Bruiser is usually the offlaner, which means he should be responsible for soaking/double soaking as much as possible. Usually bruisers don’t push with the objective unless your presence there can get something much more valuable than double soaking during that time (like a keep for example).
Now, how bruisers fight, it depends. Some like Yrel/Dehaka/Sonya like to live in the backline, causing chaos there and damaging everyone while surviving everything due to their kits. Some like Thrall, Malthael, Rag, Blaze like to play from the sides and with the team, because they are not that tanky and their kits are better for follow up.
Bruiser’s job requires macro knowledge.
Before your team hit lv 10, this is the guild:
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Solo lane, soak exp and DON’T DIE. You should still join the object fight.
- If your bruiser can solo camp, take it right before the obj. (It takes experience to take the timing right. It is fine if you can’t do it at this moment).
- After the obj depended on the situation, you may either stay with the team or leave the team and solo lane.
After level 10, there are few things to do:
- take care wave pressure from the enemy team,
- take the camp.
- Stay with your team for the upcoming fight.
- Stay alive and don’t get killed by enemy’s ganking/rotation.
During a team fight:
- General speaking: engage only after the tank (from either side) engage or at lease your tank is looking an opening and you can create that open for the tank.
- If your tank CC a target, then focus on that target (this statement is true for all class)
- Diving the backline only if it is safe to do so. I.e. The enemy tank is occupied or he/she is bad at peeling (you may sometime see those bad tank players in the Silver
).
- Helping your tank to peel if needed.
- Soak the damage for your tank if needed. Depended on the team comp, sometimes bruiser should out soaking the damage than the tank. i.e. Anub’arak + Dehaka comp.
Some bruiser has better waveclear. Some can solo camp and some can’t. Some are better at 1v1 situation. So you need to know your bruiser well.
For more knowledge:
I think I may do a "how to self improve your macro: guild during the weekend.
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As an assassin main, mostly back-line, I can safely say I would rather my tank (assuming it’s a solo tank) be peeling instead of diving.
If you just peel for me, I feel confident I can clean up in most situations.
Peeling vs diving is obviously situational, but I feel like if your DPS are competent enough, you should always peel.
Don’t waste time trying to disrupt the Chromie, hang back instead and stun the Genji that’s diving in, so we can kill him and then make it a 5v4. At the very least we force them to use some big time resources to save the Genji and that puts us ahead in the team fight.
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I couldn’t have said it better myself.