I’m trying to help my friend get into play the top tier air rb in this game recently. My friend wants me to give him a advise about what should a beginner learn first. Personally I would say that is the notching. I said notching is the core of the top tier but he then said lots of people start shooting each other‘s missiles down without doing notching. So I’d like to know what you think is the most important top tier air battles tactics(and if possible, I’d like to hear suggestions from gaijin’s staff🙏and thanks for everyone who gives me a comment).
its not super consistent, realistically the best way to dodge a missile is to
not have one fired at you in the first place,
the next best is to run behind terrain,
then comes notching/chaff,
then shooting down the missile with your own missile or trying to evade the missile with funky maneuvers
realistically using a missile to shoot down a missile kinda a waste of a missile and only good as a last resort
not getting a missile shot at you in the first place is like 50% luck and 50% what map youre on, so that 1. you manage to go somewhere where nobody is actively looking at your and 2. nobody else is doing the same thing as you in the same place
You usually give up positioning by doing this.
Proper positioning.
For starters, not rushing like headless chicken to the middle of the map to die in furball will drastically improve your friends experience.
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Survival.
I watch some videos…most of them tell us to win side climb straggler fights → proceed to shoot missiles from the flank.
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Positioning, notching mechanics as well as understanding radar modes and what to use when.
Judging by some of the things gaijin does, they’re not the best people to learn from.
Most are just as good as your average wt player if they even play the game at all.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTspOs0aF18cKZo3CXSjzdqnMUWybDWVX
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA1jnfeSypRyJ_xHsAhS_B9VI06ac62vN
Both of these playlists should be good
what he have ?. top tyer its not same for all jets.
how fast do you finish stragglers fight, to make a flank move?
Thanks for your advise bro ,your analyse is critical and clear.
To say the truth,I feel deeply concerned about today’s Chinese forum,with this new mechanism,many player Give up the normal notch skill and use anti-missile tactics in air RB,leading to the change of The environment,Especially in 14.7,they don’t care about correct attack-defense routine,instead,they just fly directly,Hoping to get protect from multiwave and shoot down missile.The consequence is that lots of them can only get killed by 2+ high energy missile,and only get score by shooting down missiles.As we checkout their play history,most of them can only reach0.5KD and they still want argue us(player with better K/D and K/R)with"proper tactic"because they think they can fight against us with this method by consuming more Fox3 msl shot by us(we always stay high and execute BVR battles)
Now this tactic has become one of the most controversial topics in CN,the new player blamed us,who want them to improve skill through notch training,as"AIR RB Brahmin"and"remnants of feudalism",only because they think anti-missile tactics will give them chance to beat us and reduce our K/R
That’s extremely ironic,buddy,but that’s what top air Rb player in China facing now.
Thanks for your suggestions,i will show your reply in BiliBill and QQ,wish you all the best:)
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i mean dont take my word as gospel, Im a relatively average air rb player and have kinda been avoiding top tier air rb for a little bit, and as beeschurger said
which is a big part of both allowing for the best firing solution and having a good chance for the enemy to not necessarily see you in the first place until youve started firing missiles and part of that is being patient and relaxing and not rushing into the middle of the map (as beeschurger also said)
ok,thank you sir,I totally get you.Your description is precise and logical