Buff Wattson, please… and no tricks this time, Respawn.

Maybe the passive shield regen could be a bit higher

Nah they’ve already said that won’t happen and listening to multiple pros they’ve all kinda agreed it’s not a feasible buff because it would be too strong. She’s needs a buff to her tactical and ult and possibly a minor rework. Rn there’s no reason for anyone to pick her over Gibby caustic or rampart if going for ranked grind or wins

Nah if it were any higher than it is it would be too overpowered. As a wattson main more fences are definitely the way to go. Decrease the fence cooldown and also allow her to stack more fences. Maybe 15 second cooldown and up to 6 fences stored at a time.

Whenever I play caustic I never feel the cooldown limits my abilities. Whenever I need a trap, I have one. Playing wattson, I'm constantly finding I need to wait for fences to recharge.

I know the ult buffs it dramatically but come on 60 seconds for a full fence is a bit excessive

The first or second highest kills Wattson apparently doesn't use her abilities at all, just thinks she's cute

At 10k kills myself, same

doesn't use her abilities at all

Pretty sure this is true for almost every high-ranked "Wattson main". They're players that are good enough that they could win a fight on gunskill alone and don't even need to use her abilities, which is kinda dumb when that's what the devs are basing her OP-ness on.

Based but hard agree, she cute

Based

I’ve been playing more wattson lately and have won a few games but I struggle to use her ult. Usually I realize too late once the enemy calls in an air strike. I think it could be good against fuse but I usually don’t realize they have fuse until I’m hit by the first knuckle cluster. And then using the ult in open space forces you to stay there while I think the better strategy is to move into different positions to let your team off angle.

Put up your ult everytime there's a fight I would suggest. My problems comes from my luck... Everytime I want to play her, there's no accelerant around.

I wouldn't even try to use it to counter airstrikes. Between the time needed to realize you need it and it deploys you've probably already been hit. Start by just throwing it out whenever you're in a battle of attrition and then expand your use cases from there as you improve

If you see them throw their ult: drop your pylon. As soon as you have a nade thrown your way: pylon. (You might get hit with the first nade but they rarely throw just 1).

If you hear the sound from the Gibby ult or bangs ult (even if bangs ult hit the ground already): pylon.

As soon as there is a lull in fighting pop an ult accel. Your first pylon might not have been thrown with care and once they get an angle they'll shoot it. But if you pop the accel you'll have another.

If you are getting pushed and don't have cover: pylon. Duck and weave behind it.

When you pylon is out throw up random fences, even if they "don't make sense". Teams will pad on you or come flying in and they never account for randomly placed fences.

Make sure you announce that your ult is out. If you have a Gibby, bang, caustic, horizon, etc they'll all get their ults destroyed if they aren't careful. Also let them know it's out so they know to move toward it / not sweat a bombardment.

I’ve been playing more wattson lately and have won a few games but I struggle to use her ult. Usually I realize too late once the enemy calls in an air strike.

Bangalore airstrike isn't really that reactable with a Wattson ult unless you are far away [or really early] (due to how the rockets fall down immediately and only then explode).

Gibby's airstrike you can react to when you hear the sound.

But that's just one use of the pylon, you should really in later rings think about best positioning and place a pylon where it is difficult to shoot it down then set up fences to secure yourself a good position to fight from. Reacting to airstrike or ordnance is not really its main use. It's not like you're supposed to be REACTING to a Fuse knuckle cluster or someone throwing a grenade by placing an ult down. It's that you should anticipate that you're gonna be susceptible to having ordnance thrown at you (like if you were the opponent, the logical step would be throwing stuff at you - place a pylon to secure your position).

Also carry 2 ult accs so you can always put new pylons (and even put one down immediately if it is shot down).

And then using the ult in open space forces you to stay there while I think the better strategy is to move into different positions to let your team off angle.

In later rings you can use the pylon to make a bad position a viable one, like you have a rock that would be bad cover on its own, other teams may have better position but the ult makes it survivable.

At that point you're also no longer running around the ring because there's teams everywhere.

In fights you place the pylon if you think you'll need a place to fall back. Your teammates are gonna take damage in the fight and will need a place where they can somewhat safely heal and get back into the fight.

Every fight. Dont hesistate. As soon as you’re in a great position with cover, pop your ult. It only takes 1 accelerant to get it back, so USE IT.

If you place the ult as soon as you see the enemy airstrike flare, it will be up in plenty of time. You're best off placing it behind a point of cover that you know you need to control. If there's no such cover or you're pushing, you can just put it in front of you and it'll act as surprisingly resilient cover with a nice tight hitbox to shoot around.

Nice anecdote but as someone who has 100s of wins with Wattson (solo q into diamond with Wattson every split) you do notice in the end game when you aren't playing her. The pylon and fences are most useful in the final rings and if I play different characters, like Horizon sometimes, I have added mobility but I don't have the end game capabilities / win button that the pylon and fences can be. If I wasn't using her abilities in the final ring that would mean a lot fewer wins. If you wanna dispute her utility through most of a typical game, ok, but there's no doubt that in the final rings her abilities are top tier and make wins much more likely. Saying otherwise and not acknowledging where she is in fact good is a bit dishonest and takes away credibility from the whole "buff wattson" point really.

I dont remember this scene. What was happening?

if i remember correctly, they were grocery shopping and the girl who was replaced by wattson (forgot what her name was) wanted to buy some meat but the dude holding the nessy (also forgot his name) kept suggesting on buying vegetables. Hence the disappointed face she made

It's in the camping episode

Or it could fling out Nessys while whirling.

Instead of destroying ordnance, transform it into Nessies

That’s not what she needs tho tbh. Reddit loves these small ‘buff’ ideas which sound cool, but won’t really do anything to solve the problems characters face. This may help a lil, but it’ll be negligible

As a Crypto player, I cringe when I see Reddit ideas on how to "buff" him

Or her passive could charge her shields faster. Or both. Both of them are laughably slow

her shield regen is ok. if you took damage, you pop a few syringes maybe or a medkit, then some of her shield is recharged and you'll see if two or three cells are enough. it helps mostly your economy and if you just take a little poke damage, you can often not pop a cell at all, giving you 3 seconds to do other stuff (and that's important in a fight). you can spend the time doing other stuff, placing fences, popping ult accs etc. In short it helps with backpack space and it helps with time management in fights. It's not supposed to be the sole thing fully giving your your shield back.

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