Valkia you are one of the best OW Utubers because you don't pretend you can play every hero but instead get really good at one hero and explain exactly how to play them PS I am an aspiring Pharah main
He's not that good with tracer. Have you seen his movement and tracking? Meh. Not saying he's terrible, but his zarya and pharah is way better than his tracer. Valkia has mastered pharah but he isn't really a hitscan player. If Valk put more time into practicing his tracking and movement he could be decent at tracer but saying he is "really good" with tracer is just delusional. There's a reason why people say Valk is a "one trick pharah" because his skill level with other heroes doesn't come close to his skill with pharah with zarya being the exception.
0 Dignity - 3 months later.. How's your Pharah play? I just recently fell for her. Couldnt manage her jet fuel and aiming the rockets and then something just clicked.. She's a new favorite.
Would you consider watching our Pharah gameplay and giving us tips how to improve based on our performance? Something similar is doing Stylosa with his overanalized but this would be strickly about Pharah.
Thanks a lot for this :) I'm a crappy pharah, in my hands the hero is reduced to nothing but a slowly floating piece of meat screaming 'kill me for free ult charge'.. I really wanna master her but I feel like I'm flying an out-of-control chopper when I'm on her. Gonna watch some of your more detailed guides, perhaps one day I'll actually get shit done.. Keep up the good work :p
my problem is I cant hit shit. Im 40 hours on her and my win rate is so much more pathetic than any other Dps I play. How tf is she 1 star? Also, I can count on my fingers the amount of time I saw an effective pharah.
Familiar feeling.. I sometimes have one (1!!) good match here and there, and after it I think I'm this great "predictor" who can track where people are going and shoot rockets perfectly. By the time the next match is over I realize I don't really hit shit with her. And what's worse is the constant corpse run after being killed time after time.
Quang Tuấn Anh Trương just lead your shots. Work on direct hits. Going for only splash dmg will make you an ineffective pharah. This video explains everything else you need to know very well. Just practice practice practice
Just don't give up. The key with Pharah is practice, practice practice, and practice again. And sometimes, pick someone else you're good with to let off some steam. If I need to cool off because I did shit in my last games, I'll just pick D.va or Junk or Moira and have fun. Then, back again at Pharah. Another thing is : take your time with your hit. I know its sounds counter productive, but hear me out : sometimes I get carried away and just *bam* *bam* around my target. That's bc I panick, and stop caring about the travel time of my rockets. In those moments, try to breathe out and take 1 or 2 seconds to sort of readjust yourself. And if you're like me, and stop playing for 3 months, when you'll come back you'll feel like you've lost everything. Don't give up ! It will eventually come back at some point, after some...practice :p Also : don't put too much pressure on yourself. You'll get her.
Thank you so much, ive never really been good at anyone, ive gone from junkrat to hog to zen and so on but the one hero ive always enjoyed is pharah but ive never really known how to play her, by the way you make dome of the best tips videos out there keep it up
Great video. As a fellow pharah lover you were right on with this video. Big thing I worry about now is enemy positioning now that I have everything else down. Awesome direct shots too
As a Mercy main who’s currently looking after Pharah (my waifu), all I say is very excellent! You have a lot of decent Pharah tips! I shall show this video to my friend (a Pharah main).
Funny to see your comment, all the mercy mains have to be so disappointed with their huge nerfs right about now. Such a shame, she is a cool character considering all the visual aspects and etc.. as gameplay goes, she was kinda op before, but the ow team literally killed her
Rafael Teles yes, she’s nerfed again but I’ll still play Mercy because of my rocket waifu. I also have the golden weapon for Mercy. Mercy now requires some skills. So I don’t mind this nerf except the cast time in Valkyrie which is very horrible. I have to get used to her nerfs though
Why are there always so many haters on any videos related to Pharah? Anyone who's able to utilize her this well considering her vulnerabilities is an absolute champ (especially at higher ranks). Thank you for the helpful content, Valkia. After a long day of getting being deleted by hitscans and DVa's, it's nice to be reminded that leveling up as Pharah can be done. :) Also, for some reason, it's really satisfying to see that the Pharah Lord also hates DVa, LOL.
Hi Valkia. You are doing great videos and guides. Those tips was great and useful but actually all of them doesn't work in low ranks because most players don't communicate. Also team comps sucks in low ranks. You don't have tanks and healers etc. I'm platinum right now and my biggest problem is team comps and communicates. Its just so hard to play pharah without tanks and healers. And my healers can't even see me in the air and that sucks sometimes. I think some other hero would be better for carrying games but i just like to play pharah. And i'm not saying all is about teams but that just makes it so hard because pharah is hard hero without team. Would be very interesting to see when you are playing in low rank. I want see how you win the games and do you get many games what you can't carry etc! :) But good work keep it up Valkia!
As a Pharah main who started out in plat, here are some tips that will work for this rank: 1. If you don't have good communication, then don't try to be a hero. Play it safe with your ultimate. Always try to use it as a surprise from an odd angle (behind, from the side, etc). And most importantly, don't try to go for the POTG. If you see two easy targets out of position, you can ult just them. This makes the team fight a 4v6 where the enemy will be split up, and is almost as good as a 4+ barrage kill. 2. Spot which enemy heroes are the greatest threats to you, and target them first - or do your best to avoid them. If you are skilled in 1v1 duels, then try to take your main threat out first, then go for the enemy backline. You can two shot all the supports, so make them your goal every fight. 3. Try to predict when the enemy will go into fights and spend ultimates. Set up in advance, so you have a position behind their lines, and barrage them when they invest their ultimates. Often, they will be too focused on their own ultimates and their push, to focus on you in time, before you will have barraged them and survived. If enemies use ult, their focus is almost always in front of them, not behind. 4. Try to hunt enemies out of position. Pharah's greatest advantage is her rapid mobility and ability to be everywhere she wants. It is very easy in Platinum to punish off positioned enemies, because you can dive them so quickly regardless of where they are. You have no boundaries, so play around with the map and try to get to those squishy targets when they least expect it.
Daniel Kemnitz I think i know what to do but sometimes here is too many games where we have +4 dps heros and no one cares about the game. So its just impossible to do anything with "troll" team because they can't stand in front of enemies or they die because no one play tanks or healers. But anyways thank for the very good tips!! I mostly do those things and i went 2000 sr -> 2800 sr in half season with 75% win rate only pharah but then i started lose more games like half of my games (50%) And most players in plat always give up after bad defense/attack and then they troll pick and lose game what is possible to win thats also sucks :( Thats why i don't even like to play overwatch that much. Would be nice to play in high rank :) But maybe i just should play little bit better for winning more games ;)
You should make a video about how you feel about Pharah on every map, where she is or is not great, what parts of map can she do more job, what spots are good for few maps etc :)
Thanks man, iv always wanted to Learn Pharah, i could still do with getting better at my rocket aim, but iv become used to flying down off the map and doing the bait technique alot due to these video's :D
ZarKLeftys tap the hover button and free fall time to time and if your good with your cool down you should have your jetpack ability to lift you back up again and always try and stay on high ground if you have to fall.
Dude I aspire to be as good as you someday. Bombass pharah player. I practice every day because of you. I'm practicing every day at least 3-5 hours and am almost master playing exclusively pharah and fill if I have too. Your my fucking hero dude and just keep doing your thing man.
Dammit your air rockets are so disgusting lol. What do you think about this movement system update? Should make people a little harder to hit in the air, right? Just for predictability reasons.
Valkia When in the air, characters can perform easy and precise movements. In other words, Genji has become unpredictable and Winston’s jump ability is easier to use
Death from Above no Masters player would call Pharah OP, she is really balanced in higher tiers. In low tiers is where she shines because of the lack of coordination to take her out.
been playing pharah since I started playing ow and my biggest problem is survivability. with alot of people refusing to play mercy and with ana's that can't aim it's hard to be lethal like with a pocket mercy but this video it's really helpful, a great reminder that pharah has insane mobility.
true, I died a lot more as pharah than junk or soldier. with the buff to junk, I find being junk is a lot more satisfying and effective than being pharah.
You harp on communicating a lot, in this video and others. Today I finally started competitive play (only interested in the gun skin) and found people talk a lot more. However: I don't know what more than half the poop they are saying means. I checked the forums (which is how I found out about you) for a lexicon of some sort, and found none. How are you supposed to communicate when you don't know the jargon, AND no one (when asked) defines the terms? Answering that would help greatly! Thanks.
The only thing I would want to change about her ultimate is to make it a little more interesting visually. As it stands, it's activate ult, and become a floating cross-hair as missiles shoot in from off screen.
Yo I would love a video about how to counter mercy cause i'm used to be 4k2 but since mercy rework i'm losing games vs mercy, I always tried killing hitscans like mccree or soldier but with an helicopter flying around every 2 fights rezzing them when i'm low hp (obvious after a 1v1) i die and lose. But can't kill flying mercy while getting shooted from the ground. Help mercy makes me tilt
so to be succesful in this, you have to ignore pharah and try pick off the other heroes as they aren't getting heals from mercy, as soon as others start going down, mercy will try to res one of them which makes pharah vulnerable or its only pharah and mercy left so its just cleanup.
I like playing soldier but and I don't want all my pharah training to go away, so i'm gonna play tank or soldier until pharah gets meta (2026 probably)
I am but a lowly silver (1800 currently) and down here we rarely have Zarya, however Rein is in most games. Is it possible to combo with a shatter instead of grav? I know grav is better because it keeps them in one area, but can shatter work? I do it sometimes, but my team will 80% of the time prefer to combo shatter with a diva nuke or Ana nano.
I am in eu servers and joining voice is really risky even if youre actually helping and calling out targets they do not listen or dont care they care about their own gameplay and about combo ing I think if they are really good with the character they are playing they can combo without using voice and just commands
I some times see pro pharah ult in Grav when they don't need it I only ult when there is 4-5v6 or they have a barrier because you can kill squishys in 2 hits.
You forgot Genji can deflect your barrage that's more annoying than the D.VA. I'm level 27 Pharah Main, got the game like 5 days ago and did my placement matches and got Platinum, and was wondering if there is any certain things Pharah can do at this lower rank that lower players at plat and gold can't counter
In what type of situations (Enemy team comps or maps) do you think that pharah wouldn’t be a good pick? Because you have so many hours on pharah, unlike me, what scenarios make pharah almost ineffective to a point where switching would be a better option? Thanks
Hello! Thx for another video about pharah and your contribution to OW community! But you said obvious things xD Your guides are helpful for new players, but for everyone else its not at all. Try to create a video with analysis of your mechanics and decisions: why you are diving, why spamming from distance, why switching positions, why dropping height or save it, why some mistakes occurs more often, etc. Also try to analyse how often you play against decent players on pharah-counters and how much you effectiveness depends on it (and why?). I was pharha 1-trick for 500+ hrs and almost reached master rank before i bought 2nd account to learn another heroes (was 49-th prahah by overbuff btw). The reason why I did that is the understanding that result of almost every of my games determines by 1 thing: do they have person or two with mechanical skill strong enough to deal with my hero? Dont get me wrong - ive became really strong pharah player, maybe a little step behind your level of skill (direct shots, positioning and timings, long-distance shots, gamesens, planning, etc). i just realised that its not my skill that wins the games, but hero (or matchmaking) instead. I dont want to play roulette anymore like a dirty symm-mains xD So what can you as top-500 player and content creator offer to people like me? im sure that even on my level i can learn a lot, and you can make a great video-series with in-depth analysis (that will help you improve too!). Please, think about it! p.s. Sry for any mistakes in this message, i speak london not good xD
Those are all in other videos, as explained during this one, I’m not going to copy another video which has that all covered. Watch my G guide to playing Pharah, which explains why I dive, and my thought process
Hey Valkia, got a question. Have you noticed that towards the end of season 6 and the start of season 7 that’s it’s gotten more difficult to play Pharah? Season 7 has been incredibly difficult for me personally, and I’ve been running her successfully since season 2. With all the buffs to roster, I’m just curious about how you’re doing with all the changes.
well, Junkrat got buffed so he is not as easy a kill anymore, and you have to watch out when you dive him (due to double c mine). Ana now 3 hits you again, so she is a harder counter now. D.Va does much more burst damage, and is more of a threat now rather than just a damage sponge. Widow had a buff to her critical scope time. Hanzo got a buff to his fire (reload) speed. Sombra is being used more effectively now, people start to know how to play her well. Many of the newer people in general have gotten better, the entire skill level of all Overwatch players has risen. Some Pharah playstyles have changed with the new metas. The increase in dive-ish teams mean you can't sit and spam damage into large groups of enemies and get kills as easily as before. Idk those are the main reasons I can think of, for most ranks. Also Moira seems more difficult to deal with than many of the other supports, due to her damage and survivability.
Sad part, as a Pharah main its hard to pick her when you have a auto lock Junkrat every game and it makes no sense to have Pharah and Junkrat. I really hope that the Junkrat nerf will lower his pick rate back down some.
I literally ask at least 10 times for my team to please join team chat, but no one ever does, and it pisses me off so much when after they finally do, they blame it on someone else
I sound pharah one of the easiest heroes to rank up with tbh. It took months rank up with Lucio and Winston, but I did finally hit diamond. When i got bored of them I started playing pharah one a second account, and never playing here before, I hit diamond in the same season I started, and 3300 the next season
So I'm high diamond on my main usually touch masters. Ill flex but mostly play pharah and 76 sometimes zarya. Im a pretty Damn good pharah imo and others....heres my problem though. On my smurf its gold/plat cuz I like playing with friends in that rank....but when I solo and play pharah its so damn hard because I feel I constantly need to get health packs and I never get heals. So its very hard for me to climb in that rank as pharah but when im in my main playing solo I have great matches but on my smurf is a head ache at times. Just curious if anybody rise feels this way. Sorry for the essay.
Communication is probably better on the US servers. I dare you to try to comm with the russian genji who solo dives all the time, and the only comms from him are complaints about healing.
rule number 1 - dont ever solo q with pharah on console, you will rarely get a mercy even if you are constantly getting picks, and you will usually have 3-4 other dps so no tanks to combo with or to push through chokes, then when you start losing the healer will go dps, the dps will change to widow or torjborn and every1 will just throw. played loads of pharah on console, atm its in such a state that climbing with her is impossible
and when you call out any of the dps who are throwing or playing awful, 90% of time they will come at you with the "i dont care this is my smurf my main account is GM". shit community lol
im just over 3000. lost like 200sr last night flexing so was salty enough to write this comment lol. i dont even really get to play pharah any more due to all the dps n never getting a good team comp so i mainly play zarya and moira among other heroes but yh im on ps4 - who_iz_jcs
i played pharah season 5 on console and did really well with her. Solo Q player with no need for mercy. I averaged about 30 plus elims a match without a healer. my best game was 75 elims without mercy. It’s not hard to play her without a healer but it does help a little
Doubt you'll see this Valkia, but my biggest question is how do you practice your direct hits. I've got 100+ hours on her and just recently made it into the top 500 pharah players :3 but my direct hits definitely need some work. Especially in mirror matchups. Watching your highlights makes me mad jealous lol. Those air shots are down right mean. Last i checked you can't use pharah bots in the private matches. So short of having one of my buddies practice as pharah with me, there's no way that i know of to really hone my direct hit skills. Any tips? My ign is JackHarar#1976 would love to play sometime.
I would normally say watch on of my current existing videos, but my new answer is play a shit ton of deathmatch, it's really good for fast practice . Keep it up!
Jared Freeman Want some practice? Come play some pharah v pharah against me. I may be s lowley shit silver/gold rank. But i assure you... there arent to many pharahs that can go toe to toe with me. In not trying to talk shit or bolster myself by acting tough or any thing... i have no need for that. Ill give you the best example of not to judge a player on their sr rating history.. id love to show people who disregard me cause of of the bs ranking system. At the very least i can open your mind to whats possible... my gamer tag is "ZenRyoku#1518" I don't post ow clips ATM cause i dont have the time to montage all the clips if collected. Ive played OW since launch, i have over 350 hours with pharah alone. And id be willing to put my skills up against anyone. The exception being My man Valk. Clearly he is the best pharah that has ever played the game. Much respect to him. But seriously. Come see what you can do against me... it would be fun and a new perspective on the exception to the rule that a silver/ gold sr could not possibly be good... I play a lot of dm now. So typically you can find me in the US server on ffa 8 player château.
Efr41n_ u know weapon accuracy counts splash damage, right? I'm top 39 pharah on ps4 you need high rocket direct average to be good but it has to be on characters, not shields to actually be effective. If you want to be effective while playing pharah to a top 500 level which I have obtained then you must be able to get picks on he enemy, clear up, good ults and a lot more which will take a long time to explain so this is why valkia's videos are extremely helpful but this will improve with direct rocket hits and direct rocket accuracy and movements and will gradually improve over time. I used to main pharah but I occasionally play her now and again but I main zarya now. Sorry for long ass paragraph. It's also very hard to explain it on these comments would be easier to talk on mic. You ps4 or xbox?
Jordstar456 I really good with that’s what got me got me out of gold into diamond I was just asking if my aiming was I good I get picks and I’m season 6 when I started using her my comp win % was 76 and I had 17 hours on her I’m not bad
are we just going to ignore the match chat at 3:45
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IKR i was bout to say the same
Valkia you are one of the best OW Utubers because you don't pretend you can play every hero but instead get really good at one hero and explain exactly how to play them
PS I am an aspiring Pharah main
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Well dont let that fool you. He's really good with tracer and quite a few other characters...
He's not that good with tracer. Have you seen his movement and tracking? Meh. Not saying he's terrible, but his zarya and pharah is way better than his tracer. Valkia has mastered pharah but he isn't really a hitscan player. If Valk put more time into practicing his tracking and movement he could be decent at tracer but saying he is "really good" with tracer is just delusional. There's a reason why people say Valk is a "one trick pharah" because his skill level with other heroes doesn't come close to his skill with pharah with zarya being the exception.
0 Dignity - 3 months later.. How's your Pharah play? I just recently fell for her. Couldnt manage her jet fuel and aiming the rockets and then something just clicked..
She's a new favorite.
Would you consider watching our Pharah gameplay and giving us tips how to improve based on our performance? Something similar is doing Stylosa with his overanalized but this would be strickly about Pharah.
DODO I would love that
OMG, I would love this!
Depends though that takes a lot of time so if he wants to do it sure but coaching like that is time consuming
DODO He could, maybe with payed VODS? I know that's what some people do
Potentially
How to rank up as pharah:
Play nice ;)
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Alex You beat me to it.
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This is actually really helpful for Genji tbh, knowing where health packs are diving the back line and that. Thanks dude! Love your stuff!
I'm a pharah main on PS4 and this has helped me out a lot! Quite relieved I just found this channel.
Just when I started drifting away from playing pharah. Thanks Valkia for this video!
thx this really helped i went from gold to diamond with pharah
Really beautifully edited video. Quality content!
How does one be a pharah god and a god at editing at the same time
ImpactZ ikr
Thanks a lot for this :) I'm a crappy pharah, in my hands the hero is reduced to nothing but a slowly floating piece of meat screaming 'kill me for free ult charge'.. I really wanna master her but I feel like I'm flying an out-of-control chopper when I'm on her. Gonna watch some of your more detailed guides, perhaps one day I'll actually get shit done.. Keep up the good work :p
my problem is I cant hit shit. Im 40 hours on her and my win rate is so much more pathetic than any other Dps I play. How tf is she 1 star? Also, I can count on my fingers the amount of time I saw an effective pharah.
Familiar feeling.. I sometimes have one (1!!) good match here and there, and after it I think I'm this great "predictor" who can track where people are going and shoot rockets perfectly. By the time the next match is over I realize I don't really hit shit with her. And what's worse is the constant corpse run after being killed time after time.
Quang Tuấn Anh Trương just lead your shots. Work on direct hits. Going for only splash dmg will make you an ineffective pharah. This video explains everything else you need to know very well. Just practice practice practice
Just don't give up. The key with Pharah is practice, practice practice, and practice again. And sometimes, pick someone else you're good with to let off some steam. If I need to cool off because I did shit in my last games, I'll just pick D.va or Junk or Moira and have fun. Then, back again at Pharah.
Another thing is : take your time with your hit. I know its sounds counter productive, but hear me out : sometimes I get carried away and just *bam* *bam* around my target. That's bc I panick, and stop caring about the travel time of my rockets. In those moments, try to breathe out and take 1 or 2 seconds to sort of readjust yourself.
And if you're like me, and stop playing for 3 months, when you'll come back you'll feel like you've lost everything. Don't give up ! It will eventually come back at some point, after some...practice :p
Also : don't put too much pressure on yourself. You'll get her.
Thank you so much, ive never really been good at anyone, ive gone from junkrat to hog to zen and so on but the one hero ive always enjoyed is pharah but ive never really known how to play her, by the way you make dome of the best tips videos out there keep it up
All Pharah mains stand up 😂😂😂
MythiKalGoatZzZ * meh
The real pharah main please stand Up.
lying in bed, can't be bothered xD But Pharah has been my main since season 2, never letting her down!
WERD!
Daniel Kemnitz I’ve been Pharah main since I got the game (during the sombra ARG)
Dude I watch most of your content and has helped me climb from mid plat to mid dmd. Keep it up Brother
Just started maining Pharah and your tips help me out improve a lot
One of the best tutorials on ow I have ever seen
Thanks for this awesome guide!
Hopefully people start to communicate more now during games! Keep up the good work Valkia!
Great video! Will definitely be returning to this and working on my Pharah with it.
Great video. As a fellow pharah lover you were right on with this video. Big thing I worry about now is enemy positioning now that I have everything else down. Awesome direct shots too
Dude you’re insane, great video I’m going to take this tips and implicate them into my pharah play. ;)
Recently done my first placement match ever. Didn't too well lol. This video helps immensely cause I really enjoy using pharah
As a Mercy main who’s currently looking after Pharah (my waifu), all I say is very excellent! You have a lot of decent Pharah tips!
I shall show this video to my friend (a Pharah main).
Billy Arshad I’m both a Pharah and Mercy main so I relate both to you and the other Pharah mains
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Funny to see your comment, all the mercy mains have to be so disappointed with their huge nerfs right about now. Such a shame, she is a cool character considering all the visual aspects and etc.. as gameplay goes, she was kinda op before, but the ow team literally killed her
Rafael Teles yes, she’s nerfed again but I’ll still play Mercy because of my rocket waifu. I also have the golden weapon for Mercy.
Mercy now requires some skills. So I don’t mind this nerf except the cast time in Valkyrie which is very horrible. I have to get used to her nerfs though
Billy Arshad boosted mercy main? All they do is pocket their duo Q pharah
Thank you again so much valkia!!! I've learned a lot , keep it up!
Why are there always so many haters on any videos related to Pharah? Anyone who's able to utilize her this well considering her vulnerabilities is an absolute champ (especially at higher ranks). Thank you for the helpful content, Valkia. After a long day of getting being deleted by hitscans and DVa's, it's nice to be reminded that leveling up as Pharah can be done. :) Also, for some reason, it's really satisfying to see that the Pharah Lord also hates DVa, LOL.
Hi Valkia. You are doing great videos and guides. Those tips was great and useful but actually all of them doesn't work in low ranks because most players don't communicate. Also team comps sucks in low ranks. You don't have tanks and healers etc.
I'm platinum right now and my biggest problem is team comps and communicates. Its just so hard to play pharah without tanks and healers. And my healers can't even see me in the air and that sucks sometimes. I think some other hero would be better for carrying games but i just like to play pharah. And i'm not saying all is about teams but that just makes it so hard because pharah is hard hero without team.
Would be very interesting to see when you are playing in low rank. I want see how you win the games and do you get many games what you can't carry etc! :)
But good work keep it up Valkia!
As a Pharah main who started out in plat, here are some tips that will work for this rank:
1. If you don't have good communication, then don't try to be a hero. Play it safe with your ultimate. Always try to use it as a surprise from an odd angle (behind, from the side, etc). And most importantly, don't try to go for the POTG. If you see two easy targets out of position, you can ult just them. This makes the team fight a 4v6 where the enemy will be split up, and is almost as good as a 4+ barrage kill.
2. Spot which enemy heroes are the greatest threats to you, and target them first - or do your best to avoid them. If you are skilled in 1v1 duels, then try to take your main threat out first, then go for the enemy backline. You can two shot all the supports, so make them your goal every fight.
3. Try to predict when the enemy will go into fights and spend ultimates. Set up in advance, so you have a position behind their lines, and barrage them when they invest their ultimates. Often, they will be too focused on their own ultimates and their push, to focus on you in time, before you will have barraged them and survived. If enemies use ult, their focus is almost always in front of them, not behind.
4. Try to hunt enemies out of position. Pharah's greatest advantage is her rapid mobility and ability to be everywhere she wants. It is very easy in Platinum to punish off positioned enemies, because you can dive them so quickly regardless of where they are. You have no boundaries, so play around with the map and try to get to those squishy targets when they least expect it.
Daniel Kemnitz I think i know what to do but sometimes here is too many games where we have +4 dps heros and no one cares about the game. So its just impossible to do anything with "troll" team because they can't stand in front of enemies or they die because no one play tanks or healers.
But anyways thank for the very good tips!! I mostly do those things and i went 2000 sr -> 2800 sr in half season with 75% win rate only pharah but then i started lose more games like half of my games (50%)
And most players in plat always give up after bad defense/attack and then they troll pick and lose game what is possible to win thats also sucks :(
Thats why i don't even like to play overwatch that much. Would be nice to play in high rank :)
But maybe i just should play little bit better for winning more games ;)
Pelaatko ps4
I honestly have never thought of using pharah until now... Thanks Valkia...
I think you're just perfect playing Pharah. Your every video makes me feel like I don't know anything about her.
Thanks! I’m just trying to pass the knowledge on to others :)
You're just too insane! Respect Bro ;) hope to keep up with those advices
Great video, Valkia. Your vids always make me want to play Pharah :)
Amazing video helped a lot keep up the great uploads 👍🏽
You should make a video about how you feel about Pharah on every map, where she is or is not great, what parts of map can she do more job, what spots are good for few maps etc :)
Wicked Angel he did
Thanks man, iv always wanted to Learn Pharah, i could still do with getting better at my rocket aim, but iv become used to flying down off the map and doing the bait technique alot due to these video's :D
Big work and lovely way of thinking dude !
I need some flying tips, I love pharah but I never seem to be able to stay in the air and find myself on the ground as much as the air
ZarKLeftys tap the hover button and free fall time to time and if your good with your cool down you should have your jetpack ability to lift you back up again and always try and stay on high ground if you have to fall.
I'm gonna start calling that thing on junkertown "the fidget spinner" now.
Thank you for this, super helpful! You have a new subscriber.
What a nice video, really. I hate Phara but the video is so good I had to leave a like. GJ
Ohhh I love Phara I think I going to play her in the Placm... ohh forgot I usally has to play healer.
I love Gold.
Dude I aspire to be as good as you someday. Bombass pharah player. I practice every day because of you. I'm practicing every day at least 3-5 hours and am almost master playing exclusively pharah and fill if I have too. Your my fucking hero dude and just keep doing your thing man.
Dammit your air rockets are so disgusting lol. What do you think about this movement system update? Should make people a little harder to hit in the air, right? Just for predictability reasons.
Miasmic it’s really hard to hit genjis, harder than before
I’ve not seen this movement update properly, what changed?
Valkia When in the air, characters can perform easy and precise movements. In other words, Genji has become unpredictable and Winston’s jump ability is easier to use
Death from Above no Masters player would call Pharah OP, she is really balanced in higher tiers. In low tiers is where she shines because of the lack of coordination to take her out.
Death from Above According to your videos you are gold not master lol
You're so good ahhhhh~ I want my Pharah to be as good as yours one day
Damn so much to learn about 1 hero xD good vid!
been playing pharah since I started playing ow and my biggest problem is survivability.
with alot of people refusing to play mercy and with ana's that can't aim it's hard to be lethal like with a pocket mercy but this video it's really helpful, a great reminder that pharah has insane mobility.
true, I died a lot more as pharah than junk or soldier. with the buff to junk, I find being junk is a lot more satisfying and effective than being pharah.
You harp on communicating a lot, in this video and others. Today I finally started competitive play (only interested in the gun skin) and found people talk a lot more. However: I don't know what more than half the poop they are saying means. I checked the forums (which is how I found out about you) for a lexicon of some sort, and found none.
How are you supposed to communicate when you don't know the jargon, AND no one (when asked) defines the terms?
Answering that would help greatly! Thanks.
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This is awesome! I now want to be a pharah player😂
Thanks for all the guides!!
Great guide! Thank you!
Great info! Thanks so much!
Insane guide keep up great work
The only thing I would want to change about her ultimate is to make it a little more interesting visually. As it stands, it's activate ult, and become a floating cross-hair as missiles shoot in from off screen.
High quality video good job!
I want to become a pharah main in comp so this helped alot
Yo I would love a video about how to counter mercy cause i'm used to be 4k2 but since mercy rework i'm losing games vs mercy, I always tried killing hitscans like mccree or soldier but with an helicopter flying around every 2 fights rezzing them when i'm low hp (obvious after a 1v1) i die and lose. But can't kill flying mercy while getting shooted from the ground.
Help mercy makes me tilt
And let's not forget friend that pulls big trails and piss on ppl to heal them.
Gosh i hate my life.
well...don't know what rank you are but I guess you have to take mercy down first
Currently ~4100 Pharah main peak 4328
so to be succesful in this, you have to ignore pharah and try pick off the other heroes as they aren't getting heals from mercy, as soon as others start going down, mercy will try to res one of them which makes pharah vulnerable or its only pharah and mercy left so its just cleanup.
I like playing soldier but and I don't want all my pharah training to go away, so i'm gonna play tank or soldier until pharah gets meta (2026 probably)
What mouse sensitivity do you use?
So, I dont know if you covered this in other video(s) but what DPI and in-game sensitivity do you use for Pharah?
Valkia I am a new sub since I watched this video great job!! I think I'll get to diamond on season 8 on Xbox!!
I am but a lowly silver (1800 currently) and down here we rarely have Zarya, however Rein is in most games. Is it possible to combo with a shatter instead of grav? I know grav is better because it keeps them in one area, but can shatter work? I do it sometimes, but my team will 80% of the time prefer to combo shatter with a diva nuke or Ana nano.
Great video its also how to rank up and get a good game sense guide
I am in eu servers and joining voice is really risky even if youre actually helping and calling out targets they do not listen or dont care they care about their own gameplay and about combo ing I think if they are really good with the character they are playing they can combo without using voice and just commands
Moist pretty sure thats common to ow and not the region... got those people in NA too but the more you rank up the best it gets (for the most part)
Do you play on PC or PS4? If on PS4 did you customize you controller layout for pharah in anyway ?
I some times see pro pharah ult in Grav when they don't need it
I only ult when there is 4-5v6 or they have a barrier because you can kill squishys in 2 hits.
Just play her. Most junkrat players never switch
MCKOOKIE hahahaha!
I play both
Olalekan Lawal Same, its the only answer to Orisa's endless shields.
MCKOOKIE Or you get good at junkrat and learn how to kill Pharas in the air. EZ Clap
Sauceke Uchillha Not anymore with that mine nerf amigo
I started to play Pharah on console when i was low plat, made it to diamond and still going
You forgot Genji can deflect your barrage that's more annoying than the D.VA. I'm level 27 Pharah Main, got the game like 5 days ago and did my placement matches and got Platinum, and was wondering if there is any certain things Pharah can do at this lower rank that lower players at plat and gold can't counter
You should make a vidro about the best maps for pharah
when i play pharah my team says something like "they have an ana which is kind of hitscan so swapo the fcuk out"
In what type of situations (Enemy team comps or maps) do you think that pharah wouldn’t be a good pick? Because you have so many hours on pharah, unlike me, what scenarios make pharah almost ineffective to a point where switching would be a better option? Thanks
LKahler against a very good hitscan especially widow on an open map
Genji deflect was missed out i think
1:27? ANY hero? Moira doesnt have weaknesses sillly
so later today is golden weapon day (it’s 3:50 almost 4:00 am). i’m not sure which i should buy. i have tracer, genji, junkrat, and mercy.
mercy, lol after the huge nerf, I don't know if her golden gun is still a valuable asset
Rafael Teles lmao true. they might as well just delete her from the game.
So if voip is banned in my country. What should i do?
Hello! Thx for another video about pharah and your contribution to OW community!
But you said obvious things xD Your guides are helpful for new players, but for everyone else its not at all. Try to create a video with analysis of your mechanics and decisions: why you are diving, why spamming from distance, why switching positions, why dropping height or save it, why some mistakes occurs more often, etc. Also try to analyse how often you play against decent players on pharah-counters and how much you effectiveness depends on it (and why?).
I was pharha 1-trick for 500+ hrs and almost reached master rank before i bought 2nd account to learn another heroes (was 49-th prahah by overbuff btw). The reason why I did that is the understanding that result of almost every of my games determines by 1 thing: do they have person or two with mechanical skill strong enough to deal with my hero? Dont get me wrong - ive became really strong pharah player, maybe a little step behind your level of skill (direct shots, positioning and timings, long-distance shots, gamesens, planning, etc). i just realised that its not my skill that wins the games, but hero (or matchmaking) instead. I dont want to play roulette anymore like a dirty symm-mains xD
So what can you as top-500 player and content creator offer to people like me? im sure that even on my level i can learn a lot, and you can make a great video-series with in-depth analysis (that will help you improve too!). Please, think about it!
p.s. Sry for any mistakes in this message, i speak london not good xD
Those are all in other videos, as explained during this one, I’m not going to copy another video which has that all covered. Watch my G guide to playing Pharah, which explains why I dive, and my thought process
3:11 the golden rule indeed. Also the black plague of lower leagues because maybe (MAYBE) one other player per game will be using their fucking mic.
I always have trouble with moria and soilder 76
I went to bronze to Gold in one set of placement matches (season 8) I only played pharah
Can you do an update for the new buff
One other thing that he doesn’t mention but you see him doing in this video is always left click before ulting. Just a little extra damage for free.
Hey Valkia, got a question. Have you noticed that towards the end of season 6 and the start of season 7 that’s it’s gotten more difficult to play Pharah?
Season 7 has been incredibly difficult for me personally, and I’ve been running her successfully since season 2. With all the buffs to roster, I’m just curious about how you’re doing with all the changes.
well, Junkrat got buffed so he is not as easy a kill anymore, and you have to watch out when you dive him (due to double c mine).
Ana now 3 hits you again, so she is a harder counter now.
D.Va does much more burst damage, and is more of a threat now rather than just a damage sponge.
Widow had a buff to her critical scope time.
Hanzo got a buff to his fire (reload) speed.
Sombra is being used more effectively now, people start to know how to play her well.
Many of the newer people in general have gotten better, the entire skill level of all Overwatch players has risen.
Some Pharah playstyles have changed with the new metas. The increase in dive-ish teams mean you can't sit and spam damage into large groups of enemies and get kills as easily as before.
Idk those are the main reasons I can think of, for most ranks. Also Moira seems more difficult to deal with than many of the other supports, due to her damage and survivability.
Daniel Kemnitz I am a sombra main and her becoming popular is one of my worst fears
Sad part, as a Pharah main its hard to pick her when you have a auto lock Junkrat every game and it makes no sense to have Pharah and Junkrat. I really hope that the Junkrat nerf will lower his pick rate back down some.
In bronze and silver if u solo que and join team chat no ones really there so that’s why I use lfg
4:34 its Over Anakin. I have the HIGH GROUND
I literally ask at least 10 times for my team to please join team chat, but no one ever does, and it pisses me off so much when after they finally do, they blame it on someone else
But if no one is in voice?
I sound pharah one of the easiest heroes to rank up with tbh. It took months rank up with Lucio and Winston, but I did finally hit diamond. When i got bored of them I started playing pharah one a second account, and never playing here before, I hit diamond in the same season I started, and 3300 the next season
I think the first and probably only step: Know heroes of all classes!! And switch for a good team comp...
7:27 "keep track of YOU abilities?"
"Keep track of you abilities!" 😂
So I'm high diamond on my main usually touch masters. Ill flex but mostly play pharah and 76 sometimes zarya. Im a pretty Damn good pharah imo and others....heres my problem though.
On my smurf its gold/plat cuz I like playing with friends in that rank....but when I solo and play pharah its so damn hard because I feel I constantly need to get health packs and I never get heals. So its very hard for me to climb in that rank as pharah but when im in my main playing solo I have great matches but on my smurf is a head ache at times.
Just curious if anybody rise feels this way. Sorry for the essay.
The Bardock im a plat pharah and i usually have to play with a diamond mercy to climb
Valkia what country r u from? 😀😀
Communication is probably better on the US servers. I dare you to try to comm with the russian genji who solo dives all the time, and the only comms from him are complaints about healing.
Not a huge pharah player but i picked her up recently and killed it so im gonna try and finally get into diamond current 2734
Why were they talking about glowing cat urine???
you only see your healers as a healing station feelsobjectifiedman
I'm basically valkia I'm grandmaster/top 500 and play pharah and zarya a lot in those ranks and do similar to him
rule number 1 - dont ever solo q with pharah on console, you will rarely get a mercy even if you are constantly getting picks, and you will usually have 3-4 other dps so no tanks to combo with or to push through chokes, then when you start losing the healer will go dps, the dps will change to widow or torjborn and every1 will just throw. played loads of pharah on console, atm its in such a state that climbing with her is impossible
and when you call out any of the dps who are throwing or playing awful, 90% of time they will come at you with the "i dont care this is my smurf my main account is GM". shit community lol
im just over 3000. lost like 200sr last night flexing so was salty enough to write this comment lol. i dont even really get to play pharah any more due to all the dps n never getting a good team comp so i mainly play zarya and moira among other heroes but yh im on ps4 - who_iz_jcs
yh thats cool, it varies when i play as i work and have other commitments but i try get on at least 2-3 days a week usually in evening
i played pharah season 5 on console and did really well with her. Solo Q player with no need for mercy. I averaged about 30 plus elims a match without a healer. my best game was 75 elims without mercy. It’s not hard to play her without a healer but it does help a little
what rank was you playing at?
Doubt you'll see this Valkia, but my biggest question is how do you practice your direct hits. I've got 100+ hours on her and just recently made it into the top 500 pharah players :3 but my direct hits definitely need some work. Especially in mirror matchups. Watching your highlights makes me mad jealous lol. Those air shots are down right mean. Last i checked you can't use pharah bots in the private matches. So short of having one of my buddies practice as pharah with me, there's no way that i know of to really hone my direct hit skills. Any tips? My ign is JackHarar#1976 would love to play sometime.
I know I am not Valkia but I practice by booping one of the bots in training mode off the map and then shooting it
I would normally say watch on of my current existing videos, but my new answer is play a shit ton of deathmatch, it's really good for fast practice . Keep it up!
Jared Freeman
Want some practice?
Come play some pharah v pharah against me. I may be s lowley shit silver/gold rank. But i assure you... there arent to many pharahs that can go toe to toe with me. In not trying to talk shit or bolster myself by acting tough or any thing... i have no need for that. Ill give you the best example of not to judge a player on their sr rating history.. id love to show people who disregard me cause of of the bs ranking system. At the very least i can open your mind to whats possible... my gamer tag is "ZenRyoku#1518" I don't post ow clips ATM cause i dont have the time to montage all the clips if collected. Ive played OW since launch, i have over 350 hours with pharah alone. And id be willing to put my skills up against anyone. The exception being My man Valk. Clearly he is the best pharah that has ever played the game. Much respect to him.
But seriously. Come see what you can do against me... it would be fun and a new perspective on the exception to the rule that a silver/ gold sr could not possibly be good...
I play a lot of dm now. So typically you can find me in the US server on ffa 8 player château.
ZenRyoku Well at least the ranking system is being reset this season for season VIII
KandleKittenz
Aaawwww.... isn't that cute.... your so naive!!!! I just wanna pinch your cheeks!!!
Useful video
Is a 50% accuracy with pharah on console good
Efr41n_ no one cares about weapon accuracy it's rocket direct hits
Jordstar456 that’s what weapon accuracy is
Efr41n_ u know weapon accuracy counts splash damage, right? I'm top 39 pharah on ps4 you need high rocket direct average to be good but it has to be on characters, not shields to actually be effective. If you want to be effective while playing pharah to a top 500 level which I have obtained then you must be able to get picks on he enemy, clear up, good ults and a lot more which will take a long time to explain so this is why valkia's videos are extremely helpful but this will improve with direct rocket hits and direct rocket accuracy and movements and will gradually improve over time. I used to main pharah but I occasionally play her now and again but I main zarya now. Sorry for long ass paragraph. It's also very hard to explain it on these comments would be easier to talk on mic. You ps4 or xbox?
Jordstar456 I really good with that’s what got me got me out of gold into diamond I was just asking if my aiming was I good I get picks and I’m season 6 when I started using her my comp win % was 76 and I had 17 hours on her I’m not bad
Jordstar456 I’m ps4
I don’t play pharah that much but I destroy as her in comp and it isn’t hard in diamond