Laser Shot

Laser Shot
General Information
Weapon Class	Titan Ordnance
Weapon Type	Laser
User(s)	Ion • Slone Ion Prime

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Shoulder-mounted, this lethal beam cuts through anything in its way. — Description

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The Laser Shot is a Titan Ordnance Ability that appears in Titanfall 2. It is used by the class Ion, alongside its prime variant.

Shoulder-mounted, the Laser Shot fires a lethal beam that cuts through anything in its way. Using it will take will a little more than half of your energy. It deals 1,200 damage, taking away almost half an energy bar of a Titan (3/4's on a critical hit) and will vaporize pilots instantly. If the titan ordnance button is held down, it will hold for a brief time before automatically firing.

Strategies

• Because of its perfect accuracy and high amount of damage, it is great for eliminating enemy pilots.
• A possible tactic is to save all your energy for laser shots and staying behind cover like a sniper.
• Running Overcore with Ion, in combination with good Laser Shot accuracy, will net you Ion's Laser Core extremely quickly. Running Battery Back-up will allow a core charge in less than four shots.
• While holding the button to use Laser Shot, if the player wishes to cancel their charge, they can melee and then immediately release Laser Shot, cancelling the charge without wasting the ability.
• Holding the shot will not increase its damage or energy consumption; the most efficient use of Laser Shot is to tap it to fire and resume another action.
• You can zoom in via alternate fire when holding a Laser Shot.
• Holding Laser Shot, using Tripwire to drop below 55% energy, and firing Laser Shot causes it to cost zero energy and have faster recovery. This doesn't work if the player is using the Zero-Point Tripwire kit. While this sounds overpowered, oftentimes running Zero-Point Tripwire is still more beneficial even though you lose the ability to utilize the Zero-Point Laser Shot glitch. The glitch requires Ion to play at a lower energy level and lower Vortex Shield, which is riskier and not as helpful for Ion's frontline role.

Trivia

• Laser Shots are one of the many abilities that can be mounted on an Acolyte Pod.
• At the launch of Titanfall 2, the Laser Shot consumed 500 Units of energy to fire (out of a total pool of 1000), allowing the player to double-tap the Laser in rapid succession. As of Monarch's Reign, the laser now requires 550 energy to fire; instead of rapidly firing two shots, the player must wait a short period of time for that 100 energy to recharge, before firing again.
• Laser Shot deal only 300 damage to Particle Wall and Gun Shield (which is only about 1/8th of either shield's health).
• The Laser Shot is used in both the Terminations for Ion and Ion Prime.
• It is possible that the Laser Shot is related to the Charge Cannon, mounted on the Destroyer Titan, or even the handheld charge rifle, due to their similar appearance in ammunition.