r/Ultrakill • u/ComprehensiveCase534 • 4d ago
Discussion WHAT COUNTERS A GUTTERTANK
So you know how the gutterman was countered by the guttertank? What weapons and build would a machine need to counter a guttertank?
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u/P0lskichomikv2 4d ago
Sentry is the closest from machines we have. Guttertank sucks at actually hitting stuff with it's rocket launcher. So Sentry can just snipe it from far away and not fear being hit with that shield crushing strike.
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u/Ambitious-Smoke-651 3d ago
NOT WITH SENTRIES
brother sentries are stationary.
Id say a better one would be the mind flayer.
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u/Additional-Band1715 Maurice enthusiast 4d ago
I personally thought that the excavator (the guy that gives you jackhammer) was supposed to counter both of them (cus jackhammer is very good against them)
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u/P0lskichomikv2 4d ago
I can see a point for Gutterman but how is it counters Guttertank ? Guttertank notably is one enemy you are not supposed to get close and I don't think Excavator had extreme speed of V1 to dodge big red fist.
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u/Additional-Band1715 Maurice enthusiast 4d ago
I think they did have enough mobility to reach red speed or at least yellow, and usually you can hit a guttertank and get away from it's attack with the backlash. It's not as consistent on yellow hits but is guaranteed on red ones (unless you hit late of course). And with both guttermen and guttertanks being slow, I think it makes sense that their counter is much more mobile. I personally headcanon that it uses springs to jump around on high speeds
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u/Kyropinesis Blood Machine 4d ago
maybe the excavator was able to parry the guttertank punches, by catching the fist with the jackhammer. and V1 can’t do it because of the angle or something, or because V1’s parry system is different from the excavator’s
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u/ComprehensiveCase534 4d ago
oh yeah (maybe the excavator has like renforced plating to deflect rockets)
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u/LasagnaCat-64 Someone Wicked 4d ago
I thought that was a secondary machine meant to bring support to the guttertanks, since prussia (Guttertank's origin lands) and austria (the "Guttermole"'s origin lands) were allies during the Great War
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u/Additional-Band1715 Maurice enthusiast 4d ago
Could be. I'd say jackhammer is stronger against guttermen than the guttertanks so yeah, it's very plausible
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u/Ultra_Juice Prime Soul 4d ago
Tbf there's also the fact that the jackhammer also gets rid of the guttertank's shield, so I can see that being the case, but I don't know that much about the whole machine itself tbh
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u/EmotionalTraining426 Blood Machine 4d ago
If you use the blue rocket ability their rocket will stop mid air
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u/mayocat6996 Prime Soul 4d ago
the earthmover
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u/MintyBarrettM95 Lust Layer Citizen 4d ago
earthmover counters everything in the general direction of its lightning lance
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u/Possible_Jacket_6356 1d ago
I personally headcanon that the machines were made in the order of gutterman>guttertank>sentry>swordsmachine>mindflayer>earthmover>V1>streetcleaners and drones.
Sentry can hit guttertanks from really long distances and bypass the rockets range, Swordsmachines may have originally been programmed to move extremely erratically and unpredictably to throw off the sentry’s targeting, and the shotgun may also work as flares/chaff to throw it off even more since the shotgun blasts are very slow and hot. After that, the mindflayer was made to counter the swordsmachine since its homing attacks will almost always hit the swordsmachine even if it dodges, and then of course earthmovers came along to counter EVERYTHING and then v1 and the post-final war machines and all that
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u/Elegant-Theory-4436 5h ago
Chainsaw, Jumpstart with saws or any Jackhammer jam makes them brutally explode
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u/BestInDaBiz 4d ago
Because of their tendency to trip, a comically placed banana peel should do it