Guide: Hard Achievements

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Had a good response to this on the old forums so putting back up here in case someone wants to bookmark or something

Thought Id throw this in here for those that may be struggling with what I consider to be the hardest achieves in game (or at least the ones i see on here)…Fair warning some of these might be considered as poor team play but you are going after achievements themselves and not necessarily the win here (i dont like it either)…with noted exception ive done all of these myself using these strats so hopefully they work for you guys

I’ll work on the formatting for this in a bit…for now just copying my post from blizz forums

Doomfist

AIR STRIKE

  • Difficulty: *
  • Map: any map

I see a lot of people struggle with this one but its actually not that hard…you just have to set yourself up properly (and understand mechanics)…

First of all…understanding his slam…it does more damage the longer he is in the air with it…NOT with height (though height does help)…if you look down and do the straight line type of slam you might actually not do a lot of damage because you fall quicker that way…so height + distance to target + horizontal slams are best…

SOOOO…there is a trick to this: slanted surfaces

if you place yourself on a slanted surface (ie. you cant actually stand on it)…the game still considers you to be over a “surface” and therefor causes you to do a horizontal “lofted” slam instead of the straight B-line type…giving you the best chance of getting full charge (especially if youre high up)…so find a map with lots of slanted walls that are high enough to reach with your uppercut…

the best place for this is volskaya point B…that point is literally surrounded by all sorts of slanted roofs…uppercut to one -> slam your target (make sure youre still over the surface when you hit the button)…if you miss…repeat until you get

there are many other places also: first choke of volskaya uppercuting on top of the choke from the car and slamming other side…first point of gibraltar has some high points…i did on ilios well believe it or not…jumped on top of the building with the health back (domed roof) and jumped on top of an unsuspecting lucio trying to boop people)

Sombra

HACK THE PLANET

  • Difficulty: **
  • Map: Escort/Hybrid on Attack

Didnt find this one that hard to be honest…long map…preferably a hybrid one…I myself did this one on numbani attack

Hide and seek pretty much…get your translocator out far away from the point…invis run in hack someone and port out…do not stay near people…EMP’s count (also port out) so this one can actually progress pretty fast if your teammates are using your health packs

Reaper

WASTE NOT, WANT NOT

  • Difficulty: **+
  • Map: Assault on Defense

This one is a bit rough because my understanding is that a change recently causes him to reload which would mess this up (so apologies if this doesnt work anymore)…

Got this one on hanamura defense point B but i imagine any map with multiple capture points works…the important thing to note here is that your death blossom counts (this may be the problem now)…make sure you have a full clip and a death blossom ready to go…you want to kill 2 people with 6 shots…i liked to grab them as they were running back from a death on point B over by the point A “choke” (ensuring they have full health)…you can use shot 7 and death blossom on the 3rd kill (or even the 2nd)

Widowmaker

SMOOTH AS SILK

  • Difficulty: *
  • Map: Hybrid/Escort/Assault on Defense

Hardest part about this is your aim…i think this achieve is easiest right at the start of a round as the enemy team is leaving spawn (so escort/hybrid/assault map on defense)…I did on gibraltar though got really close on eichenvalde as well…

watch the start timer…pick a high grapple point near spawn and vault up as timer reaches zero…let your aim do the rest when theyre not expecting it

tip: on gibraltar you have plenty of rock walls and towers to grapple to…on eichenvalde you can get sneaky…go to point A and look at the spawn door…there should be buildings between you and the door…one of those has a triangular shaped roof with a little wooden beam sticking out that you can grapple and vault yourself over the buildings so you can see the door

Zarya

POWER OVERWHELMING

  • Difficulty: *
  • Map: Assault with a good choke
  • 1 friend prefered

Get a tank buddy and take turns being up front taking damage…a good choke point works really well…not too bad to honest but thought i throw it in

Orisa

HALT STATE

  • Difficulty: ***
  • Map: Hybrid/Escort on Defense
  • Friends: At least 2

This one is a biggy and hardest achieve I’ve done to date…youll need friends for this one because coordination is key…have one on Zarya (absolute must) and another on Hanzo (ill explain in a sec) though a big damage ult could also work…you want an escort/hybrid map on defense (i prefer escort)…and personally i did on kings row…

how i set it up…all three need ults ready…let the enemy team take first point once youre ready (make sure you dont die)…you wait on the other side of the choke…reason for this is enemy team tends to group up on payload here ensuring that your zarya will grab at least 3…hopefully 4 or 5…have your zarya ult them as they round the corner (preferably you grab tanks cause of large health pools)…have your hanzo/dps ult (i prefer hanzo because the damage is unblockable by shield tanks)…you want to throw your halt roughly at same time and you want to do it just above the graviton so that they drop back down into the damage (not sure if that matters but i read that somewhere)…will take many attempts because the timing/damage window is small…can do just about anywhere but i found that way to be consistently good attempts…

it sucks…plain and simple

Zenyatta

RAPID DISCORD

  • Difficulty: **+
  • Map: Any

unfortunately there is not too much one can say about this one…as someone on youtube said…the best way to get rapid discord is to not try to get it…and its semi true…itll happen…eventually

you want a brawl and you want to help yourself with by contributing damage to the kills yourself…have “E” ready to go quickly as soon as someone dies and cross your fingers…i personally got in overtime on last point of hollywood…and im not sure zarya really helps on this one as people tend to die too fast that way before you can get your discord out on them

THE IRIS EMBRACES YOU

  • Difficulty: *+
  • Map: Any

spot an enemy team with a hanzo and have your team stand in it (especially tanks)…was rough at the time but i suspect this one will just happen…(ENEMY ZARYA!!! - one trying the other achieves on here even better)

Lucio

THE FLOOR IS LAVA

  • Difficulty: **+
  • Map: Ilios/Lijiang preferred

one of those actually really simple but extremely hard to pull off ones

map: lijiang tower or ilios…the ones with chasms (i got on lighthouse and pretty sure ive also done on gardens several times)

not much to say other than stay on the point and pick a boop doorway…in case youre not aware…you just have to be on the wall when the actual death happens…so boop and then wall ride…good luck

Fun Fact: I actually got this one and rapid discord within 30 minutes of each other (after like 3 months of trying both)

General

THE PATH IS CLOSED

- Difficulty: ***
- Map: Hybrid/Escort on Attack

Second hardest achievement (right up there with halt) and arguably the most situational one

Setup: enemy symmetra…you play SOMBRA…map must be either an escort/hybrid…you need time…and those take longest…you need to be on ATTACK…i personally did on dorado

this one is going to be the cheapest strat because you are basically throwing the game early…the goal here is to feed the enemy symmetra so that she gets teleporters out quickly…you want her to put down 2 teleporters out fast (preferably becore first point is capped) so that she puts a third teleporter out before second capture point…any symettra that isnt crazy will put down a shield gen after that…so you need to get before then…

so it becomes a dance…you need to give her charge (cough let her damage you cough) so that she gets teleporter out (use your invis to keep an eye on her and know when/where the teleporter is going out)…but your team has to still progress through map so do help them capture points (once youve done your work :stuck_out_tongue: )

this one will take time…not just because of the specific requirements…but also because sometimes symmetra just likes shield gens : (

Ive heard rumors that shield gen has counted on occasions before but i cant verify this at all (probably bugs)…its hard but not impossible…in fact when i did this the symmetra actually put down 4 teleporters (one of my teammates killed the third - i wouldve looked up his address if not for the other teleporter)

Mercy 2.0 (Bonus)

HUGE REZ

  • Difficulty: -
  • Map - Any

Im throwing this in here because believe it or not some people claim this to be hard…just play cautiously…but I also wanted to mention that Pharah can just kill herself 6 times near spawn if youre having THAT MUCH trouble with it

and lastly 2 special mentions because they are the only 2 i have not done yet

Moira

ANTIPODE (since completed using Zaria and 2 buds just to ensure grav only needed to grab 4)

i suspect this one is going to be much like Orisa’s halt strat…where im going to need a zarya to overachieve for me and i line myself up properly…other than that i can only assume best place is going to be a long hallway or s-shaped corridor where people line up (kings row towards end?)…or maybe i just need to ensure i tell my team to just line up for me and hit 2 other enemies also…for the record i did not play this game from sept to jan…basically the time moira has been out…so i havent had many times to attempt it…grateful for tips

UPDATE: finally got on 3/11/18 using Zarya strat on Volskaya point B defending…we had 2 good attempts but not enough of my team was in front of me so decided to just let the entire enemy team get on the point as time was expiring and then jumped on them and destroyed them in epic fashion :wink:

and lastly…

Doomfist

CRATERED

Requirements: too many

where to begin…oh…right…

F this achievement…i hate you…please just die…

I have other posts dedicated to this one achievement and all the problems with it…there are literally so many things that have to occur for this achievement to even be attempt-able that the only label i can adequately apply to it is: IMPOSSIBLE…its just too much…i get one decent attempt maybe once every month but even then one of the things that i didnt mention (on here) happens and it renders the attempt moot…closest ive been is 4 kills

its just terrible…ill take any advice but honestly i doubt itll help

Anyway…there it is…hope that helps everyone…

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raises hand don’t suppose you would have any tips for

Slice and Dice (Genji’s Cute Spray)

The Dragon Is Sated (Hanzo’s Cute Spray)

Or

Roadkill (Junkrat’s Cute Spray)?

Those are the ones that are next on my list, well apart from
The Path is Closed and Waste Not Want Not, but those are just really more luck based
Thanks :slight_smile:

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Zarya buddy for the first 2 and it should be easy actually…

I can’t remember hogs actually…is that your typical kill X number of people? Cause Zarya would help there also…if it’s the knocking people off on then I strongly suggest Nepal sanctum or ilia’s lighthouse

I think you’ll find that many achieves are also “Zarya” achievements

Without zarya your best bet is choke points…and not necessarily the obvious ones…I like the ones immediately AFTER capture points…I think people tend to group up more for those

EDIT: if it’s the ult one try Zarya also or look at paragraph just above this one…

The trap one I think you want to get in a small room like the one next to the first choke points of Anubis or Hollywood defense…trap in one corner and mine in the other

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Thank you, I already got Junkrat’s pixel spray by accident :joy:
I’ll see if I can get my friend to help me with them, as it’s sooo hard to get the Junkrat one, been trying for weeks! (Same with Roadhog’s) Next one I need is Hanzo’s scatter arrow achievement, but there’s no real point for that, as I’m pretty sure it’s being changed to something else (hopefully it’s something easier to achieve)
Thanks again :slight_smile:

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You wouldn’t happen to have a guide for Storm’ Earth and Fire(Reinhardt cute spray), would you? or atleast direct me to someone who does?
Because I swear I’ve met the requirements and haven’t gotten my achievement.

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um…just do all three…smash…fire…rush…

not sure if you were serious or not :smile:

I am now asking for clarification if someone can help out…moiras cute achievement…been a while attempting and still dont have…been close a few times…but recently i saw a post that said you dont have to do all 7 at same time…just 7 during the course of the ultimate…

ive tried several times and feel pretty good about having hit enough people…and still nothing…when i look up information about it its always people that did the achieve back in nov/dec…any videos after that do it in what seems like simultaneous style either with a zarya or a long hallway…

can anyone whos done it recently verify if the non-simultaneous method is still working?

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its apparently not as easy as it sounds, Trust me.

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It’s really easy…I got it last night, just Earthshatter, Firestrike, Charge. You don’t even need to kill the opponent, i got it in he middle of charging

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just a friendly PSA, there is a much easier spot to get Doomfist’s Air Strike achievement. On Watchpoint: Gilbraltar when you’re at the path to the second point, get on top of the ship in the middle of the room. Performing a jump into a slam is almost always a guaranteed 125 and its easy to hit anywhere on the bottom floor.
Also big tip, don’t uppercut then slam, always basic jump then slam.

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It would make more sense to say f this achievement for rapid discord.

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Hey, thanks for this.

I really needed it😁

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I just ask people to let me get the achievement in quick play xd

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For smooth as silk, if you jump as you shoot it will count unless they fixed that.

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I got 5 kills with a Zarya+Doomfist combo…Once.

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This is definitely one of the hardest in the game. I got it by shooting halt into a graviton surge right before self destruct went off. You need to carefully watch your teammates and sometimes luck is the only way to get it.

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unless they’ve changed/fixed it for Antipode you just need to hit/heal 7 players with a single use of Moiras ultimate, they don’t actually have to all be at the same time.

I got it by chasing the enemy team while defending Volskya point B, and a few allies happened to run in front of the beam.

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Almost every achievement that requires you to hit/kill x number of players is easier in the end of defense other than king of the hill (point B or the end of escort). This is where people get desperate and tend to get too close together to be sure to stay on the point. Zarya/Reinhardt ult also helps a lot. For Genji’s one it’s even better if you are nano boosted.

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For Genji’s achievement, do only slashes count, or can you get it with Swift Strikes and Deflects as well (as long as Dragonblade is out, obviously)?

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I did the widow achievement with high ground and just going to edge and before i shoot, i just take small step and start falling.

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Good tips all round!

Also with Antipode, I got it just by playing Moira in general without specifically going for it (I think I got it first week she was out, and the other one not long after). Pretty much wait until a team scrum with a bunch of allies and enemies (you will need to hit at least two enemies and one ally to get the achievement BTW), then pop the Ultimate.

FYI, although I do not have Rapid Discord, I imagine it would work best if you discord-shoot three guys, then discord a fourth and have someone pop a damaging Ultimate and take out all four. That way, you effectively “hold” your kills/assists with Discord until one big burst.

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