I made a "unit hardcounter" chart for this jumpy mirror match.

Saktoth this matchup was determining empirical ability to counter; accounting for micro skill is unfeasible.

-Pyro counters Puppy as Pyro will skirmish away, and any puppies chasing the pyro will naturally clump and all die from the fire. Pyro will always make cost against puppies, regardless of the pyro's survival.

-Placeholder does no damage, so its ability to make cost is determined by how likely it will disable enough enemy metal to "make cost" in at least one of its attacks. Units that can escape the black hole automatically "counter" Placeholder under this definition.

AutoWar

quote: accounting for micro skill is unfeasible

You should assume both parties are micromanaging their units decently otherwise the chart will be meaningless. Some units like Skuttle or Scorcher are completely useless unless carefully micromanaged.

quote: Pyro counters Puppy as Pyro will skirmish away, and any puppies chasing the pyro will naturally clump and all die from the fire.

That might be so in theory, but in practice Puppies often beat Pyros for cost. I don't think one counters the other, it's a micro matchup.

quote: Pyro will always make cost against puppies, regardless of the pyro's survival.

2 Puppies are capable of killing a Pyro and cost a maximum of 100m (could also cost nothing due to being bred from wrecks on enemy territory). A Pyro costs 220m. So how exactly does Pyro always make cost?

And yeah, suicide units are completely worthless against units that cost more than they do. So Skuttle gets hard countered by units like Moderator and Placeholder. Keep in mind it also eats up a lot of energy, decloaks fairly easily and has a lot of damage falloff so it's probably pretty bad against Jack as well.