We need a nerf to discourage pocketing

[Yankee Jade]

Far too many times have I seen a Medic pocket some random Soldier or Demo and they just destroy everything because the have a Kritzkreig shoved up their ♥♥♥. Any ideas on how to nerf pocketing?
Edit: I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing inherently wrong with pocketing and that I'm just very salty about the Kritzkreig, and therefore, I hereby declare this discussion dead.

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Pocketing is way too easy to counter.
Destroy the rest of their team first, then focus all firepower onto them.

[Isoply]

Kill them.

[Team Blueplant]

id rather nerf crockets, but thats just me

most of the options to counter a kritz are situational (fist of steel, batallions backup, vaccinator, a regular uber) or require some sort of skill (sniper, spy, pyro airblasting a crit rocket or pipe back at them)

but more thats all i can think of that we have at the game now, maybe make that uber doesnt go up when healing overhealed targets? that would atleast force the medic to change heal targets

[Everik]

Originally posted by Collapsing Time Rift:

Pocketing is way too easy to counter.
Destroy the rest of their team first, then focus all firepower onto them.

Kinda hard to do when the pocket demo is spamming crit stickies at our spawn

[/JELL-E/]

Nerf? The only thing we need to nerf right now is engi. Sure, pockets can be annoying, but engineer makes ctf/koth/any gamemode which doesn't require a moving objective unplayable. His counters barely work since spies are far too easy to root out and the entire team is on your side to ensure nothing bad happens to you and your sentries. Maybe make it so that he has to hit the sentry more to repair it or have more metal involved in upgrading it.

[[Vzla] Mr. Why?]

Originally posted by OOZE_LORD:

Nerf? The only thing we need to nerf right now is engi. Sure, pockets can be annoying, but engineer makes ctf/koth/any gamemode which doesn't require a moving objective unplayable. His counters barely work since spies are far too easy to root out and the entire team is on your side to ensure nothing bad happens to you and your sentries. Maybe make it so that he has to hit the sentry more to repair it or have more metal involved in upgrading it.

*cof cof* demoman *cof cof*

[General Butt Naked]

Just kill off the medic First and then focus on the soldier. It isn't that hard

[Monke]

Originally posted by OOZE_LORD:

Nerf? The only thing we need to nerf right now is engi. Sure, pockets can be annoying, but engineer makes ctf/koth/any gamemode which doesn't require a moving objective unplayable. His counters barely work since spies are far too easy to root out and the entire team is on your side to ensure nothing bad happens to you and your sentries. Maybe make it so that he has to hit the sentry more to repair it or have more metal involved in upgrading it.

Engi has 3 counters, two of which classes has two weapons that directly counter Engineers (Loch n Load and Direct Hit). Spy also has a sidegrade sapper that levels down sentries if the Engineer is turtling or has a pybro

He REALLY isnt hard to counter if you know what you're doing

[No Time to Explain]

Originally posted by Collapsing Time Rift:

Pocketing is way too easy to counter.
Destroy the rest of their team first, then focus all firepower onto them.

Yeah just wipe out the entire enemy team in like 10 seconds. Simple stuff.

[Pelvis Pressley]

When a medic pockets one guy, that's 10 other people he is ignoring. Not OP at all.

[No Time to Explain]

Originally posted by GhostRustler:

Originally posted by OOZE_LORD:

Nerf? The only thing we need to nerf right now is engi. Sure, pockets can be annoying, but engineer makes ctf/koth/any gamemode which doesn't require a moving objective unplayable. His counters barely work since spies are far too easy to root out and the entire team is on your side to ensure nothing bad happens to you and your sentries. Maybe make it so that he has to hit the sentry more to repair it or have more metal involved in upgrading it.

Engi has 3 counters, two of which classes has two weapons that directly counter Engineers (Loch n Load and Direct Hit). Spy also has a sidegrade sapper that levels down sentries if the Engineer is turtling or has a pybro

He REALLY isnt hard to counter if you know what you're doing

When the engineer even has a basic idea of what he is doing it takes like 10 times the effort to destroy a sentry nest than it does for the engineer to keep it up, and if there are multiple engineers once your team has destroyed the sentry its back up again in 10 seconds.

[E3kHatena]

There is a nerf! If you focus enough firepower at the Medic, he dies.

[hcilx]

the soldier usually cant live without the medic so if youre on a different team, focus the medic, and if youre on the medic's team, votekick them.

[TKOdarkshadow]

Originally posted by Kaguya:

Originally posted by Collapsing Time Rift:

Pocketing is way too easy to counter.
Destroy the rest of their team first, then focus all firepower onto them.

Hmmm :p2blue:3:p2blue:

[Ginger Jesus]

Originally posted by Yankee Jim |Ham Mafia|:

We need a nerf to discourage pocketing

I disagree. I don't see anything wrong with pocketing. I've only had people complain about the way I've played medic when I'm not spending enough time with them. I've never had people complain that I'm spending too much time with a specific person.