Can someone tell me how to get the -Yoink- mantis kills, because no matter how many i spawn, i cant kill anything. I just played a game of warzone, and got 15 assists with it and only 4 kills, and this was with the one mantis. I have no problem keeping it alive, but i just can’t kill people, shields drop relatively fast, and then health just seems to last forever, allowing my teammates to seagull the kill.
It’s amazing for destroying enemy vehicles, getting boss kills, and defending. I try to sit back a bit when I have one or you will be dismantled fast. You have to be fairly close range to get guaranteed kills with the machine gun. Also keep in mind the melee for mantis is an aoe, so if you use the stomp when somebody is flying above or in front of you it will still kill them.
Oni mantis is pretty OP. Rockets lock onto enemy Spartans.
If anything just sell all the normal ones because they suck. The ONI one is the only half decent mantis.
The ONI Mantis is not OP, it’s juuuuuust right. Not for the REQ level, but for combat.
The other Mantises unfortunately can be boarded from the front, even during the stomp animation, its LMG (and I mean LIGHT) does OK damage but spreads too large too quickly to be effective on mobile infantry. The rockets are better suited anti-armour than the LMG but they need a very uncomfortable close range to be effective with them. And of course the armour+shields feel rather lacking.
Really, the Mantis is a support platform to help other vehicles or a group of Spartans. Probably hoping it’s used inside the Core Bases and Fortresses… Where tanks can out armour and firepower it…