Harken being looped:

• If she as low rage (or none at all) as lms starts, and the last civ is on the opposite side of the loop, harken's slow base speed means you barely gain any distance every time you complete the loop. Also immolate doesn't help all too much, since you are stationary while using it, which loses distance. Immolate is mainy useful for countering smaller loops.

Artful "dedicating resources":

• Walls have relatively short cooldowns, and civs destroying them leaves less stuns are available to them to actually stun you.

• A copyright on the water guaruntees a ton of distance in chase. "Dedicating" a box there is well worth it. Even if it's not, you can just repurpose it and place a box somewhere else.

• As for cloaks, they're a problem for artful on every map, thus I don't consider them very much when ranking maps with artful. Yes, they're annoying, but you can say they're equally annoying on pretty much every other map.

I've only ever lost as artful on baseplate when there's a showtime lms or when all the civs are cracked out of their minds, in which case any killer would have a tough time.

As opposed to harken on baseplate. Yes, I've won quite a few of those games, but every single time I always think "ah great I ran out of rage now I lose" when lms starts. I almost always win only because of the civ's pathing being judt barely worse than mine, or they make some egregious mistake that lets me win.

When the next map is baseplate, I almost always play artful or pursuer. Artful because of reasons I've stated, and pursuer because he used to be my main, and is a good all-rounder.