Slingshot

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" Can't catch me! "

- Slingshot's Ultimate Catchphrase

Overview

Slingshot is the 4th Phighter in PHIGHTING!

Slingshot is a very straightforward class to play as in Phighting, as the skills you would need would be basic predictability (the ability to predict where people would go) and decent aiming, however, Slingshot can show to have more depth than just being a fast ranged phighter with lots of mobility. Slingshot acts like a semi close-range sniper, as their abilities force Slingshot to act like a sniper, but LMB allows Slingshot to move closer to the fight than a more contemporary sniper. Its ultimate is where you need slight prediction skills as you cannot aim while firing the ultimate, but in some smaller maps, EX: Dodgeball or Sword Fight On The Heights, it can show amazing crowd control potential. And alongside that, phighting

Strategy

Please look at the table below before reading this to better understand the strategies for Slingshot as a class.

Slingshot, as a class, can sometimes act like a backline unit, or sometimes like a semi close-range ranged class. To fully utilize Slingshot's potential, you must utilize both of these playstyles to be effective. Let me explain why both of these types of Slingshots exist, first off, the semi close range ranger; Slingshot's mobility and semi close-range attacks like Q and LMB allow it to attack at a medium distance away from the fight, which doesn't punish the player due to its mobility. Although these attacks do force Slingshot into developing into a semi close range sniper / ranger, Slingshot could just as easily move back into a sniping area to start becoming a long-distance ranger, as their ultimate and RMB force it to stay at long distances, of which the game would punish the player for using these at close ranges, as it makes you more vulnerable to attacks during a fight. Slingshot's mobility does not benefit for its long range but allows Slingshot to switch between these types of attacks, as Slingshot could move back into the backline and just as easily move back into the midground if the situation demands it, making it more versatile as an attacker than most classes.

Abilities

List of Abilities	Descriptions
Passive	Can double jump and skywalk for 1.5 seconds after double jumping. Using an ability grants you a movement speed boost for a short duration. And just like all classes, recovers lost shield after a short period of time without losing any other shield during this period.
LMB	Slings a projectile that travels instantly. Does 13 damage at base. Damage falls off over distance.
RMB	The player holds still for a moment, and slings a projectile that does 50 damage on hit. This projectile can pierce enemies. If used in the air, the player will levitate for the cast-time.
Q	Performs a short hop, then fires a volley of 3 arrows doing 12 damage each. These arrows can ricochet off terrain and can only hit each enemy once. Similarly, using this while airborne will levitate the player for the cast-time.
E	Performs a lunge in the direction the player is facing in Dealing no damage to the enemy unlike Sword's lunge. The lunge may also act as the first jump when used to move slingshot from a state of standing on the ground into midair without jumping to do so.
F	Slingshot's Ult can be activated after 90 seconds have passed without killing anyone else & give the following effects: Gain a huge movement speed increase for 30 seconds. The player's LMB is replaced with three long-range lasers that deals 60 damage and ignores walls. The player cannot use other abilities except E for the duration or until all lasers are fired, or 30 seconds pass without all lasers being used. NOTE: you cannot aim your laser when shooting your laser unlike slingshots RMB or Q. Please also note that the laser can pierce through boomboxes forcefield.

Gallery

• Slingshot
  Slingshot
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  Catshot
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  Slingshot's Ult.

Trivia

• The Catshot skin was made as a birthday gift for one of Bog Com's (Discord server) Admins, and Phighting! Character designer, @sodakettle, or just Soda
• The Catshot Skin was the skin that required the greatest number of eggs to acquire during the Easter event, which would be 150.
• Like all other classes, the Slingshot class is based off of an old Roblox gear, which would be quite simply the slingshot weapon which is one of the original brickbattle weapons, and there is also a slingshot gear from 2010 too.
• It is canon that the reason that slingshot can walk in air for a short amount of time after a double jump, is because they are wearing " air Jordan's " which apparently allow this ability to happen.
• As of 5/26/22, catshot is the only skin that changes the voiceline that appears when activating Slingshot's ult, which would be "Can't catch me :3"
• Slingshot is canonically a sub in sex, as stated by one of the developers, pix, in the Boggio Community

Tips

• Slingshot works best in narrow hallways, so if you find someone going somewhere like the side hallways in Dodgeball, then it is best to go after them for an easy kill, this is because in a hallway, aiming isn't so hard than it is in open spaces, making you able to hit them with your abilities and especially with your ult

• Avoid close range melee classes like Sword or skateboard, as they could easily get close to you and kill you with their high dps, with swords shield regen per hit, and skateboards mobility, it's basically impossible to kill them one on one, coupled with the fact that it's harder to hit people closer to you. The best course of action against these classes is to run away to higher ground where they can't reach you, as they don't have much vertical mobility.
• There are certain places in Maps where slingshot can be become a sniper using a vantage point, with the added bonus that not many other classes can reach to there. For example, you can get to the highest building in the Iron Cafe and on top of there you can snipe people on the scaffolding and the areas you can view on the bottom floor of the iron cafe.

• [1]When you use your abilities ( Ult, Rmb, Q, and E ) most of them freeze you in place for a time, some even giving a very slight verticality ( Q and E ). Combining these and good timings you can gain a bit of a larger boost in slingshots mobility. However in places like Roblox museum and mall this tip proves basically useless, but in some places like Rocket arena ( And hopefully more maps with vantage points ) you can access the elevated corners of the map using a combination of your Q and E.

• Aim good

• When the opportunity presents itself, use certain piercing abilities to target multiple people for the most damage, this is most espieccaly true for Slingshot's ult as it should be used to hit at least 2 or 3 people as otherwise it would be a waste to only shoot one person. With also the benefit of having a higher chance to hit someone with your ult if you target more than one person
  • ( Will probably add more?!??! idk )

Phighters

Update History

• 4/18/22 Nerfed Slingshots hover duration from 2 seconds to 1.5 seconds
• 4/17/22 Fixed bug with Slingshot primary not dealing any damage
• 4/15/22 With the release of Phighting! playtest 2, being: "Shock", "good job", and "Woah"
• 2/20/22 Q damage changed from 10 to 8. Slingshot RMB cooldown increased from 6 to 8
• 2/19/22 Nerfed slingshot