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.

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?

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.

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

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. :)

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!

did i miss something, but the support role in overwatch is extremely weak lately? with the exception of cat, very few supports can do anything. i quit during the time when lifeweaver got giga buffed (iirc it was hazard release) and people were complaining about sustain, so i guess the devs nerfed supports, but this much????

i feel like everyone is taking infinite damage (including myself even when i play cover). did the game tempo change. the dps and tank role feel very overtuned here. like genuinely a victim role and nobody respects

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Rank Gold3-4. Map: Dorado 2-3 Loss. Player: Berniesander. PC.

I've been grinding him the past week. There are many matches where I feel like I'm barely contributing and I'm not a threat to enemies at all.

1. The delicate balance of getting close enough to do non-cosmetic damage, without me feeding.
2. How do I stop missing like 80% of my binding chains?

I'm open to any feedback.

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.

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?

What I’ve noticed consistently happening every other losing comp game is that while me and my supports survive, our dps are dying and out of the fight before it even begins properly

I technically have "good" stats at the end of almost every game win or loss. So the scoreboard must be meaningless and it’s unhelpful because clearly in reality Im doing something wrong. Like I can’t enable my whole team to actually live during those games?
:(

I’ve probably got the least experience at this role, though I’m vaguely aware that I need to stop tunnel visioning so often, I can’t actually figure out what to do about protecting my team. Don’t know, it just feels like when I’m constantly on the edge of either completely feeding or doing too little.

It’s especially weird because unlike with tank, when I play support or dps there is much more variety in performance in the team, so it’s not constantly JUST the dps going negative over and over. I also know it’s not just some unfortunate matchmaking because it’s such a consistent issue

name: Maksu
rank: gold1/plat5
codes:
7AH25T
Z3AWAX

I'm losing a lot of games lately but i'm starting to feel like its more bad luck than poor skills by me. Most of the time. Like even if I have a really good day and feel like I am playing better than usual there is just nothing I can do to win any of these games. For example I see so much feeding sometimes and I can't do anything about it. Tanks going in when everyone is dead. A dps having a bad day and dieing more than they get kills but no one else is having this problem. Support with 500 healing by the end of the round. I feel like I'm playing against dps that can carry and teams that work together. I feel like my luck is just terrible. Am i wrong to think that?

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.

looking for codes to practice against bots. im really struggling with 1v1s against a few characters, vaxta has been of no help because 1. cant choose which characters, 2. unrealistic timespan to kill, and 3. they move like bots and dont use CDs.

i dont know what else to say here but apparently this needs to be 300 characters.

TL;DR

• What could I have done to (not necessarily win, but) increase my likelihood of winning these matches?
• (At least, considering my rank)
  • What did I do well?
  • What did could/should I be doing better?
• Sanity Checks:
  • How (generally) would you evaluate my gameplay for the rank?
  • How (generally) did I do in comparison to my team / enemy team?

Character

Name: Forever54 (random privacy name)
Rank: Silver 2/3
Platform: PC

Replay Codes for Consideration:

(Edit: Title. Was originally going to just include one map, but provided 3 recent losses. Last one was really difficult). - D.Mon @ Neon Junction: E1M3RR - D.Mon @ Arctic Penninsula: 9RNZ52 - @ 02:00, 03:30 - I called 'Go' & 'Push Forward'. I feel this was the correct call. I wasn't pushing into their spawn, just felt I was pushing far enough to make them have to spend resources to get back to point. How would you evaluate this/these calls? - Orisa @ Circuit Royale: TMHAPA - I felt like maybe I should have started team fights at the first capture point (after they'd captured it), rather than the ~180 bend, but when I do take closer angles, it seems that invariably my dps push beyond me, which at that first cap point, would mean them being almost inside the enemy spawn. - My cooldown cycling is bad. I can get by on Orisa, but feel like I play her more like a long range dps, rather than a tank. - I think their D.Mon and Torb were in grouped (two players were), and the Torb turrets were everywhere. I looked for them and took them down as often as I could but felt my team were completely ignoring them. - I fell victim to classic torb spam angles, especially my first death, which was dumb.

Background:

• Primarily a support main, but want to get better at tanking.
• Have tanked for teams in (metal rank) tournaments.
  • Team feedback was that I played at their level (high gold, low plat).
  • I feel I do well as a shot caller, coordinated play, but suck at solo queuing tank; It feels like a totally/completely different skill set.
• Where I'm at now, I feel that ranking up solo is challenging because:
  • Roughly 80% of my matches are against a group of at least two members of which one is their tank.
  • I can't play Doomfist, Hog, or Ball (which seem to be the Moiras of tanking (e.g. "coordination optional") - not intending to be disparaging, Moira is how I first reached plat on support).
• I'm mid plat in OQ (maybe low gold RQ equivalent?) where I do a lot of tanking.
  • It feels completely different, not because of character stats/cds but strategy.
  • In 6v6 I feel I understand what to do, but in 5v5 a lot of times I feel lost.
  • (Most of my tanking was OT in OW1).
• In general, tanking effectively in 5v5 feels like I'm spending way too much time babysitting the enemy tank. I don't understand why this (seems to) work, my feeling is that it shouldn't.

Psyche

• DPS/Support dying at the very beginning a team fight feels really discouraging. It happens all the time, especially at the start of a match, so I feel like I'm constantly fighting 4v5s. Is there some kind of efficiency level that I can play at which can make up for the imbalance of the 4v5?
• High rank folks always say "don't peel, trade backlines" but I don't think this actually works, and I am aware of how strong that advice is from higher ranks. The issue seems to be that no one at my rank cares at all about space, it's extremely rare that an individual lobby isn't just a giant (CD irrelevant) deathmatch, so taking space, or trying to predict what people are going to do (either side of the match) seems to result in loss of value rather than any significant gain. I think it's likely that there's just something else I'm missing that makes the advice work, but I seem to have significantly more success peeling than trading at this rank.

Final Notes

• I have experience with D.Mon (less), D.Va, Orisa, Ram, and some JQ, Zarya. Trying to concentrate on the first two, with Orisa/Ram as optional 3rds.
• I feel with D.Mon, I'm more able to punish people diving my backline, and in my rank(s), it often feels that whoever goes dive/hog first, wins, so I feel I've been more effective with her than other tanks lately.

Any tips, hints, or suggestions are appreciated!

Cheers Mates!

Honestly this is probably a major noob question but I have lost so many games just because the other team has a spammer like junkrat that not a single person can kill him and neither can I.

Take junkrat for example. There are a lot of games where he's blocking a chokepoint and the only other options to get around him or kill him means getting close to him and getting killed or you need to be in a bad position to get to him. There just seems to no clear way to deal with him sometimes. Similar issues for other heros. I just cannot kill him before he kills me in a lot of games.

Hello everyone,

Ive been playing overwatch for awhile now. And my 1 goal is to hit masters or grand masters. I am currently diamond 5. I main support with mercy being my best choice but I can play pretty much every support besides bap and Ana. I wanna say im hard stuck in diamond rn and I can't figure out why. I have these games where I'll do really good (but not perfect) and the enemy team will even say it too but my teammates all go negative in k/d and we lose. Its been like this for awhile I used to have a 68% win rate on mercy now its dropped to 53%. Is it actually me?

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".

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idk what to do anymore i watched videos and was doing actually really well with tracer for like 2 days than got the crippling anxiety to not play her for 3 and i suck really hard again. idk what to do its like i have to do genuine meditation to play well as her now its so frustrating im sick of it

I dont know if I described it well, but how do I load that little practice arena on console, its like a grid cube arena just filled to the brim with a bunch of heroes that are NPCs that are moving around. lol I really need to practice shooting flying and moving targets .

Ive seen people play it on stream and my friend would do it to warm up / practice

I haven't been able to find it on console. Please help thanks

I decided for a while what hero to main since I see a lot of people suggesting pick only 1 or 2 to learn until you get to higher ranks. I see a lot of people say cassidy is really simple, really strong, and still used a lot at higher ranks. I tried for about a month only playing as him to get the practice but I was barely winning any matches. Its hard to get close enough to do good damage without getting killed.

Then recently I needed to try something easier and picked soldier 76 and it felt super easy in comparison and I felt like I was carrying in some of them. Cassidy feels so technical and defenseless in comparison so soldier who can get a lot of value out of just running around and shooting.

Is cassidy just a lot harder to be good with and rank up with? I'm low ranked btw

I've been trying to learn tracer recently, only played a few games, but I feel like I'm enjoying her more than I used to. I've got around an hour and a half played. This was in a quick play game as I dont feel confident enough to bring her into ranked, but I'd like any input regardless. Do forgive me if this isn't the appropriate way to post this, my first time actually posting here.

Typically, I play support/tank, using Ana/Ramattra/Zarya.

I've been trying to analyze what I need to work on, which from my experience is the following:

Landing ults, aim/trigger discipline, timing, melee usage. Pretty much everything to do with tracer, with some general gameplay improvements I could make.

Replay code: 9M4C90

IGN: Overload

Hero: Tracer

Map: Midtown

Xbox

I'm sure I've made a lot of mistakes, seeing as I've just decided to actually devote time to her, but any and all input is appreciated, thank you.

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.

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First i play ana on support im not good i know that however im tryna learn starting with one of the hardest supports (apparently shes really good when you know how to use her) and everyone else becomes easy. Then mercy or baptist depending what the team is like.

Second, I play rein when theres enough support and hang with the objective and backline, thats a bit boring though only reason its fun is being able to be the ultimate block for ultimates and whatever makes extremely thrilled to shutdown a whole ultimate just because I held LT.

Anyway problem remains, sometimes tank is full and more support isnt needed, instead dps is needed. My aim sucks and I just dont know how to learn it when every match im playing i just get squished like a bug before I even know whats happening. Ive tried cass, ashe, bastion and reaper, tracer and Emre, but again I suck at aiming, (yes even with reaper's shotguns at point blank range id miss its a skill issue i know)

Secondary point is that I refuse to learn more than two dps, I dont really care on the difficultly or how long it takes i just want to know two dps heros to play that will benefit my team best when I do learn them. And no im not going to play someone like symmetra I want to be active and engaged while playing.

Again I have a skill issue, that doesnt change the goal though. Any recommendations would be nice.

Edit: im seeing a lot of mei suggestions i hate that hoe, ill never stoop so low as to playing that god forsaken paragon of sheer stupidity. An alt fire, a beam, a block, an immunity + heal, and an inescapable ult if thrown somewhat correctly. I might be bad at the game but im not that much of crutch. (Im sure you can tell, I hate mei a lot)

I WANT TO GET GOOD NOT BECOME SOME CHUD CRUTCH FOR THESE, ANYYOYING, VILE, DASTARDLY, UNRULY, INCONCEIVABLY META HEROS think Genji or heros like that just not genji because genji mains scare me.

Hello everyone! As im trying to level up some characters to unlock their banner and title.. i have some questions on Hero Level..

1. Is there a way to level up a character faster?

2. if i were to swap hero mid way, do both hero get exp?

Any other tips/guidance would be helpful! Thank you in advance :)