Does anybody know how to play flankers?

[Blue Candle]

I have seen time and time again people being unable to play flankers when its the first thing they choose to lock into before anybody else. And I don't mean "Oh this person sucks at playing". They don't understand the concept at all, either hanging back trying to play like a sniper or sticking with the group playing it like a DPS when they are supposed to be, well flanking.

[MeowMix CatFood]

As someone who flanks, I'll tell you a common problem that tanks and dps often don't understand. If tanks aren't fighting for the point, and DPS isn't putting on sufficient pressure, a flank can find themself in a 1v3 repeatedly. At that point, they are completely ineffective at flanking and need to dps from the back line until the situation has changed.

Also, version flanks get countered in the draft, leaving them no option to flank.

[Blue Candle]

Originally posted by MeowMix CatFood:

As someone who flanks, I'll tell you a common problem that tanks and dps often don't understand. If tanks aren't fighting for the point, and DPS isn't putting on sufficient pressure, a flank can find themself in a 1v3 repeatedly. At that point, they are completely ineffective at flanking and need to dps from the back line until the situation has changed.

Also, version flanks get countered in the draft, leaving them no option to flank.

Yeah I know, the enemy team has to have pressure put on them, find, fix, flank and finish. I understand when a flanker can't do its job like when you said, when the rest of the team isn't doing theirs. A sure sign though that the person does not know what they are doing is when they don't communicate at all and run head first into the enemy team alone after a team wipe and not waiting for the rest of the gang to get ready.

[Warpstrike]

To begin with, maybe they don't know the difference between a flanker and a damage class because the game never tells them there is a difference.

Maybe you could start by actually telling them. Nicely since that usually goes over better.


Your second and completely unrelated issue has nothing to do with flankers at all, but a general issue of new players or, players who were disconnected and replaced by bots.

[Daenoxiis]

Flanking requires you to know the map, or at least familiarize yourself with the map. That's the main thing about it.

The idea behind it is to be dodgy and get around which offsets the enemies group formation.

You can't really frontline a flank. I mean, you can try, or if you're really REALLY experienced and good you can, but that's not generally how they're designed to work.

I main flanks in TDM because I mostly play for fun and flank champions abilities are just appealing to my quirky style of gaming.

The main thing about maining a flanker, is that you've gotta keep yourself alive. That means don't charge in head first. They're not designed for that. You've gotta get creative to be a good flank, it requires a sort of alternative approach to thinking about the game.

[TofGaming]

There are situations when enemy team is too coordinated or they have counters, in that situation a flank have difficult time to do his job in traditional way so instead of just jumping in back line and feeding many players stay with team and provide dps to get the maximum value out of them and when they see opportunity they flank and finishes the low health targets but this is usualy the case in Diamonds, masters and gm rank in low rank people just do whatever they want.

[vid23]

flanking isnt always easy, if the enemy team is coordinated and your teams flanker cant find a person alone, theres really nothing he can do, it happens, especially in groups, in this case they pretty much have to play like a very agressive dps, focusing on the enemys dps, support and people on low health, even if they cant kill them, they still can harass them, which means that they wont focus on the rest of your team and have to spend more time behind covers getting healed
playing flank nowdays is really hard, most of them just arent mobile enough, or get killed too easily thanks to the burst damage

[Hex:Map Offering]

Well,im an Androxus main but sometimes i cant play flank because the others dont kill the dps and i get a 1v2 or 1v3 i cant kill all of them.The flanks job to pick an enemy and kill it.Pick out they healer or dps.Or if you love 1v3 go Moji,problem solved XD

[Ryu the Fox]

The thing with flanks is that your team needs to keep the enemy team busy so you can flank.

[MeowMix CatFood]

Originally posted by The GodSlayer:

Well,im an Androxus main but sometimes i cant play flank because the others dont kill the dps and i get a 1v2 or 1v3 i cant kill all of them.The flanks job to pick an enemy and kill it.Pick out they healer or dps.Or if you love 1v3 go Moji,problem solved XD

That's my life as an Evie main. I get back there, kill the support and sniper, and find I'm suddenly in a 1v3 because my entire team is dead... I find myself pleading with teammates to stay alive for 30 seconds while I do my work.

[Justin Bieber]

Originally posted by MeowMix CatFood:

As someone who flanks, I'll tell you a common problem that tanks and dps often don't understand. If tanks aren't fighting for the point, and DPS isn't putting on sufficient pressure, a flank can find themself in a 1v3 repeatedly. At that point, they are completely ineffective at flanking and need to dps from the back line until the situation has changed.

Also, version flanks get countered in the draft, leaving them no option to flank.

I 2nd this.

[Demosthene]

Flank as a concept (team role) and flank as a champion class are two different things. You have flank champions that double as damage, you have damage champions that double as flankers and you have flankers that aren't good flankers at all (Skye comes to mind). It's more useful to know what each champion is capable of.

[Debt Collector]

Personally, its fun dealing with a flanker that thinks they are a damage dealer and move up with tank, then they wonder why we lose.

Literally in the name

[Warpstrike]

Originally posted by SirBoss:

Personally, its fun dealing with a flanker that thinks they are a damage dealer and move up with tank, then they wonder why we lose.

Literally in the name

At least they can figure out where the point is. I'll take that any day.