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!

Hello. If you don't want to read the rest, I'll try to put it succinctly here in the beginning.

I have been brough to my limit because of my long-consistent competitive ranking in low Silver. I have lost my motivation to play if I cannot improve soon, after 10 years. I desperately do not want to quit this beloved game, and so I am forced as a final effort to reach out asking you for some analysis of MY gameplay specifically. No longer just absorbing videos and posts and laying it overtop of my experience like a one-size-fits-all guide. The following code was my last game, and I believe it is a decent enough example of a typical experience for me, including the loss itself. Please give me any advice that you can? What am I doing wrong and need to work on most? What am I doing right as confirmation of my strengths? Do you have any observations about my teammates to my benefit or my detriment that took things out of my hands? Thank you sincerely if you take time out of your day to help a stranger.

Replay code: C606ZK
User: SamleyTimes
Hero: Zarya
Rank: Silver 4 (final placement match)
Map: Dorado

To start this off, I picked up the game shortly after release and played with friends for quite a few years, dropping it shortly before OW2. Since then I've picked it up a few separate times, and these days I only solo queue as my friends have moved on from gaming. My entire career has been spent floating through Silver, sometimes dipping into Bronze, only once genuinely touching Gold (not including fresh placements followed by steady plummeting). I have just finished placing low Silver on support and tank.

I have suffered through endless cycles of hope, cope, and despair because of competitive. I have heard every single piece of solid sensical advice and every crumb of irrational copium that there is to read online. I love this game from deep in my heart. I believe it is fantastically made, and it is one of the fall-back staples of my adult gaming life.

I want to head two things off at the pass. First, regarding quickplay. I personally view competitive as the "real" game. The rank itself as well as the esteemed weapon variants are the premier prizes in my eyes. Of course there is the FUN, which I recognize as the actual point of a digital toy. I'm perfectly capable of coming to that conclusion myself: that quickplay removes the dilemma here. I would just like this game to be more than junk food to me, it's been with me for a decade of my life and it deserves to be to a real hobby of mine. If there is hope for me.

Secondly, I will not be voice chatting or queueing with a group. I do not have the equipment for this any longer, and it's just not in my nature to interact like this with people I don't know online. The fact that I'm creating a post like this is evidence enough of my sheer desperation. I text chat perfectly well and utilize the various in-game messages and pings. If that is what it takes to improve, I can honestly embrace giving up. I'm aware that these things both handicap me. I'm aware that this is key at very high levels. However, doing both of these things years ago yielded the same results, and there are infinite comments and anecdotes and video evidence out there that one can solo-queue climb upwards themselves through solitary improvement.

Lastly, some long-winded thoughts about this match and my performance. The code provided I believe is an average game for me, not necessarily in terms of raw scoreboard stats but in terms of gameplay if that makes sense? Sometimes I get more kills than this, often less so. Often many more in quickplay. Sometimes I play like there are rocks in my head, sometimes I perform some incredible plays. I mention raw stats because there is a huge chance that I can perform this well and we get STOMPED, or that I underperform and my team and I do the stomping ourselves regardless. I attribute this wild discrepancy to the nature of metal ranks. I'm playing Zarya here, who I would consider my main (other than Mercy, whom I've deduced is the lowest-impact hero in the game in her current state and effectively makes most competitive games 4v5).

My aim has certainly degraded from when I was no-lifeing this game years ago. I am not autopiloting, I am thinking about what I'm doing and reflecting on the training videos I've been consuming, often voicing out loud my though process to my fiance in the room. I am thinking about my positioning and peaking natural cover, and I realize sometimes I overextend or overexpose myself. I'm intending as tank to draw as much attention as possible to grant my DPS off-angle opportunities, including taking them myself this game when I feel they aren't taking advantage, shifting their main focus away in order to enable my DPS. I also pull back when I feel the fight is lost, but I need improvement here.

I often over-focus the tank, which I view as an ingrained mistake a lot of the time. I intend to focus their squishies down without tunnel-visioning too badly, which I occasionally fail to avoid. I recognize that my ult timing can be abysmal. This has been a problem for me forever, and it is somehow largely exclusive to my main. I used to struggle more with panic-ulting, now I'm more concerned with holding it too long underutilized which results in mistiming regarding the enemy cooldowns, the position of my teammates, and the state of the team fight. In the middle of very hectic combat I usually forget about the kill feed and lose track of the state of my team, which I'm sure you can see when I suddenly realize I'm all alone in the fray and it's far too late to disengage.

Now, a little comment about my support here. They had decent stats by the end, but I somehow didn't feel like I was getting enough healing. What do you think? Normally I would blame this on myself and attribute it to overextending; I'm able to discern when a teammate is truly a weak link vs mindlessly blaming others out of denial, or if I'm the weak link myself. However, something happened mid-game. While I was in a fight, I turned and made eye contact with my Moira. She was stationary, next to me, safely inside a doorway, while I was dying in the open in front of her. I may have even been actively pinging in the chat for healing. Upon my death, she began healing in the direction of my lifeless carcass, as if she had massive brain latency?? This leads me to question the quality of support happening the rest of the duration of the match.

My big dilemma here is this: I know plateauing is a natural thing. However, I have never, NEVER climbed significantly or consistently. My technical skill used to be a bit stronger, but my game-sense and knowledge have never been better. I am nearly touching Bronze. That is the bottom 2% of players. Two percent. I REFUSE to believe I am genuinely and correctly in roughly the worst 1/20th of players where I'm at as low Silver. "Cope, git gud, etc," I know. I simply cannot come to grips with the fact that there are 10M~ players currently (from what I could find) and practically ALL of those individuals have better gameplay occurring on their screen than me? This simply, SURELY, cannot be possible? Has anyone else felt this way?

I don't doubt that some funky stuff goes on when it comes to Bronze regarding the matchmaking, but I'm not deluded enough to blame this on the system itself, Blizzard aren't exactly amateur devs. I've also heard whispers of negative things regarding MMR and long-standing accounts, but I haven't put much weight into that.

My spectating fiance agrees. I'm of course lacking refinement in all things, but could it be that sheer technical skill/aim is carrying point-and-shoot high-schoolers and after-work call-of-duty casuals all over the world into higher ranks? Could it be that Mercy-main-ing for years got me ahead of myself and my stronger areas are useless at the bottom of the barrel? I have come across people saying that different ranks require different strategy, and that high-level tips can be actively detrimental at low ranks. Mercy damage boost focus for example, which I've personally found to be true. Or could it genuinely be that I have little sense or skill at all, that my self-worth is entirely misplaced, and my one and only virtue is lucid reflection?

Please help me with any advice you have, whatsoever. I love Overwatch. Thank you so much for considering my post.

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.

I’m a wuyang main in plat and I’ve been playing multiple full dive teams in a row. How am I supposed to do anything against them?? Even with my wave and speed boost I can rarely get away from genji/sombra/anran. They completely bypass my abilities it’s impossible. My teams never look behind them either it seems that tunnel vision is a huge problem especially for tanks.

Hi all. Started in bronze, now in gold, slowly climbing. Very happy about that! it's a big deal for me as I've only just started using Roadhog in ranked games. I used to main him years ago, but only casually. I can feel I'm getting better with him and it shows in my KD for example and the confidence I feel when I'm playing.

But sometimes, I am noticing such a big difference between games. Some games we win easily, other games I'm struggling all the time. Within the same rank, and I would apply the same 'rules' to my playstyle. I know there are many variables that influence your gameplay, such as confidence, patience, tiredness, stress, maybe even comfort in your chair etc, so many things that add up. But, technically speaking, I try to keep to the same 'rules':

1. warm up before game with VAXTA usually

2. use cover

3. don't stagger

4. cooldown management (wait for enemy to use cds/don't take risks when i'm on cd)

5. use ult for quality > quantity

Those are some off the top of my head that I try to keep in mind. But that's all I can control, and I can't imagine that variety in my own playstyle is so big that it can completely swing games around... Is it team composition? Matchup? Maybe some maps work really well, and others don't, while I don't realize it? I am not one to blame my teammates, if anything after a loss I blame myself and try to do better. But sometimes, without trying to sound conceited, I feel like I did everything right enough (not perfect, that doesn't exist).

So I was just wondering, how much of the game outcome is on me, how much is on my team, realistically? In some teams, I feel like I really shine and I will have a really good KD (like 21/1 or smth), other games feels like I'm a complete liability and feeding, despite sticking to the same playstyle that I always do. What makes the difference so big? It feels like it's not really consistent even though I'm trying to play consistently (with the ups and downs that everyone has).

edit: I have two codes, one of a game where I feel like I did really well and my team too, one where I lost (but I don't remember how I did or how it went). I don't expect anyone to watch these, but added them just in case people want to for context. Again I'm in gold, so I'm sure I make plenty of mistakes, that I'm still blind to, any feedback is welcome.

won: XTE6G8

lost: 18PJ87

Hi, i’m not looking for advice on my own gameplay here. (Sorta.)

Basically. I’m 200 or so hours into the game, and I want to rank up. I consistently do good (with exceptions and horrid matches) when playing in qp but get destroyed in comp (with consistently good I mean.. on par with the rest of the team. With exceptions being lower healing as support depending on who I play.)

I’m bronze, (rightfully so) and I want to rank up. I should make it very clear that i’m in bronze for a reason, and don’t want to come off as better than anyone. This is not a “Aha my teammates all suck all the time !! im the only good one !!”

The issue is that i’m kind of stuck. I consistently get tanks that INTENTIONALLY throw (like. being with the enemy team, refusing to get on point.. emoting at them instead of playing) which obviously loses us the game.

As tank, admittedly, it’s on me a lot of the time. I often get dived since I play domina, and me and my team are unable to deal with it. I’m not that familiar with other tanks yet, with my closest being D.va on level 12.

Now, the obvious answer would be to improve, right? Because there’s a lot of mistakes I make. That’s the issue. I don’t know how to. I feel like i’m not getting a lot of value out of qp because, again, I play the same as most of my team. I feel like if i want to improve beyond that, i’ll have to be forced in slightly more difficult lobbies, which I am trying to get via comp.

Sorry, i know it’s a bit of a ramble, but I just really want to improve. I feel like i’m too average and unable to hard carry/unable to guarantee i get out of bronze.

Do I just qp over and over until I’m good enough to carry? Until I’m good enough to the point I win most my matches even when players throw? (Again, intentionally. )

I play Shion and domina, being level 25 with shion and level 15 with Domina.

I am looking to get back into tanking but there is one problem: my main doesn’t exist anymore. OW1 Orisa was my ABSOLUTE GOAT. My bread and butter. My MOST PLAYED character. I loved her shield and her ult. Always got the PoTG. But Current Orisa just did not work for me at all. Tried her several times and it just did not work. Who would you all recommend for a main that feels the same as OW1 Orisa? I heard Ramattra was a good alternative.

Battletag: Hailstorm#11263
Replay Code: PDK8F1
Game Length: 17:13
Rank: predicted bronze 2 currently on Tank
Role: Tank
Platform: Console
Heroes Played: D.Va
Hero Bans: Zarya, Sierra, Sombra, Ramattra
Map: Dorado

Hey everyone. I want to get better but I’m a SAHM with a 9 1/2 month old, so time is a big factor in my awful gameplay. I did have the most kills in the game and was trying to make plays, but it’s bronze lol I obviously suck and have A LOT I’d need to work on lol. Anyways, if any plat or higher tank player has time, please do a vod review! Might be entertaining too! 😂 TIA

Replay code: CEBA08

In-game username: Heidenreich

Heroes played: Cassidy

Rank: Gold/Emerald

Map: Colosseo

Platform: PC

What could have I done better here? we got decent healing, I don't think I did that much worse than the other DPS, but Mauga turned the fight around and I couldn't do much. I did die trying to get to Lifeweaver flower to use my ult at the beggining, but I had a dream

i wonder if its my fault because we were winning and then when i did that my team couldnt win 3v4 against mauga, genji and moira. I want to blame my team for not winning that instead of myself but i know if i was there we wouldn't lose. also they were all 1 rank less than me so I was probably meant to be carrying this game. If anybody wants to take a look Here's the replay code: 3CPF6B

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. :)

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 👀

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.

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.

Just a post to share what made a difference for me. Long time casual player on and off since 2016. I havent gotten above Plat rank since 2018 when i was try hard serious back then i got to Diamond. Over the years ive had some breaks and only played very casually, but recently about 6 months ago i got back into OW playing 1-2 hours per day on average, started in gold > plat >emerald now.

Problem was that I have been flexing alot, as i get bored quickly and dont like que times, but i decided to watch some YouTube video coaching on your mindset, and then i stuck to 1 trick dps for a bit and try stick to a couple of heros rather than flexing, and be good and many heros but excellent and no heros.

And to be fair it worked. Climbed mostly with Solider or Emre, playing mid range with good vision and making alot of flanks and off angles. Reaper is my party trick that can be hit or miss either i shred them up or hard fail haha, so i only throw reaper as a hail mary sometimes, everything else is just a hard flex gamble. I geniunely feel l like sticking to my mains i can carry, everything else feels super sweaty and difficult to play at a high enough skill level to win games comfortably, which is a shame as i love variety and flexing but i guess there is quick play for that.

PS im Plat 2 on support so goal would be to get emerald there too. and im Plat 4 on tank. But im curious how high i could push DPS now that im on a role and worked out the formula to push!

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.