Guild Wars 2

Like the title said my question is about support guardians in Solo Q. I know they are an important part of a good team in Team Q but that is with an organized team, on team speak etc.

As a support guard I have noticed recently that I have been losing more games than I should. The thing is I have been playing well. I have stayed alive, kept my team up, secured stomps and rezes with my stability giving abilities, even bunkered points solo for minutes on end until help could arrive.

But still losing.

So I got to wondering… Maybe going full support (AH, Virtues builds. Even with int. sigils) and having so little offense is gimping my team. There is no way I can kill anyone 1v1…like ever.

When I play my turret engineer(I know everyone hates it and AI is bad for the game and all but that’s another topic for another day) I can bunker a point and kill almost anything that comes knocking while giving out boons via experimental turrets trait. It gives far far les support than a guard but way more damage and cc. I have 256 rated soloq games on my Engi and 151 wins(Champ Genius title just this week yay!)

Sorry kinda sidetracked TL:DR Is a full on support guard a bad choice for soloQ compared to other bunkers/supports because of lack of offense?

As someone who largely prefers to play a roamer, and back cap I’d have to say no, you aren’t gimping your team simply by playing a bunker guard. You CAN kitten your team if you all are bunkers and no one has the power to take a point back when it is eventually lost. You have to have a certain degree of balance between roaming and bunking in your group. In my ideal group 1 guy is the immortal bunker, 3 guys are constantly roaming making uneven fights and 1 guy is bouncing between home and mid fighting. Usually with the immortal bunker largely in endless fights on mid.
But that’s just what I’ve had the best luck with in my matches.

Bunker guard in soloq can be really frustrating when you get people that don’t know that bunker guard should be doing, let you afk on mid or just run off to teamfight without you. If you have decent people that somewhat know how to rotate and let you do your job you can carry games, especially teamfights even when your team doesn’t have the most mechanicly skilled players.

Also you can hold some 1v2s forever which can be kewl.

Apart from skyhammer where teamfights aren’t really a thing and really low MMR where people have no clue how to play with a bunker guard in your team it’s definetly really useful.

Funny…I find that I have a pretty strong win % while playing a bunker guard in solo Q.

That being said, I run 0/0/2/6/6 in solo Q instead of an AH build and I primarily use Hammer & Sc/Sh (depending on the map) for the knockbacks.

If you can find any videos of Tage I would suggest checking them out.
He is one of the best guardians I have ever seen, and I bet you could learn a few tricks from watching him play.

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If you can find any videos of Tage I would suggest checking them out.
He is one of the best guardians I have ever seen, and I bet you could learn a few tricks from watching him play.

tbh kinda over rated now that i watch his streams