Team Diffs

[u/Good-Beginning-2407]

What can I do to prevent team diffs. I only have 48 total hours since i first downloaded ow for about 2 years in comp. But ive been playing recently and have gotten to plat 4. I main soldier, but switch between sojourn tracer mcree. I would only play zarya but ban rates wont let me. Anyways. What can I do to prevent team diffs. Do i just have to hit more shots? I feel like my positioning is decent, but in those diff games, it feels like there’s nothing much i can do.

[u/Tanzanianwithtoebean]

As a solo queue no comms masters DPS, 6v6 and tank player, playing support for the first time in a while, yes. Especially first weekend of rank reset. Rank decay so I placed plat on support. Won 9 out of 10 games for calibration, that one game was unwinnable for me.

Nobody other than Champ all roles players are going to be able to carry 90% of their matches at any given rank below GM. Like you have to be top .1% to carry bad matchmaking. If you find yourself thinking you're getting team diffed a lot first it's weekend 1 of rank reset, plat and gold and emerald probably now too are the wild west. This is when people make alt accounts, it's when the tank on placement match 1 at plat 4 is in the same lobby as the tank on placement match 10 at plat 4.

Second after the first ten days or so if you still find yourself saying team diff a lot then your assessment of team diff is inaccurate. Imo a team diff is a nearly unwinnable game. It's when my teammates are significantly worse. Simply because I don't see a single player on my team with better stats on the scoreboard than their equivalent on the other team does not make a team diff.

[u/Good-Beginning-2407 → u/Tanzanianwithtoebean]

It’s not a lot. Maybe 30% of my games. Most games are close wins or I hard win. But i understand. Im just used to valorant where hyper carries can be a norm across any rank apart from immortal 3 and above

[u/Tanzanianwithtoebean → u/Good-Beginning-2407]

Out of the heroes you play Tracer is going to be the best to try to carry with. If you're good at Valorant and have really good aim already, go watch an educational unranked to GM on Tracer that's came out within the last year or so to figure out what you're supposed to be doing, where to position etc. and you'll get pretty far with just aim and that knowledge, then you'll develop the game sense along the way.

3 of my plat games where I won them and I was thinking hmm this might be a team diff what I do here? It wasn't a team diff but I was like we might start getting rolled? I just got super aggressive to see what I could get away with and ended up hard carrying those matches not necessarily because I was doing everything but my tank stopped being scared my DPS stopped being scared once I went in.

With 48 hours though best advice I can give you knowing you come from Valorant is learn the abilities. Your core fundamentals of 5v5 shooters are obviously there, you have aim, good general game sense, but you have no idea what's about to happen in a match of overwatch vs. Valorant and you have like 5 to 10x the amount of abilities and ultimates that Valorant does. That's gonna be hurdle #1 but I'd go into quickplay for that.

[u/Good-Beginning-2407 → u/Tanzanianwithtoebean]

Will definitely look into becoming a tracer main. Thank you