John ShepardIII wrote:Ydubbs81 RND wrote:
Noone wants to mention Kobrah because he used to trash talk a lot.......but Kobrah is easily in that top slayer category. I really don't like to mention assaults because there, truly, is way too many on the same level too count.
The way i categorize assaults are based off of my 1v1s. You have below avg assaults, avg skill assaults (who barely shoot me), above avg assaults (who barely get past my shields) where alot of ppl on this are. Then there are only a few assaults who are the best assaults (50/50) on our 1v1s like Heim, Eldest Dragon, Kalante, Djinn Soul the crazy thing was Soul was still really good while FCing i do terrible when i FC(i always freaked out facing Soul because i really wanted to kill him), Regnyum, Tibs, Cavanni, Noneck towards the end of his Dust career he went from above avg to one of the top assaults, and xCerebratex, i think i would be up there untill they nerfed strafe speed after that i had to shotgun.
I sort of do the same thing. I categorize assaults based on how much trouble I have during real 1v1s. But I label my 1v1s based on that we both see each other on the same grounds. Meaning we both have full health, there is no outside interference, and both are either behind cover or both are equally vulnerable with no cover. If someone launches a grenade that depletes 60% of your health or uses some sort of explosive weapon like an MD or flaylock to get your health down, I don't consider those confrontations either.
I used to try to recruit to RND based on 1v1s that I've seen in pubs. I remember facing a guy named Doug Ugly in a pub back in late Chromosome. He was in a no-name corp and I could tell that he just joined Dust but he knew how to dance. I saw potential in him so I tried to recruit him and according to his response, he went with my pitch. But I didn't follow up as aggressively as I should. Cause when they reset everything, he was the 1st on the leaderboards in scoring and the Imps picked him up.
Now, assaults that I used to have the most trouble with in a "real" 1v1 in my prime, were
Kreayshawn Corusanti (in closed beta, I was no joke but this dude was no joke +1)
Regnyum (one match he got me 3x in true 1v1 situations, so I had to give it up to him)
Noneck (although only faced him a few times in my later days..but he's a guy that would go into the objective and not camp outside or at range like a lot of so-called beasts),
arirana (post AE),
Akrem Troakat ( he was just ********)
A guy named Colombia Boss (one of the best assaults this game has seen, imo)
Solar Qoio (had good 1v1 game)
There are a lot of assaults that were great but some of them I never really ran into more than once or twice because I played skirmish exclusively. Or, some guys would always happen to shoot me in the back, or catch me after I just had a gunfight, or only come out when I was outnumbered, etc.....just not true 1v1s in my book. I have no doubt that Kalante is one of the best assaults in the game but for some reason I never really ran into him much when RND faced AE. If I did run into him he was standing in one or two triage hives. But I wouldn't take anything away from him cause there was a pub where he must have had like 50 and our team ended up getting cloned. Teammates kept running to him and we had the game locked. If there's anymore that comes to mind I'll list them but for now, those are the guys' 1v1 games I respect the most. ****, I'm rambling