Mar$el
Inkling Commander
I've been thinking about this for a while. I don't really do it all that often and I keep thinking about it since my brother was watching me play tower control and him being a more aggressive player he was saying to get on the tower and then again like 45 seconds later. It hit me then that I never get on the tower unless it's like the last 30 seconds of the match and we're losing. I always hang back and kill people and wait for someone else to hop on and then depending on weapon I shark around or kill flankers or just offer support in general maybe hopping on if it's all clear during a push.
Anyways, in the first situation, he was totally right. It was Manta Maria, we were in the lead in like the last third of the match. I just killed 2 or 3 people with a range blaster and it was 3v1 (the last person was nowhere to be found). I was caught dumbfound by my brother as I was waiting on the wall under the middle rail to shark someone. I realized I was just waiting for someone else and by the time I realized I should have they respawned and came from another way and I traded with a roller getting on the tower. They then proceeded to push overwhelmed our team to take the lead. In the midst of the overwhelming they left the tower when they were about 15 points away from the lead so my reaction was to keep killing the mob of people so we can take back control and everything will be fine. I was 1v1ing someone with the tower between us and my brother again said to hop on the tower and hop off to send it back. I killed the guy but immediately after the roller confronted me and I died. They got the tower back and pushed to the lead. So in the moment I decided what I was doing was more important than pushing the objective. I was a range blaster and we had a brush that could help kill people around the tower during a push, and a forge pro that could be on the tower and then using bubbles or something (I don't remember the last one).
ANYWAYS, I thought about it. I was the only person in mid in the first instance. My teammates were almost there. Should I have gotten on? Still don't really know but probably. I could've gotten ambushed by the one guy alive or my teammates could've caught up and we would have pushed the tower further.
In the second instance, had I hopped on it would have been suicide. I know that much.
BUT HERE ARE THE ACTUAL QUESTIONS: When should you hop on the tower? When shouldn't you hop on the tower? When should you really try to push (as opposed to just making the tower further from mid so the other team has to push further for the lead)? When should you just hop on to send it back? When do you sacrifice yourself for the objective?
Anyways, in the first situation, he was totally right. It was Manta Maria, we were in the lead in like the last third of the match. I just killed 2 or 3 people with a range blaster and it was 3v1 (the last person was nowhere to be found). I was caught dumbfound by my brother as I was waiting on the wall under the middle rail to shark someone. I realized I was just waiting for someone else and by the time I realized I should have they respawned and came from another way and I traded with a roller getting on the tower. They then proceeded to push overwhelmed our team to take the lead. In the midst of the overwhelming they left the tower when they were about 15 points away from the lead so my reaction was to keep killing the mob of people so we can take back control and everything will be fine. I was 1v1ing someone with the tower between us and my brother again said to hop on the tower and hop off to send it back. I killed the guy but immediately after the roller confronted me and I died. They got the tower back and pushed to the lead. So in the moment I decided what I was doing was more important than pushing the objective. I was a range blaster and we had a brush that could help kill people around the tower during a push, and a forge pro that could be on the tower and then using bubbles or something (I don't remember the last one).
ANYWAYS, I thought about it. I was the only person in mid in the first instance. My teammates were almost there. Should I have gotten on? Still don't really know but probably. I could've gotten ambushed by the one guy alive or my teammates could've caught up and we would have pushed the tower further.
In the second instance, had I hopped on it would have been suicide. I know that much.
BUT HERE ARE THE ACTUAL QUESTIONS: When should you hop on the tower? When shouldn't you hop on the tower? When should you really try to push (as opposed to just making the tower further from mid so the other team has to push further for the lead)? When should you just hop on to send it back? When do you sacrifice yourself for the objective?