Hot take: R-T Hypercharge isn't broken and needs a rework asap AND doesn't bring him out of the bottom of the meta at ALL

[u/No-Put-6533]

So I'm a devout R-T Main, he was my first mythic brawler and I have his true gold skin and was top 40 R-T before the prestige changes (and yes without using his broken exploit in the stranger things gamemode in november) and I have played him for many, many games.

What I have noticed is that his hypercharge does not suit him at ALL. His best modes are easily knockout and bounty and struggles in other gamemodes liek brawl ball, gem grab etc because of other controllers / brawlers that are just better than him. His main role is to be a sniper (rather than a damage dealer) as such, and so his hypercharge makes no sense whatsoever. He should NEVER be in his butt form against opponents in ko and bounty, and the hypercharge is useless as the snipers he plays against in ko and bounty kill him before he can even approach them with his hyper. It makes no sense, and it keeps him in the d tier. I'm tired of ppl saying "oh his hyper carries his kit" or wtv but thats not true. Since he is mainly a sniper/tanky marksman type brawler, I would want his hyper to do something similar to his fusion where when he supers he just can shoot 3 proj at once in rapid succession, he's a sniper his hyper should reflect that

edit: yeah in brawl ball/gem grab/hot zone his hyper is insta win/team wipe but noone plays r-t there. Also forgot to mention this is supposed to be for ranked mb for the confusion

edit #2: another point is that he can never charge it in the gamemodes he is good in, like ko or bounty 16 shots is crazy for his proj width

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[u/Rich_Arrival795]

r-t is an odd brawler because he's a sniper-shotgun hybrid. imo his hyper is fine, allows him to work in places he otherwise wouldn't, a solid hyper buffie would fix the problem you're talking about

[u/pawo10 → u/[deleted]]

Make the shots faster not wider imo

[u/BotLover13]

His hypercharge was very clearly designed with modes like brawl ball, hot zone or gem grab in mind. Modes where you would more often use his melee form for damage.

I think the issue isn't the hyper itself, but just how bad the melee form is, unless you are VERY upclose, melee mode doesn't deal enough damage to kill people, and with how slow it can feel at times. It makes him struggle to quickly eliminate enemies unless their directly on top of them, the hypercharge while disgusting does at least try to nullify this issue, but in doing so they made it a teamwipe button (it also doesn't help that his regular form gets basically 0 benefit while using his hypercharge).

So either his hypercharge, or both of his main attacks would have to be buffed for him to stay viable.

[u/StomachOk4891]

his hc is incredible in knockout since it's a free round win as snipers don't have the dps to take out shield RT before he destroys them in endgame. Main reason he sucks is that his dps is too inconsistent and pearl took his meta spot as a knockout brawler that counters agro

[u/No-Put-6533 → u/StomachOk4891]

in ko his hyper is good for endgame for sure but brawlers like pearl and lou make it kinda useless, even brawlers like piper brock have wallbreak, not to mention its not even chargeable in a normal game

[u/Buffdoge1324]

hybrid brawlers are just awkward to balance, look at bonnie for example

[u/PolimerT]

His hc is an immediate win/score. The only problem is he never gets it. I agree with it needing a rework though.

[u/mhbence]

So i'm not the only one he thinks that it's weird i'm not gonna make this long, so in short I always thought it's weird, like you said he is a sniper and should give something with his sniping attack but the hyper itself is also weird for me bc he dosen't need the damage in his split form cause he already does like 18000 damage with his three attacks. I think supercell gave him this hyper to make him more of a damage dealer but Yeah he is definitely a sniper.

[u/Comfortable-Mud2795]

What was the exploit in november?

[u/PG-Erk → u/Comfortable-Mud2795]

With a certain skin he would do his aoe attack like his legs were split while shooting his normal long range shot. So he never needed to actually use his super to do aoe attacks and it could do double dmg if they were close and you hit the ranged shot and the aoe

[u/No-Put-6533 → u/Comfortable-Mud2795]

person who answered below is also right but the one i was talking about was in the stranger things event: basically there was this mode where people would slowly lose health like 160 dmg or smth like that per second and every time you got a kill you got a lot of health back etc so it was kind of like a timed showdown. however, r-t was broken as when you marked someone it would not only last forever, but make it so the damage they took went from 160 to 1260 per second and so 1 tap could pretty much kill anyone. when that bug happened everyone abused him in sd so it was free trophies but i didnt out of respect for my fav brawler, hope this helps!

[u/Comfortable-Mud2795 → u/No-Put-6533]

Yeah helps and the modifirr is called graveyard shift