Buff Caustic Canisters Already!
Here's how should always have been. Like seriously.
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I get the feeling players want him to be able to be used in the middle of a gun fight, but I don't see Caustic being that legend, of course with some skill you can utilize him in an aggressive way but again, I like how the big boi is a trapper who waits for their target to fall into his traps before springing on them to pounce.
Giving him the ability to handle himself in an open aggressive style defeats his purpose and than will bring about the issue of everyone hating him and wanting him to be nerf due to the fact that he basically gets free nades every cooldown cycle.
Do we really want a Caustic tossing gas at us and having it blow in our face before we get a chance to move away?? Are those the gun fights you want?
Caustics my main so I know how easily his gas can bring down a team that doesn't have enough time to react to it before they are blinded, slowed and gunned down.
- @iBlockHead I agree he’s a defensive player. I think issue with that, is that this is not really a defensive game. The game requires to much movement and it’s rare to be in a situation in which defensive camping is advantageous. You need Capital or Skyhook and the ring to be continually closing on your squad. Yet even still you’re going to have to loot those areas and Caustic is at a huge disadvantage while looting.
So I could see making him slightly more competitive outside of that. Caustic paired with a wattson in a building in the final 2 rings is difficult to beat. The interceptor takes nading them off the table. The gas combined with fences makes rushing impossible. But the hard part is getting there with caustic. When you do, ya it’s awesome and OP.
Wattson fairs decently outside of camping because her small hit box.- @DarthValtrex agreed, and that's the cost of having an ability that deals damage and slows/blinds enemies.
If you want a good set up and want to be prepared, you gotta bring mobility into the team (Wraith/Pathfinder/Octane) in order to get him from x building to y with minimal effort, and once he's in the final few rings, it's all about thinking of where to place a canister in order to block/obscure the enemies path to direct them to someplace more in your teams favor (rings edge/corner) whatever the case.
He should be more competitive and I myself would love to see him be used more by top teams, but having a faster deploy speed wouldn't be the thing to do I feel.
Maybe allowing it to spread both horizontal and vertical (globe like AOE) vs only horizontal. Also allowing it to stick on whatever it's being tossed at would make him more viable and still keep him as a defensive legend that can be used in the midst of combat.
Just feel like the faster deploy speed would breed players that only use him because he can spam them in the middle of combat which of course spells death for the enemy but that'll just be unfair as they didn't get a chance to move away.@iBlockHeadYou make some outstanding points. I have been swayed. And for the record, if there are any fences, or rocks, or buildings of any kind, you can still influence a fight with traps, even in the middle of the fight. So long as you haven’t been completely surprise flanked.
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