If you have empty rockets and drop the empty rockets before picking up new rockets then you won’t have to reload them.
You can throw a power weapon off the map if things look dicey and still fight until you die. Usually you’d have to suicide jump with the power weapon.
You can drop the power weapon for another player so the enemy team has a much harder time keeping track of who has it in their possession. It’s much easier to recycle weapons to different players now.