Over the past few years, I’ve found that SV is generally better (for me) in arenas and MM is better in BGs. I’m not doing arenas this season but I really enjoy SV, so I’ve been playing it in BGs as well and having a lot of fun. But my damage is usually avg 40K below the MM hunters which is not particularly surprising to me.
Is there a way to get better DPS parity with the MMs on SV in BGs, or is this just the way of things?
Damage tells a pretty poor story in bgs if your goal is to win. Rogues can have far more an impact on a game’s outcome by stealth capping, harassing flag carriers before they get to the flag, things like that. SV has more ability to do rogue-like things than MM as you have very high mobility, and tools to help control the game.
To catch up with MM damage would mean jumping into melee with all the cleave going on and it’s not going to be the most impactful place on the map you could be.
Try to learn enjoying running down classes that can’t easily be run down, stalling, using tools to slow half a teamp, ninja capping, holding a base off of multiple defenders. These are all types of things SV can do it it feels great. It just doesn’t show up in that first column of the scoreboard.
Those are great points. I am playing the objective and benefiting from the SV kit which is probably why I’m having fun. I probably shouldn’t be paying attention to the damage numbers.
You could be one of the top dmg in charts as SV before the removal of serpent sting, by spamming bombs and serpent sting in teamfights(epic BGs mostly, and other BGs if you keep midfighting), however I’m not sure how good their dmg is now. It is still good I guess, I just dont have enough experience to speak on it in TWW.
However, dmg isnt everything. SV has so much nice kit for both teamfights and objectives. For examplle, SV hunters annoy the hell out of me as an MM hunter. Hehe.
I do miss applying serpent sting via multi-shot, or even later versions where you can spam it from range. Now you can only apply it to one target at a time via raptor strike / mongoose bite.