Lucio mains! Need your help

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Im a Support main who plays lots of Mercy, Ana, Sym, and Moira and i really wanna learn Lucio!

I need tips, tricks, and all your lucio secrets, anything you got!

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  • Check your teammates respawn timers if you’re about to respawn yourself. If somebody’s also about to respawn, wait the extra second so you can speedboost them along their way (Good advice in general to avoid trickling really, but Lucio in particular lives and dies on it.)
  • Against opponents with slower projectiles like Junkrat, Orisa or Pharah the speed boost will probably do more to help you survive than your healing will.
  • If you hear the enemy Doomfist/D.Va/Junkrat/Mei ulting, then for heaven’s sake switch to speed boost and get everyone out of there!
  • The Boop is good for more than just knockback. A quick Punch-'n-Boop combo is an easy 55 damage (more than enough to make a hard-to-hit Genji or Tracer back off and/or pop a CD), it can potentially finish off a weakened Genji through his deflect and can take out Sym turrets if they’re all clustered together to name a few.
  • If you haven’t already, go to Lucio’s page in Controls and enable the “Can Wallride Backwards” option. I don’t understand for the life of me why they even let you disable it, let alone do so by default.
  • You get a small speed boost leaping off a wall, so make sure to do so whenever possible. For instance if you’re walking past a pillar then quickly jump onto it, wallride for a split second then jump off.
  • Due to it’s high decay speed, Sound Barrier is something you want to activate right at the moment of impact (though with the amount of CC around these days that’s a bit easier said than done.) Treat it like a team-wide Zarya barrier.
  • Sound Barrier followed up by a Speed Amp is one hell of a combo, especially if your team has any close-combat heroes like Rein, Brig or Reaper on it.
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jump switch from speed boost to keep the momentum so you can get a small boost of speed and healing at the same time

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Constantly jump like the frog boy you are and constantly ride the walls like the annoyance you also are. Boop and shoot at everyone you see and switch songs every second to maximize your life span. What’s that? You want to help your teammates? Balderdash! Leave them to fight alone as you die to that Widow that constantly shoots you off of the walls. That’s the pro Luigio way.

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The way boop works is that the closer you are to the enemy, the farther back they go. :smile:

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Don’t amp it up when just one person needs healing and the fight is basically over. You should use it when your team is about to take lots of damage, when lots of teammates are low, or anytime during a teamfight. Also speed boost amps are incredibly useful for pushes.

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Try to get everyone to stay as a group as much as possible. When we’re together, Lucio is strongest.

Make sure you tell everyone your circle protects from sea bears as well😂

Yes, sea bears exist, lol

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If you’re the only support providing heals, pick another healer.
As useful as his radius is, his general healing is only viable during turtling-defence and his amp’d healing is difficult to time well and even then, it can’t always outpace damage from an assault. In other words, his healing (outside of amping) in general is too slow to be practical imo.

But his speed-up is very useful. Keep it on, especially near heroes that benefit from it the most (Reinhardt, Brigitte, Mei etc), and switch to healing specifically to use the amp. Amping his speed up is also useful when certain heroes activate their ultimate, like Soldier: 76 and Roadhog.

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This one’s really hard for me but
don’t have your healing aura on all the time, and don’t try to heal everyone to max. There’s a lot of potential for his speed aura in a team fight, and Lucio’s own damage is nothing to laugh at coupled with his mobility.

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Practice your wall riding. Lucios wall riding can be used to get out of tough situations. Also, don’t try to single out on healing, heal as a group. Your healing and speed boost follow you so stay with your team. Also remember to have backward wall riding on :slightly_smiling_face:

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Use his “amp it up” on speed boost as a timing signal for dives with your team.
It’s surprisingly easier to coordinate than 3
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 Especially when not everyone’s in vc

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Practice, practice, practice wallriding. I’ve got almost the worldwide top hours on Lucio, and I still need to practice and warm up my wallriding. You want ‘jump’ bound to two keys for Lucio; a lot of people leave that as Space and one other, typically either mwheel (which I don’t care for, tbh, because it’s the most ‘spammy’ for bhopping) or right-click (which is what I use). I find that, with the 2, you’re able to use Lucio’s jumping, wallride and boost most effectively. You get a small speed buff when you disengage off a wall with another jump, so you should jump on and jump off to sort of stack (or keep momentum) of these boosts.

However, having said that, sometimes keeping that same momentum can make you easier to hit, once an enemy hitscan has a feel for tracking you; in my kill-cams it looks insanely like I am just spamming shift (crossfade) back and forth. I am not, this is intentional to constantly allow small bursts of speed vs heal, and to make it a lot harder to hit me. Every time I hit shift (and it’s a lot) is intentional.

Lucio has to peel for the other support. That is almost his biggest role in this game. Brigitte and Moira may be a little too strong in fending off would-be attackers, but most of the ‘flankers’ have to back up off a bully Lucio, especially one who has practiced wallriding and hitting those slow projectiles. If a Tracer is on your Zenyatta and you peel, that Tracer almost has to leave.

This is a point of contention, but I’ll say it as I see it; Lucio’s primary function is his speed. You should almost always be using speed. If you have Amp off CD and people need healing, obviously amp it up healing (unless you’re between fights; then just let your passive do the work and save the CD), and if there is a lot of chip damage to be fixed up, swap as well. But the goal is that Lucio on speed can, ideally, stop the enemy from charging ult by missing their shots on harder to hit enemies.

Lucio is able to be a terrific brawler. When you get good at the wallriding, he is able to (and I do) go in with flankers, or even some solo-missions, to harass backline or take out a turret or tele or whatever. It just takes practice in your 1v1s. For that reason, I actually find practicing on Deathmatch really helpful; Tracer, Genji, Mcree, Soldier, Widow, Hanzo
a lot of these heros that, traditionally, can be strong against supports are actually really easy for a good Lucio to pick off solo. Practice those fights.

Lucio is also really good at killing tanks, believe it or not. Tanks, imo, have a tendency to back into areas that Lucio can wallride circles around (because these areas are on all maps, and if you’re good at wallriding you can get anywhere. While you’re wallriding, they can’t effectively defend and attack you. Dodge their shots, heal up your own chip damage, and just pepper them with headshots. Using Soundwave to knock them around helps a lot also. And as Lucio, a big role is baiting out a RH hook for your team. You shouldn’t typically get hit by RH hooks; bait them, call it out, and have your team focus him. Or, as Lucio, wallride behind a slightly out of position enemy (any enemy really works; tank or not) and ‘boop’ them into your team to pick them off quick.

Remember; Lucio is a disrupter. You want to run up to that RH and duck under his shield and bop him out of the way for your team to follow up on. You’re hard to hit; attract their attention and throw off their aim.

I think Lucio is the most fun character in the game when you get the feel for him. But to be sure; I barely consider myself support, lol. When people ask, I say I’m a DPS.

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  1. Don’t try to solo heal as LĂșcio. It’s very hard and generally doesn’t work.

  2. Your main job is deciding when to speed boost and when to heal. I like to speed when coming back from spawn, and at the begging of a team fight. I like to heal during the middle, or after a team fight, while everyone has damage.

  3. Enemy barriers actually block both of his songs and Sound Barrier, so be careful to not accidentally use it inside a Winston bubble.

  4. Watch your amp it up cooldown. This is a vital part of lucios kit, and can either provide great burst healing or speed, so use it wisely.

  5. A speeding LĂșcio can be a slippery target. Use this to your advantage. Always be on the move if caught in a 1v1

  6. Speaking of, LĂșcio isn’t the best fighter. He can do some great burst damage when the starts align, but you should always try to find a way out of any 1v1s. Try to find high elevations or corridors you can wall ride on to get out(for example, the back allies of Ilios can be a great escape option.

  7. The key to speed boost off of wall riding is to connect your jumps as fast as you can. Always look for areas you can jump around. You can wallride on any vertical surface. The world is your playground. Use it.

  8. Soundwave(or the boop) can be used for many purposes. Burst damage, escape, or a boop off the cliff. Try to find areas you can knock people off for a free kill(Ilios and Nepal sanctum is your best friend)

  9. Sound Barrier is best for an offense push or defensive hold. It turns everyone into a tank, so much use it to try and win a team fight.

  10. Time sound Barrier correctly when using it to block ults. Too early and they can wait it out for when enough shields go away. Too late, and the sheilds will fade. So be careful.

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Over 120 hours as Lucio on my main PSN ‘drealeach’ account. (This is my smurf.) Contrary to popular belief, Lucio can be a solo support if you handle your cooldowns properly.

I solo as him all the time. In a good match you can get anywhere from 3-10K heals.

Lucio functions similarly to Moira & Brigitte in that he is supposed to help peel for fellow supports who don’t have as much mobility.

Wall ride is key for getting out of tricky situations or to flank/evade/bait other enemy abilities out but I generally save speed boost to escape certain ults like D. Va’s ‘Self Destruct’ or Mei’s Blizzard, for example. It’s useful in a pinch when you need to get you & your team out.

Use Tanks as ult charge, especially the slower tanks who can’t keep up. Speed boost to get behind them, fire away with primary and watch their HP whittle away.

(Mind you, I’m an aggressive support as Lucio and booping is fun on certain maps.)

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Enable backwards wall ride

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Everything Lucky said is great advice.

I wanted to add that the boop is also great for peeling flankers and divers off of your other teammates–especially your other healers-- which can often be essential. Lucio is great for peeling and not looking for those opportunities will hold you back as a Lucio player.

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I haven’t mained Lucio since season 2, but practice wall riding in all the high up places on all the objectives.

Lucio is one of the best stallers, and your team will be counting on you to do so in overtime.

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