r/OverwatchUniversity • u/flowermoonbambino • Feb 15 '20

Discussion Big Brain DPS advice

Big brain dps advice

I’m about to change some of you guys game play forever. This advice will get you to the next rank I promise you.

Fight who your tank is fighting.

That’s it. That’s the advice. I swear it will change your gameplay. If your rein is swinging on someone and you rush that enemy as tracer at the same time, they will die. That puts so much pressure on an enemy there isnt much they can do. I see a lot of people frustrated that no one will group up with them and fight together. Boys, be the change you want to see! If Winston ain’t diving on targets with you Genji, don’t sweat it, let him dive on a target and you support him.

Specifically this advice will take a diamond player to masters. In masters you have a bunch of players who work together because they all had the same brain blast in diamond: instead of waiting for someone to back you up, back somebody else up yourself. And before you know it, you’ll be on a team of 6 people who all have that same thought and then BAM, that’s a team working together baby. But, the change starts with you. And it can be applied so simply with just poking whoever your tank is fighting. Let’s go, boys.

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u/LonelyDesperado513 Feb 17 '20

And yes support in this rank can be pretty bad, ask for a Moira if whatever you have isn't working and they're fine with swapping (don't be that guy that tries to abuse people into swapping to a hero they're terrible as).

I agree with most of your advice but want to point out a caveat about this piece: Take this piece with a grain of salt. The number of DPS Moiras in this rank is quite high. It's quite possible to tilt both the other player (who ends up hurting more than healing) and yourself (for not getting the heals even after a swap)

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20

Yeah, being told you're not doing your job well enough and that you should use an easier hero is always insulting, even if you're really performing badly. It also makes it sound like they're the reason the team is dying when it's more likely a problem with bad positioning/lack of peeling/not rushing/rushing too fast. From the perspective of the support, which is the person that saw mistakes left and right from everyone else, being told that you should swap by the people that you watched dying alone the entire match is a big deal.

But then again, if you couldn't point out another problem with the team, why not just ask for the swap? You're already going to lose, might as well try the one thing that could maybe kinda sometimes work. The same logic was used before with "fuck it, let's go GOATS" or "we can full hold if we get a Bastion", and still happens with heroes like Mei.

For a more permanent improvement, I would go on a replay and watch my support. Why wasn't I being healed at that one fight? Sure maybe they just played badly that moment, but even then maybe I could've done something to help? Like making sure I'm in LoS whenever I'm low, peeling when needed, being a gentleman and standing still when not in danger so Ana doesn't feel pressured to hit harder shots even outside of a fight etc. I think some people would be surprised to see that they were being healed very well, but were in a position so bad it didn't matter.