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The subject of this article appeared in Call of Duty: Black Ops.


For the special grenade seen in other Call of Duty titles, see Smoke Grenade

"Smoke screen grenade that causes a small amount of damage on detonation."
Create-a-Class 2.0 description


The Willy Pete (phonetic for White Phosporus) is a Tactical Grenade, featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Overview

The Willy Pete is a Smoke Grenade, which instantly emits a large smokescreen for roughly 8-9 seconds. Willy Pete is slang for White Phosphorus, which releases waxy particles which ignite at 5000 degrees, causing horrendous burns. In Call of Duty, however, White Phosphorous grenades barely cause any damage and are used strictly for screening.

Single Player

White Phosphorus is used as a signal for friendlies to place attacks, such as the Artillery in "Project Nova". It also is the special grenade in "Executive Order."

Multiplayer

In Multiplayer, the Willy Pete is a tactical grenade, and is available as soon as Create-A-Class is unlocked at level 4. It causes a small amount of damage and temporarly stuns those near its detonation, but does not prolonging harm players as it is emitting smoke. It is used to screen players movements and to create distractions to get the enemies attention, to so extent it can even be used as a limited version of Concussion Grenade to slow down enemy targets. As with the other smoke grenades in previous games of the series, the Willy Pete is the only tactical grenade to not receive an extra grenade from certain perks such as Warlord Pro.

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Tips & Tactics

  • Crosshairs will still turn red (unless the enemy is using Ghost Pro) if they sweep over enemies hiding inside the smoke screen. This is a good method for finding and killing "hidden" enemies.
  • Tossing a Semtex or cooked Frag into a smokescreen is a good way to take out enemies using a Willy Pete for cover while taking an objective.
  • Flashbangs, Nova Gas, and Concussion grenades are also useful. If a player is using Tactical Mask Pro Willy Petes can be used to get across No Man's Land on Berlin Wall.
  • Willy Petes makes great cover to plant the bomb in Demolition, Search and Destroy, and Sabotage. However, this should be used with caution, as the enemy tends to spray wildy trough the smoke. Going prone sometimes helps.
  • It is useful if being pursued, as one can throw it and then run the opposite direction. The enemies are usually drawn to the smoke

Trivia

  • As stated above, "Willy Pete" is another name for White Phosphorus. Also as stated above, even though White Phosphorus is typically used in real life to create Smoke screens, White Phosphorus is very well known to cause severe burns. The reason Treyarch propably left this out of the game is that they just wanted a harmless smoke screen grenade, like had been done in many previous titles of the series.
  • While the smoke grenade in Project Nova bears resemblence to Willy Petes, the are not the same as the smoke grenade emits black smoke and releases smoke as soon as thrown.
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