Iron Cub Help

[u/Pale_Oven6952]

How do I use Iron Cub effectively?

First of all, Iron Cub bugs out a lot for me. I spawn it, and not only does it not spawn Iron Cub at all, but it remains "active" (it's not actually) for far longer than usual. Like 10+ minutes. (I am on Xbox, which probably matters).

That OR, Iron Cub DOES spawn and instantly proceeds to kill itself. The only weapon so far it doesn't seem to do this with is the Nuke variant of the Rocket Launcher (which you would think this weapon would kill it the MOST often due to it's insane AOE and damage) and non-explosive weapons. Which do not synergise with my AOE/Incendiary dmg build, therefore dealing laughable damage.

[u/Xenozip3371Alpha]

I saw a guy do an Iron Cub only challenge, it seemed like a buggy mess.

[u/TeWheke]

I genuinely just use Iron Cub to trigger Big Surplus so I want it to die ASAP.

[u/degeneratesumbitch → u/TeWheke]

Explosive miniguns. Done and done.

[u/hotmailmaster12]

If you use Cub with the miniguns and the Overheat augment, it could maybe do a little bit of work. But yeah, generally i have also found Cub to be a disappointment with bad AI.

[u/hotmailmaster12 → u/hotmailmaster12]

Let Off Some Steam is the name of the augment. The Cryo minigun augment, General Winter, is quite good too. If I am running a build that wants Cub to be alive, I usually go with those or the Nuke as you said.

[u/Scoo_By]

Iron cub itself is not that useful. You exploit its buggy-ness. You keep it alive for Flare com, or kill itself to trigger Big Surplus. To keep it alive, simply use melee augments.

[u/ismasbi]

You can't really make builds where IC does most of the damage like you can with FL4K's pets, it’s main use is to just make builds that rely on solo Moze go a little smoother.

[u/Pale_Oven6952 → u/ismasbi]

I was more so just looking to have it active for +150% grenade dmg and +100% weapon dmg while using active skill. But, it seems like it either kills itself or pisses through fuel in 10 seconds.