How is the 8.7 matchmaker for air?

Yeah I wanted to spade all my french planes but those BRs are such a pain to play I just gave up for anything above 7.7 and below 10.0

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Most of the 8.7 planes are good, or generally strong if youre good. There are a few exceptions of course.

The 15bis is under br.
The mig 17 is good/great at 8.7. Typically, i can avg 3.3 kills with it.

The 8.7 match maker is good for (most) 8.7 planes right now. 9.7 isnt a big deal, as there usually arent many harriers, T2s etc.

I am a F2 sabre main, this is a session from last night. ~15 games.

If youre playing fighters, the F2, 17, and 13A are the strongest 8.7s for now.

imo 8.3 > 9.3 is an easier range. You can generally keep up with far more planes.




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My problem is with the mig17 more than anything else. The bis can keep up with 9.3 planes but the mig17 gets sucked into 9.7 undodgable missile brs which is an issue. Now with the sraam buff when a harrier looks at me funny am dead.

Also duh ofc you are doing well
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Well, gameplay there is to not let them behind you.

Unfortunately sometimes you explode and thats it. Forced into position where die is only thing that can happen.

well yeah. My point is even at 8.7 with up tier games you can still do good.

Its been a bit since ive played the 17. Mobile view unfortunately removes a lot of info lol


lovely :)

I just get focused down by lightnings every match and die

You’ll get there. Dont beat urself up over a 0 kill game.
Espeically if youre in a stock jet.

Ill try

maybe try some low pressure joke jets like the skyhawk, there’s zero pressure to perform and if I die to an f2 or a mig 15, I don’t beat myself up over it, there’s just very little chances for me to beat those even with a good starting position.

This game isn’t worth stressing yourself over.

When I get mad I just hop in the gripen e to get some kills. I got like a 20 kd session in it somehow lmao. But it feels bad when I see everyone talk about how good a plane is only for me to suck in it

Even then, the Mig-15bis is one your best planes regarding to success when I checked your stats. So what?

Mig-17 was 9.0 1 1/2 year ago, with the same bad matchmaker.

Agreed it is

yea it is

tbh they just need to do decompressions at 11.0 and below but i think we all know they wont because there more focus on making money and adding more top tier jets in stead of fixing lower BR brackets witch is dumb as fuck and they u wonder why a lot of new people be quitting tbh they need to fix this damn game and put quality over prophet for at least 2 months to make it easer to play and grind but they wont


best one is defo the 8.0 one. Also me being good ish at the game doesnt excuse for bad balance. So what if my stats are good in the mig15bis.

At a certain point it means you are removing variance and beginning to have impact on your matches, even in up tiers.

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could you try out the mig17 if you can for a while ? Then tell me any tips that could be helpful for the current matchamker. You seem like a good player id love to learn from you

I played 8 games like, last week.

Honestly it isnt much different than the bis, just have to play a little differently in the up tiers (not letting planes with fuck you missile behind you) (so just playing a little more passive)

Just conserve energy, pick fights, and try to have good impact on the matches.

I can play like, 10-15 games when i get home i suppose. Though ill probably be “bad” since its been a while with the guns.

My main problem is the speed. When uptiered (which is msot of the time) people can just outrun you which is bad not only bc enemies can run away and also bc teamates just reach enemies before you do. I have had times where I am on a dive to someone and the guy that turn later than me gets to him first and kills the enemy.

such is the way in uptiers. You can only do so much.

in the 17, i usually get kills mid to late
vs
in f2 sabre, i get kills early all the way into late

If i feel like playing it, ill play maybe few games. We’ll see

Is the sabre just better