TERM_DEFINITION · ID: dry-ult

Dry Ult

aka ドライウルト · ドライプッシュ · Dry Push · ノーウルトプッシュ

Initiating a fight intentionally without ultimates to force the enemy to spend one or more ults, rebalancing the economy even in defeat.

DIFF
4/5
PRO
4/5
Role TankDPSSupport
Style PokeHybridBrawl
Phase MacroSetup
§ Breakdown [AI-translated — feedback channel coming soon]

When you're behind on ult count, a deliberate push whose goal isn't to win but to make the enemy spend one more ult than you. Where Bait Ult is a single-ult bait, this invests the whole fight as a macro means of rolling back the balance sheet. Misjudging when to leave costs both bodies and space, so the line — "push to here, then pull out immediately" — has to be set in advance. Pulling back as a full team while avoiding stagger turns the fight you spent into a pure surplus in the ult economy.

When to Use [AI-translated — feedback channel coming soon]

When the enemy leads by two or more ults, pushing to burn one or two and even out the cycle. As the setup fight before the real one, where you want your ults stacked.

Failure Modes [AI-translated — feedback channel coming soon]

What was meant as a dry push sinks too deep, you get picked, and you lose both bodies and space. Or the enemy holds ults and absorbs the dry push, so all you did was spend yourself.

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