I have several lvl 12 weapons that sit in the warehouse. But no matter what my hangar is at any given time, I put it to the best use I can to try to win.

Play the bot/weapon combos YOU like, and do the best you can to win. That's all any other player can expect, and all you should expect from any other player. It's easy to tell who does and doesn't.

No, running a Rhino is not fading.

I think you're listening to the propagando on here too much.

First of all, don't bullcrap on stuff you don't know about. There is no such thing as a 'Self-declared commander' / officer in the Navy SEALS. The US Navy picks who's the best through complicated training, not having any random soldier 'Self Declare' themselves as a leader.

navyseals.com/buds/become-a-seal-officer/

One press of a red button is sufficient enough to kill a bot. That is equivalent to a 4 star general gameplay btw.

Can u do 900k+ dmg with a single bot throughout the match with a press of a red button with lvl7 & 8 pikans? I doubt u can do so without dying prematurely. So yeah there u have it.

Why don't you post a picture of the hangar you used to achieve that score?

See? I just started out 3 mths ago

What for do I need to ss my whole hangar when im just telling u what I used to achieve that feat lol. That repair costs is for one heavy bot as u can see.

I don't care who is a tanker/fader. People are just playing the game Pix gave em.

Pix doesn't care. They love the MM. They have state-sponsored seal clubbing. They have/had some mysterious other queue that was supposedly some form of punishment but not really. Personally I think they WANT the player frustration to induce players to buy something.

And im one of them. Tho I dont consider myself to be a sealclubber as I just started out 3 months ago without spending a single dime on this game. Im just a natural talented and skilled commander. Just press the button thats all I need to destroy a robot

Yup including u. Deep down u know u need it.