Two more tips/explanations 1. Dr. Strange’s anti heal only kicks in after you have 100 dark magic for a few seconds. After you get anti healed, the dark magic will slowly go down until it hits 0 during which you can’t build up any more dark magic. Avoid this situation as much as possible since a few seconds of anti heal can be pretty deadly. 2. Dr. Strange can one shot characters in his ultimate by charging his dark magic to 100 or near 100 and then using his E to hit both the body and the soul of the people stunned in the ultimate. This will one shot most squishies and is generally what you want to aim to do when you use the ultimate if you think they have a defensive ult like Luna snow, mantis, or c&d ult since one shots cannot be healed through.
So the ULT doubles the hit box? I didn't realize you could hit the soul for 50 and the body for 50 with the same ability for 100 total damage (just using random numbers).
Nah the ult splits the the player into two separate bodies like Hawkeyes ult. Youre not doing 50 on body 50 on soul, you're doing 100 percent dmg on body and 100 percent dmg on soul. You saw how his stacked blast does 70 percent of Lunas health. Well now it does 140 percent of it
@@porkcoffee2683 pretty sure everyone can, but you don't get the full benefit unless you use an aoe to hit both the soul and main body. Granted, most dps don't care and can kill anyone in the full stun duration.
Another tip is when you pop your ult, and combine it with your E it actually does double the damage since your hurting both their physical form and soul form
This is sick. I started using these techniques and I immediately improved. I don’t think it’s mentioned here, but Doctor strange can actually cancel the last fourth-ish of his reload animation but putting up shield. When you see your ammo go to 8/8, pop your right click/L2 and you’ll have a full magazine and your team defended. Hope this helps
another way if youre too focused looking at the centre of your screen is that his animation you can hear a clap when he puts his hands together and that is actually when it refills even tho the clap is 3/4 into his reload timer like you said
Yo please keep doing these kinda videos with all the current high rank players and their hero picks! Highly underrated channel right here, you deserve more likes
Damn it’s crazy that this popped up with only 8 views. Good video though. Barrier is actually pretty op, when I realized it could block ironman’s max pulse I tried using it to block everything. I didn’t realize it could block Scarlett’s ult too. Cloak
Finally. A bunch of "guides" seem to just go through the basic kits of the character and sprinkle in some *so you should use this AOE ability when everyone is bunched up* tier of advice. Thanks for just assuming we know/can figure out the basics and getting to the point with some great tips. Also I love his Cloak :)
Cloak! 😁 Thanks A LOT for this guide. Doctor Strange is a very interesting character to me, but I hadnt figured him out yet. Lets see if that's changed! 🤩
thank you so much for watching and supporting i really appreciate it this should def help you ive been playing him so well in my diamond lobbies and i havent spent that long on him its just about knowing the mechanics
@Prez54 I agree! Most people wont play Vanguards or Strategists unless they are forced to, but if they were to give them a chance they would find out the mechanics of a tank or support are just as interesting as that of a duelist.
@@SageHorizon99 honestly as ur rank goes up you realize theres less weight on ur shoulders if ur on dps u better be getting the picks and finding their supports or ur getting yelled at vangaurd is just straight up fun for me to play in my rank but to be fair i use to grind OW so i know these games well
Even more tips You can use the levitate to escape melee or choke points to give your heals a couple seconds to save you if you're getting dangerously low. You can cancel his reload animation at about 75% of the progress bar (shown on your cross hairs) with a melee or a shield. This is specifically for maps/points with only two exits from a spawn location. You can use the portal to wall off players; keeping those who just respawned from joining the fight or contesting the point for about 20 seconds by placing the portal in front of both exits. If you have a strong Hela/Hawkeye/Punisher you can act as a personal shield for them to allow them to dps more safely, often giving them a huge advantage in a fight. This is particularly good with The Punisher when he's holding a choke point with his turret or he's taking an aggressive angle for his ultimate.
Cloak , this video was very helpful as I’m trying to get better at strange I realize how effective the shield mechanic is as I always used for blocking till my shield is gone thank you so much
The dark magic is a big part of the game plan, weaving the melees means that you're getting an extra 10 dark magic every primary fire guaranteed, charging it almost twice as fast depending on your accuracy. With the hulk team up, I've gotten kills on supports while they were in mantis/Luna ult if you just do a well timed primary+melee+100 dark magic.
Cloak. Thank you for the advice. My friend made it to top 100 on Xbox and watching him play Strange is fascinating. It helps to see a different perspective as well so thank you too.
Good stuff man as a dr strange main this helps alot, it feel like the aoe dark magic expell seems to not be as strong as it seems depending when i play but ill keep it mind. Also shielding the hela ult if you fly right to her face is hilarious if you ever get a chance to do so. another one placing portals can give a huge advantage i like to place one above and behind the enemies and have a buddy play punisher with his turret down by the time they find the portal its almost too late. Also cloak
❤ thank you for watching all the way through and supporting I’m so glad I helped I 100% feel you bro the duelist are so cool and everyone wants to play them so I felt like I needed to learn tank since I solo Que
I’ve returned after a session of comp grinding and I’m happy to say that not only did this guide make me better at Dr. Strange- it 180’d the experience of playing him and I got more MVP’s than I’ve had playing anyone else while climbing ranked. Started at the bottom of silver and I was in gold by the time I got up for pizza 🎊
Definitely appreciate finding your insta post lol I been like mainlining strange for like a week, and hope to figure out some of the finer points you made, been trying to combo a bunch more with portals and still getting better at portals sometimes they are confusing. Cheers dude
Great tips. As a Doctor Strange main, I co-sign on all of the advice you gave in this video. People in the comments have already elaborated a bit on the Anti-Heal and how/when it kicks in. To expand further, one of the less known effects of his team up with hulk is that when teamed up, max dark magic will no longer apply anti-heal. This takes away the draw back of being at 100% dark magic accumulation, allowing you to be a lot more risky in combat. In addition, while teamed up the radius of his maelstrom of madness increases from 8 meters to 10, and his damage output per point of dark magic goes from 1.3 to 1.5 meaning when detonating at max dark magic it hits for 150 HP. If you hold your ultimate until you have max dark magic, you can Ult then immediately detonate your maelstrom which will hit your enemies for 150 DMG and also hit the green soul behind them for 150 DMG, for a total of 300 HP which effectively one shots any player in a 10 meter radius that isn't a vanguard. (Also cloak, cause I made it to the end of the video.)
I've been a strange main since since I downloaded, and most of these tips i learned on my own. He's a super fun and relatively easy character, and hopefully they don't nerf him for people putting out pretty easy to learn info.
I'm surprised the shield/shoot/shield/shoot strat works so well against Hela and Hawkeye, but Strange's shield does come back up pretty dang quick. Back in OW, I used to play Reinhardt and do this exact same thing, but you had to watch out for Hanzo and Widow because allies would assume they were safe and shielded and just get picked. You've got me excited to try out Dr Strange some more though! Thanks for the excellent, concise and smart guide!
tbf you could def time it but this activates so much quicker than Reinhardt's does stranges activation is like instant, also he does have to swing a big a** hammer😂 but im glad i helped i hope i helped this is a another version of rein so if you liked him you should like this too, just cant pin the supports into walls that was so fun on him
This was something they did like right before launch i believe, Strange's anti takes like 3 seconds to even start so balancing it out with maelstrom is super easy.
Appreciate it I don’t really use the the portals though unless to get to a point fast when we need to but I have gotten better and my team now likes when I’m doctor strange
Cloak! I am trying to get better with Strange but most the time I'm playing strategist (Rocket, Loki, or C&D) but this helped for next time I get to play vanguard!
A tip I’ve learned is use levitate to counter wolferine dashes. They love to target me, but if you’re patience, wait for him to blow his cooldowns, and levitate away.
They nerfed Psylocke's ult in Season One so that she also targets shields in addition to enemies, so holding your shield out is actually a good idea because it spreads her damage amd slashes to more targets
The anti heal debuff only happens after you have a full charge for like 3 seconds if you don’t expel. You’ve probably never been debuffed since you use it in time
Doctor stranger is my favorite character in the mcu so naturally I wanted to do the best with him and I wasn’t finding his groove but hopefully this changes things 👌🏻
havent been able to tell if it weakens the damage but since you shoot multiple daggars you can melee fast enough that only 2 daggars come out. Faster melee and shooting. Just
The anti heal takes a second to actually give you the debuff it’s like one or 2 seconds probably why you don’t notice but I’ve been noticing because I use my e and build my darkness back up so fast I can’t use my e before it hits 100 because it’s on cool down
CLOAK i just played Dr Strange, and i won cause of a great portal that i made, so im watching videos about him so he can be my second vanguard to play.
Something i noticed on reload. You just need to wait about 60% of the reload timer or until you see the yellow flash and arms come together. you can't shoot but you can block/melee/aoe/levitate about a second sooner. Though I would assume the melee aoe and block would be the best option.
Two more tips/explanations
1. Dr. Strange’s anti heal only kicks in after you have 100 dark magic for a few seconds. After you get anti healed, the dark magic will slowly go down until it hits 0 during which you can’t build up any more dark magic. Avoid this situation as much as possible since a few seconds of anti heal can be pretty deadly.
2. Dr. Strange can one shot characters in his ultimate by charging his dark magic to 100 or near 100 and then using his E to hit both the body and the soul of the people stunned in the ultimate. This will one shot most squishies and is generally what you want to aim to do when you use the ultimate if you think they have a defensive ult like Luna snow, mantis, or c&d ult since one shots cannot be healed through.
So the ULT doubles the hit box? I didn't realize you could hit the soul for 50 and the body for 50 with the same ability for 100 total damage (just using random numbers).
Nah the ult splits the the player into two separate bodies like Hawkeyes ult. Youre not doing 50 on body 50 on soul, you're doing 100 percent dmg on body and 100 percent dmg on soul. You saw how his stacked blast does 70 percent of Lunas health. Well now it does 140 percent of it
wait can only doc hit the soul or can everyone?
@@porkcoffee2683 Everyone can hit the soul which should do more damage. But aoe would hit both effectively doubling your damage
@@porkcoffee2683 pretty sure everyone can, but you don't get the full benefit unless you use an aoe to hit both the soul and main body. Granted, most dps don't care and can kill anyone in the full stun duration.
Another tip is when you pop your ult, and combine it with your E it actually does double the damage since your hurting both their physical form and soul form
Mental!
This is sick. I started using these techniques and I immediately improved. I don’t think it’s mentioned here, but Doctor strange can actually cancel the last fourth-ish of his reload animation but putting up shield. When you see your ammo go to 8/8, pop your right click/L2 and you’ll have a full magazine and your team defended. Hope this helps
another way if youre too focused looking at the centre of your screen is that his animation you can hear a clap when he puts his hands together and that is actually when it refills even tho the clap is 3/4 into his reload timer like you said
Yo please keep doing these kinda videos with all the current high rank players and their hero picks! Highly underrated channel right here, you deserve more likes
Thank you so much bro I appreciate it so much ❤ im definitely doing more of these and already working on the next one right now
Damn it’s crazy that this popped up with only 8 views. Good video though. Barrier is actually pretty op, when I realized it could block ironman’s max pulse I tried using it to block everything. I didn’t realize it could block Scarlett’s ult too. Cloak
❤🥲 thank you so much for watching all the way through and for the feedback I really appreciate it a lot I’m glad I showed you something new
how you play strange and don’t know that 😂😂😂
you can block against strange’s agamotto too. think of it as a see through wall
4:20 you can have it at 100 for a couple seconds before the anti heal kicks in
Finally. A bunch of "guides" seem to just go through the basic kits of the character and sprinkle in some *so you should use this AOE ability when everyone is bunched up* tier of advice. Thanks for just assuming we know/can figure out the basics and getting to the point with some great tips. Also I love his Cloak :)
He's the only character in the roster that I didn't understand how to play and felt the need to watch a guide. Thank you for this video!
cloak! awesome video. dr strange has recently become my favorite tank in the game so this was awesome to watch
Cloak! 😁 Thanks A LOT for this guide. Doctor Strange is a very interesting character to me, but I hadnt figured him out yet. Lets see if that's changed! 🤩
thank you so much for watching and supporting i really appreciate it this should def help you ive been playing him so well in my diamond lobbies and i havent spent that long on him its just about knowing the mechanics
@Prez54 I agree! Most people wont play Vanguards or Strategists unless they are forced to, but if they were to give them a chance they would find out the mechanics of a tank or support are just as interesting as that of a duelist.
@@SageHorizon99 honestly as ur rank goes up you realize theres less weight on ur shoulders if ur on dps u better be getting the picks and finding their supports or ur getting yelled at vangaurd is just straight up fun for me to play in my rank but to be fair i use to grind OW so i know these games well
@Prez54 Same, Im completely used to people not wanting to play either Vanguard or Strategist, so for me is another Tuesday jajaj.
Even more tips
You can use the levitate to escape melee or choke points to give your heals a couple seconds to save you if you're getting dangerously low.
You can cancel his reload animation at about 75% of the progress bar (shown on your cross hairs) with a melee or a shield.
This is specifically for maps/points with only two exits from a spawn location. You can use the portal to wall off players; keeping those who just respawned from joining the fight or contesting the point for about 20 seconds by placing the portal in front of both exits.
If you have a strong Hela/Hawkeye/Punisher you can act as a personal shield for them to allow them to dps more safely, often giving them a huge advantage in a fight. This is particularly good with The Punisher when he's holding a choke point with his turret or he's taking an aggressive angle for his ultimate.
Cloak, this helped a ton, thanks for making this!
Thank you for helping me. I was playing Dr. S So defensively and my overall Damage was minimal!! Keep up Bro!
Cloak , this video was very helpful as I’m trying to get better at strange I realize how effective the shield mechanic is as I always used for blocking till my shield is gone thank you so much
Cloak, I really appreciated this video, I've been learning dr strange and this rlly helped.
Thank you for this video really wanted to learn how to play doctor strange well👍
Cloak
Been loving this content dude keep it up much love bro
THANK YOUUUUUUU i got more coming cooking up a good one tomorrow on such a fun character cant wait to put it out
Thanks for the tips, I've been looking to elevate my Strange gameplay!
Cloak, keep these uploads coming ! They are so helpful!
THANK YOU❤❤ i appreciate the support
I genuinely didn't know there was any type of separate melee attack this changes Dr. Strange for me lol
The dark magic is a big part of the game plan, weaving the melees means that you're getting an extra 10 dark magic every primary fire guaranteed, charging it almost twice as fast depending on your accuracy. With the hulk team up, I've gotten kills on supports while they were in mantis/Luna ult if you just do a well timed primary+melee+100 dark magic.
THATS NUTS i wish i tested that and put it in the video
thanks for the info and for watching btw
Thanks for taking the time. Much appreciated.
Cloak, good stuff ty! I've been sleeping on Strange playing Groot mostly, but I just can't anymore... Strange is too good.
Cloak.
Thank you for the advice. My friend made it to top 100 on Xbox and watching him play Strange is fascinating. It helps to see a different perspective as well so thank you too.
Aye Cloak! Great video dude
Cloak! Great video! I'm trying out Dr Strange this week for the first time
God DAMN an actually useful explanation that shows things people didn’t know! Thank you!!!
glad to help
Nice CLOAK tips! Definitely more motivated to play and get my Strange on!
Thanks for the great vid!
Good stuff man as a dr strange main this helps alot, it feel like the aoe dark magic expell seems to not be as strong as it seems depending when i play but ill keep it mind. Also shielding the hela ult if you fly right to her face is hilarious if you ever get a chance to do so. another one placing portals can give a huge advantage i like to place one above and behind the enemies and have a buddy play punisher with his turret down by the time they find the portal its almost too late. Also cloak
yeah i covered that in tis video i like doing that too much love thank you for watching ❤❤
It's nice to see my favorite MCU character be an actually decent character in MR
Cloak! Splendid, straightforward guide. Thanks a ton👍
Cloak. Great tips, this will definitely take my Strange play to the next level.
Thx a lot i was having some problems understanding how my e ability worked also ya i watched the full video CLOAK
cloak best video I've seen yet on how to play Dr Strange!
Great vid, I've been wanted to play more Dr. Strange
Great video, learned a good bit, with some decent tech ideas here. Cloak
Cloak. Good stuff using this as we speak knew it had to be extra tech with strange
This guide was impressively informative wow man
Cloak! Great review! And I followed you! Always glad people like you put the time in to explain these heroes! Happy holidays
Great guide man. Im starting to play vanguard more because no one else wants to and when i go again enemy stranges they're insane. (Cloak)
❤ thank you for watching all the way through and supporting I’m so glad I helped I 100% feel you bro the duelist are so cool and everyone wants to play them so I felt like I needed to learn tank since I solo Que
@@Prez54I feel like tanks are the most fun I don’t get why people avoid playing them? I’ll gladly play them
I’ve returned after a session of comp grinding and I’m happy to say that not only did this guide make me better at Dr. Strange- it 180’d the experience of playing him and I got more MVP’s than I’ve had playing anyone else while climbing ranked.
Started at the bottom of silver and I was in gold by the time I got up for pizza 🎊
Cloack bro great great tips all around great job
CLOAK! You earned a new subscriber! Keep em' coming, great info!
Cloak bruh. Clicked the video because i didnt see a selfie on your thumbnail. Sure enough i was hit the facts from start to finish, no time wasted.
Definitely appreciate finding your insta post lol I been like mainlining strange for like a week, and hope to figure out some of the finer points you made, been trying to combo a bunch more with portals and still getting better at portals sometimes they are confusing. Cheers dude
I hadn’t thought to bind his melee to a different button, thanks for mentioning that! Cloak
Cloak. Thank you for the tips. Will definitely practice using these 👍🏼
Great tips. As a Doctor Strange main, I co-sign on all of the advice you gave in this video.
People in the comments have already elaborated a bit on the Anti-Heal and how/when it kicks in. To expand further, one of the less known effects of his team up with hulk is that when teamed up, max dark magic will no longer apply anti-heal. This takes away the draw back of being at 100% dark magic accumulation, allowing you to be a lot more risky in combat. In addition, while teamed up the radius of his maelstrom of madness increases from 8 meters to 10, and his damage output per point of dark magic goes from 1.3 to 1.5 meaning when detonating at max dark magic it hits for 150 HP.
If you hold your ultimate until you have max dark magic, you can Ult then immediately detonate your maelstrom which will hit your enemies for 150 DMG and also hit the green soul behind them for 150 DMG, for a total of 300 HP which effectively one shots any player in a 10 meter radius that isn't a vanguard.
(Also cloak, cause I made it to the end of the video.)
Amazing. Thank you so much for that Team up info. I had no idea.
I've been a strange main since since I downloaded, and most of these tips i learned on my own. He's a super fun and relatively easy character, and hopefully they don't nerf him for people putting out pretty easy to learn info.
cloak, liked... dope video man.
p.s. the same shoot, melee, shoot tactic works excellent with Venom.
❤❤ much love i gotta try that thanks for the info
cloak, liked & subscribed! pumped to try this out, holy crap
Cloak 👍 great video bro
I'm surprised the shield/shoot/shield/shoot strat works so well against Hela and Hawkeye, but Strange's shield does come back up pretty dang quick. Back in OW, I used to play Reinhardt and do this exact same thing, but you had to watch out for Hanzo and Widow because allies would assume they were safe and shielded and just get picked.
You've got me excited to try out Dr Strange some more though! Thanks for the excellent, concise and smart guide!
tbf you could def time it but this activates so much quicker than Reinhardt's does stranges activation is like instant, also he does have to swing a big a** hammer😂 but im glad i helped i hope i helped this is a another version of rein so if you liked him you should like this too, just cant pin the supports into walls that was so fun on him
Stumbled upon this guide. This shit was so good, I subbed. Thank you!
Cloak, this was an awesome breakdown I enjoyed your black panther breakdown as well I had to subscribe!! I’m looking forward to more content!!!
This was something they did like right before launch i believe, Strange's anti takes like 3 seconds to even start so balancing it out with maelstrom is super easy.
Thanks for the tips, great video.
Cloak
Cloak! (And dagger) thanks for the awesome guide :)
Good video bro!
Appreciate it I don’t really use the the portals though unless to get to a point fast when we need to but I have gotten better and my team now likes when I’m doctor strange
Nice guide, learnt a fair bit, now to put his magic and cloak to good use. :)
ohhh i've been looking for a good guide
Cloak! I am trying to get better with Strange but most the time I'm playing strategist (Rocket, Loki, or C&D) but this helped for next time I get to play vanguard!
Thanks for the guide brotha, cloak indeed! :)
Cloak! Thanks for this, i wanna do better w strange so bad bc he can be so fun
A tip I’ve learned is use levitate to counter wolferine dashes. They love to target me, but if you’re patience, wait for him to blow his cooldowns, and levitate away.
The damage of your E attack is greatly boosted when you have a Hulk on your team btw. Good team-up combo for some extra damage.
Ngl that was a great way of telling me how to play strange
Glad I helped bro thanks for the feedback
cloak, nice that good content is coming out already for marvel rivals
Cloak. Boutta be an even crazier doc strange main
Nice vid. Cloak
short but informative! perfect lol CLOAK
❤❤ much love!!!
Fun fact.. you can animation cancel his reload with melee when the reload circle icon is halfway complete.
Cloak. Thanks for the solid info
Your guide r so true I use it a lot and I’m currently Diamond 1 with 47 wins and 5 losses playing only Dr.Strange ( solo q btw )
Great vid! I wanna start making content like you too but I’m not too confident in doing so coz I’m barely gold xD
Nice strange tips 🎉😎
They nerfed Psylocke's ult in Season One so that she also targets shields in addition to enemies, so holding your shield out is actually a good idea because it spreads her damage amd slashes to more targets
Cloak! Very helpful!!
Cloke, thanks for the tips
Awsm guide!
Cloak. As a Groot player right on bro, will give strange a run. Groot also I have changed the melee to a more accessible button.
Great video
much love for the support ❤
0:24 - "one of the first things I learned about watching Dr Strange from watching him..." 🤨🤣
The anti heal debuff only happens after you have a full charge for like 3 seconds if you don’t expel. You’ve probably never been debuffed since you use it in time
Doctor stranger is my favorite character in the mcu so naturally I wanted to do the best with him and I wasn’t finding his groove but hopefully this changes things 👌🏻
same bro people hated on mutiverse of madness but i LOVED it so much
@@Prez54 it was decent enough for me I like how they had the Illuminati in it I really liked him in infinity war though
havent been able to tell if it weakens the damage but since you shoot multiple daggars you can melee fast enough that only 2 daggars come out. Faster melee and shooting. Just
Tip for dr strangers flying is to use it to get away from Thor’s ult and also melee characters like Wolverine and hulk
The anti heal takes a second to actually give you the debuff it’s like one or 2 seconds probably why you don’t notice but I’ve been noticing because I use my e and build my darkness back up so fast I can’t use my e before it hits 100 because it’s on cool down
ahhhh okay thank you
CLOAK
i just played Dr Strange, and i won cause of a great portal that i made, so im watching videos about him so he can be my second vanguard to play.
Good vid! Cloak!
Goated vid, cloaked/ hidden jem
❤❤❤ I appreciate it so much thank you so much for watching and supporting bro it really does mean a lot
Bind mouse scroll wheel up to Fire and scroll wheel down to Melee. Super easy to pull off big combo damage at melee range.
You can also do a quick reload by cancelling just past half way by pulling out shield
Cloak, U can cancel his reload animation by using shield once the reload is 75-80% complete.
Thanks for the tip with the melele didnt know how to use doctr strange whip
Something i noticed on reload. You just need to wait about 60% of the reload timer or until you see the yellow flash and arms come together. you can't shoot but you can block/melee/aoe/levitate about a second sooner. Though I would assume the melee aoe and block would be the best option.
great video thank you :)