EVERY KIT IS PLATINUM VIABLE!!! The Angara Avenger Sorority got beat!

Fairly certain Platinum Kit viability depends on the player, not the kit.

Obviously, every kit is playable regardless of difficulty when used competently.

When I see cloak/stealth grid on Plat, I know I'm playing with players that lack confidence. "Beating" them is not an accomplishment.

That said, having played with you, I know you're a good player and I stand by any argument to expand kit variety on all difficulties. I can't stand them cloaking cowards.

A lack of confidence is the general case. But these guys were actually good. They were just "rapid farming" and clearing waves fast. Because, one of them switched and played an excellent Krogaurd on a later game.

Scoreboard lol?

More to the point, any kit can be played on platinum with decent weapons if you have a good player behind the keyboard. In this case, I'd say that this would be too painful if you either aren't hosting yourself or aren't super lucky to get a superb host.

Also, avengers that rely on grenade spam need to try leaving SG at 1 instead of completely gutting their melee ability. Can have 6 SG capacity with either grenade capacity equip or gold power capacity, and still be able to melee berserker to death before the stun from AS wears off.

Originally had SG at 1...switched AS to 1 b4 it was hipster and never looked back...DAT SPEED!

I do need to give AS another go though as my Avenger (XVII) levels up, so does my melee damage.

Ultra Rare character with two of the best Ultra Rare guns viable on Platinum? Why, thanks Captain Obvious!

Kenny, tis been a while, where've you been? you mischievous li'l goat, you, Missed ya.


P.S
Are you just mad/disappointed in this thing called life that you will never be as good as me? bwaahahaha

Generalization only, but if I must spell it out:

Not every infiltrator is a bad player, but most bad players are infiltrators.

To call cakeycheeks platinum viable would mean that she can handle all aspects of platinum. And just like the angara avenger, she is not taking down any progenators by herself. Angara avenger is one of the best "infiltrators" and infiltrators do nothing but basically cheat the game. The entire challenge in the game is negated when someone goes cloak, there is nothing spectacular or amazing about it.

That's correlation, not causation.

Infiltrators present the most benefits than the other classes on Platinum.

Simply because Infiltrators offer better survivability, especially during Objective waves. So what you see is a flooded player base that flocks toward Infiltrators to take on the hardest difficulty in the game, using what benefits the team the most and what gives them a better chance to complete the mission to get that sweet 100,000 credits.

It's like how the Geth Juggernaut was in ME3MP.

Most "bad" players play Infiltrators? Sure, but that's because it gives them the ability to step up to a much higher difficulty than they're used to so that is what you're seeing in your lobbies.

Side note: The "bad" players I've had experience playing with have mostly been Krogan.

The Angara Avenger is a great character for the player playing it but it's very bad for her teammates. 

The dump of aggro is is severely limiting the survivability of the other players. 

I'm glad if I go down only once a wave when I get 3 infiltrators as teammates. If it's only 1 infiltrator, I usually go 2 waves in between going down. 

I consider most players as sissies, they run instead of killing what is in front of them. That in turn leaves the enemy free to kill you while you're not watching your six because you thought you were covered. This increase the difficulty for everyone and infiltrators are a big part of it. 

It was the same in ME3. We all started in the little room on Glacier. We were very bad but we were clearing Platinum more than 50% of the time. Then we started to run around as a group and just kill what was in front of us. We were clearing Platinum much faster this way and we're going down less. We were killing the enemy instead of running for our lives and this made a big difference. Afterward, we went on each soloing our own corner of the map and considerably improved our success and clearing time because no enemy was left alive to kill another teammate by shooting him in the back. 

Infiltrators are good for YOUR survival but they don't really help the team. Everything they can do, you can do with another character without jeopardizing your teammates. The hack is "easy" if players know what to do (stay in the outer area so you can move out of the hack  zone if an enemy comes to close). I even do most of the objectives myself even when I'm saddled with 3 infiltrators... 

I find infiltrators fun to play and great characters overall but they're far from being that efficient on Platinum (Gold and lower is fine). Although I must admit Stealth Grid characters are pretty good on Platinum, it doesn't change the fact their strength comes at the expense of their teammates survivability...

And this often skews the results since you see your teammates dead while you're alive. Those players then believe their character (or themselves) are better while in reality they're the cause by dropping aggro and running. Granted,  nothing can save a bad player but still...

Here's my Avenger build. SG and AS both maxed, and works great on platinum:
6/6/5/6/3
SG: damage, capacity, anti-armor
AS: recharge, flash, disrupting
Grid: power cells, stealth grid
WT: powers & melee, armor & targeting, power specialist
BD: (3)

Use Grenade Capacity booster and have 8 stickies/grids. I ran before with stickies at one, and then AS at one, but this build is the best of both worlds.