As a dps, should you hit tanks to build your ult meter and ult the backline or is it better to always dive the healers?

[Timbermaw]

Hitting tanks is safer, helps you build your ult and then you can ult the backline later
Diving the backline with normal attacks is hard because they can easily heal each other and while you are dead you don't build meter
what is the best approach in your opinion?

[Jora Invalid]

As a damage per second? Yes

[Kyo Tanaka]

It generally depends on the character. Characters like Psylocke always want to dive the backline. While Iron Man bully the tanks unless a kill opportunity shows itself.

[Timbermaw]

Originally posted by Kyo Tanaka:

It generally depends on the character. Characters like Psylocke always want to dive the backline. While Iron Man bully the tanks unless a kill opportunity shows itself.

actually I think iron man always wants to hit the backline since he can do it safely and is also AOE, if he just hits the tanks the healers can easily heal them.

[Sotanaht]

Hot take, but I don't think diving healers is actually the play in Rivals. Healers in rivals have great self sustain and defensive abilities. DPS are easier targets especially given how healing works (high burst/accuracy requirement). It's hard for a healer to switch and heal a DPS target, more so when they tend to be out of LOS anyway, and a team without DPS can't stop you from doing anything.

[Chris]

I dislike it but dropping the healer is 9/10 times the best move. Its just irritating being on the reviving end when just trying to play casual but as you've noticed certain healers can undue seconds of damage in an instant.

Really its situational. Certain healers need to go like cloak and dagger or mantis but Your goal in a fight should be to try and remove any players as fast as possible. Having just one person down in a team fight can very often be the deciding factor but you cant just walk past the enemy team blindly. Try to take out players not being heal focused. However if there is a luna buff on them its nearly pointless to try and fight sometimes.

[Timbermaw]

Originally posted by Sotanaht:

Hot take, but I don't think diving healers is actually the play in Rivals. Healers in rivals have great self sustain and defensive abilities. DPS are easier targets especially given how healing works (high burst/accuracy requirement). It's hard for a healer to switch and heal a DPS target, more so when they tend to be out of LOS anyway, and a team without DPS can't stop you from doing anything.

perhaps, that seems like the best approach tbh

[Sotanaht]

Originally posted by Chris:

I dislike it but dropping the healer is 9/10 times the best move. Its just irritating being on the reviving end when just trying to play casual but as you've noticed certain healers can undue seconds of damage in an instant.

Really its situational. Certain healers need to go like cloak and dagger or mantis but Your goal in a fight should be to try and remove any players as fast as possible. Having just one person down in a team fight can very often be the deciding factor but you cant just walk past the enemy team blindly. Try to take out players not being heal focused. However if there is a luna buff on them its nearly pointless to try and fight sometimes.

That's basically what I'm saying. Killing a healer isn't that much more valuable than killing a DPS, either way the team is down a player and you can probably push. In Rivals, I think killing those DPS is MUCH easier, and in most games the death rates reflect that (ie DPS and Tanks have way more deaths than healers), so just use that as your advantage instead.

Of course if you have an ult that can kill anyone like Iron Man for example, you may as well target a healer over DPS/Tanks if you have the option. Just don't go too hard and fail the ult completely.

[Veenix]

Short answer: yes

Long answer: it all depends on the situation.

Your goal as dps is to dish out damage as much as you can.
Your priority should always be trying to confirm a kill WITHOUT DYING.
If you can't immediately get a kill, then any damage is good as it will help you build up your ult. Here your target also depends on who the team tries to pressure, enemy health, enemy positioning etc (for example target an enemy who is way out of position).

Now things also depend on your role as dps.
There are dps that bully tanks like Wolverine, but also flankers that try to distract and/or kill enemy support amongst other roles.
Your target priority changes depending on this role within the dps category.
However even a flanker can benefit from hitting tanks when there is no better option in that moment.
Let's say you can't really go for a flank in a certain situation but your ult is almost ready: just hit the tank, easy big target to build that ult and then your ult could help win the fight. (although ult usage is a whole seperate topic and has certain "rules" of it's own).

Hope that helps!

[LaxeY]

If i have no LoS on the backline, yes

[Obtuse Moose]

Depends on if you're the type of character that can get good dives in. Iron fist, Black Panther or spidey? Go for the dives and get those healbots to panic so your team can cash in on the confusion. Characters like Squirrel Girl, Punisher, or Hela you prob would much prefer just building up that ult off the tank and nabbing back lane potshots in when you can do so safely.

[HighLanderPony]

Hit the squishiest target you can afford to hit. Pumping dmg into tanks is pointless and it charges their ults in some cases, too.

[Asgeir]

Depends on who you play. If you can kill healers first then obviously do it, but if you cant then kill tanks. Healers are OP in marvels, so you won't get anywhere until they die anyway