Fixer vs no fixer

The ONE person unable to replenish health at the rate of everyone else IS the fixer in almost all cases. If you cannot direct fire at the fixer first, then you're up against a really good fixer who knows how to position himself in a way that his team can rush in to support, OR your team has not gotten the message. Yellow boats are your best friends here, they can block heals. DO NOT BREAK STUNS, they block 100% healing above a certain level.

I've fought and won against double fixer teams(mk6+mk5, four-five times till date) and I take out fixers every day in tilted matches. It's the aggression you gotta step up, instead of thinking of it as a handicap, think of it as a challenge.

 

It's all in the timing. I have 3800- HP as a speeder, I flank from the rear. Most of the time, in tilted matches, it's me facing down a defender with 5 digit HP values backed by a pocket medic(fixer). I handle this by bursting the defender, stunning him, and taking as much of the fixer's health as possible. When the defender wakes up, the fixer is preoccupied with fixing him up. I hide, and jump back in, taking down the fixer in one fell swoop.

I literally have been left at 2 digit HP values after this maneuver, but I can go down knowing I got the fixer. And gave the defender a 3000 HP tummyache.

 

A "spearhead" offensive works very well in an all shooter perspective, when you take flank routes to get to the enemy. Besides, the win rate for 1v0 fixers is actually LESS than 50% as said by @Miika. Which means you LITERALLY have more chances of losing with a fixer on your team.

 

I play as an enforcer. I do not lone wolf when the other team has a fixer.

I use the battle commands, and tell the team to follow me, and will repeat this a couple of times at key points (eg just about to round a corner). I actively try to drag the team up the battlefield quickly into aggressive positions.

Sometimes the team follow me, sometimes they don’t. However, I’ve done my part, and so if we lose, I lose knowing that I actively tried as hard as I could to implement a strategy that can win.

If team split up, well you’ve probably lost. However, if your team split up, regardless of whether there’s a fixer or not, you’ll probably lose anyway as the other team will probably be able to focus fire better than your team. It isn’t the fact that the other team had a fixer that made you lose, it’s the fact that you didn’t work co-operatively that made you lose.

 

I play enfo as well(made Ace 2 individually in that ship this season) and this strat is what I use as well. As I said before, fighting uphill means there is more of a chance your team will follow orders. As an enfo, knowing I can outdamage and effectively undo the fixer's healing in a burst gives me the confidence to command my squad.

 

Here is a battle that I played this morning that I think demonstrates how to play on non-fixer team v fixer team. Watch it from my perspective.
https://replay.battlebay.net/RJZSMCDB#BQNCDPFM

 

On average then, fixers will lose infamy when they are the only fixer in a match. If there is an equal number of fixers on each team, the total infamy attributable to fixers would remain the same.

It begs the question, how do fixers gain infamy? is it when there is 2v1, 2v0?
If you are a fixer, is your best opportunity to fleet with another fixer?

 

Some Fixers gain it, some lose. Also, even I don't play Fixer 100% of the time (although it's pretty much 99% for me) so some players might win a game or two as a more favored class, then switch back to Team Lawnmower.

No, because two Fixers on a team is actually a significant weakness against a 0-fixer team. You're way down on firepower, and unless your team really gels together, you just get outgunned.

 

If that’s the case, I’m not really sure how Fixers get any infamy then. They have less than 50% win rate when being the only fixer in match (see comment from The AntiSnipe based upon stats from devs), they overall must balance when there’s an equal number on each side, and lose when it’s a 2v0 situation. Poor fixers. Lol.

 

Don't misquote me, I said the actual stat is for one fixer vs zero fixer. Read @CaffeinatedChris 's post on this thread to see the actual quote. Plus, a statistic is not really an accurate way to put it. I just wanted to say that there is a close-to-50/50 chance of winning even when there is no fixer on your team, thus matchmaking needs no tweaks in that aspect.

 

Those quotes were pulled from a specific player and set of matches - Miika did some number-crunching in response to a player saying the same thing (matches with 0 fixers vs 1 fixer is unfair) so it doesn't necessarily represent everyone. I can also tell you my winrate is over 50% (although not by much) and not every 2v0 (or 2v1, or 3v1!) is a loss. If the team with fewer Fixers doesn't play it right, or lacks the ability to finish the job, a couple double-pulsing Mk6 Fixers will undo all of your hard work in a very short period of time.

 

Sorry, I’m not sure how I have misquoted you? You said that “the win rate for 1v0 fixers is actually less than 50%”. I put that into my own words and said “they have less than a 50%win rate when being the only fixer in the match”. Anyway, no offence intended. I’m off to hunt for CaffeinatedChris’s thread to understand more.

 

https://forum.battlebay.net/threads/this-is-not-a-fair-matchup.12470/page-2#post-49931

There's your source for the comment. Read the whole thread for context though.

 

Thanks for your help. (Very salty) thread read and understood.

 

No, sorry, I meant misinterpreted...(jeez, english is gonna be the death of me). You're reading into it as a guarantee when it is no more than a match stat for a cartain player. You could say that if you had a 49% winrate, you are likely to lose your next match, but that simply isn't how it works, is it?

Anyhow. I guess you got the answers you were looking for?

 

Yes, I understand now. Thank you both for your help.