@@karka3n If you press F, you can dodge the melee attack and stun the enemy. They just added the "GYM" in the sandbox with a bot on a boxing ring, so you can train doing that
You can charge melee then press 1 before finishing to cancel, they waste a parry, you start life steal then can charge melee while their parry is on cooldown.
I havent been lucky enough to play him live but have played against bots in non testing hours and i like havig bullet lifesteal and reatoritive shot as well as basically every debuff from the weapon and spirit tree with the bullet resitance shredder and hunters aura and the fire rate and move speed debuffs basically meaning if you get parried at all your gun and simply foghting in the front lines is enough to be hella useful to your team making everythinf around you easier to kill and do far less damage also mitigating the issues when someone has anti healing items. Beyond everything else though the thing i love about this is it makea enemies soft against BOTH your fist AND gun while also making leaving your melee ramge not a cure all to dealing with you.
You should try full spirit build shiv and putting cool down and duration extender stuff on your throwing knives and you can just keep stacking up the bleed and then finishing with ult it’s gross lol
Great gameplay! Can you please show your end game stat screen too? It's always fun seeing the stats at the end. (Also just realized I wasn't subbed, which is weird because Im sure I subbed years ago).
8:56 are you sure this is how it works? I was under the impression it will always give the same amount of souls to all players Chloe’s enough to the kill/soul. It’s only after 10 minutes that this changes. 1,2, or even 6, everyone gets the 41 souls. After 10 minutes it splits, so even 2 people will mean it’s 100% of souls between both players, I.e. losing souls.
his weapon is still pretty good, I've been playing him alot and I'd say my kills are usually a pretty even split between gun and melee. He is definitely designed with melee in mind though.
Can someone invite me? If so, please, answer this comment and I'll send my steam down here. (Sorry If this text seems kinda off, english isnt my Native language)
Needs a buff if anything, Abrams is a noob stomper, if you can parry him its over unless the Abrams is good then he will start recognizing parrys and using variable timed melees
@@rawn9234 concord was a recently released game that FLOPPED HARD on release even though they had a ton of TH-camrs (including Merchant) advertising it. This game gives the same vibe
@@mr.voided9163 bruh, tens of thousands of people are already playing deadlock, and this is WITHOUT any advertising. While Concord spent millions on trailers and journalists, and still there were no more than 6,000 people in the beta, what can we say about the current online number of several hundred people.
What a bad take. Concord is also a $60 game. Deadlock is in beta and is currently free to play once invited. I expect it'll likely release that way as well tbh. Concord is also a hero shooter in a saturated market catered for casuals where deadlock is a 3D MOBA which has like Battleborn (doesn't exist because they tried to beat overwatch) and SMITE.
I've been having so much fun with Abrams. Even better when the entire other team has forgotten about parrying 💀
The moment the other team knows how to parry, its over...
Easy to bait parry when you can turn so sharply@@heiromarc
@@jojo2267most useful comment on this entire post
Me with this build: please don't press f
Small tip: On Abrams you do not need to finish the reload to fire off another shot, you can fire in the middle of reload.
Hurdurhur
@@dalej4241 it's actually a good tip
this is why hes one of the best creep stealers. Reloading? yeah np "BOOM" my souls
In higher elos people will parry your heavy melee but the vast majority of players right now don't even know that parry exists
What is parry please explain
@@karka3n If you press F, you can dodge the melee attack and stun the enemy. They just added the "GYM" in the sandbox with a bot on a boxing ring, so you can train doing that
Bro its super easy to condition people into parrying and then just dont punch, get a few close range shots off for free instead
Most of the time I only punch when they try to run away
You can charge melee then press 1 before finishing to cancel, they waste a parry, you start life steal then can charge melee while their parry is on cooldown.
Abrams tip, he reloads one bullet at a time, so it is very important to utilize melee charges passive, it reloads your weapon after a heavy punch
The source engine makes melee feel so satisfying. Punching as Abrams feels so beefy and seeing the body ragdoll around on death is the best 😂
Something like this works pretty well on Viscous too.
I havent been lucky enough to play him live but have played against bots in non testing hours and i like havig bullet lifesteal and reatoritive shot as well as basically every debuff from the weapon and spirit tree with the bullet resitance shredder and hunters aura and the fire rate and move speed debuffs basically meaning if you get parried at all your gun and simply foghting in the front lines is enough to be hella useful to your team making everythinf around you easier to kill and do far less damage also mitigating the issues when someone has anti healing items. Beyond everything else though the thing i love about this is it makea enemies soft against BOTH your fist AND gun while also making leaving your melee ramge not a cure all to dealing with you.
You should try full spirit build shiv and putting cool down and duration extender stuff on your throwing knives and you can just keep stacking up the bleed and then finishing with ult it’s gross lol
You can bait out the parry with a quick melee
Great gameplay! Can you please show your end game stat screen too? It's always fun seeing the stats at the end. (Also just realized I wasn't subbed, which is weird because Im sure I subbed years ago).
Love this build, but it falls off a bit after the 40 min mark, but by that time you should be able to win, or you've pretty much lost anyways
Game looks really nice but I'm just starting on pc so my k&m skills are crap
8:56 are you sure this is how it works? I was under the impression it will always give the same amount of souls to all players Chloe’s enough to the kill/soul. It’s only after 10 minutes that this changes. 1,2, or even 6, everyone gets the 41 souls. After 10 minutes it splits, so even 2 people will mean it’s 100% of souls between both players, I.e. losing souls.
The Gaming Merchant, Your videos always brighten my day, so I subscribed!
is there a good abrams build that focuses on his weapon rather than melee attacks?
his weapon is still pretty good, I've been playing him alot and I'd say my kills are usually a pretty even split between gun and melee. He is definitely designed with melee in mind though.
Best flex item for Abrams is the phantom strike, I feel like I'm spirit breaker in Dota 1. Mention me if you did try it
Hi merchant!
Lol dont let the youre not qualified comments get to your head!
you have infited me it was 2 days ago but i stil dont have a infite
Can someone invite me? If so, please, answer this comment and I'll send my steam down here. (Sorry If this text seems kinda off, english isnt my Native language)
I can but you have to wait until I get home lol
I can send you an invite too.
can i have a invite too please?
@@robodude5124 Sure, just need steam id so I can add you to friends and then invite
@@larssorensen5251 76561198832737398 I was kinda busy, Sorry.
NICE BUILD
It would be a shame if I....
pressed parry
Hope he gets nerfed. One champ should not be carrying all the time like this. Played against too many Abrams soloing a whole team.
Needs a buff if anything, Abrams is a noob stomper, if you can parry him its over unless the Abrams is good then he will start recognizing parrys and using variable timed melees
Concord 2: The 2nd Dead
Huh
@@rawn9234 concord was a recently released game that FLOPPED HARD on release even though they had a ton of TH-camrs (including Merchant) advertising it. This game gives the same vibe
@@mr.voided9163 bruh, tens of thousands of people are already playing deadlock, and this is WITHOUT any advertising. While Concord spent millions on trailers and journalists, and still there were no more than 6,000 people in the beta, what can we say about the current online number of several hundred people.
What a bad take. Concord is also a $60 game. Deadlock is in beta and is currently free to play once invited. I expect it'll likely release that way as well tbh. Concord is also a hero shooter in a saturated market catered for casuals where deadlock is a 3D MOBA which has like Battleborn (doesn't exist because they tried to beat overwatch) and SMITE.
@@saibudaraju2103deadlock is a hero shooter too… the reason concord flopped is because people saw the character designs and weren’t interested in
boring game
Have you played it?