Superb Assassin tacticts

Lunge is invaluable. A well-placed lunge into a group of bots takes out the whole group in one hit, or severely damages them for a quick cleanup.

Lunge is also useful not only for damaging enemy pros leading into or after a grapple, but also for catching and surprising them, as it allows you to quickly close distance without a dust trail or giving them a chance to see/hear your cloak. Imagine a bird of prey diving in.

You can also use it to cross gaps to get to hard-to-reach places, such as the center platform in Steel Peel or LazeRazor. Between lunge and smoke bomb, you'll never need to buy/use a jump pad.

I once lunged from the catwalk in Steel Peel to nail an Assault running across the center platform, and finished him with a grapple. I think I was as surprised as he must have been.

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Does rate of fire or speed effect lunge? or dash? From what I can tell sometimes I go 3 feet with a lunge and other times I go 20 feet! Its totally random, I know lag has a part to play in this but is it just lag? or something more?

I have heard reload speed effects the rate at which you can lunge, but I don't know if its actually been tested. I need to look into this.

I don't know if anything reliably effects the lunge distance other than altitude.

I only keep 1 custom class for Assassin. The other 5 are tanks.

I have 2 assassins 1 each of everything else but support

Can someone test if reload speed does infact effect the timer before you can lunge again?

If it does i think i may switch my bronze to it, because i abuse the hell out of lunge.

I find that if i get hit by a lvl3 trap i can't lunge right after i unfreeze, so it might be counted as a skill

I wonder if skill recharge or reload effects the lunge (or neither) because it does have a timer.

You lunge --> front grapple sin --> she grapples back

Then you try to do lunge again right after her grapple and you cannot do it unless you wait a little.

there is definately a timer, just like reloading gets interrupted or how skills dont recharge while grappling/being grappled, lunge doesn't either.

Just wanna know which one effects lunge (if any).

Skill pill affects the lunge recovery and grapple recovery when you have a katana. Only with the katana though.

woo thats good news for me.

I use skill pill and i use katana.

Used to run bronze skill pill, You can barely notice the reduction in lunge time at all.
Can't think of any good reason to put it any higher then bronze.

I tested gold/silver/bronze reload speeds and they don't seem to do anything for the lunge.

Ive also noticed the lunge is very inconsistent in its range, I'm tempted to believe it has something to do with trying to lunge while your sprint meter is empty, or maybe its just lag.
Would love to know for sure though why the hell I only fly like 2-5 feet sometimes.

I've never noticed flaky distance changes before.

The lunge stops when you come into contact with an enemy. Are you guys sure you aren't lunging into a bot or something?

A lunge-face grab on a sin will kill her (barring overhealing)

Yeah, there has to be some factor that determines how far you lunger, i get different distances all the time unless i'm lunging off a platform

I'm going to test ALL sponsors tonight in both single player blitz and online crossfire to see if lag has anything to do with lunge distance.

Ill test every endorsement on gold to see how it effects lunge on every level. Whether its distance, speed, reload time, acceleration, direction. ANY changes even if minor ill post here.

Im also going to test the distance that smoke bomb effects pro's at lvl3 or lvl2. Maybe if I find something there might be a few more ways to use smoke bomb.

I already abuse the hell out of bomb, it's too amazing

Assassin Resources Updated

Late post is Late

After tedious testing in both blitz and online crossfire Nothing I mean Nothing improves lunge.

No endorsements effect lunge in any way. Not speed,accuracy or control or recharge time. The only thing I found is when you activate smokebomb while rapidly tapping lunge (While smokebomb animation) You can get a lunge out a little early. It looks like a smokebomb cancel but the effects of the bomb and lunge still work.

*Update*

Haha A new assassin to play with huh? And whats all this bs that all the "pros" are dropping her now? Prepare for future updates and experiments.

*Bump*

This was some fine ownage, my friend.

What do you guys think is a good build for a shurkin only type class
I want to just mess around and harass with it

Haha for fun you could put gold clip size Silver RoF and bronze Critical. Purple River or death!