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[Racerxintegra2k]

What are the current IS Meta Hero mechs and builds ?

[Armored Yokai]

Sleepnir 4 LBX
IV4 2MRM30

[Daurock]

Sleipnir - twin Heavy Gauss builds are certainly in the meta right now.
Quickdraw - IV-4 is definately there too.

You might be able to make a case for some of the lights as well. Wolfhound-grinner, and Locust -PB aren't too bad as far as IS heroes go.

Apart from that, a whole lotta Meh, unless tehre's a specific build you're looking for and love a chassis.

[K O Z A K]

Urbie K9!!!

[Maddermax]

Slipnir is godly, but don't tell anyone, we don't want him nerfed. 4xLBX10, and handles like a heavy, able to dance in and out of cover better than any other assault. I hear 2xHeavy Gauss is also good (as mentioned above), but I just got stuck on the awesomeness that is 4XLBX10s.

Grinner and Pirates Bane for lights. Both have ECM and can be stealth. Grinner is a fast light with the armor of a medium and a decently strong loadout - I use 4x Medium pulse with max engine and ECM/Stealth, but since the heat changes, it's probably possible to get 5x now, but you might need to sacrifice stealth armor. Pirates Bane combines the tininess and speed of the normal locust with ECM and machine gun crits for only a tiny reduction in fire power. I use 3xMedium Lasers, 1xSmall, 2xMGs, ECM and stealth. Both are excellent lights, and probably in the top 3 lights in the game (along with Piranha).

Edited by Maddermax, 21 November 2018 - 06:05 AM.

[Brauer]

Warhammer Black Widow with gauss vomit is quite strong.

Bounty Hunter with heavy gauss and either some MLs or SLs is good.

Personally I also find the Roughneck Powerhouse to be an effective brawler, but it can be rough going in QP.

[El Bandito]

Top Dog with 3xLL+5xERML. 8xMPL is also fine.

Maddermax, on 21 November 2018 - 06:02 AM, said:

Slipnir is godly, but don't tell anyone, we don't want him nerfed. 4xLBX10, and handles like a heavy, able to dance in and out of cover better than any other assault. I hear 2xHeavy Gauss is also good (as mentioned above), but I just got stuck on the awesomeness that is 4XLBX10s.

It is already nerfed. Structure bonus went down.

[Racerxintegra2k]

Darn, i was looking for something i didn't already own that could still perform at a relatively high level. great job on the suggestions so far, personally i already own everything mentioned though.

[LordNothing]

ilya used to be my go to for ac10 spam. but it got superseded by last years loyalty victor.

misery is still the star brawler of my is deck, a place it has held on to for years.

sleipnir and black widow are also pretty good. k9 of course.

i noticed i didnt have a 100 ton hero on the spheroid side so i bought a kaiju. it was ok when i ran it last night but i still dont quite know what to do with it. i also picked up a piranha hero and 3 more mech bays with my change. i now only need is 75, 80, and 95 ton heros, and clan 25, 45, 80, and 95 ton heros. then i will have a hero in every possible weight class.

putting that stack of mc on one of the clan assaults (gargles and exe) wouldn't have made much sense, granted i like both of those chassis but the varients seemed to be missile oriented and i didnt want that, so i await better options at those tonnages. and im reserving the mlx to buy with cash if it nets me loyalty next year (im waiting to see if the game is still alive first). and i will probibly win enough mc for the remaining holiday events to get the scat/death fridge on the next sale. id get them now but i have like 10 mc left lol.

Edited by LordNothing, 21 November 2018 - 07:56 AM.

[Nema Nabojiv]

Brauer, on 21 November 2018 - 06:14 AM, said:

Warhammer Black Widow with gauss vomit is quite strong.

There's really no point buying BW for gauss build alone. It is better on WHM-6R due to four energy hardpoints in torsos.

[LordNothing]

Nema Nabojiv, on 21 November 2018 - 08:00 AM, said:

There's really no point buying BW for gauss build alone. It is better on WHM-6R due to four energy hardpoints in torsos.

bw is mostly good because its a warhammer. but its nice to have a warhammer and a bonus.

[Spheroid]

Top Dog

[MechaBattler]

I thought the point of the Black Widow was to run 4 UAC5s?

[Monkey Lover]

Chris has seen this thread all mechs will now be nerfed

[Racerxintegra2k]

Monkey Lover, on 21 November 2018 - 12:35 PM, said:

Chris has seen this thread all mechs will now be nerfed

More like LRMS will be buffed to compensate for medium lasers having a longer duration than UAC jam chance over the square root of an AMS shooting down a NARC missile. wait what ?

[Xeno Phalcon]

Spheroid, on 21 November 2018 - 11:04 AM, said:

Top Dog

Top dogs a pretty nice energy mech - wide as a barn though, one of the neater custom paint jobs as a bonus (bullet holes EVERYWHERE none of this pristine factory new crap)

[- World Eater -]

The 4xLBX10 Sleipnir is the equivalent of driving an 18 wheeler into a Pinto, it's devastating.

[Grus]

For lights i stand by the Deathknell ( commando) it is surprisingly durable and still quick. 4mpl, or my fav 1ll 3erm.

Edited by Grus, 21 November 2018 - 02:11 PM.

[TheArisen]

I'm not sure there is one I'd call "meta" but there are a few good IS heroes.
- Slepnir Cyclops, X4 LBX10
- Power House Roughneck, X3 srm6 & ac20
- Top Dog Thunderbolt, Your choice of lasers
- Death knell Commando, lasers
- Pirate's Bane Locust, stealth Locust
- Partisan Black Knight, X6 MLs & ac20 or you can have fun with a narc
- IV-4 Quickdraw, mrms
- Bounty Huner Marauder, decent energy boat
- Wolfhound Grinner, ecm Wolfhound
- K-9 Urbanmech (Tanky like all Urbies, etc.)

Edited by TheArisen, 21 November 2018 - 03:06 PM.

[Alkabides]

So most here would seem to agree the Quickdraw hero a good cbill mech to pick up? I really wanted to get the Mauler but you can't mount 20's or HGRs in the arms. Thanks.