Leaf Blower Uses

[It's Koya]

Thank you to everyone who helped me out in the last thread! The ghost gibber went from an item I sold the moment I got it to one of my favorite items! Due to the success of the last thread, I wanted help with one other item I struggle to utilize: the Leaf Blower.

Does anyone have suggestions how to best use this? I enjoy having it around but I never feel I use it properly as I just kind of haphazardly throw people around the map.

[elvendualwielder]

Fling enemies into water and switch to the tazer, or to a generator about to explode, or push a civ into trespassing. To my knowledge, it doesn't count as you commiting a crime.

[khuaqualla]

You can push people into barbed wire, fires, holes, lasers, lakes or pools with status effects, or polluted air. You can also push them into poison puddles, traps, objects, or trains, although these are usually harder to achieve.

You can obviously blow people through weaker walls.

You can keep people in line of sight of cameras and gun turrets.

You can push people affected by the electro touch status effect into other people.

You can push robots into water or people into the ooze.

Or you can simply keep people away from you, which can be useful if they are faster and stronger melee enemies.

So it has creative uses, but I don't think it is as useful as the ghost gibber, and with a limited inventory space that kind of matters.

[WanderingHero]

Frankly I just sell it

[khuaqualla]

I usually sell it as well, because despite its many creative uses it has a high maintenance cost. You usually need to shoot a lot with it to kill, so it doesn't go well with any of the kill somethingizers. NPCs don't drop it, so it isn't affected by ammo scavenger either. So basically lock and load, ammo stealer, the soldier's or medic's super special ability (free refills) or spending a bank's worth of money on ammo are your only options.

[DarkerDark]

For me, the Leaf Blower tends to get sold without being used, but if I have it in my inventory I'll usually take a look at whatever quests I need to do and see if it can be used in any of them. Usually Industrial and Park are where it's sorta useful as you can knock people into barbed wire, or knock people down a pit for an instant kill, but it takes a bit of planning.

[Kae Tokiha]

It's really good at keep enemies away from you. I use it mostly like that. It's useless if you're using a character that is strong at fighting (either melee or with guns), but characters that low attack can benefit from this weapon.

I made a character that i called "Elementalist" because it had fire. ice, wind and thunder/lightning attacks. I made it just for fun, but the character turned out to be good enough and Leaf Blower was doing a good job there.

[Taberone]

Leaf Blower is good for instakilling the Killer Robot. Find a bottomless pit, lure the robot near, and push it down over the pit.

[khuaqualla]

I didn't think of that, because my tactic is to lure the robot to my mission objectives and slowly wear it down with its own rockets while it kills the owners and neutralize targets and blows up objects I have to destroy. It's a bit risky, but also kind of fun, and doing it right means XP bonus for not killing and not alerting anyone.

But since every level has bottomless pits around the edges, it is a good strategy.