General tips
The losing team will have a thing called the comeback mechanic that will allow them to capture the point at +3.9% per tick
Never panic ult or ult to try to secure a point push. Most times it is a wasted ult and you won’t have it for the next capture if your push fails.
Jumping while facing a wall will allow you to jump higher.
Try to stagger enemies respawn times. Delay easy 5v1/2 kills to ruin their respawn times and potentially gain time while they wait to regroup
AVOID STAGGERING If you are the only person alive on your team, in a 1v5 try to die as soon as possible to avoid a stagger
Players on a killstreak give increased credits and ult charge when killed
1. killstreak = +60% ult charge 15+ killstreak = 100% ult charge.
Zoning is very important, If the enemy team has been wiped push to their spawn to dismount and delay the enemy team from rejoining the teamfight
Peaking to right of cover reveals less of hitbox than peaking left
Being near the payload heals for 50 hp per second
At the start of each round/after each death, choose an enemy to target based on impact.
Before trying to play ranked, get comfortable playing 4 different tanks, 3 different supports and at least 8 damage/flank champions
Store tips
What to buy
Offense/Reds
Cauterize – Decreased healing on hit enemies. Very important in all situations with a support
Wrecker – Increases damage on shields. Only buy on shield reliant tanks such as barik, khan, makoa and fernando
Bulldozer- Increases damage on placeables. Very situational, check enemy team for placeables such as io’s fox, ying’s illusions and placed shields. Also works on imani’s dragon.
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Defence/Blues
Resilience- Reduction on enemy crowd control. Great against a large amount of ults (Pip’s, meave’s, inara’s and Seris’)
Haven- Damage reduction. Only works on champions that deal direct damage (non-blast damage). Good against snipers.
Blast protection – Damage reduction against splash/blast damage. Good against dredge, evie, bomb king and drogoz.
Illuminate – Reveals invisible champions, only but against skye or against strix/ sha-lin while playing flank.
Healing/Green
Rejuvenate – Increases effects of healing. Good if playing tank or if your team has multiple supports
Utility/Yellow
Master riding – Increases mount speed, good for tanks to get early point pressure
Morale boost- Increases ult charge rate. Good on most champs
Example item Build
Cauterize – Decrease enemy healing
Wrecker – Deal more damage to shields
Master riding – Early point/flank route pressure.
Morale boost- Increased ult charge
[u][b]Item Priority[/b][/u] [u][b]Must have!![/b][/u] Cauterize [b]Role dependent[/b] Rejuvenate (Tank) Morale boost (Support/ some dps) Chronos (Support) [b]Situational/Nice to haves[/b] Master riding (Early pressure/High death games) Wrecker (Against shields reliant champs) Resilience (Against high cc champs) Illuminate (Reveal invis champs) Haven/Blast shield (Damage reduction) Bulldozer (Champs with placeable that impact game)
Item Priority
Must have!!
Cauterize
Role dependent
Rejuvenate (Tank)
Morale boost (Support/ some dps)
Chronos (Support)
Situational/Nice to haves
Master riding (Early pressure/High death games)
Wrecker (Against shields reliant champs)
Resilience (Against high cc champs)
Illuminate (Reveal invis champs)
Haven/Blast shield (Damage reduction)
Bulldozer (Champs with placeable that impact game)
Basics of team composition
Basic -2 frontlines, 1 support, 2 dps champs (damage or flank, don’t go double flank)
More detailed – 1 point tank, 1 secondary tank (flex or support), 1 support, one long range dps (depending on map), 1 close range dps.
If playing damage champ, during draft if they have any flying champs chose hitscan
Off-tank selection can be important to counter ults. Example. Picking Khan to counter Ash lt with either “Dash ability” or by also ulting.
Champion types and main roles
Frontlines/Tanks
capture point , provide support to damages while pushing into the enemy’s half of the map
Support
Heal…. 5head
Damage and flanks
Provide damage to the team while also focusing enemies such as other damages/flanks and supports.
Tanks
3 types of tanks- point tanks, Off-tanks/flex tanks and support tanks
Point tanks
-primary obj, capturing point. Large health pool and area control with shields/walls
Inara , barik , yagorath.
Off-tanks/flex tanks
more aggressive tank, can also capture point
Makoa, ash, Raum, Atlas, Ruckus,Fernando, Khan and Terminus
Support tank
not great on point but good as a combo with a good dps. NEVER GO SOLO SUPPORT TANK/SOLO TORV.[/b]
Torvald.
Tank recommendations
Point tanks
Inara
barik.
Off-tanks/flex tanks
Khan
Makoa
TIPS
Inara
Recommended talent/legendary
Mother’s Grace – RMB ability makes you cc immune
Treacherous Ground – Cripple enemies in RMB ability
Tips
Use wall to wall off half of the point to let your team regain a small amount of area.
You do a lot of damage relative to others with your health pool. Very rarely can be killed 1v1
If walling the point to protect your self, use RMB ability beside wall to slow enemies trying to go around the wall
Use your walls….. Very powerful at zoning the enemy…
Barik
Recommended talent/legendary
Tinkerin- Increases main weapons damage
Tips
Your turret should mainly be used as healing for you (Build reliant) place them accordingly behind objects or behind your shield.
You cannot win most 1v1s against a good dps player, avoid 1v1s
Do not
panic ult, it’s a waste.
Khan
Recommended talent/legendary
Storm of bullets – Increases fire rate
Vortex Grip- Enemies hit with “movement ability” are stunned for an additional 1.2s
Tips
Khan is great for ruining the enemy positioning, just run in dash grab the enemy and throw them towards your team.
Khan’s ult can be used in 2 ways, holding the enemy to let your team do damage or throwing the enemy off the map (remember to point down off the map so the enemy can’t use movement ability to get back on the map)
If ash is in her ult circle, use either dash or ult to remove her from it to remove the invincible effect.
Khan’s shout ability can also be used to heal teammates in its radius
Makoa
Recommended talent/legendary
Half-shell- Turns your shell shield into a placeable
Tips
If hooking an enemy beside a death spot (lava, gears or off map) hook then spin to face the area you want them to go.
Ult can be used on low health to regain full hp. Great for a teampush when losing point/ for securing point.
Supports
General rule with support….. Stay alive.
Positioning is very important, always have an escape plan but don’t stay too far back.
Ult is very important on most buy morale boost (champ dependant)
Support recommendations
Mal’Damba
Seris
Ying
Mal’Damba
Recommended talent/legendary
Spirit’s chosen – RMB gives insta heal to teammates
Tips
In general save gourd for healing yourself and RMB for teammates. Unless there’s a large team group.
Ult can be used against enemy flanks to temporarily disarm them to make a 1v1 more even
After reloading you spit a snake that will stun an enemy after hitting
Seris
Recommended talent/legendary
mortal reach- increases healing range and amount
Tips
Seris easily has the best ult for combos, Recommended combos- Viktor, Pip, skye and terminus
Seris’ movement ability is great for time stalling a point, or quickly evading a 1v1+ situation. Use a build the reduces the casting time of this ability as it leaves you vulnerable.
Ying
Recommended talent/legendary
Life Exchange- RMB now heals teammates
Tips
Use yings ult when 2+ teammates are low on health, but not below 25%.
Morale boost is a must
Damage
Damage
Hitscan recommendations
Lian
Strix
Projectile recommendations
Cassie
Willo
Damage
Lian (the autoaim ♥♥♥♥♥)
Recommended talent/legendary
Eminence – Ability 1 does increased damage at range and cooldown is reduced by 4s
Tips
Abuse the auto aim shot on the movement ability
Ult provides damage immunity during use.
Very easy to deal a lot of burst damage with LMB + RMB + LMB
Strix
Recommended talent/legendary
Unauthorized use – Flare does increased damage, no longer reveals
Tips
Always be aware of 3 things- Flare cooldown, Stealth charge and health
Sound is very important against flanks.
Combo with Sniper shot into a flare. 1571.25 dmg in <1 second.
Vary positioning, flanking is an option with stealth ability.
In 1v1 situations, always make sure that you hit 1 sniper shot before switching to pistol. Only using pistol wont work.
Does not have aim inaccuracy, use wall as cover to hit jump shots
Cassie
Recommended talent/legendary
Big game- Increased damage after on m1 after hitting enemy with disengage
Exaction- For 8s after roll, next weapon shot deals +30% damage
Tips
Big game should be used 100% of the time against tanks with no shielding such as inara.
Exaction fills the spot in all other games, great with a roll cooldown reduction build
Ult also give secondary ability of increased speed this can be used while running away to secure escape
Ult is a great counter to a meave ult. (Allow blinded teammates to see enemies)
Willo
Recommended talent/legendary
Nightshade – Deadzone deals 650 damage
Tips
Use deadzone on larger groups to maximise effect.
Ult can be used on point to split the enemies attention during a teamfight.
Flanks
Prioritize getting the highground…. EZ
Flank recommendations
Zhin
Androxus
Evie
Maeve
Zhin
Recommended talent/legendary
Yomi- Heavy hit deals +150 dmg
Guillotine – Ult is guaranteed kill + increase charge rate by 25%
Tips
Ult can be used to escape or gain highground.
Counter is very powerful, blocks the first projectile. This includes any projectile based ults such as inara’s spear stun
Prepare before a first be slashing twice so your first hit in the fight will be a heavy hit and deal increased damage.
Androxus
Recommended talent/legendary
Cursed revolver – Increases revolver damage
Tips
Use dashes straight up before using ult to get a better angle
Hold SPACEBAR between dashes/ when falling to glide.
Dash + Flick x3 is very important to learn.
When in air for ult, dont have 0 cover. Have at least 180 degrees of cover around you
Evie
Recommended talent/legendary
Wormhole- Allows you to blink back to original blink location
Tips
Evie’s iceblock is very easy to count the time remaining so do n rely on it
Learn how to blink, flick shot, blink. Very difficult but makes evie one of the most powerful champs.
Freely use ult, great for bad fights (1v2+)
Maeve
Recommended talent/legendary
Street justice- Pounce executes at or below 35% health
Cat Burglar – Damage increase on daggers within 5s of prowl ending
Tips
Ult is a great momentum changer. Great during team fights.
Don’t be afraid to use Pounce + Nine lives + Pounce for a quick fight escape.
RMB can be used to cancel animation straight after LMB
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