User blog comment:Sperez2012/Mass Effect 2: Squad Talk/@comment-1388547-20120705213426

Ah, ME2. That takes me back. :-)

My squadmate choice in ME2 depended very much on the mission -- or, more specifically, on the type of enemies I'd face. I usually played on Insanity, so everybody had defenses to deal with. As a matter of preference, I also almost always use squadmates who specialize in long-range combat, even if my current Shepard is a close-range fighter, so I don't have to worry about positioning them.


 * Against enemies with shields (Blue Suns particularly) I liked to bring as many anti-shield abilities along as I could. I'd typically bring Garrus if I knew there weren't going to be many enemies with armor or barriers, or Miranda if I wanted a more general-purpose squadmate.  If I didn't have squad disruptor ammo myself, I'd always bring Zaeed so he could share his.


 * For mercs with other protection types (Eclipse, Blood Pack), I'd typically bring Miranda for Warp/Overload, and a squadmate to provide the appropriate ammo power if I didn't have it myself -- squad disruptor ammo (Zaeed) for Eclipse, squad incendiary ammo (usually Grunt) for Blood Pack. If I already had the ammo power I wanted on Shepard, I'd pick somebody else I thought might be useful -- often Garrus or Thane for long-range damage dealing.


 * On Tuchanka, I always brought Grunt and Mordin, for role-playing reasons.


 * The main plot missions were very definitely special cases. On Horizon, I almost always brought Miranda and Grunt -- Miranda for Warp, and Grunt for survivability, since the Collectors hit pretty hard.  On the Collector ship, I swapped out Miranda in favor of Thane,, since Thane still has Warp but is a better damage dealer.  For the derelict Reaper, I almost always chose Grunt/Jacob, for pure survivability; both of them are pretty good tanks, and there's a lot of close combat.  For the Collector base, there's a lot less incoming damage, so I generally focused on biotic damage dealers -- Thane/Samara often, or sometimes Thane/Grunt again.