Master All Of The Jumps
Doing a dodge or a dodge jump is critical to a successful flag run. You move faster when you dodge jump so be sure to do it often. However, there are all sorts of cool jump tricks you can use. These allow you to take paths people wouldn’t expect. Take maul for example, You can jump out of the tower onto the light pole in front, and then onto the water tower. It’s a great shortcut and can help you greatly in getting you safely to your base. It is also important to learn how to do a shield jump. Point the shield gun at the ground, charge it up, and release. It’ll send you flying. You can use this to gain access to places usually unreachable by a flag carrier.
Communicate.
Even the best flag carrier cannot take on the entire other team. You’re going to need help. Learn to communicate with your other teammates on where you. You should have a key bind that you can press that will instantly give your team a heads up on your situation. ( see this article for more info ). If you can get your teammate to distract a defender while you get away, the more chance you have of not getting killed, and capping that flag.
So remember avoid battle as much as you can and use your teammates and you'll get that flag captured!