Crutch History

Piranha GI, original Plat crutch: don't know how many games I went before I finally used something else on Plat, but it was alot

I still have my cruch. Huntress with the claymore. Whenever my gold lobby turns to platinum, you will see switch character to my asari goddess.

For six months after release it felt like I only had two guns: jack and shit.

But in seriousness, I liked playing Human Soldier and ran the Mattock and killed a mouse. Got Claymore at halfway decent level and used that on a lot of characters, first Soldier and SI mostly. Used it on GI alternating with GPS.

Ran Valiant on SI a bit when White-Geth-Gold farming was 90% of available matches. Then ran Krysae whenever dropped into one of those until it was nerfed. Black Widow for a lot of infiltrator games, then finally Javelin after I got it at a halfway decent level.

Really never ran Reegar all that much in team games. Used it in various solos though, especially with Kroguard.

Harrier Human Soldier was another one I was able to finally run after it unlocked (which was a couple weeks after Earth DLC).

Destroyer with obligatory Typhoon and Piranha with Glacier-Cerberus-Platinum farming, and then lot of other platinum games (back when I was nearly only doing platinum in MP).  Whole lot of Javelin GI as well.

As far as my go......vanilla Asari adept with the paladin pistol or the FQI w Black Widow or Javelin. If I have had several bad matches in a row...then I will switch to Acolyte Slayer w incid ammo and preset a Glacier match vs Cerberus or Reapers and take out my aggression on them that way.

First crutch was AA with Carnifex.

Then there was GI & SI + whatever.

And the hardest crutch to avoid was FBWGG. Holy mackerel, that was annoying! So hard to find a non FBWGG game for so long!

Power creep provided the rest of the crutches.

Come to think of it, ME3MP was basically the Special Olympics.