I've followed you since you started. I have nearly 700 hrs on Pharah now even though I'm still in plat because of bad communication lol. You're my Overwatch role model bro. . Thanks!! and I eagerly await the Experienced Pharah guide!
*shield Additional tip, at 1:14, the maximum recharge for boost is when your fuel dips below the red bar. What this means is that if you use boost just before you hit the red bar, your fuel will recharge back to full. If you go into the red bar, it won't recharge to full.
I learned how to be a great pharah from you back when the game first came out and have been a fan ever since; I'm glad to see you're still teaching people the rocket queen!
You made a comment about using concussion blast to boop a rein out of position. Given his buff against getting booped would you still advise this? I have personally found it quite useless as he barely moves.
Yea generally after his passive anti-cc buff, its not worth it to spend concussion blast on Reinhardt. Only in very rare instances if your own Rein needs a tiny window to help him perform a shatter around the enemy shield or something, then it can be useful. But it's highly situational and requires that you are fully in sync with your team to benefit from it. In most cases I would just use it for myself, or to boop an enemy healer out of position for someone to snipe them or put lots of pressure around enemy shields.
Whilst Rein did have an increase resistance to booping, if it's face to face with their reinhardt and yours, booping will still give your team the slight increase on damage - overall however your statement is correct that trying to do anything of significance won't work as well now as it did before. Potentially might be a slightly more advanced move now than it was before. Appreciate the comment
If it's a stalemate in close quarters, like mechabase with two reins. If I boop enemy rein into our rein, sometimes he panics and we can get a ana grenade on him. Just need boop a meter or two.
Something I would also recommend Pharah players in general, is to get used to concussion blasting behind you instead of straight down. You might see a lot of people saying "just blast it straight down it will move you forward and is easier", which is true in most cases, but the issue with this style is that sometimes the specific map geometry and other small factors might cause the concussion blast to actually hit a surface that is slightly in front of you, which will then send you flying backwards instead of forwards. This kind of inconsistency is completely avoided if you take your time to get used to 180 concussion blasts. When you get used to the 180 blasts, it also has the extra benefit that it will make it easier for you to use the ability on other surfaces, like a 90 degree angle to quickly adjust sideways position etc. Getting used to conc blasting from all angles and not just straight down, is essential to improving your Pharah movement and playstyle towards a much more aggressive and assassin-like style - which will catch more people off guard. The 180 conc blast allows you to easily adapt to all situations, whereas the straight down conc blast is only good for one type of situation and is highly predictable to the enemy.
i missed you! i was one of your first subscribers, valkia, and i remember the moment you decided to quit your old job for streaming! I learned my widow from you and now it is pharah ;) Just glad to have you back man!
Under communicate: please voicecom to your Mercy (if you have one) that you are planning on ulting soon, so she can pocket boost/heal you. Helps keep you alive. I (Mercy) could keep piles of Pharahs alive if I had a heads up.
Another quick too, combining jump pack boost and concussion blast gives you a bigger jump, and if you combine jump pack, concussion blast and a rocket shit at the same time you can get pretty high very fast specially in maps where there more vertical room like lijiang tower, El dorado, Gibraltar outside areas, and eichenwalde
Thanks for this video as someone who did play the first game I came into ow2 with no knowledge and mained phara. That didn't last long because she felt too situational . After watching your video and realizing how good she is close range , I picked her back up and is better than ever with her. And all without a mercy pocket because I often solo cue
If there’s a way to counter the new echo, can you please make a video about that, I keep getting killed by an echo while it’s gliding or just flying around like a mercy.
When someone kills me it nearly always looks like they are extremely lucky with an apparently lost shot, even pharas killing me as a phara, shooting from the ground to the air. To me it looks like they are shooting randomly and by chance they hit me, no matter how far or how between corners I am, they usually shot and the bullet will go in straight line next to 4 corners in order to hit my head. Is it my impression or they are always lucky? Or are they super pro masters at this game? I had read they disabled auto aim. I mean sometthing like what you did at 2:39
It looks like we're missing one of the tips! I would love to say that's an April Fools joke but alas it's not (I watched the video a few times also) I'll make up for this providing another video with some other tips :)
If you play her you can easily clime to plat. Just don’t rage at your healers if it’s a lucio and an Ana let them focus the tanks while you snag up health packs
Concussion blast is pharah’s main ability besides hover, it is impossible to do good on pharah without proper use of concussion. Be sure to use that well
I have a question, I just started playing ow2 like 20 days ago but I have 24-25 hours on the game. I just got ranked silver 3 for dps. How can I progress into higher ranks like gold or plat? I use pharah so I will make sure to remember these tips when playing, but are there any other specific things I can do as a newbie to get a higher rank?
Hey Valkia, thanks for all the Pharah Guides, ive been maining here for 2 months now approx and currently on 40 hours, but i have trouble to get used to use concussion blast to boob yourself. Every time i try to boob.(concussion blast) myself to get to point quicker i dont get that quickly there or i.go.the complete other way with Concussion/Boost, any tips on Angles & places to practise this? Thanks in advance mate! Ps: I play on the Xbox, sensitivity horizon & vertical both on 83.
I main phara. One notion I think alot of ppl have is that phara needs to be in the sky ALL the time. If the enemy switches to widow or another hit scan to counter u..... they give up the advantage of shield break. Eg. If they were running a junkrat and u switch the junkrat to counter phara to smting like a widow or an ash, they reduce significantly their shield break damage. So if u play behind ur shield and focus on breaking their shield u shud win the shield break battle which allows u to focus the tanks or the front line before u switch ur attention. In saying that.... perfect maps for phara I believe are,...... Kings row, Volskia,........ hollywood I find u can control the rooftops with ur concussive blast so that is also a good map. Hanamaura on defense bcuz u can spam the choke as well as finish off kills from the back line. Offense she's ok for first point , second point u gotta swap after barrage. Oasis she is good on 2 out of the 3 points. Lijang she is good on 2 out of the 3 maps.
I always enjoy your videos even tho this didn't tell me anything i don't already know but i would love to see more pharah players. I like having my pharah v pharah duels in the sky lol
I wanna be a good pharah main so I dont stress out my healers. I also want my mercys to know they can rely on me as a teammate. and I wanna match skins with the mercys 👉👈😳
If you're not valkia, or in OWL... .. then there is no *map* to avoid pharah... .. just other comps that are effectively countering you. Like, im no valkia, but ill roll pharah into a dva, mcree, widow and ana comp... .. until they *make* me swap. ..dont avoid *maps* with pharah, just pay attention to team comps (both yours and enemies) ... like, if i queue up and my healz insta locks lucio/moira... ... im just not playin' pharah then. (no matter the map or other team comp)... .. if you're not gettin' *consistent* kills on enemy healz, just switch off. Plain and simple. ..
Just started playing dps on pc, already in plat! I found out I play pharah wrong bcz I ussualy tend to go people standing close to eachother instead of splitting Them of
when a low health enemy is going for a mega l'd recommend getting there as quick as possible (maybe use E) & shoot a rocket under your feet while standing on the mega so the low health enemy can't use it
Well.. What can I say ? I'm an tank main who decided to play dps, and sadly, I love being in the air, I play a very agressive Pharah (And Echo, but much more with Pharah) and I really enjoy playing it, kill the healers first is my mantra. (Exept when enemy team have a hit-scan.. I focus him first, then the healers) BUT ! I'm.. Kind of stuck now, because the level I reached with Pharah (Don't play much in ranked but my friend tell me I have a Almost platinium Pharah) I don't know.. Why, but the healers are far far more aware of the situation etc.. etc... And I know my placements and playstyles are not very recomended with Pharah, but I really want to improve my playstyle and my gameplay. Could you... I dunno... Tell me, or us, how to.. Stay a bit aggressive with Pharah but get better than Gold/Plat ? Or this is totally impossible to play a Pharah like that at what I call, high levels ? I really, really want to get better, like that, my friends could be proud of me and not fear me when I tag dps in role queue !
DrunkenQueen she's still not strong unless you're a good Pharah player. She's like Ashe, no matter now much they change stuff around, she won't be "meta" but if you're good, she's EXTREMELY helpful
Yeah you can't just okay pharah and then win cause there's no counters, you kinda had to already be a pharah main to get some sr out of it. I climbed to diamond season 17 ish, but then fell slowly to low plat, and this week i went straight from 2560 to 3036 in like 3 nights cause of the bans.
The only thing you didnt say (for beginners) is if you've gonna miss with pharah, miss low... .. its rediculous that a rocket launcher head shot *does not* one shot or at least do critical damage to a cigar smoker with a cowboy hat on for defense, but it is the truth.
GOD Loved you enough too send His Son JESUS for you and if you will believe in Him and at baptized in THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON and THE HOLY SPIRIT and turn from your sins you will be saved
I've followed you since you started. I have nearly 700 hrs on Pharah now even though I'm still in plat because of bad communication lol. You're my Overwatch role model bro.
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Thanks!! and I eagerly await the Experienced Pharah guide!
Bro i have 12 hrs and im gold 3
@@bateahahaha1415 that comment was 3 years ago chill out bro 💀
There are only nine tips (9. Fuel management -> 7. Concussive blast)
I just realized he played us lol
*shield
Additional tip, at 1:14, the maximum recharge for boost is when your fuel dips below the red bar. What this means is that if you use boost just before you hit the red bar, your fuel will recharge back to full. If you go into the red bar, it won't recharge to full.
Underrated tip!
I've played Pharah for years since the open beta and never took actual notice of the red bar xD cheers for that
this also depends on how long you wait to use jump jet (because of the delay between fuel recharging)
i'm a Korean Pharah player thank you for the tip!! i want to watch your pharah play a lot!
I learned how to be a great pharah from you back when the game first came out and have been a fan ever since; I'm glad to see you're still teaching people the rocket queen!
this is perfect for me I started off playing pharah and now I'm playing her again.
not exactly new but haven't played in way too long, very nice to see one of your videos again Valkia
You made a comment about using concussion blast to boop a rein out of position. Given his buff against getting booped would you still advise this? I have personally found it quite useless as he barely moves.
Yea generally after his passive anti-cc buff, its not worth it to spend concussion blast on Reinhardt. Only in very rare instances if your own Rein needs a tiny window to help him perform a shatter around the enemy shield or something, then it can be useful. But it's highly situational and requires that you are fully in sync with your team to benefit from it. In most cases I would just use it for myself, or to boop an enemy healer out of position for someone to snipe them or put lots of pressure around enemy shields.
Whilst Rein did have an increase resistance to booping, if it's face to face with their reinhardt and yours, booping will still give your team the slight increase on damage - overall however your statement is correct that trying to do anything of significance won't work as well now as it did before. Potentially might be a slightly more advanced move now than it was before. Appreciate the comment
A small boop can be the difference between a Rein charging one of your team mates, and him disappearing off the map... trust me. 😈
Mr.Tickles his hoop got nerfed
If it's a stalemate in close quarters, like mechabase with two reins. If I boop enemy rein into our rein, sometimes he panics and we can get a ana grenade on him. Just need boop a meter or two.
Something I would also recommend Pharah players in general, is to get used to concussion blasting behind you instead of straight down. You might see a lot of people saying "just blast it straight down it will move you forward and is easier", which is true in most cases, but the issue with this style is that sometimes the specific map geometry and other small factors might cause the concussion blast to actually hit a surface that is slightly in front of you, which will then send you flying backwards instead of forwards. This kind of inconsistency is completely avoided if you take your time to get used to 180 concussion blasts. When you get used to the 180 blasts, it also has the extra benefit that it will make it easier for you to use the ability on other surfaces, like a 90 degree angle to quickly adjust sideways position etc. Getting used to conc blasting from all angles and not just straight down, is essential to improving your Pharah movement and playstyle towards a much more aggressive and assassin-like style - which will catch more people off guard. The 180 conc blast allows you to easily adapt to all situations, whereas the straight down conc blast is only good for one type of situation and is highly predictable to the enemy.
this phara plays are insane! good guide
Hey Valkia. l'm a Pharah main and learning a lot from your vids. Can you do a guide on Pharah vs Echo?
I am a Pharah main and will definitely need tips on chasing down/shooting down Echo.
i missed you! i was one of your first subscribers, valkia, and i remember the moment you decided to quit your old job for streaming! I learned my widow from you and now it is pharah ;) Just glad to have you back man!
Under communicate: please voicecom to your Mercy (if you have one) that you are planning on ulting soon, so she can pocket boost/heal you. Helps keep you alive. I (Mercy) could keep piles of Pharahs alive if I had a heads up.
I started playing with Pharah and this video was wonderful, Thank you!
Another quick too, combining jump pack boost and concussion blast gives you a bigger jump, and if you combine jump pack, concussion blast and a rocket shit at the same time you can get pretty high very fast specially in maps where there more vertical room like lijiang tower, El dorado, Gibraltar outside areas, and eichenwalde
Thank you, ive just started playing her & this is a massive help !!
Thankyou so much! I've just picked up Phara and i'm still pretty new, but i like playing her and i was looking for a main and i've finally found it.
Thanks been waiting for updates a long time, keep em coming
Hi u remember this?
Thanks for this video as someone who did play the first game I came into ow2 with no knowledge and mained phara. That didn't last long because she felt too situational . After watching your video and realizing how good she is close range , I picked her back up and is better than ever with her. And all without a mercy pocket because I often solo cue
If there’s a way to counter the new echo, can you please make a video about that, I keep getting killed by an echo while it’s gliding or just flying around like a mercy.
Great tips, just a question, how do we stay in sky with this nerf to fuel usage? Is it even possible to stay in sky forever anymore?
New to Overwatch and I love playing pharah. Biggest problem was the hit scan but thanks for the tips hope to put then into use to climb out of gold
I like this video but why is it just now on the battle.net page lmao it's months old
yeah and the link is broken lol
I just picked up Pharah thank you for this video!
i really needed this! thanks Valkia!
I really wanna play Phara because I was in a quick match with my friends and this lvl 1 top 500 smurf came in the game and stomped, inspiring
Loved the phara voice trolling video 😊 thx for the tips, I'm learning to play her better since I main her.
When someone kills me it nearly always looks like they are extremely lucky with an apparently lost shot, even pharas killing me as a phara, shooting from the ground to the air. To me it looks like they are shooting randomly and by chance they hit me, no matter how far or how between corners I am, they usually shot and the bullet will go in straight line next to 4 corners in order to hit my head. Is it my impression or they are always lucky? Or are they super pro masters at this game? I had read they disabled auto aim.
I mean sometthing like what you did at 2:39
It looks like we're missing one of the tips! I would love to say that's an April Fools joke but alas it's not (I watched the video a few times also) I'll make up for this providing another video with some other tips :)
miss you on the pharah bro. hope you been good.
This is good stuff, but I love the natural cover of illios ruins.
Just make it *easy* for your healers to heal you.
If you play her you can easily clime to plat. Just don’t rage at your healers if it’s a lucio and an Ana let them focus the tanks while you snag up health packs
Concussion blast is pharah’s main ability besides hover, it is impossible to do good on pharah without proper use of concussion. Be sure to use that well
im loving tip 3
I have a question, I just started playing ow2 like 20 days ago but I have 24-25 hours on the game. I just got ranked silver 3 for dps. How can I progress into higher ranks like gold or plat? I use pharah so I will make sure to remember these tips when playing, but are there any other specific things I can do as a newbie to get a higher rank?
NEW PHARA MAIN I LOVE IT
Hey Valkia, thanks for all the Pharah Guides, ive been maining here for 2 months now approx and currently on 40 hours, but i have trouble to get used to use concussion blast to boob yourself.
Every time i try to boob.(concussion blast) myself to get to point quicker i dont get that quickly there or i.go.the complete other way with Concussion/Boost, any tips on Angles & places to practise this? Thanks in advance mate!
Ps: I play on the Xbox, sensitivity horizon & vertical both on 83.
Thank you
3:40 Wrong word 'Sheild' XD
@@nascorei No, he makes the same mistake at least twice, so obviously he's got the spelling wrong..
Thank you for the video Valkia!!!
Where the rusty Pharah mains at?!
OMG NEW PHARAH CONTENT
I main phara. One notion I think alot of ppl have is that phara needs to be in the sky ALL the time. If the enemy switches to widow or another hit scan to counter u..... they give up the advantage of shield break. Eg. If they were running a junkrat and u switch the junkrat to counter phara to smting like a widow or an ash, they reduce significantly their shield break damage. So if u play behind ur shield and focus on breaking their shield u shud win the shield break battle which allows u to focus the tanks or the front line before u switch ur attention. In saying that.... perfect maps for phara I believe are,...... Kings row, Volskia,........ hollywood I find u can control the rooftops with ur concussive blast so that is also a good map. Hanamaura on defense bcuz u can spam the choke as well as finish off kills from the back line. Offense she's ok for first point , second point u gotta swap after barrage. Oasis she is good on 2 out of the 3 points. Lijang she is good on 2 out of the 3 maps.
I always enjoy your videos even tho this didn't tell me anything i don't already know but i would love to see more pharah players. I like having my pharah v pharah duels in the sky lol
What time are you going to be streaming on friday?
12pm BST
What do you think to the new Pharah NERF? reduced barrage time, slower fuel recharge time, and I'm sure slower rocket firing too.
what's a good sensitivity for pharah?
Thanks this helped alot!
Perfect for me just came back to OW pharah is godlike
I wanna be a good pharah main so I dont stress out my healers. I also want my mercys to know they can rely on me as a teammate. and I wanna match skins with the mercys 👉👈😳
Why don't you recommend learning to lead targets based on distance?
Very useful tips. Could you give a list of maps to avoid with Pharah?
If you're not valkia, or in OWL...
.. then there is no *map* to avoid pharah...
.. just other comps that are effectively countering you.
Like, im no valkia, but ill roll pharah into a dva, mcree, widow and ana comp...
.. until they *make* me swap.
..dont avoid *maps* with pharah, just pay attention to team comps (both yours and enemies)
... like, if i queue up and my healz insta locks lucio/moira...
... im just not playin' pharah then. (no matter the map or other team comp)...
.. if you're not gettin' *consistent* kills on enemy healz, just switch off. Plain and simple.
..
i think i was do the most but the thing with the orisa is new
Just started playing dps on pc, already in plat! I found out I play pharah wrong bcz I ussualy tend to go people standing close to eachother instead of splitting Them of
Same
My console brain can't comprehend the hypersonic turn speed in this gameplay
More guides pls
when a low health enemy is going for a mega
l'd recommend getting there as quick as possible (maybe use E) & shoot a rocket under your feet while standing on the mega so the low health enemy can't use it
l've never seen anyone do that trick other than me
Well.. What can I say ? I'm an tank main who decided to play dps, and sadly, I love being in the air, I play a very agressive Pharah (And Echo, but much more with Pharah) and I really enjoy playing it, kill the healers first is my mantra. (Exept when enemy team have a hit-scan.. I focus him first, then the healers)
BUT !
I'm.. Kind of stuck now, because the level I reached with Pharah (Don't play much in ranked but my friend tell me I have a Almost platinium Pharah) I don't know.. Why, but the healers are far far more aware of the situation etc.. etc... And I know my placements and playstyles are not very recomended with Pharah, but I really want to improve my playstyle and my gameplay.
Could you... I dunno... Tell me, or us, how to.. Stay a bit aggressive with Pharah but get better than Gold/Plat ? Or this is totally impossible to play a Pharah like that at what I call, high levels ?
I really, really want to get better, like that, my friends could be proud of me and not fear me when I tag dps in role queue !
I loved you're video I'm a pharah rusty player coming back, would love to see another video. Definitely earned a sub and like 👍👍
How is the Pharah meta in this week?
Some say she's not strong despite most of her counters are banned.
DrunkenQueen she's still not strong unless you're a good Pharah player. She's like Ashe, no matter now much they change stuff around, she won't be "meta" but if you're good, she's EXTREMELY helpful
Yeah you can't just okay pharah and then win cause there's no counters, you kinda had to already be a pharah main to get some sr out of it. I climbed to diamond season 17 ish, but then fell slowly to low plat, and this week i went straight from 2560 to 3036 in like 3 nights cause of the bans.
Pharah Is So OP In Team Deathmatch And 3v3
far-uh
Good Video!
Since now I know how to play Pharah she’s fun though
I put in my 2 cents b4 im
readin' these comments..
.. it still comes back to #5...
Nice vid thx ":D
Please do the more advanced guide!
best pharah in the world
Im soldier main from tf2 and i like rockets
lol
I main phara now
I'm a new phara main
Valkia They Changed Reinhardt Being Hit Buy Boop So 50% Dosent Move Far 30% Hes Easier Yo Boop
i do play pharah she is cool im a pro of her
tip 3 literally tells you to swap hero
Tip 1: Play someone else until her stupid rework nerf is reversed
Me: Looks at title... Looks at date... Hmmmmmmm...
IAMMERCYLESS hmmm m
Ok, im im-m-m-mimmortal now!
“Sheild”
There is no bad map for pharah
Idk, some maps are very difficult.
@@TheEgyptianGamerGeek there is no bad map if you know how to play pharah
@@Xnoob666 this comment would've sounded so stupid if yznsa never moved to PC and slammed his cock on the table
What to do when you lose?
Blame your team for not pocketing you as mercy
There clearly is no 8th tip. Bruh...
0:12 Closah is easier than Pharah
Fun factor:
#1 pharah
Iliios ruins is my fave to play Pharah on tbh I play her better there
The only thing you didnt say (for beginners) is if you've gonna miss with pharah, miss low...
.. its rediculous that a rocket launcher head shot *does not* one shot or at least do critical damage to a cigar smoker with a cowboy hat on for defense, but it is the truth.
yo its shield not sheild
Why
"Top pharah tips"? holding TAB gives you more information that this entire video
10 tips from master player 😂😂
GOD Loved you enough too send His Son JESUS for you and if you will believe in Him and at baptized in THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON and THE HOLY SPIRIT and turn from your sins you will be saved