I’ve seen basically everyone comment on how Johnson is useless, but why is this so, I’m really wondering? His Colosuss seem quite crap, but other than that shouldn’t he be average? I’m not very good of a player, and I don’t know the first thing about how to survive in high-level play, but shouldn’t his Bunker drop, early Restoration Drones as well as his hero’s healing abilities work pretty well for him to survive against Banished Chopper rushes, which seem to be what everyone is saying makes UNSC inferior to Banished? I kinda expected him to be the exception to this rule due to his Bunker, maybe not.
I know that he’s bad, I’m not trying to prove otherwise. But why though, he is such a fun concept of a leader!
The thing is about the Choppers is it is a very strong scout unit, it has as much health as a Warthog a core vehicle and is cheaper. As for the Colossus you would think a vehicle with a Cobra Railgun turret on it’s shoulder would be good, the problem is it’s speed and Y ability they are way too slow. However, if you get that Y ability off you are stunning a unit or at least putting it to half life, if it’s Infantry they are dying. As for the healing it suffers from the same problem as the Colossus it takes way too long. Johnson to me is good as a team based leader not 1vs1. He also lacks unit drops with veterancy like a lot of the top leaders.
Bunker isnt as as strong as it needs to be to justify the cost.
EMP Mac blast is underwhelming in a game dominated by infantry when it comes online.
Once you hit t2, his mantis don’t enough to justify their costs
Colossi are far to expensive for their cost.
Mech overcharge only affects specific units, rather than a global buff.
His one econimci buff comes so late in the game, it’s rarely worth it.
Basically, he’s playing with a core UNSC kit, that’s already week, with no strong leader powers. He’s the worst leader of the worst faction. At no point in a game does outclass anyone.
There’re many reasons. Mostly it’s that his mechs aren’t worth what they cost. Air and cyclops/Hunters just wreck them.
I actually think he’s decent in long team games, because (like you said) he has so many support perks. They just come a bit late. His emp blast thing is maybe the best offensive leader counter to the banshee spam.
In 1v1 and high lvl competitive play, he can’t keep up. Choppers will take map control, and beat his marines. Cutter will beat him with speed.
His early leader perks are just meh. The heal is nice, but the extended sight doesn’t help for much in the beginning. The bunker is OK, but it costs population and choppers will just go around it.
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> I’ve seen basically everyone comment on how Johnson is useless, but why is this so, I’m really wondering? His Colosuss seem quite crap, but other than that shouldn’t he be average? I’m not very good of a player, and I don’t know the first thing about how to survive in high-level play, but shouldn’t his Bunker drop, early Restoration Drones as well as his hero’s healing abilities work pretty well for him to survive against Banished Chopper rushes, which seem to be what everyone is saying makes UNSC inferior to Banished? I kinda expected him to be the exception to this rule due to his Bunker, maybe not.
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> I know that he’s bad, I’m not trying to prove otherwise. But why though, he is such a fun concept of a leader!
Mantis have zippo good match ups and their hp is quite pathetic. Once Cyclopes of hunters are out you might as well stop using them.
Also a fly could fly bye and destroy a bunker, they are not that much of a defensie stand point.
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> > I’ve seen basically everyone comment on how Johnson is useless, but why is this so, I’m really wondering? His Colosuss seem quite crap, but other than that shouldn’t he be average? I’m not very good of a player, and I don’t know the first thing about how to survive in high-level play, but shouldn’t his Bunker drop, early Restoration Drones as well as his hero’s healing abilities work pretty well for him to survive against Banished Chopper rushes, which seem to be what everyone is saying makes UNSC inferior to Banished? I kinda expected him to be the exception to this rule due to his Bunker, maybe not.
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> > I know that he’s bad, I’m not trying to prove otherwise. But why though, he is such a fun concept of a leader!
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> Mantis have zippo good match ups and their hp is quite pathetic. Once Cyclopes of hunters are out you might as well stop using them.
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> Also a fly could fly bye and destroy a bunker, they are not that much of a defensie stand point.
i was surprised by bunkers as well. I was expecting more of a “tank”. Low offense but took awhile to crack it.Next up though… Leader needs to be a grunt zealot in one of those grunt mech suits from H5 warzone. All his units are weak, but… insanely cheap, fast train time and high population caps. It would
His bunker is worthless since it’s destroyed with little to no effort from T1 units, costs too much and takes up population. - His powers affecting turrets and siphon are pretty much worthless. - His Mac is great, but it’s all he has for offense at all, which doesn’t stack up to the multiple powers of leaders like Kinsano, Cutter, Atriox, Decimus… - His Mech powers affect only mechs unlike the global powers of every other leader. - His Mantis at the moment is complete junk outside of the laser painter. - His Colossus is probably worse than the Grizzly, which is also in a bad state. It costs far too much in resource and pop for its effectiveness. It takes far too long to build. It doesn’t work like it’s supposed to as a long-range unit (worse range than Wraith). Not to mention it has a rail gun, so it should be the anti-vehicle unit like the Cobra. - His Digging in Deep power is pretty worthless since it’s the last thing you get and you’ve already got two fully built bases and outposts by then. - Other stuff, but it’s been like two weeks since I played last (I think), so this is all I remember from then. His survivablity and functionality is non-existent compared to Cutter, Colony, Atriox and he’s in the garbage can with Forge as Lego put it.