When Pendles Snipes You

Battleborn Battleborn Competitive Multiplayer Discussion
#48

Pendles…where to begin…

When the other team picks him, naturally the scenario you described happens all the time. I go up, KO someone, or two, and run like the dickens. Then, all of a sudden I’m dead because Pendles followed me all the way back to the charging station.

When I pick him, my team members are playing super defensive and I literally never get these chances. So I have to play ultra aggressive just to get the team moving.

I’ve noticed in PVP that FAAARRR too many people are worried about dying or being the highest killer. They play super defensive and then you get a boring ass game. I’m more than happy to go out and take on 2 or 3 guys and give all of them a run for their money. When I don’t have any backup to shoot them while they are shooting me, I have a problem.

Everyone in this game sure acts like a professional, but I’ve seen few who actually know what they are doing.

I do, however, like catching pendles off guard when he thinks nobody can see him. I’ve followed him a number of times. He thinks nobody sees him and I run directly up to him and BLAMO. Dead. LOL

#49

That’s what I love. Slow, jump, crit with lifesteal to the face, knockback, ult as he flees. Clean and simple. Almost as much as doing the same to ambra at full health and bypassing her overshield

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#50

Yes. This so much. It’s a joy sniping invisible blobs and getting KOs

#51

Lol, yep. You’re one of three who gave me trouble. Sadly your team wasn’t behind you so you couldn’t do as much. But it was terrifying when the screen was purple and I was slowed

#52

If you’re using the Quartermastery Bin, I would suggest +Movement Speed/+Sprint Speed Gear, you’ll not only be impossible to catch if things go wrong (revealed or caught red handed) But also traverse the map VERY quickly. There’s a +5.6 Movement Speed/+5.6 Sprint Speed epic (-heal power) that I use along with any other Sprint Speed gear (Go-Go Juice is best, but I use a -Recoil free sprint gear to get that boost from the start).

As soon as shards spawn, you’ll be able to get there before anybody and keep running around collecting all of them. If you are aware of the shard spawn timers, you’re set.

#53

ive done it with miko. It was hilarious. I ran right up to him and stunned him. It was pretty much over with then.

#54

I use the exact time same build with him. Those boots are my favorite piece of equipment in the game just because they make sense

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#55

Lol that’s great. I just got good enough to use Sporeshock (Trail of Spores is better if you can’t land the stun. Amazing slows across the entire lane), so I’ve yet to really use it that much. Helps with kills a lot though. (I mainly used him in PVE or super supporty so I am just embracing his skill at shutting down fools)

#56

it’s a huge risk/reward to be aggressive with it. Works well with people coming directly at you or hitting you in front. No aiming really, just hit the button.

#57

I blame the team comp and the map personally

#58

Yeah other was sad. There a few who can do great independent of team (Orendi, Thorn, Ambra), but Pendles si the one who’s distinctly hindered by history team, along with Kelvin and Attikus and such

#59

A question- sometimes I see Pendles’ outline after he’s stealthed (not that the predator blob is that hard to spot in the open) and I’ve had the outline persist even when he ran behind a building to go destroy some of our back defenses. What exactly causes that? Is it just a bug?

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#60

It is indeed a bug. You may have noticed, but effects like slows and dots (Mellka’s and Ambra’s especially) sometimes linger in an area. Luckily, they don’t actually affect you, they’re just animations. Unfortunately for poor Pendles, his passive interacts in a way where those effects, including reveals, can stay permanently attached to him, ruining his game. Remember though, buildables and sentries won’t see him. He’s not actually revealed, the effect is just still around him. By playing Ambra (two reveals and a DOT), you can exploit this and ruin their day.

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#61

While I wouldn’t say I ENJOY playing against a good Pendles, I do enjoy when I beat him 1 vs. 1 way away from the combat zone, yes. It’s one of the few instances where I may actually taunt, both as a “don’t step to me!” and a honorific “nice try, gg.”

When a good Pendles gets me, I just give him a tip of the cap and remind myself to be more focused, take nothing for granted as a safe zone.

Was playing in Meltdown, on headset with friends. I pull a particularly brazen double-kill as Gal, leaving me very low on health. I had used Abyssal Form during the battle and it was on cooldown, so I shield up and withdraw from lane as enemy reinforcements arrive, and I’m heading for a supply station. When I get “out of danger,” I drop shield and sprint. I’m maybe two steps from the area of effect…

Pendles strikes. I’m down almost instantly. I don’t know how long that guy had been watching me make my retreat, but he waited until the moment I didn’t really have an ally around for support, struck hard and fast, and got out.

On mic, I exclaim: “Ahh, man. I was two steps away from the heal station and Pendles got me. Good for him.”

Ally: “Good for him?!?!?! You’re too (expletive deleted) nice, man! I’d have been mad as hell!”

Me: “Nah, that’s Pendles’ job. It was a good play.”

A little later, I got him back. It wasn’t fancy or anything. He sprung on an ally who was defending against a wave, I shield tossed and werq’d dat snek hed.

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#62

as marquis my most satisfying kills were when inexperienced pendles would try to chase me to spawn…right by the sentry…and i’d drop a reveal owl…

#63

Yep, same. I don’t feel anger, just determination and respect for a job well done.

#64

Awwwwwwwww, I’d feel bad. Although I don’t when playing my mains (Orendi and Ambra) so I guess I don’t have much room to speak here. Although I can say, when he came out, I wasn’t affected for a lil over a month.

#65

it was more because it was chaos rumple and I noticed him trying to hard focus me, which is fine. but…He tried to chase me all the way to my second sentry…I even said “my owls will reveal you.” beforehand!

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#66

Lol. That’s just bad

#67

after that I decided to drive the point home hard, he’d run up on the fight in lane so i’d drop an owl(i’m weird, a lot of the time i play marquis as a german pistolero for those sweet sweet crits to reduce my cooldown) and just let him run himself to death. but i’ve gotten very good at spotting distortions since playing against pendles.

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