How to 5-star Zarya's Hero Mastery Courses
Charge off of friendly bots and combine primary and secondary fire to get points for secondary accuracy and high energy kills (you need more than 60 energy to count as high energy). Use secondary fire, aim it at the bot, and then zap it as it lands to do more damage at once. Environmental kills only count toward secondary fire accuracy and you can kill bots faster with this method. (and i do it outside of hm too. it's the best way to use her weapon)
Killing bots with the explosives gets you credit for kills but not for high energy/secondary fire points. Don't grav the bots into the hole, kill them in the grav with your weapon. You don't need your grav at all for most of the runs but they show up in areas where you can charge off your bubbles and you can kill them faster with a grav and one right click.
Every second counts. Get to the end before the 3x multiplier ends. That means you have to plan out a path and make frame perfect plays. This will take a lot of repetition and practice. It took me multiple premature restarts on each course to figure out how I'd run them.
Bubble jump onto platforms where you can. In the agent stage you can use the platform you knock the rocket bot from to bubble jump from instead of taking the ramp.
You don't need every emblem/to kill every robot to get 5 stars but you can actually 100% each stage with the 3x multiplier still active. Best thing to do is try to run through each room and collect/kill everything you can but don't hesitate or turn around. Just keep going.
Get your ally damage mitigated points up. Bubble the robot as soon as it spawns in Agent. Time your bubbles to both be ready for this bit because it's the only chance to get ally damage mitigation points.
Don't let exploding robots explode, kill as many as you can. Letting them explode won't get you points. Shoot the floor in front of tank bots to boop them off the ledge. Having at least 50ish charge is enough to one shot rocket bots with direct secondary fire.
Other things to consider: Your statistic points max out at 200 so after you get enough kills with your weapon and bubbling friendly bot enough, booping/exploding/graving bots is fine. I still don't do it because the kills don't count until they've fallen, and that's 5 seconds I might not have. Your grav itself will kill rocket bots, they're really squishy. But at the end of Agent there's training bots that you can either explode, drop with your grav, or both.
Hero Mastery is basically speedrun mode. I think Agent is tougher than Veteran to get a good score on because you have to be *perfect*. Veteran gives you more permission to make mistakes but if you land every shot the first time you can get to the exit with 30+ seconds on your clock. I haven't been able to get to the exit in Agent with more than 15-20, which I spend to get the rest of the emblems in the last room.
Okay this is all I can think of for now but I hope it helps. Show me your scores!! (I'll have replay codes later but I might not be able to record/save them on this pc. And they won't be good by Tuesday. lol But I'll still share them.)
