User blog comment:Draen1/How do you use your squadmates?/@comment-1388547-20120508212637/@comment-1388547-20120524053944

I actually just finished a playthrough of ME3 on Insanity with an Adept, and while a high-level Adept can solo most engagements even on Insanity (particularly with Energy Drain as a bonus power), my squadmates were really useful in some of the tighter spots. I had Kaidan and Javik with me for pretty much the whole second half of the game, and it was very handy, especially in the final battle, to have somebody else to do a little crowd control or set up a detonation while I was on cooldown. Kaidan's Overload was also nice; I specialized it as a shield-killer, and it was substantially more efficient than setting up detonations against shielded enemies. Another thing about those two was that they both were able to use assault rifles; I set them up with M-76 Revenants, and they seemed fairly decent at distraction and mop-up while I was tearing through the fresh enemies.