Caustic has been heavily nerfed, and he's now the worst character, simply because his skills can be destroyed too easily. Caustic now literally has no Q.
I have a couple of ideas on how to balance this:
Remove the possibility of destroying the barrel while it is being placed. Let the trap do something before it is destroyed. Maybe with that it should increase CD a bit - from 15 to 20 sec
Make caustic's passive ability shared by all teammates
Extend the residual gas time to 5 sec
If the barrel was destroyed in the first seconds - release a large gas cloud.
After the update, I mistakenly thought that now caustic barrels cannot be knocked down while they are being placed. I thought it was a really good balance idea if you can knock down the barrel but it can do something. So I think that option 1 is the most logical and optimal. Without this, the barrel literally does not have time to be placed, and when it is already standing, it is immediately knocked down - it is too useless. Profit from traps is not big enough to nerf them that much.
P.S. I know a lot of people hate Caustic, but he's a legend like everyone else, and just like other legends, he must have unique abilities. No other legend with their abilities can be blocked with as much as Caustic, who can be too easily stripped of his Q.
So let's think about the balance, and not just blindly hate the character.
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