Rate land-raiders ordinally. Give reasoning if you've got it.
1) - Duck
Wet map domination. Raider standoff domination vs. so much. Good vs. any air that happens to slow down around them. A bit bi-modal in performance, but when it's good it's great, and when it's bad you build something else.
2) - Scorcher
Scorchers exert the most raider pressure in the game. Defines flat maps meta.
3) - Glaive
Possibly highest skill cap raider. Enormous unconditional damage. Best all-round unit at raider role, but HP weighting gives a larger number of hard counters than normal (200dmg bursters). Utility scales well with player skill.
4) - Flea
Best ultra-light unit. Feels more like a factory mechanic that disallows opponent from having unguarded territory. Would be OP in a number of other factories.
5) - Bandit
Straight up weaker than glaive, but is far less punishable. Is worse at raider role, but better against everything that counters raiders. Greater raider to learn with as is forgiving.
6) - Pyro
Very powerful role combination of riot/raider. Is basically immortal vs. most facs assuming micro godhood. Falls short due to poor followup from JJ factory, and it being difficult to get repair happening in the early game when your economy is somewhat skeletal. Another high skill-cap raider.
7) - Scythe
Conditionally enormously powerful, but those conditions are difficult to predict. Is weak to raiders in general, but is brutal in their absence.
8) - Kodachi
Good at making cost, but not that great at map control. Expensive and unreactive. Treads on panther's toes by lighting it on fire.
9) - Panther
Good at making cost, but applies very little pressure for cost. Treads on kodachi's toes by chain exploding.
10) - Dagger
Very fast and bursty, but cedes raider superiority almost automatically. Just too weak for cost.
11) - Puppy
Can negate incoming forces pretty well. Can grey goo to deny metal. But not great at having a positive impact on the game.
12) - Dart
Really just a bad weight. Has good LOS, but is almost strictly worse than flea. Rarely useful outside of the first batch of units produced.
Thoughts?