Christmas event wrapup, and happy new year! :)

I don't run any DIE gear, so my bots are all legacy and would not be recommended anymore. I still can run almost any line up, and have decent games. If I run any low DPS bots like a Stalker, then it has to survive a long time and I need to be constantly shooting at someone's back to make up the difference. THe main problem, is letting most of my teammates die, so I had one game on Canyon where I lasted too long like 5 minutes starting with the Stalker, and the game ended soon after. Got like 300K or so with only that bot. I was deep in enemy territory, and they would spawn on their weak side beacon. I'd shoot at them as soon as they spawn, go into Stealth, and me and a teammate would finish them off with my blue mate taking too much heat. I survived to help finish off 3 guys, so pretty good for a little bot, but lost the war.

If you're a Master+, then depending on your teammates, they are expected to deal a lot of dmg fast to keep the teams even. So hanger management is necessary if you want to use those bots. IOW, there's some other Champion on red tearing through your team, so you have to do the same.

With fast bots, I would try to be the flanker and put pressure on them. I use a Rhino to flank, so can get some pretty hard hits in before dying. On the snow map, I find flanking and surrounding them is key, so they can't hide and someone should have an angle and get past any shielding. I had to boost my Ancilot over from the left bridge over to the right bridge as I saw all the blues on my side and getting nowhere. Once we had a good crossfire going, they starting going down like flies. They had centre beacon too, so we almost won that game by meching them out but we ran out of beacon bar.

For some reason today I had a lot of games on that map, but some games I'll have to go up the middle and up the ramp to distract them. One game, my Galahad went deep on their half of the map under the open bridge, then I had to huff it over back to our side of the map near the entrance to the covered bridge to try to surround them. Ancilots are really tough to crack through the front. It is annoying, because most reds are good enough to understand flanking, so they're either back off or play ring-around-the-posey around some structure.

I found out today that a Rhino can't chase down a Shocktrain Kumiho. I actually chased that little rabbit all the way back to his base, and ended up capping their home beacon on Yamantau. I didn't kill him, but he did destroy his bot to defend home, so pretty much mission accomplished in my book. Then I spawned back at home, and ran into 3+ Shocktrain reds, and had nothing else to counter them on such an open map. 100K, my lowest score in a long while. I think if it was a Shocktrain Roachi, I would have caught up to it and killed it, but I'll have to see.

Anyway, there's not too many bots with 500m rockets like Tridents and RDB, so fast bots like Rhino, Galahad, and Gareth make great counters to chase down Zeus Fury, laser Leos, and Shocktrain platforms.