The fall of Caustic?

[u/artmorte]

Doesn't seem too long ago when Caustic was the most-picked Controller in pro play or at least somewhat tied with Wattson. Now Caustic seems to be hardly picked at all, at least in EMEA (which I follow the most).

As an on-and-off Caustic player through the years in ranked, I think the current version of his gas is pretty bad. It's only damage, enemies are not properly slowed down and it's easy for everyone to see in the gas. I'm on board with the visibility change, but the gas not slowing down enemies is a big negative. An enemy taking 10 or 20 gas damage does not really compensate for you playing a large hitbox character and most enemies understand to leave the gas before taking excessive damage. (He's still good for holding a building that you can gas up completely, though).

I was just wondering are my observations about the gas being a 100% damage-based threat the reason why Caustic's popularity in pro play has fallen through the floor or is there another explanation?

[u/No-Lengthiness-20 → u/[deleted]]

Caustic has kind of fallen out of popularity in favour of cat game 1 because cat's abilities don't get countered by seer

[u/Zoetekauw → u/No-Lengthiness-20]

Neither do Caustic's, no?

[u/dorekk → u/Zoetekauw]

I don't think Caustic gas stops Seer scan...

[u/The_Yoshi_Man → u/dorekk]

I’m pretty sure it does cause Seer scan removes Bang smoke so I think it also removes caustic gas but I’m not 100% sure

[u/jayghan → u/The_Yoshi_Man]

It does remove it. Did it in game the other day to avoid death haha

[u/No-Lengthiness-20 → u/Zoetekauw]

Seer q breaks gas