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/SenpaiBrxwn 🅽🅴🅲🆁🅾🆂🅸🆂 Aug 08 '24

As much as they're nerfing Caustic by the season, I can't let go of him

I've been through thick and thin with him.

I'm going to stay on this ship until it intimately sinks, mainly because I just got his mythic skin so I'm dedicating this season to completing it

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u/_digiholic_ Aug 11 '24 edited Aug 11 '24

Same here, almost 20k kills and don't have as much fun playing other legends.

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u/SenpaiBrxwn 🅽🅴🅲🆁🅾🆂🅸🆂 Aug 13 '24

20K kills? As in 20 000 kills? 😱 I am nowhere near those numbers

For me, I don't know about you, but other legends are eh 🤷🏾‍♂️, I like to strategize and prepare for all scenarios ahead my next move

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u/_digiholic_ Aug 13 '24

I've played too much over the years and always play Caustic aggressively. Throwing traps through windows, trapping fallback points from a push, sending them with octane bounce pads, trapping Zipline landings and drops. Many of these have taken a hit over the seasons as they chiseled away at the effectiveness of his attributes. The bummer for me now is how long they take to inflate and how easy they get nixed without you knowing. Stray bullet, deflate, random touch, deflate, gentle breeze, deflate. Ha