How many times have you found yourself using the looking-for-group tool to quickly cap your conquest for the week with a fast-paced double DPS composition only to be disappointed with the results? Well, don’t worry as you are not alone in this situation.
We’re going to be discussing some mistakes that players make when in LFG scenarios while also giving you some tips and tricks to avoid them. The nature of the 2v2 bracket means that playing double DPS is often quite punishing especially when you’re paired up with a partner that has no idea how to properly execute kills.
WINNING IN LFG
Let’s talk about what it really takes to win games at low MMR in LFG. Anything below 2000, players will often burn down through defensive cooldowns much faster than they need to. It’s also especially common for defensive cooldowns to be overlapped too especially by healer DPS teams.
If you’re able to perform executed setups a handful of times, that’s almost going to be enough to secure a victory. This aslo means that the opener is usually where a low MMR LFG game is.
Bad openers will quickly spiral into a loss while good openers where you execute good cross crowd control and force the enemy team to panic.
It’s important to remember that when faced with against a healer DPS team as a double DPS team, you can’t just run in and tank damage after executing your setup. You need to play defensive in between your goals.
PROBLEMS PRO PLAYERS FACED IN LFG
After playing for a while and letting out pro players figure out what are the common mistakes they observed when in LFG is that most of the problems simply revolve around crowd control.
When playing double DPS in twos, you’ll be usually matched up with healer DPS compositions as they are a lot more common. These match ups the only thing you will have in common as a double DPS team is that you’re able to dish out a lot more damage in a small window which makes your crowd control all the more meaningful.
We’ll be going through each of the biggest problems so you would know not to make the same mistakes the next time you hit up that LFG tool.
- Failing to cross crowd control. This may be one of the simplest strategies in able to win in the game’s PvP. Cross crowd control just comes down to landing crowd control on the entire enemy team at the same time. Without is you will allow enemies that are not crowd controlled to counter your setups and prevent you from winning the game.
- Ignoring Diminishing Returns. The second problem is that players ignore diminishing returns and don’t set on crowd control often enough as any class with frequent access to crowd control, it’s super important that you try to set as often as possible. Not doing this gives the enemy team more time to freely play the game and score a kill before you’ve been able to set up enough kill attempts to win yourself.
- Gaps in Crowd Control. It’s not enough to just give out crowd control. Follow up crowd control is often important to actually have enough time to score kills. One of the biggest mistakes we see is that players fail to set up crowd control but fail to follow up which leaves a gap and allows the enemy team to get healing or defensives used to ruin your set up.
- No Game Winning Plays. Just don’t ever make any game winning plays. While it can be enough to win the game without going above and beyond to outplay your opponents, there will always be a chance to do something big that can win the game for your team. These opportunities are almost always missed by players in LFG.
Once these issues get ironed out and you’re able to consistently get clean openers with good cross crowd control and avoid damage until you can set up on the winning go, everything will just fall into place as you start forcing enemy mistakes and get the opportunity to capitalize on.