Rhino's role in a hanger?

I am playing mine as a hellfire - orkans + mags. Takes a lot of practice. I got one just to try something new and for the challenge.

-Amid

It's one of the hardest bots to learn. I use it occasionally when I want to switch things up. Mainly knife fighter.

When you need to get all the way over *there*, get there with some HP left, and bring some serious firepower with you, then Rhino is the bot to use.

"There" can be a beacon (especially a guarded one) or the red spawn (especially when reds are beaten and the final spawn raid is in progress, and you want a piece of the action).

The shield gets destroyed very rarely (with my playstyle at least), so I treat it mostly as invulnerable.


I prefer Hellfire Rhino. One fun use is running into the Ancile bubble of Fujin or Ancilot (Carnages are usually too fast/smart to not fall for it) with shield up, then lowering the shield and letting loose with the Orkan. In general, when you're running to firing position, the difference between Orkan and Magnum ranges doesn't mean much, which makes this IMO the best and unique Rhino setup. And Punisher-Orkan probably works quite well too.

PDB Rhino is more of a flanker, I suppose, played very differently from the Hellfire version. Haven't played it much, I prefer PDB on a Griffin, YMMV.


Above two setups work. Then things that don't work (for me):

Tulumbas-Magnum version of Hellfire is ok for experimenting and learning, but it has too little firepower (both midrange and up close) to be actually a good setup.

RDB Rhino seems just inferior compared to RDB Griffin. The jump is just so important with the RDB, that Rhino's assault speed and shield do not make up for it. Enemy RDBs and Tridents are just so common, that shield is useless, so Rhino can't just sit there either tanking damage (this also makes Molot-Tulu a bad Rhino setup).

I haven't played with a DB Rhino, but I suspect it has a lot of the same problems as RDB setup: a Griffin can get out when weapons are depleted, a Rhino can just sit there, so it needs a high DPM weapon (Magnum or Punisher) for sustained fire, not Pinatas (or Aphids, which have further issue with Rhino light hardpoints being so low).

One good location for Rhino seems to be under the center beacon of the Moon map. As long as you have other blues covering your back, and move sideways a bit to limit number of reds shooting at you simultaneously, nothing can shoot at you without getting its face full of Orkans or plasma. And if all reds die and you're still standing, there's a red beacon right in front of you, ripe for capture.

I kinda feel, this is what Rhino is all about. Face2face, taking the beating, tanking the damage, using the shield well (watch those Tarans, there's a 5 second window to dump the Orkans), holding the choke point, ready and able to move forward once all enemies lie smoldering on the ground.

Rhino is for front line taking fire holding beacons. But is weak against flank. so it's good to hold choke points where fires are all coming in one direction, such as the two beacons passage way in Power plant, centre beacon in Yamantau, Facing the enemy under the centre beacon in the moon map etc.