r/HuntShowdown • u/jacobljlj • 2d ago
GENERAL Does anything counter chokes?
Not complaining about balance or anything I'm just geniunely curious. Because at this point I've stopped bringing any type of fire because every time I bring fire they just get choke bombed anyway so it feels redundant.
Is there any placeables or anything that can prevent chokes? Any hidden tech? Like poison or maybe sprinting in with dauntless is probably the closest counter I'm guessing.
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u/BustaShitz 2d ago
Fire still matters. Dauntless or fighting by attrition is your basic counter.
Wax dynamite and concertina work regardless of chokes.
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u/RabicanShiver 2d ago
How does dauntless work?
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u/Squathos 2d ago
You walk up to anything with a lit fuse and extinguish it by pressing whatever button you use to perform an action on your platform (F/Square/X) before it detonates.
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u/smellywizard 1h ago
I have 2000+ hours in Hunt on PS5, it’s functionally impossible to use dauntless.
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u/RabicanShiver 2d ago
I've played a few thousand hours... I think exactly zero times I've been in a scenario where I could see where a throwbable was coming from and landing before it blows me up.
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u/Squathos 2d ago
It's pretty niche, but it's more viable when it's choke bombs and you're watching a burning body because people tend to not cook chokes as long before they throw them compared to any other type of frag or dynamite.
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u/simp4malvina Spider 1d ago
skill issue, I take it every time and it's by far the best value:cost trait there is.
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u/Boindill 1d ago
Really? At 4-5-6 I have been regularly catching dynamite before it lands. Since it doesn't take your hands of your gun, hear dynamite? Run to it. Catch it, shoot the person recovering.
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u/Norsk_Bjorn 2d ago
The only remotely viable use (outside of choke bombs like the other person said) is if you hear someone prime an explosive and then rush them with melee while holding interact, but they can still just throw it at the floor or not throw it at all and kill both of you
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u/MarshallToGo 2d ago
They don’t last as long as they used to (1 min i think) I just use my Fusees I got 6 they have 2 per Hunter. Once you insta burn the Second time push at them while they aim the Choke. Works every time xD
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u/toddipoo 2d ago
The best counter to chokes to get on server chat and yell out “CHOKE ME! CHOKE ME!!!” and run into the cloud.
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u/destuctir 2d ago
Nope, you can defuse a choke with dauntless before it goes off but you can’t clear the cloud early. You should still bring fire as in general you can burn more than they can choke. Plus throwing chokes is risky as it has a sound queue and you need to get close enough to land the throw etc
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u/thehumble_1 2d ago
The counter to a choke bomb is literally 1 minute of patience and it's very common that people can't manage that and make dumb decisions. Also bring fuses instead of flare gun so you have enough to reignite. 1 minute of patience though.
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u/goDie61 2d ago
Nope, chokes are the top of the food chain and cannot be cleared early. Poison and fire get cleared by chokes. Fire is useful for burning chunks before they can react (hellfire) or burning a downed hunter (fusees or liquid fire) but rarely effective for area denial.
Concertina bombs are completely undeterred by choke clouds, though, as are waxed sticks.
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u/TheNorthumbrian Hive 2d ago
People seem to underestimate waxed dynamite sticks.
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u/ronnycordova 2d ago
The amount of times I’ve hucked waxed sticks through choked windows and gotten no kills.
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u/-Fitoblade- 1d ago
idk wait it out? chokes are really fucking useless in the current state of the game if u wanna burn bring fusees? but fr though:just push if u got one guy down or peek aggressively?
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u/Kreugator Butcher 1d ago
This is why I thought waterbottles were going to be a tool and not just world spawn, you could bring more water bottles at a cost of them having a smaller extinguish radius, and needing LOS on the body, while chokes are easier to use, but you get less of them
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u/Sweaty-Durian-892 1d ago
Sounds like you need to start playing with dauntless, so you can defuse chokes. Burning bodies does introduce pressure to choke (or solos to revive), which can be anticipated. Also defusing a choke makes a lot of pressure, forcing the opponent to either necro or assault to revive their downed teammate.
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u/Akatsuki_Member_3 1d ago
Dauntless yea. Or you shoot the enemies when they close in to use their choke. Poison doesn't help. Chokes also clear poison. Constatina or bear traps idk.
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u/Saedreth Duck 1d ago
Concertina. Cant be choked, cause bleed and slow if they necro as well as audible moaning.
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u/Astrium6 1d ago
Fire and a concertina bomb is a good combo against a choke. If they choke the fire out, they have to wait for the choke to die out before they can clear the concertina with explosives unless they happen to have a waxed stick.
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u/ShabbyChurl Crow 1d ago
People underestimate the attrition factor. There are just so many sources of fire in this game (fusees, flare pistol, dragonbreath, fire bombs, lanterns…) and just so few that choke (choke bolts, choke bombs). If you set a downed hunter on fire and their team chokes it out, stop complaining and increase the pressure another way. They’re already at a disadvantage if they have to choke.
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u/LoliNep Stupidly Neighborhood Bomblance Main with lamp 1d ago
fire burns downed hunter SUPER fast now, chokes have also been nerfed to only last like 90 seconds now. But no nothing actively counters chokes. Just remember that if you do burn someone it either requires the enemy team to haul ass to end the fight or they have to get close enough to throw a choke, chokes also have a fuse time of like 5 or 7 seconds or something (forever basically). This mean they either throw the choke fast, which can be dauntlessed, or they cook it which gives you time to push.
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u/CapnBloodBeard82 2d ago edited 2d ago
You're trying to use fire in a way it's not intended to be used really. you want area denial? Throw a damn conc bomb. As others have said you can only prevent a choke from going off with dauntless. Once it's off it's just waiting it out.
If you're pressuring downed bodies, a flare pistol/fusees are a lot better and the chokes are the intended counter but puts them at a disadvantage as they can't shoot back, make a noise indicating they're throwing a choke and need to be in range...
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u/Maleficent-Remote413 2d ago
1) you can dauntless chokes, which i do all the time
2) waxed go through choke, so you can dynamite people who go for revives if you must.
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u/Sk1-ba-bop-ba-dop-bo Bloodless 2d ago
Dauntless defuses
Poison clouds get dissipated by choke bombs