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Ranged balls can really shake up a board! I notice people try to play armor rays against typhoons a lot. The mechrage honestly alone is enough. With aa as well they're like paper. Better armor units to play against typhoon is sledge and war factory, but you ideally would already be in the sledges by the time it becomes relevant

Sure yeah! I'm fairly confident that either tech would probably have been fine, but the homing missile seemed better to me since I could just snipe down his arclights (opponents main chaff clear) and forward fangs to open the towers up to my steel balls quicker. Also, later in the round after my weaker left side is inevitably oiled and destroyed, my typhoons from the right side will be able to shoot before coming into range to further assist my army in cleaning up. Additionally, that moment of pause before I make my decision is me doing all of the math of my play beforehand and ultimately the missile tech being 100 supply cheaper would allow for me to add 3 crawlers at the end instead of 2 packs. That ultimately was what made me decide on missile. Since I go with missile I add the flank crawlers to keep the emp raidens distracted and off target. The beacon I drew with the typhoons and balls would ensure the steel balls find their mark on the tower even if they get emp'd. That is a lot, but I hope it helps! Gotta consider a lot in high MMR

10/10 👏

@@stoneymechabellum such a close game! Most fun game in a bit. I always talk about how WF is the perfect play against typhoons when I go heavy into them, but haven't had many people actually use it!

It's a big spell so it seems good, but nuke would be worse for me there. Stoney has too many hacker shields for it to make any difference (same reason he also doesn't take it because of my typhoon shields). It's too expensive and less effective than the redeployment/hard pivot to the right side. I also had to play around smoke and oil, which is why I ran my units from left to right. I have a poorly positioned unit (the level 1 typhoon middle left) that if I had placed better in previous rounds would have made the difference and resulted in a win this round. Long story short if I go with nuke the outcome would have resulted in less damage to Stoney and I might have even lost the round

@@johnnydsnarkangel right!?

Please tell me ! This kind of things can change a game result ! Neither of the units moved, it was on the target and not the shield, I don't get it...

​@@Thol112 Diffing a before and after screenshot, it is hard to tell because of the screenshake, but it looks like the melter stayed in place relative to the terrain, while the WF got nudged half a pixel back. I think the tarantula to the right starts rotating the legs right at that point, so it might be the cause of the nudge. And since the melter stops exactly at max range to start firing, the slightest nudge back puts it out of range and makes it retarget.

No, you aren't wasting resources. I also really like lots of crawlers against hacker and believe it is one of the most effective ways of dealing with them. The other most effective play against hackers is anything with a shield since hackers deal 1/4 of their damage when they are shooting shields so it takes them a while (fortress barrier is best). In this case he has lots of chaff clear with arclights so more crawlers would not help me as much as the barrier at that specific moment in the game. So on Round 5 that's why I skip chaff because I just want to get that barrier tech online. I can beef up the chaff as the match progresses and continue making shielded phoons alongside them. I go with homing missiles as well because they can snipe the hacker down from afar before it can connect to my guys. I find it to be an effective tech against all medium sized units in the whole of the game

@@Ragin08 Thanks for the explanation :)

@@r4nd0m1zer2 Of course! Keep the questions coming when you have them

@@apricotscrub yeah I'm not in love with the oil tech, burst does seem like it could be good if opponent takes any am

Basically: keep doing what you're doing!

@@currymang yep I recorded this live yesterday so this shows the current state of Raiden. It is still very good with the right composition. Thank you for the feedback! It's nice to mix up the style of video I put out for everyone including me haha. Little more variety

Thank you for the suggestions! Watching it back during editing I also noticed I could do a couple more of these points better like explaining their playstyles for background and especially why their choices work or don't work and what I think could be done better instead given a specific composition. Maybe I could also replay one of their rounds or something. I will keep these in mind. It is tougher than I thought to comment while it's live. Appreciate the feedback

@@Ragin08 You are doing great - my points are finetuning! Thanks for putting so much effort into your work to keep us entertained!

@@johngreyskull1337 it's my pleasure! My aim has been to pass my knowledge along so I'm always glad to hear it's also entertaining :)

Yeah I'm not sure why you would take armor piercing bullets as your first tech like...ever. It's just better to get more mustangs than armor piercing bullets until later in the game when they get levels so I agree range is priority number 1. Also, he was speed spec so short range comps can work and that's mostly why the fortress was able to do well on that round that I replayed

It was a bit wasted, but I need chaff clear there regardless so it's kind of just a RIP on the item. After watching this game back I wish I'd just gone with amp core on a saber tbh. Would give it more hp and allow double shot to be that much more effective

@@brianfellows2024 I couldn't go fangs against the HE wasps. I should suspect he is taking that tech at some point. What i needed was fortress aa and mustangs I think. Also on the turn the typhoons were offered I should have taken them and just immediately shored up the flanks. I was just so sick I could think about anything lol. Glad you thought it was funny! I felt bad for jrm1ah though kinda scammed. I deserve to lose there

@@Thefluxtion I totally needed mustangs on the right. I lost the previous round to the wasps on my right flank the turn before. I was so out of it during this game I didn't save it and didn't replay it because I just went to bed when it ended. I would bet your idea would definitely be better than what I did. Anytime I post a loss in the future I will replay/try to comment more on alternative plays that would have worked better

@@marinauder there are quite a few units with multiple in the pack, I think that idea would make for a cool item to add to a single pack of units instead of a separate tech

Thank you for the sub :) If you have any questions about anything please ask away! I will do my best to help clear anything up. I make the vids to help people learn. These live games are a little less instructive, but if you check out my other videos I mostly do recaps and talk through the logic of my gameplay

@@felixbeaudouin1899 thank you, sir!

Lol yeah I saw that while I was editing. I just failed to see it die on round 5 so it just happened again. Let's just call him expensive chaff I guess

Glad you like the vids! I actually think stormcallers are in a better place than in the past. They lowered their damage so I find them manageable with units like steel balls, late crawlers and sledgehammers. Stormcallers were part of the reason I transitioned to an aggro playstyle since playing any speed based compositions pretty much make them irrelevant. If you are more of a standard player try using the anti missile devices more often. You'll find they are quite effective

Yeah I was trying to tempo him out before he could get all of that going. My biggest fear was him taking the rhino to sell and going multi melter, which was why I went charge shot phoenix