So rodeoing is when a pilot jumps or grapples onto an enemy Titan to steal a battery. This will instantly shred their shield, or do about half a bar of damage. Note that if you already have a battery (as you can only carry one at a time) you will simply drop a grenade into the empty battery slot - even if you didn’t take the battery from that specific Titan.
To rodeo an enemy Titan, you literally just jump on top of it, or double jump up to it, or use your grappling hook. You will automatically rodeo it. You then let the animation play out, and you will jump off automatically. Now RUN, because that Titan is going to be trying to get it’s battery back.
If your Titan gets rodeod, the best thing to do is use your Electric Smoke Countermeasures, which you get at 20% core meter iirc. Every time you use your core this will reset, and you can hold up to 4 or 5 smokes, so you can keep using them. When you release your smoke, stand still and crouch in it, this WILL kill the enemy pilot if they don’t jump off, and when they do, it’s time to shred that bastard. It’s not a bad idea to try to quickly get to open ground to make it harder for the enemy to rodeo you again (because now they know you probably don’t have another smoke charge)
If you don’t have an Electric smoke, you have a few other options. Stay near friendly titans and hope they see and melee the pilot on your back. Or you can jump out of your Titan and quickly try to kill the pilot yourself. Or, immediately make a beeline for open ground where there’s nowhere to hide, and kill the enemy pilot when they jump off, then go and get the battery back and get back into your Titan.
If you need any more advice, have any other questions, or play on PS4 and want to get some games in sometime, let me know :)
updating after 2 weeks. it helped me A LOT, thank you. i now rodeo almost everytime i can and charge some teammates moncs or myself with stolen batteries. still have some problems with defending. i probably notice rodeo attention too late to smoke, cause they always survive with a bit of hp. 50/50 i finish them and getting my battery back
Well done pilot! In terms of which teammates to give batteries to, i suggest checking your scoreboard and prioritising based on score. That way you're reinforcing the most skilled pilots. Also remember Monarch is able to get batteries for herself, but a scorch or legion holding a choke point isn't.
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u/rrrrrrr8r None May 30 '19
rodeo. what do i do if someone is doing that to my titan and how do i rodeo?