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Shawdowman777's avatar
6 years ago

Wattson needs buff

Wattson over time has seen unnessacary nerfs. Where do i start? Her pylon has never provided much in sheild regeneration, her traps are weak and literally can be destroyed by anything including caustic gas, she received low profile and now leg shots do body shot damage? She needs to be removed from low profile and given sheild recharge similar to octanes or a 25% increase healing speed and her fences should do 20 damage from 10. You will see alot more aggrrssive and less campy wattsons with this simple change/buff.

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  • @Shawdowman777 That won't make her more aggressive. How would increasing her trap damage make her aggressive?
    Wattson does have a small hitbox, which is why she has Low Profle.
    Yeah, her traps can be destroyed. Bid deal. Caustic traps can also be destroyed too. Wattson's ult will destroy all ordnance, so if you place it in a fortified location, enemies will have a hard time getting in.
  • I started playing mainly Wattson since about 3 weeks and i have to disagree. She is pretty strong and can be played very agressively. If you learn to use the fence better, its pretty devestating.

  • @Sir_Named Im simply saying 25% on healables will encourage people to play more agressive with her. People walk through fences all the time they dont do much damage meanwhile caustics traps can take nearly all your health if you get stuck in the gas by a good caustic. Shes good at camping but i play her as aggressive as wraith using the fences and pylons to back off and heal and get back in the fight. The original nerfs were to combat campers and i agree she does have a smaller hitbox but bangalores is actually smaller. The gaming merchant posted a video about a week ago proving hitboxes.
  • @Shawdowman777Wattsons fences for starters need to be immune to caustic traps, I also agree with increasing her fence damage as players literally just walk right through it like it isn’t even there ever since they nerfed the damage to 10...

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    Sir_Named
    6 years ago
    @Shawdowman777 What does Bangalore being smaller have to do with Wattson having a small hitbox? Bangalore has the 2nd smallest, and she has Low Profile. Wattson has about same hitbox size as Lifeline as well.
    Wattson is also kind of meant to be campy, plus a 25% usage speed buff would again make Lifeline less useful.
    Fence damage could easily work, but it wouldn’t make her more offensive, just to be clear.
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    Sir_Named
    6 years ago
    @FaIIenAngeI777 Having Wattson traps being vulnerable to Caustic gas is good. It’s pretty difficult to get into a Wattson fortified house, and Caustic can drop a few traps inside to break it down.

    A tiny difference with camping Caustic vs camping Wattson is that Wattson is more sustainable and offers more unique advantages, whereas Caustic can only hold out for so long before he runs out of traps, and he doesn’t have much depth to his abilities.
  • @Sir_Named because bangalore doesn't have low profile. Not to mention a crypto drone will destroy all fences shes just too easily countered and anyone that mains her for a period of time will see the issues.
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    Sir_Named
    6 years ago
    @Shawdowman777 You are right! Bangalore doesn't have Low Profile. That's odd, I can't actually find any reason for that. There's probably some reason though, as it's unlikely the devs just completely forgot about her. Or maybe her animations don't make her hard to hit.
    Wattson can be countered if you pick Crypto, but there aren't many Crypto players, so it isn't a huge deal. Plus, Wattson can just put all her stuff back, as an accelerant will instant charge the ult, and the ult both regens shields and speeds up her tactical cooldown.
    There aren't really any counters to her other than Caustic and Crypto, plus she counters a lot of characters.

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