Are Noricum & Tulumbas A Viable Concept?

Tulumbas may get a revamp in the future since they will probably receive a medium penetration buff.. but i don't see noricum having such potential. Sometimes though, i find myself in desire to replace my current bot with a mk2 patton noricum, just to give a pat in the head at those pesky spectrain campers..

From my memory of when I played a Griff it was either hang back and spydra that beast or RDB/PDB where you can jump on in and rain those rockets down. With all the ancile these days PDB might work betterer.

I always found that I got slaughtered so I ended up Spydra and doing the hide jump launch. Hint-when you jump up you can get the hydras to lob over walls.

As for the nori tulu. I might chuck that on a Gary for a giggle.

My first thought is to say it wouldn't work but ...

1) Pins don't do very much damage anyway. Most of your RDB Griff power is from the Tulumbas.

2) Tulumbas splash damage is great against enemies hiding behind cover. Noricums would do this too unless the enemy is under cover or less than 300 meters away

3) What you've created here is a crazy varient of the Stuka or Special Ops Griff.

4) I want to use this once just to see what happens if you jump and unleash your Noris at the top of your jump arc.

Tried it out yesterday and it was definitely a different playstyle. Sadly, I didn't get as many hits with the Noricum as I expected; but, I did entice a few 'bots from their cover.

The nicest surprise was when I was able to kill a Jesse under 50m by firing my Noris into the wall next to it. Splash damage for the win!

You should try Noris with Orkans. In certain situations, the Noris are actually better than Aphids for hitting targets behind cover. Single fire the Noris at targets that are just on the other side of cover - cover that is usually too high for Aphids. Make the red think you're a Nori or Jesse and be as annoying as you can while you chip away at their health. When they get fed up and charge, that's when you jump and destroy with the Orkans. I've done while in Diamond. Its fun but very very situational and not recommended for long term use. For most situations, Aphids are still better.

Glad to hear you had fun with it!  It's definitely viable but requires more than pushing the big red button. 

That throws a lot of players off.  They are used to similar weapons being paired and having a good synergy in terms of range.

Noricums and Tulumbas don't, at least at first glance.  BUT, Noris can do things that Pins cannot.  So, the pairing works to some extent.

Now, I agree with Koalabear.  Orkans would work well.  The whole premise of the build is that you wear the red down at a distance then finish them off with the big guns if the red comes near.  Any medium hard hitting weapon would do, I think.

Keep them comments coming!  Tell me what you think.  Effective mid-range suppressor or sub-optimal pairing of weapons?

Noris and Orkans would be stronger but I like how Tulus and Noris both have crazy splash damage. This is a build that specializes in damaging bots behind cover.

I've seen Noricum and Hydra before. Last time I saw this Griffin build was pre Specter but I bet it could give a Specter hell. Hit them with Hydra until they hump a wall then rain down the Noricum pain.