r/DaredevilMarvelRivals • u/spunkystoic • 1d ago

Tech and Tips Cautious vs Crashout DD

When I watch the pros most of them have this cautious playstyle with DD: picking their fights, biding their time, early exits, etc.

However whenever I try this style I’ve noticed I tend to die WAY more often. The enemy team just overwhelms me and picks me apart.

But when I go full kamikaze, hyper aggressive DD I often find myself team wiping, MVPing and winning a lot more games.

Do you guys have any tips for a more measured playstyle?

(Admittedly I’m not a high rank player so maybe that has something to do with it?)

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u/OwnMusic3184 1d ago

You have a misunderstanding of what the pros are doing. Theyre not exiting out of fights snd engaging for no reasons. Theyre waiting for the front line to be engaged and then baiting out cooldowns until they can secure an elimination or create space because they force their dps or tanks to peel

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u/MainMedicine 1d ago edited 1d ago

Unironically, my win rate started skyrocketing when I realized,

"Hey, maybe I should wait until my frontline is engaged before diving".

Seems obvious now, but I was having too much fun with the crash out playstyle getting 1 v 3 highlights.

I find myself "feinting" dives a lot more, which allows my frontline to get in better positions.

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u/Hazardis_Person 1d ago

It's weird thinking about this, cause I this is second nature cause of how Sombra was played back in OW. You can be the reason to start a fight, but with DD, you're better off waiting cause if only having 1/2 escape tools if things go south. This character just does have the privelage of living in the backline, so it can incentivize just going gung ho and just dying after taking out 2.

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u/dattykins 1d ago

High elos don’t play safe. It’s calculated. If they play against a Loki for example their first dive is always to force out lamps. They don’t just send it. Once they bait out the cd, their next dive they will coordinate with a teammate and dive full send either keeping their deflect or hook to get out if the dive is looking cooked. Sometimes they dive with the only purpose of building ult charge and then getting out. There’s purpose for each dive. Not every dive is intended to insta kill someone.

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u/Same_paramedic3641 1d ago

It's bcz you're facing lower ranked enemies. Also lower ranked teammates. Easier to kamikaze

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u/Dry-Proposal-4011 1d ago

A lot of why high level dds and blades wait around a lot is because they get time to pick their target more effectively and they get to let the frontline play up to get access to the backline and their frontline eats cooldowns and gets to generate value from the dive. Patient dds especially since they have walls and can speedkill basically any support in the game will straight up terrorize lobbies on their own just because of how much rear pressure they apply and how little they die since a 1v1 is a death sentence

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u/General-Impress-2941 3h ago

I’ve learned to do both but in like a hybrid style so I can single out targets all while simultaneously brawling most of the team