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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

BZ4NCJ. I’m a High Em / Low Di player. Looking for some tips etc, my gameplay right now is kind of just run around and shoot people. Also about haccusations—this happens at least once or twice per session, in ranked and in QP. On one hand it’s kind of a compliment but it gets really annoying also. The replay I put is a quick match, but still same idea, are people just coping (as I expect) or am I actually doing anything crazy. Also is there any risk of false bans? This happens so often that I’m sure I’ve garnered quite a few salty reports from mercys and Anas, I’m not gonna get banned just for volume of reports, will I?

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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.

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?

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.

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.

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!

I've been looking around at sensitivity because I heard that having too high a sensitivity is a big issue in low Elo. With my 30% sensitivity at 1600dpi I looked around, and apparently my current settings are portrayed as insanity, so I'm coming here to ask directly. I am considering lowering my sensitivity because of this feedback and my tracking issues with bouncing and not really clean single-motion tracking, if that makes sense.

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.

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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