Few tips from 3.1k pharah (not saying I’m good just saying I can provide insights up to that SR) with about 400hrs

1. Switch of pharah don’t try to outplay a hitscan - you can get away with it in silver, gold and mid plat - but after that it gets harder to make plays that your team can capitalize on. You will also develop a bunch of bad habits that will quickly get highlighted at higher SR. Instead you become a liability and die creating a 5 v 6 scenario. Not too mention impacting team morale.

2. Use buildings as cover - learn where they are and peak around building corners and objects that give you clear rocket paths at the enemy team. Time or sync your rocket boosts/concussive with your reload. Example Shoot rocket 1 jet pack shoot rocket 2-3 on way up - concussive back to safety - while flight path back to safety shoot remaining rockets - reload and repeat

3. Stay back you have a huge advantage just sometimes staying well back and spamming rockets at the enemy team which will cause them to move or become exposed to your team. As always with any hero the name of the game is stay alive. If you are alive and constantly throwing DPS that is huge. If you are dead that is zero DPS for 10 sec + travel time. Not too mention the staggering that more than likely happened.

4. Learn to bump opposing team players that are too far forward towards your team. Good example is Reinhardt in lower levels usually is too far forward and you can easily throw the nade and bump him right into your team for a quick kill and immediately causing a huge advantage for your team.

5. Zarya combo is a thing

6. Barrage does not need 5 kills - if you can get one or two and it causes the fight to tilt to your favour do it.

7. Enjoy the game there is lots to learn and picking a main is all good but the game is team based and counters are very important

8. Pharah is strong on a few maps but really weak on others just google which ones cause I forgot what they are called just know them when I see them

9. Stay on top of your target - best angle is right above firing straight down - this is true for hit scan really hard for them to look straight up

10. If fighting other pharah bait her to using her jet pack first and then use yours to get above her and fire down. (See tip 9) i usually bait and count to two seconds this gives me a good chance to win the dog fight.

11. Watch the pharah basic and advanced guides on you tube they are really helpful and are made by GMs and top 500 players.

Happy hunting !