Re: Who plays well with Crypto?

Well wraith-wattson-crypto tactic is pretty straightforward - same as last season.  Set up in a position and just sit there. Scout with crypto to know everything around and know where to concentrate the walls. Scout for next position, relocate with wraith portal, set up the wattson camping equipment. Rinse and repeat.

Naturally skyhook, capitol, lava city are some of the best end circles for this. But end points like the tower between fuel depot and capitol are not bad either.

Ranking progress may be a bit slower like this, since you probably would end up with no kills until lategame (if ppl don't need to push a wattson, they won't - so you get easier placement, but you won't get targets to kill). I guess you can just get 3 charged rifles, find a long range fight with crypto and steal some kills.

I still dont understand crypto, i think hes useless, always out of the fight and can do nothing without his drone. And even the emp isnt that great unless your close... but not too close or ill get hit too... i love seeing a team with crypto, just push the fight, they are probably down one man as hes trying to get back in the fight, or hes flying around. Never had him he a problem when ive gone agianst hi . 

@Jem450R  If you feel your crypto is useless, then it's just a bad crypto (or bad teammates of crypto) XD. Information is power in BR's, especially in solo queue (where everything is just so much more chaotic). On the other hand, that doesn't mean crypto should be constantly scouting - do that only when you need to know something (e.g., entering through a choke from outside the zone - let crypto check first; you can still turn around if you don't like what you see), not when you already know where enemies are.

Playing with crypto is a more tactical game. Gather your intel, plan your approach, dominate (or abort and go hide in a corner). If you know everything, then you can engage enemies when they really don't want that (e.g., fighting some1 else (come in at the worst time (for all of them) possible), hiding somewhere and then needing to move from zone (squeeze them between zone and you). You can also choose not to engage and never run into an unexpected ambush. The idea is to ACTUALLY know positions of every single enemy around you, not pretend you do ("I think that squad should be rotating somewhere around there, eh, or there.. there could also be a couple of rats, uhm, somewhere..."). With crypto you can get precise answers. How much value you can squeeze out of that knowledge is entirely up to you.

As for hitting teammates/self with EMP - hitting teammates is usually still a net positive gain, so don't mind doing that. Hitting self can be avoided by dropping armor (well, you kind of know exactly when it will hit, when you're doing it yourself; e.g., if you're in a safe building in final circle and want to emp everyone and come out guns blazing - a fight starts outside - you put a drone at your feet, EMP, drop armor, take armor, rush out to mop up). The fighting enemies won't have the luxury to drop their armor to avoid crypto's ult damage (if they do that they just die to their opponents). A lot of crypto players don't even manage to hit the EMP... they just let the drone be shot before it goes off (main mistakes: 1) they go into LoS of enemies with drone when they could just do it safely from behind wall/rock; 2) they start the EMP too late and give enemies too much time to shoot it or worst of all 3) they EMP and forget, leaving an extremely easy to shoot stationary drone).

P.S. Unlike bloodhound (who can only track moving enemies), crypto is extremely good at finding the solo rats - find em, kill em for some easy points and better placement.

Is crypto the best legend in Apex? Nah. Is he good for any style of play and any situation? Also nah. Is he still great? Yup, most certainly.

A. Theres no solo queue, so thats pointless. And gathering intel, sitting and waiting is just asking to be flanked or ambushed. Litterally see no team use crypto on ranked, playing or streamers... hes a neat legend, that unfortunately doesnt seem to have a place in this fast paced, always moving game...

If you can position the drone ahead of your position it seems to spot without needing to be manually used.  I found this out accidentally.  Which I think is a pretty strong asset.  Unfortunately maintaining that leap frog tactic pushing the drone out then the squad follow rinse and repeat seems tedious.  If sound wasn't so vital in locating enemies I could see his value but other than it being more nothing more than a novelty right now at best.  Picking up banners with the drone but needing to recoup downed teammates tends to just stave off the inevitable.

Id love it if you could put the drone on follow mode, and it just hovered over you... i have an rc drone that does this, and would make crypto much more mobile...

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@Jem450R wrote:

Id love it if you could put the drone on follow mode, and it just hovered over you... i have an rc drone that does this, and would make crypto much more mobile...

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I was actually surprised that this wasn’t possible. Dumb hacker drone can’t even follow his master!