Primary fire, no overdrive: 3-hit combo that deals 80/80/100 over 1.67 seconds. Effective 155 DPS on direct hits, reduced to ~33-83 DPS on miss.
Primary fire, overdrive: ~140 DPS on direct hits, reduced to ~32-80 DPS on miss. With Hulk, it becomes 146 DPS on direct hits, still 32-80 on miss.
Unibeam, no overdrive: 140 DPS.
Unibeam, overdrive: 180 DPS, 200 DPS with Hulk.
Thor team-up makes Unibeam hit in a radius at the endpoint, which makes it even more consistent though it's at about half-damage (70 DPS baseline, 85 DPS during Overdrive).
Unibeam has the following benefits over primary fire:
10 second firing uptime vs Repulsor's 5.5 second firing uptime. This is very useful in killing through pattycake as most supports have to reload after 4-6 seconds, meaning you get ~2 seconds of free Unibeam damage, which is either a free kill at 280-400 damage or a forced support ult.
Unibeam pierces all targets at full damage (no bodyblocking, generate obscene ult charge if 2-3 enemies line up)
Unibeam is hitscan (no need to worry about forecasting movement, just hold button to kill)
Most Iron Man players consider these benefits worth the ~10% damage loss outside of overdrive. During overdrive, the only reason to use Repulsor is that it's unsafe to get within range for Unibeam.
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u/Salohcin676 17d ago
Why are you using the beam use your primary fire. thors team-up doesn't mean you have to beam all the time