OCTAVIA NEEDS YOUR HELP! - Paladins Gameplay Build

[@elishatea]

I prefer her to the other "generic" shooters i.e. Viktor and Vivian. I think it's because I like her high accuracy chunky shots to the peppery spread of the others. She is very aim dependent, especially since she doesn't really have any other way of dealing damage, so I really only play her if I'm having a good accuracy day. I also really like her ultimate, especially if you take the talent that buffs it. If you time it right, at worst it's a solid area denial ability, and at best you can get multiple kills off of it. I also like playing her as a more supportive champion with asymmetrical warfare. Something about her jump -> dome loop is very satisfying, and even if she doesn't get the BEST heals out of it, it still offers some nice utility and ups her damage as well. Overall she's not my favorite champ, but I don't really play a ton of damage characters and I'd say she's one of the ones I'm more comfortable with in that category.

[@strawberrygemz2020]

I feel like if they pushed her a bit more in the Ashe(Overwatch) direction and made her unscoped fire faster (mayb less dmg) and her scoped shots be slightly slower and higher damage, she would see more use. I think the thing is her dmg feels like that of a support hero, not bad but not dps-y

[@superadaptiod1417]

that is exactly how she works alrdy, unless you mean buffing damage in general

[@themonsterwithin4000]

What?!!! Trash players sometimes need to shut up. 😂

[@superadaptiod1417]

@@themonsterwithin4000 who are you talking to?

[@voratheharbinger2384]

Well it use to be half a thousand and a faster rate so😂

[@PlayerRayy]

I'm a console Masters Octavia. You don't really want to spam hip fire unless they're a slippery Maeve. Stay in scope always for more damage. You're going to want her as mobile as possible so use Hell or High Water talent for heals and infinite ammo along with the credit passive if you're confident in your aim or Ult passive to swing team fights if you don't like your team comp. Cards: New Boots(5), and Getting Jumpy(5) will have you mobile and able to take better angles to help you secure kills or escape. If you're landing 80% of your shots, you will kill a DPS while airborne, drop into your heal puddle and continue shooting or jump a second time to cover. Interdiction (3), Snap to It(1), and Determined Defense(1) for filler cards. I'm able to win most of my duels with this as my standard load out and even take flank routes and jump onto unsuspecting enemies. You will win more duels against flanks with a second jump and only going out of scope when you need to make a quick 180° turn for flanks like Zhin or Koga.

[@karanahlawat9106]

Much love from India Mr. Fangs!

[@michaelsimmons9435]

I❤Octavia I play her often. Her contribution to the team is why I play her so much. I communicate with my teammates to pick a passive that will maximize their playstyles and loadouts. As far as talents I only use asymmetrical warfare because I'm a support player at heart. Her other talents are ok. He'll or high water is useful when you are being chased, the small heal and infinite ammo is huge while display of force can be useful but it's benefits are often too inconsistent. I play her as a sniper, even though the damage is lower I find it more useful to weaken targets or help finish others off. If I am not focused I can shred targets as you said. Overall she feels more like a support than a damage character.

[@JoeStackz90]

I literally just decided the other day to start playing Octavia as my next character to try master, she's been fun personally, nice vid

[@ScreamQueenLaurie]

I feel like asymmetric warfare should be basekit and they give her a new talent that almost changes the way her dome works entirely. Something that makes it more deadly to be around and give her more point control. Perhaps a talent that makes her dome get smaller (over the course of it’s life time) and explode in an concentrated area dealing 500 damage. And as the dome gets smaller (assuming asymmetric warfare would be made base) the damage and healing are doubled. And the cooldown becomes increased by 3 seconds. Just a little fun idea i’m sure the devs could come up with something better.

[@RyoAstra]

I was thinking it'd be useful for control if, like you said, asymmetric warfare became base and there was a talent where her dome decreased the damage of any projectiles that passed through

[@mot4569]

I play on console so with a controller and after I sorta firgured out her fire rate timing with the guns recoil and recentering, chaining headshots became much and much easier so that helped a lot. But yeah she still struggles in close range encounters

[@mot4569]

Also gotta say, havent played her in a while but what i do remember is that it atleast used to feel like her bullets and reticle when zooming in werent dead centre but the bullets were hitting just a tiny bit lower and to the left of the actual reticle (if that makes any sense).

[@themonsterwithin4000]

Octavia is amazing on console. She’s my ranked dps main rn

[@cipher8400]

octavia is good at metling tanks, you shouldnt spam her left click unless you get to the recoil. She has 1450 dps, if you shoot abit slower still pretty high.

[@marquisdeans8271]

I play Octavia when I wanna play Kinessa but the map is bad or there is a flanker I can’t deal with. If you can sit back and just pull in dmg Octavia is a good choice since she does that AND buffs the team

[@994Eduard994]

Octavia shield + yago shield. Is insane

[@edvingjervaldsaeter3659]

This is probably a pretty nuts idea, but what if the "Commander's Shield" passive was changed so that, while out-of-combat, you gain 100 shields/sec, up to max 500 instead, so that it is actually useful This is just an idea, and now that I think about it, maybe max 400 could be better... or... Maybe Tanks have max 600, support 500, damage 400 and flank 300? Recharging at 20%/sec (or maybe slower) while out-of-combat, Wrecker is a thing, so that is a decent counter, and with max Wrecker, the extra shield wouldn't be too much trouble Again, just an idea, considering the passive feels pretty meh

[@mustafamuhammad4717]

I have never seen frosty trying so hard and feeling so helpless playing any character

[@gozwav]

I think he needs to focus on his mobility. They should create a card to reduce the CD of the dash when it hits shots without aiming, or that same mechanism to give it movement speed

[@ksterlings197]

A strong independent black woman with a gun doesn't need help from no man 💅

[@fracturedsolace145]

You live in a moldy basement. Alone, no friends, no life.

[@Heavyboi]

I’ve been looking for new ways to play Imani do u think u would play her so I can learn how u play her

[@masterchief247]

Maybe if they fixed her jump getting stuck on scenery or rocks as soon as you jump......Its ridiculous. Been going on for months. Every match i play her, I jump, then get cripple 3 feet off the ground because of a rock next to me. No fun. Fix it.

[@hakis8129]

Forreal i'm on xbox and this bug is annoying

[@TheKingAtlus]

#yesshedoes

[@athosvamberk]

I'm one of the 4 octavia mains around the world. I think her biggest issue are her talents. They are lackluster and barely feel impactful, but at the same time, her skills feel incomplete without them. It feels like both ult talent and dome talent should be basekit. There should be a scope talent, no? Maybe something that gets rid of the hipfire inaccurate low damage mode? Regardless, Octavia needs a rework.

[@themonsterwithin4000]

If you think Octavia needs a rework, you’re just bad at her or on pc.

[@athosvamberk]

@@themonsterwithin4000 How nice of you to assume as such, i see you're of a mature mind, seeing as you regard any form of criticism as "poor skill get good lmao".

[@themonsterwithin4000]

@@athosvamberk it’s just facts. I have her gold on console and she’s amazing on there. I don’t know about pc though.

[@Zahk_noodle]

@@themonsterwithin4000 Funny how you're judging someone that they're bad on pc when you don't even play there lol

[@Triple__O]

From the way she talks about supporting her team. They should move her to the healers

[@ImagineCats9339]

I think what you were trying to say in the video is that she is not a great dualist in close/mid range , nor a scary real sniper.. she feels similar to imani in that regard

[@blacklotusbloom]

I tend to play her aoe and ult as much as possible. When waiting for the recharge, putting in dmg with or w/o the kill is your job. Until then its suppressive fire/single lock with aoe/los control all the while forcing enemies to take cover. But like, I think that weird feeling you get when you play her... is you're forced to play her like you would a support role. If that makes sense. Cause you're not really focused on killing, you're more like single instance support for who ever needs it in that moment... you know?

[@darkweeman133]

They need to make her gun full auto when scoped. I love playing her but my mouse sure doesn't.

[@MrBoomxl]

Not an Octavia main, but whenever i play her she just feels kinda clunky. The sights on her weapon take alot of the screen making it harder to see. The recoil on her weapon can be quite annoying imo, especially with the high fire rate she has, i would prefer a bit slower fire rate with a little bit more damage to keep her dps the same.

[@leafdessert3784]

Do you have tiktok

[@duncanmyth3897]

Octavia is pretty decent I always pick her against a nando

[@Otto-tv1wt]

ya fuck Nardo Wick

[@wesley.zago120]

i like her ult talent, but i hate her gun. the scope is just too intrusive...

[@Blitziscool73]

Octavia is my main when it comes to a damage character. I main her because I like her passives and team play while being able to dish out a bunch of damage. She’s really fun to me and she actually does so much damage if you have good aim, but she takes a bit of time to learn

[@SLADE-uj9uq]

She's just boring. Her and the other two that you mentioned are boring, it doesn't matter how powerful they are, and Vivian is actually really powerful. And f2p players gotta buy characters, and credits are just hard to get, so spending 60k on boredom isn't something I would do.

[@TheKingAtlus]

First

[@JordyVsTheWorId]

I’m not a huge fan of her ultimate

[@duncanmyth3897]

It's not that good

[@JordyVsTheWorId]

@@duncanmyth3897 I know