You know what. You can do good in any mech if it suits your style.
I once when you can only fire two larger lasers without ghost heat, got over 1000 damage in a catapult with 4 large lasers.
No mech is bad in my opinion. You can make every mech work, but not every mech is suppose to be for majority of people's style. There is going to be some mechs which majority of pilots can make it work, while some other mechs, fewer people are good at it, but none the less, they are good at it.
Take for example me. I suck in the madcats really bad. It can't get the timberwolf to work. Yet supposedly it's the most OP mech in the game.
Yet I take the Ilya the most out of all mechs (and I've heard cataphracts are broken often on these forums) and I kill it more often then not.
It's all about style. What suits your way of playing.
Find which mechs work for you, and play them.
My younger brother plays really well with the Jager mechs for example, specially the 3 ultra ac 5 one.
His style is not laser vomit because he likes sustained dps style in which he performs better. The same is generally true of me, though I do ok in laser vomit builds as well.
If you expect every mech to be good for everyone well that's not how it is. If you want every mech style to be fun for you, then sorry to say, that's not how things are.
Take for example heroes of the storm. I play that game and there is a lot of characters I don't play and don't want to play, because it's not my style. It doesn't make those characters bad. Some of them are really good in fact.
I want my last 6 games in a row with a character (Raynor) that is hardly ever used by pros, and is not considered a top character. I've had games where I do over 100 000 damage, while the closest to me in that game is someone at 60 000 damage.
I win most of the games with that character. It suits my style. I like the character. I have fun.
The same is true of mechs people don't usually take. Some people it suits their style. Sure majority of people or pros have a certain meta because of how they work together, but pug life is different.
You can make any mech work and do well with them.
The thing is if you get obsessed with all mechs being balanced or just play the meta builds, you might not find the mechs that are better for you and would suit your style more, because you are unique, and a certain mech might just click for you.
Try to find not only what mech you perform better in, but what mech you have more fun in.
Edited by MysticLink, 09 October 2015 - 12:09 PM.