Light shield or heavy shield
I heard light shield and heavy shield have very similar performance in many situations. So whats the situation that I can build light shield instead of heavy shield to save some money for next round while having similar effect to heavy shield.
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it's v complicated I'd say if your enemies have max guns and you're going to be either camping in a corner or playing very open or an off angle is a good time, that's the most obvious ones there's a lot of situations light shield is totally fine and I think you just need to adapt to the situation
Thanks
hey, I am currently #14k in EU. I personally buy light shield on eco rounds and when the enemy doesn't have an outlaw. Also since most people are playing vandals, they will pop you with one headshot no matter what if they hit you first. So light shield gives you 600 more creds and you can still survive 4 body shots with the vandal and phantom. The only difference is that enemies can now one tap you with a sheriff, outlaw and phantom on most distances. Generally if I don't have at least 6000 credits next round I am not buying full shield besides few exeptions. I think it is pretty useful, especially for ranked, to get a better overall economy. At the end of the day, like Lira said, your buy is depending on what the opponent is playing.
I can see what weapon enemies bought before the game starts?
Never paid attention to that
nah you can't
but for example
you lose the pistol round, the enemy jett buys an outlaw, you end up losing the round and jett survives you now know the enemy jett is playing an outlaw going into the next round. that means if you buy light shield she will still be able to one tap you to the body.
so in that situation I would probably buy full shield
So I need to predict which weapon the enemy may buy, thanks
yes
Also I guess if the enemies may use low damage per hit weapons like stinger heavy shield prob will let me survive one more hit
depends on rank tbh
if you are high rank chances are they 1 tap most of the time
so heavy shield wouldnt matter
but since outlaw is a thing just predict the enemies buying
second round on winniners side people mostly go for outlaw
so either full eco or full shield something
Outlaw is scary if you without a full shield
ye full save then
low elo (asc and below): heavy shield
high elo (immortal and up): light shield
Sometimes I build a SMG and try to sneak behind if I lose first round
yeah thats what im saying
well if you lose you lose 2nd and most likely 3rd
yep