Snapdragon seems kinda bad?

He is weak without certain upgrades.

Apply Coolant and Excellent Accelerant, he becomes noticeably better at 1v1. It's best to keep your distance and throw Flare Balls directly to your targets as they'll become ignited and eventually burn down to 15 health.

I honestly think he's in a good place. Not playing as him, but against him. If anything, he is obnoxiously powerful. Especially around capture points and payloads.

The Dragon Blaze is obvious, but you can easily deny players contesting around payloads or on capture points. 

Blue Blazes is OP. It can OHKO most zombies.

Swoop Slam needs to be tuned and fixed. It feels wonky and unresponsive sometimes.

I see Snapdragon as a "defensive" character more than an "offensive" one. That is because you can deal with spawnable zombies easily while also force enemies out of payloads and capture points. So if you're defending as a plant, Snapdragon might be your guy. I see many failed attempts to capture the first point at Peachy District as zombies. It's usually because of him and if he was healed constantly by a Sunflower.

My complaints about him is that his sound effects/visual effects are poor in general:

• Dragon Blaze obstructs your vision and confuses you in a terrible way. I wish they'd reduce its opacity a bit.
• Blue Blazes almost has no sound, once it's launched, it will most likely hit you and catch you off-guard. It's also too difficult to evade due to its large radius and poor netcode. I think they shouldn't let it be homing unless a person is catching fire. This way, it will be more of a finisher than just a "oh hey, let's press the button and get a free vanquish." kinda ability. Also, enemies who catch fire will know that they can be tracked using Blue Blazes.
• Swoop Slam can appear like a normal jump at times. It has poor visual/sound effects that lead to confusion at certain times (I'm talking about receiving its damage, not playing as him). It deals a massive damage sometimes without good indicators to  what's about to come.

Is Excellent Accelerant effective? The upgrade is for enemies to stay on fire longer. Does it deal additional damage while enemies are on fire longer?  I thought I read somewhere that it doesn't deal more damage? Bug? Fixed?

@jamcast99 I’ve had Excellent Accelerant equipped since Mastering my Snap Dragon. Honestly, it doesn’t seem to do as much extra damage. But in a team setting, it helps because the opponents health regeneration delay extends for a couple extra seconds which helps the team or you get the final blow. I’ve went back and forth if it’s worth it but that’s the only thing I’ve noticed it’s good for as of yet. I have seen opponents die when on fire with their health very low but not often. Hope this helps.

I respectfully disagree. @Gowron248 In PVP situations, Snap is amazingly effective if used aggressively. Up until Mastering Snap over about a week, I didn’t really use him as much but would die from players using him in almost every PVP match. While the damage is low on his Flame Blower primary weapon, it’s easy to overwhelm your opponents when at close range and easily get the kill. Aiming your weapon and shooting fireballs is also very effective if you can estimate the arched firing path (except it uses a lot of ammo).

Swoop Slam is another one of those abilities I use a lot especially to get away from enemies or surprise them. Depending how to angle the direction on your way down, he can fly for a long distance or spin around and go back the same direction before impact. One of the upgrades is setting enemies on fire after Swoop Slam and that helps a lot to bring enemies health down before blazing them up for the kill. 

The Blue Blaze is something I don’t utilize that often unless I have an enemy that doesn’t see me coming since the fire rate is so slow, most enemies can see it coming and just go behind a wall. The Blaze Trail helps when enemies are clustered together or in TT/capture type games or chokepoints. 

And in PVE, I can easily get 100+ kills in a group of 4 with Snap using the above said methods. Everyone has a different play style so I’m not saying you’re wrong at all. I’ve just found a way to use him where I’m dominant 9 times out of 10. He’s my go-to attack character on the Plants team. Snap and Sunflower. 🐉 🌻 

I can't understand how he's bad. Blue ball almost 1 shots every zombie. Snapdragon has a great DPS output, both close range AND long range provided you hit the shots. The fire trail is a situational CC ability; great on defense turf takeover. The swoop slam hmmm I barely use it but if you can land on an enemy or close to them it almost 1 shots every zombie too!

Overall, I find the Snapdragon not bad at all. Actually, I see this character more as an OP choice for plants side. Granted, it all depends on the player's skill and perhaps the game mode. From experience I can tell Snapdragon is a great choice in turf takeover, especially on defense.

@Gowron248SnapDragon's fire damage is really good, doing 9 damage per second, but his FlameBlower might need more Direct damage. Swoop Slam doesn't feel very useful either. It sends you straight up and is very predictable. Swoop Slam is only good defensively or if the enemy doesn't see you coming. Also he is a very easy target  (Which isn't a bad thing but it doesn't help his case). Blazing Trail is a good defensive tool. He is very much a jack of all trades characters, I find him underwhelming, but he's a decent pick.

However, SnapDragon is also really stupid. His FlameBlower has too much range and Blue Blazes is does too much damage. I say revert the changes of Blue Blazes, Nerf the range and buff the damage of FlameBlower.

Swoop Slam might need a rework too. First off, it's not very fun to use. It would be better if it gave more Control to the player instead of doing the tackling for you. Snapdragon has wings so he should be able to fly more. Why not make it so Snapdragon can actually fly in the air for a certain amount of time and the player chooses when they "Swoop" down and do the damage? While making sure Snapdragon doesn't have too much mobility, I think this would be a lot more fun. (You could also apply this to Space Cadet's smashing ability)

I think it supposed to be used to close the distance but there's no point because FlameBlower doesn't do enough damage to make it worth it and it has a lot of range.

You're right @DeAtHaDDiCtiOn5 , the upgrade Excellent Accelerant does not deal additional damage. I tested this in PvE against a browncoat and did not see any reduction in it's health. Also, I was playing as a foot solider in PvP and got lit up by a Snapdragon. Luckily for me, the Snapdragon was immediately vanquished by a teammate and I stood there on fire and did not see any drop off in my health. Like you mentioned, the only benefit seems to be an increase delay in opponent regen. It's a shame because this upgrade could actually be worthwhile even it were to deal minimal damage. 

@The4DAdvocate Aye, he's been through quite some changes. 

I hope I'm not missing any, but @DeAtHaDDiCtiOn5 the following changes were made since the original post (as well as other meta changes), so that'll recontextualise things.  

• Flame Blower:
  • Improved projectile size and trajectory
• Flare Ball:
  • Increased number of shots before overheating
• Swoop Slam:
  • Updated ability camera to be easier to aim