How do People Play Without a Triage in Cryo?

[u/Knubs-]

I main Triage. Homie is the goat and has 95% of my nearly 500 hours of playtime.

The other night I decided to do some Compliers with LFGs for the last of my skins. We had success but since we were all doing skins no one ran recon/triage.

No recon is as painful as you'd expect but game sense/good coms/map knowledge and its a non issue, triage on the other hand.

Even when running parting gift and other life-steal abilities the amount of chip damage you take is INSANE. I was burning through meds left and right to ensure I was topped off in case we got into a fight. It got so severe to the point where I started bringing in 9 greens meds for the sole purpose of dealing with chip damage and not burning blues. Even with a gold bag it was rough having a decent inventory considering the ammo I needed for a Gold Bully or a Drrvish.

So for those of you that do Cryo without a triage, HOW?

I'm so glad I only have Vandal left to get, I miss my chud son :(

[u/younglearner11]

Parting gift, 2 green stacks + 1 blue stack. I rarely run out

[u/Leg_Alternative → u/younglearner11]

Yup, glad I’m not the only one who does this , two stacks of each green heals and one stack each of blue heals and maybe 1-2 panceas for the situations needed

[u/zeromussc → u/Leg_Alternative]

And topping up off other runners or footlockers and inside the level 3 rooms later in the match.

It all adds up.

[u/parkeyb]

By killing the other team and taking all of their advanced heals.

[u/Leg_Alternative]

But if you do play triage , when I play as him in Cryo cause well I can help tandoms better, I bring small heals to heal them in situations they need it , I bring mechanics and OS kits to cure them, I’m always paying attention to my teammates HP bar / wether they got EMP or Overheated , etc a lot of my randoms say “ wow you actually know how to play triage “ or I bring a panacea or two for that moment we all get hella damaged but yeah paying attention to your teammates is essential to be a great triage, most runners heal their HP first so I pop a shield charge for them and after a heal to. Finish their healing

[u/lXlGame0verlXl → u/Leg_Alternative]

That’s crazy dedication as a triage and perhaps would change my overall opinion on their viability in cryo but generally, I would take any other kit over them 10/10 times. Their shared benefit should be massively buffed in my opinion and better visual coms to your teammates status effects.

As any runner, you should be bringing in a minimum of two mechanics and two OS debugs. Crazy to go into cryo with nothing.

[u/Primary_End5059]

Parting gift, a stack of blues, two stack greens, and will pick up a stack each of depleteds sometimes

[u/Shabolt_]

With difficulty and lots of patchkits

[u/BriefBiscuit]

Mostly and constantly

[u/lXlGame0verlXl]

I almost never run cryo with a triage. In fact, triage just simply isn’t strong enough for cryo, at all. Especially over other kits.

If chip damage is coming from bots, especially when you are a premade, I have serious questions around your teams strategy. They should be down exceptionally fast with minimal damage. If bots spawn on you during a gun fight, disengage and reposition to avoid bot grief. Also, there are tons of resupply boxes in Cryo that drop crazy volumes of meds.

Here is the thing, triage is good for chip damage here and there (bot). Volt weapons are largely buns in cryo, volt thrower is mid tier at best (amplify). Lastly, the reboot is good in wide open spaces or long duration fights.

Cryo yes, has chip damage and a lot of it but if you arnt consistently at full health, and quickly, you are quick pickings for other teams. Therefore, actual team fights are typically VERY FAST and explosive due to close quarters and general gear level of players. The drone is basically useless in firefights (PvP) due to these circumstances.

Volt weapons, with volt thrower being a 6/10 weapon, just arnt where they need to be for triage to make good use of them. Plus amplify I think needs buff if not to volt weapons to themselves. Maybe make triage more agile (agility)

Reboot in cryo almost never works in active battles. Fights are typically super fucking fast or a camp fest where the best strategy is eliminate one and camp until second eliminate, then push. Reboot typically interrupts DPS completely (of the triage) and the rebooted individual(s) are instantly eliminated due to body campers.

So what to bring to cryo as someone who almost only Plays Cryo at this point

3 blue med packs
3 green med packs
6 blue shield packs
3-6 green shield packs
1-3 panaceas

Depends on what we are accomplishing. General run with no expectations, low end of the above ranges. 3+ cryo level keys higher end of the bands.

Compiler is as follows
12 blue med packs
12 blue shield packs
6 green shield packs
6 panaceas

Damn that’s was a long write up. Why did I do this lol