A guide to Peeling… it’s also a supports priority job to peel for the other support.

Peeling for your backline is quintessential in hero shooters for when they are in trouble, this is a post for new players who don’t really know what peeling is or how to do it. I think it will be helpful especially with how strong some dive characters will be next patch.

Peeling to put it simply is shooing someone out of your back line so this doesn’t disrupt your teams healing and sustain you don’t have to kill the backline disrupter if you do it’s an extra bonus but just the presence alone can shoo them away before they engage again.

So a standard team structure is as follows

Tanks in the front line

Dps in mid or off angle

Supports in the back line

The backline is the most valuable for the enemy team to get.

The most you will have to peel for your backline is if the enemy has a dive comp as this comp ignores both the front line and the mid line, unlike brawl or poke.

In the backline if there is a dive or flanker harassing one support the first call of protection is the other support as they will always be the closest, it is then the duty of both supports to communicate there is someone in the backline.

Usually a tank should leave the front line position to disrupt the dive or flanker as they have the most health but any dps can also do this again not to necessarily kill the dive, just to shoo them out the back line.

when backup comes to shoo the diver away or kill them it is then a supports priority to heal the person who is peeling, not run off and leave them to the wolves that’s one easy way to never get any peel for the rest of the game.

You’re Probably wondering, don’t supports have enough sustain and damage to deal with the diver or flanker themselves? Which yeah some of them do, but if you leave them healing eachother dealing with the backline disrupter themselves, you won’t get any heals during that whole period of disruption which will then cause the whole team to collapse because no one is getting healed.

Also I’m sure a lot of support mains will agree if you peel for them it’s the easiest way to get pocketed for the rest of the game.

But anyways I hope this is helpful :)

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