Now, this also highlights why I don't think the MCII is an overbearing Mech: It's an amazing generalist and if you're leveraging your opponents weaknesses, you can do damn well. Personally, I'd even argue that the pre-nerf ANH-1X was the better Assault, despite being far less flexible, but that's a biased opinion because I played the 1X so goddamn much. Despite that, I've put up numbers just as good in other Assaults - like the ANH-1X (which has fallen out of favour a little following its armour nerf and the release of the FNR), ANH-2A, FNR-5B, the SNV, the BAS (pretty surprised by that one, actually). It's probably the best all rounder, and the most comfortable to drop in QP with because it works everywhere, be it Polar Highlands or Rubellite Oasis. And neither with the 'reigning supreme' bit, as that implies that the MCII is heads and shoulders above the rest of the Assault class - which it isn't.

I don't agree with the notion that Mechs desperately need a 'best before' date in general. I'm not opposed to buffing more mechs to its level, but the MK II has reigned supreme for to long imo.

The places where the MCII really shine is narrow corriddor firing line camping, the sheer alpha they can bring to defending a specific known enemy peak or push route allows them to scare off or stop an enemy advance, BSW can't do that, but again that's countered by game knowledge and team coordination, but anywhere outside of very skilled coordinated groups the MCII can hold a choke and instakill more aggressive players who aren't awareД®dited by CoffeeKitty, 02 February 2019 - 05:39 AM.

So running a MCII is basically running a slower more vulnerable but more damaging version of that playstyle, unless you are extremely good it's not going to be better than something like a BSW, and even if you're the best player in the game the skill you have might be better put into another mech Rac play and most fits for MCII function under the same role, semi-low facetime with high downtime, the only difference is a BSW can get into posistion, get on target, and get out when things go poorly faster, as well as turn faster. At least it is better than my Nightstar (and unfinished in skilling, so I can at least work on that at the same time). I only play it when challenges call explicitly for playing Assaults, like the current one is doing. I tend to do better in a Triple RAC2 Bushwacker than the MadCat 2 B in pretty much any scenario. I just cannot perform well with it consistently enough. Well, I am one of the people that never got the B to work for them. To answer your question directly? bloodasp has higher mounted hitboxes and faster turntimes, and can ECM, MADIIC is a ******* god in any mobile brawling poptart capable scenario such as solaris cityД«ut as far as clan assaults are concerned MCII is one of the best, clan assaults just aren't very good right now but for IS?ДЇafnir is probably the best assault in the game right now, and sleipnir is ******* amazing as well, i'd rather either of them when piloted well over the MCII-b or DS, the reason MCII seems 'op' is cause it's skill floor to alpha is low, but i rarely see them doing more than 700 damage a match in PSR tier 1Д®dited by CoffeeKitty, 02 February 2019 - 04:38 AM. Target call and get people to CT it out, its very easy to do It was nerfed not too long ago, torso max twist angle was nerfed, torso twist speed and anchor speed was also nerfed - those nerfs are huge considering how boxy and vulnerable the MCII is, it's a bad mech when paired against a skilled player or a group capable of focus firing them

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