Is the the Pomson 6000 good?

[Matt]

Serious question, is the Pomson 6000 (or Pompson 6000 as some people call it) actually good at all?

I've been wondering this for a while. People say it's bad, but checking the stats it doesn't seem bad at all to me, or I am being stupid here?

[Indoor hornet keeper]

Unless it's crit boosted and you're firing into a tightly compacted croud of people, no.

The big downside (for me atleast) is the projectile speed.

[Big Sloppie]

It’s bad because it isn’t hitscan.

[Matt]

Hmm, okay. Thanks!

[Heatmaker]

No it's the worst primary for Engie

[Rando the Crit Clown]

It depends on your definition of "good". Good at spamming into chokepoints, yes. Good at frustrating Medics and Spies, yes. Good at anything else, no.

Get it if you want to spam chokepoints a lot and make people mad because you're doing that, or want Medics to flame you. Not very good for other situations.

[Matt]

"Everything else" can be considered as many things, so I'll just assume that the Pomson is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[D A N G E R !]

the projectile is super slow so good luck actually hitting anything with it. It's only real use is annoying medics

[Matt]

Is the Rescue Ranger bad too?

It's not really used for much, like the Pomson.

[Indoor hornet keeper]

Originally posted by D A N G E R !:

the projectile is super slow so good luck actually hitting anything with it. It's only real use is annoying medics

You know what annoys medics more than losing 10% Uber?
Dying because unless they're using the vita-saw.
The Pomson doesn't kill anything.

[Rando the Crit Clown]

Originally posted by MattPlayzLikeAPRO:

"Everything else" can be considered as many things, so I'll just assume that the Pomson is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Well "anything else" would be CQC for the shotgun or having a really overpowered and unfun Sentry along with great mobility for the Rescue Ranger.

If you compare it to the Rescue Ranger it's terrible, but if you compare anything to the Rescue Ranger it's terrible because of how busted and OP that weapon is. If you compare it to the shotgun you trade some close range damage for annoying choke spam. It's not a bad weapon like people here are saying, you just have to use it in an annoying way.

They also nerfed its choke spam ability and buffed its CQC damage to try to mitigate what I'm saying, but what I'm saying still holds true, just to less extremes than it did before.

[Kamiyé]

Think of it this way:
You are trading instant damage at any range that is incredibly reliable for a slow moving projectile of dubious consistency... in a game as fast-paced as this.

[Matt]

So, in two words: Pure garbage.

[Rando the Crit Clown]

Originally posted by Tenurr:

Think of it this way:
You are trading instant damage at any range that is incredibly reliable for a slow moving projectile of dubious consistency... in a game as fast-paced as this.

You are not trading instant damage at any range. Unless they're rather close to you that "instant damage" is probably gonna be a number from 0 to 6. It used to be banned in comp because of how strong its choke spam is.

Originally posted by MattPlayzLikeAPRO:

So, in two words: Pure garbage.

Pub players might think that.

[Chinese_spy]

not in a thousand years and its not even fun to fight againest

[Matt]

Alright, so it's good for choke spam, frustrating Medics and Spies and for anything else it's just terrible. Happy now?

Also, what's the best Engie primary?