Awesomenauts

Awesomenauts

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Why Sentry X-58 isn't Pay2Win
By Surtr Logi
While Sentry is the least complained starstorm naut so far, people still complain about his power. Sentry is the Tank of the starstorm nauts, resisting a lot of damage and dealing a lot of damage at the same time with the cost of speed like Clunk or Derpal.

Like all my other guides this will talk about player's complaints about Sentry and how to counter them.
   
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Who is Sentry X-58?
Sentry is the original the second starstorm awesomenaut, he was originally going to be second until the developers decided to create Penny Fox after Ted McPain, for those who are wondering, this is why Sentry came up so quickly and early unlike Foxy who had a few months gap between her and Ted.

Sentry is a tank, he is slow, but has a lot of hp and can do lots of damage in return, going 1v1 isn't a good idea since he can tank all of your attacks and hit harder then you would ever do, the only nauts who should go 1v1 with him is another Tank class or someone like Foxy, Ted or Froggy G
Complaints from players
THAT BLACKHOLE WEAPON IS SO BROKEN!

Its not, it requires damage YOU AND YOUR TEAMMATES INCLUDING TURRETS did to Sentry and he will send it back to you, before Sentry uses the Blackhole he activates a shield and has a little meter similar to Penny's charges, the more damage Sentry takes the more the meter is filled and higher the damage, during this time DON'T ATTACK HIM! Then he just wasted an ability or has a Blackhole that does 10 damage.

THE TELEPORT IS NOT FAIR, HE KEEPS ESCAPING ALL THE TIME!

While the teleport is good, it has three HUGE downsides.

Since Sentry can put the teleport beacon anywhere, people who noticed where he put it can camp there, the best example is Yuri (aka bomb city).

When Sentry teleports he has to wait 20 seconds until he can deploy a beacon.

And lastly is that every time you attack Sentry he cannot use the teleport for 2 seconds, KEEP LANDING THOSE HITS OR HE IS GONE!

I CAN'T ESCAPE THE BLACKHOLE! THIS IS BULLSH*T!

First of ITS A BLACKHOLE, in real life you cannot escape one, not even light can escape however there is an exception, you CAN actually escape from it as anyone IF the Sentry hasn't bought the Gravity upgrade, however if he has, your not going anywhere .

Also any characters with a Dash ability like Froggy G and Foxy and escape with eaze, EVEN SWIGGINS CAN DO IT!

Secondly it can go through walls like Coco's lighting ball, however the range is limited since the attack itself can go through stuff except like a bit of the Blackhole is poking out of a corner, and like Coco, don't hang around near turrets or areas Sentry can jump up and ambush you with a BlackHole.

And again, ITS YOUR FAULT AND YOUR TEAMMATES FAULT for letting him build up the Blackhole, your getting all the damage you dealt right back at ya!

HIS MINE DEPLORER ATTACK IS UNFAIR!

This is a hybird between clunk's missles and Ted's grenades, he can still fire them at you and do damage, however they stay if they don't touch anything then explode when contacted or after time passes.

They only last for a 2 seconds (or a bit longer) without upgrades, and they are REALLY easy to dodge.

IT TAKES NO SKILL TO USE SENTRY! WHY CAN'T WE HAVE THAT!?

Firstly you have Raelynn , Ayla and Coco

Secondly Sentry has a high skill celling, if the player is just spamming BlackHoles, he/she is playing Sentry wrong. Compared to the other tanks Sentry has the lowest amount of HP so he can't take too much damage compared to tanks.

Sentry has 1650 HP
Derpl has 1800 HP
Clunk has 1900 HP

*Note, I don't really count Scoop as a tank, I class him as a similar role to Skølldir, tanky yes, but more of a fighter.
Sentry is a defensive character who is able to halt pushes and creates traps, for an example I place a beacon where your going to escape then I teleport to you and kill you, similar to Gnaw, who can halt pushes and create weedling and spit traps for weak enemies to fall into (I done it before trust me and most of the time, it was me who feel into the trap)
Questions you might ask!
Q. Not a lot of vistors or compliants, why is this?

A. Sentry like I said has a high skill ceiling, so its hard to play as him, so many people can easily counter him, thus less people complaining.

Q. Will you be doing this for ALL starstorm characters?
A. Yes and any future DLC charaters IF they make any. (INB4 Starstorm 2)

Also if your against this, too bloody bad.

Q. Have you faced good players who played against the naut your talking about?

A. Yes, or I would be making these blind, I play awesomenauts a lot so I do have good experience with these characters.

Q. So that's the end then? All 5 characters are here! What's next?

A. I do make other guides, my most recent one is on Payday 2 talking about Perk decks, I also have another one in the works. Plus I might make a Starstorm super guide talking about what's in the DLC and is it Pay2Win, aka combing all these guides into one and adding more content like about Music etc.

Q. Can I play a game with you?

A.Due to a large "Adding Blitzkerg" from Phishing Bots I stopped accepting all friend requests unless you contacted me somewhere else.

Q. Link to your other guides?

A. Of course!

http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=204520731
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=253916504
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=264122154
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=402541147

Q. Have you got a steam group?

A. It's not about me, it's just a group of players who enjoy a certain gif and a certain song joined together, honestly the members are really friendly and you can make some new friends there, but not me, I'm a grumpy old ♥♥♥♥.

http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/CatgrooveFrogArmy
65 Comments
Ketrai 6 Mar, 2015 @ 6:52am 
Black hole is easily abused in premades tough.
Centurion 1 Mar, 2015 @ 5:19am 
you forgot about offensive teleporting, that gets lots of people mad. c:
Surtr Logi  [author] 26 Oct, 2014 @ 8:55am 
Nope, Sentry has 50 more hp then Scoop

Surtr Logi  [author] 24 Jun, 2014 @ 7:17am 
Its mostly because DOT, Sentry mostly wants pure damage and not DOT for his blackhole, DOT really screws up Sentry players like myself.
Draak 24 Jun, 2014 @ 4:22am 
Have to ask, does Gnaw counter Sentry? Played a match yesterday as our poisonous friend and I was against Sentry, but all I had to do was spit acid (after I got the range upgrade) and run in for a few bites and the sentry ran away everytime leaving me to chew down his tower with my personal turret army.
Surtr Logi  [author] 20 Jun, 2014 @ 1:18pm 
Well no wonder your ass was handed to you, its called Teamwork, any two nauts are dangerous with teamwork.
Gasbringer 19 Jun, 2014 @ 6:59pm 
My ass, you need to play against a sentry and a voltar.

The most OP, game killing, BS, combo ever devised.

Tank burst dmg like a boss and is virtually unkillable.
Doomslore 31 May, 2014 @ 1:25pm 
I have noticed when playing sentry is that his black hole pretty slow at firing and quite easy to move out of if you are expect the black hole and the fact it goes through the ground can screw up the aim a bit if you are not careful
HentaiHunter 31 May, 2014 @ 10:52am 
true but if coco and rae are on the same team rae can fire her bird bot right up to the turret
Surtr Logi  [author] 31 May, 2014 @ 9:43am 
B★RS

Theres a diffirence between Blackhole and Explode, Explode is on demand straight away, use it anytime you want. However with Blackhole you need to absorb damage, if Sentry is doing a lot of damage, its your fault and your teammates fault for building up damage, if hes using turrets/solar boss, use knockback to get him away before he becomes too powerful. Also Yuri can escape the blackhole the debuff imuinty upgrade along with Vinne with no trouble (I think), and Froggy,Penny and Swiggins can get out no problem. Only issue with Blackhole is the gravity upgrade which is STUPID, maybe lowered to 20%, NOT 70% Ronimo.