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  1. #1

    How Do I Improve? RAIDER!

    Apologies if this is the wrong place feel free to move to the correct place if this is the case.

    I got the game the other day and am loving playing as Raider, the only problem is I can really tell when I come across a casual player and a great player. I would like to make that transition but need advice for Raider, just personal tips really, I know practice is the key




    This is where I'm at currently, let me know or point me in the right direction
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  2. #2
    use your feats in general! They are very useful (for example you could have healed yourself) and first level feats will be available again for usage very soon.
    If you want to gain renown points faster get a side first in dominion and stay on it. Vanguards get an extra boost there. When you have the feat Body Count going into middle after activating it will heal yourself while getting lots of renown and points for your team. Getting points in dominion is important as it decides when the other team is breaking. You will get more points if sit on a side and defend it successfully esp against multiple opponents. Avoid dying, reviving team mates gives also a good chunk of points.always try to support your team mates, try look where the opponents might be going next and where assistance would be needed. Sometimes it is better to abandon a or to retreat point to keep you and your team mates alive and than dying and getting overun by the over team who now bottleneck you and cut you off from getting to the other points.Understand that when your team is breaking usually just sneaking in once and getting a side from the opponents is enough to unralley.

    That's to dominion in general. About the Raider:

    You use top heavy often. If your opponents don't defend well as those in the video this is ok and the best damage your raider deals, however later on you will need to switch your game up. Most Raiders throw their unblockable Zone Attack at their opponent. Since it's unblockable and has speed-fluctuations people need to pay a lot of attention to that in order to parry it. if they are busy they tend to eat it and otherwise your teammate has a bigger chance in landing sth.

    The further bread and butter moves for raider are his stampede charge and his stomp attack. As a Raider you want to drain your opponents stamina fast and blind them disabling them to fight back properly and crush them with powerful shots. There are plenty of Raider guides and videos out there so check'm out.
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  3. #3
    For duels
    Learn how to parry lights. Using nobushi as an example. After a missed kick by her, if she attacks with a light it will always attack top. I'm not 100 sure if I'm noticing things and not others, but I am pretty confident about this. Every character that has an unblockable (kick) will follow up a light in the same direction.
    Even if I'm wrong about the above. If you really learn how to read your opponent, at first you will be better predicting the direction of the light attacks. Eventually you'll get comfortable enough to parry lights basically on reaction. Obviously learn how to parry the dashing light attacks every time.

    Learn how to use the dodge gb and cgb effectively for both offense and defense. Very useful against LB, Warden, warlord, conqueror, gladiator, centurion, shinobi, nobushi and shaman... So 3/4 of the characters. It can really hurt when you use it at the end of an opponents chain to get a free gb.

    Lastly: mind games. Mix it up. Get comfortable throwing heavies out. Learn how to set up those heavies, feints and stunning tap help but don't rely on the stunning tap. Good players will make you pay if you throw it out too much
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  4. #4
    The best way I learned to play raider well was by watching the youtuber Flux Deluxe who is the #1 raider on console before his recent switch to PC. His mixups beat even some of the best players you can find on youtube IE: Spliced
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfp...oPjWtoQ/videos
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  5. #5
    Check out my channel i have been only playing raider
    trying to learn him in depth

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiY..._as=subscriber
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  6. #6
    Honestly the best advice I can give was already given. But something that I will add get the best way for me to land more blows honestly is the fact I constantly am moving my right thumb pad during the attack.

    The reason I do this let's say I want to use my three light combo. I could start any place and since I moved during the swing the reaction time for my next switch g is cut down more and it could end up any place. I have started right hit left two times they think I am doing right left spam so they go right and miss the third hit then a random side heavy.

    That's one thing the training facility doesn't mention is your combinations can come from any direction.

    And as far as being punished because of the light tap. Get good at gb because they always try to nail you with it and if they don't you may just get a free throw out of it.
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  7. #7
    You seemed successful in your video, despite losing 2v1 a couple times.

    For me, I usually can tell the difference between casuals and veterans by whether or not they parry my attacks and feint their heavies. As long as the enemies are not parrying your heavies, keep at it, but once they start parrying your attacks left and right you'll need to switch up your tactics. The strongest one I've found is simply feinting 33-50% of the time. My go-to tactic against players that I expect to be decent is this: Open with a heavy feint and then parry their parry. A bad player will not parry my feint, which means that they'll likely not parry future attacks and I can be more liberal with my heavies. A good player will attempt to parry my feint and I'll be prepared to parry their heavy attack.

    Above all else, as a Raider, incorporating feints into my attack pattern served me the most.

    Another thing I noticed is that when you are outnumbering your foe you will use a lot of top heavies. They seem to be working, so that's fine, but skilled players will usually be good at defending against attacks coming from targets they're not defending against. They'll block you as they focus on your ally and then they'll get revenge. I find that one of the best things to do to assist an ally with an enemy is using a lot of guard breaking. Guard breaking is harder to counter, can't be side-blocked, and, most importantly, interrupts the enemy and leaves them vulnerable to be hit by your ally. Even if the enemy counters your guard break, if you guard break twice in a row and he counters it twice in a row that's still enough time for your ally to get off a few hits on the enemy and bring his health down a lot.

    So, when you face against one of those players that you can tell is better than the others, try to feint once or twice and feint as early in the fight as possible. Once you've feinted once the enemy will now be half-expecting future feints and will be in a new mindset. For example, 9 times out of 10 if I feint my first heavy I will get a free heavy in the next few seconds as players will almost always ignore a heavy after a heavy has been feinted. Ideally, you approach the enemy, heavy->feint, parry their heavy, punish, then they get upset cuz they've been fooled and punished hard and they're determined to not let it happen again. So, you do another heavy just like the first time, but you don't parry it. This time, they don't want to be tricked so they don't attempt to parry and instead get wacked in the face. It only works on non-aggressive players, but usually the aggressive ones are the casuals.
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