Tempo

Long-game management of team ult economy across fights — engineering favorable trades every round.

Pre-fight phase where all 5 players align positions, sightlines, and retreat routes before engaging.

Non-committal pressure designed to extract enemy reactions and cooldowns without taking a fight.

Holding a defensive formation pushed into enemy territory to disrupt their regroup.

Switching heroes to directly counter an enemy pick and nullify their advantage.

One player slipping behind enemy lines to touch or cap an objective while they focus on the fight.

The stalemate phase where neither side commits, and both fight only over space, information, and cooldowns.

Team-wide movement to the next objective or power position, where arrival order and cohesion determine the edge.

The remaining time the attacking team carries into the next round, determining how many fights both sides can afford.

Re-entering the same fight immediately after a disengage, exploiting the window when the enemy has burned through CDs and ultimates.

Deliberately forcing a death — your own or the enemy's — to break a stalemate and reset the fight's momentum.

Real-time verbal calls that synchronize when to engage, disengage, and align ultimates — translating information into action for the whole team.

The player with final tactical authority in-game — setting the macro strategy and unifying all calls.

Staying on the objective under numerical disadvantage to stall the enemy's guaranteed progress or win.

The race to reach the objective first at the start of a KOTH round or Flashpoint point opening, establishing early control.

Using the current KOTH percentage gap to decide whether to force a fight or stall — the KOTH equivalent of time-bank management.

Stepping onto a point the enemy controls in a Control map to halt their percentage gain and flip ownership to your side.