My brother. If I can offer build advice: unlock the skills first, then max out the AA damage and attack speed with regen and boots mixed in somewhere between AA upgrades. Once you are doing 20 damage per swing with maxed out speed nobody will want to fuck with you face to face. After that play your game, I think the health on the anchor is a really good way to go.
Skol’s throw recently got nerfed, he used to be able to throw people from behind the turrets
*Funny thing about that, I played Swiggins because I got mollywhoped by a random Squid online last night. I decided to max out his Anchor swing first and holy hell is that thing powerful. I think I was running Cooldown, Damage and Extra Solar. The chain grab is pretty cool as well, stops pesky Froggies and Lonestars but I was always waiting to pick my chain back up. I think I ran extra damage when it breaks, movement and I’m forgetting the last one I picked.
AA all I remember is taking attack speed and ink blinding. I got ink absolutely last and didn’t get to use much.
Sucks about the Skollidir nerf. Throwing people is oddly satisfying. I don’t know what it is about it, but it feels great to impede people from trying to run away/play footsies.
And oh yeah, I hate Lonestar. That guy just pisses me off, dynamite and bull is pretty ridiculous, but add his mobility to the mix and he gets downright bonkers. Froggy and Leon are also quite annoying. But not Lonestar tier. *
I think my build is approximately this
The naut I’m going to work on learning is Sentry because I like tanking and he can do that shit for real.
Anybody going to be on tonight? I might see if my friend from work wants some beers but otherwise I’ll be looking to play.
I’m on right now.
I’m just too good with Skree even league 1 won’t stand a chance 
@DG frog and LS are not in Leon tier only Leon is 
Exodus watch out sentry is high damage high health but even with boots he is the slowest in game so he really is a sitting duck by himself never ever go farther than one centimeter away from a teammate
Anyone have some tips on Raelynn? I played her back when I originally started the game, but I’d like to know how to play her better.
I’m still trying to find the character I wanna learn lol. I’m pretty good with Anya now (much to your shock, zoolander), but she still will be ineffective to me until I can get her last upgrade. Gnaw is easy to be a pest, but I find his damage output is really lame late in the game, at least with Vines. If you can get vines leveled fast, they’re great, but at most they seem like just a good annoyance to delay the other team.
Still a few other characters I wanna learn. Squid fucker pisses me off with that anchor that locks you down.
Ted may not be for me, gotta experiment there some more.
However I really like Foxxy, her skills and stacks are appealing as is her mobility and general Star Fox behavior. I can dig using her.
Lrn2shoot. /troll
Play her crazy boringly lame and snipe droids with the upgrade that gives the solar on snipe hits. Other than that I have nothing for Rae. Get the droid with time rift too, but I hate playing Rae.
This was why I dropped him. Fuckin Gnaw was so cool.
Foxxy is a bad bitch :tup:. Plus I think her VA is cute.
I’m not tanking for myself. Gotta protect the teammates, dawg :tup:
I’m geting on now.
@Ayo Penny is probably the most complex character to use, I think only a few people have figured out her potential she’s really tricky but has a high skill cieling. The general concensus is that she was built to gank, apart from that she has so many different builds and styles you can go with probbaly the most versatile Naut.
She reminds me of an opposite Leon: Leon has only one good get away option and sustained damage, Penny has a few tools to dart away and relies more on burst damage. At least from my experiences so far, going to experiment with her though as she is appealing.
Even after you find a penny build that suits you well you also have to find a partner who you can gank with she requires a lot of synergy with teammates, I’m not a good pair with her since I use skree usually two support nauts don’t work well together.
GG’s guys super fun. Being able to take on leon 1v1 late game makes me feel like this:
The rage from the Gnaw sustained me, so much so I just focused on harassing and killing him to get more.
Took me a long time to de-rust but I think I got back into the flow pretty well. I made some awesome goddamn teleports with Sentry.
Started fucking with McPain. Loving just chucking grenades and air raids and never really being in danger.
Any of you fucknuts gonna hop on today? I’m almost level 100, soon I will start unlocking the good abilities for my dudes and dudette’s.
*Been sticking with Genji lately, this has lead to me getting rocked on daily basis. Maybe it’s just me, but when I play on a good team my Genji doesn’t have to overextend. But on bad teams my life becomes miserable.
I was rolling a pure support loadout, my teammates were a Vinny and a Derpl. The other team had Skolldir, Clunk and a Voltar. We got roflstomped badly. A couple other games went exactly like this but with different characters. All pretty meh games to near disasters.
In contrast, I played with my friend whose a league 2 and no matter which side I’m on, my team did pretty good. I didn’t have to try and do too much and instead acted as good support. A big difference I notice is how the higher league guys all take advantage of my cocoons much better.
I mixed it up a little bit yesterday though and tried playing some other characters. I suck ass with swiggins. I enjoy playing him, but I suck. Alot. Coco, I do better but I don’t think I’m effective with her. Vinnie is fun as fuck to play and I did okay with him. *
Gates talents are another reason I dont really like awesomenauts, makes me feel like its a waste of time
edit: I mean to say, it feels like a waste of time since I wont be playing at my full potential, artificially blocked from accessing talents and levels. I really dont like that, despite the gameplay itself being fun
Pimp Willy I totally understand your annoyance t gated abilities, but you can get every Naut ability fairly quickly a few hours of playingnandmyou should be maxed, which is why you can prestige so many times lol.
Also don’t assume the gated abilities are better than the ones you start out with, sometimes that’s true, but it really depends on your build and Naut.
@SoVi3t shotty damage and triple air strike are what make Ted so scary those are your priorities, he is a little slow and squishy so early game he’s fragile, but mid game those air strikes really help your team control lanes.
I pretty much just kill minions and hold back dudes with air strike and nades.
How do I triple air strike? I only know of the double one
@SoVi3t: Pretty sure that got removed and replaced with the double airstrike thing he has now. Before it was one launch and it would fire 3 back to back with reduced damage and increased CD. Old one was shitty IMO.
I’d be down for some games if anyone wants to play tomorrow. They added a new thing for custom bot AI in the recent patch and some of the bots Swiggins especially) are pretty good.
Oh they removed triple airstrike? lol that was pretty broken pre patch.