A wall is a geometry problem
Groot’s walls do not do damage in the way players fear. What they do is split a push into two smaller pushes, and a team that arrives in pieces loses to a team that arrives together. So the answer is not a damage number, it is a route decision.
Two facts from the movement system frame the whole problem:
- Every hero jumps exactly 3 metres. A wall taller than that is not jumpable by anyone without an ability.
- Movement speed is 6 metres per second for almost everyone, 7 for Black Panther and Wolverine.
Which means a detour is measurable. If the alternate route is 30 metres longer, it costs five seconds — and five seconds is roughly how long a choke fight lasts. That is the actual trade: five seconds of detour versus the risk of crossing in pieces.
Cross as one body or not at all
The failure mode is always the same: one player goes first because they are impatient, dies to the three people waiting, and the wall now has a body in front of it.
The rule that fixes it is a commitment rule, not a movement rule. Everyone crosses at the same moment or nobody crosses. Count it out if you have to. The wall blocks a line, not an area, so a group that moves through it together is exposed for about one second; a group that filters through is exposed for six.
If your team is already split when the wall goes down, the correct play is to give up the split. Pull back to the near side, regroup, and push once. Pushing from both sides of a wall is not a pincer — it is two separate 3v6s.
Breaking it is a team decision with a threshold
Shooting a wall alone is usually the worst option, because the wall absorbs your damage while the enemy team does not. It becomes the right option in exactly two situations:
- Your whole team is already shooting it. Concentrated burst removes the obstacle in a fraction of the time spread damage needs.
- The wall is the only thing between you and a kill you can already see. Then it is a line-of-sight problem, and removing it is worth the damage.
What is never right is one player shooting the wall while their team waits behind it. That is the defence’s favourite outcome: your team is stationary, grouped in one corridor, and spending cooldowns on scenery.
The routes that ignore walls entirely
Nine heroes can simply leave the problem behind:
- Indefinite flight: Angela, Human Torch, Iron Man, Storm, Ultron.
- Documented jump boosts: Luna Snow to 6 metres, Captain America and Black Widow to 5, Squirrel Girl to 9.
- Temporary flight: Doctor Strange and Star-Lord while the ability is active.
For everyone else, the counter is the second route. Every map has at least one, and the wall does not move — which means a single rotation forces Groot to choose between re-placing the wall and losing the choke.
On a map where the objective itself forces a corridor, the answer changes: cross together, accept the delay, and treat the wall as a 3-second tax rather than a 20-second argument. The game modes guide explains which objective types give you a second route at all.
If Groot is the problem hero rather than the problem wall, the Groot hero page covers what the player behind it is trying to do, and the counter picks guide covers who punishes the pick.