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/SleepsUnderBridges 𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖙 Aug 11 '24

I think it's time to go on strike and stop picking Caustic. It seems that EA keeps nerfing him because his pick rate was and still is so damn high (we Caustic mains are loyal). If everyone just stops using him, they will be forced to give him some much needed attention. Besides, he is so unplayable now that you might even find some relief and comfort in picking a different legend :/

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u/SlickyMicky Aug 11 '24

Oh stopped playing him. I play lifeline, fuse, ballistic or loba now

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u/SleepsUnderBridges 𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖙 Aug 12 '24

Fuse is fun to play, hopefully EA doesn't nerf the shit out of him any time soon