Talk:Aphid/@comment-31959494-20171006202022

I can recall quite a few times where the Aphids instead of Piñatas on my Stuka made a huge difference.

Example 1: I was fighting a pure DB Griffin with my Stuka. We were hopping around cover, each trying to get the leg up on each other. However, since Aphids can fly over cover, I was able to damage my opponent while not taking a single rocket. When they jumped, I jumped to avoid the damage. Eventually they were at low enough health so that I could easily finish them off with my two Orkans.

Example 2: It was near the end of a match, and it was a 3v1 (I was the 1). We had more beacons at that point but there was a Thunder Raijin trying to take one of our home beacons. It was a particularly aggressive Raijin at that. However I was behind cover and I knew that if I jumped up I wouldn’t be able to finish him off and he would blast me out of the sky. Since my Aphids could negate that cover I fired them in succession and leaped with my Orkans ablaze to finish it off. I took center beacon and was attacked by a Thunder Piñata Leo. In this case the range of the Aphids was most important, so the Piñatas were useless and the Thunder only did about 1000 damage every 2 seconds, so I managed to weaken it before the battle was over and I surprisingly won.

Example 3: I was fighting an Orkancilot with my teammates. The situation was simple enough; I took out the Ancile with my Aphids to allow the higher DPS death buttons to finish it off.

So overall the Aphids combined with the characteristics of the Griffin and the firepower of the Orkans make it a deadlier robot than other DBs, Thunder robots (for Guerilla tactics at least) and even Ancilots.