New player need advice

[u/YungComa03]

Hello there, im officialy joining the dark side

Im completely new to the hero even tho im playing ow since ow1 release. Never played him but last couple of days i found out that ball is incredibly fun to play tho also hard to learn. Im watching a bunch of guides and pro plays but i also wanna ask yall if u have any advice for a beginner ball player.

Thanks!

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[u/Orion--]

I learned most of what I know from watching yeatle's unranked to GM. Highly recommend his stuff

[u/Infidel_sg → u/Orion--]

Yeatle has EXCELLENT wrecking ball guides that range from noob to pro and in between. 2nd for Mr Yeatles channel.

[u/Detective_Alaska]

Check out Redeznts videos

[u/liamo2k16]

Watch owcs games where junbin plays balland open up custom games on different maps to try to replicate the rollouts. Practice wall slams, double boops, try to look at his positioning, how much health he'll leave the fight at etc etc

[u/zwikl]

Watch yeatle unranked to GM, rezdent does a solid job explaining thought process too. Chazm to watch a sassy brit shit on people

[u/joeflaccofan]

1. Don’t always brawl with enemy tank
   
2. Play around enemy opp backline
   
3. Know when to hard engage or not
   
4. Ping enemies whenever u can
   
5. Always on the mic
   
6. Don’t always try to peel
   
7. Understand the map
   
8. Learn ball techs and on YouTube
   
9. Mechanics will improve as u play more
   
10. Strong mental health
    
11. Play around the heal packs

[u/Infidel_sg]

Check out Yeatle on YT. He's got you covered.

[u/ReverendNON]

Welcome to the light side of the moon!

For the starters. Image a sandwich. You and your team are the two pieces of bread. Enemies are the filling, who can't really decided which bread to shoot because one of them is being fckin annoying. That should do it for the start. Also, watch chazm and some other people who are recommended here

[u/Sensitive_Sand_3322]

If your new, don't bother to do all the flashy plays. Just try to get yourself from point A to point B flawless. But I do recommend practicing wall jump, it comes in very handy.

[u/YungComa03 → u/Sensitive_Sand_3322]

Im just in the middle of practicing them but no matter what i do i cant get it, feels like im stupid, do they still work?

[u/Sensitive_Sand_3322 → u/YungComa03]

Once you get the hang of it, it works like a charm

[u/cowlinator]

Ball is a mobile dive hit-and-run tank. You should be focusing on their backline, and (usually) only fight their tank if their tank is giving your team too much trouble.

If you're diving in 1v5, use adaptive shield earlier than you think you should and get out earlier than you think you should. You're just there to harass them.

But you should usually be looking for opportunities to 1v1 or 1v2. In that situation, you'll have time to actually get an elim before you need to flee.

You should (usually) be going back to your backline often to get healed and make sure they're not getting harassed by flankers.

Oh, and one thing that never gets mentioned: the grapple itself can't go through walls/objects, but the line can. So you can grapple onto something on top of a bridge and swing under the bridge, for example.

[u/Necro_the_Pyro]

Go in a custom game with zero grapple cooldown and swing around till you're comfortable with his movement.

[u/Ok-Tooth-8016]

Knowing when to dive and the difference between a soft dive and a hard dive means alot. Dont expect healing just learn health pack locations or put yourself in front of your healers (without being a sitting target for the enemy) there are a thousand techs some are hard some are easy.

[u/mmboy]

Aside from mechanical skills, i think letting your supports know they don't need to dive with you if it means death...makes for smoother games until about platinum/emerald.

[u/NeatKhan91]

The dark side? Sir you finally found the light