How do you not get dived on as support?

Specifically by Sombra and or Tracer?

I-specifically would love some help on not getting dived and be helpful with my team.

No I can’t play Ana for beans and I forgot how to play Lucio. I mostly play Bap, LW and Brig.

Like what to do if they’re both attacking me from behind?

moo

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How do you not get dived? Either cross your fingers or don’t queue for anything. :person_shrugging: Dive is gonna happen, especially in the pursuit of support players.

How should you respond to it? It’s situational, but the main thing dive characters aren’t fantastic at is staying in the action for a long time. Clumping closely with teammates isn’t a bad deterrent. Brigitte specifically was built to be anti-dive, and while she’s not insanely indomitable at it anymore, she’s still a pretty solid option if you’re struggling with the other two characters you mentioned.

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Play moira usually.

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I have no problem surviving with Brig and Moira.

Ana has always been weak against flankers unless you can sleep Tracer.

A general rule against flankers is to pack. When you hear the flanker coming for you, get close to your mates for them to tank damage and help you.

As Brig ; remember to raise your shield after you hit them so Inspire can heal you a bit. If you keep attacking, you’ll take damage and healing reduction. Especially since Sombra hack and virus outrange your left click.

As Moira : cast healing orb, follow it, right click on the flanker if you can ; it should give you enough time to dash away.

Pretty sure if you can aim for ppl head, LW can melt down those flankers.

Also don’t get mad if you don’t kill them. If you escape and make them running around, they’re just wasting time without doing anything meaningful regarding the objective so its already a good thing for you.

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hope they have bad aim

hope your dps is paying attention and maybe helping peel for their supports

hope your other support partner is also paying attention

go moira

yea those two are a menace now and i could imagine if they duo’d and tag teamed (i know since im the sombra)

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I’m liking playing flanking heroes (Tracer/Sombra/Genji…). I think the best for heroes like Kiriko/LW//Bap/Mercy to defend is to be close with their team, specially tank/dps.

Diving into a support that is isolated in the backline, is like an easy prey… But when all the team is stacked together is much more harder, since the DPS/Tank will be awared that someone is killing their support.

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You cant avoid being dived in this game because dive heroes pick their engagements. What you can avoid is dying to the dive

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High mobility support heroes, zen or brig and smack them around.

You pick mercy and stay in the air 24/7.

Only play Lucio, Moira or Kiri

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Changing hero is not a solution,

If I play Tracer against Mercy/Kiri… and I see that they are changing to Moira/Brig to avoid being dived, I change also to something Cassidy or Reaper that will bring problems to Moira

That will work if youre being solo dived maybe. If 2 show up its extra hard. 3rd and death is 99% guaranteed

Just kill them or run away. A tracer will have a hard time killing a brig (same with Sombra)

A bap VS a Sombra in a 1v1 should always win.

And LW and can petal to safety fairly easily or grip a teammate near to help.

Fair point. I guess I’ll try more Brig.

Guess time to practice some Moira then.

Thank you very much for this!
Usually I attack because I try to keep my tank alive if I think they’re getting jumped.
Or killing the supports if no one else is

Always pray they have worse aim then me, unfortunate is not mostly the case and the case of my team not looking around their surroundings

How? o3o

Isn’t Zen bad against dive since he’s slow?

Fair

Wouldn’t that annoy them?

Depends on who youre playing, whos diving you and what map youre on. Theres no 1 answer to a question with so many variables

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That’s a fair point.

Getting dove on in almost every game is the nature of playing support.

Tips:

  1. For this season I start out every match on support as either Moira, Lucio or Kiriko. These 3 supports allow me the best chance to live longer throughout the match. ( I will switch off one of these if needed during the match to Ana or Bap sometimes)

  2. Be ready to damage the divers first. This season try and make the Tracer and Sombra pay for diving you by being tough to kill.

  3. Play around or move in with 2 or more other teammates. Never get caught 1v1 as Support.

GLHF

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Depends, if it is one or two dive heroes in an essentially rush team, kick is extremely good. Outside of the tippy top you are not likely to face an actual coordinated dive.

Changing to heroes like Brigitte/Moira will make you passing bad against long range heroes… I think the better counter for that is really a stacked team.

That’s the neat part. You don’t.