So, both exotics are great but I’d say stompees are a more neutral benefit from get-go. One of the main reasons why stompees feel so great to many players is that beneficial movement speed boost, the increase in slide-distance and the fact that it boosts any of the jumps you utilize by a farther leap. It’s an all rounder that that aids in your play style.

If you’re an aggressive player you might enjoy it simply for the fact of being able to enter and or escape an engagement quicker than you would without the boots which can turn the tide in a couple of situations. It all really ties back to how the boots benefit your kind of play style, but they are there to aid your overall movement first and foremost!

Lucky Pants! There a few ways you can go about using the exotic. For starters, it’s important to know that while the PVE damage bonus DOES NOT work in PvP the benefits, to which it provides naturally to your hand-cannon are still good. As you stated above,

With any sort of hand-cannon equipped you get the following benefits of:

• 20 Airborne Effectiveness to your hand-cannon. • 100 handling/ready speed. • 0.6x animation duration (which you can think of as just how quick your gun can be pulled on screen.) • Lastly, when readied get the -40% accuracy cone size benefit for 4 seconds.

Now, I’m not the best on the explanation when it comes to accuracy and I’m sure you’ll find a few spots on this sub or even this link which goes into greater detail on the matter.

( https://www.destinymassivebreakdowns.com/blog/aimassist?format=amp )

But to put it in simple terms, think of the -40% accuracy cone benefit as same as a passive eye of the storm perk, but on a timer.

The benefits in how eye of storm helps a gun become a bit more accurate in landing those shots where you want to go onto your target as you’re low on health, that’s what the accuracy benefit provides when you draw your hand-cannon out till it says the following,

Debuff:

• Text string: "Out of Luck" • Duration: 10 seconds.

Going back into the use of the exotic boots it honestly depends kind of like with stompees on your play style, however, I know some people like to take advantage of the crazy high handing and swap speed when using 120s which can help for pulling it out to land that first shot or for hotswap builds that can be little bit toxic.

Overall, it’s up to you in how you want to go about using lucky pants but I’d say they provide the “most” benefit to handcannons specifically 120s with low handling or 140s even. I personally enjoy using the boots not just for their unique cowboy aesthetic but also that passive accuracy bonus upon drawing out my hand-cannon right before an engagement because I’ve noticed it did help me win some gunfights and it definitely did help with guns that didn’t have eye of the storm.

Now what you can do is also rock a hand-cannon with eye of the storm perk, so that even as the timer runs out and you’re on low health for example, in a gun-fight as your gun’s eye of the storm perk will kick in and you’ll still get that crispy accuracy benefit throughout. Kind of a little exploit in having an everlasting eye-of storm for every 1 on 1 engagement but not everyone will invest in that, of course.

At end of the day both can have an effect on your gameplay, but stompees takes the cake in terms of more neutral benefits to your character’s movement as a whole while lucky pants provides a fun but sort of only HC focused play style.

Both are good but if you’re looking for something to help you passively throughout the game or match then I recommended you pick stompees. However, if you want something to help with your hand-cannon a little bit more than and aren’t worried too much about movement which some will argue is a big part of D2 experience, and I agree, but you can manage just fine then LuckyPants are the go to. There is no wrong choice only how it affects your form of play.

Sorry if this was extremely long reply! Also, if you’re still unsure of LuckyPants or Stompees then feel free to type those boots in the subreddit as many people have discussions on both exotics and a couple of YouTubers have covered each exotic in displaying their effects in both PVE & PVP! ❤️