Betty La Bomba is a great addition to Paladins’ line-up of Damage type characters, thanks to a kit full of fun explosive abilities and a matching fiery personality and backstory. Further connecting her lore and playstyle, many of her abilities and cards reference real-life military history; for example, her Bouncing Betty card is named after the infamous S-mines used by German forces in WWII. In this primer guide, we will go over Betty’s abilities and playstyle in Paladins, which are all about area-of-effect damage and area denial.
Overview and abilitiesBetty La Bomba is a Paladins Damage champion with 2100 HP and a projectile basic attack that travels in a heavy arc, and has no damage dropoff or headshot multiplier. Her grenade launcher’s projectiles bounce off of surfaces and detonate after a 2-second timer, dealing 510 damage in a small area; if they hit an enemy directly they explode instantly, dealing 550 damage in a slightly bigger AoE. All of Betty’s abilities revolve around explosions, too.
Cluster Grenade: Launch a grenade that creates additional secondary explosives based on the number of enemy targets hit. The initial explosion deals 250 damage in an area after 0.4 seconds; secondary explosions deal 500 damage in an area after 3 seconds. The grenade can spawn up to 6 additional explosives.Hail of Bombs: Throw out a magazine that sprays out a series of small spark projectiles in random directions around itself. Each spark does 390 damage in a 20 unit radius. It looks like a miniature fireworks show.Explosive Personality: Rocket-jump forwards and up; the ability can be reactivated up to two more times for additional jumps. Each jump deals 300 damage to enemies directly behind or below you, and knocks them back Read more on gamepur.com