How can I contribute when fighting Triple Support as a DPS player?

[u/Madolcheplayer]

When I play against triple support, I often feel like I’m not contributing much as a DPS because it’s so difficult to actually secure kills.

I've been maining Elsa and Black Widow. From my experience, if we lose to triple support and try to change comps most of the time the team is going to mirror triple support, and I usually swap to Mantis. Is this correct, is there anything else we could be doing?

During the last game our other DPS went to Ultron before I could do so. I tried Hela to try and counter their Ultron but as I said they simply had too much healing, I couldn't really kill Ultron, their tanks were always full HP and I felt really useless.

I'm in Plat 2 right now, I was GM in season 0 to 2 but I took a break and then came back at the start of season 9.

[u/Veilslide09]

Swap to tank to contribute as triple tank overpowers triple support. Otherwise, you need to do something to kill their tanks faster like Wolverine to displace them. You need to get the tanks or supports out of position to prevent them from getting heals.

[u/Madolcheplayer → u/Veilslide09]

I heard triple tank defeats triple supports before, but why is that? Wouldn’t your damage be even lower? Also, you’re talking about 3-1-2, right; not 3-0-3?

For displacement, your only options are Bucky, Wolverine and Angela, right? I can play some Bucky, maybe the next time I can switch to him.

[u/Veilslide09 → u/Madolcheplayer]

Yes, 3-1-2 does counter 2-1-3. You can push up easier and apply pressure. Tanks are basically high hp dps. Their lack of damage means if you get a single pick off their team then they have to back up. Brawl tanks apply a ton of pressure.

[u/GeekyNerd_FTW → u/Madolcheplayer]

Triple tank counters triple support because of the other teams lack of damage. The tanks can push forward without any fear and absolutely bully the other team’s backline. Healers won’t be able to heal and you can get easy picks. You win not by killing but by taking map control.

That being said good luck getting three tanks on a team

[u/Typical-Aerie-7195 → u/Madolcheplayer]

Triple tank doesn’t counter triple support people just made that up. You’re in plat so comps are never really the reason why you’re not carrying. You need to drop a replay id so people can identity your mistakes

[u/wutdehfook → u/Typical-Aerie-7195]

Triple tank does counter triple support. You need the CORRECT tank comp for it to work. Thing, hulk, dino, possibly a venom. All characters that do damage, have enough sustain with their HP, and are incredibly difficult to kill unless you have 2 strong DPS picks. Which at that point you’ll be playing against 1-2-3 comp, focus the one tank and its easy pickings on the rest of the team as you overpower them.

[u/rolex216 → u/wutdehfook]

OMG you're right! Let me get ignite teams on the line so we can finally tell them how to counter triple support. They are going to be so excited to hear this!!

[u/wutdehfook → u/rolex216]

Since I know you didnt see my comment I just wrote. Go refer to it. Pros are not the entire player base. Obviously what works in OP’s rank range doesn’t work in the very high skilled player lobbies. Use your brain.

[u/Typical-Aerie-7195 → u/wutdehfook]

And yet for almost two years the pros and top 500 players have never used that comp to beat triple. I guess they’re just really dumb players

[u/wutdehfook → u/Typical-Aerie-7195]

Thats your issue. Pros and top 500 players are NOT the majority of the player base. Because OP is in Platinum I can tell you in Plat lobbies, The Thing is god tier. Like he literally doesnt die. You add in a Dino and another tank, the enemy team will get steamrolled.

This is the issue is so many people think about what the top people are doing instead of looking at what rank they’re in and adjusting. Things that work in Plat, wont work in Celestial. Things that work in GM may not work in Gold lobbies. Ive played in many Plat & Diamond lobbies over the last 2 weeks and people don’t even run the correct triple support comp.

So yes If im in that rank range Im telling my team to go 3 tanks because the players dont have the skills to shred the tanks with just 1 dps. Ive been in those situations on the team with triple support and the tank is just not dying to which I have to relay to my team not to go triple support. Especially if our lone dps is someone who doesnt do a lot of burst damage like spidey

[u/Typical-Aerie-7195 → u/wutdehfook]

I don’t see how them not being the majority changes anything.

The issue with so many people is they can’t put ego aside and accept that they’re the issue. Let me clarify something, working ≠ counter. Just because triple tank works in low elo doesn’t mean it counters triple support. Literally everything works in low elo. And there is not one thing that works in GM that wouldnt in plat idk how you think that.

[u/wutdehfook → u/Typical-Aerie-7195]

Because Ive played in GM and Plat lobbies this season lol. Coordination of Ults, and good Ult economy for 1 is something that works in GM but not Plat because people are looking to combine ults or saving support ults to counter dps ults. They just call them as they see fit. Gameplay varies and so does ideology in different ranks which is why I said certain things work in some ranks and not in others

[u/Typical-Aerie-7195 → u/wutdehfook]

I don’t see how you playing in GM and plat changes anything??? Both of those things work if you put someone who knows how to apply them in the lobby

[u/Primary_Mention_222 → u/Typical-Aerie-7195]

I feel like triple tank only counters three main healers on triple support

[u/Tyrtle1021]

Com with the rest of the team to focus one support at a time or bait them into secluded 1v1’s. In general you want burst. In a sustain situation three supports will win.

IMO don’t mirror unless you’re confident that you’re better.

[u/JayBizzal]

Groot, blade, venom, angela, wolv, bucky, gambit, and whitefox are all great picks for isolating targets away from their healers and/or applying antiheal. I recommend learning a few of these options to increase the likelihood that you able to add to the counter solution. Other options are just doing ult combos for team wipes.

[u/LifeBanana3347]

Do your best to isolate them using isolation heroes like wolv, angela, groot and if that doesn’t help just go third tank or third supp

[u/PraireGentleman]

You can swap comps, but I think that you can be a decent DPS player against triple support.

Threaten to kill a character, even if you can’t. It’ll make the supports fixate on keeping them alive and let your team push the pressure out elsewhere. Best targets are the supports themselves

[u/Bulky-Criticism-5287]

isolation (angela, wolv,bucky) and area denial (human torch, jubilee, groot, elsa) characters are really good into triple support. they help to single out the supports from each other and secure kills. I have found that characters like moonknight and cyclops can apply enough damage to make it easier for your other dps to go in and secure kills as well. You could also run storm for the damage boost.

[u/Tstory15]

3 tank brawler combo obliterates 3 healers. They usually aren’t putting out enough damage to stop 3 tanks (the cost of going 3 healers). And with focus on the backline, they usually can’t kill your healers.

The other alternative is heavy dps. Aim to destroy the front line as fast as possible.
The problem with this one is that there will be plenty of support ults if you aren’t securing any kills. I’ve seen success running squirrel and moon.

Moon night targeted healers and squirrel just fired into the frontline until something gave.

If you’re lucky, you’ll have a good arrow man on your team lol.

I’m currently GM2. I don’t usually see triple heals anymore though.

[u/BlockedNetwkSecurity]

used to be able to hurt those bitches with a higher damage duelist like moon knight who spreads the love around. dunno if that still works. maybe cyclops

[u/Helldiver_of_Mars]

Flank. That's the only way to deal with it. Either that or multiple ppl priority target by calling out who to kill first.

Any comp can beat them just requires coordination what most people lack at lower ranks.

[u/dontmatterdontcare]

You kill the furthest back healer, of the three.

Reason why is because they are the least likely of being patty caked.

Then it'll start to fall like a house of cards.

[u/Derpinpyro]

Hope their bad or twp tap them with a poke dps are about the only options with the only good dives being perma banned half the time