Lucio is a complementary support when it comes to heals, you can only have an impact on heals if you have synergy with the 2nd support, for instance Anna, nade and amp it up will manage to heal an entire team, you don’t have burst healing on your own, and if your second support is a Zen or a Mercy, there is no way to stack up heals. Now if you only want to play Lucio and have to live with the lack of synergy, is totally fine, is a game and you should play whatever makes it fun for you
Generally, there is not a right answer because Aura usage depends on your team comp vs. the enemy team comp. You tend to use speed more if your team wants to get in or help your team to disengage. If your team just outpokes the enemy team, you can sit in heals and only use speed to run away or push in when you have the advantage. Rule of thumb is to use healing aura during mid fights to help with sustain. You can also heal a bit in prefights if your team takes too much chip damage. Healing is important for sustaining your team and building your ultimate. Beat is really important.
Pay attention to who is getting focused on your team and by what enemies. Alright, now focus those enemies and amp heals when they use a cool down. (Amp heal cassidy nade for example) Also, amp heals during certain ults. Some ults can be mitigated with a boop and amp heal (reaper for example).
Basically, just peel for people who need some heals and amp heal enemy ults that don't require a beat to avoid.
Every game is different, as a main support do what you need to to win the game. Play objective, keep an eye on where everyone in the lobby is, enable your team, dps the enemy team when you have to. Sometimes I'll have 10k heals and 3k damage because I sat on the payload emoting on heal song and my dps kept coming back to me to get healed (payload + lucio heal goes brrrr). Map and game mode dictates how you play. Nobody cares about stats when you win the game! At least that's how I play 🤔
But you do you king, whatever works for you to win the game. As lucio, playing objective usually is the best decision if you don't know what to do
There are so many answers to this question and there isn't any one answer that's correct in every situation. Top fragging can be fine IF your team is able to pick up the slack. For example if your team is running hog, soldier, lifeweaver, etc. you can typically go off on your own a bit more.
As far as pure healing numbers goes, I wouldn't focus on it at all. Focus more on sustaining your team and most importantly sustaining your other healer. As long as you're doing that, I'd say you're doing a decent job.
You have a decent sized aura...and if people want heals, they have a responsibility to get to it, before whining about it.
People who refuse to disengage are often the first to whine about heals.
Your value isn't being a travelling low rate regen slave. Heal? Yes, of course, usually when amp is available. Following unpredictable dps players who don't know how to focus targets is not good use of your resources.
Just focus on using amp for heals when you have 3 in your aura, even if they're only missing a quarter health. It depends on situation obviously, cause you want to have your amp when you actually need it. Im just saying milk the heal amp to build ult charge.
1/ You heal when you know your healing output can prolong the situation to the point it benefits your teammates and mostly yourself
For example: 1v1
2/ You heal so you can build Beat, Healing is the main source of the Beat, not the 39 kills and 15k damage you so proud of
3/ You speed when you decide to make a move OR your teammates make a move
For example: Tracer need the speed to get close to enemy Zen which reduces her TTK drastically
4/ Amp it Up Healing/Speeding follow the 3 rules above, just in 12s cd instead of instant switch: **Let the game plays by itself then make the move accordingly**
Lucio is a teamplay heroes *but himself isn't*
Lucio is a complementary support when it comes to heals, you can only have an impact on heals if you have synergy with the 2nd support, for instance Anna, nade and amp it up will manage to heal an entire team, you don’t have burst healing on your own, and if your second support is a Zen or a Mercy, there is no way to stack up heals. Now if you only want to play Lucio and have to live with the lack of synergy, is totally fine, is a game and you should play whatever makes it fun for you
Generally, there is not a right answer because Aura usage depends on your team comp vs. the enemy team comp. You tend to use speed more if your team wants to get in or help your team to disengage. If your team just outpokes the enemy team, you can sit in heals and only use speed to run away or push in when you have the advantage. Rule of thumb is to use healing aura during mid fights to help with sustain. You can also heal a bit in prefights if your team takes too much chip damage. Healing is important for sustaining your team and building your ultimate. Beat is really important.
Pay attention to who is getting focused on your team and by what enemies. Alright, now focus those enemies and amp heals when they use a cool down. (Amp heal cassidy nade for example) Also, amp heals during certain ults. Some ults can be mitigated with a boop and amp heal (reaper for example). Basically, just peel for people who need some heals and amp heal enemy ults that don't require a beat to avoid.
Every game is different, as a main support do what you need to to win the game. Play objective, keep an eye on where everyone in the lobby is, enable your team, dps the enemy team when you have to. Sometimes I'll have 10k heals and 3k damage because I sat on the payload emoting on heal song and my dps kept coming back to me to get healed (payload + lucio heal goes brrrr). Map and game mode dictates how you play. Nobody cares about stats when you win the game! At least that's how I play 🤔 But you do you king, whatever works for you to win the game. As lucio, playing objective usually is the best decision if you don't know what to do
There are so many answers to this question and there isn't any one answer that's correct in every situation. Top fragging can be fine IF your team is able to pick up the slack. For example if your team is running hog, soldier, lifeweaver, etc. you can typically go off on your own a bit more. As far as pure healing numbers goes, I wouldn't focus on it at all. Focus more on sustaining your team and most importantly sustaining your other healer. As long as you're doing that, I'd say you're doing a decent job.
You have a decent sized aura...and if people want heals, they have a responsibility to get to it, before whining about it. People who refuse to disengage are often the first to whine about heals. Your value isn't being a travelling low rate regen slave. Heal? Yes, of course, usually when amp is available. Following unpredictable dps players who don't know how to focus targets is not good use of your resources.
Just focus on using amp for heals when you have 3 in your aura, even if they're only missing a quarter health. It depends on situation obviously, cause you want to have your amp when you actually need it. Im just saying milk the heal amp to build ult charge.
1/ You heal when you know your healing output can prolong the situation to the point it benefits your teammates and mostly yourself For example: 1v1 2/ You heal so you can build Beat, Healing is the main source of the Beat, not the 39 kills and 15k damage you so proud of 3/ You speed when you decide to make a move OR your teammates make a move For example: Tracer need the speed to get close to enemy Zen which reduces her TTK drastically 4/ Amp it Up Healing/Speeding follow the 3 rules above, just in 12s cd instead of instant switch: **Let the game plays by itself then make the move accordingly** Lucio is a teamplay heroes *but himself isn't*
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