More than likely they negate the -5% for the Complex plate with a Proto Kin Cat

As a scout, I find this annoying. There should be some sacrifice with tanking. I ran into a cloaked shotgun scout with over 600 ehp that managed to survive both NK strikes just to OHK me in the face.

As a minja who makes a lot of sacrifices to make my builds, its a bit ridiculous with how little other scout suits need to give up. They should have weaknesses, and there are certainly ways around that that some mercs are abusing.

NKing any scout is risky, and I try to avoid it unless the scout definitely doesn't know I'm there, or he's another knifing Minja (knife duels FTW).

Trying to NK a shotgun scout who knows you are there means almost certain death unless you are very, very lucky.

I'm curious though, what are your NK builds? I don't have to sacrifice too much even though I run IshNoKs. My ADV build is typically two complex shield extenders, one basic shield extender, Ishy NKs, SMG or Assault CR, flux grenade, ADV cloak, compact nanohive, complex range amp, and enhanced pro damp.

Plates actually not only lower your run/walk speed but also your strafing and jumping while kinetic catalyzers only effect your run speed.

Take a look at complex armor plates in the SDE and complex kinetic catalyzer more specifically at the passive modifiers.

The issue here is that armor plates give a fixed amount of HP but a variable amount of speed penalty. Since scouts start with an initial high value of speed, the percentage of speed loss is somewhat "negligible".

its like the complex or advanced ... not effect the scouts move speed