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by Mysterio 06/07/2015, 2:28pm PDT

Fullofkittens wrote:

fabio wrote:

The Naut that's pissing me off right now is that black hole robot guy. The black hole is the most ridiculous ability in the game. It's a ranged ability with a wide area effect that immmobilizes and nukes. It does right out of the box what other abilities would require multiple upgrades to do. It's the damage of the sniper chick's burst combined with an AoE disrupt that outdoes any other disrupt ability in the game.

...is to just not shoot him when his shield is up. The black hole only does damage in proportion to what his shield absorbed. If you can make him waste it by not shooting him then he's two cooldowns away from being able to nuke you with it. If you mess up and it does fill up the meter that's when you run.

Once you get used to him you don't even have to worry much about the specific value in the meter. Just stay back when the meter is visible at all, or dance around near him and try to get him to shoot it and miss. It's a short-ranged, blatantly telegraphed attack from a slow character. If you're new to it you'll get destroyed by it, and if you're used to it, it's no big deal. Sentry is good, but he isn't the best, because even a weak player can mostly neutralize him by watching for his meter and hanging back. (And his teleportation can't help him very much with that, because the beacon is visible to enemies, so you can usually hang back from that too.)

You can do something similar with Nibbs, although it's harder with her because she's less predictable. Also Derpl especially has a terrible time escaping her fire. (On the other hand, Genji can mostly neutralize it for his whole team, if he gets enough money.)

Penny might be OP. She can go anywhere anytime and her attacks are dangerous and hard to dodge. You can't just get used to her and start learning to wait for her cooldown periods and so forth. Sentry and Nibbs are weak during cooldown because they walk and jump slowly, but Penny can generally fly away when she's no longer interested in fighting. She does what she wants and it's hard to stop her, if the player is good.

None of them is as strong as Froggy. He's like Penny in this regard, except when he wants to zoom away he turns invincible. The new characters can't match that.

A quick look at which characters are best (for "tryhards", at least) right now: http://nautsrankings.com/
(Also you can use the search box on that site to look specific names up during a game, if you want to find out whether the jerk criticizing you is really more skilled than you are.)

Whelp this game sucks now by fabio 06/06/2015, 12:22pm PDT NEW

I agree with every one of your points but it's still my favorite game. by Fullofkittens 06/06/2015, 5:58pm PDT NEW

I also don't remember losing money when you died before by fabio 06/06/2015, 10:03pm PDT NEW

Losing solar when you die has always been a thing. by Fullofkittens 06/07/2015, 4:43am PDT NEW

I guess it's just more noticeable with the decreased income by fabio 06/07/2015, 10:29am PDT NEW

Which makes Nibbs even more overpowered by fabio 06/07/2015, 10:42am PDT NEW

The trick to playing against Sentry by Fullofkittens 06/07/2015, 10:59am PDT NEW

I don't think the fact that it's a damage absorbing shield on top of all that NT by is a weakness 06/07/2015, 11:08am PDT NEW

the view from league 2 by Mysterio 06/07/2015, 2:28pm PDT NEW