So there seems to be a lot of people who don’t know how to play against tracer. Aim is to help people play against tracer using play tips that will help regardless of who you are playing. Or even what role. These will not guarantee a dead tracer every time or even your survival, but your chances will improve
In teamfights:
Stick together in teamfights. An isolated target is a tracer target. Sticking together will make it a lot harder for her to do tracer things. If you have to retreat, make sure you do it out of sight and do it safely.
punish her recall. There’s a big ol indicator. Use it.
bait out blinks and recall. A tracer without blinks and recall is a useless tracer.
Laning:
Don’t over extend in lane. Towers and keeps will mess her up. So stick close to them.
kill her minions. Your minions will do a decent amount to her, but you gotta kill her minions first.
if all else fails, sit by your gate and collect globes. Her range is a lot shorter than your towers’
Other:
Use the buddy system. Two people are a lot harder to kill than one.
Stop running away! If you are really far away from safety, don’t run. She will kill you before you get there. Instead, fight her. I don’t care if you are li Ming and just throw out autoattacks. Its something. And by fighting, you can kill her. Strong Auto-Attackers and and any point and click ability will make her have a bad time. She might also get intimidated and just leave.
Watch your minimap. If for whatever reason, tracer is destroying you, just be on the other side of the map at all times. Killing minions is better than dying all the time.
Play tracer!
playing heroes gives a very good idea of their weaknesses
For me, I don’t usually have a problem, but I can see her decimate players sometimes. My counters are:
-going as Jo and blinding Tracer whenever she AA’s you or your allies. She’s heavily dependant on her AA’s for damage and self heals. Reducing her AA’s is a huge counter.
-Pick Raynor due to his AA and range, he melts Tracer really fast
-Take Alarak and silence her if you can land the combo
-Varian taunt and have follow up
-Artanis blinds
-Cassia’s blinds, ball ult or upgraded slow Fend at 7. It’s a point and click and slows her down which provides set ups for your team
-If you need a mage, Guldan has Life Drain which is strong vs her, and naturally deters her.
Those are all good counters. One of my favorites is brightwing! Sheep her and delete her!
But my overall goal with this thread was to provide things that you can do regardless of who you are playing. So if you are in QM, and playing someone that doesn’t come with the right tools, you can at least do a lot better.
Whilst this is true, I have to make this clear, this tactic does not work always and it depends on the Tracer’s skills and quick reflexes, for your casual player yeah go for it sure, for a highly skilled player Tracer is control more than Varian is because she can simply take him for a ride once he tries to charge and taunt her putting him specifically out of position, that I can unironically say Tracer counters Varian himself who’s proclaimed counter.
Not for nothing do you have the dashes to dodge it, his grenade has a launch time, it is not instantaneous and it even makes a move before launching it.
You walk away when he has it active and return when he run out, you have more mobility than him. The Tracer that eats Tychus’ D is basically a Bad Tracer
A slow of 30% is not enough to stop 3 dashes, also why would Tychus use his Q against Tracer? The only thing that causes his Q is Losing DPS, his Q has 125 DPS approximately
You get close to him and you can dodge practically all of Odin’s abilities.
Tracer is Tychus’s counter because he can put constant pressure on him in the TFs, Tychus not having a reliable signature to blow her up he can’t defend himself because his W is a skillshot and When Tracer has done enough damage to her she simply uses recall and leaves. In In a 1v1 scenario she also destroys him, some time ago I played several 1v1 against good Tychus and i won all of them, lol.
Anyone who wants to play against my Tracer being Tychus let me know to connect, my BattleTag is LenaOxton#11931
These tips are basic things you do no matter what. Dont over extend? Stay by your towers? No sht.
Also bait out blinks? Wtf does that even mean. B step and hope she wastes blinks? Stick around with low hps and get her to blink in? Cause gl with that lol
Change the name of HOTS to “Tracer the Hero” sounds better and fits whats going on in game right now, haha
Thanks for the counter list, a few guys I play are on there, looks like I’ll be using one of them from now on until the Tracer nerf patch hits. As fun as it is to see her go 14 ish and 0 every game and getting MVP all the time.
Yes. A lot of basic gameplay will help against tracer. Absolutely correct. But I see a lot of people forget all this when tracer shows up.
And by bait out blinks I mean throw out skill shots to try and get her to use them. When she has no more blinks, then you go for the kill. As Orphea you can throw out your skill shots, she dodges them. Then you can hit her with chomp when she goes in for melee. Chomp chunks her real good
Make her use recall, wait for the delay. Then time your launch its that easy
Thats how you zone her out and win the lane. Q her to mosquito spray her away
Because Q locks in which ever direction tracer is going, in most cases Q does more dmg than his AA since it considered a spell. There are upgrades to his Q than just the slow. The reach talent, or more dmg on main target and the slow.
You can also walk in shoot at the same time, he can use E to dash away or towards her.
Are you ignoring the fact that his AA does 30% attack speed. You dont need to spam his abilities as Odin to kill a tracer. Its like a tracer inside hammers tank mode.
Strength in numbers can Tracer clear a lane better than Tycus? I dont know
You sound like those cocky people who want to 1 vs 1 just to prove a point UWU
PULSEBOMB on tycus?! No Problem negate that with Neostell plating 75% dmg Prevented
can Tracer clear a lane better than Tycus? I dont know