How to Retreat Without Surrendering feat. ProChara 

This is a great concept that seems dumb but is actually really smart probably even more important for me as a QR skermisher

glad to know that just like a good teacher, gem is still learning, too. tysm for what you do gem ❤️❤️

These kinds of angles are exactly what I'm used to playing to as an Undercover Brella player. My job is typically to draw enemy fire and focus OFF the objective line and cause problems by forcing them to divide their attention. Unless I'm able to lay ambushes with mines I usually don't have the sheer stopping power to hold off a head-on push, but I have the *staying* power to hold off-angle defensive positions just that little bit longer than they can survive once they notice they're taking fire for my shield to heal upon landing a splat or assist and keep going. I've always interpreted your advice of "move along the objective line" as moving your FOCUS rather than strictly your positioning, because the most advantageous positions aren't always just a clump of players moving forwards and back -- it's often having the attacks coming from multiple angles that catch people in no-win situations where they can't even escape let alone fight back effectively.

I think Halo’s playerbase has a term for these sorts of spots where it is inherently advantageous to maintain these weird off objective spots: Power Positions, if i recall correctly. spots that give a good player taking advantage of it’s features a good advantage. This isn’t limited to snipers or other long range heavy hitters, as squid school and chara pointed out, there might be spots where shorter ranged weapons threatening an attacking team are inherently far scarier from.

This crossover rivals that of the Marvel cinematic universe

Inkbrush main here (working on getting into the A ranks) and as the team's Little Bastard Man, posing a distraction from those off-angle areas has swung games toward victories for me. I realized that when I am along the objective line, I'm either dying or throwing bombs and not actually doing that much to the enemy team. It's when either catching foes off-guard and splatting them, or making them chase me and splat me so that I don't immediately come right back to heckle their flank, that I'm doing my best for the team.

I just realized that this is what could make ballpoint click for me. The ability to skirmish at range, lodged in uniquely advantageous positions. This concept is really cool.

Nice little birthday lesson! It seems very trivial, but you and Chara are absolutely right. If you can't win a fight, at least mildly inconvenience the enemy team!

For some reason this reminds me of when I worked at Ralph's, because we always lost money and almost never made net income from the store. The only reason the store never closed was because the location of the store was next to a freeway and was so good to own that ralphs didn't want any competitor grocery store to own it. Even if it meant having a loss.

Wow, he brought along Mr. Chara!

wow, amazing there's still so much to learn. i loved watching the teacher get a lesson :) it was really awesome to see the humility and willingness to learn.

I guess the concept is being a tank really--not in taking hits, but in taking aggro so the rest of the team can pull together. Honestly if you can survive having multiple people on you, distracting them seems a good move.

This is actually really useful for me as a qr weapon main ty

Yes more videos about how to be annoying! I main e-liter people already try to chase me at the detriment of the objective sometimes but I want to be as much of a thorn in the side of the enemy team as I possibly can even if I’m getting three torpedoes thrown at me

This has enlightened me

I LOVE That you recognized things you didnt consider before! It makes leatning next to you so much easier

Seeing Gem learning new things makes me more excited o lay this game the next few years.

thanks so much to you and prochara for not only streaming your metafy lesson but also being okay with making videos on it. you could have just taken all the knowledge for yourself, he could have kept it restricted as well to create higher demand for his lessons. but this way everyone learns and is better for it. also advertizes his metafy even better if i think about it. anyway thanks chara thanks gem

It's something I used to think about but forgot. Jumping out of a bad situation does let you escape alive, and usually with less down time then if you were splatted. But it's still down time that you can't hold an important spot.

In the VOD you were talking a lot about specials: when, where and how to use them. Could you make a video about that?

Super interesting and super useful, I'll try to keep that in mind when retreating now

love this channel man. even if i don’t use the lessons learned right away, when the time comes i somehow recall it immediately. it really is a school xD ❤

This kind of stuff is why I love Dualie Squelchers. They have the second longest range out of all the dualies which can make them pretty good at staying in a corner and making it difficult for the opponents to advance, and despite not increasing their fire rate, the turret mode improves their accuracy by a fair margin. Their sliding dodge roll lets me easily infiltrate the opponents base without having to make as much of a mark on the map so I can sneak up on their front lines and flank them. Also, I find that I have at least one person trailing after me, and often two or even more, which makes it much easier for my team to advance. I love dualie squelchers :) I've also been using carbon deco recently which I play somewhat similarly, but with a fair amount of differences. I still love being a nuisance, I'm just more aggressive as one, I like to pick off lone opponents that could pose a problem in home base, and I can more easily fight back while in the Opponents base. I can't really hold an area easily due to the lack of damage at a far range (And just the lack of range in general) but I can fall back and then sneak around to splat the opponents trying to gain ground.

this. this is why i watch. if you get something wrong you release a video covering it

"I wish we could sell them another hill at the same price."

thank you for the video, yeah sometimes as sometime who doesn't play frontline as often, i do it and realize, "oh i was distracting the enemy team that time" and this is good for helping me to do that consciously

Finally an episode with Chara

Best collab ever

There's a map that I love being a distraction on for TC, and I had to check the app for the map name, it's Brinewater Springs, and my TC win rate is really high, the drop down areas straight ahead from your spawn and to the left opposing team's spawn is a really good distraction place. I hold part of the team in that area being annoying while my team pushes the tower. I'm excited to see viability in being annoying lol

Did Zones yesterday evening here where I just hid in an area off the objective on Hammerhead bridge, making sure to peak out with my Luna and consistently splatting them while my team focused on defending objective. Needless to say it went so well we got Back to back KOs for good few matches.

Oh great another thing I need to think of when trying to not get murdered that's just freaking dandy!

Ah I've been doing this without thinking about it! It's gotten me through S rank even though it felt like I wasn't being helpful bc I wasn't directly pushing the objective.

Oh huh, I like going to those spots to catch people off guard and mess with them, i didnt realize it was an actual strat

İ honestly cant count the amount of times İ lost a fight in rainmaker and because of that the other team pushed

Lol, I think I picked up on this early as a person who loves the front line but is pretty trash when it comes to fighting. I'll happy flank and annoy their backline and maybe the person spawning in for a few seconds. If I can make two people hard focus me for five - ten seconds that's two people off their push/objective. . .I guess I really should take the time to pick up and learn dualies.

I will admit i absolutely suck retreating so im definitely gonna write some things down from here.

This sounds like it would be primarily good for slayer weapons with good mobility. I can’t imagine a anchor weapon pulling this off, unless they can QSJ out in time. It also sounds like it really depends on the map, so one would have to scope out possible locations for precisely this purpose.

When all else fails, skirmish

Soo.... a distraction dance, i know how to do that, now i have to do it correctly, cool

The other side to this is to not go way out of your way to splat someone who isn't having an impact on the match. This can cost you your opportunity to push, losing you the game

I remember an ancho v games match I had in splatoon 2, I had a hydra and I was simply camping my teams objective and the only attempt I can recall of an opponent getting a clear-ish shot at throwing the power clam into the basket was a brush nouveau, of which I absolutely destroyed with the hydra from above, is that in any way a good move to make on my part or is that still on the objective line as it was in close proximity to the basket

This might be the first video where i don't fully understand this

This is EXACTLY how I play (Tri-Slosher). My focus as a player is to be a pain in the ass for the enemy team, making them looking at me instead of my teammates or the objective. Remember, every shot fired at someone who is going through the flank is a shot that DOESN’T actively contribute to the objective or harms your teammates.

Don't get beat, You gotta defeat! Keep your game neat like in the sheets!

As a wiper player, this will be very nice to learn and utilize

where do i retreat with drapid on hammerhead?

So you got schooled by Chara

Instead of giving them the space you were defending, move somewhere else to continue contesting it. Got it

doesnt make a difference considering anyone can be anywhere. the game is rng

whatever 50 gal youre coaching is just doing absolutely nothing for their team in all of these clips. guys please stop doing nothing in this game i really hate the feeling of being the only one present in every single team fight