Pro Tips & Tactics - what's your best?

Know when to retreat. Gunning for that far beacon on the sides of Dead City isn't going to do you any good if you see a teammate or two coming to help the previously-lone defender of said beacon.

can anyone tell me how to get into a clan or even several squad battles.
I play every day several times. is there a trick to it.
whats the deal

Hi insanedemon, thanks for your appreciation, what I meant by the post was to aim for a win and not for damage dealing. I do not recommend a same style of play to anyone in the thread

First, you may have clan invites and not even know it. The app doesn't always tell you, and there is no number on the clan icon when you do. Go in there and look in your invites tab to check.

To increase my chances of getting people to accept squad invites, I run a solo battle first, then look at the top three in damage on the blue AND red team in the results. Then as quickly as possible, I start a squad, go to the Battle History list and invite those guys. Sometimes they will show offline, even if they are still online, so look for those in the offline list lower down. They might have switched to a different app and are genuinely not online, but it'll notify them, and they might decide to come back on to squad. This technique works to get at least one in squad about a third of the time, so be patient. If nobody has joined within a minute, you can safely assume that they are already going solo again. Just go solo and try it again. It works even better if you see people (blue or red) that are squadding (there is a little shield next to their name in the results). You really just have to remember the clan designation in the square brackets before the name, start a squad and invite everybody from your Battle History list with that designation. They will likely all reject your invitation, but you may get one in return. It's more likely that they will be chatting, possibly talking strategy, etc. and not already be in battle.

I found my current clan by doing this after going solo. I was the sixth wheel with a clan that was already running a squad of five. I invited all of them to squad and got an invite back. I got a clan invite right after.

Everyone's tact is similar and mine is no different. 

1. dont rush into battle, think strategically about where you are and the opponent your hinting down, don't be too suicidal in the beginning.

2. when when firing any missile weapon you'll need to account for the missiles delay reaching its target. in particular the orkan will require you to shoot wide if you or the target is moving, or if you're jumping into it.

3. make sure you weapons clips are full before jumping into a 1 on 1 dual to the death. some also say don't dump clips between fights so you're full. i say do it if you're safe. those battles where you're just sitting there going, come on! come on ! come on! and you win with like 2300 life left... that full clip saves your life in a clincher.

4. plan before you attack. if you're in a Taran/Griffen and you come across a galahad or say lancelot/taran, its probably wise to back off rather than attack. most likely you'll be out matched everytime. 

4.5 each weapon system is designed to counterpart another. meaning every weapon has its killer. organs are great for killing galahads, gareths, and lancelots. tartans are good for destroying energy shield bots like carnage...

5. WAIT to join the match in the beginning and pan over to the other teams side, then wait for the game to start, it will show you the other teams area and all their starting bots. you can then select which bot best fits to your killing needs. this is especially effective on the new map, as you don't need to wait to join because you can clearly see all the players loading... most other maps will require you to wait until after the game has started to join. 

also when the game is starting if note how fast are the other teams players loading onto the screen. is it quick is it slow... if its quick it means you are playing a squad, if its slow I've heard these can people added from the LQ who are destined to lose the match... (just a rumor i heard)

6. capping the most beacons will usually result in the most gold rewarded, most damage points combined with most beacons will be awarded the most gold.

7.this should just be common sense but HAVE A FU@#ING PLAN IF YOURE GOING TO PLAN IN A SQUAD!!! come up with a battle plan otherwise why join a group match... just saying that really pisses me off when players don't want to strategize in squad.

8. DONT WASTE GOLD ON SPEEDING UP UPGRADES..... E V E R  !!!!

9. upgrade all bots and weapons systems to level 8 for optimal playing experience.

10. changing you hanger to all cossacks and farming gold will drastically drop your average damage performance and slowly drop you to lower tiers. this can be good if you feel you're in too high of a tier and always getting killed. advice, cossack up. get killed for 10 or matches and just run for beacons regardless of it being suicidal. you drop tiers soon. 


there are lots of other small strategic things i do when playing. I'm sure you'll experience them for yourself. 

using Griff's.....Many tend to look at a jumping Griff as SkeetShooting, since the Griff jumps high and far. When you are hanging out in the air like that, it leaves you pretty open. But, with timing, you can use walls and other obstacles to "bounce" off of, causing you to still move a good distance, but it kills the height of the jump, sometimes masking you from enemy fire.

Timing. Remember how long it takes to recharge the jump, and how long the jump exposes you. It's about 3 seconds or so in the air.. an eternity if you are being shot at by everyone on the red team, and 20 seconds to recharge (I think) which, again, is an eternity for trying to escape the 「dookie」 show you just jumped into.

Height *can* be your friend, if used correctly. For example, on Shenzen, you can use the low buildings to jump to higher buildings, and if you have molots on you can then typically reach most of the battlefield to direct traffic. Add to that if you are able to get up to a fairly high spot and are relatively unnoticed, you can cross huge swaths of the map in one single leap, often to the aid of a team mate who is having problems with a red bot. Add to that the idea that none of the bots have shielding on top, other than ancile shields.

Let me see if I understand this tip... don't use rockets on energy shields?

A very good spot for carnage thunder in powerplant is the barrel close to becon B. If you see some red coming toward you, hide behind the barrel and fight. Plasma/bullets can not hurt the carnage in this case. Your thunder, on the other hand...

Also for the other pilots not piloting a carnage. If you know it's a carnage thunder hide there, don't go straight in and close unless you are a lancelot with shield intact.

If you're right-handed, like most people in the world, and you're using the Boa or Cossack, don't shoot as if the medium weapon is on the right side.
I occasionally use my Boa and have a tendency to fire the orkan at reds on my right side and completely miss them.

TIP: Don't let anyone judge you based on your league standing:

It is much more fun if you just totally ignore the league system. The monthly league rewards is negligible and we know that many champions are fake (from leavers queue). Just learnt from others, play the way you want and enjoy each match!

"I don't need no gun to get respect on the street"

 What??

If you're in a fast bot and get ambushed by a large/slow bot and can't escape get super close and circle them, keep your crosshairs on them while circling and keep firing. You might just win the fuel

Never happened to me :-D

For this off-topic message I will give away one good tip:

Hold your fast beacon capper till the end of the match:

1) In the beginning of the battle you need to _HOLD_ beacons as well as capture them, so Rog\Gareth\Cossack\Stalker won't be doing very good against Lance\Leo\DB
2) By the end of the match when few people are left you will be doing greater service to your team by capping those far away beacons, then by fighting 3vs4 or 2vs3 on the center map

I will agree to you and disagree at the same time (sorry, my sign is Gemini, we do that a lot).

It's again a question of enemy's logic. An example: today on Shenzhen when I got into a game with Champions Squad, we just plowed forward in 3 Lancelots+RDB+DB+Carnage, conveying chaos and destruction on the way.
Enemy Stalkers never knew what hits them. 
Red played light cappers first and was decimated. If they would hold up cappers a bit - they would cap beacons and win.
So that's the part where I disagree.

HOWEVER
When you know that the enemy are going to hold the cappers until the end of the match, and will spawn some sniper\midrange at the very start - your best strategy might be exact the opposite. I did that a lot with ECU Cossack - he's practically invincible against snipers, fast and can cap.
So I spawn Cossack, cap 3~5 beacons (true story, once I capped all five on Shenzhen), and while enemy is trying to snipe you - blues are getting closer.
Then enemy is locked inside their spawn, and by the time it's 2 minutes into the game - they got less then half of a dominance bar.
So, this is the part I agree.

Summary: it is the best part of the War Robots for me - trying to guess enemy strategy. There are several good strategies, but each "good" strategy got a counter-strategy. And counter-strategy works excellent against it's original strategy, but don't work against any other one

(think Ancilots - they can defeat virtually anything except for Thundorkancilot. But Thundorkancilot is bad against RDB. But RDB is bad against Molot\Trebuchet. And so on)
Basically you need to guess or just know enemy strategy, and move with good counter.