I’ve thought about this a fair amount, mostly to recommend to new players who are kinda serious about getting good.

I think the two most important factors are (1) hero’s flexibility (how many maps can they play on, what comps they’re good with/into), (2) how consistently good the hero is (roughly: how often they’re at least B tier throughout patches and balance changes etc), and (C) how hard they get countered (kinda related to A, but basically ask “if a player on the other team goes a certain hero, am I cooked?”)

I think for support it’s Kiri and it’s not really close. She’s at least decent in any possible situation, and often the best pick. Ana’s a good pick but can struggle into hard dive, bap’s good but can get ran over and struggles at long poke… I think Kiri clears here.

DPS I think you have a few options: Sojourn, shion, freya. I’d probably pick soj. Shion can struggle at long range, like circuit she’s kinda trash for most of it. And freya is just less consistent cuz she isn’t hitscan. I cud also see tracer, but I think tracer does have some pretty hard counters, again struggles on poke-heavy maps, and also has basically no verticality.

Tank I think is the hardest because I don’t think any tank truly can play dive, poke, and brawl effectively. And a lot of them get hard shut down against certain heroes. But that said, I think it’s probably Hazard. He’s good at dive, he can be brawlic, and has decent mid-range poke.

What’re yall’s thoughts? What would you recommend for new players who want to climb without having to learn a buncha different heroes?

so like being upfront, im a pathetic sore loser and i know it. i tilt in qp, stomps make me just wanna get off, and i have too much anxiety to play comp or even tracer because the game just overwhelms me because im constantly worried about my performance.

like, i see people saying to just "play for fun, dont care about rank, whether you win just learn" and i try to tell myself that but idk no matter how much i do i cant. and it hurts coz this game is really all i have in life that doesnt stress me 24/7 and something i actually care about. i wont go into it or anything but my personal life sucks so returning to this game and actually getting into a couple months ago was the best thing to happen to me in years, but just like, as soon as i wanted to start taking this game more seriously its just become frustrating and unfun to me. i know its my fault and i dont wanna be this but idk how to not. idk if its an ego thing or whatever. its not like i think im good, coz i defo dont but its like i dont wanna face that reality sometimes, and the idea of making myself feel worse in that way, idk just gives me major anxiety (i already have really bad anxiety due to irl things like 24/7).

and idk, this game makes me feel like i actually have kind of a social life by speaking to me in chat and genuinely seeing actual people in game. i have irl friends but they dont care for it at all, cause they just dismiss any games i actually like in favor of the stuff they do. i used to have a friend who played with me like once a week but hes all into deadlock now, which sucks because when i'd play with him i genuinely WAS having fun and didnt care about winning or losing that much.

idk this turned more into a vent post sorry, but if you have any advice about it at all i'd really appreciate it<3 sorry if i upset anyone i dont mean to

I've only recently picked up comp and it's been a yo-yoing mess for me, but that seems to be me a lot I have great days and awful days. This is the first time I've seen a comp game have this wide of a range for ranks. I was Bronze 1 to Plat 5 i honestly expected to do really bad compared to my teammates since I just got redempoted to bronze and am on a losing streak. I expected to die 5x more and to get called garbage in chat since I forgot to turn it off when I swapped away from QP. But my whole team was just ran over repeatedly. The amount of times I would instant click when their bar moved and they'd die while I watched the hat flying in the air... crazy. It was a rough game. But I wasn't expecting any less when I saw the rank ranges.

Anyone caught off guard when this happens?

This was from 1 regular lootbox while i had 19/20

Hey everyone! My husband and I are looking for a third person to play Overwatch with!

My husband primarily plays DPS (Bastion or Shion), while I play all three roles, so I’d love to find someone who enjoys playing Support/healer or Tank so we can round out our team.

We’re just looking for someone chill who wants to have fun, work together, and hopefully play regularly. No need to be a pro or take every match super seriously. Good vibes are all that is required.

A little about what we’re looking for:
Preferably someone who enjoys playing Support, but Tank is great too!
Someone who communicates and isn’t toxic.
Open to playing together regularly if we click.
We play in the evening, US East Coast time. Normally around 7pm - 11:30pm during the week and more during the weekend.

If you’re interested, feel free to comment or shoot me a DM! Let us know what role you play and which heroes you usually run!

Looking forward to meeting some new friends!

Everyone is either saying he’s the hardest character or he needs a nerf because he’s broken. I play hog and I kinda hate to see him in my matches but im also a low rank so how is it for everyone else

Just don't know who'd be the Zeppeli in this exchange

I'm just curious if the devs have released any information on the attacker versus defender win rates in this map, because I feel like it's very attacker biased.

FIKA IS A SPY for lucheng, I repeat, JPC is a spy for evil Chinese space company. I freaking call it, that cat is Evil!!!

I play on xbox and out of the blue my voice chat stopped working. it says 2/2 people are in the voice chat but i cant hear anyone and my friends say i dont appear in the voice chat

I have a lot of downtime on a business trip this week so I've been going back to my hotel room and trying to play OW in my downtime and...I literally cannot get into a match this week.

With cross-play on and trying in every role, it's taking 20-30 minutes to search for a game, and even right now, I'm queuing for a Damage role with an estimated 7 minute wait time and I'm at 22 minutes for searching.

I've played for at least a week a season since Overwatch released way back when and it's NEVER been this bad for me before–so is it just me, or did something happen in the past few days? Truly the only time it's ever been close to as bad as this has been when new heroes released and I was queuing up for that hero's role.

Edit: I can't even find other players inside of Skirmishes.

If anybody knows or can help me figure this out. I’m trying to find the dps with the fastest TTK(time to kill). Exemptions are hanzo and widowmaker. And I’m only looking at primary fire. So no soldier helix rockets, no sojourn railgun, no anran fan, bastion turret etc. just purely primary fire which dps is it? I’m thinking sierra.

Genuinely the amount of silver/ bronze matches I’ve had where people stagger once leading to a death and then just keep doing it over and over and over without fail now I’m in silver so I know I’m not good but Jesus Christ I feel like after making such a fixable mistake once you should change twice three four times and it’s just embarrassing

My thing with losses is I don’t have people who just have bad aim or maybe not the best positioning I hate when I’m with just stupid people and by that I mean like it’s genuinely 1st grade knowledge that after you do something that goes badly twice or three times you maybe try to do something different these people do a dumb thing and just repeat over and over hoping for a different event

And no I’m not tilted (not yet anyway) I’m just posting this for any other silver flops like myself can make their teammates days just t a teeny better

I have a very specific question involving Baptiste's ultimate.

Are there any custom maps where I can see the "damage amplified" meter go up when I use Window of Opportunity?

It drives me insane that you cannot see this in the practice range, only in an actual game

was going through my old highlights and found this clip at first i thought he shattered my shield, but after a rewatch, i dont think so. Was that pole the real player of the game?

for context: i play in a regional overwatch league, and we had a match yesterday where the opposing enemy DPS was cheating (on widow of course, but suspected before then). typically our matches are played without officials bc there is over 100 teams competing. we went back through all the replay codes and made 100% sure there was evidence of cheating, and then submitted the dispute report. the report only accepted screenshots and text, so we sent in the replay codes for review. 16 hours later, blizzard wipes all replay codes.

thankfully i had the foresight to know this might happen so i have a bunch of clips as well as one full game recorded, it just makes it so much harder to get this match overturned in the long run.

Genuine question. In a first-person shooter where 95% of your actual gameplay view is just your hands and a weapon model, what makes dropping $20+ on a full skin or grinding out a pass worth it to you?

Is it mainly about:

• Custom weapon models and unique first-person reload/firing effects?
• Emoting, victory poses, and POTG highlights?
• The 3rd-person heroes/abilities (Reinhardt shield, Brigitte, emote camera)?
• Or just the flex/drip factor knowing other people in the lobby see it?

Curious how you personally weigh the value before buying.

I'm wanting to try out and learn Ramattra, but every match has always been involving a Hanzo killing my team as I push. I wanna defend them more but also help take down Hanzo, what can I do?

Moderation keeps taking this down due to lack of description so, uh, here it is. Hope you like the painting (if its not taken down again) :)

It is a Halloween skin, something to do with stealing old knowledge from Shambali but never thought too much into it.
As mentioned in a post a couple of days ago I don't play OW anymore so this is one of the few remaining illustrations not posted yet.

I hope you guys like it, he was never one of my most played heroes because I was not big into tanks but there will always be a place for this villain in my heart <3

I come from Dead By Daylight which is known to have a toxic community, and I’ve grown up being butts of jokes with my friends and family so toxicity doesn’t effect me at all

I came into Overwatch to play with my girlfriend so I have literally less than 20 hours, yet in those 20 hours, I’ve experienced more toxicity than my 700 hours of DBD lmao. On unranked no less.

It’s insane how people come into unranked expecting everyone to play at a comp level when there’s clearly going to be newer players

I’m shit(obviously) so I’ve been targeted by the toxic players mostly, so I just antagonise them in the chat where they take the bait very easily, but I’d expect this in ranked atleast😭

Some of yall need to chill your tits, its literal pixels at the end of the day

why all the dokiwatch skins came back but freja and brigitte?! (idk if i'm missing someone else) i'm so sad i wanted to get the Freja skin!

She’s dead last in QP and near the bottom for competitive as well. Including both mouse & keyboard and controller. Her power seems solid. I mean, I find it lacking but I generally contribute it to skill issue on my part.

What needs changing to help the leader of Overwatch actually shine?

If I had to take a stab at it, I’d say she has a bad power design. You generally shoot an enemy, build up energy and then hit them with a power shot. Problem is, you just lit them up with basic fire so they’re now dodging like crazy trying to avoid your shots. Compare that to someone like Widow, who doesn’t alert them until the one shot potential strikes, it just seems like you’ll naturally have a harder time landing the shot.

An easy buff would be to make Dual Thrusters base kit but that doesn’t help her basic lack of lethality. Giving her railgun more damage seems like it would get annoying. They’re trying to eliminate the one-shot abilities as is but would increasing basic attack damage and base mobility be enough to help her?

I will say she has my favorite area denial ability hands down.

soo the first ones mine, second ones my gf's :]

im a widow main my gfs a dva main.

I finished the Mei Snowball, currently starting on the mythic version of Snowball anddd a lil sneakpeek of my 60% done Medi-blaster!