Hey yall. So I'm fairly new to this game and my friend and I have been doing some index recently to get my credits up to standard. When I looked it up and asked people, it seems a team comp of 1-2 point carriers and 2-3 damage dealers.

The damage dealers seem to be fairly easy to understand since anybody can deal damage with their weapons, so the frame doesn't matter that much. Of course some are better than others but whatever.

The point carrier thing is confusing. Everyone recommends a frame with an invulnerable ability like rhino, revenant, and nezha. As I am much newer to the game my friend chose to be the point carrier and just let me and our AI teammates do the damaging. My friend however uses Khora, who has no defensive abilities. When I asked my friend about her, he said that she is the only frame that has access to a vacuum without needing energy and thus she can run by points and they'll automatically get picked up, speeding up the process since he can just zoom by. He had died like 2 times in the 30ish rounds we did but we have always managed to get his dropped points back and have never lost a round yet. Our runs have also been far faster than when I enter public lobbies where there is always at least 1 rhino/revenant/nezha. Many of these people are True Masters 1 or 2 so I don't get it.

So I guess my questions after all this rambling are 1: Is the sole reason our runs are so much faster because we are in call together? People in public lobbies ping dropped points to alert the point carriers so I don't really think that's the case since there's nothing else to communicate. 2: Is the tankiness really necessary? My friend had explained the concept of shield gating to me and that sounds like enough defenses. I don't have rolling guard yet since I didn't want him to just buy one for me as I want to earn it myself later on so of course I'll probably find a tanky frame until then (or have him continue being the point carrier since he seems to enjoy it).

Edit: Should mention I run wukong and xaku. I realized that xaku probably helps the survivability aspect for him since I steal guns? but a majority of the time I use wukong who should only do damage right? (Also made questions into new paragraph to spread apart wall of text)