Man these Snipewriter and Cooler buffs ain’t enough

[SAMICOM]

I NEED IT DEAD AND SIX FEET UNDER THE GROUND




to put it In perspective-

we have NO backline diversity

we NEED to run cooler in like every comp (and it’s always ****ING PENCIL)

passive as hell

no consequences w/ missing w/ pencil because you have 2.5 splats in that thing

paints too much


230p cooler

10% less range

25% less ink efficient

68 > 52 damage

25% more charge time

cooler now only gives 20AP of the abilities, and qr acts normal. Can be broken, and has 2000 hp.

**** COOLER META

**** YOU

INKJET AND ZIPCASTER META 4 LIFEEEEEEEE

 

[reelrollsweat]

what if the world was made of cheese

 

[SAMICOM]

what if the world was made of cheese

NOW we talkin'

 

[briank913]

I agree with Cooler. Like, one person being forced to be the Cooler person really limits the said person unless that person wants to be the cooler person and puts a limit on team creativity for the sake of the meta.

The Pencil nerf, based on Nintendo's wording alone, doesn't seem to make it significant to the point where other backlines are looking for viable. There are plenty of backline choices, yet Pencil because Meta.

 

[chaotik0]

the best output of cooler is being nerfed so i see why they didnt do anything to the special itself. i still would have liked the time you have to grab a soder to be shorter and also reverting the change that lets you grab cooler from so far away so that popping cooler has to be more coordinated and is easier to counter

 

[OnePotWonder]

Pencil needs a range nerf, that’s about it. It’s good to have a backline focused on support, the problem is when it’s able to backline as well as the other backline-exclusive backlines.

N-ZAP is pretty much equally problematic. If you want a cooler without running Snipewriter, you have no other good options save for vEdit, which struggles to work with double midline. I wouldn’t mind seeing ZAP nerfed too.
(Of course it’s the only mainstream cooler option to not get nerfed this patch. STOP SHOOTER FAVOURITISM.)

As for Tacticooler, I could stand to see it nerfed, I could live with it unchanged. The only requirement I have is special-spamming shooters not being in the meta.

 

[isaac4]

I don't think the Pencil nerf will end up meaning much.
At this point I'm sure that Pencil will remain at the top of the game even after balance patches are done but I hope I'm wrong.

 

[briank913]

I think they buffed Zap so much to make it a more appealing Cooler option over potentially Pencil and even HEdit. I personally don't have a problem with Zap, but I have a problem with the others (Tri Novo, Dynamo, H3, vDapple) falling into obscurity as a Cooler option. To make these more viable, I would:

Revert Tri back to 200 (190 might be too much though there might be disagreements on this)
ACTUALLY make Dynamo paint consistently (it's been shown that the last Dynamo "buff" is actually a shadow nerf)
Reduce H3's end lag to make it usable
I don't know how to make vDapple more appealing other than slightly increasing range maybe