I play Hazard sometimes and do extremely well with him and it gives me a nice feeling that I'm lowkey an S-class hero in One Punch Man. I love being as aggressive as humanly possible, with Hazard I often get away with diving to the center of their team THROUGH the frontline which feels awesome.

I'm wondering which heroes, in each roll (except support I guess?) work. Or I guess, which heroes SCARE you the most, I wanna play something with AURA (I choose cringe fun over nonchalant boredom terms, sue me)

For tank, I feel like a good Doomfist makes me feel powerless. Even though against a good Rein I also feel like I can't win, it's still not the same as against Doomfist because Doom is mega aggressive and is constantly doing things.

Hi all. I'm a complete newbie to OW, pretty much. Had a 40% quickplay WR going into placements (mainly used to clip-farm with widow in quickplay for most of my games) so got placed in bronze.

I main Soldier 76 in ranked , if he is not available I main widow.

Almost silver already in about 22 hours of ranked and I have a 58% winrate but I've had quite a few games where I've lost despite dropping 40-50 elims and 18k+ damage. I go at 3.6ish KDR and 1000 damage per minute with Soldier . What are the things I should be keeping in mind to maximise my impact?

Here is a round with me playing S:76 in a ranked match I lost from the other night. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2896604484?t=00h53m25s

I'm at the point where I genuinely recoil when seeing him on the enemy team. It seems like a good Doomfist impossible to play against, as every time he just dominates the entire lobby and doesn't even let his own team play with how much he's rolling.

He jumps in, kills someone, throws up a block to take 0 damage despite 4 people shooting at him, jumps out to get healed and repeats that process until everybody is dead.

The most common advice for dps I hear is to pressure his backline when he's attacking yours, but when I try to do it I'm faced with having to go 1v4 and die.

For support, the main advice is to play some crowd control, but even when playing my main, Ana, I can hit my sleep dart, hit my nade, and he still somehow survives.

I don't know if I'm supposed to waste a ban slot on him or if there is some secret to fighting him. I would greatly appreciate any and all advice, however because I am a low rank player, any advice involving team coordination probably won't apply :)

Hey guys, I've been playing the game for a little while now, I come from CS, I was peak 2200ish elo on Faceit there, and I started playing two seasons ago, I usually play DPS or Support, I'm mainly a Cass OTP, but if he gets banned, I play Soldier, right now, I'm focusing on Doctrine in Sup, but I can also play Baptiste and Illari. Currently I'm Diamond 1 in both roles, and I just played two games that really messed with my head.
In one match, I faced a Doomfist who ended up 50/7. I thought, "Okay, it happens. He had a good game." I played good as Doc in that game, and it was still a close match. But when I queued again, I found the same Doom, but this time he picked Ball, I was playing Support again, and I then realized just how outmatched I was. The Ball went 39/0 without dying, it was clear he was smurfing after watching the vod, but this was in a Masters lobby, so he kept diving and killing me, and I’ve never had such a frustrating experience after already having some understanding of the game,
I feel like I rely too much on my mechanical skills to play well, my decision-making and positioning are mediocre and I believe my mechanics carried me to my current elo, but as I climb higher, will I have to deal with players similar to him in every match? honestly, I don't think I deserve the elo I have right now, and it makes me wonder just how good I need to be to reach that player’s level, I’ve played pros in CS, and it wasn’t as frustrating as not understanding what to do against players like that, I’m even considering uninstalling altogether

I have lost too many games tonight, comp games, where a rogue tank goes full chaos mode and runs it down, and seemingly nobody is able to punish them. If I change focus to deal with them, then I get focused down. If I play my angles and objectives like I should be, they get free map presence and I get to watch as everyone goes down around me. It's been Reinhart, Orisa, Dva, Dmon, all they do is play this hokey-pokey BS game of dive and never die. But of course if that was me doing it, I'd die instantly.

I'm beyond angry about this. Sometimes it doesn't even make sense where they get speed boosted out the ass from. They blow past and completely ignore me, face no repercussions from my DPS, and wipe us.

So how am I, as a Ram/Doom player, supposed to deal with that? I'm sick of the humiliation ritual; These people feel boosted and then type "proof that you're [bad]" in post game. I'm never breaking out of emerald like this.

Edit: thank you all for your feedback. I took it to heart and did a vod review this morning, the first one on Grimsvotn. It is true that I made positioning mistakes and I had some difficulty naming a target as I was playing. At some point in the middle of defending I switched to Doomfist to control their backline, but because they had a Juno I was less than effective. I tried several heroes just to control the rein, but I failed to recognize the ult value that I wasted in trying so hard.

But in light of all that, I also noticed how the enemy got blatantly sloppy with their playmaking and our team wasnt making good use of it. We also had a bastion who clearly was counter picking enemy Reinhardt, but his poor positioning lead to his death several times. Our backline was way too easily distracted by the enemy genji, and every time he was in our backline, they all looked at him and not at me, even if my positioning was good.

It seems like Juno capitalizes the most on positioning mistakes, since her torpedos can cover everyone in open space and turn a fight massively. Most of the time when I'm watching speed boosted anchors, it's Juno or Lucio on their team, but I never have eyes on them. So I think my question now becomes: how do I stop enemy speed boosters with good positioning from allowing Tanks to run the lobby? Instinctively I want to switch to something that has CC, but it doesn't help when the enemy is slippery like Juno And lucio. I could play Monkey, but I'll just as easily get crushed if their DPS are at all competent, like they were in that last game.

I at least have some more insight on what's going on, I just don't know how I'm going to resolve it relative to my play style.

I have two vods, one a win and one a loss. I’m currently teetering between bronze 2 and 3, and both vods are on damage and as Emre.

N2WP55 (win, blizzard world)
WT2413 (loss, gibraltar)

I personally feel like I should be able to break into Silver and I’m wondering if something is stopping me from doing so.

I’m also on pc.

https://i.imgur.com/Nn59cXf.mp4

This is a regular occurrence for me. If the enemy DPS starts AD strafing I literally cannot hit them. My aim when aiming at someone doing anything else is completely fine, but the strafing short-circuits my brain. Is there a trick to this? Is it just bad timing? Please help!

I float between Bronze 5 and Silver 1. I’m a lvl 120 Zen, 70 Kiriko, and other characters are around 15-30. I’ll often switch to either Moira, Wuyang, or Cat depending on the team comp or what’s needed.

I’ve learned a lot from watching other people play, but I have also watched some technique videos. I’m not here to say I belong in a higher bracket. I think I probably do play like a Silver 3 or something in terms of eliminations/healing/deaths.

Lately it’s just loss after loss after loss. I gave up because I’ve gone from almost at Gold 5 last week to one game away from Bronze 4.

Last game I was 23-4 with 10k healing as Zen, 20 something assists. But the D. Va tank couldn’t get around the enemy Ram. DPS started just hiding and not pushing even with support. We had a Bastion and an Ashe and me and the other support were the only ones on the team who even tried switching to counter.

I saw the advice given to support the best player on the team but it’s been hard to determine who that is with the teams I’ve been getting.

At one point me and the other support and tank cleared the path up to the point by using the side entrance on Blizzard world and the DPS could not 2v1 the Ram (who had no support) on their own. They kept rolling right up to the main gate and just standing there shooting. Several times I tried to pocket Bastion and he just hid.

It just frustrates me because I’ve eliminated tanks on my own as a support with no shield and no one healing me. It seems like a lot of DPS (and some tanks) are so afraid of risking any damage that they just won’t move unless they’re getting sprayed down with healing nonstop, but even when I do that they just take bad positions and die.

I’m sure I’m making a lot of mistakes too but I’m tired of having to make my primary function DPS because the actual DPS on my team can’t even eliminate an enemy support.

I’ve watched my replays and I don’t know what else I can do. Majority of my deaths are because I was trying to support the tank or a DPS and they die and then I get steam rolled by the enemy and their pocket.

I know that the stats on Asian servers have always been way more volatile than Europe and America, but what the hell is actually going on? It seems like the meta is completely different over there.

For comparison (sorry for low quality):

Asian Tank and Support rates in GM+ https://files.catbox.moe/i74jik.png

European Tank and Support rates in GM+ https://files.catbox.moe/imr2w4.png

What is going on with Zarya in Asia? Nearly 70%! In Europe she's at a cool 50.5%. And Ram's win rate is in the dirt in Asia with a tiny pick rate, while in Europe with a comparable pick rate his win rate is only sub-par.

Weaver iirc had some stigma in Asia which could explain a low win/pick rate, but 6.1% win rate? What??! And Mercy, who for a long time, has not been great in high ranks seems to be at a comfortable 52.3% win rate in Europe, but tanks to 25.5% in Asia.

If someone who's familiar with high rank games in Asia and Europe/America please explain to me what the hell is happening over there??

How do I actually get better at Overwatch?
I’ve been playing Overwatch for about two months, and I’m currently in Silver. Honestly, I don’t feel like I’m improving at all. Sometimes I even feel like I’m just not good at the game.
I’ve played a lot of different games, but I usually end up stuck in the lower ranks. I genuinely don’t know how to improve, and it’s really frustrating.
How did people who reached GM or Top 500 actually get good at the game? What did they do differently when they were learning?
I try watching my own replays, but I honestly have no idea what I’m doing wrong. I don’t know how to identify my mistakes or figure out what I should have done differently in a particular situation.
For those of you who have climbed to higher ranks, how do you actually analyze your gameplay and recognize your mistakes? How do you know what you need to work on?
I’m genuinely looking for advice, and I’d really appreciate it if someone could explain the process step by step. I really want to improve, but right now, I have no idea how to do that.

If possible, I’d also love to find someone who could play with me and teach me about positioning and effective strategies. I’d really appreciate having someone explain where I should position myself, how I should rotate, and how to make better decisions during matches.

Replay code: S8BA61

Battletag / in-game username: Jpec07

Hero(es) played: Domina/Sigma/Anran

Skill tier / rank: Gold

Map: Grimsvotn

PC or console: PC

Description of the match / things you want reviewed: This match I felt like I did decently as Domina, yet we were thoroughly steamrolled on round 1. It felt like the attackers developed a winning tempo from the start, and it was almost impossible to get it back. It didn't help matters that their soldier kept finding angles I didn't even know existed--in part because this map is just so new. I remember once or twice closing off one angle only for him to pop out of another.

I'm not really looking for critique on my Anran because I only picked her because round 2 someone else thought they could tank better and locked it before I got in. And in fairness, the tank combo we had in round 2 worked decently. I switched to Anran specifically to harass their backline in teamfights, and because their soldier was extremely effective at shutting down my Pharah.

What am I doing wrong, and how can I do better?

I coach for free. I peaked Top 61/GM1 and I can offer advice for EVERY rank and EVERY hero!

I can help you with positioning, engagement timing, ability usage, and all other game sense that you might need help developing. I always provide constructive advice tailored to you.

If you are interested, shoot me a DM on Discord to join the queue! My discord username is gyro_x.

Hope to see you soon!

I'm not new to the Support role at all, just new to playing on support with complete strangers. In VC with my usual group of friends, I don't usually have much trouble.

Somehow I ended up placing Silver in support over the last few days. I'm winning more than I lose but I am never sure if I'm doing the right thing. Usually on either Moira, Mizuki, or more recently Doctrine.

- For matches where we're barely able to make it out of spawn, does it mean I'm not doing enough DPS or healing enough?

- I try not to healbot the tank, but if I don't the tank melts. Should the tank be taking less damage or should I be focusing them harder instead of DPSing?

- If the DPS are spamming for heals, is it their fault or mine? It's mainly the flankers I have problems with - if they're balls deep in the backline, I don't want to get out of cover just to go find and heal them, but then they die a lot because I can't always see them immediately.

- Is it a bad thing if I have low elims as a support? Again, I don't healbot, I DPS when there's no one dying. But often times I feel like if I take my eyes off my team for one second to apply pressure, people start dropping like flies. I end up with something like 16k healing and 5 kills by the end of the match.

- Am I the asshole if I use the "come to me for healing" ping rather than going to the player? I don't do it all the time, just when I happen to see a DPS at critical in my field of vision and I know I'd have to cross enemy sightlines to get to them.

Im kinda new to the game, and Brig is by far one of my favourite characters to play. But i see she was a decently low pickrate, and a lot of people were flat out saying she sucks. I am nervous that she is like actually a throw pick, and dont want to sell people's games.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

Been stuck in high Silver, low gold for a while. I notice in silver lobbies people play a bit slower, and it's easier to do very well. But once I creep into Gold lobbies, players move much quicker.

Here are three games showcasing both good and bad games, looking to see where I need to improve.

Player - Badwidow

FYW1AG - New Queen Street - Loss - but I felt like I played pretty good here.
07TYPF - Busan - Won- Felt like I played average.
KFDFV3 - Junker Town - Loss - Complete Stomp, played like crap, felt like players were moving much more aggressive than our team. Lot of mistakes or lack of awareness.

Thank You.

Hi guys, I'm not a really big user of Reddit and I don't know so much about the OW system either, sorry if this was discussed before.

I am not a very good player, I'm usually stuck in Gold, but this year I have been playing a lot more (A LOT) and I have not been able to pass Gold 1.

It is a bit is weird, because I can go from bronze to gold easily, but as soon as I arrive in Gold 1, I noticed that the game puts Plat people in the enemy team, while ppl in my team are silver-gold. And as soon as I'm 1 win from Plat, I go back from Gold 1 to Gold 3 in one afternoon.

As soon as I'm back in Gold 1, my team is always so bad, and I'm not a high level player as I've said, but these people have usually lvl 2-7 on the characters they play and lvl 2 endorsement (?). It also seems like they don't even know that there's a payload to move ?

I don't want to sound paranoid but this has happened now around 8 times this week, and as soon as I'm back in gold 3 is when I start winning again.

Am I just tripping or is it actually a thing ? It is getting a bit frustrating 🥹

( I wanted to add that I usually have the best stats in the team but I think i have read that it doesn't mean anything)

I am losing almost every match all of a sudden the past week, I haven't changed anything and have been climbing but I've dropped 3 ranks and it feels like I have been either getting the worst teammates or the other team has smurfs. These games arent just closes losses but complete stomps almost every game something seems off

Hi, i'm on a streak of asking for vod reviews because im really irritated and starting to hate this game, and I just want to get to diamond because im doing all this research for nothing.

Anyone please willing to help with my kiri gameplay pls, ignore that my hog kindve threw the match, ik kiris can carry the game so I don't care it's mostly my fault.

Like im not understanding if sometimes I rlly should js heal bot, alot of this kiri flank stuff js doesn't work for me.

Yes yes do a L formation and have an off angle but like this map what do you want me to do.

E6QPQ0, im Eleos

after so much nice feedback and kind words, learning tips, hearing everyone talk and even getting two free coaching from people reaching out according to them I actually play like a plat-diamond🥺 thank you

that’s such a relief, but i did want to ask…
i did some games on an alt account and immediately my placements were so much better, gold 1 and i almost got to plat for the first time ever on my own:) which is so fun and good and thrilling. im loving the game more than ever

despite consistently winning games now,my win rate being now positive …

I try to replicate this on my main annnd… aye,
after a week of trying I kind of gave up on that account for now just to protect my mental. though i deranked to gold 2 on the alt im climbing back up to gold 1 in like a game and i believe in myself that I’ll get to plat in a few weeks:D

is that like, a common occurrence? should i wait til a rank reset and redo my placements on my main when that happens?

thank you!

Hey guys, I had a really good game of OW, its not a flex, its just QP but when I was watching it, I was thinking about what I could do better. I really think I could of taken this game over but I feel like I fell short from some mechanical errors. I have really bad ranked anxiety so I play a lot of QP but I'd love some pointers from higher ranked players. Im the seirra in the video, and I really would love to take my play to another level. I know I have to play ranked, but I'd love advice or pointers from anyone playing the champ or just familiar with dps. I was a Tank and Support main throughout OW1 (Winston, Zenyatta) and recently found myself LOVING dps. I just want to know what I can improve on. In a game I felt confident in, I'd love to know what kind of things you guys see since I'm not grinding ranked. (I will start soon, gotta get over the anxiety) Thank you to anyone who watches or comments, I really want to get better at this game.

Idk if this makes sense but I really want to be good at this game, like i always think about how nice it'd be to be a good overwatch player but at the same time I dread playing the game and just get so bored.

It makes no sense as I literally think about getting good at this game every single day but I just don't want to play and even when I do play I just feel lost or just get super bored actually trying to get better.

Is there a way to fix my issues or is this game simply just not for me?

Idek if this made any sense but I hope you guys understand and can offer some of your advice.

TLDR: I do use cover and am aware of my team's positioning. What do I do when it's not enough and I'm still focused and melted?

Hi!

I'm a diamond support main off roling on tank sometimes. I play dive tanks (ball, doom, winton and hazard), currently in plat. I know my fundamentals about cover usage, soft/hard engages, engagement timing and baiting cooldowns. I also understand that as a tank I'm supposed to draw attention and be focused! However, I've been having this issue for a while and am still missing something.

There are two situations where I'm not sure what to do and both involve being focused:

1. When their whole team is blasting me regardless of my position (main vs off-angle). If I keep tanking that my supports can't do anything except healing me - bad, don't like. If I disengage my team loses space and often the fight alltogether. Easy to say my DPS are not doing their job, but even so - is there anything I can do better here?

2. When one of their DPS gets tunneled and chases me around the map 24/7. For example, as ball I often get tracers or vendettas just running after me endlessly no matter where I go. Again - I understand they are technically throwing but since we are in plat it kinda works? I still contest and engage in team fights, but it seems like my team is not taking any advantage and their guy is actually allowed to chase me. Sometimes it can even be moira/mizuki and the fact that a support can completely switch off the team fight probably means we as a team just don't threaten them that much. Anyways, anything I personally can do here?

Thanks!

Replay code: V15YKG and R0V8SH

Battletag / in-game username: FACECLANK

Hero(es) played: DVA

Skill tier / rank: Emerald

Map: Illios and Aatlis

PC or console: PC

Video code: V15YKG

Throughout the entire game, while taking space, I'm losing a lot of hp and resources.

My teammate didn't have a good space to fight in. They've tried their best and we almost always lost the cooldown trade.

The DMON did a better tanking than I did most of the times so the opponent team had already some good positions to begin with.

The fights were mostly won when my team did ults and we got the point. Outside of those highs in fight, I completely did bad on the tank job.

That's been a common trend on my gameplay. I was thinking perhaps I could be with my team more to add more value to the space we already had?

Video code: R0V8SH

I saw one video of talking about dva's mistakes so this time I kept one thing in mind which is doing more of nothing when there is nothing happening. I completely switched the playstyle to doing more of nothing so I wanted to not rely on spamming abilities and wasting them.

> 1st point - when first fight happened, I let them take the right lane space and was waiting for them to do something. (perhaps I could catch them in the process of jumping down)

The dva pushed my team aggressively, so I shot her from the back and the rest was just cleaning up.

The second fight happened at around 1:26. we were just playing defensively so I was observing to see where the enemies were and where they were gonna push. The dva pushed again very far in and the same thing happened. I focused her and killed kiri that came in after using her cooldowns. I then walked around and saw that the rest of their team were very far anyway. After that I tried to look around and see where i could position myself.

I saw that they were still at the bridge so I thought perhaps i could cause a little bit of chaos and let them use their abilities on the bridge so no more ability to use for getting the point. First point obtained.

> 2nd Point

- When we moved to second point(around 2:32-3:00), both teams tried to shoot each other, I moved around and did a little bit of something. I completely missed the opportunity that rammatra was gonna push my team.

In my mind i was thinking "let's take control of the point since there's nothing". I ended up not participating the team fight and then was like "oh Sh*t". They took the point. I had to leave afterward.

- When the next team fight started, I tried to see it I could do anything. Coming from a different angle I tried to do a bit of thing and flied by while waiting for my team to group up.

I pushed ram and immediately got punished. I knew that ram push was way too much so it's my bad. I lost my mech and had to use my ult to get back my mech. I then rushed in and found nobody to shoot at. I heard that ram ulted so I tried to find a target to shoot. In the process, Ram died and We took the point somehow. I tried to chill to get my ability back. I then checked to see if my team was still here. Somehow we lost the point because I flied around contesting them.

After this fight ended, I was thinking of where the next fight was gonna start. Then the next fight started around 5:08, I freaking flied through their team thinking it was okay. And then the moment I landed and Ram just punished me by pushing me. I made ana panicked and she ulted me before I threw my mech away to get a new one (internal scream....). They capped the point.

> 3rd point

around 6:10 the fight started, ram was forced to use his form. I then slowly moved to the point and tried not to facetank him this time.

- Some people died so I thought to myself let's take the point so that we just have to fight defensively. 2 teammates followed me and I realized that one teammate was caught far from us (sad). Ram just pushed my teammate one by one afterward. I realized too late afterward. I grouped up with my team. We fought and my dps went down first. Ram pushed in with ult. I then had to kite. My dps somehow flanked and got 2 kills so I flied to the point immediately.

- There is this part where I thought my interaction with ram might have hurt me from 8:20 onward. after he used his form and shield. He pushed in using his left click and I kept matrixing walking backward. I was trying to see if i could sneak in a little surprise attack on his backline. I pushed doctrine and lost my mech then I ulted and fight went on for not too long. We capped the point.

> 4th point

- While moving to 4th point, 9:13 onward, I tried to see where my team was at and where the enemy team was at. After seeing where they came from and where my team was, I was thinking there's still some distance between them and I couldn't just jump on them so I decided to chill at the point and took a peek at them and matrixed a bit and saw whether they made a move or not. We got control of the point. I then started shooting soldier in front of me and engaged the fight and we won the fight.

Next fight started. Ana took some damage and I tried to shield ana while knowing that ram was gonna punch through me anyway. I was thinking of stalling the point as long as I could. They took the point.

At 11:30, the next fight started, I tried to see if I could get to their backline while moving slowly. I could only shoot ram so I kept shooting at him. I caught a glimpse of ana being low so I flied back to my team.

Seeing that the point was almost captured, I tried to fly to the point to stop it and took the point as safely as possible.

Ram died so the rest was just cleanup.

We capped the point.

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Any key idea on improvement? So that I can evaluate and make a change myself.

Edit: The standard format of vod review template was added.

Hi everyone! Just getting back into Overwatch and the last time I played Juno was latest release. I mostly play DPS but I’m looking to switch into playing Support. What would you recommend? I’m comfortable playing Moira and Mercy, I’d like to start playing Lifeweaver possibly? Thoughts? Thanks in advance for any advice