Charax Guide: Intercepting the EFC

[Charax]

Hi, friends! Charax Silvershield here to provide you with another Master Class of secret tips from the Battleground Superstar.

People often ask me, "How are you always around the flags, Charax?" A simple question, yet I can write a very large essay on the subject. Knowing the attention span of the typical BGer, I like to break things down into very simple concepts. Today, I will talk about Intercepting the EFC.

Consider the following situation. EFC is projected to follow the red path:

As a Battleground Superstar EFC snarer, let's assume that I just rezzed and I see the EFC exiting near our ramp. What path do I take?

Yellow: This is what idiots do. They fail to compute the EFC trajectory properly and do not successfully cut off the EFC.

Green: This is the Path of Charax (there are other Paths of Charax, described in other Charax Guides). I compute the velocity of the EFC with estimated snares, probability of the EFC using a speed boost and look for opponents who may get in my way midfield. I will compute my angle of interception:

Each milli-second, I take in new inputs to recalculate my angle of interception to ensure that I will have an opportunity to intercept the EFC. Err on the side of caution - you may stray closer to the blue path assuming the EFC favourably runs unimpeded but then adjust the angle with more current trajectory information.

Blue: When there are too many random variables, the prudent Angle of Interception is to actually move directly to the EFC tunnel entrance. If the random variability starts to decrease, I may then recompute to follow the Path of Charax.

Advanced considerations: If you are familiar with the EFC, he likes to use the GY Jump, and you will not be able to intercept using the Path of Charax, the best direction to use is to go from your GY to the EFC Ramp and then intercept up top.

This Guide assumes you have an expert level of mathematics and your brain works at lightning speed like mine does. If it doesn't, you may wish to stock up on Swiftness Potions/Rocket Boots to compensate for your poor gameplay.

 

[Tonkks]

Incredible guide. Much wisdom here

 

[Kirise]

Illuminating and provocative! While doing the math, I ran into an issue that perplexed me. When optimizing the angle of interception toward the path of Charax, does the path taken tend to parabolically skew toward the blue path, or is the blue path a baseline by which the Path of Charax creates a (relatively inverted) parabolic skew toward the path of the EFC? The bifurcation created by the Path of Charax doesn't reveal the nuance involved in your millisecond calculations. Or perhaps I oversimplified the calculation?

 

[ShinyHero]

For anyone too lazy to read


don’t be yellow or I will kick you from my BG thank you

 

[Asylum]

the arrows are backwards and upside-down...

 

[Quelfep]

yall thought this funny til u realized it was for u

 

[Charax]

Illuminating and provocative! While doing the math, I ran into an issue that perplexed me. When optimizing the angle of interception toward the path of Charax, does the path taken tend to parabolically skew toward the blue path, or is the blue path a baseline by which the Path of Charax creates a (relatively inverted) parabolic skew toward the path of the EFC? The bifurcation created by the Path of Charax doesn't reveal the nuance involved in your millisecond calculations. Or perhaps I oversimplified the calculation?

I would use the blue path as the baseline and compute the angle between that and the line from my current location to the EFC location. From there, I would compute the angle of interception and thus follow the green path. The green path should not be taken as a specific direction and angle but more illustrative of an angle between the red path and the blue path, which is constantly recomputed based on current information.

Stated simply, you just need to solve this formula constantly and you will be assured to intercept the EFC:

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the arrows are backwards and upside-down...

An Alliance guide will be created if the demand merits it.

 

[Anexa]

Being around or catching up to EFC is one thing but how often do you actually kill them near the graveyard?

Because intercepting them outside the graveyard is the worst spot to be in imo, I rather let the EFC pass and let them go inside or top of tunnel than engage near the opponents health huts

Reason why is because that's where the opponents are most likely to get back up and if you kill the back up then they will be right back at you when they resurrect

 

[Charax]

Being around or catching up to EFC is one thing but how often do you actually kill them near the graveyard?

Because intercepting them outside the graveyard is the worst spot to be in imo, I rather let the EFC pass and let them go inside or top of tunnel than engage near the opponents health huts

Reason why is because that's where the opponents are most likely to get back up and if you kill the back up then they will be right back at you when they resurrect

Agreed that if your interception point is under their GY, the chances of getting a return is diminished.

What this guide really boils down to is just having players understand that if they want to intercept an EFC, they actually have to compute an angle of interception and not mindlessly head directly to the current pile of players.

Extremely basic stuff but when I see the majority of players fail at it, it begs mentioning.