Monster Killer Duo?

A buddy and I would like to make a Monster Killer duo on the blue side. What combo or pair would do best when built to take down monsters?

Ill/Rad and Ill/Cold.

Ill/Rad and Ill/Arrow is also nasty. I've got this combo with a friend of mine and we just facemelt through everything. (Especially now since my friend has perma PA so mine is just supplemental damage.)

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Many controller pairs can kill giant monsters, so long as one of the secondaries has some -regen. It depends on which set and what pets you have available, though -- some will be easier than others.

I played half of an Earth/Storm and Plant/Rad duo that started killing GMs for fun and badges in the mid 30s. Animated Stone makes a surprisingly good tank with some buffs. The only major problem was endurance, we were sucking down blue insps like crazy.

Was also able to take out Jurassik and Adamastor while dual boxing a pair of fire/kins, could probably get most of the rest but haven't tried yet. Spamming transfusion, FS, and siphon power reduces its damage and regen to manageable levels.

Illusion is the obvious choice though, because PA can't be killed. If you can get it perma or overlap with another troller, you basically win automatically so long as you can debuff its regen.

A tanker or brute paired with a defender or corruptor might also be a good way to go.

Make one a Crab and make the other the coffee boy to replensih the Crab's drinks when they run out.
You don't need -regen when you have all that damage :P

I've duo'd most GMs with my Rad/Sonic defender and a range of other toons from my second account but brutes, scrappers and MMs seem to be the easiest. Alt-tabbing between the two accounts can be a pain though

From Defenders a duo of Rad/Son, Trap/Sonic, or Cold/Sonic can pretty well melt any hard target very quickly.

Double Traps is very nice as with just FFG and Hover/Combat Jumping you and your partner are capped to everything. At that point you can just worry bout max recharge so that you can spam shriek/scream and lay down mortars and pgt.

You should be able to after the 1st minute of the battle be able to keep up 3 stacks of -res from Sonic each. That is -60% res each. Have two Acid mortars out each. That's 53.2% resist each. One of those Mortars should be able to keep an Achilles proc up at all times for another 20% minus res. Nothing is going to last long in the face of that. Even if you didn't have the -res you get to flatline regen with your pgt's

Bots/Dark is another good one, plenty of -Regen there. I've soloed GMs on mine.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Like the OP said, we're shooting just for Hero side. Looks like illusion/rad + whatever is what it's going to be.
Thanks again.

Rad/Sonic Defender and pretty much any melee character will do nicely.

My Rad/Sonic has duoed GMs with my wife's tank, her scrapper, and my buddy's scrapper.

I've soloed a couple with him too, but having a partner just makes it go so much faster.

I'd pair a Rad/Sonic Def or a Traps/Sonic Def with a scrapper of choice, or a Sonic/MM Blaster.

The duo with the melee alt will be a tad safer, but the duo with the blaster will be a LOT faster with all the extra damage and -regen and -res.

What I like about this duo is it's a 'no pets needed' duo. Won't need temp pets, or Lore pets. Just the duo alone. Should be able to start offing GMs well before 50 assuming you IO out early.

Edit: FYI, since you specifically mentioned blue side, and I didn't want to assume you wanted or were able to side swap, I limited my choices to blue side alts.. But, I don't think any other duo is going to be much better than this pair even if you opened it up red side ATs.