So.. 2.7.0 update Good or bad for eliters?

[Indigo]

Woke up to new weapons and slight changes to the mechanics. Anyone know how it will affect e-liters (and splat chargers) if at all?o_O

 

[-ik-]

I think the burst bombs of e-liter was so nerfed, the new ink consumption is insane D:

 

[Skoodge]

I personally like the new feel of e-liters, I think we can see more build diversity, and is just a weapon that is being played similarly to before, just more defensively. I only play custom e-liter, and I love my new build on it:





Let's me shoot more often, and be more of a support sniper. I can still get some quick charges, but since the range changed so much, 2-3 damage ups are all that is required, as much as I like 2 uncharged shots killing with 3 mains 2 subs, it is more beneficial to me to shoot more often, and get kraken, even if it's slower, more often.

It may have hurt normal e-liter more, with the changes to burst bombs, but I personally like the feel of the weapon now, the faster charge feels good, and the range thing makes sense balance wise, although I think ~15% would've been better.

It basically raised the skill floor for e-liter, but and in return the possibility for greater build diversity, since full charges are faster and needed. I think this trade-off is good for the meta, because of the build diversity, and removal of the all burst bomb e-liters.

 

[extremechiton]

I hate it. It usually took me 3 burst bombs to fully Splat someone if I didn't get a direct hit. So 2 bombs down and out of ink, I'm dead in an instant. Burst bombs are what made dealing with up close enounteres doable since I could swim around my opponent barraging them with burst bombs. But now that's impossible since even 2 close ranged bombs don't do the trick andbits hard enough to aim a charger with such a narrow spread of ink. It forces me to play super campy and that's not my style. Leaves more room for enemies to sneak up behind me.

 

[Shun_one]

I am okay with this. The few E Litre's I see are now running more interesting builds and no longer resulting to Bomb spam to claim a close encounter victory as it will leave them high and dry really fast. Using the Custom variant, it's not different for me as I just shoot people who get to close with not-full charge shots until they perish.

Been running




The run speed is for Charger duels and Triggerfish and Hammerhead for mobility. The Swimspeed is for the Kraken, and the Ink Recovery is to shoot more often. Though, with main of this, I can get 4 shots off instead of three. I'll keep messing around with builds.