Talk:Stalker/@comment-31959494-20171012195926/@comment-31720669-20171023045252

Darkangel. You're looking at the perspective of maximizing effectiveness and always considering whats the meta. Stalker is still a very useable robot in many of the leagues and I still can have a fun time with it in Expert league.

The stalker's purpose is not to be the most effective bot. Everything Expert 1 and above is purely about effectiveness so everything not Griffin/Fury/Lancelot/Dash will not have a good time. The most important thing that a lot of players miss because of selfish playing is beacons.

It all comes down to beacons and at this point either people are too shy to get them or their too busy killing robots. 8 out of 10 times one team fails miserably getting the beacons while the other team is doing great.

I know this player called "KADAC". He's a champ I've played against many times so I remember him. His robot of choice is the treb fury so its his first robot. He has a nice time and gets ~900k damage/1st place usually while most of the time he team loses. Now the stalker can be used to capture beacons, especially really dangerous center beacons like on Yamantau.

You could argue that the stalker was more effective than treb fury because the stalker helped get the beacons and beacons decides the winner most games. Damage is still important for taking beacons but if its neglected, then any damage, not matter how high, doesn't matter. The only reason why damage is valued so highly is because trophie gain/loss depends on damage and you don't need to win to get trophies.

Sorry this comment got so long. The most important thing is taking and holding beacons. Damage should be only be occuring while achieving this objective.