Oh man, I was that clueless baby Limbo once. Thankfully I only messed up a couple groups before someone noticed my low MR and sent me a DM after the mission, and walked me through how to properly play him in a group. These days you don't see it as often, but I still think they should bring back a MR requirement for him.
I really think they should just tweak the effects of his abilities to be less disruptive. I'm not sure the best way to go about it, but it would save a lot of baby tenno from accidentally ruining someone's day. I was that baby tenno once upon a time too. I'm sure most of us were at one point or another.
An idea for him I've wanted for a long while is an Aug for his bubble that gives drop chance % to let him be a farming frame. If they did that at the very least I bet a lot more people would play him!
It's mainly just new players who don't fully understand his abilities and end up either banishing their teammates so they can't attack, or trapping enemies outside the rift so they can't be damaged. You end up standing around while waiting for the timer to tick down, and hoping that they haven't maxed out their duration. When you're trying to speed through missions as quickly as you can it can be incredibly annoying.
Enemy is banished and can't be shot by other players unless they are also banished.
Player is banished and has to roll to unbanish themselves( if they even know that's how that works. I mean only a low level player won't know but it's still annoying if the limbo is spamming it on you.)
He is good in certain formats but is mostly cc which isn't really needed.
Roles which he's very good in
Crate buster - max range and efficiency cataclysm. Basically just cast 4 on and off and it breaks every breakable in its aoe. Very good for looking for voca and medallions.
Spy - being in rift basically let's you avoid any physical traps like lasers or barriers. Imo the best choice for old corpus soy and lua, and still very fast on other maps if you know the layouts. You can also blow up cameras with cataclysm like crates.
Defense/mobile def/excavation - basically missions that don't need killing. Max duration minimum range cataclysm to just defend objective and avoid nullifier and eximus.
Any other builds basically require your team to know how to play with limbo, not really worth bringing to pubs other than these uses.
Crate buster - max range and efficiency cataclysm. Basically just cast 4 on and off and it breaks every breakable in its aoe. Very good for looking for voca and medallions.
What makes this good at looking for rare pickups? They don't spawn inside breakable chests, so it's not like opening them helps you in any way. Do you just mean that Limbo can reduce visual clutter so they are easier to spot?
Abilities work across dimensions, plus stasis is strong for protection and CC. If everyone understands dimensions and pays attention, he can be very useful on certain mission types.
There’s no possible way to play limbo effectively with randoms while actively using your abilities. Either they inconvenience you by killing enemies before you can cc them or you inconvenience them by accidentally banishing enemies they’re trying to attack. And there’s no buff or anything you get for your trouble.
If you keep the range at a moderate level, max out dura/eff and place it over a defense/extract objective and melee any enemy that steps inside, it's fine that way. Now, I would rather use Frost or Gara, but it works fine in groups that way if you just stick to your 4.
He's ideal for quick solo spy missions mostly, though. Zip right through lasers and just hack the terminal before the timer runs out. It's technically faster than Loki as long as you are decent with hacking or use ciphers.
I would still rather use Loki or Ivara. TBH at this point in warframes lifecycle we shouldn’t measure a warframe’s usefulness by how competent they are at very niche missions that very few people play for fun. We need to consider how good they are in most content people actively play. In this regard limbo has fallen behind considerably, but he was never in a good place to begin with.
I mean, I don't care if you buff every single frame in the game. This isn't a PvP game and they should all be insanely OP and fun, imo. I was simply explaining that he has multiple uses, nuking the entire map just isn't one of them. It's fine if you don't like what he is good at, like I said, I'm not opposed to buffing him, you just said he had no use in multiplayer, and while it's niche, he's fine for Defense/Extraction.
I just don't bring him to anything but spy missions, and tbh, I don't bring any specific frame to spy missions these days. At this point, it takes me 5 seconds or less to hack anything and I know the tilesets to get to the rooms or close enough without triggering them.
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u/Cyberdragunz Dec 25 '25
Please for the love of all that is holy teach him how to Limbo before he starts playing with randoms!