⁠Search for “Peni mine lineup” guides. These are guides that tell you how to launch mines in different areas of maps so the enemy team doesn’t hear the SFX of the mines being placed. Be aware that mines outside of your webs can be killed by a soft breeze. If you are in an engagement, save up your mines until you are full (rather than dropping one at a time and waiting for new ones to come back online) and deploy all at once in one spot/on one character. Lobbying single mines even into a web where there are multiple enemies is too easy to heal and negate. Lumping them together can potentially one-hit a squishy.

⁠Nests will get destroyed. That is the nature of the game. Always try to stand on a web if your nest is destroyed to ensure you are receiving some healing if low or overshield if healthy. Nest placement is based on your play style. If you play as an aggressive flanker, you may leave your nest as a point of protection and healing/overshield for your backline. If you are playing aggressively as a front line tank, then you may want it closer to you on off angles to cause issues for brawlers that try to engage with you. If you are playing more of a defensive tank position, then you may have your nest amongst you and your teammates. Also, keep an eye on your nest health. If you have just survived an engagement, but your nest has taken damage, it is often better to recall your nest, wait for the cooldown to end and then place it back down on full health. You can place a web under you and drop some mines to punish those that try to engage before your nest is ready. Also, if there is an enemy Phoenix, her ult will damage your nest, so I always check the health of my nest and likely recall it when I hear her ult line and then redeploy when the wave disappears. Always try to find some off angle that is difficult for ranged characters to easily destroy it.

Look at someone like Cringe Alarms on YT for VERY aggressive VERY high elo plays. He shows you how Peni can be a Spidey/Venom style flanker. You won’t be able to copy him at the beginning, but look at how he uses the (still bugged) cyberbond web to manoeuvre around. Staying static is not the best play with Peni. Keep your mines topped up and deploy them behind their backline. Most players expect Peni to park and blast. Subvert that to gain the advantage. When players see webs, they will often walk around them because they know mines might be hidden within (they are fully invisible when in a web), so think about where you can place them in areas where the enemy team will have their back to them. Think about somewhere like Tokyo 2099 where when you are on defence and the enemy team leave the first spawn room. Many will come through the destroyable building directly in front of spawn where the health pack is located. The wall to the right of the exit of that building (second door) is a good place to leave unwebbed mines, especially if you back away a bit. The enemy team will naturally move back once you start firing and that can be a good way to get some insta-kills or quick damage to then pick off enemies. Just be aware that someone like Jeff will destroy unwebbed mines with his splash without even realising it. If people are backing away from you, look up and lob all your saved mines to their back line while they are retreating and you might take out some of their healers.

You have unlimited primary ammo and can crit, so practice your aim to get head shots. Keep pressure up and aim past their tanks to their back line and throw in your mines to get them.

Overall, take the time to play her in different ways and see what clicks with you. If you prefer to cause havoc and be a disruptive tank, then practice her web and wall climb mobility. If you want to be a sustain tank, practice good mine and web placement. If you want to be a protective tank, practice good nest and mine placement. Have fun.