AT Duo question

Recently came back to the game and brought my girlfriend along with me, its been awhile so figured id ask,

Can anyone suggest two archetypes that work well together? neither one of us are too crazy about melee so i know that may be a problem but, any suggestions will help,

thanks

Saying no melee sort of limits the options.

Defender and a Controller. They can buff each other, double debuff the enemy, the controller can hold some critters at bay while the Defender can blast them at range?

2 masterminds. that's always a good duo. then you can both keep each other alive by whatever buffs/debuffs you both take, and the pets can do the damage.

Fire/Dark Corruptors

Thugs/Dark Masterminds

Just 2 of my favorite pairings I've played before.

Remember folks, with Praetoria, we can recommend a mixed alignment duo.

Well, you want to give your gf something easy: Tab and Shoot. So, a Blaster.

Then, you want an AT to keep her alive and safe: Defender, Controller, Corrupter, MM.

2 Defenders can work really well together.

2 Empaths is beyond good, if you want a themed pair.
Kinetics and Force Field also works very nicely, both filling in each others weaknesses. I played Kin/Elec and FF/Sonic.

Other duos I've enjoyed:
Sonic/Energy Defender and Peacebringer.
Fire/Energy Blaster and Dark/Rad Defender.
2 Fire/Rad Controllers.
2 Energy/Pain Corrupters. (Nowhere near as good as 2 Empaths, and very slow at first.)

Any combination of 2 Controllers/Defenders/Corruptors/Masteminds/VEATs

One thing to remember is that a lot of things that get called "team-unfriendly" around here, like heavy knockback, can actually be great in dedicated duos - the two of you can learn to work together, whereas a PUG is only for a night, so by the time you adapt to the quirks of the others, you're almost finished.

For example, Energy Blast and Storm Summoning have heavy knockback. If there's a melee archetype, especially one with AoE, they're not going to appreciate the scatter you're causing. But in a duo, you can move to opposite sides of a mob and start playing tennis. Or just pick out a handy corner and drive them all into it. Frequent use of sleeps is another mechanic that few people enjoy on teams, but combine a Mind Controller and a Sonic Attack Defender (with, say, Kin and FF split between them as you want), and you can very, very safely incapacitate large numbers of mobs, then take them out one by one.

As a number of others have said, pretty much anything works. Find what's fun for you.

Mind control/Empathy controller and any kind of scrapper/stalker.

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One really great combo is an Earth Controller and a Fire Blaster. Say, Earth/Rad and Fire/Mental. The Earth Controller will lock down large groups and apply -Defense, while the Fire Blaster can send out waves of AoE destruction -- all from range. Plus, the buffs and debuffs (especially -ToHit, -Resistance and -Recharge) from */Rad can really help . . . and Mutation and Fallout for the Blaster if the Blaster does what Blasters usually do.

If you have GR and can start in praetoria: Sonic/Kin Corruptor and Fire/Rad Controller. Buffing damage, heals in and out of melee range, destructive debuffs, and plenty of -resist to tear up the bad guys.

I know the OP mentions that they want to avoid melee ATs, but on redside I've had a great time duo'ing a Brute/Stalker combo.

Any/Any ... where any is not a melee AT. Seriously if you are just looking for a solid pairing for fun it's pretty darn near impossible not to make a duo of whatever/whatever work.

If you want by SO's and beyond to be all but invincible then Emp/Sonic + Emp/Sonic and you'll be looking for stuff that can threaten you at +4/x8. Take em Redside and have a pet each (both pets easily perma with IO builds).

I'd stay away from "two blasters", at least at first. (Also, scrapper/blaster, although you mentioned the no melee thing.) I'd also TEND to stay away from "Two defenders" because the damage is low in almost all cases. Defender primaries (or corruptor/controller secondaries) that I'd recommend for small teams include Rad and Dark. I'd stay away from Force Fields and Sonic in those groups. (note the difference between Rad, Dark and Sonic BLASTS and Rad, Dark and Sonic "defender primaries". The two are not interchangeable.)

I had a lot of fun with my wife running a bunch of pairs- Rad/Sonic defender and MA/SR scrapper being one that comes to mind right now. Dark/Cold defender and Fire/Mental blaster was another one. Dark/Dark defender and Ice/Ice blaster was fun, but I'd recommend the Fireblaster pair myself. Brute/Corr [although Brute is melee] worked well for us.

Really, there's a lot of good pairings and it's hard to go wrong.