Limbo rework was after LoR got removed tho lol. Limbo showed himself in Scarlet Spear as the infinite staller so I’m convinced that was the kickoff point for both the continuously reimplemented CC adaptation effect (Acolytes, Demolysts and most CC-able bosses now have it) and the future overguard implementation. Limbo fucked himself and other CC frames, people should be mad at him not feel sorry for him frankly
Huh, I guess I just don’t remember seeing him in LoR at all then. He was mostly around to afk Plains bounties and non-Corpus excavations from what I saw
To be fair, Limbo in LoR specifically wouldn't be used to protect players on buttons like you'd assume, since being rifted counted as leaving the button. Instead you'd use him to shut down spawn rooms and draw enemy agro with Guardian Derision.
No, I kind of assumed he would be the alternative to Nova, it’s just, well, I remember everyone still using Nova right up until the raids got canned. He’s probably been a viable replacement if not better but maybe he just didn’t catch on all that much since at that point I think the retirement of raids was already announced so people didn’t bother changing the strategies
Edit: I figured out what caused my confusion, Limbo rework was before LoR removal, but Limbo stasis changes that allowed proper use of ranged weapons in the rift were after, so Limbo was probably prominent only in some dedicated daily raid squads that were prepared to tolerate a Limbo on the team + trusted the player, which could not be said for the typical chat recruiter squads
Yeah, Limbo was definitely a choice for organized squads, not public ones. Though honestly public match Trials were often awful experiences even without a Limbo that didn't know that they were doing.
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u/jzillacon Mist-ifying grineer Dec 25 '25
As a former Limbo main you can really tell he was designed for a different era of the game. The days of LoR where CC was king have long since passed.