# Rotating Through Spaces **[afnleaf's notes](https://afnleaf.github.io/notes.html)** ---- When playing Overwatch you might look to: - **Setup** to play in a space - **Rotate** through a space - Is the space a killbox? -> Scouting - Can we bait the engage? -> Baiting - Rotate through it ## Setup You should always to set your core up on an *important* or *good* space on the map. In a point control situation you can set up in these spots before the fight. During a retake you will need to rotate into one of these spots. The enemy will most likely look to punish your rotations. ex: - [Brawl setup](https://hackmd.io/@afnleaf/BkQQ-LAHu "Brawl Setup") ## Scouting Certain rotations will take you through dangerous spaces on the map. Generally dive/poke teams will look for open spaces and brawl will set up around chokes. An enemy team with point control will look to set **killboxes** up in these spaces. Before you rotate you should get information about how the enemy team has setup around the killbox. *click me* [<img src="https://i.imgur.com/dqk9FDw.png" width="700" title="brawl hookah hold Oasis:Gardens">](https://i.imgur.com/dqk9FDw.png) ex: *vs Double Bubble* - Where is Monkey/Zarya? -> Bubbles. - **Where is Ashe/Ana? -> Nade/Dynamite.** - Where is Tracer? -> Follow up damage. ex: *vs Brawl* - **Where is Mei? -> Wall angles.** - Where is Doomfist? -> Slam/Punch Engages. - Where is Rein? -> Sneak shatter. - Where is Lucio? -> Boop into killbox. - Where is Cree? -> Flank right click. ## Bait Before you rotate through a killbox you can look to bait enemy aggression so that they use their cooldowns innefficently. The goal here is that your team uses less cooldowns during their engagement so you have an easier time completing the rotation. - Call that you are baiting the rotation. - Main healer stays behind in relative safety. - Survivable/Mobile Heroes walk into the killbox. - Wait for enemy to engage -> Kite the engage immediately. - Stabilize. - Rotate as a group. *click me* [<img src="https://i.imgur.com/p5o12lM.png" width="700" title="brawl hookah hold Oasis:Gardens">](https://i.imgur.com/p5o12lM.png) A good team might not get baited into engaging unless the rotating team is moving as a full group. They might also look to split focus onto the main healer with a hero like Tracer, decreasing the survival chance of the rotation. ## Rotate - **Stack** up and call 3, 2, 1. - Path efficiently -> Choose the shortest/fastest path with the most cover. - Use **cooldowns** to get through and live. - **Deny angles** by splitting focus away from your core. *click me* [<img src="https://i.imgur.com/pLkulYA.png" width="700" title="brawl hookah hold Oasis:Gardens">](https://i.imgur.com/pLkulYA.png) In this example each hero has a job to do during the rotation: - Reinhardt is shielding the main angle, specifically looking to deny Ana's anti-nade. - McCree and Mei are looking to burst Zarya's projected bubble on the Winston so he is forced to jump away. - Lucio is using amp speed while looking behind to deny the Tracer with boop and his damage. - DVa is looking to eat dynamite and/or anti-nade with defense matrix. She can also look to fly up to the Ashe to deny her damage, then fly back down. - Baptiste is using his shift and healing the ground, ready to use lamp to deny burst. Everyone should be stacked enough to be covered by Rein's Shield and so that Baptiste's heal is hitting as many people as possible at once. ---- [back to homepage](https://afnleaf.github.io/ "back to homepage")