How to Kill a Rhino

(mendaciousPole) #1

(This discussion is based off the opinion that Rhino isn’t horribly broken and OP but simply that people don’t know how to deal with him yet. An opinion which may or may not be true but for the sake of discussion let’s assume it is.)

As we all know, Rhinos are ridiculous. They have the highest health stat of all the mercs and a mini gun that’ll shred anyone at close to medium range and has infinite ammo. Combine this with a medic (especially Aura) and killing a Rhino amounts to a near impossible task. My current strategy for one on one encounters with a mini gun wielding Rhino is a two step process.

Step 1) Switch to my melee weapon.

Step 2) Run.

The problem is, this strategy works only half the time. Does anyone have any better ideas?

(Advanced) #2

Option 1: Nader, nade the medic/rhino down.

Option 2: Vassili, snipe him down using distance.

Option 3: Fragger, Frag him down with 2 nades (First also taking out a possible healing station)

(Jojack) #3

Option 4: Fletcher, stick two bombs on his ass and detonate.

Rhino is so situational, he’s hardly worth playing. The best use I’ve found for him in pubs is as a high HP shotgun wielder who pulls out the mini gun when the time is right. When people want to sit and hold a choke point with him inside an aura station, he’s just a nade magnet and shouldnt last long.

(Szakalot) #4

Option 5: peek from a distance

Option 6: peek from upclose inbetween spinups - doesn’t work if rhino is only facing you and knows you are coming - works particularly well with shotguns

Option 7: (coming soon) : bacon his slow ass with molotov

(reliableTortoise) #5

Option 8: choppper proxy with a bat and beat his face in…

(CCP115) #6

Option 9: Smoke him, and play a game of hide and seek.

(zer0talented) #7

Option 10: Take Kira (Fcking OP Merc) and just Aim 2 Kill Him :dizzy:

(ostmustis) #8

#buffrhino

btw, dont try to headbutt him

(lustrousTuna) #9

Option 11 Sneak behind and shoot him point blank in bank with shotgun

Option 12 If your Nader and About to die run at him firing and try to die next to him and drop your grenade to finish him off

Option 13 Play it like scout from TF2 with proxy switch to melee and run around him hitting him with melee weapon and stay away from the front

(capriciousParsely) #10
  1. he’s a team effort. everyone should focus him first and make sure he is downed
(sinKrin) #11

I nearly shat a brick when I heard his minigun fire off for the first time. I was pretty close and playing as Proxy. Thankfully the player was really bad so some bobbing n weaving and a bit of circle strafing and I managed take him down.

He does suck in bullets like a sponge though. I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting one on a health station yet and I’m not looking forward to that.

(umberInlet) #12

Option 15: Take Arty and send an Artillary up his @$$

gasp He’s actually useful.

(GregHouseMD) #13

Nah, not on his own. If he’s got a dedicated healer, sure, he’s a very effective force multiplier. Of course, if they work as a team, then that’s a team effort, and you should expect it to take a team effort to take them down. Unless you bring lots of explosives, in which case you can more or less negate his advantage. It’s remarkable what a well-placed grenade or two can do.

Beyond what’s already been said, just avoid giving him an advantage. If you try to fight him on his terms, you’ll fail. Just as you wouldn’t give Fragger the benefit of putting yourself in a small room with limited chance of escape, and you wouldn’t give Kira the benefit of hiding in a corner, you shouldn’t give Rhino the benefit of seeing you approach - if you have to approach at all. Improvise, adapt, and overcome. It’s that simple.

Just not necessarily easy.

(Eox) #14

How to kill Rhinos : Eox style.

1 : pick Fragger.
2 : cook a nade.
3 : throw the nade on Rhinos.
4 : notice that you barely hurt them.
5 : cook and throw another.
6 : god dammit frendly stoopid Vass blocks the throw !
7 : die from own nade.
8 : try again. Throw a nade.
9 : notice that you are on CD.
10 : Rhinos bum rushing the objective. Three Rhinos on my face. Get slighly fed up. Die.
11 : respawn.
12 : cook a nade.
13 : Hit two Rhinos.
14 : Try to finish with BR16.
15 : Die.
16 : Get Really fed up.
17 : Switch to Fletcher.
18 : Throw stickies.
19: …
20 : aww yiss.
21 : AWWWW YISS !

Morality : Fletcher is love. Fletcher is life.