Talk:Liberator/@comment-172.6.80.67-20200424100602

How to put up decent(but no-guarantees) solo, minimum-nanite G2A against an A2G Liberator without spawn room barriers or similar:

You need a good tree to run around, a good standard Amerish tree or something extremely close to it, lock-on rockets, and minimap visibility to the Lib(pilots running Vehicle Stealth make this strat far more challenging). Normally A2G Lib pilots who are confident in their skills will wait to see the trails when a lock appears, and simply rush down the perpetrator. But if you have a tree, and you have minimap visibility, a single Heavy can kite the Lib nearly indefinitely. The tree canopy makes it dangerous to close in too much, and they can't manage the speed to reposition around the skinny tree trunk. Infantry are faster than they are in this one circumstance, which means you can bait them.

So you do that: fire once, pull their aggro, then just watch the map and start playing hide-and-go-seek. Circle around the tree as much as needed to keep them out of LOS. If you get grazed, use a medkit. If literally anyone else at all in the zone is actually putting up resistance(including, say, a second Heavy using the same strat at a different tree), they will have to disengage after a few seconds, and then you lock them again and try for a finisher. The Swarm is the best finisher when they're running since it has the longest range and fastest missiles.

If you have the Hunter and explosive bolts, you may also try to peek and clip their wings while they circle, but that's a considerably more challenging tactic.