The *Official* Community Merc Tier list

(Esaka) #21

If I have to give a ranking to every merc, here’s how it would be:
MEDICS:
S - Sawbonez (Has decent health, good weaponry and hasn’t received much changes on his usefulness.)
A - Aura, Sparks (One’s a close combat, low skill, full healer while the other one is a far range, low and high damage, burst heals medic. Either works depending on the maps, situations etc…)
B - Phoenix (Potent on Pub play, needs communication on Comp)
C - Guardian (Too situational, best paired with other medics like Bonez, Phoenix and Aura)
ENGIES:
A - Fletcher, Proxy (Both have the highest damage output potentional of all engineers, both are deadly if used right and both suicides a lot.)
B - Bushwacker (Turret’s meh damage isn’t really going to help unless you know where to put it and surprise the enemy with it.)
C - Turtle (Leans too heavy on Defense, not saying it’s bad with great synergies like Turtle + Aura + Rhino but only when on Defense)
FIRE SUPPORT:
S - Arty, Kira (Hoo boy, scrap tier to god tier with multiple charges, hard hitting rifles and most commonly used with high tier players.)
A - Skyhammer, Javelin (Jack of all Trades, there can’t really be a time where you wouldn’t see these two popping at least once or twice in a match. Skyhammer for dishing out AoE damage to OBJs while Javelin for kills.)
B - Stoker (Damage is great against players, not so much against EV, good area denial, not so good on keeping it long since there’s too much counter to his fire)
ASSAULT:
S - Fragger (Need me to say more? Just check the rest above)
A - Nader (A good Nader with aim can absolutely decimate a team’s defense with a few trick shots or used as a way to scatter, not to mention she’s one of the faster mercs so that helps her gets around.)
B - Rhino (Rhino is considered to be the noob guy that pisses you off the most. High health? Check. Uses minigun? Check. Always being a pain along with Aura? Check.)
C - Thunder (Thunder is like a sidegrade to Fragger, his grenades are cool but he doesn’t last long, his LMG has dakka but no AAAAHHHH. He’s great with other weapons though, I’ll give him that.)
RECON:
S - Red Eye (Red Eye has little problem holding down a chokepoint with his IR Goggles and Smoke grenades, not to mention he can be used as a team player as smoking the EV is a popular tactic on both sides.)
A - Vaseline, Aimee (Both have some things common, both spots people, both are snipers and both are used anywhere. Difference is one’s fast, fragile and helps you deal more damage for an amount of time. The other is ok health, medium and spots in a wider radius. Which do you choose?)
X - Phantom (Phantom is an oddity because he’s totally dependent on the user. Good Phantoms will be a nightmare to deal with as they know how to use their kits and know when to strike. Low level ones will be useless as hell, even more than noobs.)

#22

^ Amazing post. The only disagreement I have is with placing Sparks above Phoenix, but aside from that everything you’ve listed is spot on in my experience.

Edit: And not real big on the idea of Proxy being S tier either; I missed that on my first read. I think the potential is there, yes, much like Sparks, but I see them being far too situational and dependent on the user to be considered a great standalone merc. Good, but not great.

(FishRolls) #23

Assault: Fragger
Engi: Fletcher
Medic: Phoenix
Support: Stoker
Recon: Redeye

(GatoCommodore) #24

@NexDroid said:
Aura
Fragger
Arty
Fletcher
Vaseline

And of all mercs… hmm hard to say but I personally enjoy Jav the most.

i also personally enjoy JAV

(Esaka) #25

@Wintergreen said:
^ Amazing post. The only disagreement I have is with placing Sparks above Phoenix, but aside from that everything you’ve listed is spot on in my experience.

Edit: And not real big on the idea of Proxy being S tier either; I missed that on my first read. I think the potential is there, yes, much like Sparks, but I see them being far too situational and dependent on the user to be considered a great standalone merc. Good, but not great.

The reason why I put Sparks above Phoenix is because of team composition. Phoenix is powerful in pub due to his AoE heals, self-res and better weapons than Bonez but he lacks communication which is something Comp requires and since his healing radius is very limited, you have to stick close to yur teammates or vice versa which can be a good and bad thing. Sparks on the other hand, may not have better weaponry but her revive from afar is a godsend, doesn’t help that it 1 shot headshot full charge most mercs and her med packs are like Sawbonez only smaller so teammates can just run to it in case of low health.

Proxy never was on S tier, in fact no engies are.

(K1X455) #26

My

Medic Tier list:

  1. Phoenix = since SD has messed up the ammo/medpack passing due crappy netcode, I have de-ranked Sawbones as my frontline medic and have set him back as backlline defensive pocket medic. Aura has more utility in my gameplay than Sawdaddy as well.
  2. Aura = Defensive holds and my typical go-to medic for defence
  3. Sawbones = Still use SMG-9 and Crotzni for line-backer action.
  4. Guardian = a lot of players still don’t know how she fills a niche role among the 5man team.

Fire Support Tier list:

  1. Stoker
  2. Skyhammer
  3. Arty/Kira = both of them used to be my go to fire support before 22/23 November Update but since they messed up BR-16, Stark and Dreiss, they took a back seat.
  4. Javelin = because Shar-C

Objective Specialist Tier list:

  1. Bushwhacker
  2. Proxy = used to be my number 1 engie, but because shotgun is so random due to netcode…
  3. Turtle = If someone else knows how to Bushwhacker, I choose Turtle
  4. Fletcher = again, netcode brought him down

Assault Tier List:

  1. Fragger
  2. Nader
  3. Thunder
  4. Rhino = I only play him during free rotation

Recon Tier List:

  1. I don’t play Recon, but if I do anyone with Spotter augment
  2. Phantom is still broken