Talk:Aphid/@comment-29771523-20180406025121

First of all, in my opinion I think that the Aphid is basically a spinner-type version of about like 3 Spirals combined (or more). In addition, on my iOS digital applicational version of War Robots (on my iPad Air 2) it says that the damage is (I can’t remember) something like or within 9840 or something like that. The Gl. Patton with quadruple Aphids will definitely exceed at flanking or performing high-interceptance homing missile ambushes on enemy robots. At close range or close quarters combat situations, a versatile robot such as the Griffin with the jump ability utilizing 2 Aphids and 2 other random medium-hardpointed weapons (I’m not specifically talking about the medium weapons because I am going off-topic and irrelevant) would be hard to perform launched and timed attacks because the Aphid is designed for medium-ranged ambushes and not for close range skirmishes.

To link this situation, take the Trebuchet sniper for instance (example). It’s performance description says that it is “hard to utilize at close quarters combat” or whatever it says. Personally, the Aphid is same, or similar. Aphids launch in a flying circle-patterned attack and sometimes miss at close quarter combat (this may not occurred to you but it has happened to me before). According to my playstyle statistics, I’m a medium range fighter (I’m not precisely a knife-fighter) yet. I do use Aphids in some circumstances involving medium-ranged skirmishes; however when I utilize them on my Griffin in close quarters combat occurances, I fire, but they somehow miss and hit the ground or any obstacle (buildings, etc). But when I see incoming Aphids, they hit me SMACK-BANG in the face, even at close ranges.

Therefore, I personally think that this weapon is satisfactory with decent firepower. For me I would always use it in circumstances requiring perfectly-timed medium-ranged ambushes. Not good for sneak attacks, such as Stalker or an upgraded version of a Destrier. I would just opinionate my definition of an Aphid: It’s just a medium-ranged performer homing missile version of the Spiral and it flys in directions with a circle-styled appearance pattern. By the way to conclude, it’s just my opinion and I don’t want to cause any conflicts or fights on this wiki because this is one of my favourite wikis.