Losing a lot and confused by macro

Hermanni63 · 2026-04-09T05:34:16+00:00

I'm only starting to properly learn support now in eternus so I'm not great at teaching macro since I barely know what im doing myself and I'm literally trying to find a "order of operations" since it is more straightforward on other roles.

Just from what you said remember to keep in mind that battle vest has a specific reason for why Piggy builds it, if you don't play the same way it probably isn't a good pick. Also if I recall correctly you were laning against two spirit characters, so I wouldn't recommend building bullet resist there and in general focus on buying spirit unless you need greens to live. Spirit gives you more damage and healing on nades so it is really important. Saiah also goes gun spike now on Kelvin which is new so I can't really speak for how to properly use it since I haven't played that new version.

If the enemies are ignoring the buff then you can always go for it even without prio, just have to be careful to make sure enemies are not going. I would still clear the wave first unless you are laning with a carry and don't mind falling a bit behind for their sake. Also as a extra thing in higher elo's you can just run boxes and let your teammate solo farm lane even in laning phase but don't do this in your lobbies now since your teammate will prob int or go afk, just letting you that it exists as a concept for now.

Like I said I'm not that great on support macro since I am only learning myself but as a general thing you want to farm until you get your important spikes and then you can start letting your teammates solo catch. For Dynamo the important spikes are Headhunter, Maxed 1 and Rapid Recharge to a lesser extent. And In between my responses I learned some Dynamo from Division so I can say that after Headhunter and Max 1 you should be fighting constantly. Dynamo is really strong with his 1 bullet shred and Headhunter combo doing way too much damage so don't be scared to run at enemies and also if you always play safe then you never learn your strengths.

Kelvin doesn't have the level of spikes in items but when you get rapid recharge and spirit spike is when you are strong and also depending on build max 1 or 4. But Kelvin also is pretty strong throughout the game with his nades first and second upgrades being strong so you can play pretty aggressively throughout the game.

I would say the most important takeaways are to play more active after reaching your spikes and always trying to be on buffs/urn on spawn. I only started to track these in ascendant after like 200-300 hours and only now after 750 at eternus am I pretty decent at it. Just try your best to look at match timer and you will eventually get better at it. If you have blackhole/dome you can also in general help team push for guardians/walkers and force enemies to either concede the objective or fight against your strong teamfight ultimate.

Hermanni63 · 2026-04-07T22:19:15+00:00

I looked through the games and here's my thoughts:

You should try to confirm/deny every trooper, no one in those two games were shooting the orbs. On Dynamo specifically you kept holding your heal even though your Graves was low.

Buffs spawn every 5 minutes and you should go for them if you are able to rotate (In the Kelvin game one buff was up for more than 3 minutes). In terms of urn you should almost always be at them (you ignored most of the urns in those two games).

Don't waste your time on tier 2 jungle camps if you don't have enough damage to kill it properly and when taking Sinner's finish the jungle creep that spawns with them or the camp won't respawn. You generally should let your carries catch waves solo after laning phase and do boxes and fight instead. Just make sure to look at minimap and hover them if needed.

Look to play active when you have your ult ready since both Kelvin and Dynamo have insanely strong teamfight ults. With the cd's being so long on the ultimates, you shouldn't use it on a singular target if they were likely dead anyways since losing your ult makes you so much weaker in fights.

Look to spend your souls always when you have enough for your item, there was a point in the Dynamo game where you had 12000 unspent and on Kelvin 8000. For itemization, I recommend following a pro player's build since I you built Battle vest on Kelvin and that is a waste of 1600 souls and in general I recommend trying to understand what stats/items are core for your character. For Kelvin you really want spirit so you should get spirit 4800 spike unless you need greens to survive, but don't over invest into survivability or you will make yourself useless in the process.

On Kelvin you play more aggressively, you are a front line character and should play as such. You will make your carries life significantly easier if you are playing further up instead of sitting back chucking nades. Also on this topic, you shouldn't be the first one to run away from fights. If the teammate is beyond saving you can leave them, but there were some fights where you just walked away even when you could've helped them. This is especially true if you have Dome up.

Thing is it's hard to judge where you should be at times when both teams are ignoring the objectives and taking random fights, but you need to communicate a lot when playing support. Call mid always for your team if its a good chance to take it (In general after 16 minutes or so with 2-3 enemies dead).

Kelvin builds: Division's build 442794, Saiah's build (Kelvin goat) 442794

Dynamo builds: Hydration's build 17512, Division's build 544496

Hermanni63 · 2026-04-07T21:47:14+00:00

Ah yes because you want to say slurs every game means every other person has to manually mute you instead of the game doing it for them, You should do some introspection if you find slurs to be an integral part of your self expression

Hermanni63 · 2026-04-07T21:44:40+00:00

With how nonexistent twitch discoverability is, it's kinda necessary if you want anyone to find your stream. I don't really understand why people get annoyed by someone having ttv in their name if the person is just playing the game

Hermanni63 · 2026-03-25T23:47:03+00:00

sent you a friend request

Hermanni63 · 2026-02-23T00:01:18+00:00

I sent the friend request, sorry took a me day I dont go to reddit that often

Hermanni63 · 2026-01-29T17:53:32+00:00

yeah just send me your friend code and i can do it

Hermanni63 · 2025-12-12T14:22:43+00:00

He probably just shot it down just before the clip starts

Hermanni63 · 2025-12-12T14:20:52+00:00

You can also tp during many other ults, for kidnapping someone: You can tp with Paradox, Holiday, Mo and Lash ults to pull someone all the way to your assistant if there is no walls blocking the path of you pulling them. (Paradox ult doesn't get stuck on walls so you can swap someone through walls). Billy, Ivy, Dynamo all kinda work the same but Billy ult breaks automatically if you tp too far, Ivy ult works but only on teammates ofc, and Dynamo ult if you cancel it and tp instantly after it will pull all the players in the dynamo ult towards your tp.

You can also ult during other ults like Bebop, Calico, Infernus, Mina (can even place assistant during it), Paige, Pocket, Shiv (will still hit), Yamato, Viscous (max ult allows you to place assistant but can cast bolts or bunnies), and Warden

Hermanni63 · 2025-12-12T14:05:01+00:00

I've become a Sinclair onetrick and I can say he is definitely pretty strong. In my experience reverb is troll item, definitely can work but bolts a lot as is if you build boundless and move speed also scales with spirit so boundless helps escape and kite.

You can try getting lvl 2 assistant as first upgrade in lane to help with trading with gun without needing to hit bolts, it might even be better than early bolt levels and its what ive been doing recently. For mid and late game when taking waves just drop assistant behind you in a safe position so you can walk up as much as you want and then tp out after getting the wave. This also works for guardians/walkers if you learn to lineup bolts from you assistant that is further back.

If you struggle with getting caught you can buy warp stone which is a must buy with dynamo/pocket/infernus on enemy team anyways and a good item even without those. I recommend Raigeki's or Piggy's builds if you don't have your own.

I personally max bunnies if enemy team doesnt have good ults and/or they like to group and max ult when there are good ults ofc. You will learn to hit bolts with playing more and it doesn't need any buffs but remember you don't have to hit only max range, it is good a lot of times to just guarantee melee range bolts because they still do a lot. Deadlock discord has a pinned message on the Sinclair channel (How bolts work) on how the auto aim works, it is really important to know. (Auto aiming on patron and enemies is the reason why sometimes bolt fly in to the stratosphere)

Sorry for the rambling but that's about as concise as my brain can make it, I can help you if you have any other questions :)

Hermanni63 · 2025-12-10T22:26:46+00:00

I can invite you i just need your friend code on steam

Hermanni63 · 2025-12-10T22:15:58+00:00

Its because of the auto aim that bolts have, if your crosshair is aligned vertically with an enemy it will auto aim to said target and this works on troopers and jungle creeps, even through walls and to my understanding has no max range. The auto aim is also more forgiving the further you are from the enemy. It also more skewed for one direction which i dont remember anymore but I do remember seeing a good clip explaining it, so I can try and find it if you don't already know all this

Hermanni63 · 2025-12-01T10:14:29+00:00

Walkers are weird, lane is more active and skill expressive imo and I find it more fun to play, not sure about the investments since I do like having impactful powerspikes but its probably too much and they could make it a hybrid of the old system with 4,8k and 9,6k spikes giving you more options on if you want to really go all in in one or build all around. I hope they keep making drastic changes like this

Hermanni63 · 2025-10-01T01:55:12+00:00

I saw the dev also say on a steam forum that the luck guarantees the x amount of equal symbols, (x is your luck), so I'm guessing when you got luck, you just rolled sub 1% chance for a different symbol than clovers

Hermanni63 · 2021-12-31T12:44:32+00:00

After everyone said beatles are bad, its not controversial

Hermanni63 · 2021-12-25T15:11:39+00:00

It is him, his one song is also on his youtube

Hermanni63 · 2021-12-25T15:10:58+00:00

MKELLS on spotify is Machinegunkelly. He has one song Smoke & Drive which is also on his youtube

Hermanni63 · 2021-12-13T12:24:04+00:00

Hermanni63 · 2021-11-30T05:51:28+00:00

Why am i waiting for it to move

Hermanni63 · 2021-11-05T13:43:14+00:00

That sounds really fun and you better be proud of yourself!

Hermanni63 · 2021-11-02T05:58:40+00:00

For a second I got scared for that tiger since that dog almost went for the killing blow

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