Just curious who you guys would rank as some of the best LD players?
Best Lockdown Players?
Corny is pretty good, and I played some fun matches with Silpheus today, too. Smashgear, Dothackerduo, Damon-Drake, and Espira (pure gunner) are also fun players to go up against.
I'm pretty terrible, so if you ever face me, please go easy!
Yeah, Feller is good, as is Corny. Others that come to mind: Thengel, Nodocchi, Pakuun, Blueflood, Darkoneko, Furiseto, Gog-Magog, Hooma, Kamiyana, Kamov, etc., etc., etc.
There are some strikers that have mastered the art of strike-weave-strike-weave-strike weave that I can't beat - I think Anly is one of them, though there are others
I think there should be two categories: People who take the generic optimized loadout and dominate with it over and above others with the same gear (snarby/flourish w/wolver), and people who buck the trend by going with oddball gear sets and still make a good show of it (like pure gunners or *cough* bombers).
There's certainly a laundry list of people who I know are gonna poke me full of holes when I see them on the other team. I'd name some, but I'd be forgetting to mention too many others.
There were some amazing players on yesterday, hard to pick when the bar is so high but one stood out:
Was against edit: Ruby. He was utterly annihilating our team until I got a Gran Faust combo off in his face and I heard him go *pwong* to energy revive. I decided "Ohohoho, a challenge!" and started energy reviving too, meeting him many times in the lower lanes.
It was the most fun lockdown game I've ever played, and though he was better and up against half my team it seemed to be pretty equal in deaths. Only after the match ended did I notice he did something around 28,5k damage, more than double mine. Apparently the other half of my team made a comeback in the rest of the map and we lasted nearly the entire time limit.
Br-Girl and Blue[something, flood?] are some of the best gunners I've come up against. I suck at remembering names.
Edit: boy when I say I suck at remembering names I wasn't kidding!
Silph! Sorry, I got your name wrong earlier.
Is this the game you're referring to? : )
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/594702184977448979/AB16ADFFEB662AC380A...
Really fun matches yesterday. Hope to cross paths with you soon!
Sadly Ruby knows nothing but CE res :) http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/648745380501415208/B231898E0E01A470B55...
This is true. I was even up to a 34 CE res in that 29k game. Truly, I am a terrible person and one of the worst lockdown players.
As stated above, please go easy on me. :)
Feller is right at the top of the list. He made me ragequit today, I think. Jaroche springs to mind, as he was my nemesis for a few days there.
My choices usually coincide with disuse of spawncamping. CE res, autoaim, full skolver, VT, btb...any of that is fine for me. It's the spawncamping that gets my goat, and I'm a VT capcamper.
I"m not sure if I spelled it correctly, but Sciaz(Again, I apologize if I misspelled it.) ripped my whole team a new one. Seriously, around five players(They were probably weaken from other attacks, but meh.) went up against him at the same time and they all died. His Flourish rip through my Guardian sheild, and I died quickly after. I don't even think he died much either.
I swear, he must have some sort of ASI boost or something. >.<
Ahh, flourishes do allot of damage to sheilds.
GF does shadow and normal, so sheilds defend it 50%
Flourish does only peircing, so sheilds defend it 25%
Chromiax, Lowric, Golza, Beefman, myself, Khamsin
just a few that i'm friends with who come to mind.
Me and Duovit cause problems for the Tier 1 crowd. There's also someone with a hyphenated name that has two T1 trinkets...
Also Hetero. That is all.
Chris, Thengel, Magnus, Blueflood.
Edit:Feller just made my list. He ripped apart our whole team...
Sciasz is an absolute terror.
Rubyeclipse made me stop playing Lockdown and play Blast Network instead for like a week I was so traumatized.
I remember Kreuz-Drache being pretty solid on T1 and getting really annoyed or very hopeful depending if he was on my team or not.
Nobody mentioned Poul yet? ... You guys don't know the terror we witnessed :/
****ing Dredio. Played a bunch of rounds with him yesterday. After a little while I didn't even mind whenever he killed me, dude's like a force of nature.
Lseraphim is pretty good too.
Mashyu, Brian Fayt, Craftsy, Acidfknight, Aegrith, Imbris, Xenokidd, Kwizzy, Optario, Ooozy, Eye-Mad
(T1 & T2) I'm sure I missed or mispelt a few :D Those are the ones I added to my list for a good challenge.
edit: A friend asked me to remove him from this list. Apparently being good comes with its price, lots of people try targeting you in pvp!
Some guy named Odee. I kept tieing with him in terms of captures and defends, but he always semed to do 5-10 times more damage that I did.
Dunno if that counts.
I played Tier 3 for the first time and got destroyed by a knight named Dyouria (probably not even close). He spammed his freeze gun thingy until I got stuck in place, then snuck around me while I was flailing about, charged up his Divine Avenger, and wiped out all of my health bars in a matter of seconds.
I haven't played against a lot of "good" people, but that guy had a good tactic when matching noobs one on one. :(
haven't played T3 too much so i'm not entitled to say
T2
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Best Recon : Aegrith
Strikers : Mashyu, Aatu. Acidfknight, Zelstro, couple more i can't think of off the top of my head.
Guardians: Sticks, Morgoros, umm plenty more that escape me
definitely a lot of good players have been named so far
cant stand Sciasz, Hetero, turbocoke etc...etc.. Badworm is a gd guardian too...
I m so glad I finally grinded all the krogmos I needed for the recipe I wanted and for me to not step into this bullies playground for a wee while...
one day I ll get betta' ...
- I m so glad I finally grinded all the krogmos I needed for the recipe I wanted and for me to not step into this bullies playground for a wee while...
one day I ll get betta' ...
Well, you could try T2/T1 lockdown. :P It's a little less ridiculous in the lower tiers.
And I forgot about T1 lockdown....
Jyudie
Duovoit(He plays a mean guardian....)
Adept-Rogue
Spark Plug
Orangeo
Ylol
Ashfero(I think that was his name...his guild is "For Mother Russia" or something close to it...)
Awesome T1 players. :)
Definitely Feller. Beat me when i had the cheapest setup: guardian + barb snarb.
Freezingflame is also very good, as well as Vinrules. Vin gets a bit predictable though if you play enough matches with him.
Definitely Feller. Beat me when i had the cheapest setup: guardian + barb snarb.
Freezingflame is also very good, as well as Vinrules. Vin gets a bit predictable though if you play enough matches with him.
You can check my first lockdown video out and let me know how good I am in the comments xD
Very nice vid Chris !
I ve seen a few players with similar setup and started to level a Final flourish. I find its first attack much better than BTB in LD...Didnt test much as I got all my coins...
Do is make any difference if the weapon is Level 1 or 10 ?
@ Kreuz I tried lower tiers once but waitng time was longer so kept to T3...
- Do is make any difference if the weapon is Level 1 or 10 ?
@ Kreuz I tried lower tiers once but waitng time was longer so kept to T3...
Yeah, heating up your gear counts for PvP.
Did a T2 game took a long time to load up? Cause I heard that T2 was just as popular as T3. (I can see you complaining about T1 though, its usually only popular during the evenings or weekends, and even then it's hard to get people to stick with it.)
"Yeah, heating up your gear counts for PvP."
Eveytime I got killed it showed by weapon Heal level 1...never seen a level 10...is that a bug that it doesnt show players weapon level properly ?
I ve tried both T1 and T2..been awhile though..will try T2 again if waiting is not too long now...
- Eveytime I got killed it showed by weapon Heal level 1...never seen a level 10...is that a bug that it doesnt show players weapon level properly ?
Maybe that's it....I dunno. I know heating up does matter, cause I get more health in a game of lockdown with higher heated armor, than without. Not to mention I noticed faster attacking speeds too.
Maybe the other players have "Full Inspect" off? That usually causes the gear to appear to be level one.
" Maybe the other players have "Full Inspect" off? That usually causes the gear to appear to be level one."
Ha I think that s it ! :P
I'm not entirely sure there is a best player because of all the non-skill related factors affecting Spiral Knights and Lockdown in particular. Out of the very few matches I've played, and through my constant whining and moaning about HERP DERP THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE HIT ME I'M LAGGING DURRR, Vlad seems pretty good. Played against him, it was fun going Striker vs. Striker. Minus my two bars of connection at least. xP We were pretty even, I remember. Shidara is a pretty good Striker, too.
I haven't played Lockdown much so I'm sure there's quite a few people I've yet to face. I don't recognize a lot of the people everyone's mentioned here.
Had some really enjoyable matches against / with Hetero tonight. Thanks for the games!
T3 -> note that hp trinkets are allowed. e.g. striker with the life of a guardian. Players i've seen with these uber items are hetero and sciasz.
I say pick from lower tiers in my opinion.
"T3 -> note that hp trinkets are allowed. e.g. striker with the life of a guardian. Players i've seen with these uber items are hetero and sciasz."
But if you're gonna do that almost everyone that's been mentioned will be removed lol
Sticks, Skybrandon, Brianfayt, Luckytechie, Gregen, Aatu, Nicoya-Kitty...
Yeah, these people are ones I respect for how well they play. I know a few more, just can't remember too well at the moment.
Down in Tier 2, there's always a good swath of players who will always noticably stand out above the rest. The variability of it all means that choosing one, or even three, or even FIVE is hard, but you always notice those who stand out, and its always those that you end up watching out for, both on the field to steel yourself for a tough fight, and off the field beforehand to make a prediction on how the match is going to go.
Just a MYRIAD FEW of the names that have stuck out to me over time:
-Blueberrymuffin (striker)
-Brianfayt (striker)
-Dopplor (striker/recon)
-Hiddenskye (guardian)
-Krysophylax (recon)
-Quetzoghanddr (guardian)
-Luckytechie (striker)
-Markano (striker)
-Maydiee (guardian)
-Nicoya-Kitty (recon/)
-Skullerdan (striker)
-Skybrandon (striker)
-Snubear (striker)
-Wittowowns (guardian)
-Xenokidd (striker)
The preponderance of dusker-barbers bothers me, though its not nearly as bad as the thorn/faust mono-culture that seems to exist in tier 3.
But those are just a few of the MANY good players out there - in time I'm sure there'll be more.
@Omird Just recon actually, guardian leaves me one point shy of max CTR and I don't feel like rolling for UVs.
Speaking of, I should make a(nother) suggestion thread for bumping guardian's buffs/debuffs to medium.
T2: Spiral-Hipster, Tidder, Skybrandon, RDZknightz, Arrovvx, Zaje, Depressionist, and Fortunate.
T1: Golza, Greenlocust, Ylol, and Blueheron.
There are lots of players who have impressed me. One in particular that is burnt into my mind is Feller though. He is the embodiment of everything a good Striker should be.