Advice for the big Grenadier enemies?

[Roscoe Wallace]

I'm running into those big bluish enemies that seem to appear in every mission I enter. They are usually wielding a gattling gun or a grenade launcher. The gattling gun guys are easy to kill. The grenadiers, however, seem to give me a real problem.

I try to dodge the grenades they launch at me, but I still get hit, and I will go down if 3 or 4 of them hit me. I feel like I'm using good tactics to dodge and evade their grenades, but they still seem to hit me.

The same goes for the elite shotgun guys. What is the best way to deal with these guys?

Should I snipe them? I have a loadout with a flash grenade that stuns them for a few seconds, which is enough to take them down usually, but I often run into a group of them at a time.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

[konstantinov]

Ground Pounder.

[Brondar Donyk]

Grenadiers; keep your distance, keep moving. Roll back and forth. Shotgunners; stay out of range.

If your shields are down, take cover.

Use weapons with better range if you keep having problems. Sniper rifles, detonators or rocket launchers...You don't have to be as close to use those.

[AmnesiaHaze]

just run in circles and hipfire , like that you shouldnt get hit by the nades , its important to dont stop moving

[sagat1]

Get behind them or behind some good cover and hit them in the head with something with good crit. If no cover, rolling doesn't work well. Run, run, run.

[Assasino]

for sure be on the move, always aim for the head and i usually use an Assault Rifle or a high powered pistol like Wolfhound which is much quicker then a ground pounder i find
Also look at the dmg of your grenades, i have a great set of cluster grenades i always use that work well and annihilates 99ers

[Colif]

pow hunters, 3 of these guys at once, lots of fun not. Cars explode on them, (but then they explode on anything bigger than a skitterling now), bullets seem to bounce off them... but yeah, ground pound them into mince, if you can get one. It was a long time before I saw anything better than a green GP.

[Raddyman]

Stun/Flash Grenade + Shoot them in the face.
Also move forward and backwards aswell as strafing sideways/around them.

Same with Blacklung, few shots from mid distance, as he shoots his nades roll forward/towards him and continue to shoot his face off. Then, if too close- a roll or 2 back, repeat. etc etc.

But stun grenades are so ridiculously useful.
(and since grenades don't have a weapon skill, i see no need to use dmg nades, rather stun and finish off with weapon xp, but regardless of that, Very useful in many situations!)

[killingwillum]

I find the most effective way to deal with larger enemies like the grenadiers and others that only have weak spots that show when certain kinds of damage is dealt to them is to have a class set up that has an accurate AR with a large magazine and a grind fragger. get the enemy to reveal their weak spot and then haul butt over to them and unload with the grind fragger.

Those pesky shield carrying enemies are a breeze... Simply equip your grind fragger and run up to them. Mele them to stun them backwards and unload on them. They die... you say... Fark yeah...