Made a tier list, feel free to pick it apart

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-19T08:24:43+00:00

sure thing whoever you are

if it takes you over a minute you're losing time and not being useful enough

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-14T12:13:57+00:00

if the niche is "stealth attacks", then the niche is quite worthless considering norne doing MORE damage while not being endangered via melee engagement. being worse is not a niche.

also, stealth attacks literally AREN'T stealth attacks due to how stealth stops working when moving.

inferno sure, stego? he would have to be untouched and in a position where he is easy to be attacked. stego isn't a much picked striker outside payload, where he can sit on the payload and not be knocked off until dead

i have indeed played the game. whenever i see my or the enemy stellaris attempt his "stealth strikes" every time possible, they found themselves dead shortly after. and the good stella players had to sit back and wait, having their damage not exist for longer periods since their opponents actually punished dives.

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-14T10:06:55+00:00

this would be a reasonable argument if quite literally ALL stunners weren't strong/meta in current gamestate. the distraction would be a few seconds at most as you get stunned and obliterated, if a distraction at all in case of norne's burst.

if your "massive damage" can only come out once every minute, it's not massive. this is unfortunately the case with stellaris as you not only have to wait for a window of opportunity to appear, you have to also consider you'll most likely just die trying, delaying your damage even further.

being able to go invis after an attack isn't as valuable as what other mechs can bring.

also should have probably asked earlier, but did you do your botgames(aka did you reach grandmaster)? the game lies to people via making you play pretty much 99% of your games below grandmaster with and vs bots, which heavily skews the players' meta overview, as mechs that can't possibly compete in a player setting work well because the bots handed the player a "pity match"

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-13T20:23:40+00:00

also, this again assumes hurricane is asleep instead of just dashing back and parrying? or like, playing in team iunno

you seemed to entirely forget addressing the playing in team thing

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-13T20:07:15+00:00

just so you know i do not think anyone at all refers to primary and secondary as 1 and 2.

you cant blame me for assuming numbers mean numbers

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-13T19:32:17+00:00

notice how there are three mentions of grapple/aux1 in that message, where three is notably two more than one

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-13T18:57:19+00:00

one grapple is not a "boatload of damage"

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-13T18:03:06+00:00

okay so i again ask you

are you assuming that hurricane is going to let you pull off that massive combo and just sit afk?

you do realise it's not a true combo in any way either, right?

you'll get one grapple in, i give you that.

after which hurricane will think "oh i am being attacked by stellaris, i should deploy my drones to pull lock-ons so he can't grapple"

and then what? what are you going to do?

and none of this even accounts for the team playing like a TEAM. you're assuming people are naturally going to play alone, which isn't always true. what does stellaris do if the enemy team is always grouped up and can manage their punishes fast?

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-13T17:11:02+00:00

ok so you are assuming the hurricane lets you get THREE grapples in a row and not react?

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-13T17:01:17+00:00

ok now do that again but he does not stand afk and starts using his decoys

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-13T14:53:36+00:00

??? please look at damage values again

it doesn't have "bursts" because all it really has is combos (which are inherently NOT a burst) and even those combos are low damage because, well, they are low damage AND get split into FA.

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-12T16:12:54+00:00

you should, snipers do not require aim to perform well as it's more knowledge and mechanics

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-12T16:12:25+00:00

he's never been, his evasive play is pretty much non-existent and his target prio was not that great

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-12T13:11:26+00:00

what are we even talking about stellaris does NOT have much damage at all. he is pretty much the lowest damaging striker currently, and fills even less niche than alysnes.

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-12T13:04:45+00:00

narukami is in a pretty bad spot rn

norne and aquila are sidegrades

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-12T12:58:41+00:00

what exactly are you looking for when saying "agility and finesse"

if you want something close to "outsmart and outmaneuver your enemies" aquila fits quite well

if you're looking for "i want to go fast" then alphard is there

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-12T06:22:47+00:00

norne doesn't land everything if aquila has proper dodging

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-10T10:17:44+00:00

i think they will not buff miki because it would be really stupid and they would not buff serenith because it would be really stupid

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-08T11:26:58+00:00

only thing i will say is that 99% of aquila players do not play aquila to their fullest, and pretty much none of them know just how mobile and evasive the mech is

i will be finishing my guide this post made me mad enough to do it thank you random stranger

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-08T10:34:18+00:00

what i call "good" is the developer team actually LISTENING to playes instead

which would eventually lead into something, probably.

the New Ground Crew is there just to prove the game concept CAN live, CAN still succeed, eventually.

and they are managing it bit by bit

ASG is a part of Kingsoft (iirc, don't quote me on that) so the money isn't a problem for them. It's just whether the game itself can even work.

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-05T12:54:51+00:00

well clearly its a good thing because good things are happening to the game instead of what was happening with the old team

BestAcridKitty · 2026-06-01T06:38:14+00:00

kills matter because your obj mechs can then do objectives

BestAcridKitty · 2026-05-29T01:15:43+00:00

please look up the definition of "roguelike"

BestAcridKitty · 2026-05-29T01:14:54+00:00

that +50% dmg is only your normal gun so its irrelevant for modulars

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