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Post by TheDecepticonIdeal on May 24, 2020 5:50:44 GMT -5
Good tactic, and surprisingly effective in my experience. Btw, Phase Shift lasts 3 sec Almost everyone runs modules expert, thus extending the duration. At least in high champs Oh 「fluffernutter」, really? Glad I don't play often enough to make it to High Champions League then.
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Post by ༒ƜƦƛƖƬӇ༒ on May 24, 2020 6:01:52 GMT -5
Just curious to see what is everyone's working counter to the Ravana. Storm Ravana: I have found my taser ghost Lancelot to be effective. I have no ability to wait out and the Ravana isn't so fast that it can break lock on the tasers. I have a level 2 fortifiyer to boost the shield strength. Storm Ravana have to get point blank to kill and the tasers get a massive damage boost at point blank which is helpful in killing the Ravana. Cryo rocket Ravana: Dont have one. My Lance gets smoked by anything with rockets and this is no different. I may have to put my Ancile on to protect against rockets but they can still run into the Ancile bubble and guaranteed to do so with the upcoming dash module. Another Ravana.. Vipers on a Fury works well as it is the gift that keeps on giving.. MK2 max'd Vortex on a Spectre is instant death.. / Ability ends, BOOM all gone..
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2020 8:09:13 GMT -5
Good tactic, and surprisingly effective in my experience. Btw, Phase Shift lasts 3 sec Almost everyone runs modules expert, thus extending the duration. At least in high champs Do most people still Phase Shift as soon as you shoot them? I used to be in High Champions League back when I would grind for Silver, but I don't play enough to get high anymore.
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Post by ʂɬɛɛƖ on May 24, 2020 8:27:03 GMT -5
Yes, PS is spammed more than anything.
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Post by The VVatcher on May 24, 2020 8:55:35 GMT -5
I try to counter what they are trying to do by staying as elusive as they are on the beacon circle, dashing when they fire or turning my shield. The encounter takes long enough for teamates to arrive and get some cover fire while I engage them.
I also anticipate where they are heading and set myself on the beacon before they do. They are good at it in large maps like Springfield but you can see them coming a mile away so you know which beacon they intend to get.
I didn’t specifically set out to counter them by set up, but I’m equipped to take them on, mostly.
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Post by miscanthus on May 24, 2020 9:23:45 GMT -5
I've had some success with an Ember/Rime Strider. Sometimes the stars align perfectly and they are easy kills, other times its crash and burn. Either way it is exciting.
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Post by ⓣⓡⓘⓒⓚⓨ48 on May 24, 2020 11:26:33 GMT -5
1,2,3,shoot. 1,2,3,shoot. 1,2,3,shoot. Phase Shift. Shoot. 1,2,3,shoot. It helps if you silently say “Ravana” in between each count. 1 Ravana, 2 Ravana... You could use the classic ‘Mississippi’ but that’s not very War Robots-ish. What's sad is that is really the only non-negative way my state gets mentioned most times... so, I vote for Mississippi...
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Post by ismsean on Jun 4, 2020 11:17:31 GMT -5
Good tactic, and surprisingly effective in my experience. Btw, Phase Shift lasts 3 sec Almost everyone runs modules expert, thus extending the duration. At least in high champs How much longer does that give you? I swear I do the counting, off by a second or two and I usually windup losing. My Taser Ravana does a lot more damage than my rotating Storms, Flames, Cryos Ravana. I am bout to go back to my Flame Fen with Santa. I never was a fan of having duplicates in my lineup, but trying to keep up with Jones not working out as I expected.
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Post by ʂɬɛɛƖ on Jun 4, 2020 11:35:20 GMT -5
The skill is 25% longer so it works out to 5.6 seconds, so I just start shooting at 5
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Post by ismsean on Jun 4, 2020 13:18:05 GMT -5
The skill is 25% longer so it works out to 5.6 seconds, so I just start shooting at 5 Good to know. Thanks
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Post by _FakeNews_ on Jun 4, 2020 13:26:20 GMT -5
Rayker. Ravanas phase dash ability clears out the immunity Given after suppression. Which means every time they come out of phase you can suppress them.
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Post by raidenii on Jun 5, 2020 0:13:33 GMT -5
Rayker. Ravanas phase dash ability clears out the immunity Given after suppression. Which means every time they come out of phase you can suppress them. Yap. When I see a lone Ravana, I will drop my Rayker to have a spider dance with him. And you don't need any modules on the Rayker to counter the Ravana. The Rayker's charges it's ability fast, as long as you time it right everytime the Ravana comes out of Transcendence or Phase Shift.
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Post by daddytroopa on Jun 5, 2020 0:52:44 GMT -5
Just curious to see what is everyone's working counter to the Ravana. Storm Ravana: I have found my taser ghost Lancelot to be effective. I have no ability to wait out and the Ravana isn't so fast that it can break lock on the tasers. I have a level 2 fortifiyer to boost the shield strength. Storm Ravana have to get point blank to kill and the tasers get a massive damage boost at point blank which is helpful in killing the Ravana. Cryo rocket Ravana: Dont have one. My Lance gets smoked by anything with rockets and this is no different. I may have to put my Ancile on to protect against rockets but they can still run into the Ancile bubble and guaranteed to do so with the upcoming dash module. This prob doesn't apply to you but I'm in Expert league (and staying there, not upgrading anything anymore) and my Avenger / Spark / Punisher Leo can take care of a Ravana 1:1 fairly well. I rarely see the yellow Ravanas. When I do see one they are almost always the Ivory Ravanas that they just got lucky and won. Many of them don't know how to use the Ravana's ability properly or get too confident. I've learned to wait out the ability, start firing roughly 1 second prior to the end of its ability, and fire in advance of the direction that the legs are facing.
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Post by frunobulax on Jun 5, 2020 2:57:58 GMT -5
That isn’t the only reason. There are probably also a bunch of people who were quickly pushed up leagues and unable to acquire or upgrade stuff quickly enough. That is exactly my own situation with my kids account. Almost in Champ League with totally inadequate equipment Oh yeah. I run a mostly dormant smurf account to squad with my daughter, currently 4 silver bots (2 Griffins, 1 Leo, 1 Natasha) with ~l7 stuff (Punishers/Thunders). I don't think I ever finished below #2 since reviving this account. Got pushed up quickly to gold II where I'm facing all the meta bots, especially Ravanas (which a lot of players have won). My 1-bot smurf experiences a sharp divide between Expert I and Master III: In master III get pulled into Champ games all the time, playing against top players. Expert is a snoozefest with plenty of silver bots. Guess the playerbase keeps shrinking despite the platform merger.
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Post by l》THE MACHINE《l on Jun 5, 2020 5:41:48 GMT -5
Counting to 3
A bulwark with deemers usually kills them if you do the above and kite as much as possible. Just a 1.9 Fenrir makes even maxed ravanas easy prey. Titans.
Also my ice rocket strider brutalizes tons of them because PS doesn't remove DM, that plus my high burst damage takes 1/5 of their health off each time their PS finishes.
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Post by elcheapo on Jun 5, 2020 5:48:03 GMT -5
A titan . Any titan , any level for the low low price of lvl 30
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Post by frunobulax on Jun 5, 2020 6:05:51 GMT -5
A titan . Any titan , any level for the low low price of lvl 30 So, how do you solve the problem of getting the titan out at the start of the game?
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Post by Old-Cat on Jun 5, 2020 8:31:52 GMT -5
My halo blitz is doing remarkably well. The fire rate is “Ridonculous.” Now I have one of the overdrive units on it, soooo. Also I wouldn’t recommend putting any resources into them but if you have them give the build a whirl. A person can fully discharge their weapons in the blink of an eye and get out of dodge, rinse and repeat. It’s a hoot.
Anything that drops damage fast or can sustain fire works well.
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Post by ismsean on Jun 5, 2020 9:40:45 GMT -5
Wasnt in a squad, but my Flame Fen w/ Santa, two heavy armor, and Last Stand actually holds up pretty well vs Ravs. If Pix would be too kind to buff the health of the Fen a lil bit, that would be great. In my opinion, all tanks should have some what equal health.
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Post by daddytroopa on Jun 5, 2020 13:28:34 GMT -5
A titan . Any titan , any level for the low low price of lvl 30 Yes agree, Titans can take care of a Ravana quite well, Ravana's are not all that fast and with "average" firepower. I still think the Ravana needs another buff to make it more viable. Like it needs to be able to fire through its ability. Observations from Expert league.
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Post by Sebenza 21 on Jun 5, 2020 16:11:16 GMT -5
This might seem silly but the storm ravana is great against other ravanas, fighting fire with fire. I run a tazer lance and flames fenrir and they are also very effective.
I'm in low champs 5000-5300 and my lance still pulls its weight, it usually kills more reds than my phantom does.
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Post by reconnecting on Jun 5, 2020 16:12:21 GMT -5
A titan . Any titan , any level for the low low price of lvl 30 Yes agree, Titans can take care of a Ravana quite well, Ravana's are not all that fast and with "average" firepower. I still think the Ravana needs another buff to make it more viable. Like it needs to be able to fire through its ability. Observations from Expert league.
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Post by EatStinkyTofu on Jun 5, 2020 20:46:45 GMT -5
I can take on an aggressive Ravana 1v1 with a leech ignitor/cryo. I backpedal almost constantly to maintain 300m+ distance as much as possible, stagger bursts to make the ravana use up its ability, turn corners when available.... I’ve taken on one of the whales in my clan as randoms... we’ve died simultaneously both encounters... of course, we were targeting each other, so a smart ravana pilot would probably give up the chase and do something more constructive.
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Post by foxypotato on Jun 5, 2020 20:49:12 GMT -5
A titan . Any titan , any level for the low low price of lvl 30 Yes agree, Titans can take care of a Ravana quite well, Ravana's are not all that fast and with "average" firepower. I still think the Ravana needs another buff to make it more viable. Like it needs to be able to fire through its ability. Observations from Expert league. Hahahah good one. Let's not joke too hard. Pix might mistake that for an actual request!
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Post by Corrosion on Jun 5, 2020 21:58:00 GMT -5
Personally I find redeemer Ao Jun to be fairly useful, not anything else like Glaciers or embers because slow unload. Redeemers deal a lot of one-punch damage, and they reload fast too. The built in flames probably not gonna do much though...
Also, you might wanna upgrade the redeemers to lv7 up cus ravanas have A LOT of damn health those things annoy the hell outta me...
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Post by spartan44 on Jun 5, 2020 22:50:58 GMT -5
Maxed lance with storm/thunder sends them to Valhalla. If they have cryos (most don't) they can hurt you pretty good but it's basically a head to head slug test. If the Ravana has shotguns, it looses. This assumes I have some shields left.
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Post by daddytroopa on Jun 5, 2020 23:48:02 GMT -5
Yes agree, Titans can take care of a Ravana quite well, Ravana's are not all that fast and with "average" firepower. I still think the Ravana needs another buff to make it more viable. Like it needs to be able to fire through its ability. Observations from Expert league. haha remember I'm in EXPERT league, not champion. Their hangers are like, Leo, Natasha, Gareth, WHITE RAVANA I'm saying 50% of them don't use the Ravana's ability properly and land dead center in front of my Leo Prob different in Champion league.
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Post by foxypotato on Jun 5, 2020 23:58:27 GMT -5
Personally I find redeemer Ao Jun to be fairly useful, not anything else like Glaciers or embers because slow unload. Redeemers deal a lot of one-punch damage, and they reload fast too. The built in flames probably not gonna do much though... Also, you might wanna upgrade the redeemers to lv7 up cus ravanas have A LOT of damn health those things annoy the hell outta me... But what do you do when they get up on you point blank when you are out of your ability? That is the problem with the Ravana. It can wait out much more powerful abilities of Leech, Ao Jun and Ares and then confront them at point blank while they are out of their ability. As someone who uses PS to 'turn off' the abilty of Ao Jun , Leech and Ares for the duration of PS when they attack me so I can waddle into cover, I can see how powerful the Ravana ability can be against these horrible 「dookie」bots as a built in multiple PS ability bot. a) go to red with broken ability that it relies to operate because reasons/incompetent b) activate built in PS ability repeatedly to ignore whatever weird magic is happening c) kill opponent once their ability is over d) repeat
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Post by Corrosion on Jun 6, 2020 0:09:01 GMT -5
Personally I find redeemer Ao Jun to be fairly useful, not anything else like Glaciers or embers because slow unload. Redeemers deal a lot of one-punch damage, and they reload fast too. The built in flames probably not gonna do much though... Also, you might wanna upgrade the redeemers to lv7 up cus ravanas have A LOT of damn health those things annoy the hell outta me... But what do you do when they get up on you point blank when you are out of your ability? That is the problem with the Ravana. It can wait out much more powerful abilities of Leech, Ao Jun and Ares and then confront them at point blank while they are out of their ability. As someone who uses Phase Shift to 'turn off' the abilty of Ao Jun , Leech and Ares for the duration of Phase Shift when they attack me so I can waddle into cover, I can see how powerful the Ravana ability can be against these horrible ?dookie?bots as a built in multiple Phase Shift ability bot. a) go to red with broken ability that it relies to operate because reasons/incompetent b) activate built in Phase Shift ability repeatedly to ignore whatever weird magic is happening c) kill opponent once their ability is over d) repeat This is what I did with my ravana today. There was an Ao Jun and I waited for his flight to end, then easily killed him without last stand. For now, before I get my Ao Jun, im probably gonna use Ravana to counter them, they're actually pretty solid and reliable. I'm also gonna keep using my lv7 ravana EVEN when I get my Ao Jun, cus its annoying and I happen to like being annoying. With all that said-- happy hunting guys!!! (whisper: for Ao Juns!)
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Post by foxypotato on Jun 6, 2020 0:12:37 GMT -5
I wouldn't. They are probably running those bots on purpose knowing that they are at a disadvantage. Some players just like to run bots they like and have fun rather than participate in the competitive aspect of the game. Smart move too. Pix is manipulative towards the players trying to reach and end game state by constantly releasing new content that one ups the last forcing purchasing of the new items to once again reach the end game state. I hear it all the time here. Players pass on running bots they like and enjoy to peruse the meta because they "have to" in order to "compete" or not let their clan down. They end up disgusted and quit the game wishing they had never spent a dime. Imagine playing a game you hate playing with bots you hate because you think you have to. Sure, I sometimes see tankers playing sub-12 silver gear, with 5k victories, >2M max damage, etc. But I frequently see fully legit Masters League and even EL solo players in my matches 3-4 slot hanger, silver gear (sometimes a couple/few Loot box lucky wins), <<1k wins, etc. These players are just playing the best gear they have been able to acquire. I’m Champions League 8 atm, with >60k Champions League players there is no reason for MM to toss these players into mid-Champions League battles. I can only conclude that Pix squeezes enough revenue out of the poor schlubs to make up for the player attrition that these MM shenanigans must cause. I have have had mostly sub level 12 silver gear with around 5k victories and a max damage of around 2mm in my Ag hangar for a very long time and I use that hangar to punch up, not down. That's called a challenge. Not a tanker.
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