What is each infiltrator's niche?

Salsa has the highest damage explosives.

Asari mashes combos. And also has stealth grid, which is very good defensively.

Turkey is either very support oriented (blinding heat + the tech debuff), or very gun oriented (visor) or somewhere in between.

Angara is just overall most versatile - stealth grid makes it very survivable, stickies give it burst/AoE, avenger strike gives it CC/mobility/fun. It's basically the infiltrator that does everything well except combos.

Human... don't really see a niche. It's sort of like a beta version of the Angara.

keeping scrubs alive by dumping aggro on their teammates, that's mainly what I see cloak/stealth grid used for

Spike damage potential and objective/reviving to offset general scrubbiness is ok I guess

It's pretty pathetic most people need an avenger to do platinum.

Ok I'll jump off my high horse now

Hoomans get nice DR from combat fitness, they feel almost tankier than krogan without even mentioning the ability to dump aggro

The Salami has a nice powerset but his passives are somewhat lacking (tech synergy does little for him) still he has stickies and ED so he's not bad by any means

Turban Agent is pretty strong. Wallhack is nice enough at 1; no need to invest further, flamethrower is meh but it's debuff is helpful and dot is okay I guess

Stealth grid is stealth grid... best utility power in the game. Angery with stickies, or Huntress for detonations

FFS though, if there's already 2 stealth kits in the lobby pick something else so non-stealthers don't get shot to pieces. If I see one more plat lobby with 3 avengers I'm going to suffocate someone's mother with an anime body-pillow

Hold the line, mainly, and various other regeneration bonuses that mean you can more easily survive repeat surprises than the other infiltrators. Strong weapons passives combined make the human infiltrator steady, reliable, and robust. Shield reset and saving barrier do not do nearly as well, and the bio-electric defense passive on the avenger does not cover you reliably. If you are out of stealth the human infiltrator is still a very tough soldier class, while the other characters are much more squishy casters and susceptible to attacks.

There are no niches for infiltrators. They all behave more or less the same.



Exactly - except for overpowered. In ME3, infiltrators were powerful, but it was usually the combination of Tactical Cloak and other passives/powers that made them OP. In ME:A, infiltrators are only overpowered in their ability to dump aggro. They are outperformed by many other kits when it comes to DPS, not to mention debuffs are much more useful in platinum than cloak.

I think we'll agree Platinum is made artificially harder by the tendency to rely on too much cloak/stealth.

Tech Synergy does little for the salami?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Step 1: Cloak
Step 2: Quickly Toss 2 stickies
Step 3: Break cloak with your gun to get a 100% power damage bonus on the stickies and a 120% bonus (90 cloak+ 30 tech synergy) to your gun shots
Depending on your playstyle, whenever your cloak is recharging, you can constantly have a 30% weapon bonus.
You've also got team drain to heal your squadmates.

Turban agent is meh?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
With tech sabotage and blinding heat, you can reduce damage of violent hordes by 80% for an eternally long time with a quick li'l spray. Spec that flamethrower for reach. Your platinum teammates will luv you eternally.

You might get lucky and get the bonus on one grenade if timed exactly right (ONLY if you have chosen the rank 6 two extra second evo), but you do not typically get the cloak damage bonus on stickies.

Well, i typically get the bonus on TWO STICKIES. I also use a shotgun on my salami and fight close range. If you're perched on the map's end with a sniper, taking your sweet ass time aiming, you most probably missed the window, and the sticky exploded before you broke cloak. In any case, if you're not getting the bonus on 2 stickies, you need to GIT GUD! 

I use a shotgun on salami and fight close range on platinum. Build 6,6, 1 (energy drain), 6 (tech synergy), 6 ( shield reset).  A shield reset every 10 secs,  energy drain every 12 secs and cloak. The guy never drops with this build. Energy drain serves its utility for him with 1 point. He can almost constantly maintain a 30% gun bonus from tech synergy, cloaked or not. From what you mentioned, the human infiltrator sacrifices a powerful tool "incinerate" and all its damage potential....Ahem.....

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The Asari's niches are in mainly the lower region, near the bottom.