I’ve been wanting to learn Lucio for quite some time now, but I don’t really know where to start.
My main problems are:
Knowing when to heal
Knowing when to speed boost
Rollouts and Wall riding
So, basically, I don’t know anything about Lucio. lol 
I have maybe 7-8 hours on him total.
So, mighty Plat players and above,
got any tips?
Who needs heals and speed when u can boop the entire team in the well. 
Honestly, watch some videos. There’s a lot of them from high-ranked Lucio players like Redshell or Frogger.
Honestly, though, what helped me the most with his movement and aiming his weird projectile shots was playing him tons in FFA. It’s challenging, you have lots of space to practice his wall-riding and how to defend yourself from people tryna flank, and depending on the map you can even practice getting boops. It’s really hard at first, but if you stick with it, it gets a lot better.
Not a Lucio main, per se, but he was my second most played hero last season I was active and was a big part of me hitting Diamond right before role queue launched so I know his general stuff.
Heal when your team is low, but know that the true value is in speed boost and it’s ability to get you anywhere you need to go.
Speed when your team is actively moving around, or when you don’t need to heal. Even if you do need to heal, you can swap to speed for half a second jump on a wall, and switch back to heal. Just see how much you can get away with without going full Reddit Lucio.
Stuff you should ask more dedicated mains about…
Never practiced rollouts, so I’m not the one you should ask. Some will probably change with the next patch since they’re messing with his speed values.
Wall riding is as easy as jumping at a wall and spamming jump more. Some players bind jump to scroll wheel to make it easier and it used to give a better effect.
You have to balance peeling for your team and going full reddit Lucio
I recommend working on peeling for your other healer before going for big reddit plays
I redid my keybindings for Lucio, its some advice I picked up on Youtube, really helpful website, you should look there for advice. I’ve got two jump buttons, neither of them being spacebar. Having scroll wheel as a jump option lets you jump off of the ground without losing all of your momentum.
Remember that wallriding has been buffed a few times, so older videos don’t cover everything that you should know.
my biggest tip: if you’re sticking with your team and healing/speeding and nothing is happening you just gotta go up into the enemies face and play tank lucio, i’m just a low gold player but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do
I climbed from silver to diamond using mostly Lúcio, and noticed a couple big things in my games. I hope they’ll help with yours.
If you’re serious about Lúcio, turn on skirmishes and pick Lúcio every time. Use this as an opportunity to practice your wallriding loadouts on the different maps. And if enemy dps are being butts about it, even better: you get to practice your dodging skills. It’s an easy way to practice on the hero, and doesn’t require extra time dedication.
Enable backwards wallriding in settings. It’s a small thing, but it makes aiming while wallriding a lot easier.
I found my best way to approach the game like a 2nd person shooter. “I’m not Lúcio, I’m that Reaper over there. What do I need to do my job better? Healing, speed, or some extra damage?”. I think focusing a bit more on what my teammates needed to do rather than focusing on what I needed to do helped me with some of the fundamentals of his auras. Once I understood the auras, I felt a lot more effective when I focused on myself, as the aura use became second nature.
“Speed boost through _______ in 3, 2, 1”. A simple phrase that’s won me so many games. You don’t need to strike up any small talk or anything, but that one phrase can unify a bunch of random people way easier than you may expect if you aren’t already using mic. Even if you make a bad shotcall, don’t worry too much. You’ve at least unified your team, which can be strong enough in itself to counteract your mistake and win you the game.
To get started on Lucio, dont worry about rollouts or anything, just get used to how he plays, being very conservative. Start with using primarily heals and stick with your team.
Switch to speed when your team is healthy, and get used to his projectiles. Once you get used to that, move on to wall riding near your team. Learn to wall hop instead of wall riding, it is much better.
Learn how to ride a little high and descend on people with 4 shots and a punch. Learn how and when to break away from a losing situation.
Learn next how to effectively stall payloads, and use them as shields while jumping all over them. Learn how to keep a cart stalled using swooping instead of cart hopping.
Learn how to keep people off of a point with boop. Learn how to read mobile players so that you force them to waste their mobility tools before you boop them.
Learn how to do “over the top”, runs at chokepiints, and boop teams through barriers at your team. Learn how to get environmental kills effectively. Make sure you know how to herd your team.
That is about the start point of the road becoming a good Lucio. Not an end point, that is the very basics.
like all other supports they have to have an overall sense of their team’s health. Stay with the main party don’t C9. If you see everyone is healthy or okay, speed boost. Speed boost on maps that have a far distance from the point and the respawn. Keep an eye on your team mates that just died if you just respawned, because you can wait for them to respawn and then speed boost together back to point (that’s a good sign of a good Lucio). Speed boost is really helpful for the tanks like Hog, Sigma and Orisa. Wall riding depends on the map some maps are good for it and others not really. Know those maps where you can boop your enemy off the map and try to position for it. And the key to Lucio healing is using your amp; it has a cool down of about 10 seconds, use it often on heal mode with your team mates around.
^ THIS
I know it sounds like insultingly basic advice, but you’d be amazed how many times I’ve heard an enemy Mei/Doomfist/Sigma ult and seen Lucio scooting away in heal mode while inches away some Ana or Zen desperately struggles to escape.
I’ll add to this by saying whenever you respawn, check to see if any of your teammates are about to respawn too. If they are, wait the extra second for them so you can speed boost them to the front lines. Good advice for any hero to prevent trickling, but Lucio in particular benefits more than most.
I thought I had this on because I turned it on in the past, but apparently it somehow got turned off.
Explains the lack of control I always felt playing Lucio lol. Wallride never worked when I wanted it to xD
Best advice… is to just put in the time.
Lucio requires a lot of muscle memory training. You’ll eventually get to the point where you don’t actively think about song swapping anymore, it is part of reflex. Same with wall riding.
There are a few neat tips I can offer:
There’s a handful I could think of off hand.
At the start of the game please don’t leave your poor grandmas Ana or Moira and grandpa Rein at the spawn by wall riding away, we’re old and need a little help getting to the point hahahahahaha
Welcome to the rave new frog. Give yourself to the music and lets all jam.
Been wanting to learn Lucio as well. My roster is made up of heroes that are tank related, either they’re tank killers or tank supports. Lucio should be one of them.
Unfortunately, his camera shifts too much and i get nausea every time i tried to practice him. I can only use him for a couple of minutes before i couldn’t take any more.
It’s like getting car sick.
When teammates are missing health
a) When teammates are on full health or are not missing health.
b) When the only way to save a teammate is to help him run away/disengage from a fight (since you can’t solo outheal a reaper busting your Hog for example)
c) basically have it on as much as possible
On control point maps, boost at the very beginning. On other type maps save it for a choke.
As for rollouts, use custom games and practice, it’s the only way to learn.
Taxi your teammates, always taxi them from spawn to help them regroup quickly. There will ofc be moments not to do that (like when your team needs help on point or whatever) but if you’re not in an active fight, taxi the dudes that are respawning if they died.
Don’t practice rollouts first, just get your muscle memory for wallriding down. Make a custom game in numbani or anubis and go riding around point A.
I’ve never actively practiced a rollout but I can still get to point in like 5 seconds.
Watch Lucio streamers like Echoflexx, Masaa, FDGod and try to replicate what they do, welcome to GM.
Install Heroes of the Storm and play some games with Lucio.
Overwatch playstyle is the exact same but from a first person perspective.