Average trials gamers unite! It's extremely easy to blame teammates and go to the next game, but some players just don't know better. Thanks for taking the time to explain simple tactics that will increase the odds of someones flawless journey. Great video sir!

@LeJunny

7 ай бұрын

the thing is, pvp isn’t rocket science. you play passive and team shoot, and stay grounded, I’m sick of teammates running straight to mid jumping and essentially being a sitting duck for the enemy and they do it EVERY… single… round. And to make matters worse, they’re giving the enemy more special ammo, kill clip and super energy per kill. If teammates would stay alive I can confidently 1v3 every round, but I can’t be expected to do that when I’m last man standing and getting pinched from every angle. I need someone to create a diversion, if you lack gun skill ok… just position yourself behind cover so the enemy can see you on radar and get pressured. Map control is the most important thing in a PvP match.

@pikapro951

7 ай бұрын

That or maybe Bungie shouldnt make solo trials an rng fest matching me with a 0.5 every match against sweats

@SnoozzeYT

7 ай бұрын

idk, it's kinda hard to carry a .4 and .7 against a 2.5 when I don't play very often

@PoobahParker

7 ай бұрын

@@SnoozzeYT Agreed, but if the .4, .7 and you all stick together and team shoot or just play zones, it is much easier to beat a 2.5 sweat. Hope you have a good day!

@pikapro951

7 ай бұрын

Me trying to do that in trials every week but the ability spam says otherwise @@PoobahParker

Pro tip from one of the guys who feels like it’s always a 1v3: don’t over expose yourself when you choose to start a gunfight! Too many times I see my teammates peak lanes and have no exit plan for when they get weak. They commit to a gunfight in the open knowing they don’t have the best aim. At least hug cover so a better teammate can easily res you for numbers advantage. Asking to teamshot is too much to ask as it requires good movement and awareness of surroundings which most players seem to lack. Which is why you may get tunnel visioned and easily die from other angles. Make yourself a hard kill and go towards zone. If it’s heavy round GO PLAY HEAVY with your teammates. Sprint towards good angles asap after you spawn in. DO NOT wait in inventory bc you are losing positioning advantage. I’ve faced 0.6 kds that make themselves a hard kill and spray something like an auto anytime I peak and prevent me from pulling off a play. That’s the type of player you want to be.

@PlatinumAssassin

7 ай бұрын

This. Play by cover. Even if you die it makes resurrecting much easier than smack dab in the middle of a lane or open space.

@BahamutBreaker

7 ай бұрын

Agreed! It is WILD how often solo queue players start out a round doing stuff in their menu/inventory or afk. This act is a massive disadvantage for the “inventory-douche” player’s team. A message to those “inventory-douche” players: No, changing your loadout extensively will NOT help that much. It’s WAY better to start the match being active, right from the first second. And if you’re one of those players that insists on queuing up when you KNOW there’s a high probability that your parent, spouse, or child is going to need your attention during the next ten minutes - FUCK YOU. Seriously, wait to queue until later when you don’t have such responsibilities, or just play casual/quickplay/PvE.

@djbreal87

7 ай бұрын

Is Trials SBMM? Because I am beyond frustrated. The enemy team is ALWAYS better. Period. I've played maybe 100 rounds. The enemy team without fail will 5-0 us. Every time. I always get kills. I always get 1 or 2. But im no Frostbolt or cammy cakes or vangaurd. I cant 1v3 and clutch. And the people on my team jsut rush the same point. Enemy team peaking with cloud strike? Better also challenge that with a hand cannon and get blown up. Always the people on my team are absolute garbage. I literally cannot take it anymore. Just one match, I want competent team mates. I have never gotten more than 2 wins in a row.

@Peppy869

3 ай бұрын

@@djbreal87you sound like me. I got four wins straight once though. I usually lose 4 before winning one.

The first step to becoming a winning player is accepting where you are as a player, I myself lost hundreds of matches in trials (I am not kidding in the slightest like 400-500 matches with a win loss ratio that was ridiculous, and an efficiency of around .3 I am not kidding) now I do decent and I’m up to 3 flawless cards all earned, no begging streamers for carries or anything, I would still say that for a trials player I’m just below average, but I am to the point I can hold my own and I’m improving over time. Videos like this are absolute gold every time I watch one of them I usually watch several times because there’s always something extra I gather that I miss the first couple times. This time helped me realize what an actually good flank is, it has to be fast enough to actually be helpful and therefore probably means not quite the big 90 degree angle you’d normally hope for, the timing is crucial, and to many times I’ve arrived to late, not anymore after today, thanks vanguard.

“The difference between getting a good teammate and BEING a good teammate”. This right here is the mindset that saved my sanity when I first came across your content. Appreciate you, TV. Also, the bit about being ready to pivot just now has a stuck couch and Ross screaming “PIVOT” in my head. Thanks for that 😂

Main thing I try to do when playing solo is find the better player on my team and stick with him, then mildly target the better player on the other team to team shot, usually if you’re playing with weaker players they’ll follow your lead based on pure confidence

@ricardocorreia1373

7 ай бұрын

You are lucky, see, I actually get vegetables, like man I’m talking about pure bots who play by themselves like they are some god when they are the weakest d2 player active

@thefourthhorsemanwithornam9314

5 ай бұрын

@@ricardocorreia1373no seriously, the amount of braindead, absolute troglodyte level shit I’ve seen my trials randos attempt is insane.

This is the content I originally subscribed to your channel for! You've always done an amazing job at breaking down PvP tactics. I've become a much better player thanks to your tips. I've gone solo flawless the last few weeks because of all the things I've learned from you TV. Keep the content coming. You're the best 🎉

The reference to The Two Towers is both hilariously accurate and totally practical as advice for Trials. WELL PLAYED

I thought for sure the zone caps faster with more people.

@HankCarver

7 ай бұрын

I think they do but I could be wrong.

One thing I’ll mention as a lesson I’ve learned…..doing the right thing alone while your mates do the wrong thing, isn’t necessarily the right thing. Best to stick w team mates even if they’re not necessarily taking the right action.

@danielbutterfield-sf6vp

7 ай бұрын

Use them as bait...

@chrisb.2028

7 ай бұрын

I suppose that logic can work because the "wrong move" is working alone, but it becomes the "right move" because there's two or more of you doing it instead. It should work, until you get cloudstriked or ticcu'ed at the same time.

@GoDLiKe211

7 ай бұрын

Had this issue with a particular duo this past weekend. If the zone was outside, they'd go in. Inside? They went out. It drove me nuts the first few rounds as I'd push to a good angle in the zone area and end up running for my life as I soon realized I was all alone. I started playing patient with them and we won a 5-4 that had 5 supers in the final round. Wild game

@Flare8124

7 ай бұрын

What if they both go a different direction every time? Lol

@btvitek1671

7 ай бұрын

I mean I know this debatte from League of Legends, sure another genre etc. and more of a teamgame than destiny or any shooter etc. But I disagree, you have to do always the "right" decision, and with time you gonna improve.

I really appreciate the map overview...you should incorporate this idea in the future...kind of like a play-by-play breakdown with the telestrator for football...nobody else is doing this

This is the trials content we need.

As much crap I give you about stuff, I'll give credit where credit's due...you're doing the lord's work with this video. Hopefully some people will pick up a couple things with this info.

Thank you TV. This game is so overwhelming for me and clear objectives like these really help me find some focus. Your guides have always given me hope for this game. I wanna get better and you don't know how valuable stuff like this is. I need teaching and you're very good at it.

I haven't played D2 in who knows how long, but I've been watching your vids since the early D1 days and your channel is always one I come back to and watch even if I'm totally out of the loop with where the game is at these days. Keep up the good work :)

I really want to go to the lighthouse just once. I have been playing for years and see improvements, but usually get 1 or 2 wins...highest was 5. Great ways to be a better team mate.

@danielbutterfield-sf6vp

7 ай бұрын

Don't give up it took me 500 hours to get to a point I can go flawless in pvp went from a witherhoard ape negative kd every game going positive and top frigging almost every game it takes patience but you can do it keep in mind mercy gives you 2 losses which means statistically you can go flawless

Lmao bro, your description about teammates taking a detour through Fiji really resonated with me. That’s exactly how I feel sometimes. Having said that you’re 100% right about playing around that

It was a tough weekend for me 100+ games (even ran a game with Jake and fizzle which was neat) but I did finally Go flawless, for those struggling found that the last day is usually easier for running cards. 1 thing I've noticed this weekend, is that some player's tend to do the same play everytime at the start of the round. If you peak a snipe lane and get picked and procide to challenge and get picked again the next round, that should tell you not to challenge that lane, play your life , don't risk the other team out playing you everytime, change your approach, never do the same play twice , especially when its not in your favor. Don't be predictable, play with your team even if its not where YOU want to go.

I think this video is actually really helpful! I've been too nervous to solo que for trials for fear of driving myself mad, so I believe this helps

These kinds of videos are what brought me to your channel back in your D1 sniping 101 videos! Great content as always.

Best advice I can give for 3’s - Always stay close with your teammates and play your life as best you can.

I started solo queuing mainly because that's just how I play, but now it's become a challenge to see how I can better improve. Thanks for the tips!

It’s funny you post this video with this topic after I just went solo queue flawless for the first time ever this past weekend, great tips and very useful when put into practice!

Excellent commentary and instruction! The graphical examples are great for further depicting the concepts, and the intentional choice to encourage gamers to look at “what can I do better” versus blaming others is a top shelf “S” tier perspective we all should have more of. Love the video my Brother! @TrueVanguard

That knife at 9:10 though. Poor void titan had no idea what he was in for

@TrueVanguard

7 ай бұрын

i feel nothing lol

I loved this! I’m an above avg player on all shooters! Platinum, on here overwatch, 1.8 KD COD etc all solo. not the best but pretty good and you’re right I could be a better teammate. not just get mad ppl aren’t as good as me. I know everyone isn’t going to be as good as me. so if I play I need to accept that and do better 😮 sometimes we need to get called out thank u

Thank you TV for the one video, every D2 solo player should watch♥️

Trials need a loser lighthouse wich you can enter if you lose over 500 games.

This is my favorite video TV has uploaded this year.

Long time fan. Always love your content. Thank you, you've helped me a lot with both Destiny 1 and 2.

Incredible content! Love the attitude and deliberate thought process.

Love these videos - glad you're back 🙂

Hey TG I just wanted to point out having multiple people on the point does in fact make the point cap faster. And not just quicker but drastically. If you are able to battle it out and win or bounce on and off the point. You will drastically speed up the process of capturing points. I am top 500 with 150 solo wins on console this weekend. And the point being captured faster is what made a lot more of my games swing towards the win.

Most chill and uplifting way to say "get gud"! Thanks for the tips!!!

it was cool to run into you in Crucible again. I remember being hyped about getting into a few lobbies with you back in d1

that uruk-hai bit was spot on

Can I say my favourite thing when playing solo is using things I like as apose to meta builds, it makes me worry more about how to make my build work better or how to use it better as apose to my teammates if that makes sense. Keeps my head in the game lol. It also is fun making wonky loadouts every weekend.

Awesome vid man! Lots of folks are gonna find good advice in here!

Great advice, but this works best with mixed skill levels. If you have or are the lower skilled teammate, you can work around your team and push for success. There are plenty of times this is not possible however. I had plenty of games this weekend where the matches were simply un-winnable. Looking at the team-balancing and seeing opponents had 98-100% chance of winning is a bit ridiculous. We had game with double bronze and a silver vs two platinums and a diamond. The skill gap was just enormous and made it truly impossible to take a round. We celebrated if we even managed to down an opponent.

@PennytheWiseVids

7 ай бұрын

Not at all discounting your recommendations for the record. It is all stellar advice and things that I'll definitely be taking on-board in most of my matches going forward.

Good vid and tips. I think weapon pairing tips are good too. Sometimes I see a teammate with a scout rifle and long range auto rifle on my team and scratch my head. Your weapons should/could try to complimentarily cover all ranges, or be sure, to stay out of a lane you have no business in. running a mid range primary with a strong ohk fusion/shotty/sniper or forerunner/smg/close range sidearm will cover a lot of different ranges. Obviously run what your comfortable with, but a scout will not melt an smg user in their space 9/10 times. Another tip. Load into a private match and study the map a bit if you are truly unfamiliar (not likely for how long the maps remain the same lol).

Good content and advice. Love it man keep up the good work.

Why don’t people do what you’re doing TV this is very helpful & never really thought about it like that & opened my mind/eyes a bit more in what I can be better for my teammates

I feel like knowing how your teammates are playing very much helps too. When I'm with really hard pushers it's very hard to play slow. Maybe they are the problem when every round I'm left 1v3 but who knows. Thanks for the tips man. I will put these things into play

@BurningBeard1980

7 ай бұрын

I played with a guy who was "doing free carries" a while back and I was playing all slow with a scout and he railed on me for not pushing. I was the only reason we won any matches because him and the other guy just kept pushing and getting a shotgun to the face. I told him if he was going to say he can carry people, he needed to know how to play the game mode. Ridiculous.

Thanks for these tips man

Appreciate the video!

I really try to stay positive but every weekend I’ve been checking the stats of my team after I’m done for the weekend, I find that 90+ percent are negative KDs and players that do exactly as your described about running laps during the match. I don’t understand the match making anymore but I really hope it changes.

Thanks for this handy trials video during IB week. ./s

The preview screen with enemy exotics and weapons is valuable to determining the likely threat model of a match. If I see a titan melee exotic paired with a shotgun, I know that opponent is going to push hard. If I see a strand or void hunter, I have to pay closer attention to the changes on my radar.

Actually played with you this last Saturday morning. I didn’t realize who I had as a teammate until I rez’d you in round 1. ::Wheeze has revived TrueVanguard:: “Wait, what?” My very own “look Ma, I’m on TV!” moment…

@annamuller9457

7 ай бұрын

Congrats, that is cool! Everytime tv says: see you in the crucible i answer „no, please not“, but as a teammate i would love to see him. 😛

Im gonna be dropping a link to this vid in the game chat! Thanks TV! The community needed this one! ❤️❤️🔥🔥

Great gameplay and solid tips TV 👌

I am one of those duds. That's why I don't play Trails and have been spending more time in the SBMM Competitive playlist to try and get better.

2:43 unless you are SUPER confident you're gonna win a snipe, PLEASE never peek right. The sniper was already posted and left side has peeker's advantage, it is something to think about on spawn and varies on importance based on map. So if you're laning or playing ring around the rosey, force them to either have to turn or peak right on you.

From one Dad to another you’re such a Dad. You can tell from your videos you want players to get better. 😂 👍

This is alot helpful than people like grenadier jake just saying "get good"

I'm a terrible PVP player who only plays Trials to get whatever PVE weapon they have (GL last season, it'll be for the trace rifle this season). I know I'm not going Flawless, but that's fine, I normally play on double XP weekends. My strategy is always to just hug the best player on my team and try to help, but where I really run into issues is when we spawn in and all 3 of us are just kind of standing there looking at each other. At that point none of us know what we're doing (I barely even know the maps and certainly don't know where people like to camp) and it's just an easy wipe for the enemy team.

This is actually great advise

Ryan you cheeky dog, you think we forgot about your old "Cold Spear" build for flawless trials, but we see you!

We all love Legalis, im trying that strat of yours

Super helpful, TV, thanks!

honestly feel like you could start or be on a destiny podcast and it would be a hit

Very Good 1 for the algorithm Thanks

I havent solo queued in a while but being an average player and carrying the team is NOT a good feeling. I find that more often than not I get paired with knuckleheads that abandon bodies and try random unnecessary flanks. When i do get someone competent or downright good its a breath of fresh air because i know at the very least i can support them despite not being super good myself

Great Vid TV any help i can get in trials is appreciated 👌

Thank you TV I have recently learned the hard way. But I also finally got an ignious lol

Showdown is in rotation this week. It's a good play list 3v3 wth revives . Not as much pressure

I'm an average player. I've only gone flawless in Destiny 2 while playing solo. Here are 3 things I try to do in each game. Rule #1 pay attention to he game type. If it's objective, play the objective. If it's regular elimination, don't be reckless. 2. Be aware. Know where your opponents and teammates are, and use the radar 3. Use the right weapons. Trials is about winning, not trying to use your favorite weapon or having fun. Example? If you're not hitting EVERY SHOT, don't run a sniper with a bow for primary and get smacked because you have no close range weapon to counter a shotgun

im always playing with the thought process of unless im in the middle of the gunfight and am the gunfire i need to head to the gunfire thats been my general theory when playing destiny is that im failing my team and teammates if I'm not in the gunfight with them. once we get someone down (unless comp survival) play off that person always have a line of sight to that res in some way while you watch an angle some can come to it and make sure your not watching the same angle or at least have a different perspective on the angles that people can come for the res, and that res needs to be immediately behind or Infront of you. once you can do that and just have halfway decent aim and land just a little bit of hits you can easily help team shot to victory.

It was fun matching you (I was the blink warlock that ate your knife at 9:08).

@TrueVanguard

7 ай бұрын

gg's!

@The_Sap_Lord

7 ай бұрын

@@TrueVanguard👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

Love your vids man

Would love more videos like this!

I went solo flawless for the first time 🎉😁 strand threading spam was very annoying to play against tho.

Your prioritization points on 3v2 are nice but honestly, if players are consistently getting to a 3v2 advantage, then having a match flip on them is probably not going to happen often enough to be a real issue. The biggest issue is being able to get a pick with all your teammates still alive. That's really the key problem to solve and I don't feel like it was addressed in this video. If I get the first kill with cryosthesia, then X Again, once you have a 3v2 advantage, you've solved the hardest problem.

🤣🤣Great info but the best part was the "...don't be an Aragorn."

Loved the LotR reference! 😆 great advice!

Dude, those knife kills at 9:00.

Despite not wanting to touch that god forsaken gamemode I still enjoy watching guides like this

While any player can try to follow these good rules, you would expect your teammates to follow those, and hopefully your opponents to not follow those. So ultimately it still comes down to needing good teammates and not so good opponents, in relative terms.

Thanks for the tips

Please more videos about tactics on pvp!!!

Got you on my team for one, against me on another. You were shredding with that glaive man

@TrueVanguard

7 ай бұрын

gg's!

Great video. I'm one of those players that attempts to be a good teammate. I've been flawless a couple dozen times, at least 20 of those solo. Unfortunately, I'm not good enough to carry brain dead players, but can usually not blow it for good players unless the other team is cracked, then I always seem to get picked. Can't tell you how many times I'm behind a good player, using cover, but get a sniper to the dome when the shot misses the guy 20 feet in front of me but I'm the loser. 😂

I`m gonna go flawless ! thank you TV :)

Great video! But we also need these build craft videos too haha

Well said TV.

Solo Sniper carry is the best way to play solo Q if you practice your sniper head shots you can have some control.

I try trials every season, or really about every two months. When I can get 7 games (win or loss) without cheaters, I’ll actually try. So far, since release of trials, 5 games is the most I’ve gotten without cheaters (which was before the mercy card change, so I went 5-1 and then 5-2, no flawless due to cheaters 100%). 1K+ games total

TV doing the Lord's work haha

Great tips mate...👍

Love the Brazil comment... that's me sometimes lol

Good tips

I hate being frozen. This gameplay is triggering my ptsd 😂😅

I love this game, but I can not seem to improve at all. It like I know what I need to do, but I catch myself doing the wrong things and losing gunfights. I want to be good at the game so I can enjoy it even more, but I just don't know that it'll happen. I'd like to get trained by someone that is good at pvp and patient enough to teach me. All too often I run into teammates who just talk crap in the chat box or game chat the whole game instead of helping me out.

Awesome video

Well said.

I love that you have almost 300k subs now

2 of the 3 times I went solo flawless were on weekends with "dud" weapons, if a streamer talks about a weapon from trials and endorses it in any way there will be strong trials players farming it, non-meta-adept weapon weekends are best for first time flawless hopefuls.

I find if I'm running longer range weapons, it's better for me to play babysitter on the bodies and let the smg do its thing. It's boring but works. Usually, i find the guy that dips for the revive.

Nice Glaive gameplay! Do you have any tips? I’ve been trying to make them work again in PVP but haven’t had consistent results.

I gave up on improving in PvP. I hit a ceiling and barely touched PvP in a year. These vids are cool, tho

Great vid TV, I've been all the way solo a few times but need to work on being more consistent and confident in myself during this process, I'll work on executing this advice on the upcoming Trials weekend and probably watch it again Thursday