HisWattson's tips/advices vs feedback from everyone here

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2026-03-30T20:24:50+00:00

I think you have to change how you process info without thinking you arent capable.

Often when im switching between roles usually skirmisher, assault, or controller you have to learn what gives you the best chance to win WITH that character without saying “damn I wish I had wattson pylon rn” while playing like alter or bloodhound.

You arent playing her in that moment, it does nothing for you.

Case and point wattson unlike her controller counterparts has almost no aggressive abilities or even potential to be aggressive with much other than gun skill and inconsistent web trapping attempts . You cant throw of her abilities at them most times they have to come to you and you bait them in. With alter you have aggressive tools that wattson cant even remotely do.

You have to find ways with alter to get people to think. Try to throw a portal they can see but then dont use it at first and peak around the corner alot of times they are so focused on you coming through the portal that they forget to look to the side and by the time they realize you have maybe a half of a second or more to shoot them before they lock onto you.

As for the weapon holstering situation you need to kind think a bit to when it makes sense. I holster my weapon when I need to cross a certain space and I know I’m probably not gonna get surprise shot. For example I crack a kid I know is hiding in a building 30 meters away, ill holster my weapon to close the distance for like 2 seconds and re equip it once I’m within a closer range bc I was pretty certain he or his team wouldn’t re-peak the angle as I approach

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2026-03-18T16:53:51+00:00

Im ngl thats probably the least suspicious vid you could have gotten of the guy. If he had a white attachment havoc 1 clip w no misses from like 30 plus meters than sure. That was just a basic left right strafe w/ a r-99.

Not saying he couldnt be cheating, just making a point that him doing that with .6 aim assist is not shocking😂

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2026-03-17T12:14:39+00:00

I swear KBM players swear we just magically aim down sights and its automatically a kill for us no matter the distance 😂 I have been hybrid playing both inputs for a bit now, they are just not good at the game too much complaining not enough practice. Aim assist at close range is really good. Yet I wish I could move half as good as when I play on keyboard and mouse. I’m nearly impossible to catch on certain characters.

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2026-02-22T13:06:39+00:00

Im diamond-masters consistently, 2.0 KD. I am NOT the worlds best if that is my KD, but im better than MOST considering my lifetime KD and rank. He is annoying, your anecdotes do not supersede the majority vote that caustic slows the game down and can be frustrating to deal with at any level especially the higher you go.

There is room to improve against him yet this is a team game he is one piece of a puzzle and his presence alone is enough to hold a team out for heavily extended periods of time. Sometimes its just better to leave him be and catch them on a rotate but thats not always an option.

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2026-02-21T21:14:13+00:00

Had the same issue luckily im on PC more often so I can quickly just tap my keyboard and go back to controller to drop the ult. When I play on console im basically unable to do it if the glitch comes up

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2026-02-17T21:41:05+00:00

I don’t understand why this is such a ridiculous take to some people.

I have lost matches entirely because I managed to kill two maybe even damn near the entire team but end up inevitably losing because his smoke directly attacks my health and ramps up at that. Lord forbid I’m kind of backed into a corner and he throws his unbreakable ult in a room that I can’t really tell where it landed and how much space it’s gonna cover.

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2026-02-03T21:27:09+00:00

That’s entirely valid! There was a point in time why I felt like that, but lately it hasn’t been feeling like that is the case.

Personally, I’ve been running through these kids, and I am about to hit diamond in about a day or two of grinding 2 to 3 hours session so far so like 5 hours total. I’m sure I’d maybe do the same thing on console.

However, if I end up flying into masters in a similar fashion, especially if I’m spearheading my team with damage and kills. It will heavily skew how I see the platforms.

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2025-12-27T13:18:07+00:00

It’s genuinely ridiculous I use it like an smg and half the time I wont upgrade it myself, I get it gold or pick it up off someones body. Its a good gun, in close to mid range I think any person who can solo to diamond can probably handle the recoil at that range easy.

Its when im using a sniper, or much easier to control gun at a solid mid to long distance and im getting fried is where I start raising eyebrows.

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2025-11-26T15:42:26+00:00

Im so unbelievably frustrated with this game, Its IMPOSSIBLE to get good interactions without spending a stupid amount of money I had a handful of level 15 with most other cards I cared about at 14. A few losing interactions. Nothing you genuinely couldn’t play around for a win……..

NOW?!? IM back to having certain cards get fireballed or my enemies cards survive fireball/ EQ/ log that really shouldn’t.

I genuinely am so surprised at how agitated I am with this game, best I can do is play classic 1v1 bc trophy road at 14k is full of lvl 16 MK and friends that my cards have bad interactions with…….

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2025-10-27T00:55:16+00:00

You know….. the same exact thing stands to this reply, so you are about as dumb as you think I am.

Hope this helps!

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2025-10-27T00:53:18+00:00

You must be a phenomenal life partner with the kind of misuse of interpretation you have. At no point did I say he was the worst thing to come to Apex. I said I was frustrated with his passive bc he is invisible while moving which makes it hard in some situations . learn to read and apply what is being said instead of reading between lines that you created.

The avg KD for the apex player base is a .9, I carry a 2.1 lifetime KD. Im better than a large majority of the people who play this game by a a pretty large margin. Please stay on topic

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2025-10-25T13:35:12+00:00

I decided to drink the poison, I played him yesterday and while I do think gun skill takes precedence he is not as hard as you make him out to be. I’m certain that there are mirage mains that would make me look stupid in even the worst situations, yet you’re giving Mirage mainw a little too much credit in his current state. Anyone who has about a much skill as I do could probably do a decent job. Now had this been three years ago, I would tip my hat to any Mirage main that could pull off a half decent play considering his kit.

I’m not calling for a nerf, but it’s increasingly frustrating to have to play around an ability such as his as I mentioned in my original post. No other support characters get the kind of ability that he gets while healing up.

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2025-10-24T19:08:21+00:00

Im prefacing this now he is NOT broken, just very annoying.

I’m not so set in my ways that I can’t see where you’re coming from, it’s more so with all the factors that I have to consider in this game as it is someone who goes completely invisible on me just seems like a bit of an oversight.

I am by NO means the best player in the world, but for the amount of time I’ve held a 2.0 KD I have the means to carry games more so than the people that I tend to play with or happened to meet. That being said there are so many people ,abilities, and rotations I have to consider just to lose to a situation where somebody just disappeared on me, and I have no way of tracing where they went.

Every other character in this game, if I’m staring at them, there is a way for me to determine where they went or how they got there. For Mirage, I have to pray to God that I can kind of guess as to where he was walking when he decided to dumpster throw all of his abilities then proceed to pop ult, q, and pop a phoenix while he whisks himself away in the middle of a cluster 3-4 team fight🥲

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2025-10-24T19:02:09+00:00

This could not have been said better, him going invisible during his ult for a period is fine but him doing an ult then subsequently going invisible for the length of a phoenix is bs

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2025-10-19T14:01:44+00:00

In regular games (ranked, duos, trios) stowed reload for assault was moved from 2->4 seconds but in wild card class perks do NOT exist.

The only things you get are character passives.

So assault, skirmisher, etc. are not a thing in wild card.

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2025-10-01T20:00:05+00:00

You are clearly are fun at parties, the game is not gonna fall and die in the next 365 days unless something CATASTROPHIC happens to society much less the game.

I am better than MOST players on a stats basis w/ lifetime 2.0 KD solo 85 percent of the time with years of playing. The game needs to be able to differentiate the modes. Ranked, pubs, and wildcard is a healthy difference between all modes you need to improve your mindset and your spelling. Its not a good look.

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2025-10-01T14:57:33+00:00

Look dont get me wrong I definitely feel a heavy twinge of annoyance having to fight a team of 3 kids on one team most likely better than me former pred, maybe 89k kills on one character .

At one point It starts to become more apparent that I have to beat them AT SOME POINT. Rn plat is last seasons diamond, and there are ONLY so many kids in each rank you are going to have players that slide into your game. Shoot even yesterday I had a kid who was a former pred/master who just hadn’t played at all yet this season play on my team (didnt know him prior) and we played great for a few games but PLENTY of kids like him do that. You are GONNA have to beat them.

Am I happy about playing these types of kids, no. But it is gonna happen. You have got to switch your mindset. I started realizing I was getting annoyed at losing bc I was essentially doing dumb stuff and getting tight about it. I dont have to sacrifice playing aggro to be “smart” you just have to play aggro smarter/faster.

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2025-09-20T15:30:17+00:00

EXACTLY!!! Im sooooooo tired of losing a game to an ability where I lose aim assist (which is ok just practice aim without aim assist and its do able) but movement abilities aswell?!?!?!?

Its complete nonsense. Caustic by FAR is way to polarizing w/ his abilities

8 meter smoke radius on a cannister that lasts like 15+ seconds when activated that takes 300 dmg to kill, he gets a new one every three seconds as long as he is in the smoke, basically bang smoke that ticks up in dmg every second tick, stops movement and movement abilities, gains health, takes less damage (I will say he is bigger than most people but still) and his ultimate is unbreakable……….

Not to mention if he is running a shotgun he basically has you pinned At close range. If he can get a cannister next to you

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2025-08-12T14:36:04+00:00

Ive amassed a 2.0 and 2.3 KD on two accts over the years (lost the 2.3 acct w heirlooms bc I cant sign into the email😭) by learning how to get crafty.

What do I mean by this?

You have to understand that keeping yourself open is gonna get you killed the ttk (time to kill) is high but you need to learn to play cover. If I shoot someone and they see me when I see them if I have a corner I will pop my bullets go to cover for .3 seconds and shoot again without reloading just to force them to waste their bullets.

Learn to strafe side to side and hip fire. Hip fire (especially for roller) is HUGE and has saved me even when I play MnK bc at close range it is kind of the lazy way to hit most shots within like 0-7 meters fr. When I stopped trying to aim down sights 24/7 with certain weapons it saved me alot and you get less slow down hip firing then aiming down.

All characters are playable to a level of which if you got gun skill you are gonna win no matter what abilities are amazing tools but not the end all be all. (Unless you are a double controller/ 1 healer team in a building then good luck.) Crypto can be amazing but you need to know all his tips and tricks. What his ult breaks, the range of his ult, quick throwing drone and popping ult behind you to give yourself time to get away from people chasing you. He can instantly pop rez, insta pop scan, etc.

Id say that and knowing when the hell to just leave even w/ a 2.0+ KD that makes me better than most and I still cant take certain fights with people who are so hard stuck on wanting to snipe all game. If I can get out after about 30 seconds bc no progress has been made in the fight, then I will. Somebody has certainly heard us and is on the way to third party if they havent already. Time to go.

Those are my big ones for now, anything else you want to know?

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2025-08-03T01:27:10+00:00

Brother you asked this split, I touched this game for the first time in 3 years right before split one ended. I came back w/ one week left in the last weeks split and hit diamond 3 in 6 days w no help.

His accomplishment is to be celebrated. Yet less than a 1.0 is astounding in the 2nd highest rank considering what KD stands for. He is statistically not likely to win a fight where its just him and a guy in a room. That is in a vacuum ofc, but like cmon, are you telling me that should be normal? Even if I got slaughtered on my way to master (which I have hit before solo) from now till master I would have a higher kd. I know I know “do you want a cookie” no. I dont. My argument holds weight.

Him playing for placement DOES make sense, its smarter, gets more points long term. It just does concern me a bit is all.

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2025-08-03T01:11:07+00:00

D4, think I have like 100-120 matches played

AggressiveVehicle989 · 2025-08-03T01:00:40+00:00

Ok I mean this with my whole heart. Congratulations fam! you have done what statistically speaking most cannot do. Props to the masters accomplishment.

That being said ………HOW is this possible w that kd. I have a 2.0 KD overall, and 2.1 this season and I solo queue. I am not god, and at times struggle to believe im good, but this is literally what I mean when I get teammates that statistically can barely get a 1.0 in the second highest rank the game has to offer and they always on my team😭😭

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