Switching to lockdown chip

T3 lockdowner on my froodles Raven works damn near as fast as the lockdown module. Like, see, shoot, stop. It's brutal.

I get the reasoning, but think Lockdowner is better suited to longer range builds. In close quarters a gold Suppressor will nerf the enemy weapons 75%. Pixonic clarified to me that the ability boom of Shell and Hellburner are considered weapons themselves, so when they are suppressed, it isn’t just the equipped weapons that get suppressed, but the blast as well. Suppression is much more important in cqc imo

Yes, I am trying to find a build that works. 

I am 100 free so I am stuck with sub par champion max gear. Mk3 bots and tier3 chips mostly. Still die easily to meta and Shell.

if the Shell is standing on middle of Shenzhen, I can step in and slowly kill them while they are busy fighting. 

but if a Shell charges me, I die every time now. My bulwark and weapons are Mk2 4. I am to slow in my bulwark to keep up with group and reposition, so I always get attacked. On Repair Defense is not helping and cool down is to long so 2nd shell blast will finish me. My hope is to not get hit and stay 100m away.

I have NA on him. But not going to do any good if I cannot last through 1 Shell. 

lag is absolutely terrible. Cannot aim and have 3 good bots die in 2 minutes.otherwise I think my bulwark + lockdown should work. 

Try the jump unit to evade the Shells. Jump backwards while continuing to shoot them

I remember back in the day when it seemed as though lots of folks were hating on lock down weapons.

This is great, but IMHO would really only work well with t4 or two t3 chips. I normally use my lockdown chips to complement pulsars, magnetars, coronas, etc. I am close to getting my first t4 lockdowner and might just try it on my jumping fireball ghost lance.

As a recipient, lockdown is annoying as heck and can be dangerous. But it just usually delays me from getting to one of "my" beacons and then I start laying down suppression when they try to take it from me. My vote is for suppression.

Good discussion. 

lockdown is for brawlers to keep Shell away. Max Shell will kill my brawlers and they are Mk3 but old. Fast bots can keep the distance so no need lockdown. 

tanks do not need lockdown like Fenrir and falcon. 

I just want to find a way for bulwark to survive longer against Shell. Most my stuff is mk2 or Mk3 or tier 3 chips. It is pretty high level so should do much better much more then 10% damage for being a counter to Shell.

I choose lockdown chip because it can trigger more often. Lockdown module and jump module have long cooldown.

After this thread, i see Tobias mocking me whenever I roll the silver chests. Open 50 this month. Good ol Toby is next to 100000 silver. 

‘’I put in requisition to upgrade Toby’s ranking from D to B. But there is no belief. In the pilot ranking thread. 

I made intervention this month. I become addicted to PC. Down 25000 in couple weeks. Press heal to activate defense. Loads of shield breaker using on 3 my bots. Also press lots to boost damage chip so I can get more damage and score higher place. Imagine if I had Tobias and using him every 11s to get +80 defense. Whales get +160 defense more then Fenrir. Only 1s gap with +0 defense.

good stuff.