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The Point of Wazzzpinator
Primerprime5
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I get that he's supposed to reduce your resistance and make careless opponents waste their Specials when they most need it, but this bug seems pretty useless otherwise. Or am I missing out on something here?
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He works extremely well in resistance mod lanes, reducing the effectiveness of defense buffs, and outright nullifying resistance buffs when landing heavy attacks.
He is also very useful in AM, where you get a 2nd chance every single battle on the revive Sig. You can just heal him for the next battle instead of using a revive, or just roll the dice and hope you ninja a perfect round.
The one biggest drawback to waspinator is vs reflect ranged when he gets his ranged speed buff. Makes it tough to dodge the bounceback vs bots like rhinox. Forces you to switch to a melee game, which is not his style. He works when employing a heavy weave attack pattern similar to IH.
He is also weak vs nullify bots, which are ironically mostly tact bots, because he has only a couple buffs that are easily neutralized by UM, Cyclonus and Scream.
He is, however, a great bot vs brawlers if you don't want to bring a tact, and BC since he never Crits.
He has grown on me quite a bit, and I often take him over IH unless I absolutely need a reliable burn debuff.
Wasp has the mulligan and he has a nice rhythmic playstyle and setup and his sp2 can hit so so so had, has good synergy, amazing range game under 50%, lethal under 25%...
But Megatronus is Megatronus.
Anyway, OP, I would suggest you just aren't playing Wasp correctly
I dislike Megatronus for this one reason:
When I am in a combo and he is close to filling a bar, I expect to have a special ready to end a combo as you would with any other bot that fills power with each hit.
Too many times I've been caught with my pants down tapping the special button, but there's no special to throw because of his unique power gain.
I eat a combo to the face as a result, or worse, an uncontested special attack.
It's for this reason I refuse to use him.
Very true. Throws me out of rhythm all the time too. At least soundwave’s is manageable.
@Manthro seriously wasp as a BC counter? Gotta admit I’ve never thought of that, knew IH was for similar reasons. Will give it a try
The advantage wasp has over IH as a BC counter is twofold. He will purify bleed on revive if you die, and you have the ability to purify bleed debuffs if you run beast squad anyway. Therefore, you can make the mistake of eating a special attack and not melt away, unlike IH.
Wasp is also better than IH IMO because of the quick ranged attacks. Can pummel BC at distance more reliably.
@Mr_Wonderful same goes for demotron I believe - he only crits on heavys or specials with the impair charges. I could be wrong, but I don't think he melee hits will crit if you don't have the crit chance mastery applied (but wasp and IH will crit if you have that applied too)
Good job, community!
then you wrote an additional 33 words telling us how you deleted 100 words lol
Not getting hit works against UM and Scream, sure... But Cyclonus is a rat bastard. That dark field triggers and can nullify wasps ranged buff easily, and he doesn't have to touch you.
after cyclonus nullification, does wasp gets them buffs back eventually? like it works for bosses in spotlight? ive never fought against cyclonus using wasp.
To be honest, I don’t really pay much attention to buffs or debuffs. My wasp hits pretty hard with or without buffs anyway.
No, they do not come back. The buffs that come back on bosses are from mods.
Wasp only gets the ranged buff when he drops under 50%, or if he starts the fight under 50%.
Since there is no way to trigger it again, if it gets nullified in a fight, it's gone until your next battle.
Well it does when you do an SP3. The Resistance Debuffs stay there until the SP3 ends. That's why I fire 3 ranged shots instead of going in a combo, to get all 3 of those Resistance Debuffs. Sometimes if I'm lucky, you can pull a heavy and get 4! The damage is outstanding.
Or maybe I'm being petty, who knows?
Demo class is meant for burst damage, so generally you need to time things properly. Waspinator has certain timings to use for his special attacks