Talk:Aphid/@comment-29771523-20180406025121/@comment-27346978-20180406030854

Woah. Long post o-o.

Also, you bring up a lot of good points. The Aphid is not by any means a strong knifer, requiring a lock and only having a moderate DPS, as opposed to a Magnum, Punisher, Gust, etc.

However, I would not say that the Aphid is a medium-ranged skirmish weapon, as it only has 350m of range. Medium and sniping range is commonly regarded as 400+. Anything else, and you're a brawler. So while I agree that the Aphid is not necessarily a brawling weapon, neither is it a medium-ranged suppression weapon.

As for your problem with Griffins and utilization:

The idea of putting Aphids on a jumping bot or fast-moving bot like the Griffin is to use the Aphids to harass the target, bringing down its health to the point where a quick ambush with Orkans or Tarans can finish it off without dishing out too much damage to said Griffin. This trades the pure damage of a more general close-range weapon with the versatility and capabilities of the Aphid (i.e. not requiring line of sight).