The N-Zap has suffered repeated nerfs in recent times, and it has led to some speculation about its position in the meta. Has it finally fallen off? Has Tri-Slosher taken over? Let's find out.
Nice video! I do disagree though-I think fighting is super important in this meta, and with Snipewriter, Squeezer and Stamper comfortably in the top three spots in the meta rn, N-Zap does not really function as well in comps. For this reason I think that Tri Nouveau is also significantly better than Zap; the fizzy spam can still allow it to paint and support with chip damage, and of course it has great slaying potential on most maps in the game. All of what I said is for Zones only meta though! Overall I like talking about this type of stuff - keep up the great work!
Great video and great idea, you explained zap’s history pretty well. However I don’t agree with your conclusion, zap is the 2nd best cooler option at best maybe even third with edit, the reason being when you run a zap you’re taking out one of your frontlines for a support which means less fighting power but if you have pencil you can run 3 aggros and have your anchor be your support at the same time which is quite optimal since pencil just lives forever and paints from a safe distance with better paint and therefore better cooler output with longer coolers cause of the gear freedom snipewriter has allowing you more spu. As for tri, it’s not as strong anymore, the recent nerfs made its cooler output quite unreliable, you would only run it on some niche maps like flounder for example. Zooka is still one of the best specials in the game but as we got used to it, it’s not as dominant anymore, it’s probably on the same level as crab and inkjet which means splash is also starting to see more use. Also, in my opinion zap is clearly not top 5, pencil, squeezer, sword already have the top 3 spot, you can put stamper’s 2nd kit and maybe shot, splash, stent etc, I don’t think it can be top 5 with pencil being the monster that it is, it’s just better in every way… Zap is not outclassed tho cause it allows you to go backless or to play a different backline than pencil (even if there isn’t a lot of other backlines you’d want to run). This is just my opinion and my own experience as a comp player. You did a good job, keep up the good work!
Slight issue with that, every meta cooler option got nerfed in 6.1 except for snipewriter. It and squeezer are on top of the game and the best weapon that pairs well with them is… vshot. So unfortunately zooka is very much back on top
I don’t really see the issue, zooka is top 3,2 or 1 but it’s not the clear top 1 it was, when double shot was the staple. Crab is probably better, but that’s not the point… regardless of how good zooka is, yeah squeezer and pencil are the clear top 2… and no shot being one of the best options with those 2 (I say one of, cause it’s definitely debatable) doesn’t make zooka the best special in the game… cause yes double zooka is frequent but on squeezer the output clearly isn’t the same as when we would see double shot… I think having a crab option with the squeezer’s zooka is more valuable. All this stuff is debatable, but the point is zap isn’t in the greatest spot rn cause of pencil, please nerf this thing lol
