Weapon Wednesday #1 - R-99 vs Prowler
Hey there, With this post I’m planning to start a little weekly recurring series where I’ll be discussing the most controversial picks between two weapons of the same or similar type. We’ll be comparing the weapons at the early-game, mid-game, and late-game stages. Make sure to vote for your choice in the poll below and voice your opinion in the comments. For today we’ll start with the most famous one: The R-99 vs the Prowler!
The R-99 in general is an amazing weapon. Even without any attachments it comes with default, HCOG-like iron sights, that proves very helpful in early fire fights. It has very controlable recoil and comes with a default 20 round magazine. As superb as the R-99 might be, throughout the game the ammo capacity becomes more and more of a problem until it can lead to fatal errors in the late to end game. The R-99 is definitely a valuable pick in early game, but should be exchanged by a shotgun or similar towards the late game!
The Prowler is a truely controversial candidate, which comes with a default 5-round burst fire and 20 round magazine as well as a default iron sight similar to the R-99. The necessity to find a select fire hop-up, before being able to unleash its true potential makes this one a tricky pick. If you have a quick trigger finger this shouldn‘t be much of a problem however if you haven‘t it truely makes a difference in DPS to the R-99 which is full auto in default. The one thing that makes the Prowler a better pick than the R-99 is the fact that a fully upgraded magazine provides 35 rounds which is pretty much for a SMG. Unlike the R-99 you can definitely bring the Prowler into late game and on top of that there‘s even a chance to find the golden Prowler, which just a even better version of the Prowler. Early/Mid/Late game tier list: Early game: R-99: S Tier Prowler: B Tier Mid game: R-99: A Tier Prowler: A Tier Late/End game: R-99: C Tier Prowler: S Tier Now as kind of a verdict I have to say doing research for this post was truely shocking to me. I can‘t think of a match where I haven‘t picked the R-99 as soon as I found one. I think I haven‘t even played with the Prowler except for in Firing Range! The problem with the Prowler in my opinion is the hop up that you have to find. I love being all set from the beginning on and the Prowler doesn‘t provide that.
Poll Closed 33 Voted
R-99 vs Prowler?
- R-99 19
- Prowler 14
But what is your opinion? Are you #TeamR-99 or #TeamProwler? Let me know in the comments?👇🏻 Stats for Nerds 🤓:
Source: Gaming Merchant, YT
Prowler all day even without select fire.
I do agree with you, however I can’t seem to get used to the burst fire - neither with the Hemlock nor with the Prowler.
But despite that the Prowler really seems to be the better choice in Season 4I just practiced burst mode in firing range it's worth learning.
#TeamR-99
#TeamProwler bc with the selective receiver and a lvl3 heavy mag, the gun shreds! Close mid far, as long as you have good recoup control it dominates!
Recoil
Burst Prowler is almost better then full auto maybe even better
According to the stats it is, however I don’t know why but I just can’t play with the prowler. Maybe it’s the slightly different recoil patter compared to the r-99, maybe the overall handling, but something about that gun makes me pull off such aweful trades...I don’t know maybe I just need to continue practicing with that gun
R-99 is god with gold or epic barrel stabilizer
Yeah you’re right and the Prowler doesnt even have barrel attachments. That could be the reason possibly 🤔
If it did then I wonder how broken it would be
Now that I think about it it does make sense. The R-99 has barrel attachment to reduce recoil, but therefore it only has a 27 round magazine with max tier mag attachment.
The Prowler has no barrel attachments but therefore has a 35 round magazine with the max tier mag attachment!
So they did that do balance the Prowler vs the R-99i prefer prowler i just need selectfire but a lazer with both
i would say prowler but since i would pretty much need a select fire imma say r99
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