hello, after I finally got to diamond going almost completely bucky, I decided to try to replicate FishStickOnAStick idea of the bad weapon academy for the gun that is consider the worst one in Valorant, known as the bucky.

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First lets talk about the positives of the bucky

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The bucky is very cheap even for eco guns, having 850 cost, making it with fullshields 150 creds cheaper than Spectre with light shields.

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The bucky shots are kinda easy to hit, so pulling flicks, lowground and other hard shot for other weapons are something the bucky can do consistently

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The previous benefit is made even better by the most important benefit of the bucky, you are a running gun menace despite the fact that is (for some reason) the gun that makes the character go slower of all of them. You wonder why this is so important? Because of the simple reason that jumping, almost doesn't change your damage output.

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You are not convinced that last benefit inst that great? Well lets think of something important here, the bucky already had the advantage of requiring less aim than the vandal at short range, but putting the fact that you can jump and run to makes things even harder to the vandal makes the matchup at close range really one sided.

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So, what are the negatives of the bucky?

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Well here we have several problems

Lets start by stating the fact that, the bucky is unforgiving. Since while the shots are easy to hit, they are not that easy to kill. If your first shot hits the arms, head or anything other than the carter of mass and the other player is not stunned or banged, YOU ARE DEAD. Why you ask? well because the bucky can only shot every 1,1s.

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The second problem is the range, it is pitiful. it will not one shot any thing in 10m-15m but generally two shotting. This is a big downside, but a lot of the part in the map are in that range so you can play around that easily. Also never use the right click, you will never use it

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Ok, so how you should you the bucky?

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Lets start with the character that thing works with. I found 2 candidates that are the best for the gun, those being breach and neon. Why? Since they help a lot with the range flaw, because the enemy can shoot at long distant if they cant see you(for breach) and you can close the gap if you run 2 times faster than other agents.

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Another thing is that this gun is amazing at defense, attack it is decent but in defense it is fucking good.

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The last advice I will give is, Be the running gun menace. If there is a box between you and player, jump over it and shot him from above. If there an altitude distance between you and the enemy, fuck it, try to play whack mole with the guy, you being the mole and shotting him every time your head pops up. V1 close encounter? Jump, move to left, press right to break the movement, and how is the enemy supposed to hit a hs?

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I personally don't think the bucky is the worst weapon in the game, like it is up there, but it aint the worst in my opinion. So if you want to use it, go and be the madman.