u/Dunemummy

Wanted to share some advice for playing Venture that’s been helping me a lot lately

You can get tons of value from just using primary. I know this sounds obvious but I feel like people underestimate how good Venture’s primary is since I see alot of people talking about landing the combo. I used to rely a lot on just my cooldowns to get value but you can get a shit ton of value from just primary alone.

You can bait out cooldowns ALOT more easier with just primary so you don’t necessarily have to throw yourself at the target all the time. You can kill 225 targets with just 3 direct shots and 250-300 with 4 direct shots. Just 2 direct shots alone will make a squishy uneasy and force them to use their cooldowns to survive. You’ll find a lot of success from just sitting on high ground and spamming at the supports to watch them use their cooldowns without having to get hella close to them. I love hitting just 2 direct shots on a Kiriko and pausing cuz I know they’re gonna tp or use their suzu, I also bait ALOT of Ana’s into using their sleep dart and nade from just poking at em.

I just had a ranked game against a Life Weaver that had like 21k healing and 4 deaths compared to the double digits of their entire team but ended up winning cuz I changed my plan to specifically start harassing him with primary and forcing him to use his cooldowns to get away from me. As he’s getting away from me, my tank is pushing like crazy and securing kills on the enemy tank. I didn’t get the kills on the Weaver but just being annoying af made it hard for him to do his job and easy for my team to do theirs

Also a tip I’ll give on hitting more direct shots is using your movement binds to just aim. I’ve been consistently winning a lot of 1v1s by doing this and my aim has never been better. This technique is really important to hit more shots on projectile characters in general but I never realized how useful it was till I started practicing playing Hanzo. You make your life so much easier by letting your opponent walk into your reticle.

ONE LAST ADVICE, do NOT take fights that are unfavorable. Again, obvious, but I feel like with Venture specifically it’s so easy to try and big-dick energy people that are fighting you when you’re at any sort of disadvantage, but it’s better to just disengage and reset than to lose your life. This was the whole reason I used to struggle fighting against Reapers and Junkrats