The Paper Rex Outlaw is INSANE

This video explains why Paper Rex have figured out the secret to breaking the light shield meta with the Outlaw, the newest gun in Valorant.

#valorant

[abrawolf]

Started buying outlaw when i saw at least 3 players on a half buy and just giving my rifle to someone else who died to build good feels with the team

[shaf]

We also saw this work in one more game. It was Lev vs Sen where Aspas was buying Outlaw and abusing Sen's light shield rifle buys. They lost so many early rounds to it that they were forced to respect the Outlaw later in the game and go full armor.

[Tze]

Logically speaking, if you know the enemy buys light sheilds (which is meta) it's a 1 tap, and even if they buy full, they still become easy to kill while you're on the other side of the map

[zironcat]

Its a two shot OP in round 2 and 3, the thing is, the enemies most of the time push after a pick for the trade, and the outlaw lets you repeek instantly catching them off guard

[MuzMysyq]

that's such a nice analysis dude. you bring up well constructed arguments to support your position too.
I can't wait to see how PRX's(and genj's now too prob) economy management will clash with other regions in madrid.

[shepard]

the outlaw is quite popular in apac. played in immo 2-3 lobby and there are some people that use it alot.

[Moooooforme]

The fact that outlaw can 1 shot light armor AND it could still shoot the 2nd bullet makes it stronger than op in some situations. (with almost half of op price).

It's interesting to see some mind games around it. Like how pros play around outlaw or against outlaw.

[dsand]

we're all just waiting for a good skin.

[punktea]

4:51 PRX something literally gets a kill with the OP here

[Foxxy-tdng]

paper rex taking the last agressive mid buy gun andd making it agressive is the most paper rex thing ive ever seen

[playbtdbattles]

Apparently they didnt even make the gun for light armor meta and it was just an assumption. Aparently they wanted to give sniper players a middle ground to use between the op and marshal

[proverbialking]

I was actually surprised we didn't see much more use of outlaw. Since many top players are also known as nasty OP users.

[mrporo]

This is actually pretty normal, I've been playing like this since the outlaw was implemented in the game and I have seen plenty of players doing the same even in mid elo... The fact they did this will just inform or teach players who don't analyze ways to get an advantage with economy... Other comments already said this is kind of normal and I agree, I am even more surprised that pros didn't abuse this since day 1(or maybe they did)... Valorant won't change Riot made this planned to be played like that we will only see way more people now doing it.... The same goes with Sova / Odin strategie

[victorbigum]

I hope pros start doing this, cause we all know how annoying it is to 1. Have to full save if you lose pistol, and 2. Buy heavy armor, if they enemies just buy outlaw in rifle rounds. This is just a smart way to firstly save money, as said, it’s just a cheaper operator, and secondly, which was also mentioned, this just forces teams to buy heavy armor, causing less rifle rounds, and (hopefully) a lower amount of rounds won for the enemies.

[sawsent]

The outlaw is either an overpriced Marshal when used wrong, or an underpriced OP when used right.

[utsavmanandharz]

better teams have recognized this and have started adapting preemptively. NRG and Heretics to name a few opted to FULL save if they lost the pistol( all classics, not even a ghost) which guarantees a full shield buy on their anti bonus

[soap]

They need to buff the phantom to help further counter light shields. I suggest removing the 140 headshot and making the 120 one a 130 hs or 125

[Zaptrap]

2:29 saying it is OP is an understatement, it is an OP with TWO CONSECUTIVE SHOTS

[justaplayer_]

Finally someone with a damn brain seeing the potential of the OUTLAW instead of just writing it off.

[nzeu]

I might not bee good but outlaw is a pretty good buy imo, it just keeps one shotting people to the body for a mere 2400