đĸBlocking Wave Attacks with Flame Shield
The Flame Shield is capable of stopping arc wave, firewall, and flame core
Wave Entities
Wave entities are basically what arc wave, firewall, and flame core are, wave - like projectiles, all of them have the same movement properties, they fall down heights instantly and can be blocked by vortex/flame shield. Though, due to the flame shield's smaller hitbox, it's a lot harder compared to the vortex shield. Vortex version is in Blocking Wave Attacks with Vortex Shield.
Wave Entities have a set life timer before they despawn, to block one you have, so to speak, catch it. Or just get lucky and have the enemy deploy it inside your shield and despawn it.
Think of it like you're trying to catch a missile with your bare hands, you grab onto it, and it's trying to get past you. You struggle for a few secs until, eventually, its fuel runs out and it becomes harmless. The same principle goes for wave entities.
Looking slightly down or crouching will make catching a wave much easier
Try to memorize the wave's max distance to make calculating the time to hold it easier
Make sure to not move too much, move your camera too much, get knocked back, or to dash while holding the wave in the shield
Blocking Arc Wave
The most common situation you'll find yourself in: Ronin throws an arc wave at you, you open your flame shield and catch it, depending on distance from Ronin's throw position, the arc wave has a limited life timer of 3 sec. The farther away it was thrown for the longer you have to wait, if it got thrown right beside you, you'll have to wait nearly 3 sec before closing your flame shield and like less than a sec at far range. You basically should learn arc wave's max distance, so you can guess roughly when it'd reach the end of its travel distance and despawn.
Not opening the flame shield in time will cause the arc wave to just go through you and damage you. Closing too early will cause it to reappear, damage you and go through you.
Blocking Firewall
Very similar to an arc wave, but firewall has a lot faster wave, so you'll have to catch and hold it for a lot shorter than an arc wave. Catching Firewall will not make its already placed fire disappear. The placed fire will last a lot longer than the firewall in your shield. Catching the firewall wave will stop the fire from spreading farther. Or just deploy e-smoke after the firewall spawns, that works too.
Blocking Flame Core
Flame Core is very tricky and difficult, you can't do it upfront against flame core. Flame core spawns 3 waves at the same time, they're so spread that out that Scorch will get hit if he tries to block. The only way to block the flame core is to block it from a side, and only 1 out of 3 segments (obstacles can break segments of the flame core).
Or to have a Scorch/Ion teammate make a side by side shield wall to stop it completely upfront, but if either of you unblocks, the core will go throw (though, it's possible for only one titan to get hit).
The same principle goes for flame core as the other 2 waves entities, just a lot harder.
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