Should you wait to counter or use your ult liberally?
Hello mantis mains, I'm a low rank mantis (plat) and I used to always save my ult to counter an enemy ult or to try and rescue the tanks or another teammate from dying.
There were a few problems with this, mainly that when waiting for a good moment you get to ult less during the game. Since mantis' ult charge fills so quickly right now with the star lord teamup, you spend a good deal of the game sitting on 100%, waiting for the enemy to fill up. Other problems include that the dps sometimes die in a split second or far away out of position and when you ult it's already a 4x6 and not ideal, and then you think ulting would just be a waste at this point and try to save it for the next fight. Another problem is when the enemy team will combo ults together and kill you inside your ult anyway, so you wasted your ult advantage keeping it. But at the end of the day, nullifying an enemy ult can be good.
Recently in a game a dps player (lol) asked us supports why we save our ults instead of just ulting when we get to point and everyone is alive, and I've been trying that. It's very brainless of course but I get to ult like 6 times during a game when I used to only do it 4 or maybe 3 times when waiting. Usually something dies but even if nothing gets killed, you just forced the enemy to give space for 8 seconds multiple times which can be good, and sometimes an enemy will even ult randomly to avoid dying and just waste it.
Since, again, mantis ult charge fills so quickly right now, maybe it's best to just spam it to maintain ult advantage for the whole round and pressure the enemy team into bad ults?
What do you think?