Talk:Tempest/@comment-35425114-20180621003941/@comment-34819558-20180622164223

Tempest Raijin is awesome.

It's actually faster than a Griffin (walking speed) and can change directions instantly, so despite its size, I don't understand/strongly disagree when people say it's 'too slow' and a 'walking bag of silver'.

Because that walking bag of silver can take almost everything you throw at it and keep going, casually eating the enemy team for breakfast with the right weapons.

It is also great at beacon defending...once a Thunder/Ember Raijin is sitting on a beacon, it's practically impossible to dislodge 1 vs 1, even 1 vs 2.

I once spawned in to defend one of my team's beacons on Beacon Rush using my Thunder Raijin, then kinda regretted it when I saw full-health Thunder Fury and Thunder/Taran Inquisitor. I don't know how, but I took them BOTH out despite them having same level stuff with me (albeit I was left with 2k health). Due to them firing at different times, I would swivel my shields to face the other bot every few seconds...I'm lucky there were no rockets