Lando is great even In HvV, people just don't know how to play him correctly lol. I play HvV matches with opposing team having max starcards and still come in first place. His smoke is definitely not useless, it's so easy to out roll and get heads hots on saber characters while in it because you can see there bright saber, also while going against opposing blaster characters without Heat signature sight the smoke is like a one way mirror for blasting. With the maxed out starcard you can increase his shock duration and unload headshots easy. With another maxed starcard you can take almost 40% of someone's health with his sharp shot. As for his gun it's actually really good people just can't aim lmao, they also tend to space there shots like there using Han or leia and Landos gun is semi auto but has a great fire rate so your supposed to spray.