Does anyone know a good way to stop an assassin from ripping through your base defenses when she has juice. The only way that I seem to be able to even slow her down is to lay down ice traps. (These strategies don't have to be sniper specific.)
You can suicide for the team and go for a grapple with any class. At that rate they at least waste 3 seconds or so.
The method for countering a juiced up assassin is pretty much the same method for countering any juiced pro. Grapple or use any attack with a knock back to try and ring them out or at least make them waste their juice. Also, ice traps + headshots is a good method with the sniper.
Have your sniper place ice traps down. If he catches her, it takes about 3 or 4 headshots for her to die. If he doesn't, your tank can lvl 3 charge to knock her down, rail gun grapple her to waste time and knock her back, and blind her with a product grenade. If your support has a hacked firebase in your base while all of this is going on, she'll be dead in no time.
Ya I find that traps and gunner slams tend to be the things that slow/stop me as sin Always sucks when I'm nuking turrets and some dude walks out of spawn and belly flops right next to me >.>
TURRENT! say it right noob! Traps only eff me up if my cloak's not at 3 or their trap is, also my sweet lvl 3 smoke bomb makes traps a tad less effective. Gunners, lol, that's all i'm saying
I save the tears of all the gunners Ive killed in a bottle, I sleep with it under my pillow at night.
Gunner: Slam or deploy. Can grapple them if you bothered upgrading that skill. Assaults: Mines, charge grapple, and annoying air dmg Tank: Be a tank. Sniper: Ice traps and lots of em. Go for a grapple if you can. AZAZN: Smoke em. IDK if u'll be able to kill them with a grapple, but u can go for it. Support: So many options it's not even funny.
Pretty much everything that has been described here. Crowd control and ringouts are the best way to deal with any juiced player. If the assassin for some reason lets you KNOW they have juice (IE: Running around without cloak, while flashing but not yet juicing), try to ring them out or kill them before they reach your base. Or if you see them running at the base, stand to the side of a turret if you have a class with a charge move that knocks back. Try to intercept them as they run right for your turret, and score a ring out. (hey it worked against Rev last night.... ).
I face grab tanks/gunners and kill them I RARELY mess with assaults, only bad matchup if they know what they're doing Same with snipers, unless i catch bolt off gaurd, then he gets slapped. XD at the smoke thing, when i get smoked i lunge out of the way. Supports are my favorite thing to kill, i drop them so fast, lunge, grab, taunt.