[TF2] How to Trolldier: The Hybrid Gardener

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shmith hybrid trer is a little bit like

hybrid Demonite in that it takes some

elements of both the subass and the main

class to create a blend of the two

hybrid Knight achieves this by only

changing one item swapping your booties

back to a grenade launcher but hybrid

trer swaps two the primary gets swapped

back to something that can actually deal

damage just like hybrid Knight but if we

stopped there we'd run into some issues

pretty

quickly to function most effectively

hybrid trer also swaps the secondary to

something very specific the one item

that makes this entire concept function

knock knock it's gunboats yes the

gunboats the simplest possible weapon to

fundamentally change how a class plays

literally all it does is make the wearer

take 60% less self damage from Rocket

jumps that's it no other gimmicks no

other downsides just straight up more

effective HP to rocket jump with hybrid

charer essentially has the damage of a

rocket launcher and still maintains a

decent amount of the mobility of a

rocket jumper you do lose the funny

stomp though which is honestly pretty

tragic right so your boots change from

Steel Toad to Steel everything but what

about the primary earlier I said

basically you swap from the rocket

jumper to a damaging primary but you

might have noticed that that statement

refers to uh literally every other

Soldier primary so which one do you pick

well when used in conjunction with the

market Gardener I think almost all of

solders primaries can be placed on what

I call the silly Spectrum you've got

stuff ranging from basically regular old

RoR soldier that also uses the gardener

sometimes to basically trer but with a

tiny bit of extra damage thrown in there

and options for pretty much everything

in between and that's going to be most

of what I talk about in this video where

each primary lands on the silly Spectrum

how it synergizes with the market

Gardener and what style of play I found

the most success with when using it so I

guess let's just start by getting back

to

basics right so this is what I meant

when I said basically regular RoR

soldier that also Gardens sometimes it's

just a rocket launcher deals anywhere

from 24 to 112 damage depending on

Splash and ramp up it can be used to

rocket jump for the Hefty price of

around 12 to to 30 HP with gunboats and

has your standard four rockets in the

clip so both of these launchers land

squarely in the regular Soldier Side of

the silly Spectrum when using them as

hybrid trer you can't really do those

crazy four Rocket jumps that trouers

often do with the rocket jumper well I

mean you can but even if you hit the

garden now you're standing way out of

position with no rockets and like 40

Health at that point your options are

pretty

limited instead your Market Gardener

essentially serves as an alternative way

of dealing damage at the end of a bomb

you just jump somebody when you normally

would as a roaming gunboat Soldier but

instead of firing a rocket as you close

in you could instead go for a shovel CP

this tends to work best when you're

bombing a single Target or if you're

looking to pick off a more important

class from a group of people it's a

really nice option because it lets you

save a rocket which you could then use

to deal more damage or try and Escape

escapes can be a little tricky with

these though stock and original mostly

lock you out of the standard trer play

style of jump in Garden one person and

jump away see here's the thing with

gunboats they reduce self-inflicted

blast damage by 60% but only if it's a

rocket jump you can't just run up to

somebody shoot them Point Blank and

expect to get the damage reduction

because then it doesn't apply and you

blow yourself up the way the game tells

this is by checking to see if your

rocket damaged an enemy player before

applying the reduction so even if you're

not aiming at somebody intentionally as

long as your rocket damages someone

beside you you take more damage Soldier

also actually has a natural resistance

to self-inflicted blast damage from

Rocket jumps and that stacks on top of

the resistance you get from the gun

boats but that one determines if you're

rocket jumping by just checking to see

if you're in the air regardless you're

actually losing out on one or both of

those resistances depending on the

situation and if you lose both so you

accidentally hit someone while trying to

rocket jump and you don't press space at

the right time and you end up being on

the ground you could take up to like 89

damage just from the jump I should

mention that this also applies to every

other damaging launcher but I wanted to

talk about it here first since stock is

the launcher that suffers the most from

it basically you're incentivized to

stand your ground and fight rather than

just jumping away and that moves you

more towards this side of the silly

Spectrum just play soier with a bit more

rocket jumping than usual and if you see

an opportunity for a garden go for it

you know every so often

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right okay so this is one of the few

primaries that I'm not going to be

placing on the silly spectrum because

it's just not very good for hybrid

shoulder rocket jumping a lot means

you're usually starved for rockets and

only having three in your clip makes

bombing and 1 v1's really tough the

health on hit is nice don't get me wrong

but it's not really worth it when you're

going for a gardener Centric play style

plus if you're playing on high tower you

can just jump to a health pack because

they're everywhere anyway black box is

fine it has its place but that place is

usually in more passive play Styles

which doesn't really fit for hybrid trer

we're just going to like place it over

here the cow Mangler is functionally

very similar to the stock launcher the

Rockets might look different but they do

the same damage have the same blast

radius and travel at the same speed

unless you right click but that's not

really practical for Rocket jumping

really funny though anyway it's so

similar to stock that I'm just going to

like put it right over here on the silly

Spectrum pretty much the same as what I

talked about there just with a few key

differences specifically these two stats

right here first infinite ammo look not

having to worry about ammo is really

nice but like high tower also has a ton

of ammo packs so it's not quite as good

in that situation I don't think I've

ever actually run out of ammo when using

the stock launcher on that map that

being said if unlike me you're normal

and play a variety of maps there are

definitely places where you can take

advantage of it my first thought is

somewhere like Brazil or Lakeside you

know decently High Sky boxes fun jumping

opportunities but really few ammo packs

you could probably get more use out of

the stat there on the other hand you got

this stat and that means you're giving

up the capability to deal with one of

trer biggest counters centries well

technically you could charge shot but

then you have to reload your entire clip

and it just it has a few issues but if

centuries are your problem then uh might

I recommend

the the Direct Hit is usually seen as

the weapon of choice for the sweatiest

tryhards and I may have contributed to

that sentiment a little bit and like

yeah in 2017 sound Smith's defense it's

tailor made for 1 v1s specializes in air

shot and can absolutely ruin the day of

every other trer in the server if you're

good with it so you might be wondering

why I'm placing it here on the silly

Spectrum well to put it simply this just

synergizes with a funny spoon Centric

play style a little bit better than

stock and that's because it makes it way

easier to deal with one of trer hard

counters this [ __ ] guy there's a

certain comfort in knowing you can

freely Jump Around the map and take out

any mini sentry with a single left click

or a level three in two clicks that

faster projectile speed also makes it a

lot easier to hit direct Rockets

shocking I know but you got to hit them

in order to do any significant damage

it's also worth noting that the smaller

blast radius makes it less likely for

you to accidentally damage damage

somebody when you're jumping and that

means you're less likely to lose out on

that damage resistance from the gunboat

so you've got a bit more freedom of

Mobility when it comes to basic Rocket

jumps overall you're better at 1 v1s but

worse against crowds really

revolutionary commentary there I know as

far as Rocket jumping and gardening goes

though the Direct Hit is still pretty

similar to stock see when it's

calculating self damage TF2 uses the

same base damage and blast radius as

stock Rockets this makes jumping a bit

more consistent across all the launchers

and it also means that you're not

actually taking more damage by rocket

jumping with the direct H that's pretty

nice but the big difference you need to

get used to is the faster projectile

speed that does change across some

rocket launchers and it'll change up the

timing for Rocket jumping just a little

bit it's not so different that it

requires you to change up your entire

play style but there is a small

adjustment period especially for stuff

like

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pogos moving on the Liberty launcher is

a bit of a weird case as a rocket

launcher it's kind of bad like at first

it seems all right it's got an extra

rocket on the clip it's got increased

projectile speed which makes Hing your

Rockets easier you even get increased

resistance to blast jumps and that

Stacks with the gun boats that's pretty

cool it seems perfect for hybrid trer so

what does that come at the cost

of it's the biggest piece of dog [ __ ] I

know 25% doesn't sound like that much on

paper but like if you pick this thing up

yourself the first rocket you hit you'll

just be like oh brother this guy stinks

there's kind of no getting around it the

Liberty launcher is pretty dog [ __ ] but

if you're willing to put up with a

severe downgrade for some extra mobility

and if you're watching this video I'm

pretty sure you are then this has a

solid place right over here on the silly

Spectrum see that 25% resistance to

Rocket jumping damage stacks on top of

the 40% innate resistance and the 60%

gunbas resistance and they stack

multiplicatively so that means you're

ending up at an 82% resistance to

self-inflicted blast damage in other

words you're taking a maximum of 16.2

damage on any Rocket Jump in practice

it's really more like 12 to 14 this plus

that extra rocket in the clip gives you

a ton more mobility and way more freedom

to go for market Gardens it's not

without its problems though the big

downside that this has for Rocket

jumping is that increased projectile

speed like the Direct Hit the Rockets

moving faster means the timing for your

inputs on a rocket jump changed ever so

slightly I'm sure if you put a lot of

time into jumping with this thing you

could get to the point where it's as

effective as stock but for me personally

I like swapping between hybrid trer and

full trer and that adjustment period is

just really annoying to get used to oh

also you remember how I was talking

about the gunboats not counting the

damage resistance if you hit another

player that's how it works on the

Liberty launcher too so if you

accidentally tag someone with your

Rocket Jump you're taking more than

three times the damage than you normally

would and if you really mess up and take

that self damage on the ground you go

from taking around 14 points of damage

to

uh6 that is a lot of Make Believe damage

so you know just be

careful I meant to do that but assuming

you're careful with your rockets and you

get used to the projectile speed this

thing is a lot better for hybrid

shoulder than it seems when you first

pick it up it almost plays like full

trer with the rocket jumper you're

jumping around way more than stock going

for shovel kills more often than not but

unlike the rocket jumper you can still

deal out some significant damage with

your

primary okay maybe significant is a bit

of a stretch but it's not nothing just

give it a shot you might be

surprised Beggar's bazooka right so you

might remember that I've made a video on

this weapon before or maybe not not too

many people watch that one I think you

can go watch that again if you want I'm

definitely not going to complain about

more engagement but for the sake of

keeping everything in one place let me

give a quick summary of what I talked

about in that video you ready

okay you got that no okay well that's

the idea like I said this weapon is

really [ __ ] weird and it's

functionally Unique from every other

rocket launcher in the game as far as

using it with the market Garder and

gunboats combo goes well it's phenomenal

overload jumping unlocks a whole other

realm of Rocket jumping that synergizes

with the market Gardener pretty much how

well you'd expect it to so where does it

go on the silly Spectrum well the thing

is this launcher is so different from

the other launchers and it synergizes so

well with the market Gardener that

getting good with the Beggars means

you're already doing most of the things

I'd recommend you do as a hybrid Soldier

anyway like using your launcher as a

Mobility Aid to fly around the map like

an idiot and using your shovel in tandem

with the launcher when it's appropriate

to do so that's just like normal glue

sniffing Beggar's bazooka Behavior man

and the main difference is that you're

throwing your old jumping muscle memory

out of the window in favor of whatever

the hell this is it's so different from

every other launcher the beggar Soldier

is just kind of its own thing at this

point so let's take our silly Spectrum

zoom out for a second and place the

beggar's bazooka off over here in the

[ __ ] weirdo Zone don't get me wrong

it's really really good I just kind of

feel like it's its own thing you know

like cab Knight or Canon Knight

right wait what I think I talked about

using the rocket jumper and gunboats as

a meme to piss people off at one point

but uh okay I'm just mostly putting this

in as a section because it would bug me

if I didn't cover every launcher so

that's why this is here it's on the

troller side of the silly spectrum

because you're playing trer yep cool

anyway I'm just kidding there's actually

one more launcher that I've yet to talk

about and if you're one of the people

who uses it you've probably been yelling

at me to talk about it this entire

time let's talk about the air

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strike I'm just going to get it out of

the way right now I [ __ ] love the air

strike it is the perfect definition of a

hybrid launcher it's got the blast

jumping resistance of the Liberty

launcher The increased firing speed of a

Beggar's bazooka the same projectile

speed and firing mechanism is stock

eliminating any adjustment period to

equipping it and on top of all of that

it even snowballs gaining up to eight

rockets in the clip as you get kills

with it and it only comes at the cost

of okay yeah it's not great look the

damage penalty isn't quite as steep as

the Liberty launcher but the reduced

explosion radius means the damage fall

off is steeper so often times it feels

just as weak so yeah as the name implies

this thing is only really good when

you're in the air more specifically

rocket jumping but like haven't we heard

that one before I don't know it just

seems kind of familiar oh right as a

hybrid shoulder you're going to be

jumping around everywhere anyway so in

my experience you don't really run into

its downsides nearly as often as you

would if you were just playing regular

Soldier and for that reason it feels a

lot better to play with quick side note

the air strike usually gets used with

the base jumper and that's still pretty

good as a hybrid trer it's just that

losing that extra damage resistance with

a jump heavy play style really hurts

also the base jumper on troller shines

the most in enclosed spaces and the air

strike is kind of the exact opposite I'm

mostly going to stick with gun buts for

this one going forward so with the

gunboats and the air strike Soldier

still has almost 80% resistance to

self-inflicted blast damage this means

you'll be taking a maximum of 18 to 19

damage per rocket and again in practice

it's usually more like 16 that's pretty

nice but the real star of the show here

is the increased firing speed bombing in

and dumping a bunch of rockets on people

is really fun and it often ends with you

jump scaring the enemy team oh my

God more importantly though those fast

Rockets can also be used to jump you

know how with the Beggars you could

overload jump once and then dump the

remaining two rockets at your feet

really fast to get a big burst of speed

it's pretty cool right okay now try

seven

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okay so maybe seven is a bit Overkill

but having that speed potential without

having to preload your Rockets gives the

air strike an insane amount of

flexibility you got the mobility of the

Beggars the flexibility of stock the

crippling damage penalty of the Liberty

launcher but it's okay because we can

just ignore that part look it's just fun

okay is it better than stock I mean no

probably but just in terms of how well

it synergizes with the mark Garder and

the hybrid troll repl play style this

one's my

favorite it goes right here right in the

middle because it's

perfect shut

up you know I had a lot more fun than I

was expecting to have with hybrid trer

like don't get me wrong there were

definitely moments where I was missing

that extra Mobility that you get with

the rocket jumper and the man Treads but

I can totally see the appeal here plus

there are always going to be some uh

situations where it just makes more

sense to pull out a rocket launcher that

actually does damage and hey if I'm

still missing that extra Mobility

there's always the jump pack over there

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