Zarya is one of my favorite characters in overwatch. She is a DPS tank with great survivability using her protective barriers/shields and her 200 blue shield health that regenerates over time. If the enemy Zarya is on drugs (highly charged), you better get rid of her fast or she’ll destroy your team and stop you from literally doing anything.
Best ways to get Charge faster:
- Block Reinhardt’s fire strike with your barrier or shield someone who is the way of Reinhardt’s fire strike to get some charge off of them.
- Pharah’s rockets and Junkrat’s nades do a lot of damage. This means you can charge yourself up as Zarya pretty fast.
- Going past your Reinhardt’s shield and absorbing that s**t ton of damage with your barrier.
- Use barrier when enemy genji is deflecting damage done.
- When your health drops to 200, use your barrier so absorb damage to charge yourself up. Usually the enemy would keep shooting, thinking they can finish you off (YEAH RIGHT!)
- Winston is a great tank to play with Zarya. He’ll jump in with your barrier and get you some juice charge, real fast.
Best ways to get Graviton faster (Zarya’s Ultimate):
- Maintain high charge and make sure to keep doing damage with your right clicks.
- Focus targets and try to finish them off with your laser beam (left click).
- When you are highly charged play aggressive and ask team to protect you and push with you. A Zarya with 100 charge is almost impossible to stop if the team keeps healing her and stay with her. (Note: Don’t let a high charge Zarya on your team die. THANK YOU)
- Don’t be too aggressive and die often. The less you die the more dps you will be doing. Hence, the faster you’ll charge your ultimate)
- Use your right clicks in tight spaces.