Least Favorite Atomic Openings

Please drop you least favorite atomic openings below! (so I can know how to beat all of you).

I'll start:

Playing against 2N as black is my worst nightmare. Only options are 2...c6 and 2...nh6 and neither one is fun to play against stronger players

It's hard for me to pick my least favorite but I think I've come to the conclusion that the most boring positions to play as black is anything after nh3 h6 e4

@sircachetes said in #2:

It's hard for me to pick my least favorite but I think I've come to the conclusion that the most boring positions to play as black is anything after nh3 h6 e4

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for me I like playing against sharp openings where black has attacking chances, such as 2N, nf3 e3, nf3 e4. what I really hate are positional openings where the position is really stale, a good example is the nh3 e3 Nf4 line where white exchanges queens early and wins a pawn using the f4 knight and black just can't do much except play for a draw. another is e3 qh5 mainline, after all the exchanges white gets an invading bishop and black can't castle and can only hope for a draw. there are some sharp sidelines in these openings. Thankfully there are some sharper sidelines in these variations but they generally favor white, though black may have some chances.

I really don't like the following 4 lines for black:

1. e3 e6 2. Qh5 g6 3. Qxh7, 1. Nf3 f6 2. e4, 1. Nf3 f6 2. e3 d5 3. Nd4, 1. Nh3 h6 2. e3 e6 3. Nf4

It's just a headache for me.

Definitely Nh3 e4, I get slayed by every decent 2100+ Nh3 e4 spammer
Nf3 e4 is also kinda annoying but not that bad

The opening I like to face the least is
nh3 h6
e3 e6
Nc3

I dont struggle against it, thats not what I dislike.
the opening is not actually strong at all. white is just playing for a draw. But every game looks the same and its just 0 fun to play.
g6 or Bb4 both are dry, boring, slow, theory is so far known and its just not a good opening.
Luckily only chris and natso are really good with it and play it rarely. So its not actually annoying:)
but on paper I dont like it

In my case i dont like 2N and nf3 d4 (in some positions). Im generally more positional so this openings are a lil bit annoying to face.

@bishoy125-alt said in #4:

for me I like playing against sharp openings where black has attacking chances, such as 2N, nf3 e3, nf3 e4. what I really hate are positional openings where the position is really stale, a good example is the nh3 e3 Nf4 line where white exchanges queens early and wins a pawn using the f4 knight and black just can't do much except play for a draw. another is e3 qh5 mainline, after all the exchanges white gets an invading bishop and black can't castle and can only hope for a draw. there are some sharp sidelines in these openings. Thankfully there are some sharper sidelines in these variations but they generally favor white, though black may have some chances.

e3 qh5 can be so annoying yeah

My least favourite atomic openings to play against as black are probably 1.Nf3 f6 2.e4 and 1.e4 e6 2. d4.