Helldivers 2 - What is the BEST primary against Automatons!? | Myelin Games

what primary is best against the automatons is it the Dominator The Punisher plasma or the scorcher I'm not going to include the Eruptor because that's basically like a support weapon and the reason I'm talking about these weapons is because there has been a change to how the armor functions to the Scout strutters and that's the last patch that's gone through and this has impacted how effective the scorcher is and the scorcher was one of my favorites because it was really effective at dealing with Scout strs so I'll show you before and after and and how you use it now also the Punisher plasma got a buff with how fast it shoots well no not its fire rate but the projectile speed uh making it much more easier to to wield it did also get some Nerfs too if it didn't get the Nerfs this thing I think would have been at the tippity top I'm surprised I hated it so much I don't like it against the bugs but it's actually really effective against the Bots and I'll show you how it matches up against the scorcher and the dominant now I did all this testing on lower levels I saw previous comments like why are you testing on lower levels where's all the hell divers footage I test on lower levels so you can see what's going on so when I say like this one shot or two shot something you can actually see it uh rather than the hecticness of Hell diver missions and then I go and actually play hell diver missions and do it that way so I will upload a video of running what I'm recommending in a Hell divers video a bit later on right so I went and shot every type of enemy in in the face and recorded how many times you shoot them before they fall over here's a bit of a summary when it comes to light enemies for the automatons all of these weapons will one-hot them in the head or the body the difference being the plasma shotgun has really good Splash damage and they actually reduced the increase the damage fall off of this so would have been even better before and you actually do need to get multi kills to make up for the less rounds it only has eight rounds compared to the 15 of the scorcher and the jar so you kind of do need to shoot it into groups of enemies but considering everything is a one shot um and the plasma shotgun has the best Splash damage you can get the most kills with it my preference is actually to run the plasma shotgun it is very effective when a drop ship arrives and you can just take out a cluster of light enemies right let's talk about these Scout Striders the Dominator is very inconsistent with shooting the middle of the body you can actually penetrate the middle part of the Scout Striders with the Dominator it should only take a two shots if it goes through however in my experience you often get a lot of ricochets so you're much better off shooting at the joints or the top of the leg if you do that it's about it's a three shot however sometimes you get that big stagger as well with the Scout stter so you got to swing the Dominator around to actually hit your second and third shots now what happened with the scorcher was before the patch the scorcher could just shoot the top section of the Scout Striders and it would be a two shot and that fall over it was very very effective since the patch it is now I think a five shot to actually take them out you could still can just shoot the top of the Scout shots and eventually kill them but it's no longer two shot so it's not very ammo effective the easier option for the scotcher is though to just shoot the middle part it is very consistent you shoot three shots the midbody and the Scout sters will fall over the plasma shotgun is actually pretty consistent too it is also three shot to like anywhere on a scout shrider and I believe two shots on the legs um but the big thing for it is it has huge amounts of stagger and like they like just go stumbling for a little bit allows you to regroup get the next shot in I get behind cover I do a lot of like peeking with the plasma shotgun and like chain staggers together and of course the plasma shotgun is going to be more effective in groups for me I actually put the scorcher and the plasma shotgun at the same sort of level when it comes to dealing with Striders the scorcher is obviously much better at range if you've got time to set up and take them out of distance it's going to obviously outperform the plasma shotgun however if you're getting rushed and they're in a group and they've just been dropped off by a uh drop uh ship the plasma shotgun outperforms it I really do rate it and the Stagger obviously the scorcher doesn't have the Stagger and the plasma shotgun does have the Stagger which is huge in my opinion when you're fighting automatons okay the other medium enemies all the Devastators and the different variants of the Devastators this is a bit of a summary so the the Dominator will onot all of them with a head shot as long as you land that head shot uh two to three shots in the stomach depending on the variance uh five to six shots if you miss everything uh it does have medium armor penetration that's why you still killing them in five to six shots and very nicely it has a big amount of stagger uh giving you plenty of time to do followup shots in my opinion the Dominator is better than the scorcher when dealing with those medium enemies the Devastators and the Berserkers the scorcher essentially you have to hit your crits with it and if you can hit your shots and you're absolute Godly uh it obviously performs very well two shots on the head two shots on the stomach two shots in the joint uh and you will take them down however it doesn't have medium armor penetration and so if you don't hit those head shot or those other weak spots you're basically going to have to empty most of your magazine into one of them I've had some Devastators take eight shots I've had other Devastators take like 15 shots I think that variant is because sometimes you might hit their arm and you won't do as much damage as if you're hitting the body now this is where the plasma shotgun gets really interesting because you actually get the red Crosshair uh regardless of where you shoot which means you're doing uh 100% damage you're not doing reduced damage even though it doesn't have medium armor penetration however I I do think it matters where you hit because at minimum I can get three shots will take out a Devastator uh and then maximum is like five shots Berserkers are like six shots uh and as you can see that's actually on par with the Dominator when you miss all your shot to the Dominator you're at five and six shots so the plasma shotgun is actually doing the same as the Dominator when you're not hitting head shot um of course if you're hitting head shot with the Dominator you get like one tapping so there's a difference there basically if you can hit your shots with the Dominator you got to do better but in the franticness and the hecticness of higher difficulties and everyone rushing you especially Berserkers I actually prefer the plasma shotgun too the great thing is Berserkers are always in groups and you kind of like group stag of them giving you lots of breathing room giving your team a lot of breathing room and then other people can follow up with other shots as well while you reload moving on to Heavies for hulks the Dominator would take four shots to kill the plasma shotgun will take five shots and the scorcher will take six shots for ease of use I actually put the Scorch in this category uh most of the time you're actually going to be following up after like a rocket or a quazer uh this is a really good strategy now with a high cool down of the quazer cannon you do one shot and then you follow up with a scorcher and the scorcher is so so quick it has lots of range and you can get those shots off really really fast and take out hulks like very easily take one shot with a rocket switch your scorcher and then like fall up and kill it so I actually put the scorcher as like the top Contender when it taking out Hulks and here is my Hightech summary when it comes to automatons and the light enemies we have the the Dominator the scorcher and the plasma shotgun I had you give it to the plasma shotgun just because you're getting rushed and you have lots of groups of enemies and has big splash damage they all one shot they all one shot so there's no difference there so I just like the control that you get with the plasma shotgun when it comes to medium enemies the Striders I think the scorcher is very good ease of use and the plasma is also a three shot they're both three shots on Striders this The Scorch is really for range range and the PLS is really for close so if you find you're getting rushed all the time which I think you probably will I prefer the plasma and on top of that you actually get stagger so I think you could argue that the plasma has a little bit more going on for it there but of course the downside is you've got like almost half the bullets when it comes to medium uh head shots you have to give it to the jar like all the Devastators and Berserkers or one shot head shots for the the jar devast uh jar Dominator uh so you have to give it to that but when it comes to body shots the jar and the plasma are basically on par and once again they they both have good stagger but the plasma shotgun has a bit better of area of control because of like the AOE you get from it when it comes to Berserkers I actually give it to the plasma 2 because they're always in a group and you can take out multiple with it and you can stagger them so they'll stop rushing you and then when it comes to Heavies I give it to the scorcher just how easy it is to follow up on Rockets uh yes so this is why I actually am starting to run the plasma it's kind of good for all your light and mediums it can deal with Striders and due to the new uh patch uh that's handy I like it a lot and I and I absolutely hated it when it first came out I think it's worth your time to give it a shot it would have been absolutely cracked if they actually didn't change how many bullets were in the magazine used to have 12 now has eight and they also changed some of the uh damage fall off too so it would have been incredibly good before I still think it's a top Contender and it is my king for taking out the automatons I'll put up a hell divers video so nobody complains that this is all dog [ __ ] and if you like to support the channel and canot think of a comment you can leave the word Punisher plasma or is it plasma Punisher I always get it confused right that's it bye-bye

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Length: 10min 18sec (618 seconds)

Published: Thu May 02 2024