Duos Mode - First Impressions

Some of mine, although I need to give it more time until the new meta settles in.

Pros:

• Better, more focused communication and easier coordination (with the right teammate, of course).
• Less loot stealing: once you teammate pings something, there's no second teammate to make your dibbed item disappear.
• More loot available, if only one or no other team lands in the area.
• Better chance to survive if remaining alone (1v2 versus 1v3).

Kons:

• Less abilities available for the team, as there's no third legend.
• Reviving is very risky, since there's no one defending.
• The mode is less about strategy an more about chance, fights need to be short as there's a lot more third partying, while landing on a weak weapon when dropping hot almost guarantees the elimination.
• If there's little compatibility between the teammates or their goals, team power is gone for good. In trios, there's at least a majority and minority, a team rarely splits into 3 solos. Going from 3v3 to 2v3 when a team breaks is way better than in duos, where you go from 2v2 to 1v2.
• There's more incentive for players to go solo right from the start, as 1v2 gives them more chances to survive than 1v3 and personal challenges like 20 bomb become more achievable (less need to finish a downed player, easier to finish an entire team during a revive, etc.). This ruins the experience for those that put more value in teamplay, as they don't have a third teammate to work with.
• Fights are shorter and less intense (unless there is third partying, but then it's more like chaos). The team that gets the first kill has more chance to win the encounter, 2v2-2v1-win, while in a trio it can often go like 3v3-3v2-2v2-2v3 (after a revive)-2v2-2v1-win.