AvP2 Tiers, i played this glitchy mess competitively for 6+ years… don’t ask why. overall it was Human > Pred > Alien, but i decided to split the classes down into tiers… I wont include the exosuit, queen, facehugger or chestburster since they were only usable with the correct settings and were never used in tournaments anyway.
Top Tier
Ichiro- gets the 2 best weapons on the game rail cannon a scoped sniper rifle that will 1-hit kill regardless of hit location, theres an exploit that allows the rail cannon to be rapid fired as fast as you can click your mouse and grenade launcher that can stock multiple types of grenades including stun and homing smart bombs, stupid stupid combination of weapons able to deal with any other class/race in the game with ease.
Dunya- also gets the rail cannon second weapon however is the flame thrower so not as good as Ichiro.
Rykov- gets the grenade launcher, pulse rifle and shotgun. very well rounded can fight at any range grenade launcher is awesome and pulse rifle is able to fire grenades in a straight line and is very good to even without exploiting the stagger glitch.
High tier
Ivan- gets the grenade launcher but his other weapons are poor and have the same role (flamethrower and shotgun).
Light Pred- fastest of the pred classes bat also the least hp, gets the spear gun a poor mans version of the rail cannon and remote bombs, remote bombs can take out almost anything in 1 hit but have limited ammo.
Heavy Pred- huge mammoth of a class gets a truck tone of hp but slow and limited to mostly melee weapons, good thing for the heavy pred he can use the speed hop glitch to make him almost the speed of a runner, netgun is also a nice weapon against humans who aren’t packing splash weapons.
Runner- low hp and low melee damage, only placed so high due to its speed giving it the 1 up against the snipers over the other classes, all that extra HP means nothing if you die in 1 hit anyway, runner also gets the most damaging pounce out of all the aliens and the fastest headbite.
Johnson- gets the pulse rifle and flame thrower, the chances of ever running out of pulse rifle ammo are very low so the shitty second weapon is not to bad
Mid tier
Dimitri- Gets the minigun and shotgun, minigun deals huge damage but you cant run while carrying it so if your not carefully you can end up a sitting duck for snipers preds or aliens.
Assault Pred- HP and speed is somewhere between the heavy and regular pred gets Plasma Pistol, shoulder cannon, netgun and remote bombs, shoulder cannon is a decent weapon when fully charged it can 1-hit kill most things has tracking and splash, very easy to run out of ammo and end up with nothing but wrist blades if your not careful
Predator- Has average speed and hp, gets combistaff, disc, plasma pistol and netgun. due to its lower health it cant go toe to toe with aliens in melee like the heavy pred can, netgun is great vs humans but will do little to aliens while the plasma pistol will pretty much shut aliens down while doing nothing to humans, the disc is a scrub killer but is useless against higher level skilled players.
Harrison- Gets the smartgun, another scrub killer has full auto aim but very weak and you cant run with it, can also be problematic for aliens in open maps especially the runner, secondary weapon is the shotgun.
Drone- Average speed, HP, Melee damage weakest pounce in the game, can soak up a bit more pulse rifle or smartgun fire than the runner without sacrificing too much speed still probably best to just stay away from snipers.
Low tier
Jones- poor old jonesy not only dose his weapon layout suck sadar and shotgun but he has a slightly bigger than normal hitbox for a human. sadar is your typical rawcket lawnchair, the rockets come out slow however and don’t really speed up till half way across the map, if your close enough to actually hit something with this then you will probably die in the splash, second fire shoots homing rockets but it takes far to long to lock on to be any use other than occasionally killing some scrub pred who thinks he can get away with camping while cloaked.
Predalien- very slow and not enough hp to compensate, very powerful melee and a good damage pounce but most of the time its a struggle getting in, has no headbite so its hard to recover hp and has a much larger head hitbox than the other aliens.
Shit tier
Praetorian- most HP of all the alien classes high melee damage and runs about the same speed as the drone, has no wall walk or pounce combined with its massive hitbox it has problems getting round the map and cant keep up with the other aliens and since it cant pounce or wall walk it gets killed easy pretty much just a giant sitting duck