4 years ago
Caustic passive
Why my boy Caustic can't get a new, normal and useful passive? He feels so old compared to other legends like some sort of character that has been forgotten.
Caustic has been my main since season one and after they made the gas thinner it feels like everyone is running digital threats. Trying to hide in it is hopeless. Very frustrating.
The passive he has right now should just be a part of the tactical and ult description, that caustics can see in gas. The way it works now is like if bloodhounds beast of the hunt just gave the speed increase and than he has a passive for highlighting enemies while his ult is active. Or if lifeline has a passive which gave her tactical the ability to heal more than one ally at once. Can't understand why caustic needs to waste his passive to make the other abilities to make sense (if the passive would work and if the gas was thicker, now it doesn't really make any sense either way).
If the visibility has to be a passive at least add so caustic can see in Bangalores smoke, through fire and other things which temporarily reduces vision. I do also think caustic should see through his own gas and not just in it (since many of the legends have moment abilities to get out of it almost instantly).
I do also think gas traps should have a little bit more health, so enemies have to waste some more bullets to destroy them. This could make more use for them while pushing and outdoors/in open areas (where caustic now is very weak).
Few other tips for passives:
*Caustics gas/gastraps makes enemy scanning not to work near it (he and his allies aren't detected while in/near gas, or something similar). This would counter bloodhound/Seer a bit.
*Caustic can trigger his traps without shooting at them. You just aim at them and klick the keybind and they go off (this maybe doesn't count as a passive tho).
* while being knocked caustic releases gas around him (I do really like that suggestion from above). Maybe it should be when his health bar gets below x % instead of knocked instead?
* toxic punch - Dealing melee damage creates a gas cloud around the enemy (or applies toxic which deals x extra damage over x seconds). This one would work great with his heirloom design as well.
Give the big boy some real love please 🙂
Excuse my language, I'm on my phone without English vocabulary/spellcheck.