Who is ok with dying?? The point is to stay alive and try to kill other guardians. Not saying if you die you're bad but people usually aren't okay with dying because they want to achieve goals like unbroken or a 15 killstreak. Now to the Vortex + Smoke combo. It is very powerful and I like to use Sealed Grasps and Vortex. And I can't tell you how many multi kills I've gotten. I wouldn't say its nooby but I'd just say make a cooldown after you throw a grenade (not very much but just a little.) But I don't want to ruin smoke grenades because they are SOO good.