Duo Advice

Getting a 2nd account for my 9 year old son. He want to duo team and is thinking of a fire/fire scrapper.

So my question what is the best partner for him? Ice corrupter? Storm/Ice defender? Ice Controller?

Any suggestions welcome for good duos or fire/ice duos.

Minor warning: Fire is one of the less defensive sets for a scrapper. He might get a little frustrated if he dies too often.

That said, a Defender, Controller, or Corruptor with any of the powersets that have ally shields to hand out and/or healing will do a fine job of keeping him alive. The choice between the three is really up to what you feel like.

For a Scrapper, I would go with a Defender and possibly a Corruptor.

What a Fire scrapper needs is Defense, Recharge and any debuffs that you can throw out.

Ice Domination comes to mind, but just about any good Defender set will improve the toughness of a scrapper, especially a resist based one like Fiery Aura.

A couple of interesting team-ups come to mind though :

Fire/Fire scrapper and Fire/Thermal corruptor (or Fire/Thermal controller) OR...

Fire/Fire plus Ice/Cold corruptor (or Ice/Storm controller)

A Fire and Ice team sounds pretty cool actually.

A corruptor sounds like a good idea - buffs/debuffs and a reasonable damage level. I'd look at /thermal, /rad, /dark /kin as I'd second the notion that a fire/fire will need support - great fun, lovely damage, but not a lot of mitigation

Bots/FF mastermind!

Both start in Gold side

While this is here, I'm also in need of Duo advice:

I'm getting my lady to play and she's really digging the Archery set, probably an Archery/EM blaster for simplicity in learning the game. My immediate thought is "Roll a Tank!" but doing so I wouldn't be able to keep her alive if she did some errant moves early on. Any suggestions? I'm fluid with just about every AT and powerset, just never had to cover many Blasters before.

Oh man, Electric Control/TA support - I have one and it flat out rocks.

My buddy and I run a fire/ice duo and they are a lot of fun. He has a fire/fire scrapper and I run a Ice/FF controller for support. The shields in FF do a great job of filling the holes in firey aura. This team is a blast to play, have fun!