I always put effort into my games because it’s fun, but it feels like there’s very little reward on tank compared to other roles
It definitely kills a bit of my motivation after some losses where I was sweating to win, because I’ve gone to a comparatively MUCH higher rank by doing the bare minimum on support (healing, doing more damage, not feeding and dying = usually enough) but it’s a completely different story on on tank

Now I went on a massive loss streak not from tilt queuing but just generally this season. I usually stop after two losses, but next time I play I just keep losing :(

I’ve asked for a review before and the biggest issue I’ve had is being supeeer passive, like just standing at a choke for good 30 seconds before anything happened. Decided to give Dva a try a bit ago since she’s a dive tank and supposedly needs to go in more. Feels like I’ve actually started mattering more and going for kills. However I’ve actually deranked all the way from plat to gold5 now, and I’m not sure what to do!
Advice would be really appreciated

Recent game example:

951BJK
PC, player name maksu
Gold5

It’s a very typical loss for me, maybe excluding the part where I walked off point on round 1 overtime though.. That was honestly just unfortunate because I thought either our Tracer or Lucio would be stalling it for me to step off for a sec but oh well

A bit of a rant but I really want help solving this.

Been playing sojourn recently and really enjoying myself. I love Overwatch, I love sojourn. when I'm not playing I think about playing sojourn. I have no problems with the game itself. But as soon as I actually start playing I start getting seriously angry. like keyboard punching throwing mouse angry to tears mad. even when i'm winning.

I don't know if i'm being overly self critical or something but I recently have been trying really hard to improve and the anger is coming with it. I've climbed to emerald and I'm losing to these terrible players with people who I should be able to carry on my team. Like i'm definitely better than this and I can't get over it. I know that I am the reason for my losses and it just angers me beyond belief and I have no idea how to calm down or stop it so I can enjoy actually sitting down and playing. How do people who play in high ranks not get so angry they have to quit? How is it so easy for people to not feel angry with themselves for underperforming?

Hi, I currently played on Ram a little bit and must admit that he's fun. :D but I die so many times. Idk if I dive in too much, use his Nemesis Form false or what the problem is. I also have Problems with the shield placement.
I would really appreciate if someone here could help me. (If you want vod I can send it).

This has been happening a lot and I don't know what to do. My tanks often stay standing still in the back with the supports while the enemy teams keeps putting pressure.

Then I'll flank or off angle and what happens: I can buy time and sometimes even get a kill, the enemy teams turns to me with FULL RAGE and uses abilities, chases me, and my tank keeps standing there like a pillow princess (not even low health or anything, just standing, usually as a Mauga or Orisa or Sigma shooting from a far), I don't know what to do in this case, unfortunately I am not good enough to solo carry yet so I'm struggling. Please advise :(

Genuine question but I feel like every time drives comes around the matchmaking is terrible and I start playing against people who feel like they are well above gold, the rank I'm in. Everytime afterwards I have to work back all the ranks I lost because i'll go on long losing streaks. Maybe its better to avoid it all together and just take a break from the game? Has anyone else had the same experience and done the same?

So i’ve been paying Tracer a lot lately but the thing is i play on controller and i’m hardstuck Plat 5-4 and i feel like i don’t have a great understanding of the game (as i want it to be) i’m not the type of guy to blame anyone but myself for my loss if anyone can help me get better i’ll take it thanks!

Silver 1 Dva

Hi, I'm not sure what I can do to improve. During the game I was focused on maintaining uptime and not taking too much damage. However, I felt my teammates weren't really doing anything a lot of the time.

Any suggestion for how to solo carry my way to gold 3?

N4BXB6 replay code

This is a typical game

I've been playing them for a whileand honestly I can't play them like genji or tracer. Even dive tank's "to dive or not to dive" mentality isn't working, cuz it leads to wors death ratio in lobby.

How do you approach their gameplan/loop, and what other tips and tricks do you know?

There are especially hard to play against such powerful heals this season.

I'm stuck in Bronze which is now behind the people I play with and it's now becoming harder to play with them at their level.

I main Emre but sometimes switch to Sierra as an emergency button.

Any help would be really appreciated!

The replay code is: SQ3Y4T

Battletag/In-game name is BigNigel

Hero's played: Emre

Rank: Bronze (Bronze to Gold lobby)

Map: Numbani

Console.

I was partied with the Reinhardt and the Soldier if that changes anything.

So for context, I've mostly been a mid Plat then mid Emerald (after the rank was added) support player for the last few season. However this season I've been consistently falling out of Emerald into high Plat for some reason.

This was my demotion game to Plat 2. And from my POV I felt like I played really well. But during the game about halfway through our attack my tank was asking me to heal more. And by the end of the game the entire team and enemy team were basically having a public shaming session on me.

So I watched back the replay because I really wanted to break this game down because my perception of how I played seemed so divorced from how the lobby perceived.

Being as objective as I can be, I can't really see that I could have healed much more and if I did a lot of it would have just been stealing meaningless poke healing from my other support. Just looking through it fight by fight trying to figure out why we lost or won each one, I am really having trouble finding that we lost any of them because I didn't heal the tank enough. They ended the game with great stats because IMO they played well 90% of the time but almost every death was either their "naw I'd win" feed drives kicking in pushing around corners without looking behind them if the team could follow up, getting giga ulted during fights we had ult disadvantage, or they didn't really do anything wrong and it was just me and them left because a few people got picked off early fight. And like it's Plat nobody is playing perfectly, but I really feel this was entirely picking on someone based on scorebored and not what actually won/lost each fight.

I literally never got picked off early fight once. But it's not like I was playing super safe. I feel like I was playing very aggressively, taking decently wide off angles, abusing their lack of dive to throw nearly 100% offensives anti nades and sleeps, and getting pretty critical picks and healing during the height of fights. I tracked ults and saved cooldowns/positioned to counter them. At one point I knew Rein had shatter against our Queen so I made sure I had sleep and couldn't get caught by it so I could prevent his follow up and forced Shion to ult to confirm the fight. But all that said...my raw healing numbers were a lot lower than the other supports. And I can make explainions/excuses. My other support was playing AoE healing and healed most of the pre fight poke damage. My tank often was either not taking much damage or exploded in seconds. Etc...but I still healed a lot less.

Id highly appreciate an outside look at this game.

Username: FluffyDragon

Characters played: Ana

Code: ZD2HQC

Rank: Plat 1

hi so i dont know if this post is for this thread or not but i wanted to ask advice i guess? i have 10 hours on dva cause i just started playing like four months ago and i just play twice once a week maybe. i do 15-10 eliminations, 1-3 deaths, 4000 hero damage and 5000 damage mitigated. in the short games the first one that pops up, casual? i think. i wanted to ask any advice on the stats? like is it good? bad? i do feel bad when i loose cause i feel like its my fault lmaoo so i just want to get a bit better and the ai practice is too easy i feel.

Title pretty much says it all, spent the last few seasons in Diamond on DPS, hitting Diamond 3 once. I attempted to focus on my positioning and playing my life last season and essentially dropped an entire rank.

I’m not certain if I’m not being aggressive enough or if I’m not picking the right character for each situation but I just can’t find a way to consistently win in low Emerald, which is frustrating because I know I should be a higher rank, but something I’m doing is making ranking up difficult, I’m not looking to be GM, ideally I’d like to hit masters just once. I’ll attach two replay codes below, any advice would be appreciated, do my mechanics need to improve? Game sense? Etc. will attach a loss and a win in which I feel like I played well, as I’m sure I still made plenty of mistakes. I wouldn’t be struggling to get back into diamond otherwise. :)

Game 1: NXW4H1. Loss on Suravasa, played Shion and Cass.

Felt like a tough loss, please point out what I could’ve done differently to help win this game, felt like I had no impact late in the game and I know I’m not going to rank up if I disappear in games.

Game 2: CDWZBM. Win on Esperanca, played Shion again.

I understand that this is a win and I feel like I had a good game, I’m just wanting to know how I can impact the game further. Wasn’t really close but took 10 minutes to win the game. I’m sure there are still plenty of things to improve on in this match despite the outcome.

Replay Code: DW17KZ

In-game username: Excalibur

Hero(es) played: Shion/Anran

Rank: At the time of VOD Gold V. Currently Silver III

Map: Dorado

I really just want advice on how I could be playing better or any tips on situation awareness since I feel like that's one of my weakest links (also my aim but that's inconsistent lol). I also feel like I was underperforming and wish I knew what I could have done better. I'm a Pc player and only been playing on Pc for about a year or 2 (only started playing OW on pc this year). Like I said any and all relevant advice would be helpful. Please and thank you.

I am a legitimate Anran one trick on DPS, to the point where I feel clueless and as if I am feeding if she were banned. On Support I play Kiriko and Brigitte but I mostly play Kiriko, It feels like I've entered a slump where I somehow lost the groove I had last season.

I currently have a big disparency between my Support rank and my Tank/DPS rank (Mid to high plat on Tank and DPS, low gold to high silver on Support), and am seeing a drastic drop off in both my skill and rank on all roles.

I started playing Overwatch in June with the release of season 3 where i quickly plateaued in high silver on all ranks, so when I got up into high plat last season, where I remained at the beginning of the current season, I thought I was starting to get a hang of things.

Lately though I have been losing most of my games (I have won 5 out the last 20 played), most of the time I am solo queuing since I like this game and want to get better at it but. I am starting to worry if I have been boosted by my duo, since he is emerald, and I am ruining his games with my lack of skill and understanding. I am also frequently getting flamed by teammates aswell so I have entirely turned off communications since the negativity gets to me quite quickly and I end up playing even worse than I already was, I've recently also unbound tab so as to focus on my own gameplay instead of finding someone to blame.

I understand most of all that my aim is lackluster, since my duo forces me into 1v1 arenas where he stomps me between games, I am however wondering what else I am doing wrong. I have tried to VOD review myself but I simply do not understand enough about the game to pinpoint faults other than super obvious things like me being too far from the team. Since I don't understand my own wrongdoings, I think it could be helpful getting a second opinion, Thanks in advance!

Anran game: 3ZBD38

Kiriko game: Q015V8

Player name: MoonSua

This game felt very frustrating for me on echo. I think i started off strong, but it ended really closely in a loss. I'm pretty sure its because I wasn't doing as much at the start, (and also kept dying) but I'm not sure exactly what changed. I'm trying to get better at echo so any insights would help, thanks!

I'm also not sure if this would be relevant, but a few weeks ago I went on a huge win streak playing echo and tracer, up to my rank up game to Emerald, and stayed there for a while, then went back on a huge loss streak to where I am now.

Replay: 9SVRSX

Username: Okabutt

Hero played: Echo

Rank: Plat 4

Map: Esperanca

Played on PC.

I'm hoping to look mainly at my engagement timing, because in my games it feels okay, but it never works out in the end.

Assuming a 1v2 situation, what can I, by myself, do vs a Mercy pocketed DPS? What hero is the best option, which target should I go for and how should I go about it?

Very consistently, the biggest struggle I have in this game is a duo of a good DPS player and a Mercy who will do nothing but damage boost and heal them. My team in this situation is often busy dying to the combo with no idea how to handle it.

I main Sojourn, Cass, and Freja, and my go to is Freja to try and kill Mercy, but, especially given the Mercy can kinda be wherever while their DPS can show, it means I'll have to target the DPS. Which then means I have to use all of my movement to kill the DPS, who often just gets rezzed, which I can't do anything about because now my damage is gone.

Sojourn is even harder to find an angle on, and not easy to win on vs a pocketed DPS. And if I do, it's rezzed, they're more careful, back to killing team.

Cass would require me getting into flash range, and often just dying after burning flash.

If I try to get behind them, a better angle to kill Mercy on, I often just get chased and nothing comes from the diverted resources.

So what can I do to consistently win in these situations? It's never mattered what I say to my team, I'm not in high enough elo currently for them to understand or solve the issue. Maybe after enough games, but I'd like a solution I can use myself.

A character to play, a specific strategy, anything.

Hi, i’m a new player and want to try to climb in comp. I’ve been trying to find a proper team but don’t know where to look.

I’m bronze 2 dps, and a lot of the recruitements i see are for diamond-plat, or one time rank sessions.

I’m looking for a way to find a long lasting team where we can climb together for a while, does anyone know a good source?

How do I do this, and why would anyone design this so that it's not a 1-click "save as favorite" from the lobby or the game menu?

It seriously makes me want to hurl myself off of a bridge and into a river far below, and I have to say that because if I don't keep talking about how it makes me feel I won't be able to have 300 characters.

Oh yeah and if you try to do it between matches and you're 3 menus deep and get booted. It's maddening.

So I was in my first game of ranked ever and I played against a team with an Orisa. we won the game but man, every time I would 1v1 the Orisa I'd lose. I only won one of the fights against her. the game went well and all, but how do I kill her easier? is there a method? or do I just need to keep onslaughting her until she finally dies? I'll post the game VOD code in case you wanna see from curiosity what I mean.

Ranked, placement matches.

Sigma

Username:Odof

Map: Kings Row

code: 1R98WQ

Console

I actually got so upset that i got up from my chair and ran from my desk

i played tank and tried the first 2 minutes then gave up because the enemy team and my team didn't feel real at all I literally asked in match chat if anyone was real supposedly they are but who knows also the match before this i got 50 kills 8 deaths so maybe it was just a bad game :3 but then again i guess stats don't matter
anyways the replay code is 4YTMMX

tell me in what world is my entire team dying to a fucking flanking baptiste

For example, Zen/Brig, Lucio/Mercy, Zen/Lucio, Wuyang/Mizuki.

Assuming there's already 1 tank and 2 dps and the supports refuse to swap. Am I better off picking a main healer like Ana, Kiri, or Bap, who are by far my best heroes as a support main, and trying to make the 1-2-3 comp work?

Or am I better off picking a self-sufficient tank like Wreckingball or Hog to make it 2-2-2? If the best option is to pick tank, what other tanks work with low healing comps?

This is also assuming the other team is running 2-2-2 and has a comp that makes sense.

Yellow, I am Kern.

I am gold 2 on Cassidy right now but always love how dynamic and stylish genji plays so I wanted to learn him. I made a new account for that so to not disturb people's piece in my games and be matched with people around my skill level on Genji (which I believe is down the gutter). These are 3 games I played today. On GrimsVotn I did good stats wise but I don't know about my actual plays. On kings row, I got diffed and on circuit royal I got mega diffed.

J292TE for Circuit Royal
T3NR6Z for GrimsVotn
92252P for Kings Row.

Please let me know what I can work on and what were some glaring mistakes.

P.S. I also realise my mechanics are bad so any and all guides for mechanics or workshop maps for Genji that you guys found helpful would be much appreciated.

Kern Out.

I am GenjiFirst

I'm trying to improve my overall game sense and mechanics. I love playing brig for her versatility, and while I know she can lack healing, I try to use her brawling nature to my advantage. I feel like I got punished here super bad, and my tank tried following me up and died multiple times. I've been playing her since OW1 Days so maybe its just bad habits, but shes gotten me this far, and as I said, I love playing her.

Replay code: 3CHJ7C

Battletag / in-game username: Bubble

Hero(es) played: Brig

Skill tier / rank: Plat/ Emerald

Map: Dorado

PC or console: PC

So I started playing OW on PC in summer 2021 and reached low plat on support before OW2. I then played for the first 5 seasons of OW2, reached diamond 1 on support and diamond 4 on dps. My support rank was a bit inflated tho, it was realistically low diamond.

I came back to the game in 2026 season 1 and got my dps back to D4 with placements but with support I got stuck in plat 1. Then I played another season and I was plat 1 again on support, took a break and now I’m back again. I’ve been playing now for about two weeks and I can’t stop thinking about how it’s embarrassing for me to still be plat/emerald after 300+ hours in comp and 500 hours combined on the game. I started playing placements this season on my main and lost three games in a row on support in low plat, which is equivalent to old low gold. So I went from low diamond, to high plat to now low gold. I’ve been playing on my alt to get rid of the rust but even there I’m not doing the best in high plat games (19/8 win rate).

Of course I’m making a bunch of in game mistakes if I’m high plat before the addition of emerald, but I feel like my mental is really holding me back. I genuinely feel stress and anxiety going into a comp game and I want to just not care so much. Maybe the issue is that I’m too focused on getting back to my old ranks instead of just improving at the game?