Talk:Hydroid/@comment-77.243.150.149-20170811231328/@comment-99.64.170.19-20170813005407

"The charge time is kinda annoying, though. Mostly for the 4th ability. It is clunky to use it frequently anymore."

Mostly because you're not supposed to spend all your time spamming 4. His 1 is for that, and fantastic as long as you treat it like the artillery it is. His 2 is the key to his kit out of puddle mode as it's your escape/instaneous CC. Use it to setup pinning enemies with his 1 while you use 4 for extended area denial. 3's pretty great for rounding up an on coming group of enemies and then pinning them with 1, but really shouldn't be spent camping in (and, tbh, I hope they incentivize going in and out of 3 rather than just sitting in it).

So far my biggest complaint with the update is that there's still 0 reason to use any aug other than Corroding Barrage, and there's still very nearly zero reason to build power strength. Negative range hurts his abilities pretty bad (save maybe tentacles), but that's probably for best. At least his CC scales every bit as well as Loki's, though folks seem to be arguing for him to be able to wave a hand and kill everything effortlessly with his powers. :\