#pharah tips

As Pharah, apart from Mercy, concussive blast is your best friend

Use concussive blast to move around a little faster to throw off their aim

Use your environment as cover, peek in and out and try to land the shots in rapid succession 

Concussive blast is also great for disengaging when using it to push yourself out of the fight

Try to lure them to the edge of the map and concussive blast them off the map

Use concussive blast to push yourself on top of the hitscan quickly to more easily kill them, it is easier for you to kill them/harder for them to kill you when you’re right on top of them

On points where there are breakable barriers in places you can boop you should always break them to boop more easily as barriers can save your prey

Use concussive blast on your target to throw them where you’ll aim and shoot them, it’ll also throw their aim off for precious moments

Always remember to try and boop the high noon-ing Mccree out of position to fuck up his ult, Mccrees everywhere will love you, same goes for ulting soldiers but they will be harder due to their speed

Widows especially may seem like a hard counter to you, especially if the player has really good aim, but by using cover to come on top of her/concussive blasting to her you can counter her back, just don’t fly at her in a straight line

Work on air shots, they’re not only good for Pharah but you will probably find yourself in situations where the people shooting you are in the air one way or another

A great way to practice airshots is to find another Pharah and go into a custom skirmish where you do minimal damage but have a lot of hp and just fly around trying to shoot each other

Don’t be afraid to use the tanks as meat shields, that’s what they’re there for

If you think you’re about to die, don’t be afraid to disengage and go back to safety to recover

Make yourself known with the different maps and their routes, especially health pack locations, and if you need healing don’t be afraid to get close to your healer, most of them has a range on which they can heal you and if you fly around a lot it’s gonna be hard for Ana to snipe heal you

If you have a Mercy on you be mindful as to where she can follow you, like don’t fly over a building without making sure she can get over and don’t fly in the middle of everyone where she’ll get killed, if she’s on you specifically her safety is your responsibility 

Even when flanking make sure to go in with the team, as in wait for your team to engage before you do even if you’re behind the enemy

Don’t try to 1v6, all you’re gonna do is feed their ults and stagger your team, don’t be that guy

Try to fly a little erraticaly, don’t just fly in a straight line or predictive way

When deathmatch goes live that will also be a great way to hone your skills as a murdering rocket queen as you have no team/objective to think about

While Zen’s ult will cancel out yours, a boosted ult, either with mercy, nano or supercharger, will most likely outdamage transcendence’s heal

Before ulting always make sure you know where any snipers and Ana/Roadhog are to minimize your chances of getting murdered/slept/etc when ulting, and always make sure to keep track of the enemy Mercy’s ult

D.Va will fuck up your ult if you don’t make sure she’s out of mech before you ult

If you have a Zarya make sure to coordinate your ults, if the Zarya’s good with her ult you will murder the enemy together

I switched her rocket jump to Q It makes it like 10 times easier in my opinion

Concussion blast is friend. Have you fiddled with the crosshairs?

Dude, the first few times I played pharah I kept singing "I can fly" to try and remind me to fucking fly. Now I'm pretty good at remembering to fly and not dying immediately but shit at hitting people