Season 9 Strategist Positioning Guide
Staggering and dying too much as Strategist? Most deaths come from poor positioning, not lack of healing. Here is how to stay alive, track the frontline, control sightlines, and stop feeding in Season 9.
Constantly scan or listen. Footsteps, ability sounds, reloads, and voice lines tell you where teammates and flankers are. When moving into a fight zone, force yourself to look around instead of tunnel-visioning the frontline.
Do this every few seconds when you have a free moment. This stops overextension and lets you predict the flow before it reaches you.
The main tank sets the frontline. Mirror their forward/back movements at roughly 10-15 meters. Stay in effective heal range but offset sideways (perpendicular) so you are not stacked for AOE. Use natural cover and angles so you have LOS to the tank and team but the enemy does not have easy LOS to you.
- Solo mobile tank diving? Frontline shifts to where your Duelists cluster. Track the tank's return path for heals instead of following the dive.
- Too close = shared damage and easy isolation. Too far = no heals and you are a free target.
Never stand in open space. Hug walls, corners, doorframes, or high ground when available. Position so you can break LOS from expected dive paths (flank lanes especially).
If you hear or see a Spider-Man, Black Panther, or diving tank coming, immediately move behind cover to force them to commit differently. Keep all approach lanes either in view or audible.
Watch eliminations, scoreboard respawn timers, and health bars. If your team is down numbers or the tank is collapsing, stop pushing and fall back to the next safe regroup point (often the next choke or spawn path). If you get a pick first, you can pressure more.
After a lost fight, do not trickle in. Wait for the group or use the spawn switch if available on convoy.
Stay tighter to the group and your co-Strategist. Prioritize cover that breaks their approach angles. Never wander alone into flank lanes.
You can take slightly wider safe angles for better heal LOS, but still never past the tank. Keep natural cover between you and the enemy poke line.
Pull back immediately even if it means a few seconds of no healing. Dying creates a stagger that loses the point. A alive Strategist regrouping is worth more than a dead one who got one more heal off.
Confirm team location before re-engaging. Cover the retreating survivor from a safe path toward the new spawn instead of overextending alone.
- Tunnel vision on the tank or one target and never checking flanks or audio. You get dove from the side every time.
- Standing in the open or on the exact same line as the enemy poke. You are a free pick for any sniper or ranged DPS.
- Stacking directly on the Vanguard - shared AOE damage kills both of you. Stay offset perpendicular.
- Following a diving tank into the enemy team unless your kit specifically enables it. Most Strategists die instantly in the enemy backline.
- Trickling in after deaths or ignoring the scoreboard and respawn timers. One by one is how teams lose points.
- Hard-pocketing a tank while the co-Strategist or a key Duelist dies. Spread awareness across the team, not just one target.
- Overextending for one more heal when the fight is already lost. The heal does not save the fight, your death loses the next one.