Counterplays against the Ghoul/Kaneki

vol4r

Hello everybody,

There is a lot of posts about kaneki. Don't get me wrong - I hate going against him and would love to see some more nerfs.

I was thinking about him today and below it wrote down best ways to counterplay him, which work for me most of the time.

YOU DEFINITELY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO HEAL AGAINST THE GHOUL. You lose 24 seconds for a self-heal with a medkit.
You can complete 27-30% of a gen instead of healing if you use a medkit.
You would complete a lot more gen progress if you would heal with selfcare, strenght in shadows (you need to run towards basement) or any other healing perk.
It's better to run resilience at all times

Here are some tips to how to play against him:

1. Pallet's are your friend - but you can't simply drop them.
   You need to make sure to watch for him charging his power at all times.
   When he is leaping towards you, try to bodyblock the pallet, after he cancels his power, you are supposed to drop the pallet.
2. Same thing for when you are looping ghoul and he respects the pallet, waiting for you to drop it.
   He will prefire his power, waiting for you to drop - kaneki will respect pallet's most of the time.
   When he charges his power, you can see "teeth" at your character. CAMP THE PALLET, wait for teeth to disappear and then drop the pallet. He won't be able to vault it, needs to break - power goes on a cooldown. You make distance.
3. If you want to play windows: Kaneki most of the time will be charging his power to get a "kidnap-tech" after the vault.
   You are supposed to wait a little, bodyblocking the window and at the end of his power just simply slow-vault the window (note: you need to learn how long he can keep his power, you need to feel the timing)
   Kidnap-tech means he is holding you on the spot while he vaulting the window or the pallet.
4. Sometimes it's a good idea to vault the pallet after kaneki's vault. BUT you can't be too close to him while he vaults, move a little from the pallet, wait a second and come back for a vault. Same thing as wesker's vault.
5. Bonus tip while you are using the medkit: Heal 99%.
   Most of the time kaneki won't use his power on you, if you are injured. He will leap over to you, closing up the distance.
   When he turns off his power, it's time to heal. Yes - you are getting a free hit for that, but you are alive and not in mending state - meaning you can use your dead hard or styptic.
6. Bonus tip 2: You can predrop pallet's only if ghoul doesn't have clear line of sight on you.