I HATE CASSIDY | Rat Rants

[@thatguybman]

Hello! I play Cassidy and while I won't tell you to just get good and that it's a skill issue. I'm going to challenge your points here and try to clear some things up on my end. 1. Yes, Cassidy's damage is pretty insane, BUT- the only value he gets is on headshots. Which isn't as easy as it sounds during normal gameplay where there's constant movement and chaos unfolding. 2. Fanning the Hammer isn't as broken as it you said it is, if a tank is being pocketed by like- a mercy or something, it's gonna be really hard to try and snag kills with it. Not to mention that fanning really only works at close range because of it's wild nature which puts Cassidy in serious danger unless he has supports behind him and even then, a good tank could easily shred his 275 healthpool if he's not paying attention. Frankly, you actually have a bit of an advantage over Cassidy with your bombs as junkrat because of the range they can travel, he doesn't. He only works at mid-close range. So Junkrat's longer range can pose massive trouble to Cassidy as well, same with Soldier 76, Baptiste, Widow, etc 3. His roll's recharge honestly feels fine, and it has a pretty small range, the 6 second cooldown can feel like 6 minutes in the middle of a fight when you can't get to cover, and the short range makes it impossible to disengage from the middle of a team fight unlike reaper's Wraith Form/Teleport or Moira's Fade. 4. Cassidy can 100% be flanked or dived, a panicked Cassidy will probably whiff his shots more than anything, not to mention dive tanks have superior mobility that he just does not have. While Winston's damage is subpar at best, he can easily disengage when needed, Cass cannot as said before. 5. Also, the addition of characters like Kiriko and Illiari have served to be issues for Cass, longer range hitscan and projectiles easily counter him. While I get your points, I feel like this stems more from anger and not an actual issue with the character itself. Cassidy is very well balanced and while he can be an issue, he's nowhere near as threatening as a Bastion or Widow could be to your team, Bastion can shred tanks even faster and more efficiently than Cassidy can 6. One more thing I'm gonna add, Cass's Ult leaves him so much more open, since he has to basically charge it up to get any mileage, it's easy to pick him off during it. Those are my points and what I've taken away from this, feel free to contest them if you feel obligated.

[@engineergaming3830]

in diamond and up cassidy players have preety insane headshot accuracy in my experience hell even if u dive him he's just gonna nade u making it even easier to headshot and forget about panicking if ur going in alone ur propably the one dying lol

[@ufhheko7044]

@@engineergaming3830 so is tracer mains and genji mains . they can bait his nade and just one clip him

[@thedapperrat]

Shoutout to this guy. I appreiate your comment and I just wanna say all my POVs are coming from low plat so obviously most of my problems are likely skill issue 1. I agree, pretty sure I said his mid-range shots are skillful. I should've put more emphasis on that but malding at a character in a videogame makes for better content 2. I agree that fanning isn't great at far range nor is amazing for snagging kills on a squishy without some skill however against tanks it's a pretty easy shot as well as a gruesome amount of damage. I also wanna take this chance to clarify that realistically none of his abilities are 10/10 OP but they are all so effective that it makes Cas as a whole OP at least from my perspective. Like the Bastion example, sure Bastion is an incredibly good HP shredder but that literally all he has going for him and even then there is a setup time. If Bastion had turret mode as an immediately equippable secondary fire then he would be busted, and that's what Cas feels like to play against 3. His roll as a movement ability is less than mediocre, the issue is the added benefits of 50% dmg reduction letting him survive almost anything and the instant reload of his clip making his Fan the hammer way more lethal. 4. against squishies his stun grenade makes them sit still, staying calm is needed for anyone to make a good shot but Cas has an extra ability to relieve some of that stress. As for mobility his nade shuts that down too so if a tank or any high mobility character tries to use their mobility to leave he can stop them in their tracks 5. Fair-ish, Projectiles are more difficult to intentionally hit a target but I'd agree Kiri spam is annoying, as for Illari I can recognize she has better poke than Cas and crazy damage but I dont know enough about her kit to say if that is to compensate for lacking elsewhere 6. His ult did recently get some love but overall I agree with this sentiment

[@user96247]

i agree. the uploader clearly have skill issues dealing with mcree. bronze to plat mcree are easy to counter. above diamond, you'll see pretty much spot on headshot mcree. just, git gud bro. its a skill issue and skill diff.

[@a_dirty_wrx]

just wait until this guy learns about old cass' flashbang in ow1

[@thedapperrat]

*gulp*

[@a_dirty_wrx]

@@thedapperrat oh, thoughts on the cass buff?

[@thedapperrat]

​@@a_dirty_wrx it worries me a little but making his hinder lower makes him a little more viable as a dive target for tanks so I think it might be okay For flank and dive type squishies it should be relatively the same, the damage increase will make his nade scarier but the reduced time hindered gives cas a little less time to line up a headshot, so more beefy dive/flankers like venture and maybe reaper should do well but in reapers case the issue was lack of escape plan more so than anything. at least in my ranks

[@ratmilk9260]

quite literally a skill issue.

[@monoponok8998]

Watching this rant made me want to put more time into Mcree

[@snortingcentral8856]

How in the world did you get the name wrong after a whole video were his name is used like 500 times

[@pixelatedpyrotechnic]

@@snortingcentral8856 keep sucking corpo 🐔 his name will always be MCREE

[@dillonrameraz7082]

@@snortingcentral8856 I heard Mcree

[@hades8072]

cassidy is a dive victim. thats why hes not good in the current meta because if hes being dove beyond something like a single tracer he becomes the vulnerable target. hes also not a poke character at all he shoots gusts of air past 15m and has always been a close range brawl hero.

[@jaywalk65]

genuinely curious, when did you start playing? I’m not trying to sound rude, but i’ve been here since launch and this feels like a new player perspective to me

[@thedapperrat]

Yeah I am really knew, started playing the season before Mauga's release and climbed the ranks fast, as a whole just like Pharah and in some capacity Genji, I think I'll get over it as I get better but currently he is a really annoying character for me

[@kingofgrim4761]

I also hate Cassidy. Even the hanzo matchup is rough unless you play spamzo, because cass can effectively kill you mid range far faster than you can kill him. Headshots feel like nothing on him because he’s usually able to get behind cover and be back to 2 shot in seconds

[@mochilatte9792]

to be fair. get good. its insanely hard to hit fan shots on anything but a tank, though i can admit the flashbang is annoying, they gave ashe, the arguably more annoying character with no damage fall off scope in and burn damage, the fancy dynamite mcree should have had.

[@GabeThaGoober]

Idk if I’d call Cas a tank buster. DVA or monkey just dive him and he’s helpless. I don’t think he needs to be nerfed.

[@thedapperrat]

I'd agree with Dva but as a Monkey main I'd have to hard disagree. Cas, Bastion and maybe Junkrat are the only boots on ground DPS you can't 1v1 without bubble, Even Reaper is an easier dive provided you use terrain as cover. With bubble that shortens the list down to just Bastion but by this point you're trying to force value out of an unfavorable situation.

[@luisedgaraviladorantes1811]

That's like, Your opinion, man.

[@thedapperrat]

real and true my friend

[@nicoko1894]

venture is they/them, not she/her. hope this helps :D

[@monoponok8998]

You still have time to delete this lil bro

[@almas4663]

@@nicoko1894 They/them don't exist. Only He/Him and She/Her

[@nicoko1894]

​@@almas4663stay bigoted lil bro, im sure youll make it far in life!

[@TempestMaximus]

​@@almas4663 Facts

[@almas4663]

@@nicoko1894 There's nothing bigoted. It's a fact. They/them is a social construct, He/Him and She/Her is nature

[@user96247]

he is still mcree, not cassidy. no matter how much people say, its still mcree.

[@bool1195]

L

[@foowa6900]

So u support sexual harassment

[@Null94]

Omg cry more

[@almas4663]

​@@Null94 Clowns

[@Anony12387]

yeah lets call him his old name, which was named after an ex employee (SEX OFFENDER) and not his new one. weirdo

[@therightattachment574]

His name is Mcree I don’t care

[@almas4663]

He is and forever be McCree, and weirdos who try to pretend otherwise are speaking volumes on what kind of people they are.

[@dman7985]

His name has been Cassidy for years bro get over it 💀 deep in your feelings about a name

[@SERRATIONS]

He's a rapist, get a fucking life

[@MalanQuezo]

You're right, mcree died with his stun, and we got Cassidy as a shitty replacement made in China

[@almas4663]

@@dman7985 And he's been McCree for even more years

[@almas4663]

@@dman7985 Imagine if Darth Vader was one day renamed "Dark Willy"