What range weapon is best against the best fireteams? Bow, pistol, caster, or smartdisk?
Predator weapons
Caster/concealment is the best weapon
Certain play styles can make all of them successful. But the caster is the most reliable and hard hitting in my experience
Caster is the most reliable, coupled with control, damage, and range.
Knock the mask off though and all of that kind of goes out the window.
Smart disk with 0 ping > Plasma Caster > Bow > Plasma Pistol.
Caster is not as useful on night mode as the laser stands out so much, to be honest I think with dithered lens + day time plasma is more safe to use than the disk, everytime the Predator uses the disk he is pretty much is telling the fireteam the direction he is at, sometimes during the time you are vulnerable while the disk is flying you can die fast, there is no time to react fast enough to escape the fireteam dps once they start shooting at close range.
But Disk does allow the predator to do the 4 hit combo which can kill a fireteam or down multiple ones before even getting shot or having the fms a chance to revive.
Very Nice π
Caster
As of the huge buff to the Pistol, I think there isnβt one of the three equippable ranged weapons that is absolutely better than the others. They all fill different roles.
The caster is just completely different because of the charging, splash damage, laser, energy restriction, and dependence on having a mask.
What weapon would be best at close and medium range.

