To those who play Assassin........Like ME!!!!

Be honest here, who here uses Cloak and/or Smoke Bomb?

Personally, i'm not saying it's terrible or anything, but i just don't find a reason to use it. I like to catch people "Slipping", Cloak just gives out a hum that makes them look back, and it's going to get even worse after the update, since you can only hear the enemy hums. All i use is Assassin and Dash. Smoke Bomb, only when i'm against level 90's+.

Eh. I use my cloak to get around the map, but turn it off when I'm trying to grab players (since a lot of people are wise to the noise). Smoke bomb is my favorite tool though, I use it to get around sniper traps and out of sticky situations. I don't think I could play a round with either, would drive me nuts!

I must say I'm not sure how I feel about the noise change coming in the update..I know its better for others so that they don't waste things like a slam/charge on a teammate. But still.

I only play Assassin as a second choice and I do love her smoke jumps, I've gotten pinned down a few times the jump and cloak saved me from a royal whupping.

And when I'm a Sniper or something and a friendly Assassin cloaks behind me, I wig out thinking I'm about to get stabbed in the back. It's incredible how many times friends or players have done that near me and I freak out, do an about face and try to grapple or shoot the Assassin. But I also had times where I had a friendly cloak near me then run away. Then after a few seconds I hear another cloak and not worry about it. Then all of a sudden the enemy is jamming a dagger into my back.

I never use the smoke bomb to jump & escape because more often than not the damn
thing fails. It is handy to blind Turrents though, just before giving them a royal whipping.
I find the cloak a lot more useful though. Run into the enemy base, cause 10 seconds
of havok & blind panic among the enemy & then run away on the brink of death to
hide and recover.
Not to mention those critical shurikens from a level 3 cloak. Now they hurt a lot.

i ABUSE smoke bomb, it blinds and stops bots/turrents, helps you in battle, gives you a defense boost, and gets you to crazy places

I use all my skills.

Cloak is your main defense, the only reason there is a hum is because your visibly hard to see, the hum may be changing soon but for enemies that are spraying around the map, you will have advantage because you are a sharp piece of glass, deadly but able to be broken easily.

Smoke Bombs not only blind the enemys around you but the smoke jump is need. I will smoke jump out of many many many situations, failed grapple kills, juice runs out while in the base, or even i sneak in and get a quick kill, this is your out of site out of mind move.

Dash is important because of your lack of long distance damage, the s-launcher is good but hard to be totally accurate with at all times. Your a close range fighter, being able to run in quick and get a kill is your job.

I do get a decent amount of kills but most of my time is spent bot pushing. Your most valuable job is to be able to chop up those robots, if you can get into a base and take out turrents do it, but remember you deal big damage to bots and fast, you can easily walk them in on an unguarded side.

All moves are important, doesnt matter what level you are going against, if you are depriving yourself from using them you are being a bad assassin :lol:

What he said. Primarily, when I upgrade the smoke bomb it's so that I get some extra defense, but I've used it to get out of situations where people were all up on me. It's hard for people to track a jump like that. Often it allows me to get far away or at least be a hard enough target that something else will get their interest.

cloak 3 = free crit s-launcher: absolutely melts turrets, firebases and even pros if they can't evade (or you're good at leading).

Aside from that, cloaking is useful for not getting shot up by bots if you have to pass them while escaping with low health or just need to obscure your movement from the enemy. Otherwise it really is pointless due to the noise.

Smoke bomb is amazing for jumps, but otherwise also fairly useless. Lv1 is good enough for me.

Smoke bomb gives you a defense boost WHILE in the animation, no other time.

And like i said, it's incredibly usefull against bots/turrents/pros.

Dont knock i till you try it

I rarely cloak. I always upgrade dash to level 3 before I touch any other skills (including passive) and focus on bots until I get to passive 3, unless I find a target that will fall to one dagger backstab.

I love cloak for avoiding death by bots and turrets, and for spamming shuriken crits. At level 3 I sometimes abuse the instant-on by attacking and recloaking repeatedly fast enough that rockit turrets don't get a shot off