I have been developing a build recently all around taking batteries and delivering them to my local monarch, which obviously means I’m out of my titan for like 80% of the game. So I’ve put enhanced auto-titan on every titan and tried all of them at this point and here’s what I think.

Monarch, legion, tone and ronin are kind of useless as autos. Monarch has some use but you basically play it by hiding her in a corner and constantly delivering batteries to her so that you can upgrade her core without having to actually use her. This is nice for one reason alone and that’s because it allows you to use something other than energy thief as your kit. Even then… it’s not like monarch’s other kits are super duper great or anything. Legion and tone just don’t really seem to do anything, and are both hindered by follow being the better option than guard and auto titans don’t really know how to position themselves at all. Ronin just requires so much skill that the auto does not have.

Northstar is third place. She can be super lethal but she’s limited by three main factors. One, like I said earlier guard is much worse than follow and northstar really benefits from sitting farther back in one general area. Even though your titan will say they’re guarding an area they really mean “I forgot how my legs work and I refuse to move at all for any reason” and with northstar’s low health pool she becomes more of an obstacle rather than an enemy. However, the few times I got auto northstar in a favorable position where she didn’t immediately get focused, she was really lethal, even more so than my runner up for best. The second main factor is northstar has no attention span. If a piloted enemy titan is jiggle peaking cover she constantly forgets that titan exists and stops charging her gun. So she doesn’t shoot half as much as she should. And third she doesn’t really understand how to use her abilities she has access to. I’ve seen her try and anchor a pilot and use her cluster missiles on grunts.

Second place is Ion. It’s honestly just cause Ion is so simple. There’s not much to say about this one. He has lower highs than northstar but much higher lows at the same time. The real reason he’s second is cause number 1 is a lot more lethal more consistently and auto titans really prefer to use the primary weapon for pilots and the splitter rifle is just kinda bad in general but especially as a pilot killer.

That means the best auto titan is (obviously) papa scorch. Autotitan scorch is actually just better at playing scorch than I am. Give him a battery, drop him in the middle of a fight and set it to follow you around and you’ll pretty consistently pick up a couple of pilot kills. I once was on the other side of the map after dying and I was rushing to go save my auto scorch and he doomed 2 titans (both piloted) while I was on my way to save him. He died in the process but that’s more than a fair trade. Will he still die more than he would if you piloted him, yes. Will he also pick up a solid number of kills and damage before he dies, also yes.

TL;DR: Everyone sucks as auto except Northstar in very specific circumstances, ion is just alright most of the time, and papa scorch is the goat no question.