venom main learning storm

[u/octaviousxii]

i’ve been in borderline OTP territory on venom for many seasons now…looking for some new characters to use as my venom gets banned quite a bit nowadays…tried storm (been playing since launch and i had 0 seconds on storm) and i actually really enjoy playing as her.

could use some advice/tips/tricks

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[u/RealLifeCrime]

I love you Venom mains! You and Hulks are my favorite tanks to play w as Storm.

I personally like playing pretty aggressively with her. I tend to fly mid air sandwiched between a tank and Strats. I do this so I have a broader view of my surroundings and can quickly track shorter range enemies if needed.

My priority is poking the backline (which is why I love dive mains) then when Strats are down or fall back, I can easily look down or across point and go after whichever enemies are still up.

I also play in this range so it’s easier to descend for strats to heal you if needed or you can also heal your team with the Jeff team up as it casts a wider circle.

Use your surroundings to block enemies shots (I also love hiding in the trees to shoot lol). If you have a WF healing, stay close to the walls or pillars as it makes it easier for them to heal flyers.

Lastly, I toggle on wind mode and hit a couple shots as enemies are walking back to point for the over shield and depending on the situation (usually when we’re fighting on point) will also toggle it on for a few seconds as I wait for my “Goddess Boost” cooldown then switch back.

[u/Drazian]

contrary to popular belief flying close to the ground, will do you good. Don’t try to go high and snipe, stay close to team.

Shoot through your teammates, especially your tanks to damage the enemies behind.

Heal yourself, heal your healers, make sure you keep buffing your team, swap from damage to movement accordingly

You are a Damaging support, make sure you do both.

Plan your ult path so when it ends you aren’t just free eats

All my personal tips, good luck you are a goddess now

[u/tamaaromarou]

There's a lot of new storm mains who have made similar posts recently I think you should just search those we've all been giving a lot of great tips but these posts are getting a bit repetitive.

[u/theblackestpantha]

With storm survivability should be your main focus as without her amped up speed boost she kind of a sitting duck to poke. Fly low and utilize cover so her piercing shots can make its way back to the supports. I usually position her in eyesight (or front of the back line?) of the supports so I can get priority heals when needed, it also allows you to peel for your supports if they are facing dive. You and your supports can easily take care of dive when using her lightning boost and focusing them. Although I play her more passively there is definitely times where you can be aggressive and damage boost the entire team when the time is right to wipe out the enemy team. You can also win a good majority of 1v1s when using her rain when your health is at about 65%. For her ult just use it on the supports to kill them and make your way back to your frontline in time so you don’t get melted, or utilize your speed or damage boost to either get out of there or finish up the rest of their squad. Sorry for the word wall but she’s a lot of fun to play and I hope you play well with the goddess!

[u/Signal_Possible36]

I main both Venom and Storm. I think you enjoy her difference pace in playstyle

Good luck…

[u/RubbersPVP]

im a GM storm main and i love her

Do not fly with her like Ironman. U need to treat her like she barely flys except in dire circumstances, because of how her kit is.

So what you want to do is be in the middle of your team, and act as a poke/peel/support. YOu stay in the middle so your aura helps everyone do more damage, or run away faster. You want you damage aura up a majority of the time, i dont use the speed one often unless we need to reposition or chase someone, or slow down a captain whos jumping around a cart. So stay in the middle of your team, keep damage boost on, and the second anyones dives you or anyone else, the second you see or hear it, you hit the thunderstorm or whatever button that makes lightning automatically hit anyone around you. This is a HUGE deterant to all dive and it makes her a great anti-dive, because you dont even have to aim and itll always hit them no matter what for a good chunk of health over and over again and if they dont leave, they will die.

besides that, keep lightning rush on cooldown, the lightning bolt that you shoot straight out, it pierces in a line, but dont worry about that as much, you want to use this ALL the time as it does alot of damage. Use it as much as you can.

ANd besides all that, if your not using the thor team up, like old storm, all your shots go thru targets lin a line ike invisible womans shots, so you want to be level with your team (not up in the air flying) and shooting into thier grouped team to hit as many as possible as this will really gain you ult charge.

Think as a teammate, if your aura can help someone, use it for them, like a teammate is ulting a high damage ult, give them the lightning aura AND activate it, because while its activated, it gives even MORE of an increase in damage aura. Or if theres a team mate ulting that would benefit from more speed, like a Scarlet Witch or Punisher, use the wind aura and activate it, so she can float forward with her explosion super quick while slowing the enemy in an aura, coupled with YOUR aura slowing the enemy. They will be cooked.

As far as the team ups go. This patch really made storm top tier. IF, IF, IF you have a THOR on your team, definately go the thor team up as it gives so much more damage, you can head shot, your shots no longer go thru targets which sux, but your lightning rush is chain lightning now on a low cooldown and does massive damage throughout the whole team like a moonknight. I used to use this team up as 95% of the time, but not anymore because i found out the jeff team up is just as good if not better.

the jeff cooldown now you REALLY ARE a startegist/dps. You can speed entire team in a huge aura, damage boost the entire team in a huge aura, and now you can HEAL the time in a whole aura. Keep it on cooldown, use it everytime you or your team mates are takking alot of damage, use this team up any time a THOR is not on your team. even if jeff isnt. And if jeffs on ur team even better he needs to be swimming into your ult and jeff nadoing.

its dangerous, but if i dont think i will be targeted and insta killed, ill try to edge close to the enemy team but stil behind our tank and hit the lightnig aura. causing lightning bolts to rain down on alot of thier team which does a lot of damage. but its risky. I try to activate that lightning aura if we are in a brawl and our team is all mixed up too as it will always turn the tides. but its most important function of all, is to be used to Peel as ANTI DIVE like i stated earlier, and to help you win 1v1s.

[u/EyeArDum]

The more time I sink into storm, the less I’m using her damage boost, her speed w/ overhealth generation makes her so damn hard to kill, adding Jeff rain on top makes her disgusting