How soon will they Nerf Citron?
Any idea when the next update to the game is coming out? With the nerf coming for citron on the way?
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He's definitely one of the best plants and probably the most survivable character in the game because of these factors:
1. 200 Health + Shield
2. One of the characters that can jump on rooftops, becoming inaccessible to a lot of variants and a pain for most others.
3. Can peak from around corners without exposing himself with his conveniently located side-mounted gun.
4. If in a bad place, despite 1-3, can always pack up and run with Hyper Ball + jumping madly.
A couple suggestions for nerfs:
1. Ball form as it is right now renders Citron immune to Critical hits. I'd like to see this reversed - make every hit taken in ball form a crit. This will make the ability more of a trade-off instead of a purely defensive maneuver.
2. Increase the recoil on beam variants (as was done to Super Brainz), to make him less of a reliable sniper. He is supposed to be a short-medium range tank class but his weapon, despite its mediocre damage, is very effective at range due to it being a hitscan.
@UmbralTremor wrote:3. Can peak from around corners without exposing himself with his conveniently located side-mounted gun.
The soldier does that too.
- Soldier at least doesn't have a hitscan laser that he can easily headglitch with.
Throwing my change in here. Beams are configured differently than semi/full auto weapons in that they are capable of shooting through terrain depending on the size (why both superbrainz and citron can shoot over an obstacle like a rock or building unlike sunflower though it is possible).
Personally, beam citron's range should be decreased to further emphasize the long range play style that electro and toxic citron really encourages. His damage right now is fine, though I still believe that his EMPeach should do damage only to mechs as it becomes easy pickings for imps. With the ball form, I would be interested in seeing a short defense down debuff kinda similar to the nature of the G.R.U. from TF2 rather than pure crits as it would allow players to actively think about entering and exiting the form more often and prevent capture point only citrons from occurring.
https://twitter.com/JA_Wiebe/status/995758705051287552 nvm. Now he's a specialist?
Yesterday I read that tweet and commented on it as well. Not sure how I feel about Citron being made into a flanker. He does have a lot of advantages for sure and something had to give but with his high health and shield he always felt like a tank first and foremost. This sounds like he's going to have some significant changes overall, possibly based more on his ball form as that certainly is a bone of contention. His beam being so good at extreme ranges has also been an issue.
