So I used to be GM/masters in OW1 and returned to the game. I started out in emerald and have fluctuated up and down. Right now I'm in mid plat which is supposed to be top ~50% of players. That's like the equivalent of being low gold in league of legends. Basically the point where you have people playing on laptops with trackpad while wasted. I just can't wrap my head around how that can be the case when the average player here is so good. It's like they all spent 1000h in aim training. Tracking is near flawless, hitscans are snapping to heads like pro players, genjis are playing like they took a borderline lethal dose of cns stimulants. Obviously there are a lot of smurfs and cheaters too that you don't always spot but wtf is this? If this is top 50% (just average) how crazy are the higher ranks now? Is anyone else feeling this or am I getting too old for overwatch?

I play flex quite a lot, which means I often get put into tank role. I think I’m decent (nothing super special), but I occasionally get a game where I wonder if I’m just misunderstanding the balance of gaining/holding space versus peeling for my squishies.

Last night, there was an example where I was on Ramattra, and I felt I was doing great on the front line: good stats, holding space/objective well, relatively low usage of support resources, and often requiring the attention of 3 to 4 enemies at a time.

However, many times during the fights, a solo enemy Reaper would work his way into the backline and draw focus of the entire team. Everyone but me was focusing the Reaper, and I’m holding front line with much less supporting pressure and heals, but still making it work. Then, the reaper would consistently still manage to take out 3-4 of the squishies despite it being a 1v4 (no ults used).

So I know that part of the duty of tank also means helping peel for your backline, so I would try to help the backline when I felt I could, but then the other four enemies would mow us over because I’m no longer holding the front line. In 5v5, there’s obviously only one tank per team, so we can’t have a tank in the frontline and backline at the same time. I know there’s better tanks for dealing with stuff like that, such as Roadhog and D.Va, but this was Quickplay, and I felt like playing Ramattra and didn’t want to swap (plus, I felt like I was doing well).

We ended up losing the game narrowly, which isn’t what I’m annoyed with, I’m annoyed that the backline was consistently dropping like flies to one character, and every time I turned around to help, the rest of the enemy would smoke us because I was the only thing keeping us from being ran over.

Basically my post is, if you’re in a game like this as a 5v5 tank, is there anything I could have done better, or do I kind of just have to deal with my team losing 4v1s?

Im gonna be honest, when I play D.mon she feels absolutely busted in the moment. The jet movement makes squishies feel so reachable and makes disengaging so easy. It genuinely feels like being a predator chasing people down no matter how hard they try to run. Not only that, but a lot of tank interactions feel super easy too - you basically get the option of choosing when to engage and disengage with rein and ram and can poke them from afar when they try to get up close and go in when you have the advantage.

But despite all that, every time I play her even though I feel very overpowered, I also feel like by the end of the game i havent made as big an impact as when I play rein or hog. Like I get some picks but my dps are outkilling me and the other tank got more value.

Is it because im playing her too much like a dps? Does she feel op because she has much better offense and reach, but fall short because she doesnt end up providing as much defense and stability to support my team?

What tank shuts down Hazard as completely as Orisa does Rein or Zarya does DVA? Is there a tank I can play that can effectively deal with his sustain and mobility? I mainly play Rein, Winston and Rammatra. I dabble in Hog, Mauga and Domina.

I'm a mid to high plat level tank player (ranked this season kinda sucks) and one tank I'm primarily struggling against is this ugly-ass unkillable porcupine. Especially after he gets his life steal block perk. Any tips would be helpful if Hazard just DOESN'T have a hard counter period.

I'm mainly looking for someone who's good at giving consise and clear advice, preferably while spectating. Admittedly I'm a bit picky - most of the ones I've found are either obnoxious/more focused on dunking on bad players than actually giving advice you can work with, or they sit in practice range and just talk about what to do instead of demonstrating/showing an example.

So far I've mostly just been watching Flats because he actually gives useful feedback with timestamps even as he's dunking on people. Is there anyone else similar to this that's worth watching?

EDIT: Appreciate everyone's suggestions!

I've seen some discussion around support players lately, and how they should be able to fend for themselves. I am a low ranked support player (placements gave silver 1 but I stopped playing comp after those, qp only for now)

But um, honestly I am unsure how to take that. When I watch gm players on twitch I have noticed many don't really expect help when they are dove, they attempt to handle it themselves and typically either escape or win the duel. On my best hero, Juno, more often than not I can make it out alive or put up a good fight. But on heros I am less skilled at it is much harder and I typically need help.

I mainly would like to know because I really would like to become a better support player. Does it depend on the team comp or the support hero?

We C9’d a match earlier because Junkrat popped riptire and our whole team ran away from robot during overtime. We only needed to push a couple meters further in order to win. I was playing Juno with Orisa as tank, no shields on our team.

How should I have handled this situation? I have <100 hours and sort of panicked. I was definitely one of the ones who ran away (oops) but I was thinking that I could make it back onto point with my hyper ring + glide boost after the explosion.

This has also happened with Mei ults before. I guess I just struggle between balancing “if we leave point we lose” and “if we get caught in this ult and die we lose” and then I don’t know what to do. I can provide replay code if needed. Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi! My name is Snoogus, unless you see my tax records... and I'm offering free coaching for first sessions!

Last time I did this, I took on 21 students from Bronze all the way up to Diamond. The majority of my students hit their new peaks after just one session, where as returning sessions resulted in several ranks increased. Several students climbed into masters, one recently GM. I am so proud of everyone!

I coach aim, core fundamentals, and am closely familiar with Tank, DPS, Support, and 6v6. I like to prioritize fostering the love of Overwatch and the game itself, because I firmly believe that that is the number one predictor of success.

I myself have peaked GM4 on Dva and Doomfist, but cannot find the time to queue ranked much anymore, hence why I stopped there.

I am offering one free session (1-2 hours long) to anyone who asks, you can comment or message me directly if you want to arrange something!

I'd love to meet you!

For some context I was bronze during the relaunch to season 1, but after being the weak link in my friend group I dropped ego and decided to get better so I can actually contribute in our games. Recently climbed to plat 1 knocking on emeralds door on support and DPS (yet to do placements for 6v6 and tank but I was plat on both last season ).

For a while I thought what I wanted was to play with friends at their level (they’re gold-plat), but after improving I found myself chasing flow state and delayed gratification from learning and applying things I learned. Now on that journey i learned a lot about myself, I had a rough up brining and I was constantly demeaning myself and my accomplishments. Through learning and pushing myself to improve I found a piece of myself that I never knew existed. I’m genuinely proud of myself and learned I’m a person who never got the opportunity to actually learn what I’m actually capable of and it brings my inner child a lot of joy.

Now, Ever since I entered gold to plat I’ve encountered so much toxicity, and it’s forced me to take breaks, mute chat, not join VC at times because I hear something toxic, someone’s getting flamed for something, I hear horrible words being said, etc. initially It didn’t do anything but as I’ve climbed it’s been more apparent that I’m not enjoying the climb anymore because I’ve not only changed but I’ve grown past the understanding of of what my friends think about the game, and I don’t think ranked is the environment where i thrive. On top of that my ranked games have stopped becoming fun because it feels like an aspect of the game I enjoyed is gone.

I think I should take a break, but I wanted to ask everyone. How do you deal with toxicity? Do I just lack the proper coping skills to filter out the bad aspects of the game?

I have a pair of Sennheiser HD 6xx headphones going into a Motu M2 interface (I use these for music production as well as gaming). I feel like I can't tell the direction of sounds as much as I feel I should given that these are objectively pretty good headphones. For people that feel like they can, are you using "gaming" headphones with things like virtual/emulated surround? I guess I wouldn't be too surprised if "music/studio" headphones are worse at something like this. Ive been toggling between Dolby Atmos on/off in OW settings but I don't feel like it makes much of a difference.

Hey y’all! Made a new reddit account just for this, so sorry if this isn’t the right place!

I’m a bronze new-ish player (level 200) looking to rank up. I don’t really understand the basics of overwatch, i’ve just been mindlessly playing.

Anyway, I wanna get better at sierra, but i don’t know how to. I often panic like crazy and mess up a LOT lol. My aim is also very shitty… in the 20% or so.

I know sierras kit, i’m just struggling with cooldown management and positioning. I’d like it if someone could fix my mistakes!

Note: you’ll sometimes see me crouching and uncrounching in this match. I’d like to add that it’s all just playful as you can see I sometimes have 1v1s with certain heroes, lol.

Here are my last few matches!

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Please be respectful! I’ve gotten a lot of death threats over this game, and i’m really just looking to improve!

Thanks y’all!

I am here to pick the brains of GM support players.

And I'm going to start by asking, what did you do to cross that line. The line between high masters and gm, and more importantly, what did you do to stay there?

I've reached peak role queue GM 4 on support, but I always end up back in masters. When it comes to being "carry potential", I'm not quite there yet. When I reach GM, the game matchmakes me with lower-ranked players because of my rank, and right now I just don't got it in me to carry that weight, so I fall back down.

So, I need to know, what did you change about your gameplay to become the support player who can make up for braindead teammates, inting tanks and negative dps? And I'm not talking the simple stuff like "take off angles", "do more damage", blah blah blah. We're way past that. What kind of crazy strategies or playstyles have you adapted to become that carry player? What moment of actualisation did you have where you realised something you could/should have been doing this whole time?

I am very interested to hear your responses.

Hi everyone.

So for reference for DPS I main at both Venture and Soldier 76. Now I like playing both a lot but it seems like soldier 76 and hitscan in general are more reliable and consistent compared to non hitscan heroes. When I play Venture (who I have the most hours on for DPS) I feel I do my best but other times I feel like I'm not helping at all.

I like playing both and I'm trying to get better at comp in general but I don't know when it's best to use soldier and when it's best to use venture. When is it best to use a hitscan like soldier vs a dive character like venture? Or should I just stick with what I'm best at (venture)?

Thank you everyone. :)

I don't see this issue that often yet, but when it happens it feels theres pretty much nothing you can do to get past them because no one can really get rid of them and they keep killing you. I'd like to learn how to deal with these types of situations.

I'm a gold dps btw. What I see is that there's only one way to get to them and they are watching that lane constantly. The other way is blocked by the enemy team. If you walk past them you are fighting the enemy with them shooting you in the back. If you walk up to them they kill you fast or their team peels for them. Same thing happens if they are pocketed too. Your team is just dying to this one guy the whole time

i sometimes run into this situation where the enemy team will go zarya/hog with sym/mei and brig/moira and at that point im just getting killed instantly, all i can do is just take high ground and poke

so im wandering whats the best pick in this situation considering they dont have any histcan or a viable ranged hero?

I've been seriously grinding out ranked since the season released last month and I'm stuck in Plat as most of the player base is. I've been playing for six years and have never gone past it. I main tanks like Hog, Winston, and Sigma with a decent understanding of every hero in the role. I've looked up guides, asked around, changed up my mental, and none of it's worked to breach into emerald. I always try my best and play to get better and not to win which I heard was a good thing

So is it just really really difficult to break free of Plat? I'm not happy with being in the "You are mediocre, nothing special at all" rank and I'm open to any suggestions to get out into the much more preferable "Better than average" rank. I'm just starting to feel like it's a little hopeless as I've dropped down from P1 to P3 and can't seem to get back up again

I'm doing my placement matches, in 6v6 I got Emerald 5. I'm aware that 6v6 ranks are inflated. A couple of seasons ago I ended up in I think Plat 3 in Tank and Support

But today, after a support queue of about 10 minutes for 5v5 I got into the most one sided match I ever had in competitive in Overwatch. I don't play competitive a lot, so I'm not sure what went wrong.

According to the game, it was a Gold game, but I don't recall ever having a Plat game with a Ball and Sojourn as deadly as the ones that I faced today.

I was the blue Juno, Mizuki and Kiriko

Replay code: HTFKVP

IGN: Phaseir

Hero:Tracer

Rank:Diamond 2

Platform:Console

I've been stuck in Masters and high diamond for about 3 seasons now and Im not sure where to go from here. I recognize I have bad habits but I'm not sure how to recognize them and stop them in the moment. I thought this was a decent game from me so any tips on how I can improve would be appreciated.

map havana

heroes played sigma, winston d.mon

name dumbboi

rank gold 4

code WHJ4GQ

I'll be honest I have no idea how I sold this game in the second half with the first round feeling quite easy and simple and that probably gassed my ego which lead me to doing a whole bunch of stupid plays with me just gunning it down main like an idiot so any tips for future games would be appreciated.

thank you.

I was doing my support placements. I queued into Dorado and had the hardest game of my life as an Ana main. Throughout the game, I struggled against this tank player who kept diving me, as well as the other players on the enemy team who kept targeting me, like Bastion and Freja. The tank on the enemy team played Winston and Wrecking Ball and kept making my job harder. I was constantly on guard that I forgot to aim for nanoing my Genji's Dragonblade at the end. I am confident in my mechanics, but I don't know how to position against dive without dying. The match ended up in a close loss.

Rank: Placements/Emerald(Peaked Plat 1)

Map: Dorado

Hero: Ana

Platform: Console crossplay into PC pool with mnk

Username: Anatommy(streamer mode name: donziegler)

Replay code: 4E4AT5

Hello!

I am a fairly new DPS player that is in need of any advice on what helped you get better at the role. I am not a new player by any means and have played the game on PC for a while now but I have been a 100 percent support main up until the last three seasons. (For context I am mid-high diamond support that plays anyone beside Lucio/Brig) I am struggling to say it nicely. I am the cinder blocks dragging my team/duos down and I feel horrible. Every time I queue up it’s like I’ve never played the game. What are some tips that helped you provide value as a dps so I can stop being the problem in these matches?

Returning mercy main here, haven’t played in about a year and feeling like i’m not exactly certain on the optimal play style in the current game. I used to be masters, now i’m low emerald and slowly climbing but really feel i should be climbing a lot faster in lobbies of what seem to be pretty terrible players.

Just wondering if anyone knows a good guide or could give me a quick rundown on the theory on how to use mercy’s kit, positioning, hero matchups, how to support your team etc. Preferably aimed at higher ranked players too.

If anyone could take a look at this as well i’d appreciate it! https://www.reddit.com/r/MercyMains/s/12plW88CWC

I'm coming back to support as juno after becoming an ashe main for a while. previously bronze and with the rank reset I placed bronze 2. in a 5 hour session I ranked up to silver 3 with juno and some mercy, and then later to silver 2 almost 1, playing in gold lobbies.

This week I completely plummeted and deranked to bronze 1. for every win I had 3 losses. I'm extremely sad and frustrated because I really try my absolute hardest in every round. when I saw bronze again I genuinely started crying out of frustration. I would really appreciate some tips! here are some VOD codes

I've only been playing for 2 seasons and I'm only level 47 juno, pls be kind, I just want help. tysm!

I'm lawspup

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Use: Sadaidjinn

Hero: Zen

Map: Shambali

From my previous post i kinda learned that support need to be more than just healing and do damages against key target too. problem is my aim is genuinely cause for concern / live human testing to whack kiriko kunai just right.

Swapped back to Zen for some games. i noticed that this game has been my least succesful one despite the elim number. We didn't defend well. 2 checkpoint got past us without any resistance and i can't seem to find the right person to be discorded (maybe i didn't check flank enough) so i just discord their sigma and break shield and occasionally damaging enemies.

Is there anything that I can do differently here for the team on account of my patient zero tier aim?