Which just doesnt happen if they are good… or not braindead. And if they do actually seperate, your melee takes 4 hits to down ASSUMING the melee even connected. If they jump in a circle around you, you just lose… you wont turn and will swipe were they were.
OR they walk backwards and eat through your health in seconds.
I know i know… use the plasma caster, this is hit and miss. Aim at something else, charge it up, swipe over to them for tons of damage or maybe a full on down. Not only is this unsatisfying gameplay, its gimmicky and can be exploited by the enemy team.
How about net gun/wristblade? Sure you might get one down and hopefully you netted at least one other person, but they can still move, break free fast and it does minimal damage ( i know its not supposed to ) it should honestly just lovk you in place for 3 or 4 seconds but wtv.
I find the most effective to be: jump in and down someone as fast as possible and then do one of two things… leap out and then leap immediately back in to take out the rezer ( maybe you wont die to everyone else ) or leap in, down one, leap far away into a tree and camp the body with a plasma caster. You might get another down as everyone is looking at you or outright kill the rezer.
This wont work on better teams.
I feel they only time the predator got good in the beta was when he got the combistick and bear traps, yes i know the combistick was dumb good but the bear traps were the most fun to me because it allowed me to set up ambushes in camps and seperate a team myself, i was being proactive instead of reactive . Right now i just feel like all of my tools pale in comparison, never even mind the elder sword which seems to just be straight up worse than the wrist blades.