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“ Stop trickling me
Develop a thick
skin. It’s a given that
Trickling in Paladins means that when
in any online game one or more of your teammates die, they
you will receive contest the objective one by one. This is
an ineffective strategy and you will always
some backlash from be outnumbered in teamfights. As an
teammates ” alternative, wait for your teammates to
team and not as an individual, you’ll gain respawn and attack the objective as a 5 man
unit. So many times it has happened to me
more success working with your team than while I was respawning, my team heads in
against them. I’ve had matches where I was one at a time only for us to lose the objective
absolutely appalling but persevered through and give away free ultimate charges to the
my team carrying me or just being friendly enemy team’s Champions. If you find yourself
and encouraging when I did something good. as the last member of your team remaining.
rather than contesting a point against 3, 4 or
Communication is key 5 enemy team members, poke them but do
Paladins currently lacks in-game voice chat not engage until the rest of your team has
and if you’re not in a party with Discord arrived.
you might think “How can I warn my team”,
“How can I convey my flank route”, “how do Enemy team is wiped, now what?
I indicate my ultimate is ready” etc. Paladins Lastly, if you happen to completely wipe
has a feature called The Voice Guided the enemy team, it’s advisable that some
System, or “VGS” for short, to communicate teammates try and dismount the enemy
in-game by pressing the “v” key on your team. Preferably your flanker and a Damage
keyboard, followed by the code for the dealer can do this. Not only is this good for
command you want. Knowing some of these buying time, but it also might result in a
commands will help you tremendously to kill which will make teamfights easier for
communicate with teammates. A list of all the your team. I have played against Evies that
commands can be found on the Paladins wiki. camped our spawn and it was a nightmare
Always make your intentions clear to you getting to the objective on time. Only spawn
team and warn them of incoming danger. A camp if you are really confident, but other
commonly used one is “VBE-Enemies behind than that try to dismount the enemy team
us”. Encourage good play on your team and and don’t engage in outnumbered fights
try not to flame or rage, as hard as it might while you are doing it.
get sometimes. Motivate your team at all
times to keep morale up. Hopefully this article will help you a little bit
in The Realm. See you there!
By Jawwaad Flaendorp
Paladins Community Magazine Issue 2 The Game On Magazine 9
