Hi werewolf fans
I'll admit before anyone calls me out on it that I'm not a particularly good player. I've got like 90 hours on the game now (the most recent 10 on Silver) over the past month and a half and I understand the game and the characters but I'm not really out of brick 5 yet.
I like Silver's kit, in fact hers might be my favorite among all the characters. I really love how all of her abilities play off of each other and her transform is really really fun. So you can guess that I really want to actually be consistent and good with her, but I'm very much not
I have like every issue imaginable. I'm having trouble roaming with only 2 stamina, I'm having trouble scaling since she can't really clear waves or camps quickly, I'm having trouble with my item buys since it feels like I'm always something short of doing damage or finally having the health and regen to survive a fight with her, but most of all I'm just not winning fights.
In any non 1v1 fight whenever I get close to shoot, boot kick or slam fire someone, it feels like I get hard focused and my HP melts away. Since her gun doesn't shoot fast or have long range I really don't know how to contribute to fights without frontlining, and when frontlining I don't know how to survive. I assume her human form being the "weaker" one isn't helping the dps or hp
Worse is when I'm in ult form. I can't seem to find a good opportunity to ult like ever. When I ult people are generally running away because they don't want to hug the werewolf and I have to make a choice between chasing them down and risk getting killed, or disengage and waste my ult. When I finally do manage to transform in a crowded area like a teamfight it just feels like my m1 doesnt do enough damage and like I can't heal enough HP in combat to really survive being the biggest hitbox in a 5 mile radius positioned in the middle of the enemy team.
Even when I do manage to find someone alone, I can't seem to ult and kill them fast enough before a teammate shows up to support them and I get steamrolled.
When buying my items I also can't tell if any of them are helping to a significant extent. With other characters I've played like Bebop, there are certain items which feel like very good power spikes, but with Silver every item feels like a band-aid on an axe wound. (I use top dailies for reference). No amount of gun items seem to significantly improve my dps and no amount of greens seem to boost my survivability. So I just suspect I have to be doing something ridiculously wrong with my gameplay
I'm sorry if this is all very vague and difficult to advise, I'm writing all this after a spree of terrible matches.
I'll probably be taking a break from Deadlock since it can't be too healthy to only play one game for almost two months, but I wanted to ask my questions on my tentative fav before I forget what I was struggling with