Why does everyone think Gunner Grapple is useless?

Seriously, it's the difference between giving the Assassin a chance to escape jump (Slam) and killing her dead.

I find it a very useful tool against other Gunners too; damaging him and forcing you both to spin down is a lot more useful than you'd think. Really tips the playing field in your favour.

Because the sheep have been told it's useless.

I love it.

the grapple is essentially the same thing as the slam, except the grapple needs to be aimed.
both do the same damage, they throw, and can both be dodged by jumping

Because the alternate fire on the mortar launcher already gives you free crowd control, and slam gives you a ring out. It's good for shutting down juiced players dumb enough to walk into you, but he has zero gap closing skills to make effective use of two grapples, and stopping to grapple means you have to spin up your mini again.

It is not worthless, but it is close to bottom tier in terms of crossfire skills.

I've found its best use is against Blackjacks and Bouncers. In yer base? No prob! Whip out your Mortar, grapple two then run

It's great for grabbing assassins who fail to kill with their grapple as most expect
a slam & jump only to be grappled themselves. :lol:

The Gunner Grapple is not useless, its just pretty lame and not value for money when compared to the other gunner skills, especially when support and assault have alt fire grapples that are just as useful and probably grow stronger bundled in with passive skill payment. The gunner grapple also lacks any additional effect such as the additional ring out potential of the assault charge and the turn around effect of the sniper grapple. The Gunner Grapple is also useless against Jackbot XL's, so basically, the gunner grapple is far from useless, but its just not worth the credits you spend on it when compared to other class skills.

I would like to see a quick forward dash added to the gunner grapple ability to make it more valuable than the alt fire grapples, If the slow gunner could use his jets for a quick forwards burst of grabbing speed, closing the distance on targets and then automatically grappling it might make the ability worth shelling out for.

Another option to improve the ability would be to give the grapple an additional stun effect in the same way as the gunner slam so it makes it easier to fully counter attack after the grapple.

Gunner grapple is hilarious, especially when he uses his gun to hit someone into the air, i dont believe its useless at all

Fully upgraded Grapple has a throw. but I agree - it's not really worth the amount of money.

It is an excellent set-up for a Slam, if used correctly.