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If your team has been wiped, don't run in alone, **REGROUP!.** If you can escape the fight, return to meet up with your teammates to maximise time.
The attacking team only needs a team kill to capture a point, therefore while on attack you really want to hold your ultimate for one big push as a group. The defending team however has to be more careful not to burn their ultimates in one go, as you need to win more group fights.
Don't use your ultimate selfishly. If your using your ultimate **only** to keep yourself alive during a situation, you are wasting your team's potential to maximise your ultimate.
If your opponent has one character in particular providing you or your team big problems, **switch character to counter them**. This is one of the biggest differences between the lower and higher skill levels.
As with all teamwork based games, **communication** is key.
Never use your ultimate if your teammates are being wiped, it will lead to nothing except having one less ultimate available when your team has regrouped. It is also wasteful to use your ultimate in a fight you will win without it, so situational awareness and timing is very important.
**Zarya**’s ultimate is ideal to be comboed with burst damage ultimates such as **Pharah**, **Hanzo** or many others. If you're playing **Zarya** let your teammates know when your ultimate is ready so that they may save their ultimate for it.
While defending it is always ideal to **hold choke points** to funnel the enemy.
It is always advantageous to take the **higher ground**. You will have a smaller hitbox, the possibly to get behind cover easier and better vision of the enemies than they will have of you.
If your team has successfully killed 1 or 2 enemies, you are at a significant numbers advantage and can aggressively push to wipe the remaining enemies.
Team composition is extremely important, some matches can be doomed before they have even begun if the team composition is poor.
Double support is a must, if one support character dies there will still be a chance of the other healer keeping the group alive. The various healers all have different advantages that compliment each other, such as **Lucio** providing AOE healing while **Zenyatta** provides burst healing.
Double tank is also good, but less vital depending on the mode and the opposition team composition.
**Reinhardt** is a must on attack as no other tank can provide anywhere near the level of shielding he does.
King of the hill maps are more suited to shorter range classes than other modes and due to the close proximity of teammates, **Lucio** is a must.
The single most important thing for a support character is **keeping yourself alive**.
**Zenyatta**’s ultimate is the best counter to several opposition ultimates. It is entirely possible for transcendance to keep the group alive through **Zarya**, **Hanzo** and **Pharah**’s ultimates all at the same time.
There are times as **Lucio** where not firing your weapon can be safer to reduce the chance of you being spotted/targeted.
**Lucio**’s speed boost combined with his ultimate is a significant tool in attack for making a push when your teammates have their ultimates available, particularly **Reaper**, **Genji** or **Pharah**.
As a healer try to avoid being too near to your teammates if the enemy has a **Reinhardt** as you will be a big target for his knockdown ability, which will 100% lead to your death.
**Ana**’s debuff grenade is ideal to throw into **Zarya**’s ult while attacking to prevent **Zenyatta** from keeping everyone alive.
**Ana**’s nano boost is best when used to buff **Reinhardt**, **Genji** or possibly **Winston**. Communicate your ultimate progress so your intended target will be more prepared.
Although **Ana** has the possibility of scoping in, using it severely reduces your potential efficiency compared to shooting while scoped out. Try to stay relatively close to your teammates to allow yourself to be able to shoot without scoping.
When playing **Symmetra**, if you wait until the round starts before shielding your teammates, you gain ultimate progress for doing so.
**Reinhardt** is the only ‘true’ solo tank, and is a must in attack.
If both teams have a **Reinhardt**, the duel and use of his knockdown becomes a key factor in determining who will win group fights.
**Zarya** offers some shielding but is best in combination with a secondary tank to also generate charge, and as such needs to alternate between being the front line.
**Winston** is one of the best counters to multiple classes such as **Widowmaker**, **Genji** and **Tracer** while also being a huge threat to support characters.
If you have a **Zarya** on your team, and a burst damage ultimate, try to combo your ultimate with theirs.
**Tracer**’s speed can make her ideal for flanking the enemy choke points and splitting the enemy team by attracting them away from the choke point.
You can turn on **allied health bars** on all characters. This will help your awareness and allow you to make better decisions.
In the options you should set team chat to auto join, and team chat to on. This will automatically put you into the team chat when you join a game while in a group, which the game does not do by default. This is extremely important for communicating with your team in competitive.
Ultimates have **different voice lines** depending on whether the caster is friend or enemy.
Each character has **unique footstep sounds** making it easier to identify who is approaching. **Crouching** can be used to reduce your footsteps.