Quote Originally Posted by kionay View Post
maybe it's just that i'm too impatient or too straight up bad because i tend to die before i can use my ult

and my nades are attrocious, if i try to nade someone i just end up dead because i don't have a gun out or... well i'm bad

i've always had trouble playing as raiden, maybe i'm comparing it to the other races i play :-/
quick little how to:
When tossing a nade, use corners and such to get the nade where you need it to go. sound is your friend. try to guesstimate the ~ time it takes someone to run from point a to point b. This is great when you see/hear someone running into tunnels or down a hallway and you time the nade right at the other end. They pop around a corner and take a nade straight to the face. Hilarious.

Never go out around a corner with a nade out unless you know it is safe. Use corners to toss nades to clear the way. Remember, flash grenades are very powerful. It can be a fun tactic to toss out a crit nade, flash nade, then crit nade. Just watch your minimap before you flash as to not hit your teammates.

Typically, all the rushing classes should make it to you well before your ultimate is ready. Hopefully your team has them either dead or locked down. Shadow hunters are also good at funneling these fellows down 1 path which you then volley your nades into. Instant fun!

Your ultimate is your best friend. It deals decent damage, will hit multiple targets and most important, lets you know their postion. When your ult is ready, get your nade out. use your ult and corners to place your nade.

Orc plays the same way, except you typically stay in spawn to get nades. Raiden--being able to buy gloves--has the power to get out of spawn easier. Overall, a very good skill class. Buy claw, lace, and gloves.

Most of all, practice! Have trouble tossing your nades at the right spot? Practice. Go to an empty server (WCS test server is a wonderful place) spend 5 minutes getting the angles and distances down. It is much harder to become consistent with how you toss nades in a live game. Use sprays to place targets for getting your shotgun blasts to aim faster when you clear corners. You'll be surprised at the difference minimal effort to practice can make in your overall game. This and a couple late nights with cyber doing bond duels are the only reasons I do well with bond. I became proficient with nades doing 1v1 knife/nade battles with gangnam. So you know, the best race for this after extenstive testing is genocide XD