I get the feeling that jump has some strong counters to veh. Black holed fencers can't shoot, and ripper is not effective against pyro due to pyro's high HP for a raider and pyro's ability to jump, which ripper is bad at tracking.

Is it really pyro's performance that's the problem or could it be ripper's performance that's the problem? Or both?

Ripper is quite decent vs light raiders because its high alpha and aoe combine into reasonable stopping power. It sucks vs heavy raiders because its single-target DPS, health, and range seem poor.

Randy seems to really like using Ripper with Fencer, so do i. But also i wasn't saying "really good", merely "quite decent". I'm fine with quite decent. If it was also quite decent vs Pyro and Blitz, i would be happy.