The thing about lightning grenades (Destiny)

by MacAddictXIV , Seattle WA, Monday, August 15, 2016, 11:04 (3115 days ago) @ Ragashingo

I can totally understand why people think Lightning grenades are OP. But I think that they are very situationally OP.

It has been said that one should always look at an ability as it relates to the entire class. One ability might seem OP, but when you look at how the entire class performs in a game, it seems far less OP. I'm not saying that the striker titan sucks, I'm just saying that it, as a class in PvP probably does just as well or close to all the other classes.

Back to my original point now, Lighting grenades are situationally OP. First, how good a Lighting grenade is is very relational to the map you are playing on. That is not true for a lot of grenades. Anyone who has used the grenades knows that getting kills by just sticking the grenade on the ground will get you as far as trying to kill people with rockets by only hitting them in the body.

Secondly, as someone mentioned before, that they are also quite dangerous to the user. That cone is just as deadly to you on the initial stick as it is to anyone else. And to add to that, they are VERY sticky sensitive. I've died so many times to ducking around a corner to throw a grenade and to have it stick to the door frame. I've even had it stick to the leaves of a bush. This isn't exactly a reason why they shouldn't nerf the LG, but there are downsides to it.

As for the animation. It's lightning, to effectively animate that to allow you to see the edges of it would probably blind people or at least fill up screens with pointless animation. Not to mention, because it pulses, how does that actually help to know the edge of it? Are you going to make a mental note of the edge and step around it? I always have a mental note of the cone in my head and I just take a wide berth or just shoot the thing.

I think the damage is fine. Any less damage and people would just turn around and kill it and be fine. I Know people are asking "yeah but what about if you are taking fire?" I rarely EVER use a LG in mid fight. The few times I do is because I'm going to die. To me, LG's are all about taking away a lane of movement. Which is exactly what that guy was doing in the video. It's about map control, don't enter here or you will pay for it. It's REALLY hard to hit a wall or something with the intention of hurting someone on the first pulse. I'm also not very good at PvP so say what you will :-D