RE: First Real Session On Paladins: The Verdict on Ash (and two gripes)
You're mostly right, but there's a couple important things you miss:
1.) Ash isn't meant to be a damage dealer. Your job as a tank is to sit on the capture point and keep enemies away. You should be using your shield to protect your teammates standing behind you, helping push back enemy fire so they can burst down the healer and DPS.
2.) Kinetic Burst isn't meant to be a damage dealing ability. You want to use it to push enemies off the point, so you can get a few more points. Also good for pushing enemies off before they get the cap. Or pushing them off the payload, securing the win on the round. If you want kills with it, launch an enemy off the map. It works, especially in Frog Marsh and the Fish Market.
3.) Don't worry as much about mobility. You're a tank, you have more health than most toons, and your ult makes you invincible. If you're on the point or contesting, you're building up power for your ult.
4.) if you have a healer support on your team (Jenos, Grover, etc), take rejuvenation. Their heals will be more effective.
If you haven't tried Fernando yet, you should. He got really good in recent patches. You basically do the same thing with him: sit on the objective, protect your allies, and faceroll the way to a win.
Thanks for that. I really like the game, but the sheer number of characters makes it complicated.
It's more role based, and the characters fit specific roles in a team based matchup. Kinda like Team Fortress, you know?
For you, it sounds like you want to be more of a damage dealer, which isn't a bad thing. but Ash and Fernando are Frontline toons, which requires a different mentality when you play. If you want to be a damage dealer, try Victor, Tyra, and Bomb King.
If you want to be a support frontline, helping with capturing but have a bit better damage output, try Ruckus. He's slower than Ash, but he hits pretty damn hard. Dodging doesn't matter when you have plenty of health and the enemy dies before you do!
Thanks for that again. Great to get tips from real players. Going on again late tonight and I'm going to play Ruckus.
UPVOTE AND RESTEEM EVERYONE
I'd join you, but I'm on PC...
Great! PC version is supposed to be good
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Pretty much! Comment regularly, engage your followers, and be an awesome person.
Pro tip: Use your emitter field whenever you can. Stay a wee bit behind and offer cover fire. You have a large magazine, so you can really lay down the support. He's more of a support Frontline than a tank, so keep that in mind.