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Originally Posted by =Martin=Taylor=
If you do pull off climb+dump and you do it quickly, like 15~20s, and you can score in auto +18 that's 68 points and it leaves most of the match open to focus on stopping the other alliance.
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I feel like this is entirely backwards. Any good 50 point climber will have a target on its back; defenders would do well to prioritize tying them up. You're not going to have much time to play defense yourself if you're up against good defenders ...and/or against 2 of them, which is not unlikely in quals as one opposition shooter scores and 2 defenders bog down the Climber and allied traffic. I know we'd be more than happy to trap a 50-point climber in one of the dead zones they'd want to move through, and I'd also be psyched to go head-to-head with 2 bogged down shooters while my allies play D.
In short, if you're a 50-point climber and want to play valuable defense as well (particularly in elims), you better start preparing yourself to be an actual
defender. Unprepared robots on D is rough enough; doing it unprepared with a target on your back is nuts.
TL;DR: Seriously, climbers -- I know at least half a dozen teams at my first event alone who would be more than happy to make you spend the
entire match just struggling to get to those colored disks and back to the pyramid.