Duo Master Crota In Depth Breakdown/Walkthrough

Audio is very quiet. Sorry about that. I'll make sure it's louder next time.

This is my first attempt at editing a video, and I wanted to start with something fun! My goal is to explain absolutely everything about this lowman. I hope this video helps any teams going for a clear.

*Update for Rite of the Nine:
Perma strand surge and new sudden death with trench/one two punch makes the damage very easy for the remainder of this season. Ideally use sudden death with surges for the first two phases and ikelos for last phase (you need the reserves for final stand). Sudden death only works on titan because thread of ascent. I personally believe double titan is better because of this, but that is likely personal preference. Hunter titan is still plenty viable.

**Things I missed:
1. Navigator player should also use remaining frenzied blade charges and pop super during DPS if they miss their grapple. Then use scatter signal after their super ends to get their grapple back if there is still DPS time remaining.
2. At 40:16 there's a note on screen to add an audio clip about Crota not always desyncing. Clearly I forgot to do this lol. Sometimes Crota won't actually desync back to his starting location after a melee cancels his slam animation. I'm not exactly sure what causes either scenario to occur, but I think it depends on how much of Crota's melee animation plays before it is canceled. Just be ready to move for either possibility.
3. If there are no adds to proc synthoes when unstops are spawning, then move to the middle where chalice initially spawns and you will get synthoes from both unstops plus the swordbearer.
4. Navigator player, fusion rifle is not in your DPS loadout because we want navigator equipped when coming out of 3rd phase for final stand. Have fusion rifle right next to your main slot and you will switch to it manually. Alternatively, you can have fusion in your DPS loadout and have a different loadout for 3rd phase.
5. If running hunter titan, and hunter doesn't want to do first sword, then they can use the healing AR to keep them alive. Run perfect paradox and healing AR and switch to a chill clip (or seasonal unstop) weapon when unstops spawn. Thanks to Skater Boy for this as this was not something that I ever considered: ‪@CK-vu2hj‬ **This strat for hunter titan is definitely better than the one addressed in the video.
6. Crota CANNOT be staggered during final stand. This is VERY important, and it sucks that I forgot to mention it because it's the main thing that makes final stand difficult. The damage is mathematically easier than first and second phase, but your juggling has to be on point to keep both players are reasonable hp.

I might reupload with these corrections at some point when I'm not super busy, or I will include them in a full duo master crota's end guide if I ever have time to make that.

Shoutout my goat Titan Skate for letting me use footage of his POV: ‪@TitanSkateD2‬

Loadouts (created in Episode Echoes):
**Note: for the most part, these are still accurate, just swap the tractor player's kinetic weapon to a weapon with unstop from the current seasonal artifact, and add sudden death to the DPS loadouts. Might have to add another loadout for 3rd phase/final with ikelos instead.

Tractor Titan Mechanics - https://dim.gg/ja7htbi/Duo-MCrota-Tra...
Tractor TItan DPS -https://dim.gg/6q55roq/Duo-MCrota-Tra...
Hunter Mechanics - https://dim.gg/svsghrq/Duo-MCrota-Hun...
Hunter DPS - https://dim.gg/sv3c54q/Duo-MCrota-Hun...
Navigator Mechanics - https://dim.gg/vds3xli/Duo-MCrota-Nav...
Navigator DPS - https://dim.gg/tf5jpna/Duo-MCrota-Nav...
Navigator Lion Rampant - https://dim.gg/gyqbuhq/Duo-MCrota-Lions
Rampant loadout is not required if your push to final stand is slow, but I don't think it's worth risking having an early push and still having gordian knot cooldown.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:08 Assumptions
2:46 Loadouts
6:10 Hunter/Titan Class Comp
9:21 Pre First Sword Mechanics
14:26 First Sword
18:38 Post First Sword Mechanics
20:28 1st/2nd Phase DPS Setup
26:02 3rd Phase DPS Setup
27:43 2nd Sword
28:52 DPS Yap Sesh
51:45 Final Stand
57:12 Outro