Explosives in throwdown is a contradiction

Unless someone can explain to me, what’s the point of enabling explosives upgrade for everyone in team throwdown? You take less damage, and make other players receive more. So if everyone has it, what’s the point?
If you understand what I’m trying to get at.

The grenade doesn’t do more damage, it does less with a larger blast radius.

Unless I’m thinking of the wrong perk of course.

> The grenade doesn’t do more damage, it does less with a larger blast radius.
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> Unless I’m thinking of the wrong perk of course.

You got it half right.

The in game description :

“Explosives alters grenade performance, increasing blast radius and decreasing damage received”

The grenades do the same amount of damage, with a larger radius. But because everyone has Explosives in Throwdown, they take less damage across the board, not the grenades doing less.

> > The grenade doesn’t do more damage, it does less with a larger blast radius.
> >
> > Unless I’m thinking of the wrong perk of course.
>
> You got it half right.
>
> The in game description :
>
> “Explosives alters grenade performance, increasing blast radius and decreasing damage received”
>
> The grenades do the same amount of damage, with a larger radius. But because everyone has Explosives in Throwdown, they take less damage across the board, not the grenades doing less.

Thanks for clearing this up.