I'm a "career recon" asi i like to call it, aka I play recon for 99% of my games except for when I'm trolling around. I agree with Juances- Haze-type bombs and recon cloaks do help, albeit guardian is in my opinion the better bombing class. As a recon, I can take down any player PROVIDED I can get the first ambush in. That said, hardly anyone i know of who is a recon does ambushes well >.>;

Another approach is the Guardian. Guardians + Sheildcancel can be a deadly combo. Same with Strikers and guns

It just comes down to skill level, class and weapon preference, and sadly, your latency P:

Hammers

I play as a bomber guardian. In most Lockdown matches you will never be hit by a sword as long as you spam Voltaic Tempest. Then you'll just have to worry about dodging Polaris. I usually fight back with my own Polaris.

Mix in a bowl, let stir for 5-7 minutes, best served on a control point alone or with one friend.

How2win@LD:
1. get pendents n steff
2. a. if ur sworder u get skolver n btb or ff
2. b. if ur gunnr u get shedewsun n polaris
2. c. if ur bomber u get med bember n VT VV SS SM and SPAM SPAM SPAM
3. a. go strikerk n just desh n hit desh n hit
3. b. go strikerk n just desh n hit desh n hit
3. c. go gurdin n just spam n spam spam n spam
4. call evrybody hu keelz u n00b
5. curse

NOW UR PRO AT LD 2!

This is how I see LD. :(

Why on earth would you get mad bomber if all you're using is haze bombs?

idek men but its liek da bember armer! cuz al ze pro bembers us it

yes u alweys need 2 haev a puleris with u cuz its da best gun evr!! !

Basically, you need CHAOS cloak/hood and a alchemer/brandish (freeze status is the best choice, although i use a magma driver and a voltedge for no other reason but for having a small arsenal ;_;)

After getting this and eventually heating everything up for ctr as high as possible, go striker (other classes are fine, but it's more risky) and just follow these simple recommendations:
- Try to conserve the boost as much as you can, only use it when you really need to go fast (like running away, or go somewhere quicky while being sure noone will come after you);
- If you see a skolver toothpicker coming for your buttocks, start playing defensively with the alchemer and ONLY with the alchemer (trying to fight him with a brandish is suicide, specially if hes good at toothpicking, or just has max ASI since that's more than enough to kill everything that isn't a skolver toothpicker);
- If the bastard has depleted his boost, switch to the brandish and charge him on his face.
- If an enemy is attacking a team mate, take advantage of that and try to blast him with a charge. Any weapon will do, as long as makes him stop or inflict status at him at least.

And a few more general tips for everyone, by my personal experience.
- If you have low health, go back to your lockroom asap. 15 pips won't give you much chance of surviving a battle when more just half one.
- Haze bombs are death traps, specially for a CHAOS knight. Avoid them at all costs. If there's a spammer holding a point with them, ignore him and move on, unless you actually have a max resistance for the status.
- If you're about to capture a point and you see someone running away, presumably low health, don't even dare to chasing him. Finishing to cap the points is the top priority, EVER.
- An entire team capping a point next to your locker room? Should you fight them all on your own to prove you have balls for them all? NOPE, don't even consider it since you'll be dead in seconds without p2w gibberish and some skill, but mostly without p2w gibberish. Just ignore the point and move on. If you cap the one(s) that is/are the furthest back, they'll be forced to get back to cap, saving some hassle for your stubborn team mates, constantly insisting on the same bloody point. Best class for this is the recon for obvious reasons.

And something more about statuses: if you inflict a status on them, specially a paralyzing one (stun, shock or freeze), the silly wolvers will most likely chicken out. If they dont, just behave accordingly:
>Max resistance to a status, as mentioned above, makes the respective haze bomb useless. So if you see a mercurial striker coming after you while you're making a small storm on your feet, don't expect him to stop. Either switch haze bomb or just prepare yourself for actual combat.
>Stun is easy, just go after him and swat the hell of him before it wears off, which it will be in two seconds.
>Shock, despise making an enemy completely vulnerable for a second with every spasm, its still dangerous to engage, since he still will kick your buttocks when he's not busy being fried, unless the idiot got himself on a VT cloud, which then you should be beating the hell out of him.
>Freeze is by far the easiest. Just quickly go to his back and finish him with a brandish charge. Just don't be an idiot for standing too close on his front.
>Fire and poison will not stop the pain train. Fire might discourage some of them, but poison will only make your pain last longer before he puts you down with a stick on your buttocks.
>Curse, if you happen to be a lucky Faust user, will kill the enemies inflected by it 90% of the time. The other 10% either stop in time and run away or switches weapons and keep mauling you.
>Sleep, well, puts them to sleep, making them sitting ducks. But since there's no sleep inflicting weapons yet, you'll just have to pick something else...

And yes, I just realized I made a wall of text telling more general tips rather than actual tips of my loadout but whatever, as long as it helps.

Huh? AA can be freely used by everyone. If you don't want to use it, that's your problem. Health trinkets in the other hand, are the scrubbiest things a lockdown player can pay for. Seriously, I'd still be alive and kickin' for like 50 ocasions, if not more, if it wasn't for those bloody p2w things weared by toothpickers 90% of the time.