What are your tier lists for duos? I and my friend have been playing duos and really like the synergy between Pavium and Voridus, but we can’t seem to win consistently, we always get cheesed by Johnson/Jerome. We want to know what other leaders are good right now?
YapYap is probably the best leader for teams. He’s pretty unique so it might take a bit to learn how to use him but once you do he’s a monster.
Atriox is good because his jump brutes with countermeasures are amazing and it’s very difficult to deal with something like an Atriox going jump brutes and a Jerome going hero.
Decimus is Decimus. His passives are strong and he can basically go full pop banshees while his teammate builds ground units. Most people consider him broken so whether you care about abusing him or not is up to you.
For UNSC I would say Jerome is the best. His hero is amazing in the early game (and all game really) and his Inspire buffs allies as well. I don’t really play UNSC so I can’t really say who else is good but I’d probably say someone like Cutter, Kinsano, or Anders would also be pretty decent.
anyone who I didn’t mention is either bad or just average. Pavium and Voridus actually don’t synergize too well because Voridus needs to play a strong tier 1 if he wants to remain relevant while Pavium generally looks to play tier 2/tier 3. Teams are all about winning the early game so you generally want to play leaders with strong openers and can transition smoothly to mid game. Late game leaders like Arbiter, Pavium and Shipmaster tend to get beaten before they hit the point in the match where they’re at their most powerful so they aren’t too good in teams.
Though I will say the game is in a balanced enough spot that leader tier lists only come into play when you’re talking about high level games. If you’re struggling to get out of diamond, you might just not be playing your leaders to their strengths.
Pav/Vori does have some synergy, but Pavium is known for being pretty bad in teams overall. I used to run that combo though. Pav can mass chopper while Vori stacks infantry. The strength of the combo lies in 2 things- Pav’s triple chopper open in combination with Vori’s mass grunt opener, and their power to end the game very quickly on 5th point with Cata/Lich being able to break pretty much any defense.
Overall though, 2s is mostly about Banished/UNSC combos rather than doubling up on one faction. Yap, Trox, Jerome, and Cutter are your best choices.
Double deci
Like frankenpeanut said, 2s has some of the best balance so you can make most combos work with some practice. That being said the easiest combo to run is usually a good chopper leader (deci/yap) + UNSC. If you’re really serious you can always reach out to Mike Beaston the #1 2v2 player, who offers lessons.