Hi all!

Due to some requests to show a few more of the hazards removed from playgrounds, here is post #3 for this year. Depending on how much I get done before winter, I will probably have one more post before the season ends.

The knife i found was in the playground behind St. Peter's elementary school. I contacted the police about it because it was close to swings and obviously deliberately placed there.

Be safe Miltonians!

-Scott

Hi C&D Mains!

As long as you are at 97% or above when she jumps Ult jumps you, your ice heals you and tops you up. Remember to ULT BEFORE YOU COME OUT OF ICE. You can ult right from the ice block. This is important for team fights in general, when you are getting low HP and want to ult but not die instantly, top yourself up with ice and then hit it.

-INSANE CLOAK

I have found about 50 sharp objects in the wood chips just over last year. Keep your kids safe and make sure theu wear shoes at our playgrounds!

Hope to reach them this season - INSANE CLOAK

Replay ID: 103083117621

Please take a look if you feel like watching a great game. I think C&D mains can benefit from it as it is a short game. I would love some feedback on any of my mistakes more than anything.

Note: I am in a lower rank because I dropped to Cel 1 at end of Season 9.5 then did bad in placement matches.

-INSANE CLOAK

3 games away from OAA. Time for the loss streak but wish me luck! Solo queuing C&D only as usual.

-INSANE CLOAK

Apologies for the match found at the end. Was obviously queuing as I was recording the clip.

Remember that this can be done for Thing stun as well.

-INSANE CLOAK

INSANE CLOAK here from PC. Please add me in game if you ever want to quick play!

As per multiple requests. Here is a list of all tips I have posted that are not irrelevant anymore (past patches make some older tips inaccurate or irrelevant now)

Please comment on any that you think should be added or edited and I plan to make this a live post that I will edit often. I am open to conversation and anything I write and I hope to get some good feedback to make this a great tips post that new and experienced C&D players can reference. I am under the philosophy that even if a good cloak player laughs at 99 of my tips but learns from 1 of them, I am glad, because their toolkit just improved!

***Note I will clean up spelling mistakes and my -INSANE CLOAK name after every post and renumber everything soon.

Let's work together and raise that overall win rate on C&D for all platforms!!!

TIPS FOR THE BEST CHARACTER IN MARVEL RIVALS: CLOAK AND DAGGER

- When you are dumping in heals holding leftclick towards your front line. Always aim for the DPS's feet. They are most likely to get picked or two tapped and you can throw bubble without thinking since you are aiming at feet already.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Make it a habit to always focus on positioning. Every reload, you should take a look around and ask yourself "Is this the best possible place to be positioned right now?" Remember that C&D is usually best at close to midrange so you can maximize and flex with your toolkit.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Do not use abilities unless you have to. It sounds obvious but really focus on it during gameplay and you will see a big difference. example: during a team fight, your 2 tanks and 1 dps all take damage at once and this looks like a perfect time to use your heal wall... but just left click and wait 3 seconds and they are all full health again and you still have your cooldowns. This goes for fading and especially bubble.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Hold right click during ult or when fade is on cooldown to fade at earliest point possible. (to avoid mag ult etc.)

Also practice doing this when changing forms to fade. Press shift and right click and hold it as almost the same time.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Learn your left click lines from spawn! Almost every map has a way for dagger to toss heals towards the point or payload from spawn or a few steps out of spawn. You should always be healing when you die and respawn but your team is still alive.

-INSANE CLOAK

- I am going to retype and simplify this one. You can "drop" on enemies, spooky rectangle and fade out. Use bubble for last part when you should be near your front tanks.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Your dagger left click locks onto allies after a bounce but not enemies. If there is a group fighting and you want to hit your tanks, it is much more likely to hit them if you bounce the shot a few feet away from the group. Also, when you are very close to one ally like your healer, toss heals at their feet and dont try to hit them directly because you can still miss at that range but never miss if you bounce the shot.

I acknowledge that I have posted situational and more of alternative cloak things but I am going to keep it more real.

-INSANE CLOAK

- When you are about to reload with dagger, switching to cloak and tossing spooky rectangle at enemy team and switching back to dagger is good time value as well as obvious gains on backing off enemy team.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Your light wall and spooky rectangle effectiveness depend on where your crosshair is. If there is a strange holding up shield, groot wall, emma crystal etc. you can still hit enemies by placing crosshair slightly above (or to left/right) the shield because the bottom half of the rectangle will still hit target.

-INSANE CLOAK

- When you are caught in an Emma ult, you can fade and ult right away. I always tell my other healer I will go first when enemy has an Emma. Usually I wait a couple seconds for an enemy to combo with the Emma and you can essentially cancel out 2 ults.

-INSANE CLOAK

- When your bubble is on cooldown and there is a dive on you or you are getting low in a fight, fade and go up as high as you can to buy yourself a few seconds for bubble to come back up. Fade should almost always be used as the last move for survival except vs Spiderman or to avoid abilities/ults.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Left clicking with cloak builds ult! When invis or whoever your other healer is ults and you don't have it, you should be holding left click on cloak and building up your ult since heal is obviously not going to build it.

-INSANE CLOAK

- When you use spooky rectangle. It is very effective when you peek a corner and use it rather than being front/center and predictable. I like to heal from usual spot midrange then approach a corner, bubble my tanks and step into it, toss spooky rectangle then step back and hold your other cooldown for another spooky rectangle or light wall as you see fit.

-INSANE CLOAK

- I found out that some of my opponents tracked me by nameplate picture. My name is hidden but they see me dominate a game and look me up, see that I'm an OTP so next game they see if my level and nameplate match and then C&D gets banned. Also please remember to make yourself invisible on your social settings.

so general advice is to change your nameplate every game! this big time applies to high celestial eternity and OOA because you see the same people very often and they get to know you.

-INSANE CLOAK

- When enemy healer ult is up, you should be getting ready for a whole team spooky rectangle as soon as the ult ends. By getting ready, i mean positioning so you are in a good spot to hit everyone and dps a healer down and saving both charges. Learn the timing on Luna/invis and cloak for this. Usually your team healer ult is up to match so you can save your cooldowns.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Fade when walking out of gate at start of round every time. on domination maps you move everyone faster a little bit (whoever doesn't melee or do their own movement ability) and on other maps you dodge spider mines and other abilities thrown at the door.

-INSANE CLOAK

on spider convoy map I always fade then spooky rectangle to the right between the structure and on herbie map I fade the spooky rectangle the corner or up top if I see a dps.

in general, this gives a bit of an edge out of the gate and enemy team doesn't expect it.

- When you are coming back from spawn, in a weird position or trying to heal your one divers, you can use fade and get up as high as you can and then toss your bubble where you want it. It is waaaaaay easier to pinpoint the spot where you want to bubble at higher elevations looking down rather than straight.

-INSANE CLOAK

- On payload maps especially. Ult in a straight line right back to their healers and try to go past them to the default retreat path. Spooky rectangle and burst down a healer to force them to ult or force them to heal eachother. This creates space and forces your team to hold W. I can't tell you how many times I caught a shark, loki or rocket sitting waaaay back and I catch them alone.

EDIT: I just want to expand on this a little bit because I need to stress how deadly and effective you can be as cloak.

When you get up close to your tanks, spooky rectangle enemy team, and ult right through to the backline, even without canceling out an enemy ult for value, you should 100% wipe the enemy team or force a healer ult. Every time. I have been working on my aggressiveness with the ult and I have been ranking up and getting more SVPs and MVPs. Like ALOT more. You are deadly as fuck with cloak and the biggest threat in every game.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Back to the basics! Healing dagger bounces and still locks on to allies. When it bounces it does NOT lock onto enemies. Think about these mechanics and how it plays out with the small adjustment on your healing shots.

Homing Radius: Once the dagger bounces off a surface, it will lock onto and track the nearest ally within an 8-meter spherical radius.

​Healing Area: Upon impact with an ally or surface, it creates a small spell field that heals all allies within that same 8-meter radius.

So you have a group fight and you are far back. If you shoot directly into the group, it locks onto closest person, enemy or ally but if you bounce it just before the group or off a wall, now it automatically bypasses enemies and hits an ally. Gives the enhanced healing for the direct hit and also the aoe.

-INSANE CLOAK

- You need to be spooky rectangling the enemy team way more. When you are in a default position and while team is up, you should be approaching and spooky rextangling the enemy team approx every second reload. It is crucial to time this with divers diving and certainly any offensive ults.

Just try to double the amount of spooky rectangles you are using per game and you will see a massive difference. Remember that when enemy team is purple and blinded, not only does your team see it and get bloodthirsty but enemy team naturally backs off and shields up so you can catch up on healing too. Sometimes when tanks are getting low, i will spooky rectangle on reload instead of lightwalling my team as it is actually very defensive.

-INSANE CLOAK

- When you are in a group and approaching a point, you should be shooting your daggers straight down at the floor. They will bounce and heal whoever gets ticked at by the range damage. Keep your head up a little bit and watch the hp bars with peripherals in case you need to use an ability. It is much more effective than looking around trying to spin 360 and heal people right next to you. It's a pretty basic move but it may save someone from getting 2 tapped.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Okay another back to the basics! You need to track all 5 members of your team basically all the time. If you have flyers or odd position dps, it is usually better to simply back up and get everyone in your view so you dont need to look for them. It is hard to track hp when you need to snap your neck above or behind you.

I am almost always "precasting". Which is dumping heals towards team even when everyone is full hp. When a squishy gets shot you already have a heal coming in without needing to react.

Try to find the sweet spot where you can dump heals and have minor movement with your aim to hit a different team member.

Example: defense on Kun Lun. You have hela and namor on roof, tanks low on left or right. You need to back up to the structure behind point and precast your heals on dps when nothing is happening and simply drop cursor down when tanks are hit. But I do not take my eyes off the dps and my heals go right back to them once I top off tanks. You can walk up when enemy team is pushing so you can use your abilities more effectively. Usually I would call to my dps to drop down. The point is they are always in my view and I can save them from a 2 tap rather than reacting to them getting hit and scrambling to heal when usually this is too late.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Be a nasty cloak. Get up in their faces and pick off the squishies. You can fade out anytime you are in a losing position. Be flexible and unpredictable.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Bait the enemy ults into your fade. You should be tracking all the burst ults. Mag, Strange, Buckeye, shark etc. Try to intentionally go out of position and look like an innocent dagger just trying to heal your team and when you see enemy getting ready to pop, you can almost always switch to cloak and fade it if you see it coming.

I really don't care about tracking jeff ult because at any point if he ults, you can switch and fade on reaction. you CANT DO THIS FOR STRANGE but luckily he is probably the easiest to track. (he is either nowhere to be seen and is doing some drop down trick or he is approaching aggressively and about to jump and ult.

I have a dialogue to myself at the beginning of a match when I am up against certain enemies "I will fade every strange ult, I will not get hit by mag ult while I'm ulting, and I will make that shark swap."

Hype yourself up and focus on tracking ults to make your promises to yourself a reality!

-INSANE CLOAK

- Okay I will try and explain this one.

Sometimes when you are healing from behind your tanks and they are not walking towards point, it can be very frustrating. I'm sure you've yelled at your screen or on your mic to walk up and get space. Often, I will walk ahead of my tanks, turn 180 degrees and heal them as I'm slowly backing towards the point.

Sounds weird but it encourages your tanks to walk up and you draw fire off of them. Yes you will get shot at but you know your kit and how to survive. When you are out of position like this, the enemy team looks at you like a juicy piece of meat and tries to pick you. As your tanks approach, you can fade back to proper position and use that momentum and the fact that enemy team usually goes out of position during this move.

-INSANE CLOAK

- You can portal while in ult. It throws their mag a curveball when you ult and make it seem like you are out of position only to hit a portal and avoid his ult. Usually I save last dash or at least half of it's length for hitting a portal and then stand in the piece of ult that goes through it so I can spooky rectangle and burst down any dps that chases me through.

Edit: I am referring to the portals on certain maps (not all maps)

-INSANE CLOAK

- Survival is the best parse.

You should prioritize your own survival over pretty much everything except for desperate moves when you are about to lose a point. I know this sounds obvious "just dont die bro!" But if you really make an effort to keep your deaths down, your overall effectiveness and average healing will be way up.

When you know a strange portal is coming in. Yes throw a spooky rectangle at the first couple that trickle out and help dps but don't be on the point in the scrum. Back up and be safe and remember to heal. Just in general; remember to let your dps and tanks do their job and just make sure you put yourself in low risk positioning during every fight so you can keep your team up and keep yourself up!

Next game just focus hard on your positioning and try to have a zero death game. See how you feel and let me know!

P.s. I am really bad at taking my own advice. I get bloodthirsty and do really stupid things sometimes that I 1000000% could have avoided dying from. It is okay to be sneaky and pop up in front of a hela holding high ground to surprise her and stuff like that but this is a once in a while move and not something that should be part of your routine gameplay.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Very often, I find myself kind of lost during a fight. I am healing and spinning around like crazy trying to keep track of everyone as well as avoiding enemies. I find when I simply back up and put distance between myself and the battle, it feels like I can breathe again and I have way more control of the fight. I mentioned this during a post about strange portal. When enemies are pouring through, you want to help burst them down but there is a point when you need to not be greedy and remember to sustain your team. Remove yourself from the point and scrum and keep your team alive.

So just try this. Play like you normally do and if you can't see all 5 other teamates at the same time, back up until you can. Play from there and walk up as you use spooky rectangle or heal wall then back up again. Just play further back than you normally do. Even if you save one dps from getting picked, you did 10x more than being up close and helping dps yourself. Just one left click on a dying teammate could be the difference between a win and a loss.

-INSANE CLOAK

- You know when you are in a crazy fight and soooo close to getting your ult... you see it, 96%.... 97%... 98%... 99%!!! only to die as you get it!

You should 100% be focused on the fight and sustaining yourself and not even look at your ult %. If you get your ult and then react and smash Q, you lose half a second or more which could be the difference.

Tip is HOLD Q DURING THE FIGHT. as soon as ult is hot, it will trigger. Focus entirely on sustaining and what is actually happening and don't worry about looking at % or reacting. Doing this could make the difference!

-INSANE CLOAK

- Stop caring about your average healing number! I had one of my best games yesterday when I stood on cart whole time and let my Loki ult 4 times in a row before I did once. I think I had 8k healing whole game. It is important to use spooky rectangle on burst damage and let your other healer top up when you have your ult and they don't. ALSO, average healing per game is MUCH higher at higher ranks. I remember how it is in gold and diamond when team doesn't group up and are way harder to heal. In higher ranks, team is so grouped and coordinated and my healing is naturally way higher.

-INSANE CLOAK

-When you are not in a position to spooky rectangle a group by the peaking method (see tip #13) It is okay to only hit enemy tank(s). BUT please time this wisely based on their shielding. When you see strange's shield getting smashed, you don't wait for it to go down. Watch the damage going into it and you spooky rectangle above their head so they still get hit as their shield goes down. Remember to hold left click with cloak as you use your ability. Never let go of left click during this - never a need to alternate. When you time this well, without any help, you can take a chunk out of the tank which makes other teammates blood thirsty and they focus too. Bonus points if you use your mic and call out when to burst damage. I don't que with anyone but a well coordinated team can time abilities with your spooky rectangle to destroy any tank. I want to reiterate how strong spooky rectangle ability is. It is the strongest ability in the game to swing a team fight IMO.

-INSANE CLOAK

- It's okay to fade just to reposition. During a fight, when you are in the middle of it all, it is okay to "waste" fade by throwing bubble down to keep team alive while you reposition to a safer spot to heal from. This is much better than standing in the fight and dying! Remember you can fade to a health pack and pick it up while in cloaked form and as always, before you fade, throw spooky rectangle at everyone you can to conceal where you are moving to a bit better.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Back to the basics! Heal wall and the 8 shot rule.

When you are in standard healing position (mid range) and you are just trying to keep your grouped team alive while they get hammered. Remember that when you use light wall ability, you have 8 left click dagger shots at higher healing before the wall wears off. This is alot of time and should be optimized most of the time.

Many situations require a heal wall when you have less than 8 shots or even 0 shots before reload just to keep someone alive, giving your other healer some sustain while you reload.

Remember to time your reloads wisely though. If you heal wall with 12 shots and shoot 4 times and everyone is topped up and not taking crazy damage, why are you still healing? Switch to cloak, throw a spooky rectangle and do some dosing. By the time you finish this burst, walk back to position as you switch back to dagger and you have a heal wall hot again.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Learn another healer or two.

Guys... it's over for one tricks... today's tip is that I am depressed since cloak gets banned every game. I am scared to even do my placement matches because cloak got banned in first 5 in a row.

I am taking time to play quick plays and learn other characters. I have 3400 ranked games played on cloak and my next best healer is rocket which I have about 40 games played on. I will never get back to top 500 one tricking for sure.

Good news is that I learned alot about healing in general and tracking my team which is a very transferable skill to other healers.

-Sad INSANE CLOAK

- Don't stop healing your team when you get a dive on you. Don't ping them to get someone to peel. Just endure it and be smart.

When an IF, venom or DD dives you. Instinctively you dps him or bubble right away and left click him for aoe heals just trying to stay alive. Don't do this as that's what dives love and are going for. Instead, keep healing team, start walking towards the group. When your hp is about half, bubble yourself, keep healing team. When bubble is done, wait until your hp is about half then fade. Now left click an ally or the diver to stay alive for 4 seconds until bubble is up again.

By this time, your team should have won the fight because it is a 6 on 5.

-INSANE CLOAK

- When you have your ult hot and your other healer doesn't, you should be on payload while they are with the team holding and getting theirs. You should not be healing at all when team is getting poked at and you have your ult while other healer doesn't.

Once you both have ult, call out what the play is based on enemy comp.

You should be communicating.

"Hey guys I cant see you from payload. Back up a bit to the corner"

"Okay invis, when you get your ult, back up payload with me so I can ult first for space"

"DD is coming to stall payload"

Etc.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Ult to backline. Enemy team turns to 6v1 you. You get close to them, fade towards allies and as always, spooky rectangle when coming out of fade. Always backing up towards allies. Practice this combo, it is the best for space and on canceling enemy ults out.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Use frozen haven teamup... if you have oblivion shroud, change it! I met someone in QP yesterday that said they didn't even know you could change it.

-INSANE CLOAK

- C&D is best played as a midrange healer. You should be able to walk up to corner or tank line and spooky rectangle/dps and fall back to mid line to heal. (Other healer should be behind you). This is so you can flex using healing rectangle from this range and also have an effective ult, saving tanks or countering enemy ults on first dash. I see way too many C&D players playing way too far back and not being as effective as they could be with better positioning.

-INSANE CLOAK

- instead of trying to get close to your team to fade strage ult and save them, stay back in mid range and after strange ults, step forward into fade range and then fade while your teammates are stunned. This works for Thing ult stun as well. It's one of my favorite cloak moves!

-INSANE CLOAK

- Understand this mechanic to be a smarter healer. There is a maximum 5-meter radius (sphere) around the point where the left click main healing dagger hits the ground to where it locks onto to a teammate. This is important for healing around corners or around obstacles.

I see cloak and dagger players bouncing their heals far away from allies hoping to angle their shots perfectly but it is so hard to do and there is no auto lock on for this.

In short. When your teammate is around a corner or obstacle, shoot your healing dagger and make it land somewhere within 5 meters of them in any direction. Do not try and bounce off a far wall or high ceiling. Once ally is healed, by a connected dagger, it will do the 8 meter AOE heal as always.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Survival is the best parse. If you need to fade during a brawl to reposition and not die. DO IT. Don't let teammates yelling at you for switching to cloak affect your play style. You can't heal if you're dead.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Get in the habit of re-evaluating your general positioning and taking note where all 5 allies are every time you reload.

You should pretty much always know where your team mates are but when I reload, I like to look around and ask myself, "is this the best possible place for me to be positioned right now?" And "am i in the best place to track all 5 of them and save them if they get dove or 2 tapped?"

Force yourself to treat almost every reload as a time to reflect on yourself and your team positioning.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Pick a skin that you love and never change it. You get used to the sounds of your last few healing shots, the sound of your switch between dagger / cloak, heals connecting etc. Also seeing yourself in different states from cc's and picking up on subtle visual ques.

This is one that you can sacrifice for fun by switching between skins of course and it makes little difference but I really got used to one skin then I changed it and started playing worse and missing my timings etc... maybe it's just a me thing but I think there is an advantage to always keeping same skin.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Use the frozen teamup to not die to namor ult we can't fade from!

-INSANE CLOAK

- When you get jumped by a dive, there are two scenarios. 1. Either you are alone (respawning or staggered or QP) and out of LOS from team or 2. more commonly, you are healing under pressure team when you get dove.

It goes, spooky rectangle them on the way in and hold left click as cloak. Switch to dagger when 75% hp and left click at close range while jumping and strafing. Then snap bubble ground at 25% hp and top up to over 50% then back to cloak and spooky rectangle and dps for 5 seconds. Back to dagger and hold left click. When 50% hp again you FADE UP and spooky range down and dps as you drop, before you even hit ground you should be dagger and then freeze team up. After max time in frozen state you back to left clicking. Bubble back up and repeat.

Ping diver. Walk towards your team while healing them. Bubble yourself if needed while healing team. When 30% low you fade towards team and heal them when you come out of it. Then you frozen teamup to save yourself at low hp. And turn and ping them again while you are chilling for 3 seconds.

Notice how you never left click or dps the diver in scenario 2.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Use the new frozen teamup to hodor (hold a doorway) on choke points and for jumping on strange portal for block.

I also have been using the teamup to take space because of what I call the "hulk shrinking phenomenon". Pretty much when you see hulk turning to Bruce Banner, what happens? Every enemy stops and is thirsty to dps and kill him when he's done changing.

This same concept applies to frozen teamup. When I step up between enemy tanks and healers and use it, enemy team gets distracted and everyone turns to me to kill as soon as ice breaks. BUT of course I fade out and spooky rectangle enemies. This is a great great way to swing a fight.

-INSANE CLOAK

- When your ult is hot, get in the habit of lining up your team in front of you and being close enough to hit all of them with your first dash of your ult. If you are two dashes behind them, they are dead from many possible enemy ults or ult combos. Of course have your line planned to push to enemy healers, the point or to shake mag ult.

Remember to call who is ulting first so you don't double!

-INSANE CLOAK

- YOU DO NOT HAVE YOUR ULT UNTIL YOU HAVE IT.

I had this bad habit of being in a good position with about 95% ult and then instead of staying where I was and sustaining my team, I would walk forward or into a bad position in anticipation of using my ult to counter, but soooo often, instead, enemy says "oh wow look a this juicy C&D out of position" and ults you and you have 98% now and can't counter.

SO, advice is to ALWAYS wait that extra 7 seconds to GET YOUR ULT FIRST before moving into pre-ult position as mentioned a couple tips ago.

-INSANE CLOAK

- YOUR SPOOKY RECTANGLE IS CRITICAL ON SWINGING A FIGHT.

As C&D, you are the perfect balance between group sustain and BURST offense. I am almost always sustaining and only when optimal, I am playing an angle and spooky rectangling enemy team. (You do this when you see an enemy healet cooldown go off. Lamps, c&d bubble, etc.)

You should almost never have 2 spooky rectangle / light rectangle charges hot (unless way out of combat or respawning) as C&D or you are throwing.

-INSANE CLOAK

- When you need to use your fade as soon as cooldown allows, when you are surviving with dagger, with 2 seconds on cooldown left, switch to cloak and HOLD THE FADE BUTTON before the cooldown is over. You will fade instantly.

Note that this also works for cloak ult. When you want to fade a mag dunk at first possible moment, hold the ult button down during your last dash.

-INSANE CLOAK

- (36) Stop caring about your average healing number or heal number in a game!

I had one of my best games yesterday when I stood on cart whole time and let my Loki ult 4 times in a row before I did once. I think I had 8k healing whole game and he had 24k. I would rather make a clutch save on a flying DPS with 300 healing than dump 3k into a tank that my other healer is sustaining anyways while my flyer dies. I spooky rectangle often and boost teammate kills/dmg at my own healing number's sacrifice.

ALSO, average healing per game is MUCH higher at higher ranks. I remember how it is in gold and diamond when team doesn't group up and are way harder to heal. In higher ranks, team is more often grouped and coordinated and my healing is naturally way higher.

PLEASE IGNORE YOUR HEALING NUMBER AND FOCUS ON THE WIN

-INSANE CLOAK

- I am going to get hate for this one but I am going to explain it anyways and hopefully good cloak and daggers will understand me. Note in advance that this is situational but doing things not by the book is so often high value. Especially in eternity+ when many players are by the book in terms of general positioning and strategy.

I do this move all the time even before the luna team up but now this just enhances it. I refer to it as the "double rinse".

So here's what you do.

Walk into line of fire of enemy team right past your tanks. Usually take a bit of a side angle. Enemy team will laugh and be like omg what a dumb cloak. They instinctively fire at you for being out of position. You then luna team up. When ice breaks you spooky rectangle, fade back behind tanks while getting elevation during fade and spooky rectangle again. Then switch to dagger and left click. You have your bubble hot to save yourself and tanks if enemy presses.

The point of this is the spooky ractangle, fade and immediately spooky rectangle again. I have been doing this for ao long but now only am conscious of it when I am thinking about these tips I write.

I think I am going to link a video for this one so you can better understand the positioning. I will paste link here later today as an edit.

-INSANE CLOAK

- I am going to get hate for this one but I am going to explain it anyways and hopefully good cloak and daggers will understand me. Note in advance that this is situational but doing things not by the book is so often high value. Especially in eternity+ when many players are by the book in terms of general positioning and strategy.

I do this move all the time even before the luna team up but now this just enhances it. I refer to it as the "double rinse".

So here's what you do.

Walk into line of fire of enemy team right past your tanks. Usually take a bit of a side angle. Enemy team will laugh and be like omg what a dumb cloak. They instinctively fire at you for being out of position. You then luna team up. When ice breaks you spooky rectangle, fade back behind tanks while getting elevation during fade and spooky rectangle again. Then switch to dagger and left click. You have your bubble hot to save yourself and tanks if enemy presses.

The point of this is the spooky ractangle, fade and immediately spooky rectangle again. I have been doing this for ao long but now only am conscious of it when I am thinking about these tips I write.

I think I am going to link a video for this one so you can better understand the positioning. I will paste link here later today as an edit.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Learning new "tech", non-typical moves, or rare situational responses and having the experience to know WHEN and HOW to use them is what separates a really great Cloak and Dagger to a Godly one that makes people's jaw drop.

Put a fuck ton of tools in your toolbelt and put in the TIME to master them all.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Walk into a fully spidered up Penni nest and use your luna team up and watch all the spiders die against you. Nest is cleaned up and your team can push.

-INSANE CLOAK

- When you are respawning and you need to dump heals to the point to keep rest of team alive. You can fade and get as high as you can to get a good line, switch to dagger and throw your healing dome at your team. When you land, as usual, find that angle and dump in regular heals.

I spectate a low rank cloak and dagger yesterday and saw that they didn't heal at all when they had the angle and position to do this.

-INSANE CLOAK

- When you are in a battle and you are next to ult, use the luna team up and then chill out, look around and pick the smartest direction, then use your ult WHILE YOU ARE STILL IN THE ICE. You will not die to anyone camping you because your hp will be topped up by the teamup.

Point is, you do not need to wait for ice to break to use your ult and this is certain to prevent the "ITS US AGAI-" we have all heard.

-INSANE CLOAK

- I am going to reiterate something that is too important not to.

YOU ARE NOT A HEALER. Half of you is a scary guy that can do insane burst damage.

You NEED to spooky rectangle more and double rinse more (spooky rectangle, fade to mid height and spooky rectangle again).

I do not care about healing numbers. Keep your team alive and stop left clicking as dagger when everyone is 100% HP and you have a racoon dumping heals too. You are doing nothing. Help with the aggression and give your DPS the edge.

-INSANE CLOAK

- Spooky rectangle coming out of fade and spooky rectangle as you are going into ult. I do these so much I would say for fade 75% of the time and ult 90% of the time.

-INSANE CLOAK.

- "Precast" more.

When you have an ally (especially DPS) that is peaking or out of position getting an angle like Hela/widow, you should be dagger healing even when nothing is happening. Reacting to an ally like this getting 2 tapped is way too late. You can save your DPS so often by doing this. Drop your accuracy % a bit and get in the habit of precasting.

When your tanks get pressed and your healer needs help with them, be in that position when you can pivot.

I like to play both lanes and be close to tanks at normal midrange so I can walk up, spooky rectangle enemies at an angle then back up to healing. I take it as a death myself if I let a DPS die that I could have saved just by not being greedy on the tank heal dumping. Trust your other healer to do their job.

-INSANE CLOAK

-When you have hood teamup on, you can make your ULT silent with no "IT'S US AGAINST THE WORLD!" by immediately pressing the spooky rectangle button (or healing rectangle). This almost always ensures mag won't ult in time and you can make it to your 4th dash. Remember to HOLD FADE BUTTON on your last dash to fade on frame 1 when last dash of ult complete.

Go to training mode and practice.

Edit: This works with Luna team up as well!!! I didn't know that but I tested and it does. I feel dumb not doing it in last 400 games... thanks all for teaching me something new

-INSANE CLOAK

- Fade up to iron man or mag ult and freeze in their face to absorb it. Trading two abilities for the ult cancel is often clutch!

-I've been spectating alot of good C&D players lately and watching clips for those that PM'd me and I see a very common efficiency not being used properly.

When you are healing your team and you want to use a quick spooky rectangle, you should be doing this with 3 things in mind.

1: Your shots left with dagger should be low at 2 or 3 left so you take advantage of the reload by switching to cloak and back. Bubble yourself team first to sustain them if fight is really intense. Remember that often a spooky rectangle to throw off enemies and make them hold S a bit is often better than healing rectangle on your team.

2: You should be walking up to surprise enemy team with the spooky rectangle by peeking a corner or angle with it. You should be walking up while healing to a spot where you can hit as many enemies as possible, not just from mid range where you just hit the tanks. Do not switch to cloak and walk up to do this, you should be switching to cloak only when ready to throw the rectangle.

3: >>>PRACTICE SWITCHING TO CLOAK, SPOOKY RECTANGLING AND SWITCHING BACK TO DAGGER.<<< This is what I mean by good players not doing it properly. You can get this down soooooo smoothly that you get 2 or 3 healing shots in with dagger that you wouldn't have because of how inefficient the swap and spooky rectangle was done.

It takes alot of muscle memory to get this perfect but it makes suuuuuch a huge difference during gameplay if you are better at this swap. It is so important to time properly to swing a team fight. When I spectate C&D players my eye starts twitching watching them swap and do this incorrectly 90% of the time.

-INSANE CLOAK

Remember that your spooky rectangle will travel where the center crosshair is. If someone is behind cover (even on the other side of a wall or behind mag/strange shield) you can hit them by the edges of the rectangle clipping through the obstruction.

-INSANE CLOAK

I'll try and use short videos when explaining some stuff rather than walls of text for the future.

-INSANE CLOAK

Fun meeting you guys and chatting. Always feels good to get a shout out!

-INSANE CLOAK