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@quickgaming Scorponok is no good for destroying the many blocks that make up a significant portion of your overall score in the Spark Run.

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If people are having trouble with missiles, I’d suggest using any of the Grimlocks before I’d use a bot like Galvatron, Shockwave or Scorponok.

Personally, I haven’t really felt like the new abundance of missiles in the Spark Run has been all that big of a problem to begin with.  My current lineup is Blaster, Ultimate Megatron* (see comments below), Nemesis Prime, and Ratchet.

Many of you probably feel that Deadend is a notable omission from my list! Here’s my rationale:

1) My complaints with Deadend, despite his obvious strengths

– It’s pretty hard to get his two back-to-back shots to hit different targets from each other

– I don’t love how he has a long pause between pairs of shots

– It’s pretty difficult to destroy all targets (I inevitably leave behind some stone blocks if there are a lot of them in  a given stage).

2) With Blaster and UM, I’m destroying pretty much everything I come across. Maybe UM leaves a few WMTs alive here and there.

3) Nemesis and Ratchet both have issues with WMTs and helipigs, but they destroy everything else rather easily. (They also happen to be my only two fully-promoted bots. UM and Deadend are both close, and I’m working on Blaster now.)

4) Nemesis is clearly my preferred choice over both Ratchet and Deadend, because he just destroys all blocks SO easily. Using him is very low-stress for me, in part because I simply accept that I’m not going to be destroying any WMTs or helipigs (except the boosted ones, ironically), so I don’t worry about even targeting them. I just try to avoid WMT fireballs, and I use zen to accept the damage of kamikaze helipigs.

(Note: It’s important to equip Nemesis with his Acid Rounds accessory, otherwise he doesn’t destroy all stone blocks.)

5) I go back and forth between preferring Ratchet and Deadend as my fourth bot, but it rarely matters, because I’m usually able to complete the Spark Run with only Blaster and UM. So I’m sticking with Ratchet for now, since he’s 10% more promoted than Deadend.

*Despite being nerfed a few months back, Ultimate Megatron still destroys almost everything, when equipped with the Armada (+25% gravitational force) and Flail (acid rounds) accessories.

(Note: I think it’s Flail that’s the more important piece of the puzzle, but I haven’t tried using him without Armada, so I can’t say for sure.)

But anyway:

– UM can take out WMTs if you’re patient.

– The blast radius of his weapon is good enough to take some missiles down even when you don’t directly hit them (i.e. if you hit blocks near the missiles, as they get close to you). That being said, missiles are definitely his biggest weakness.

– He’s GREAT against helipigs.