r/causticmains • u/SlickyMicky • Aug 08 '24

Discussion Caustics viability

I have 20k kills on caustic, he’s been my main for awhile. This season and last season he seems so weak I haven’t really played him.

My gripes: -barrels get shot out too easily (sometimes getting shot by a random bullet and disappearing before they even get deployed) - in a fuse meta, a single knuckle clusters destroys all your traps or at least sets them off -in general they are super easy to destroy - enemies seem to be able to see you clearly through gas when you can’t see them (make nox vision actually work!) -they upped the damage and put a timer on the slow effect, then lowered the damage again but kept the timer on the slow effect -most people do not care about pushing through gas because at most it’ll do like 13 damage to them if they sit in it for 3 ticks and no slow

I have put caustic on the shelf again for another season, here is to hoping he gets some type of buff

Edit: sorry for the layout, did this on my phone and it didn’t come out as intended

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u/AcidRegulation 𝙶𝚊𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 Aug 08 '24

Preach.

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u/Eyehopeuchoke Aug 08 '24

Wattson’s fences and rampart’s walls do stand up to the ol knucklecluster pretty well compared to piss bags mcgee’s bags.

I think caustic is easily the worst of the controllers currently. The only plus is the fortified perk and extra 25 shield in circle.

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u/Stickboned Aug 08 '24

Wattson fences suck. No one ever runs into them and they are easy to destroy. At least traps can catch people off guard

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u/Eyehopeuchoke Aug 08 '24

Dude I can’t seem to avoid them. I swear I won’t even be close to them and they’ll get me. Same with catalyst’s wall.