How do I suppress the enemy?

[Ivanark]

Alright, I'm a new-ish player, I have a crusader at 37, a psyker at 20, and an assassin around 12.

I've got all these great attacks that knock down or cause slow or etc, but they have to be used on yellow or red suppression.

I'm having a really hard time suppressing the enemy. Like I just got constrict on the Psyker. Awesome I think, I'll show those space marines whose boss!

Everything I throw at them does more health damage than suppression damage. Same for pretty much anyone else with a suppression bar.

By the time I can use constrict on them, I could just kill them with anything. I even speced out of Aoe to get points to put into suppression (I think it's the debuff tree,) and put the suppression rune on my attacks.... and I'm still killing them way before suppressing them.

What am I doing wrong? Seems largely the same on Crusader and Assassin.

I did a search but all I could find was people talking about being suppressed themselves.

[MerchantofDoom]

Honestly I believe it's for coop mostly. In coop everything gets a massive life buff. So you need to coordinate more the harder content gets.
The game seems to me to have coop specific builds and solo builds. I have a deflect crusader than can literally take an entire room while others kill it at any difficulty but it's garbage solo.

[Warhunter]

suppression is currently garbage. enemies have too much suppression causing them to die before they even reach yellow while there are very few ways to mitigate suppression as the player causing you to always hit red suppression vs moderate sized groups

until they fix suppression dont bother trying to make a build for it. it takes way to much to make it work compared to outright killing the enemy

[Vessmir]

You will be able to suppress boss and elite if you have a Hight suppresion attack + suppression dmg in your gear. Like me with my grenade launcher 3:D

[Brother PaciFist]

Best way to suppression is the relic affix 100+ suppression for you and 50 suppression lost on the enemy on every hit. On every hit your enemies do to you. It is a passive skill on gear like armor or shields or even weapons that stacks. You can have 500 suppression and 250 suppression lost on hit if you stack that skill.

Combined with the hp regeneration skills in the hp tree it is the best tool of survival in warzones too. You still have to find a way to kill enemies fast.

The amount of hits you take in warzones is insane = insane suppression and hp regeneration. The more you get hit the more you heal.

Have fun.

[f2k]

Supression is currently absolutely FUBAR'ed. Just concentrate on doing as much raw damage as possible instead.

[Mike]

Supression is only good with the heavy bolter and when you are building with de-buffs + vulnrabilities in mind. Best arm stat is the shock de-buff when you are hit with melee or ranged attacks, its a big DPS increase. Great build for groups, not that great solo. You can kinda solo if you use a bolter instead. I recommend a heat multi melta build for solo though.

[Temperator]

You could make a suppression based psyker that can knockback/knockdown/shock lock for funsies
Pyrokinesis staff can come with double suppression damage with critical hit
1. Said pyrokinesis staff on first slot
2. Haemmorhage with temporal stasis
3. Enfeeble
4. Profit!
Poifect stunlock, fun for whole family