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Fighting Tactics: Combat Guide
Time to get your Bots to battle! Advice, tactical tips, combat mechanics, everything you need to know to get ahead of every fight.
- For advice on how to plan ahead of battle and what bots to take with you, read our [Bots Strategies Guide]
Basics
You and your opponent place your bots at the same time. The AI doesn’t get to see your pick before they make theirs.
Concepts
AoE
Area of Effect (AoE) is used any effect that applies to a zone or a group of bots all at once.
CC
Crowd Control (CC) describes any effect that focuses on giving you a tactical advantage. Like anything that disables or hinders enemy bots or shifts the battleground in your favor: Stun (=freeze), Gust, Vortex, Barrier Wall, Hyperdrain…
Evasion
Sometimes you need a panic button to get a bot out of trouble right now, so it can keep dealing damage with whatever little HP it has left. Abilities like: CT, Shield…
Use the right Bot for the situation
Natural counters
Melee to disable Ranged, Ranged to snipe Evaders, Tanks to stall everything, etc.
Positioning and Targeting
You can’t control your bots directly. They’ll target the nearest enemy, so everything is about positioning. You can influence positioning directly though, first and foremost during Bot placement! Then with abilities.
Use your Abilities wisely
Consider Ultimates loads for timing your casting just right
Budget ahead
Mechanics
Poison ticks overlap but don’t stack
Freeze = Stun
Speed modifiers
Buffs to speed are completely negated once the target gets slowed
Damage Color Codes
- Red: low damage
- Yellow: decent damage
- White: high/critical damage
- Green: lifesteal/regen
- Lime green: poison
- Blue: blocked/reduced by shield
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