I'm here to teach you some good ways to survive in Escalation. I'd like to say thanks to Johnny who really inspired me to make another guide. So let's get to it shall we?

1. USE YOUR MONEY WISELY
So your in the middle of a difficult wave and then a Leaper comes. (Good example.) This is a good time to say you should always stash up your Shards. It can come in handy. Now don't go crazy and repair and upgrade everything you see. That's wasting Shards that you can use for another difficult wave. Try and get something that'll have the most effect on enemies as long as it's reasonable. I've always gone for money boxes in the respite (Or 'free time'.) Never go for money boxes in a heavy wave. Focus on the enemies first, and during the respite go for the money boxes.

2. 'Take Cover!'
I sometimes used to rush in during Escalation thinking I could bash all those bots without getting downed. Big mistake. If your under heavy fire, try doing barell rolls or transform and go into maxium overdrive, speeding away from heavy fire. Or use a specific ability (Which I'll get into later.) to help you. Now for Leapers, I've heard and seen players loseplenty of health from a Leaper jumping up and smashing down. (Hint: Before they land jump up and use your 'footpacks' to avoid a Leaper attacking you from a ground smash.

3. Abilities
Abilities will save your life in Escalation. Nearly out of ammo? Ammo Supply ability. Almost out of health? Energon reacharger. Fellow Autobot/Decepticon badly in need of health? Energon burst. Want to sneak up on enemies? Cloak. Abilities are an advantage, but use them wisely. They don't have a cooldown where you can use it again in the same wave, so use it in dire need.

4. Alt Modes are Life-Savers
When your weapons run out of ammo, you can always rely on your alt mode! From my experience, my alt mode (Bumblebee) came with a light and heavy weapon. This is a good last resort choice if your weapons run out of ammo. Then during your respite you can go to a weapons cache to get different weapons.

5. Use Your Enviorment To Your Advantage
Each map has different styles. I like Obsidian since the underground area is a good play to recharge energon and lure enemies into the lava. Each different map has a trap for your enemies, learn to use it to your advantage and you'll be fine. Be careful though, sometimes you might be fooled by a trap. (Lava dosen't like me that much huh?)

6. Watch Others Play!
I've watched Simon Prime (Shoutout to Simon Prime!) play escalation all the time. Quite frankly, I've learned lots from him. The way he uses his characters to his advantage, learning his enemies patterns, and just being Simon Prime! Your can learn lots of things from others, just like I've learned something from Simon. (Again, shoutout to Simon.)

So that's it for now, hope you can learn from this guide. I'll be making many more soon.