Rico is not a noob friendly weapon like twins, that's for sure! You need skill to use the bounce effect, large auto-aim angles, and ammo bar management. I have a friend in tanki that is very good with rico m2 and get top boards easily. I'm sure he'll be happy once he gets m3, that thing is a killing machine! >:D

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Is this assuming that both are using equal hulls? I still say Rico M4. and If possible, I'd be cool if somebody actually playtested it! :D

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I think it is both. I use Isida M3 myself and know that it takes more than just a mindless charge to take on an enemy. It does take skill to make sure that you engage in favorable conditions, but when both people are of equal skill, then equiptment matters a lot. Maybe things will change as I rank up or try different strategies than what I am used to. It's so easy to get kills with underhanded equiptment in my non-buying account. Skill in picking favorable engagements allow me to save crystals and get kills despite facing M1s with my M0s. Most isidas at that level don't know how to heal teammates, don't turn their turret, and charge recklessly.

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Wow, your team was able to beat those kits! Even with powerful kits. You gotta use then on maps that they are good at. Unfortunately for them, they have light hulls on a small map like ping pong while your freeze teammate had viking and you as isida to keep him alive! That's awesome that he actually cools off your tank!

Yeah I hope that my tips help you survive against the never-ending onslaught of plasma bullets! I have an alternate account (Thefishdude) that I use that I don't purchase any crystals with, unlike my main account, and at m0, Isida's aren't as bad like you said. It's really just M3 Isidas that are so strong! I do also enjoy using Isida myself, though I use it more often as a support weapon than an attacker.

I choose a lot of heavy hulls. Maybe that's why I keep dying from isidas. Most isidas are vikings and hornets. I can deal with hornets, using my titan's health pool, but viking isida is hard. But then again, if I choose hornet, then I will be more suseptible to Hornet Isida instead of viking isida. I do have Irbis, Eternity, and Lumberjack paint which helps a LOT, but still, they are powerful. Usually if I can't beat them with twins, I either use my own isida, use freeze if there is enough room to circle strafe, go rico to attack from weird angles and take advantage of isida's worse autoaim, or use shaft if the map is big. I notice shaft is great vs drugging isidas and druggers in general, bc shaft does very powerful instantaneous damage when fully charged, not giving isida time to sap you. In team battles, I can deal with them well as long as isida is busy attacking a teammate. While isida can do well 1 v 1, it is terrible vs multiple enemies as an attacker, but better used as a healer. In deathmatch, I wait until isida attacks someone, then attack em while they are dry, most DM tankers are good about teaming up against Isidas, bc they know Isida will kill us all and get high score if we don't dispatch it. In DM's I sometimes even ignore the isida and just get my own kills, since twins has highest DPS, I can outkill enemies faster than isida and keep firing like you said.

I totally agree that Twins is very powerful with the current balance, especially with kits, (I know bc I bought it.). I was able to use m2 twins for a looooong time before I had to get m3. I was able to kill m3 equiptment and get first place many times until it slowly faded with more people using protective paints. With m3, not even protective paints will save you, it merely delays the inevitable in my opinion. It does give more chances for enemies to killsteal you though if you are the twins user vs protective paints. As much as I love taking advantage of its op-ness, I was still good at it even before it was like that. I liked it when it was a true mid-range turret that can engage optimally at 40 m instead of just 15 m, even though it had a slower firing rate. I use rico if I want to have a good mid-range game. The best way to kill twins, at least the stuff I die the most of as twins, at least in my rank, is with an Isida M3, bonus if its a drugging Isida. Isida is too good at 1 v 1 situations! Sucks you dry while you barely dent it! Isida M3 is in my opinion, even more OP than twins! Of course, long range is good too, depending on map, if it's spread out and little cover. Haha yeah, I guess that what happens when playing random matches with random strangers! It's hard to get those stupid noobs to trust you! However, if you are a dominant player that scores high in leaderboard, high rank, and has good equiptment, there's a higher chance they will listen to you. At least that's my personal experience. Even if only one of them listens, your chances of winning is a lot higher since chances are, the other team is just as noob with team communication. Ahhh, those hornet/ricos, when will they ever learn!?

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I see what you are saying though, the skill ceiling is higher for other weapons, meaning if you got the good aim and tactics, you benefit more from the turret. Twins is very noob friendly since you can shoot without a break and deal very good dps within your range. Rico on the other hand cant fight head on vs multiple enemies as much as twins bc of reload time when all charges are used up. You have to fight 1 v 1 and use weird angles and your autoaim to your advantage. I totally agree that Twins is very good with defense along with freeze as you said. My main point was saying that you can also be just as successful on offense since I have had success with that. As far as limited range, you just gotta pick the right map and survey your opponent's turret, hull, and paint composition. To get within striking distance vs long range, just duck from cover to cover and once you are close enough, just unload and use your impact force to ruin their accuracy! In deathmatch, pick high density maps with many players so that you can spawn closer to them within a favorable range. In ctf, have your long range friends distract other long range targets, while a small squad of short rangers close in and remove sny point defenses from other short rangers to then reach the juicy long range guns!! Rico is very fun too bc it shoots plasma bullets like twins, however I wasn't very good at it until recently. It's definitely is not noob friendly, especially for those noob hornet ricos that dont know how to turn their turret!

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