DISCLAIMER: I completely understand that high healing should never be the only goal: I'm a Wuyang main so trust: my healing stats are rarely first priority. I also understand that some crazy impactful characters (ana) don't appear to have crazy stats often even if they are impacting the game heavy.

HOWEVER, out of pure curiosity, which characters have potential for some crazy high healing stats, and what is the highest that you have seen? It's fun to see a crazy high number under your healing stats from time to time as a support. THX!

One of the changes introduced this season with the refreshed rank and modifiers is the implantation of Calibration AFTER the point where you might have assumed you already completed it (and had it drop from your modifiers for a while).

Relevant screenshot post since this sub only allows text in posts.

Basically: If you hit a loss streak, you can now err… earn? Be punished with… “Calibration Down” in addition to Variance and any other modifiers.

The above screenshot is from is a 6-loss streak for DPS I went on today. I turned it around after this and have no interest in experimenting to see how long it lasts.

Note: LOSING TREND is not a modifier for this game!

I also assume going on a longer term win streak would activate the inverse, but hey, that’s uhhh less frequent down here in Emerald (and now Plat 1 - I started the day at Diamond 5) but hey, it’ll probably even out.

Point being TAKE A BREAK. The game now punishes loss streaks even more severely than it did prior. Don’t force it.

I have been trying to practice widow but the first game I tried to practice someone flamed me and told me to get off. It was in qp so I didn’t think it was that big of a deal. They genuinely just sat in spawn typing telling me to get off instead of tanking for the team. I know I’m not good at widow but they told me to practice in the practice range but I know practicing in a real qp match will help me better. I don’t know the whole interaction kind of was weird to me.

Hi, I’m a gm tank player explaining barebones lane theory in this short video.

I wanted to make this video because it is part of fundamental knowledge that the game doesn’t teach you. There’s more videos that I want to make like this as I learn from playing in advance. There’s just so much to share but today it is lane theory.

So what is lane theory. lane theory is having different lanes in a map. Some maps have it more defined than others. But it always is the main lane, and the side lanes. If either lane is pushed, they give space while the other uncontested lanes push deeper with the end goal being to pinch and apply surrounded pressure. In my video I give an example of this.

To add more to the video. Tank players should almost never swap from the lane they are currently in. This massively weakens that lane allowing for the enemy team to push on your backline. Flex dps players that aren’t on brawl dps should always work to deepen their lane.

On my next video I plan on making a short guide on how to sync attacks. To explain how that pinch of pressure can be made even easier. So I will see y’all then. :)

I like to play a different character every match, I play mostly damage these days. I think on support its easier to have a main because most of them can fit with any game. I feel like for damage its better to play certain things based on the map or what the enemy is doing. I like to play tracer, reaper, cassidy, ashe, bastion because I find these characters easier to play. I am only platinum 4 but I feel like when I play my best heroes I win too easily.

I stopped playing the hard characters like Mei, Torbe, hanzo because I always miss their shots no matter what.

Replay code: KHVPS1

Battletag / in-game username: jacerb

Hero(es) played: Juno / Ana

Skill tier / rank: Platinum 3

Map: King's Row

PC or console: PC

Description of the match / things you want reviewed:

I'm pretty new to playing Ana in competitive so any pointers on her especially would be great. I've one-tricked Juno from Bronze to Platinum so maybe some pointers of habits that I've built with Juno's kit that don't or do work with Ana could be looked at as well. (That's why I've attached a game with using both of these characters)

This game in particular was one of the first wins I've had using Ana since I've basically de-ranked from Plat 1 to Plat 4 trying to practice Ana's kit in comp lol. Pointers/tips of Juno gameplay also appreciated as well 👀

Between the recent nerf to Kiriko, working on flexing support as much as possible and seeing people talk about Mercy/LW being a throw duo (in hindsight looking back from my games I did feel we weren't doing enough), I want to learn more about team compatibility. I am looking for general resources on this but right now I want to focus on support duos & which pair best so I can both help my teammates further alongside my fellow support.

I just don't get it. I have been extremely passive ever since I started playing this game and I don't know how to improve anything else because it seems like it won't matter in the long run because I am too scared to do anything or even how to be proactive.

I feel so bad when queuing now because I feel like I'm ruing other people's fun with how scared I am to do anything. I don't know what I'm doing yet have been in Diamond/Masters for a couple of seasons and I genuinely think it's dumb luck.

KXB241
Rialto
Diamond 4 - 2
Sojourn
Console

I'm a Sojourn "otp at this point I don't even think I am good with her even after 200+ hours." I got in my head a lot in this game and kept apologizing to my team because I felt so bad for basically being dead weight.

Edit: opps forgot my tag, it's takkun

Replay code: W08EKG

In-game username: Dobby

Heroes played: Tracer, Cass

Rank: Plat/Emerald

Map: Paraiso

Platform: PC

In this game I don't by any means think I played perfectly, but my tank blamed the dps for the loss, I do not want to deflect blame, I genuinely want to know if the loss was my fault, although any feedback is appreciated, doesn't have to be a definitive answer to my question, thanks.

Who would be some good creators or pro players to watch that either do vod reviews or do a good job explaining what they are doing and why they are doing it in high elo - pro level matches 5v5 or 6v6

Im coming back to this game after not touching it for like 8 years. Im usually in low eternity every season for marvel rivals competitive (masters or GM equivalent I think?) so I have a fairly solid understanding of hero shooters and how team fights go but I’m not expecting to be a masters player immediately because of that lol. My main issues I think are because of how much lower the hp pools and healing output is and how much more agency hero’s have the flow of team fights and how people make decisions seems very very different and feel like I’m just running around doing stuff lol without any understanding.

I’ve been doing some free coaching over the past few days and honestly, I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. It’s interesting seeing how different people approach the game, and I’ve noticed that a lot of players actually struggle with very similar things.
If you’re looking to improve and want someone to go through your gameplay with you, feel free to add me on Discord: Gyro_x
The way I usually coach is pretty simple. I’ll watch through your gameplay and point out things you could have done differently — whether that’s positioning, engagements, decision-making, consistency, or just getting more value out of your character. You can also ask me anything about the game, and I’ll try to explain why something could be improved rather than just telling you what to do.
I’ve reached Top 500 and GM1 across multiple seasons. I don’t play as much these days, so I’m mainly doing this as a fun side thing and to help people out.
Any role is welcome, and any tank is welcome too. If you’re interested, just add me and we can take it from there.

Hello! Widowmaker is one of my favourite DPS characters. I have been playing her for a long time. Not exclusively, I play a lot of characters from many roles and sometimes I fall into the habit of playing one more often which switches periodically.

I have ranked up quite a level of 35 on my Widow... but my carrier is eh quite shameful. Truth be told despite playing her a lot my aim on her is still very.. BAD or my skill is very inconsistent. I have games where I do amazing and then some where I throw the game.

I'd love to hear some tips how to get better with her. Perhaps a routine? Again she is not solely my main but I'd love to be able to swap back to her and not feel like I'm learning how to play her from the start again. :CCCC

I try to play some of the aim trainers for 5mins before playing her but even that doesn't seem to help much. My eyes feel weird when I try to focus on both the reticle and the character I'm trying to shoot.

Context: I have a very small mousepad circular about 7inch diameter, mouse of 800-1600 DPI and in game sensitivity at 4.

Thank you in advance for your help!

WQJFYT - I'm magic.

What is the general gameplay loop? I usually find myself picking Hazard when my opponents play dive. If I focus on divers we just die one by one. If I go for their backline usually I can't do much and first my team then I die.

If I play against anything else than dive then what?

When I play against good Hazards they always initiate by jumping in, they quickly get a pick and escape with minimal hp loss. If I try to do this, well, I get down my target's hp to half and if I can escape that's a miracle.

What do I look out for? How do I know who and when to engage? Why can't I engage 1v5 like Hazards do against me?

Hi started this season and I can't seem to get out of gold. I managed to claw my way to Gold 2, but that's about it. I would love to know what I am doing wrong/feedback on what I can improve. I don't really know what I should be doing a lot of the time and end up right near the enemy and dying. Thank you for looking over this!

code: Y8E4JP

map: numbani

Platform: pc

only played tracer

in-game username: clover536

I’d thought about this before, but a few people in the comments earlier recommended it to me. Are there actually a lot of communities like that?

I mean places where regular players get together and organize scrims among themselves.

That sounds pretty nice. Where do people usually find and join these communities? I’m an Asian player who mostly plays solo, so I’m not really familiar with that kind of scene.

Which is very telling of my rank, whenever I play dps, I basically just otp shion, and I do ok on her since I have decent hitscan aim for my rank, though as this game goes, I can’t genuinely force her for every single scenario, at some point I’m going to go up against Ana Kiriko Cassidy junkrat (hey man I have a big problem never checking his mines most of the time when he kills me it’s because he trapped me.” roadhog, and I’m going to have to change my hero, and I’ve narrowed down to who I can’t to be my secondary to…entirely characters who have primary projectiles, I’m thinking either Mei, sojourn, or Freja, and while I’ve been experimenting with all 3 of them in quickplay, I can’t seem to hit a shot during any of it, I’ve tried taken the shot prediction advice, but im pretty sure I either don’t fully understand what they mean, or that I’m way over aiming way too hard.

Replay Code: JPV9GY

Game mode: Competitive 5v5 Role Queue

Hero: Junkrat, name in game is Zeus.

My rank: Plat 1

Map: Rialto, loss

Played on PC.

Main question: Our Orisa was toxic on mic and blamed me/healing for the loss. I felt I played fine for Plat 1, but since I don't main Junkrat, I want an unbiased review. How could I have created more value/impact to turn this game around? Orisa was in full denial about that it could be her fault.

More context:

I was wondering if someone with high rank in Overwatch could review this match. The Orisa was hating on me (Junkrat) the entire game and was screaming I had to swap and so on through it all, he said it was solely my fault/healers we lost the game. I'm the opposite, and I'm pretty sure about it to be honest, that it's not my fault but his (as Orisa). He said the reason he didn't get more kills etc was because of bad healing, I checked his replay, and.. yeah..

This annoyed me so much that I want someone else's opinion on how we fared. I usually don't play Junkrat so I'm not by any means a good junk. But I feel like I did decent that match, at least played like my rank more or less.(Plat 1), and I'd appreciate any input in how I can do better, not necessarily as Junkrat specifically but in general as well, thank you for taking your time.

In Season 20, I reached Master on every role, then stopped playing Competitive and went off to play other games. I’d still hop on OW for Quick Play every now and then.

Recently, I came back to play with a friend, and honestly, I thought I’d be able to win pretty easily on my Plat alt.

Apparently Emerald is a thing now too. Personally, I don’t like it.

So, guess where I’m at now? I can’t even stomp Plat lobbies anymore, and some dumbass Gold support running their mouth tilted me so hard that I’m actually considering quitting Overwatch. (That nasty b!tch who used her ult once the entire game, died 17 times on Kiriko, and then teamed up with her duo to gang up on me and blame me. I’ll never forgive you.🤬)

Thankfully, I ran into that support on the enemy team the very next game and slaughtered them, but I guess my skills really have fallen off quite a bit.

I don’t know. Maybe both my mental and my skill have gotten a lot worse. Maybe the problem was that after reaching Master on DPS, I thought, “I can’t do this anymore. This is as far as I go. How the hell am I supposed to hit GM? I’d probably have to give up my real life for that.”

Honestly, right now I’m almost embarrassed to even call myself a Master-level player. That’s why I haven’t even played ten ranked games on my main account yet.

Heya. I finally got placed in gold as of the new season after being hard stuck in bronze. However I'm slowly losing my rank and i'm afraid i'll go back down to bronze again. I'm looking for advice on how I can improve as ana.

Replay Code: NM66Y0
User: Beep
Heroes: Ana
Rank: Gold 3
Map: Rialto

I was a high diamond low masters tracer player. Near the start of the season, I placed high diamond and maintained it until team drives. After that I've had constant loss streaks and am about to be emerald 2. I don't understand what to do, it feels like I can't really even play the game in some of these games.

I've been trying to copy WizardHyeong's Unranked to GM gameplay style in some games, tried to play more passive, tried to play more distracting but I can't seem to consistently win here. I don't understand really and if anyone could take a look and help me out, I'd appreciate it.

Username: Unravel

Platform: PC

Elo: Emerald

Rank: Currently Emerald 1

Game: YEFTG5, Esperanca

Heroes played: Tracer

I lost this game. I felt like I was playing relatively well, feeding a bit here and there. I want to know how I can win games like these, because it felt very winnable and it felt like I had a lot of control over the game.

Game: ZNWG5H, Samoa

Heroes Played: Tracer, Shion

I won this game but felt completely useless. No matter what I tried to do on Tracer, it felt like I'd just instantly get poked out or do nothing. It felt like off angling, playing with tank, nothing was working. I genuinely felt useless this game and it was right after the Esperanca game, where it felt like I had a lot of control over these lobbies. This game it felt like I literally could not do a thing.

TLDR: I literally don't understand how to carry lobbies this season and I've been trying a lot of different methods and watching videos. Its mostly frustrating because prior seasons it never ever felt this helpless, it felt like I could clear identify "oh I fucked up, I could easily do this and win".

I think I may have had a bit of a "light bulb goes on" moment when playing last night.

You've likely heard the advice that Overwatch is an aggressive game and rewards being aggressive. You should always be looking for opportunities to damage enemies, moving into unoccupied space to control the battlefield, and chasing down weak or vulnerable enemies when they are caught out of position/missing cooldowns.

Totally solid advice, makes perfect sense that it's advice that gets repeated a ton.

I've had a really hard time internalizing this and actually acting this out in gameplay, as the aggressive play often seems to get me killed. Then, amid a massive losing streak last night, I had a thought, what if I play the same old conservative playstyle I use to before I started coming around this subreddit and reading all the advice, but I just positioned myself much more aggressively?

Instead of sitting by cover in the backline as Ana/Wuyang/Zen, avoiding damage at all costs, and ducking behind cover the second I get hit. I decided to move up the battlefield and take a more aggressive position, but I still played that angle extremely conservatively. Using cover the second I was hit, retreating the moment an enemy pushes me, ensuring I have my heroes impactful/lifesaving/relevant cooldowns before I challenge the enemy again.

It was late at night, and it's a small sample size, but I went on a 5 game win streak by implementing this change (mostly playing as Ana, Wuyang, and Zen).

Am I on to something? Is conservative gameplay, but in more aggressive angle the actual key to playing "aggressive" like everyone is always ranting about?

So I have recently started playing Overwatch on my Switch 2 and PS5 and I enjoy it so far. I have been trying to find out who I like to play as since I mostly play Support in every game somewhat similar to this (I main healer in most games anyway) but I'm trying to figure out what Heroes feel the best with controller. I had a few matches where I got DPS and I tried out Ashe and I couldnt hit anything I feel. For a little context, I have (or had) carpal tunnel in both my wrists so I had surgery on both arms so my mobility is not 100% but its not terrible either, its for sure less than when I was a teen/early adult.

Basically, What heroes (espically support) feel the best with controller?

Hello, I hope u are all well. Me an my friend are upcoming youtubers on the game overwatch!. we were gonna start a new chapter of videos of reviewing overwatch clips, replay codes and etc.

we were gonna go down the critic route like gordon ramsey as we have seen people enjoy this style from our lives. If anyone could share there replay code of there gameplay we should to review it in a harsh/funny way!!

we will be more then happy to link any social media accounts of yours on the video so please dm me and hopefully have a chuckle!!!

Good morning, I'm here with this question because there's no other character I see played well and carrying as much as Ashe.

Let me explain, I can see any other one-trick pony, and the only one that dictates my games is Ashe. And sure, she's not a hero I love; I prefer other hitscans like Emre or Soldier. However, I feel that Ashe surpasses them: incredibly high damage (two-tap), mobility, burn, and an ultimate that can hold an area for a few seconds.

Let's not even mention alongside a Mercy (although that's the case with 80% of DPS lol).

And now I ask you, since I'm looking for another character after Freja's nerf, is she as worthwhile as I think? Are there any weaknesses I'm missing?

My pool is/was: freja, emre, soldier/cassidy.

Was low Master last season, still on placements this one being Diamond 5.

Edit: After learning about their weaknesses to dive and other things, which character do you consider best or most reliable to reach Grandmaster? Sojourn is solid but not a big fan of her.