5 years ago
Caustic nerf to fart gas
Wow I can't believe that respawn pulled this on one of the deadliest legend. All because everyone complained about his gas. What I'm talking about is my dear legend Caustic, the man with the gassy p...
I dont think that Respawn mainly nerfed him because he was too OP, but rather that his kit disrupted the "flow" of the game. Some houses could be held almost forever with Caustic which isnt good for the game, i.e its not good to have a champion that literally can make a pushing team having to abandon the push, choosing NOT to fight only because the enemy team has a certain legend in the comp. Because thats what happened in Diamond + ranked games. If my premade squad saw that a team was camping inside a building with a Caustic and maybe also a Watson, we always choose to turn around and not push, simply because the risk was not worth the reward (especially due to third parties that would arrive if we started to fight)
And the actual nerf on the gas was actually totally called for. Before, a Caustic at a certain skill would 100/100 times win vs any other player at the exact same skill level IF the fight took place in the gas. Slow + highlighted enemy + blurred vision for the enemy + dmg tick was just not balance.. All they did was to remove the blurred vision for the enemy so that the Caustic still actually had to win a 1v1 inside the gas when the enemy is able to shoot back.
As far as I know, the only nerf he got was that enemies dont get blurred vision by the gas. They even increased the damage tick a bit to compensate. So the only real difference now from then is that people actually can fight back and just like I said; I think its exactly thats why they changed the gas. It isnt good for a game that a legend has an ability that will make enemies run the other way only because its impossible to fight him. Isnt that kinda reasonable in a competitive PvP? Caustic is already one of few champions that has an ability that almost immediately will start do considerable dmg and slow by just clicking on the enemy (ult)
then what about Wattson? Well, I dont like where this discussion is going since Caustic and Wattsons kit are totally different but in my opinion does Watson kit not have the same bad effect on the game as Caustic as I speculated were the reason for the rework. There are way more strategies to tackle a camping Watson.