You decided to call me out, but you admit that you aren't 100% sure my statement is false? No, you decided to be cute on the internet. Says a lot about you when you feel the need to respond to an opinion with namecalling. But it's ok, that's how 99% of the Internet behaves and you can rest assured that my feelings aren't going to be hurt by keyboard bullies. In any case, just as you said the grenade itself will one-shot if it lands close enough. This is unrelated to the ticks of damage it does after landing. It is not coincidental, and I think it should not have the ability to do so under any circumstance.

No, not if it lands "close enough". If it lands in your hitbox and gets stuck. my friend does it all the time, he throws his grenade at me and it gets stuck on my body. If a non-attachable grenade lands on an enemy player it does some amount of damage on impact. And when thrown at the correct area on a players body, it stays there and does a lot of that damage very quickly. thats what I meant. I exclusively play striker and have never once been one-shot or have one-shotted anyone just because they were closer to the grenade itself. it always takes 2 pulses to kill (with the exception of modes with level advantages enabled).

No, I have had it kill me without being stuck on my character. It's killed me when landing directly behind me, for example. It will then stay in its location after I've died and continue to pulse. And who knows, it may not be intentional and I'm not going to argue how the game interprets it, but it happens.