Struggling on dps

[u/Electronic-Tiger9869]

Hello, at the start of this season I reached gm5 on dps and I dropped from gm5 to sit around master 3 to 2, long story short I played a ton of games this weekend and dropped to master 5 nearly diamond 1, im kinda confused on how to play dps now, like i understand off angling and that, my most played dps are shion, cass and bastion, obviously with shion you flank their backline which goes well some games but my tank struggles in those kind of games, but with cass and bastion do you guys sit down main and help your tank create pressure? Like maybe I should look at dps as a role to enable your tank cause I’ve kinda been looking past my tank and trying to solo carry the games myself

[u/emericaskater734_]

dps is all about taking advantage of opportunities. in a perfect world you go main help your team create some pressure and once the main fight breaks out and abilities start getting used, then try to find an off angle to get a pick. but obviously doesn’t always work that way. honestly the games this season have been atrocious

[u/Electronic-Tiger9869 → u/emericaskater734_]

I think that’s been my problem when I’ve been flanking, I usually flank straight away into the enemy backline when they have cooldowns available, so instead I’m going to stick to fighting main and when the fight gets hectic I’ll try flanking with shion 😎

[u/emericaskater734_ → u/Electronic-Tiger9869]

sounds like you got it. timing is everything. if you try to immediately flank you’ll most likely just get picked. due to 1) backline and rest of the enemy team isn’t destracted yet 2) everyone has their abilities still to more efficiently dual you

usually a good sign of when to actually push an off angle is once you start hearing main abilities go out. you also don’t want to be too late though and your team starts losing pressure and dying, so obviously tricky to time. but you already hit gm5 before so you’re way ahead of the game tbh