Support's Shotgun

He is close. From my tank guide:

Railgun # of Shots to kill legend:

Class: No Armor/Bronze Armor/Silver Armor/Gold Armor

Assassin, Sniper, and Support (no passive): 3 shots/3 shots/4 shots/5 shots.

Support (w/ passive 3): 5 shots/5 shots/6 shots/7 shots

Tank (No Passive): 5 shots/6 shots/7 shots/7 shots

Tank (Passive 2): 6 shots/7 shots/8 shots/8 shots

Tank (Passive 3): 7 shots/8 shots/9 shots/9 shots

The support only has close range weapons, and the tank has the 2nd best ranged weapon in the game. Let's get in there with that jet gun, shall we?

the tank's charge will kill Supports in 1 hit..

lies. full upgrade and no armor on the support, but show me a support who doesnt use some sort of armor, OR upgrade passive 3

I primarily play support, and I've been killed by the death charge multiple times with full health and at least 2nd lvl passive....

I use armor, but as my 3rd sponsor.. I think armor on support is kind of useless.. RoF/ReGen/Armor. Skill regen and RoF are so much more important... I mean you do have the heal gun and a turret backing you up afterall and I dont feel the need to size a tank up 1 on 1, I'd rather perform map control and push some bots. Duck & dodge ;] Juice rage, get a few more kills.. take out turrets, then focus back on map control. I always try to end the game before OT, because in OT you never know how your team will react... specially in Pubs.

i dont use armor, that argues his point...

...oh wait, i dont use every shotgun endorsement there is to run around shotgunning and getting 20 kills, so i guess someone who does shotgun constantly....

...would use armor, which argues your point.

o well, a tank should still be able to charge/product-nade/death-blossom combo, like ryu on street-fighter (medpunch/crouchmedkick/shoryuken/hadouken combo)

fairly sure you can't shoryuken into a hadouken unless you FADC it or get them in the air...

Bear in mind that the support loses a lot of his special utility if he uses gold rate of fire. You should always win in a close quarters battle because you have the charge, and product grenade. You have two health upgrades and he only has one. Sometimes a support is going to beat you... get over it.

Most supports I know use gold or silver armor; but most tanks these days are running some combination of skill/rof/armor. Doing so makes you a long range weapon but less of a damage sponge.

i think they gave the range on this thing a buff then again i might just be lagging and they might be host....