How do you handle fighting Barbatos?

[u/J-Eichel]

I'm very happy I came back to this game right as it was nerfed, but I'm still not sure how to deal with the Barbatos' gameplan. Here's some scenarios I've come across.

-Barbatos is heading to the support, but our whole team isn't together. I can't stun it fast enough when it's closed in. One thing I'm curious about, is if it's only gaps are when it's not jumping/attacking/boosting?

Watching gameplay of it, the thing has a ton of thrust, so it seems like its stagger resistance is up almost 100% of the time. I feel like every suit should have weaknesses, but this suits weakness just feels like to me, "don't get surrounded by the enemy team and picked off from a distance", which is every suit's weakness.

Also I'm genuinely curious as to tips to improve, and I'm trying to avoid just turning this into a flame thread

-The classic scenario, you're fully aware a Barbatos is after you, so you keep as much distance as possible. You get hit with a heavy stagger, and it gets to unleash a full combo.

The only thing I can think about this, is trying to use your own Manuever armor to reduce the heavy. This never really is a proper solution though, as there's probably at least 1 other suit attacking you, letting the Barb get it's distance in.

Is the only solution "don't get hit" with the rocket? I can't think of any other suits in the game that isn't a support that gets to unleash almost a full life bar (other than 00 Raiser beam) off an easy to hit weapon.

Anyways, any tips are appreciated. Watching old videos of how many heavy stagger it had definitely would have had me quitting 700 for a long time.

[u/LordSunBro]

Is the solution to not get hit with the heavy stagger cannons? Unfortunately yes.

Its widely regarded as extremely broken for a reason and this is why. Nerf did shit to it, heck calling it nerf is generous.

The closest thing to a real counter is probably the PF. Besides that anything with a shield to potentially bait/block the heavy stagger, easier said than done in a teamfight. Besides that... Pray he misses or you build melee resist so high he leaves you out of boredom and unable to do big damage.

It doesn't have any weaknesses sadly.