The State of Citron
(I know there has been a thread on this but sorry can't seem to find it so posting a new one :/ ) Holy cow this character needs help. I've played through to Super Elite recently as my continued ques...
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@34975634954957 Can people just stop wanting every single character to be a DPS and a "do everything" type character? Jesus Christ, Citron is meant to be a Tank for his team, he doesn't have bad damage, his Spin Dash + EMPeach combo is really strong and he is not meant to camp and do Billions of damage with high accuracy and have a broken stun. He is a Mid Tier character that does what the game says in his description, the only thing that I really should be looked in him is Navel Lazer, because it's really bad right now, but if buffed, it would be a really nice option for Citron in Long Range when his shield is broken.
Just asking for help and opinions. Sorry if that upset you.
- @GutmanSca I understand your frustration but please watch your language, this is a public forum and a safe place to give helpful feedback about the game. 🙂
@PineapplePiano wrote:
@GutmanScaI understand your frustration but please watch your language, this is a public forum and a safe place to give helpful feedback about the game. 🙂I think you might have overthought or personalizes his reply. gutman is usually nice and might not be American; can’t remember.
@spIash_damage wrote:
@PineapplePiano wrote:
@GutmanScaI understand your frustration but please watch your language, this is a public forum and a safe place to give helpful feedback about the game. 🙂I think you might have overthought or personalizes his reply. gutman is usually nice and might not be American; can’t remember.
I don't know gutman personally and sure he is a nice guy. I did find his response a little disrespectful in this instance. Not a big deal of course and soon forgotten. No beef. But thought i should post this reply to respect pineapple for calling it out my behalf. Appreciated.
@spIash_damage, @34975634954957 This character needs work. The time that I spend in this game is PvP only and most of that is on turf,( the games #1 draw right now). No one plays this character and for good reasons. I think his damage is OK and the naval laser is good if practiced but the shield needs a rework. If this character is supposed to be a tank for his team the XP received currently is a joke and was at 50 too. This is why no one plays him in turf and that creates another problem I will get to in a bit. Citron needs to be able to deal damage with his shield up even if it is one damage. I would even consider 0.5 damage as it would be a way to make the opposing team think before attacking. He needs more XP for his shield too so people will start using him in this capacity again. Maybe 10xp or something. I don't really have a good thought on that but it should be in line with what the healing XP needs to be increased to for flower and scientist.
The void that has been created for a tank in turf is falling to other characters that cannot battle without great skill against the likes of the allstar. An easy go to or counter against the allstar with citron was to use your shield to get you into their shield, EM peach and then laser or shoot. This was something I used to see being done even with beginners in the game. The allstar's job in turf is to get close on offense and defense and now other characters are having to battle with that 10dps through a shield. We used to see citrons guarding objectives and riding pay loads to shield for teams but we rarely see them any more if at all. Popcap has created rolls for these characters that need to be but are not being filled in team events. This causes a slight imbalance in team battle when teams have equal amounts of players but when one team has say one less or one more it's a land slide victory. Same can be said for the scientist roll that is now vacant. when the plants have one more player and one flower over healing it is a land slide. The team roles were not needed as much in the previous shooters and this prevented a lot of steam roll victories like we see now in BFN turn and other team based game modes.
Popcap- please add more XP for the shield and allow 0.5 to one damage on shots fired while using the shield.
Oh, and the scientist- give him one less warp, magic heal sprinkles, an automatic weapon and a heal beam so he can heal and shoot at the same time too. 🙂
Side note: As an attack character I find Citron to be good,(not great) and have played him extremely well in this manner.
@FootSoldier9908 do you play TV or BA much? Have you since the last balancing patch/TTK update?
I do play both. And I do believe Citron is good in both modes. Not my first, second, third, or fourth choice but definitely a good choice. When I play Citron it's pretty aggressively seeking out 1 v 1 battles.
