I&#039;ll be honest, I&#039;ve seen some smart guys D and have little success. And I&#039;ve see some of the best shots D and have little success. I&#039;m pretty good at D so I&#039;ll tell you what I think makes a difference.<br /><br />1.) Does your team suck ass?<br /><br />If you answered yes to question one, your D will be crap. You can be a tornado of murder and awesomeness but 3 guys running at you for 10 or 15 minutes is just bad odds. So setup your mid in a smart way, put your strong fragging players there and push up to mid as often as you can. This is called a grind and gives you both the maximum amount of encounters with their offense and allows you to help out your runner. You can call this positioning if you want, I call it helping. Currently the most successful strategy in this dumb game is grinding. When you&#039;re playing at a high level in any sport this seems to be the norm.<br /><br />2.) Can you shoot at all?<br /><br />If you answered no to question two you are also fucked. You can have cheater prediction but if you can&#039;t aim you can&#039;t D. It&#039;s very very very fucking important. Never leave Legion on D. I would say that at a minimum you need Ladna.<br /><br />3.) Can you keep track of deaths (obituaries) ?<br /><br />Defense has to keep track of people. Plain and simple. The best defense is a defense that helps his team manage the middle [b]while keeping track of his opponent&#039;s offense[/b]. What I mean is that if you haven&#039;t seen their primary offense in let&#039;s say...20 seconds, you&#039;ve been tricked. Go clear your base and for fucks sake spam help until it&#039;s all your teammates can possibly see on their screen.<br /><br />-------------<br /><br />I wanna pause and say that I don&#039;t expect any of you the get better at anything. If you&#039;re reading this great. If it helps you, great! This is how I defend. I also use rockets and plasma which I guess people disagree with. I&#039;ll explain those choices a little so you can decide if they are for you.<br /><br />Why spam?<br /><br />Well I can think of a couple of reasons. First, It&#039;s really fun. I enjoy rocket spamming. Specifically when I throw a random rocket down a hallway and LB runs smack into it, regardless of how easy it would have been to avoid. It&#039;s just really funny to me. The second and more useful reason is that IF YOU DO IT AT THE RIGHT TIME AND PLACE it allows you to occupy at least one player in a known location, and if successful, allows the defense to push back multiple opponents more effectively than fighting 2v1 with your trusty shotgun. Should you spam? How the fuck should I know. I do and I&#039;m successful with it.<br /><br />Now I know many of these things are map dependent. Sometimes mid isn&#039;t as important, sometimes your team isn&#039;t your fault, connection spiking...blah blah blah. All of these things have happened to me also. The idea behind most of this is to not let your team go (at best) 1-on-1 with their counterparts. Usually the offense is forced to go 1-on-3 anyway. You, as the defense should be active in trying to lop side the battles to your benefit. Do as many things effectively as you can. Also find this out through practice. Good christ practice your ass off. None of you are good enough to not practice except like...White, who probably cheats to be honest. <br /><br />Good luck!