Help make my Ao Guang a slayer of nightingales and juns

Also, does having two max anticontrol units grant permanent immunity to being supressed and locked down?

According to this it seems like that is indeed the case.

I play taran AG a lot, it's super fun, and great for hunting down slow bots or juns and gales in cool down. Forget about hunting them with Quantum Radar while they're airborne, lag won't allow you to damage them, roughly 50 % of your shots will end up nowhere. It's frustrating, just like when trying to hit phantom with plasma... It was great before couple of months when plasma worked... 

Au Quong with maxed MK 2 hydras hurt my MK 1 level 12 Bots, when targeted I just get slammed till the point my HP drops fast then to being KO’d.

I'd try running a Quantum Radar scourge leech or ares with T4 dodger and T4 module expert if you want to hunt juns and Nightingale's without using a jun. I've tried the AG also and while fun, it just gets in trouble real quick if you try to run Quantum Radar and hunt Juns. A scourge leech/ares can put a real hurtin' on stealthed bots while hanging back enough to minimize damage if the jun kamikazes you between your abilities.

I hear what you're all saying, there are better ways to kill juns and nightingales. The AG definately isn't a metabot but it doesn't cost as much as a metabot either. It's a tier 3 not a tier 4 bot and it has 3 mediums not 4 mediums so it'll be faster to level up.

I already have one Yang Lee Jun and I have a pulsar/shredder tyr instead of an ares with Quantum Radar and modules expert at T4. I do have a level 1 leech but I don't have 4 scourges. I have 2 scourges they are both level 1.11 and I'm building another one currently. I could do a scourge build on the AG soon. It wouldn't be long before it had three 1.12 scourges.

I was thinking, the in built weapon buffed by the Legendary Pilot and the destroyer skill at level 1.9 puts out as much damage in 8 seconds as a 1.12 scourge puts out in 11 seconds at 400m.

Skills could be modules expert, dodger, destroyer, master gunsmith, armor expert, mechanic and guidance operator. Scout and road hog would be good too but I'm not sure if they'd be better than any of the others.

For a tier 3 bot it doesn't look too bad does it?

This is my pilot Ao Guang pilot's skills. It’s armed with scourges and I do very will with it on small maps. The AG is my first drop and will often last half a match. Next to the a Rayker, the AG is my favorite bot. I’ve got the AG’s legendary pilot and am considering running a second one. 

I’ve had success guarding beacons, picking off stragglers and supporting teammates. The key is using cover to ambush from and land behind. I use the stealth module for ‘oh crap’ moments. I have one anti-control module on it. 

I’ve got a clan mate who’s an Ao Guang fan too. It’s often his first drop bot. 

The pilot skills dropped like this. No gambling tosses of gold or direct purchases of skills. It was uncanny.



Thi

I’ve been impressed with some punisher Ao Guangs as well.

Thanks guys for giving me so much to think about.

Skills:
I guess since Quantum Radar with modules expert at T4 gives an activation time of 8 seconds and the cool down for Quantum Radar is 25 seconds, you don't actually need dodger. If you activate Quantum Radar at the start of flight it will end before your 12 second flight ends and the dragon fangs cool down is 20 seconds so you only have to wait 1 second before you use Quantum Radar again, assuming you save it for flights. Road hog at T4 might be better than dodger T4.

Weapons:
It seems with lag and fast moving flying targets that scourges would be best. Also I like that punishers have the ability to spray another target at the same height once Quantum Radar has run out. I have igniters, tulumbuses, orkans, cryos, tarans, punishers, molots, vortexes. I'm really good with tarans at 300-350m, the closer the target the harder to hit every volley. They do plenty of damage and they hit fast plus they wont take up a skill which would mean I could pick up scout at T4.

Beacons:
This bot might be better suited to TDM which would be fine as I'm trying to develope two different hangers for squading with different clan mates. 

Nice skills there ou812, lucky. I have mechanic and adamant mechanic on one of my phantoms and I see how it would help the AG between flights, especially paired with wonderworker, no need for a healing module.

I agree Trash Bagel this bot supports blue brawlers with additional damage and needs support from them much like a hydra/spiral griffin however I think with it's speed and maneuverablity it will be more of a skill bot and hopefully will be able to fly into 350m hit and fly out to behind your team's line of support.

My "in a nutshell" advice for AG:

Make build that you find useful fighting on your feet. Pulsars, Atomizers, Wasps, Punishers, whatever works for you. Conserve your ability either for getting into position quickly and in relative safety, or for "Oh 「dookie」" moments against Ao Jun, Leech, Blitz, Scorpion, etc.

Otherwise, take a slow-reload high-burst build like Cryos and play Ambush-Bot.

That made the news here in Australia a couple of swooping seasons ago. I love sitting at the traffic lights waiting for it to turn green, watching someone getting swooped by a magpie.

You know, I might need to be like the magpie and go after the weak target.

I can see alot of uses for an AG, just not as a Ao Jun/Nightingale hunter.
I have both a Gale and Ao Jun in my hanger, and use the ‘gale extensively and the Ao Jun as a late game assassin. Quantum Radar just doesn’t bother me, unless I am already hurt bad. Yang Lee bothers me. Quantum Radar only bothers me when someone chains it with Lockdown by co-ordinating with a clanmate with LD ammo or shredders.

At first glace that is what I thought also but in the description it says 3 level 4 modules is enough to provide permanent protection against supression and lock down. With 3 level 4 you have a  5 second protection period combined with 33 seconds of cool down reduction and a 39 second cool down time. So for 1 second you are vurnerable but even if you get supressed in that second, the very next second it is negated. Based on the description, I think the module might have an improved cool down as it levels up.

I ran into 4 full S clans last night. 4 in a row. So my plans to make this fun bot is on hold for a bit. I'm levelling up my scourges and building a 4th to go on a leech.

It's a pity this bot doesn't have built in Quantum Radar or a Quantum Radar isn't longer. I have a tyr with T4 modules expert and it gets 8 seconds to do some damage but you cant ever get a lock on the target you want straight away.

Maybe ions.

Edit: er, ions need a like a 300% buff