Viper Double Site Defense Setup on Pearl
Wall allows you to cover A main, Art, and B link. Orb allows you to cover B long
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The orb gives the attackers wayyyy to much space for completely free, have a chamber, jett, or reyna preferably, but anyone truly works to hold that down with a medium-long range like sheriff, marshall, vandal, operator preferably, or even a ghost or bulldog. The wall on A main is great, but giving up mid is another downfall of this lineup, still pretty cool though!
wdym by the orb giving up too much space?
the orb allows attackers to take B main, holding it down and not letting them push up like that is alot better then smoking it off
you can turn the orb off and on
+ thats just the standard position the normal viper wall was placed
the only difference is that it is now coverable with one orb
what is now coverable with one orb?
the b main choke
one way to think about it is smoking off the choke between site and A long on haven, its essentially the same
thats always been coverable with one orb, it still allows attackers to take B main
no it wasnt
there used to be gaps until this patch
oh right
mb
still, the wall gives up mid for free, and the orb gives them B main, its different then haven because A main is not as valuable on haven as B main on pearl
B main is less valuable on pearl than A long is on haven
how so?
its impossible to defend properly without a yoru or old chamber
theres not enough defending spots
you essentially either fight aggressively and take all of B lobby at the start, giving up other map control, or you give it up and hold site/play retake
this is something that occurs both in pro play and in ranked
A main on haven is not hard to defend if you have a flash or a sentinel which im pretty sure youre gonna have
even a cypher can handle that
if you take B main as an attacker, flanking is pretty much impossible
putting them right next to site can lead to a gekko wingman and harbor cove plant which you would have to play off of
gekko and harbor both being in the meta
and taking mid as attackers shuts down rotations through mid
which leaves only tunnels and heaven to defend on site if they play retake
2 chokes that has like 8 angles you can stand from
its better to have B main open and use your orb on B link so you can hold it down