Overwatch has over 30 characters that every play in another way and equally to 1 one other, this makes strategizing crucial to a match’s success and will make all of the distinction between a blowout or an in depth name additional time victory.
Tanks have modified from Overwatch 1, from altering the meta from two tanks to only one to main reworks like with Orisa, this places new gamers on a considerably extra even floor with OG Overwatch gamers as they now should relearn a personality.
The most recent tank to enter the fray at launch was Junker Queen, a personality teased years in the past by means of principally identify dropping when it got here to the tales of JunkRat and Roadhog, she will turn out to be an actual downside in the best palms and might even setup multi-kills for his or her DPS (Injury Per Second) teammates.
So, lets speak about her royal highness of the apocalypse and how one can deliver the ache!
Intro
Making her official debut as a playable character in season 1 of Overwatch 2, Junker Queen has some large tank boots to fill as extra acquainted tanks, like Doomfist and D.VA, are identified to have the ability to maintain their very own in relation to frontline fight.
Usually tanks do properly with drawing aggro away from their teammates and taking great amount of injury, some tanks excel at defending whereas different are principally DPS with a considerable amount of well being, Junker Queen is unquestionably the latter.
As talked about earlier than, Doomfist and D.Va are nice with charging into battle and inflicting harm, they excel at drawing aggro and distracting enemy gamers. Junker Queen follows that pattern as she has a number of methods to assault and disrupt opponents.
That is all state of affairs primarily based, after all, and all of it is dependent upon the sport mode being performed. Earlier than we get into mode conditions, we’re going to speak about Junker Queen fundamentals.
The Fundamentals
Junker Queen has a pump motion shotgun that may be shot six occasions earlier than needing to be reloaded, her Scattergun has first rate vary and is brutal up shut, this will help push opposing gamers again as many will attempt to keep away from an in depth encounter.
The one actual flaw to the Scattergun is the low ammo rely, Junker Queen gamers might be simply caught off guard if they’re being encountered by a DPS character that has excessive mobility.
Subsequent is the Jagged Blade, this knife is Junker Queens greatest weapon and can be utilized to nice impacts when you get an actual really feel for the timing. The blade is thrown at opponents and can keep on with them upon contact and trigger a ‘bleeding’ have an effect on, slowly draining a small quantity of well being. When you name the blade again, through the use of the identical button to throw it, you’ll pull your opponent in the direction of you and might proceed your assault utilizing the Scattergun.
Even for those who miss your goal initially, the blade will nonetheless trigger bleeding to any enemy gamers that get caught within the blade’s path again to you, this offers Junker Queen gamers a strategy to trick enemy gamers into pondering that they could be getting attacked from the rear.
Carnange is a big ax that Junker Queen carries on her again, when used, the ax will trigger a bleeding have an effect on just like the blade, the most important distinction between the Jagged Blade and Carnage is that the ax can hit a number of opponents without delay and might even take out decrease well being characters in a single swing.
The most important flaw with Carnage is the wind-up time, in contrast to the blade, Carnage takes somewhat time to swing, and gamers are locked in till the animation is finished, this leaves Junker Queen uncovered to enemy assaults and might be taken benefit of a number of characters are attacking concurrently.
Commanding Shout is a capability that grants Junker Queen, and any ally with the radius, a brief well being and motion enhance. This capability might be very useful to save lots of an ally who’s low on well being whereas ready for healers or an effective way to rapidly get your group again on a management level.
This capability has a protracted fifteen second cooldown, gamers will must be very cautious how and after they use this capability, the timing is vital and may very well be the distinction to Junker Queen holding some extent lengthy sufficient for her group to respawn or her getting trapped in a nook with no means out.
Lastly, Junker Queen’s final capability, Rampage.
This capability pushes Junker Queen ahead and wounds any enemy caught in her path like Carnage and the Jagged Blade, what makes Rampage such a harmful capability is that it not solely causes bleeding like the 2 aforementioned skills, but it surely additionally quickly stops opponents from with the ability to heal or be healed.
Using Junker Queen
Now that now we have a fundamental outlook of Junker Queen lets check out among the greatest methods to make use of her skills in several modes.
In each escort and hybrid mode Junker Queen is an actual downside, and that’s resulting from characters needing to be on the purpose with the intention to transfer/declare it, they’re compelled to be considerably near Junker Queen and her terrifying ax, in these modes gamers are going to wish to play very aggressive and scare enemies away from the target.
Gamers ought to make nice use of Carnage and the Jagged Blade towards tanks, this can assist throw them off as they are going to need concentrate on eliminating the character that may drain their well being, DPS will attempt to keep away from Carnage and healers will run as they don’t wish to meet the top of the Jagged Blade.
Whereas attacking it’s key to rapidly draw aggro and draw tanks away out of your teammates, the primary push can set the whole really feel of the match, if the defenders get a foothold with holding your group again, chances are high that they are going to hold the onslaught going.
A superb defending group could have their healers watch over the tanks, so make use of the Jagged Blade when potential to do harm to them from a distance whereas nonetheless specializing in drawing consideration to your self, resulting from their low well being, healers usually tend to flee and depart their tank weak.
Use Carnage on tanks to make up for the damages you will have missed out on resulting from healers’ intervention, tanks usually tend to face off towards Junker Queen to maintain her from selecting off their DPS.
In contrast to different tanks, Junker Queen can actually put the squeeze on the opposing group and hold them from attending to the target, she will suppress opponents at their spawn level because of her capability to assault from each shut and lengthy vary. The opposite tanks with this capability are Orisa, Winston and Wrecking Ball (Relying on the participant abilities, after all, these characters are simply the best to make use of to suppress enemies at their spawn level).
Whereas getting used to taking part in Junker Queen, gamers ought to first see who they’ve for healers on their group, a harmful pairing for Junker Queen is Zenyatta and Mercy, you probably have both of those two attempt to experiment with getting near your opponents and utilizing Carnage. Getting your timing proper with the ax will help tackle a number of enemies throughout these essential remaining seconds when all people begins to congregate on the target in a determined try to finish the match.
Getting aggressive will scare your opponents again and will help your group make that preliminary push ahead, which is arguably the toughest a part of Push, however what about defending?
The identical technique for attacking truly applies for defending too, bear in mind when it was mentioned that Junker Queen was one the best characters to make use of for spawn level suppression? Properly, that’s going to be your beginning transfer, take the wind away out of your opponents early by chewing away well being with Jagged Blade and punishing tanks with Carnage.
Now that the opposing group is aware of you’re going to be aggressive, they’re going to attempt to concentrate on taking you out as early as potential, this distraction will give your DPS teammates the optimum probability to essentially hit them and trigger frustration.
In relation to different modes like push and management issues change up somewhat bit, in these modes your opponents can transfer round somewhat extra freely as soon as the purpose has been captured, in these modes it’s very simple on your group to get separated and depart Junker Queen to fend for herself because the healers have to maneuver round rather more to attempt to defend the DPS.
Healers principally keep within the again in these modes as they now have extra wiggle room to retreat and get backup, so attacking them will take a bit extra effort for Junker Queen gamers, the Jagged Blade is your greatest guess in these modes to catch healers and pull them in the direction of you to complete them off.
In contrast to with Hybrid and escort, it’s best to work on throwing the Jagged Blade, as talked about earlier than, this can assist quail healers however it is going to additionally punish DPS gamers attacking you from vary and produce them nearer to your taking part in subject.
Management is the one mode the place you may truly ignore the tank, as an alternative do away with their helps, DPS and healers will attempt to keep out of your vary whereas their tank offers heavy harm upfront. Junker Queen can disrupt this along with her aggressive skills and trigger them to flee from their tank and giving your group an opportunity to place the harm on the lone defender.
Counters
It’s time to speak about countering the Queen, it’s necessary to know what characters can put an early finish to Junker Queen’s reign, with this you may tackle the Queen or keep away from expensive errors.
Mobility characters are a determent to Junker Queen, for those who rush her with a excessive mobility character like Moira, Genji, Lucio or Sojourn, you may trigger her nice complications and distract her from going after you group and even purchase your tank a while to succeed in you and assist.
Attacking Junker Queen with DPS can work, you probably have the best character, Sojourns capability to maneuver rapidly and ship harm even quicker can pull the eye from Junker Queen gamers. Junkrat’s capability to lob his grenades at nice distances together with the power to launch himself to security can even hold gamers on edge.
Attempt forcing Junker Queen to make use of her Commanding Shout rapidly, this alerts to your group that she is on her final legs and all people must push on her now, Pharah works greatest because of airborne capability retaining her out of attain.
Right here’s an inventory of characters to make use of/keep away from in relation to Junker Queen:
- Orisa: She will be able to get simply as aggressive and might even push Junker Queen again, giving her group some respiration room, Orisa can be nice at taking harm and drawing aggro.
- Winston: due to his protect, Winston can get fairly near Junker Queen and never fear about any of her assaults, even when she goes into the bubble Winston has already began dealing harm. Winston’s slam is nice at catching Junker Queen off guard and even escaping from her if wanted.
- Zarya: Zarya’s bubble can null the bleeding impacts on her or her teammate(s), and since Junker Queen is an aggressive character, there’s an excellent probability that enemy gamers will ‘feed’ Zarya’s bubble and offer you extra energy to do harm with.
- Wrecking Ball: This ‘little’ man has essentially the most mobility within the tank class, combine that with a slam capability not too completely different from Winston and you bought an issue on you hand. He can roll right into a ball and make a fast retreat, and even chase down enemies, and he delivers harm with first rate pace.
- Bastion: Truthfully this one is a bit iffy, a superb Bastion participant is only a downside regardless of who you’ve, however together with his capability to show right into a cellular gatling gun Bastion can eat away at Junker Queen if she’s caught off guard.
- Junkrat: As talked about earlier than, Junkrat is a good DPS counter because of his skills to deal fixed harm and no actual have to purpose, his metal lure can be key to halting an aggressive Junker Queen participant.
- Pharah: Her flight capability will assist keep away from any of Junker Queens assault and she will disrupt by drawing Junker Queen’s consideration and pushing her away from any teammate in want of help.
- Sojourn: After Pharah, Sojourn could also be the perfect DPS character to tackle Junker Queen, her energy slide can be utilized to create a spot between her and Junker Queen whereas nonetheless attacking. Combine in that the ability slide can flip right into a excessive bounce, and you’ve got a personality that may actually run and gun towards the Queen.
Outro
Now that you’ve a fundamental understanding of Junker Queen you may go forth and rule the wasteland, understand that that is season 1 Junker Queen and the group at Blizzard are all the time altering heroes and their skills, so all the time hold an eye fixed out for any official bulletins from Blizzard relating to any and all characters.
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