TEAM COMMUNICATION

TEAM COMMUNICATION IN 3V3 INTRO

Hey guys, Corki here and welcome to this guide. In today's video I'm going to talk about team communication in 3v3 arena, covering the most important concepts that you need to understand to get a lot better at communicating and improve as a player.

I divided this guide in two chapters. The first chapter is going to be about technical communication, which means I'm going to go over how to communicate as a DPS and a healer and how to communicate depending on what comp you are playing.

Also in this chapter I will explain the concept of compressing information to allow your partners better and faster access to it. The second chapter is in my opinion really interesting and a lot harder to master than the first one and it is going to be about interpersonal communication.

Here I'm going to talk about the way you communicate with other players in and outside of arena. This will be extremely helpful to improve as a player in general.

TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

Technical Communication What is communication essentially? Let's start this guide off with thinking what communication essentially is.

I don't want to go too off topic immediately, but it is quite important to know. In 3v3 arena you want to get information across in a short period of time.

And it needs to be immediately understandable for the other two persons in the call. Examples here would be when to use your offensive and defensive cooldowns.

Or when to push in. Or when to lost the enemy.

What CC you are getting. What CC you are landing.

And many more. As you can already tell there will be a lot of choices you have to make on what to say and what to leave out.

What is important to say and what can I leave out? A lot of low rated players make the mistake of not communicating enough and leaving out important information their partners need.

What is communication? On the other hand there are also a lot of people that constantly talk about unnecessary stuff.

Which makes their partners end up not listening to their important calls. It really shows that you have to find a balance between what's important and what isn't important.

The best way you can figure that out, if you are not too experienced, is to just ask your partners what they want to hear from you. What is communication?

What is communication? What is communication?

What is communication?

COMPRESSING INFORMATION

Compressing information. In 3v3 arena a lot is going on and for new players it might sometimes be really overwhelming to deal with so many informations at once.

And things don't get better if your teammates don't give the important information or give you too much unnecessary information.

So the goal for everyone in the team is to minimize the information they value as important and get it across fast to increase the reaction time and put the team on the same page the entire game. The best way to get the information across fast is to just use short sentences.

Never try to explain a concept or use too long sentences in the middle of a game. Most people will not understand you since they are busy focusing on the current game.

I call out every cc I get or might get with my healer and while doing it I speak really clear and in short sentences. Now let's take a look at some examples together and I want you to spot the wrong sentences.

If you don't guess them right here, go back in the video and make sure you understand the concept since it is immensely important. I will use my bark skin now so I will take less damage.

Please make sure to top me before the damage connects on me so I am fine. I will use my bark skin now so I will take less damage.

Please make sure to top me before the damage connects on me so I am fine. The first one was of course wrong, since there is just so much information the other players don't need to hear.

The second sentence on the other hand compresses all that information and makes it able for the other players to understand fast. Guys, I need help now, I'm off poly DR and the warrior will storm bolt me any second, so I need a stop on the poly morph from the mage please.

Stop poly on me. Stop poly out of storm bolt.

Did you guess it? It is of course the third answer.

And why? Not only because of the reason from the first example, but also because the second choice communicates that any poly should be stopped.

The poly morph out of the storm bolt is the crucial one though, since you can't avoid it yourself. So the third answer is the right one.

GENERAL THINGS YOU SHOULD COMMUNICATE

General things you should communicate. Firstly if you catch yourself not talking for 20 seconds plus you're doing it wrong.

There are millions of things you can call out in 3v3 arena but for the people watching that don't have a clue on what to say here's a general list of what to say. As a general rule you should always keep your teammates updated on what your plan is.

If you stick to one target and you want to swap in a different one always inform your team if you are doing so. Furthermore you need to keep your teammates informed about your offensive and defensive cooldowns.

In addition to that it is always good to communicate if you are pushing in on the other team or if you are pushing back to line off sight them and last but not least you of course need to always call out cc that it is landing on you and cc you are landing on the enemy team.

I'm dead I'm dead I'm dead I'm dead I can clone out What the fuck? I'll clone I'll clone I'll clone Vorelo I'll clone Vorelo I'll ROOP him now, ok?

He will bubble then ROOP him now

DIFFERENT ROLES, DIFFERENT BEHAVIOURS

Different roles, different behaviors. Okay, now that we have covered some general stuff, I want to go in more detail on the particular roles and show the difference between them, especially focusing on the disparity of comps.

As a DPS Mostly if you play a DPS, you want to keep your healer updated on your defensive cooldowns and your DPS partner on your offensive cooldowns, so you line them up and make use out of them. The big mistakes DPS players make Every time I watch a WoW stream, I see it happen at least once a session.

It's the DPS not communicating what defense is doing. It's the DPS not communicating what defensive cooldowns he has left, pushing in and dying to the enemy team, most of the time behind the pillar.

So really make sure your healer always knows what you have left, so you can adapt as a team. As a healer On the other hand, if you are playing a healer, you want to keep your team updated on your trinket and on your defensive cooldowns to save them.

If you play a healer, you should focus especially on calling out CCs that you have in your team. So that you can build a lot of good adbs on your team using your healers.

So this is just a small show, but if you have any question, feel free to ask me in the comments. on you so your teammates are aware that they are in trouble. The big mistakes healers make.

The most important and most difficult part is to keep your team informed if they are fine or not. I can't say it enough but so many healers make the mistake of hesistating when communicating, which makes their team unsure if they should play offensive or defensive, which ends up costing them the game.

A great advice I can give you is to set rules if you call out defensive cooldowns of your teammates or if they should use them by their own judge. This ensures that you always know what cooldowns are still left and prevents overlaps.

In addition to that, the worst thing you can do is to play defensive. The best way to do this is to use sentences like watch out or use something.

I often hear these phrases from low rated healers and it is just a waste since this sentence doesn't have any information in it. Instead of watch out you should say come back or you have to line.

And instead of use something, say something specific like use ice block. You get the point.

Setup comps. To complete the technical part I want to round it up with a short information that you probably already know.

Every comp plays a different playstyle and it will always affect the way you communicate. Setup comps like RMP, Dancing with the Stars or even Red Bumi you have to talk a lot more than rot comps since they need to get CC lined up and use their burst together at the right time.

Especially CC and when to be offensive and defensive. I will explain this in a bit.

I will explain this in a bit. Every comp that is defensive has to be called out.

Every comp that is offensive has to be called out. Every comp that is defensive has to be called out.

Every comp that is offensive has to be called out. I hope you enjoyed this video and please consider starting your own.

See you in the next one. Bye.

Bye. Bye.

INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION

Interpersonal Communication Interpersonal Communication Now let's get to the interpersonal communication part of this guide. A huge amount of players underestimate the importance of a good communication outside of Arena and on a personal level in Arena.

You will almost never meet a Rank 1 player that has no social awareness when it comes to communicating and in my opinion it is necessary to play at the top.

BEING CLEAR

So let's get right into it. Be clear.

Every person decodes sentences differently, especially in an international environment. So you always have to make sure that what you say is easy to understand.

For example, it is almost impossible to understand a native British person with an accent if you are not from England yourself if they talk fast. So what you need to do is think of how the other person will understand you and adjust your language depending on who you play with.

DEALING WITH EMOTIONS

Emotions. We are playing a team game with real people that have lives and issues outside of this game.

Never forget this. If you are on this journey and play with a lot of people you will meet some that are extremely positive and extremely depressed.

Everyone has a different reason to play this game and if you're getting to know people and build a team it will be unavoidable to deal with their emotions.

There's no guide to handle with human emotions but at some point people will get angry at you and be rude to you in Arena And if this happens, always, and please always remember that it has nothing to do with you but everything to do with them if they're letting their negative emotions affect you!

You should never interpret too much into that kind of behavior since making a mistake in an online game never justifies that. The same also goes for you.

Never ever rage or try to hurt someone over this game. It is never worth it.

Even if someone plays terrible, keep in mind that you started with no experience as well. This brings me to my next point and that is motivating your team.

MOTIVATION

Motivation. The most powerful tool you have in your team is not your experience, it is not your comp, it is your mindset and your motivation.

To create an insane team you have to first of all respect each other, so the vibe of the team is positive. I know it is really easy to get annoyed after a bad queue session or unnecessary mistakes, but you need to look past it and look at the bigger picture.

Ask yourself if your actions are benefiting your team or not. Another great advice is to stay calm in pressure situations.

You need a lot of experience for that, but if your team is freaking out in a game when everybody is on 20% you should just tell them to keep calm and play defensive or whatever in that situation. It might sound really dull but trust me it works wonders.

The last tip I have for you is to be patient. If you are not confident in your team, you should have a good time.

The most important thing you have to motivate your team is to actually joke around on downtimes. The mood and the general vibe of your team decides over win or lose and if you are having a lot of fun while playing it will immensely affect your team in a positive way.

Don't take threes too serious, in the end it's just a game.

CRITIQUING

Critique. Now we come to my favorite point and that is critique.

And I have the most insane trick to be productive with criticism. If you lose a game always and always always point out something you could have done better.

Even if there was a really obvious mistake by a partner, if you call yourself out it makes them feel less bad and motivates them to improve next game. This is by far the best advice I have to get better in arena.

If you are the one getting critiqued though it might be annoying to deal with. I know there's a lot of let's call them weird people out there that try to bring you down and make themselves feel better and you have to realize that.

Differ between constructive and non constructive critique but also don't shut yourself down from critique at all. Nobody plays perfect so there's always room to improve.

WHAT PROGRAM TO USE

What program to use? Last but not least you need to decide what program to use for communication in the first place.

There is a lot of great programs for communication, but the most common ones are Discord, Teamspeak, Skype and of course Battle.net Voice. What you use is not really important, as long as you can hear your teammates properly and they can hear you properly as well.

So that is going to be it for this one guys. I hope you enjoyed this video and if you did leave a plus skill or let me know what you think in the comments down below and I catch you next time.

On this page

TEAM COMMUNICATION