The Unsung Hero

Importance of the Minimap

_______________________________________________________________________________ Your team always has eyes on you via their minimap. Likewise, you will always be able to see the position of all members of your team, at any given moment. You never have the excuse of not knowing where your teammates are. If they do not show up on your minimap, they are likely at base or respawning. This is not true for the enemy team, however, and that's what I refer to as "vision" (more commonly known as "fog of war"). You can get a good sense of how much of the map your team controls by looking at the minimap. Your team's droids show up here as well, along with certain abilities such as Coco's Ball-Lightning. The more you look at your minimap, the more of these little touches you'll start to notice.Map vision is a huge part in assessing your situation and forming a game-plan, and it changes by the second, so you'll be making hundreds of judgment calls in a single game. These are the sort of moments that can make or break your game. Let's say that you see one or more of your team fighting with the enemy. Before you rush to help them, you should ask yourself several questions: Is my team capable of taking care of themselves? Are they just distracting the enemy? Should I take this opportunity to do something else? What happens if I show up just as my team gets killed? You might find that your team made a mistake by overextending, in which case the best action for you to take is to let them die, as sad as that sounds. Most of the time though, youstop/limit what you're doing and go at least see how they're doing.Knowing where the enemy is on the map is just as important as knowing where they're not, and same goes for your team. You want to be in the areas with the greatest opportunities for overall benefit to your team, or the places where you can minimize the most damage. If you see that the whole enemy team is pushing your front turret, maybe sacrificing it to get a strong push on their rear turret is a worthwhile trade-off. Perhaps one of your teammates is fighting 1-on-1 with an enemy. If you stop pushing and go help them, maybe that will result in a kill for your team. All the information you need to make these calls is available to you on your minimap, it's up to you to utilize it.