How to Become a Professional Frontline Paladins Player (PS4)

So you want play Paladins on the Playstation 4 and you want to become a professional? Well look no further, because I am more than qualified to teach you the ways of becoming a professional Paladins frontline player. As of writing, I currently have 608 hours and 4 minutes on the game as well as a 55% win rate out of 2,914 games played. Their are well over 2 million players that play Paladins on PS4 and the highest rank I have ever gotten was 37th in the world! Not only that but last summer I was also renowned by the professional Paladins Playstation 4 community as a top 5 frontline player in North America. So yes I do truly believe that what I have to say is beneficial not only to Playstation 4 players but also to PC players. If any of you would like to check for verification go to Paladins.Guru hit PS4 under the search bar and type in ScrambledEggsGG.

What you will Need

●      PlayStation 4

●      A functional Controller that’s comfortable for you

●      Comfortable chair

●      Open Mind

●      Patience

Directions

1)    First and foremost you need to understand the core basics of the game such as champions, mechanics, and the current meta.When practicing champions you need to at least play each champion three hours in order to progress. This will also work hand in hand with mechanics because the more you play the game the more you will understand what that champion does, as well as what that champion can and can not do. When it comes to meta’s you will need to constantly be experimenting with champions as well as constantly be on top with updated information.

2)    Secondly a lot of people know in order to achieve this you will need time and practice. However, the setback that people unconsciously do is that they practice entirely wrong. When people say I want to become great at this game what they usually tend to practice multiple things at once and that is not the case at all. When practicing your craft you need to understand that you absolutely have to work on something one at a time. For example if you feel like you can’t hit an ability because of the hitbox, keep playing that champion, learn the hitbox and do not stop until you perfectly understand the hitbox. What you don’t want to do is play other champions and occasionally play that champion with that hitbox problem because you will give yourself a major setback and you will never improve. So yes you need to put in the time and practice but, you need to be productive with your time as well practicing things one by one in order to improve which will take a lot of patience

3)    When playing a frontline champion you need to fully understand the role of that champion. There are two different types of frontline styles that you will need to learn figure what suits you best. An offtank plays more of an aggressive role they roam around they tend to deal a lot of damage and they essentially play more like a dps. A point tank plays strictly on the point and are very passive and controlled play styles this also takes a lot of patience and understanding of your teams and the enemy teams positioning throughout the map.What you don’t want to do is play a control tank and play that champion like an off tank. However some champions can play both roles but you need to fully understand step 1 and step 2 in order to figure out properly what champions can play which role.

4)    Another major component that people need to understand are maps which also go hand in hand with positioning. Maps are essential in Paladins due to team compositions and trying to figure out what champions are the best on certain maps. For example in larger scale maps you would not want a champion that does not have survivability, mobility, or small base health, this is because damages champions will tear you to shreds without any of these components. However in smaller maps that are more enclosed, you will have more versatile options to choose from. Now you will be able to pick tanks that are melee and do tons of damage, you’ll be able to pick tanks that do more damage but may have a smaller health pool, and you might even get away with team compositions with only one tank. Now positioning comes into play when it comes to what tank role you are playing as well as what champion you are playing. For example if I am playing a high mobile champion that does tons of damage in a big mad that has highgrounds looking down at the point, your job would be to take high ground and reign the most damage you can on the point and enemies. The only time you should ever touch the point is when you need to trigger overtime or when the main tank dies. Now if your playing a super tanky champion with tons of health, survivability, and no mobility then it is your job no matter what map you are playing on to just sit on point. Nothing else matters you stay on point and try to survive as long as you can it does not matter what your KDA (Kills, deaths, assists) is, the only thing that matters is that you absolutely have to stay on point and gain that point time for your team, the only time you should ever step off is to regain health other than that never leave the point or objective. In order to fully understand the Positioning for champions and roles you first need to fully understand steps 1, 2, and 3 otherwise you will have a lot of wasted practice time as well as a lot of unnecessary frustration.

            Voila! If you can correctly follow these steps you will be well on your way to become the next hot up-and-comer to the Paladins scene not just for Playstation 4 but for any scene that you wish to be in. If you would like to play with me or have any questions for me follow me on Twitch.tv/ScrambledEggsGG I usually stream paladins gameplay here, or add my PSN which ScrambledEggsGG. Happy grinding!