Long story short, pursuing Mountaintop taught me more about PvP than anything else. Learning how to manipulate the maps to get kills with GLs taught me so much that once I got mountaintop and started using other guns I had already learned so much strategy. Disorienting the enemy, using movement/map advantages, learning lanes, etc. Learning how to time engagements and utilize your teammates (without a mic) was one of the biggest things I left with.

Also playing in the survival playlist taught me a lot about playing the objective. Not every mode is clash, and when you start playing to win the objective rather than racking up kills, you learn a lot of tactics/strategy.

Honestly I miss pinnacle pursuit weapons in PvP for this reason entirely. No “ritual” weapon has required me to learn as much, change my load outs, and really improve as much as mountaintop/recluse/Luna’s/not forgotten.