Talk:Pilfering Swarm/@comment-63.131.200.134-20150806183738/@comment-5878824-20150822031440

Honestly, Curative undertow isn't that good at all if just for healing.

If you want a much faster healer, Trinity is the best for the job. And if duration specced, she can give you high DR for a good bit of time. Undertow is just a CC skill or grief skill depending on how you look at it.

Grief is because a primed flow Hydroid can stay underwater for a having long time and dragging out games. As a CC, it is nice against enemies that are charging towards you and thus letting you CC them.

But if they do not charge at you and just spend time taking pot shots, you are better off NOT using undertow and focused shooting instead.

In contrast, other CC frames can still use their main CC while actively engaging in combat. Don't get me wrong, Hydroid has a lot of CC options, but most of them are soft CC.

He's CC isn't anywhere as effective as Nyx, Loki with IRD, Slow Nova or even Booben. Booben can spam his traps everywhere without limit. His only limit is energy.