Gonna put a pin in this and use it to compare my PC performance. I at least wanna hit mid to high gold this season.Another good session, another season high. Plat can't hold us forever.
The path to diamond is clear.
I think climbing with lucio is complicated without a main tank friend... at least in gold, people don't really understand your value and will scatter across the field, making most of lucio's value useless :/ that's what I remember from when i was starting, it was bad in og lucio and it only got worse.
Wish I could get to mid-to-high gold, instead it seems I am condemned to forever languish in high silver to low gold.
Probably the character who's value is hardest to quantify. Today I booped and ulting Rein into a put on KOTH which won us a match, stuff like that is great. But speed boosting a DPS into a flank, booping an enemy away from your team to buy time, or away from a support. Causing havoc by just dodging like a mad man. Finishing off kills. And just speed boost in general. Lucio is fucking amazing. Today I was out of position during a team fight and we got wiped, who knows what would've happened if I had been in position but im sure that somehow even with minimal healing and damage that I could have made some kind of difference whatever it may have been. Even when I play him it's hard to know how much of an impact I'm having, all I know is that we win games way more often when I do.
I know that feel.
As I've shifted away from a Tracer one trick to a fill/support main player my rank overall has dropped. But when I first picked up Lucio I had a 30% win rate with him and it was considered a throw pick when I picked him in our group (even though I thought I was playing just fine) nowadays he's by far my highest win rate of any character I play regularly. And I feel like I understand the character 100x better than I used too.
Yeah, I think dying's my biggest issue. I average 6-7 deaths throughout an entire game, which I feel can easily be improved. I know my positioning is way better than it used to be and I can better control angles, but I still get overzealous and run at low tanks while screaming a battle cry. My heals are getting better too, although the problem is as you said; I can't tell how dependent that is on my team being able to actually group up on fights, and how much of that is on me not always being in a good position. I do know however that I still Amp at stupid times on reflex; like, I can feel my finger hitting the button while saying "why did you waste it?" So I'm going to have to retrain myself out of just Amping the moment one bullet hits my tank's shield.
I think the difficulty in quantifying him makes it that much more enticing to want to get better at him, because there's always that feeling of "if I had just done x, I would've won." I'm always apt to blame myself when something stupid happens, and I think being self-critical and rewatching the kill feeds really helps.
I don't know if anyone pays attention to my posts, but I started the first season I ever played in gold, and over the two or so seasons I did I plummeted to bronze, said enough is enough and climbed back up to the point where my placements the last season automatically put me in gold. I've only been playing this game since the anniversary, and I've been only seriously maining Lucio for around half of that time. My mechanical skills are garbage (hence why I Lucio), and yet I can climb; if I can do it, anyone can. I think "don't die" is the number one rule, because a natural byproduct of not dying is that you learn the maps, positioning, and can better judge when to get out of dodge and just let a team have it versus going in and just reinforcing trickling. I've seen how you've been progressing, and it's been pushing me to get my ass in gear. Don't give up!
You'll be able to see his impact as you play him a bit more, I'm maining him since the day I started playing non auto aim heroes... i think i dropped about 20 hours on him BEFORE switching my keybinds on ps4(LOL) and i studied a lot what I was doing and my matches and stuff. And i can tell you, it's not hard to see his value, it might be that you just didn't get to that stage yet, but it'll come soon... Nowadays these things are so engraved in my mind i don't think about it so much, i just do my stuff and guide the team... Might be because i went through the times his healing was bad so now i know how valuable it is, since speed value is pretty straightforward to understand xD
That's one of the things that helped me get out of gold as well, wating less amps i mean... nowadays when i get that "i screwed up" feeling is when i think i'll get all my team to be sound barried and i miss one or ttwo xD or even not saving that because i like to use my barriers to aggresive pushes... my defensive lucio sucks because I got too used to play Sym instead, so you might not want to listen to my advice for those cases. Listen to antitrop and try to heal if you see your team can't follow a speed push, heal amps give you crazy ult charge and i like to use them on purpose some times only to get ult fast, two low tanks give an insane amount of charge.
Well, I said before, but you've gotten up to gold once, you can do it again. I recommend just insta-locking the heroes you're best at, and also take time to practice others.
I will keep this as a sticky note on my desk, lol. Thank you!
I try to go with Skyline's general advice about ult economy, in that the later you use them, especially defensive ults like Lucio's, the more likely you are to win the team fight since the enemy will have wasted theirs too early. So I'm defensive in that regard and try to hold out for as long as possible, at least in most matches. Now if it's one of those games where it's just a ten-minute dust cloud on the point, or we're just running over the enemy with dives, then I'm constantly popping it off with no regards to timing. xD
It's very hard for flukes to occur so much that you rise in rank. It's about attitude and the way you play. Keep your chin up, rewatch yourself, focus on your flaws, and you can climb. You've already done it!
Sombra was suprisingly rare on my placements too, but the one match I did have with her was absolute hell. Our team had a sombra too, but it was clear that guy was a level above, so it was just hax, hax, hax all around.
I'm probably bad, but she's nowhere near as oppressive as people thought she would be.
I will flex to Orisa or Reaper if need be/someone instalocks him. Otherwise, it's nothing but Lucio.
It's a bummer until you realize you need heals and I'm the only one willing to provide them.
Damn, man. That's an awesome #.
I need to find the barrier guides that helped me, but one thing i love about barrier is using it offensively. Since i never got it's timming right against some skills i started using that more to start pushes and, damn, Lúcio is so great on 2cp, it's insane. Most of my hanamura matches end at the 3 minute mark if no one on the other team left because we took A in 90 seconds. Problem is, in gold people are such chickens 70% of the time i did that my team would leave me alone in the middle of the enemy team for a terrible,terrible death. Nail the defensive ults, nail the healing, and risk some speed when you see your team is already doing attackey things of is struggling to get themselves together and you'll be fine.
This is my routine when a match first starts. After that, once shit gets going, I start trying to keep people alive by velcro-ing myself to the tanks until it becomes imperative to start taxi'ing. I'm also a contester, as well as have a bad habit of not checking the kill feed when a team fight is going badly, so I'll end up alone and start trying to speed away. I probably use speed more often than I should. xP
I really want to lead charges like this, and sometimes I get the opportunity to because the team's got a good synergy going, but it's like you said, in gold people are chickens. Shield wars are abound, and Reins and Orisas will not move forward until they feel sheltered and comforted. I've wasted quite the Amped speeds because I see a couple of picks and think "Hey, we got this, let's go in and mop up," only to look back at Rein and co. still at the choke.
Yeah, well, and when you get focused down because you're off all the way in China because "look at me, I'm a top 500 DPS guise," who's gonna be there to speed you out of trouble?
On these times I'm glad i have a friend that is also an aggro reinhardt player: We always initiate.When the rein charges midway, lucio speeds and the team gets their primal instinct to go behind a shield and follows us. If they dont i bribe them with a barrier, it works so well we've made to diamond with this and we never used comms.
might be, but when I don't know a winston I tend to go zen pocket strat D:
Funny, i'm an aggro d.va lol but i guess i'm pretty far on my play hours to say i play only support(but it's still 70% of my play time and that's a concerning amount of hours :()
like im just standing and spraying her. and all they did was stand and take so much damage to the point where im getting ult but 2 other people on the other team are getting ult off her lol. i should have just left her for dead and not help feed their team.
I hope you know I'm joking with that. Although I have to admit, you saying "bummer" when I admitted I main Lucio got me side-eyeing you a bit, especially since it was in response to a (semi)-serious question I asked on how to get better. Like, sorry?
The value of overextending depends upon who you are and what's going on in a fight. If you're peeling away from the majority of the team and running into a 1v6, I'm not going after you.
I mean, I'm in low gold right now (maybe; haven't finished placements yet), but I don't have as much time to play as I used to. I think I can climb and be better than that, though.
That's a bad d.va yup, about the bomb you should ask the OWL players that go against poko though xD
I can't say what I wanted to say because of forum guidelines. So I'll just say: Don't.
