Ming pilots, how do you handle an Arthur and Juns 1:1

Mainly stay away. Arthur is a hard counter to a ming unless they have maxed rockets or maxed MGs (which at that point why are we even comparing them?). It is best to wait until the arthur is out of cover and preferably fighting with someone else.

I play an arthur and the only way a ming ever beats me is if I am caught off guard (which, although rare, is very effective). Arthur is just way too good against ao mings so you have to get some help or play dirty.

As for ao juns, I honestly have no clue. In my arthur I just ignore them and dish out what damage I can on whoever and kill the ao jun if I can. If I can't then I am fine with losing my bot, just so long as I can get some good score with it. Gets me to using my other bots.

I'm an Arthur pilot. Ao Ming is my number one enemy especially plasma AM. 
If I see AM is coming to me directly, it means it is high leveled and able to withstand damage from me. Second, it is not afraid of Arthur's fart or the damage is negligible for them. And the most important part is, within 110m and below, they can shoot directly and bypassing the shield. Plus point: Arthur lose the target lock but AM still maintain the lock and can shoot you until death.

I've resorted to doing that. But then that means my only role is to clear the field and I have to keep running away from Arthurs and Juns. My Ming is simply no good unless I spawn it early enough to have good support from the rest of my team. 

Of course you can ignore a Jun with an Arthur with the massive shield, but I can't do that with a Ming. 

I can't believe there really is no way to counter a Jun with a titan. 

Well I've never seen a plasma weapon on any Titan, but then I play in Expert III league and I hope I never leave it  

The idea of a Ming charging an Arthur is unheard of in my level. 

Yep, this is why you should always look at the bots pix put out more closely. Ao mings are the most expensive so they seem to be the best at first glance but with how the maxed arthur VS maxed ming fight that I watched ended up it is clear that arthur is best.

If pix did this on purpose then it is a great $ scam. Whales buy all their pretty mings, then after a while player start killing them with arthurs without breaking a sweat. Suddenly the whales all have to go buy and max out arthurs instead spending 2x as much as they should have.

Before I give you my advice, I think it's important to go over the strengths of the two titans and how that equates to optimal playstyle.

Arthurs biggest strength is obviously its shield. And its shield is strong right out of the box, making it the better titan at lower upgrade levels. It's a brawler through and through, and most bots are going to struggle trying to out brawl it.

Mings are kind of the polor opposite. While Arthurs strength is defensive, Mings is offensive. It has more firepower then any bot in the game and can position itself, by flying, to take advantage of it. But at the same time its very susceptible to damage and needs to use distance and cover to be effective. This makes it not a brawler, but a midrange support bot capable of doing massive damage.

So to answer your questions, you don't handle an Arthur 1v1 at close range, it handles you! The best you can hope for is staying on the ground until it needs to reload then try to attack it from above its shield. Or just wear down its shield for the next bots.

But optimally you avoid these situations by keeping distance and cover between you. And in this situation, as soon as you start taken fire from a titan, drop out of the sky behind cover and heal. Same for Ao Jun. Then pop back up when it might be safe. Essentially paying peekaboo and keeping it distracted until you wear the Arthur down.

Mings take more skill and experience to pilot in this regard. They also do better the higher you level them, more so then Arthur. Having more DR, more HP, and the ability to heal more makes a big difference to the Ming. So don't be discouraged that it's not awesome at low levels, just keep upgrading and you'll start to like it more and more.

The best advice I can give to young Ming pilots is this; spam the healing! Even if the Ming is at full health, as soon as you start taking any damage, hit the heal button and that will make you almost invincible for a few seconds. Enough time to get your damage in, and/or drop out of the sky behind cover without taking any.

The Ao Ming is better than the Arthur. However it is much more difficult to handle effectively. The Arthur just stomps towards the closes beacon blasting anything it sees. Very unsubtle. The Ao Ming has to pick and choose what it engages and whether or not to approach a beacon with much more care. The biggest advice I can give an Ao Ming pilot is never get greedy. Take your shots from range, let your team mates rush the beacon, never let yourself be caught in a pincer between multiple reds capable of inflicting serious hurt on you, be patient, maintain situational awareness. More Ao Mings are lost due to pilot carelessness than due to enemy action.

I'm playing it differently and seeing a lot more success. 

I'm new to the AM as well (a few weeks), I'm just so used to using a Kid that I've been playing the AM like a Kid. So I've been changing my tactics ... the AM has a lot of footnotes that need to be considered when using it. Unlike the Kid or Arthur that can spawn and just charge ahead. I learning you can't do that with a Ming even with the grounded defense resistance.



1.

Spawn it soon enough in the game where you still have a lot of blue players



2.

Try to bring in your Ming just behind a group of blues



3.

Support them by helping them to clear the tanks with high HP (Leos, Fenrir). Also support them by taking out the hit-and-run bots like Ares, Leech by flushing them out of their hiding spots. Also support by hitting fast targets like Phantoms and Blitz b/c at long range, its easier to track a fast bot and the Ming has less obstacles in the air than they do in the ground.



4.

The way I see the Ming's role is not a beacon capper or holder, but to clear the field of red bots so your blue team can get the beacons.



Now, I've been trying some new strategies for dealing with Arthurs. 
1. 
Stop trying to cap beacons with the Ming, see above point #4. This lessens the chance someone will get smart and spawn an Arthur as I'm approaching or capping a beacon. 

2. 
When an Arthur does get too close to you, problem with retreating (what I used to do) is you're constantly firing into that massive sheild. You're gonna get smoked for sure. So knowing I'm likely not going to survive, I've been charging the Arthur either on foot or in the air with the Ming. If you get close enough even on foot, you can fire above the Arthur's shield and do some significant damage and hopefully someone else can finish the job

To be fair to the Ming, a similarly equipped and leveled Kid probably can't take out an Arthur as well. We've all seen 2-3 Kids trying to take out an Arthur.