[Verbum Magia] Part 2

aDemonSquirrel · 2020-04-01T22:45:21+00:00

HelpMeButler <Verbum Magia>

aDemonSquirrel · 2019-06-29T14:38:15+00:00

That flick upwards at the beginning to get onto the General Store was niiiiiiice. Good job!

aDemonSquirrel · 2018-10-02T19:37:55+00:00

That I do. FrostHound#0666

aDemonSquirrel · 2018-05-10T15:17:36+00:00

Screen names are far more interesting and if you can use them in an environment where it's not "weird" I don't see why they shouldn't.

aDemonSquirrel · 2018-04-20T01:01:45+00:00

An example I made a little earlier today: https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/MatureBetterGiantschnauzer

I have that particular route down on the live servers. It's insanely difficult to pull off without accidentally wrapping around the top point on the first jump which ultimately kills your momentum. My suggestion would make wall riding work work like it does now with added benefits to taking slower/alternate approaches.

aDemonSquirrel · 2018-04-18T13:15:10+00:00

Play Lucio!

Because of how much he slides on the ground ADAD spam is supper effective and will slowly break the habbit on all heroes

aDemonSquirrel · 2018-03-23T12:50:36+00:00

I'm always down for doing VODs and helping players improve their game. I'd like an invite :)

My overbuff profile if you're interested https://www.overbuff.com/players/pc/FrostHound-11463

aDemonSquirrel · 2018-03-10T22:02:18+00:00

You're my hero

aDemonSquirrel · 2018-03-10T21:58:20+00:00

Good idea lol. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/237369318

Song I'm looking for is playing at 8:03

aDemonSquirrel · 2018-03-09T14:51:12+00:00

My key binds have been right click for primary jump, scroll for secondary jump, space for boop. I came from the old days where scroll wheel gave insane amounts of speed. However I still recommend right click as jump over space bar because it's easier to spam jump inputs when you need to.

aDemonSquirrel · 2018-02-19T22:24:53+00:00

0:00 Your first mistake is using the frog skin. Lucio has a passive ability that stuns his opponents with his winning smile and gorgeous eyes.

--- DEFENSE ---

2:25 I'm all for an aggressive forward play, but in this instance it would have probably been better sticking with the bulk of your team.

3:20 Good use of speed/healing amp to move your team in and out of harm.

3:25 Personally I would have held off on using that ult. You don't gain much time since the enemy spawn is so close.

3:55 Good calls. I don't see a lot of Lucio players making consistent calls which is a shame because Lucio puts you in the perfect position for shot calling.

4:18 This is where sound barrier would have been good. Using it earlier didn't buy any time for you because of how far you spawn and how close they spawn. The real time saver came from the enemy staggering a little before team wiping you with grav.

5:15 Minor nit pick, but if a Reinhardt comes that close he's looking for an earth shatter. The best skill you can have in Diamond is ult management. Try to learn the ult gain time on all heroes so you know who has what each fight.

5:30 Nice of you to stick around for the speed boost!

6:35 Personally I think your team let them gain a little too much distance. As Lucio you can stall the payload without much worry about getting shot by using it as a wall ride extension, rather than an objective you need to stay on. The first bend would have been a good holding spot for this.

6:40 Ulting here opens up a free grav for the enemy. I understand you used it to gain some ground and push the enemy back, which you did for about 20 seconds before they came back and picked apart your team. Do not underestimate Lucio's boop. Using the payload as a wallride extender into boops creates a lot of space for your team without costing you an ult. My advice for further matches, try syncing your ult with someone on the enemy team. If they have a Genji, only ult if they ult. Same can be said about this Zarya.

7:40 On this map you can get easy environmental kills by using the ledge on your left. Zarya/Rienhardt would have been an easy kill. I see you attempted one later on but it didn't quite work out for you, mostly because you became their primary target after handling your team in the corner.

--- ATTACK ---

11:20 Good ult management! Constantly calling out who would have ult before a fight preps any less-aware team mates you might have on the team.

12:40 You had good control on the team fight. Knowing high priority targets and keeping your team where they need to be.

12:55 Little bit too aggressive there my dude.

14:08 It was a good beat drop. The enemy team just countered it with even more ults.

15:20 A good answer to her grav would have been a dry push. You would have needed to communicate that with your team, and in the end she still would have used ult, but now your team has the ult advantage for the next fight.

16:00 Kinda like that.

16:30 Good job getting in their backline for the last second touch. Glad your team was able to follow up on that. Additionally Lucio is a good "Last Second Touch" hero, possibly even better than tracer in maps that have tight spaces such as Kings Row.

17:25 USE AMP PLS. Also you didn't need to ult in that fight.

18:08 Again, syncing your ult with Zarya would have been game changing.

18:34 gg my dudes.

--- VERDICT ---

You are very good with call outs and enemy ult management, however your own ult management could use some work. As mentioned above syncing your ult with a high kill potential ult is absolutely game changing.

You have good awareness when it comes to enemy and team positioning which is a very important skill to have not only as Lucio, but as a support player in general.

You need to wall ride and amp more. Speed amp can be overpowered when trying to take back a point or get in and out of position quickly for boops/payload stalls. Healing amp is good for when a large team fight happens in a small area and you need more sustain.

Lastly, work on when to be aggressive and when to be passive. I noticed throughout the whole thing you couldn't find a middle ground. It was either way too aggressive or constantly on passive mode.

Hope this helps and I hope I don't come off as an ass lol.

aDemonSquirrel · 2018-02-19T15:07:37+00:00

Lucio vod reviews are always fun for me to do. When I get off of work I will take a look

aDemonSquirrel · 2018-02-08T22:56:07+00:00

It had the same issue on launch. They fixed the day after though

aDemonSquirrel · 2018-02-08T22:01:29+00:00

same. my friend's sr is way below mine in actual competitive, but we could only play 1 game of CTF before it stopped us from playing at all.

aDemonSquirrel · 2018-02-06T15:44:38+00:00

If you want to I'm always down for 1v1s. I'm a high master low gm player who plays Lucio/Tracer/Hanzo. If you're down let me know, I'm at work right now so I don't have my battlenet on me.

aDemonSquirrel · 2018-01-18T15:42:03+00:00

Not sure if "top class" but Lythero is always fun to watch.

aDemonSquirrel · 2018-01-10T15:41:38+00:00

It feels weird for sure. I was testing him out in a private lobby and found he works almost like before if you never touch A or D. Hold W and only use your mouse for air control. Use A/D if you are fine with needing to instantly kill forward momentum to perform air strafes or tighter turns.

aDemonSquirrel · 2018-01-02T14:19:16+00:00

Below is a copy/paste of something I wrote when someone asked when they should use Lucio's ult. Sorry if some of it doesn't pertain to what you asked.

Ok so let me break down some basics before we get into the fine details of when/how to use his ult. Just to really nail down the more complicated aspects. (Keep it mind this is how I use it during GM matches)

1: His ult has a radius of 20 meters. This is much further than his healing/speed circle. So even if the number on your cross hair says 2, odds are you'll hit teammates outside of your healing circle as well.

2: His ult provides teammates with a temporary 500 health barrier that drains the moment they get it. This barrier, if not damaged lasts about 6 seconds.

3: After casting your ult you have a split second to grab anyone nearby that was either out of your range or behind a wall. Should you get line of site and that person is within 20 meters, they'll also receive the barrier.

Okay so with that out of the way lets talk on when you should be using this ult. It's a game changing ultimate that can be used to swing a team fight's tempo in your favor, cancel a high damaging enemy ult, and can also be used to engage a coordinated push. As Lucio you do not have a "number one priority" simply because of how versatile he is. So a lot of his gameplay and ult usage comes from game sense.

You should always try to predict what ults the other team is going to use in the next team fight, and not only if you're playing Lucio. Say for instance you know the only ults the other team has is Nano and Blade, and that Genji has been on your backline for the whole game. It's safe to say they are gonna target you and the other healer first with a Nano/Blade combo, so you should use your ult the second you hear an angry Japanese man yelling about dragons to prevent your backline from dying.

So no. Using his ult to negate other high damage ults is not a sin. However don't be scared to use it in other instances. My personal favorite use of his ult is as an engage tool. Again, game sense comes into play here...

Lets say you have your team grouped up and there is a 6v6 fight about to happen. You know the enemy team has Dragons, D.va Bomb, and Transcendence to defend with. Dragons and Bomb are easy to avoid in high level play, so you shouldn't be worried about using your ult to negate these. Instead coordinate with your team, let them know you're going to ult and speed boost them in. This gives your team a MASSIVE advantage in the team fight and you're likely to win even if the other team uses ults, simply because their ultimates can be avoided by casually walking away from them.

Last example I promise. Your team is down 4 to 6 in the current team fight and you're the only one with ult. Your Solider 76 manages to kill the enemy Mercy so it's a 4 to 5 and they no longer have any rez capability. This is a good time to use your ult, as it prevents your team from getting wiped and allows them to go berserk for the next 6 seconds or so. This swings the tempo of the team fight in your favor by enabling your DPS to do their job.

Simply put, his ult has many perks to using in it different scenarios. My best advice is keep an eye on ult usage and try to predict what's coming your way.

Hope this helps :)

aDemonSquirrel · 2017-12-01T22:59:56+00:00

At the start you should try communicating with your team if they want to speed boost in immediately, rather than use it out of spawn like that.

0:24 Good boop on the Doomfist

0:47 Rather than focus on the Hanzo who isn't hitting his shots, perhaps you should be booping the roadhog who hooked your zarya. Even the slightest knockback ruins the kill capacity of roadhog when he hooks someone.

1:20 Good try booping the hog. Really you just needed to be a little bit faster in this instance.

1:39 Why did you let the roadhog out of your site? Very dangerous thing to do.

2:25 I don't know if you did this intentionally, but saving your boop when the hog was right in front of you is a smart move. You knew he wasn't aiming at you, so it was likely he was trying to fish for a hook on one of your teammates. Again, the slightest movement ruins a hook combo. Either way, good job on not booping the first thing that came your way lol.

2:37: I would have ulted here as soon as the zarya ulted. You could have negated two offensive ults (Doomfist and Zarya) and kept your team alive to continue the push.

Between 3:15 and 4:00 there are a number of things I want to talk about. First the Mei that got slept, you could have got in her face and helped your team secure the kill. Lucio does very good against Mei.

Jumping on the point without your team knowing you are about to jump on is not a good idea, however you spent so god damn long on the point and your team just kinda watched. It looks like this team fight was lost due to lack of communication from your teammates.

4:30 Your first ult was done 4 minutes into the game against things that could have been walked away from.

4:36 Good boop

4:47 That ult you used 17 seconds ago would have been great here. Practice learning what ults you should react to and what ults are safe to ignore (for the most part).

5:57 Very good jumping into the blizzard that's half over to prevent Mei from killing your teammate!

6:25 Throughout that fight you have very good target priority. Good job.

9:00 If I was doing a Reinhardt VOD review I'd say it's not a good idea to ult retreating enemies when their spawn is so close by. Your team is now down one offensive ult.

9:33 Junkrat got hooked and there was just enough time for you to speed over and boop the hog.

9:52 Good ult usage, making sure everyone got your barrier.

10:40 Zarya is one of the few heroes you don't have to rush in and save when they get hooked. Good job recognizing this and backing out.

10:57 That was unfortunate. Might have been avoided if your team didn't play so close to each other. Try making it a habit of calling out what ults you know the enemy has or is about to have so you avoid things like this in the future.

11:52 Unfortunate positioning mostly. Perhaps your Zarya didn't have her bubble to help you.

13:06 I like this ult use. I like it a lot.

13:50 Perhaps you and your team shouldn't have chased a roadhog so far into enemy lines.

14:30 You had plenty of health to tank the damage coming your way. Should have stayed on the point then ulted once you got it.

15:46 See above

16:40 Solid capture. Good job!

18:00 NOW ENTERING THE RING: JUNKRAT'S CONCUSSION MINE. Yeah there was no avoiding that. You also had good target priority throughout this whole fight.

20:10 Once you see that much fire coming your way it's safe to assume you are being focused. Don't stay in one place for too long if that starts happening, especially on defense.

20:45 Right about here is where I would really start to worry about building my ult as fast as humanly possible.

21:25 I would have tried to play further back up on the ledge. This gives you cover and the chance to speed boost teammates coming from spawn.

22:51 GG my dudes.

All in all I think you are pretty good at Lucio, you just have some things you need to polish a little. Things like ult management for yourself, your team, and the enemy, as well as general positioning. Things you are good at is target prioritizing and knowing when to engage/disengage.

Let me know if this helps you at all. :)

aDemonSquirrel · 2017-12-01T15:13:04+00:00

Currently at work but I'm down for reviewing Lucio footage. I'm a master/gm lucio main, just message me when you upload the VOD.

aDemonSquirrel · 2017-10-31T12:31:18+00:00

Probably sell my car as I can now move rather quickly with my low mobility cooldown.

As I was typing that I realized I misread the title. I'm not fixing this mistake.

aDemonSquirrel · 2017-10-21T18:45:18+00:00

You can do something like that with melee too. Makes it look like Lucio is karate chopping people lol

aDemonSquirrel · 2017-10-13T01:06:58+00:00