What is the point of the silenced stun grenade?

[JoeHOVA]

Maybe I'm using it wrong, but to me it seems that it is intended to be a stealth gadget, but if you use it on guards you aren't able to subdue them, meaning you have to kill them and take a strike anyway. Not only that but it takes almost as much time for it to go off as it does for a guard to go from zero detection to full when looking at a zip-tied person.

Even on gangster missions it's easier to just shoot everyone with a silenced pistol, which I've always been able to get before the stun anyway.

Does anyone use the silenced stun effectively and can explain how to do so? Am I just bad, or is it a waste of an equipment slot?

[Leepow3r]

stun -> subdue -> wait for their animation -> ziptie
full meter does not mean anything, so when grenade goes boom subdue guards/gansters
they will be in "stunned" animation and as effect goes off, they go on their knees

[Steve]

Very good for both stealth and loud. That's all you need to know

[William Shakesman]

I have been able to subdue reliably with the silenced stun grenade but it can be finicky. Give it a few more tries and I think you'll find it lets you score subdues more often than you think. It also functions decently in firefights.

That said I've stopped using it and stuck with the brick for stealth missions.

[Keliad]

their silence stat is just that it wont trigger any alarms by blowing off. so you can use it for stealthing