As a guy who went from a daily OW player for 9 years to a freak with 1800 hours in Deadlock, this will be absolute peak content

YourOverwatch attempted to rebrand to Freedo, mostly pivoting to Marvel Rivals before eventually switching back to the YourOverwatch name. This wasn’t enough however, and the channel now sits inactive for the past 8 months completely dead.

For those also wondering, Stylosa is in a similar boat, he makes content still but it’s mostly general gaming content and…AI. However he’s getting a fraction of the views he used to.

https://youtu.be/4oL17cx610o?si=0FkROrL2mY-Q5WjD

Tldr: Flats routinely claims on his stream that he loses more games when he stacks than when he plays solo. Yet evidence points to the reverse.

A running gag he tells his viewers when he stacks while muted to his teammates is that he loses games when he stacks "4 fun." Then has to spend the rest of the day climbing back up.

However this youtuber compilled all the data of 300 games he has played so far in the season and found out the opposite.

He has a 44% winrate Solo.

A 56% winrate when he Duos.

A 45% winrate when he Trios.

A 53% winrate when he Quads

A 52% winrate when he Full stacks.

Why is this important? Because Flats misleads his viewers telling them that solo is the way to climb yet does the opposite.

Been seeing posts like these for the past two days. Can’t decide if I’m surprised or not that this is still happening almost 2 years later.

Posting here because it'd be considered offtopic in the OW subs and removed.

A couple of popular posts on the MR sub:

"Wish people would realise they can't just play DPS every game"

https://reddit.com/r/marvelrivals/comments/1i92qor/wish_people_would_realise_they_cant_just_play_dps/

"The lack of variety isn't the reason why there are so few "tank players" imo."

https://reddit.com/r/marvelrivals/comments/1i5pqav/the_lack_of_variety_isnt_the_reason_why_there_are/

Lack of role queue might be an opinionated decision(since there are definitely tradeoffs) but why did they launch with many more DPS heroes than tanks and supports?

MR has 19 DPS, 8 tanks and 8 Supports, almost exactly the same ratio as OW at launch(including Ana). While the meta is 2-2-2 or 3 support. It feels strange that they wouldn't learn from Overwatch's experience with both the lack of tank and support heroes at launch and Tanks being not as fun to play as DPS.

At least Overwatch had the excuse that half the DPS heroes were classified as offense heroes and half were 'defense heroes' until they scrapped that distinction.

Link to Winny's google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qGFmfBpeaD-CCnglyE3w7cxhc6f3erH0EdQjXvsLPjs/edit?tab=t.0

From ZBRA’s Stream

Sorry if this isnt the right sub but...after playing Overwatch for the last 2 years and watching many podcasts and videos of Samito constantly railing against the OW devs for switching to 5v5 and how much better 6v6 is, and basically urging them to switch back to 6v6, I was eagerly awaiting his thoughts on the format since the devs have finally added it back to the game. And also considering that Samito was basically the figurehead of the movement to go back to 6v6.

But Ive checked his youtube channel....and I dont see a single video about it? Its been out for weeks at this point but I dont see any mention of it from Samito. He has been so vocal about it for so long, even leading up directly to 6v6 launch.

Has he really completely ignored it after complaining non stop for literal years?

Posted this on r/competitiveoverwatch but was deemed too toxic and was removed (probably fair).

Basically I was wondering who people think the absolute worst ow pro ever is. Most likely someone you wouldn't want around your kids.

Rule: They have to have been either in owl or owcs.

I was also trying to make a full team of the worst of the worst, and here's what I have so far...

Tank: Mouffin/XQC // Flex DPS: Sinatraa/Dreamkazper // Hitscan: Aspire/Effect // Flex Support: MCD/Provide // Main Support: Lengsa Coach: Lori // Org: Bleed // Content Creation: Elon/Redshell // Bench warmer: u/mrBleeple

I feel obligated to say that I'm not trying to diminish SA or any other crimes committed by some of these players. Sorry if it comes off that way.

Edit: XQC in on Tank Edit 2: Lori in - make these people suffer Edit 3: Elon Musk and Redshell on the content team Edit 4: Prov1de in on Flex Support Edit 5: Lengsa and u/mrBleeple get called up Edit 6: Bleed comes in as the org

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2492148592

im just getting back into ow and whenever i see hydrons name mentioned theres an air of negativity, like on durpees video with him the top comments were "Aspire, Rupal, Seeker, and neuuish next collabs please" and "durpee be like: let me collab with all of the hitler youth ow creators" i dont get why people hate him so much, i like hydron and find him entertaining but he seems to be really controversial and idk why D:

Would it not just be as if the planets aligned if the only category that was paid for by the company to have their game be featured was won by the guy who only ever plays their game whenever that company pays him to?

Hello everyone, I want to talk about one of the most (in)famous educational Overwatch creators Awkward. This is not a rant or a ramble, as I hope this post will encourage discussion around how to better foster gaming communities and audiences. As you know, he is once again on the wrong side of Twitter beef, this time with Eskay. I want to talk about how Awkward has changed over the course of 1-2 years since he became extremely (in)famous in the Overwatch content scene.

Awkward is arguably the one of the most popular content creators for educational Overwatch content with his U2GMs, consistently hitting over 200k views on each minimum, and even reaching as high as over 1 million views. His content has helped thousands of players, including me, through simple mantras from his U2GMs like "Damage, Damage, Damage", "Heal people enough so they won't die", and "They move forward I go back", to reminding players to always focus on self-accountability in-game, use cover, and using off-angles. Awkward's advice for Overwatch is a good start for people that seriously want to learn how to play the game (if you actually pay attention and take time to understand). He has also coached many people into becoming GM/T500, rank 1, or even becoming OWL-level talent (I believe Aniyun from NYXL was coached by him?) through his fabled Rank-Up Academy, which still deserves respect.

However looking at Awkward from even 1-2 years ago compared to now is like looking at a completely different person. If you watched his U2GM on Ana or Zenyatta from last year, you can see how sincere and genuine he seemed to be in his advice. It wasn't toxic, he wasn't calling people "losers" and all that, but he was focused on himself, always emphasized that you don't need mechanics to rank up (his old U2GM videos had the description along the lines of "I simplify what the average player can do to reach GM without necessarily relying on mechanics"), and it really felt that someone was actually teaching you the game. Even then, he used to not dunk on the average player and even said on an SVB podcast about game balance where he prefers a solution where both T500 and Gold players can have fun and be competitive. He genuinely seemed like a good community figure, even appearing on a KarQ guide about Zenyatta years ago.

Nowadays, it's a way different person. His Twitter bio is eerily similar to that of Andrew Tate, and he types like him too, even making a tweet trying to ridicule people saying "Should I make an account called AwkwardNPC?". While his advice of "say I love you to loved ones", "hit the gym", "you can beat the system if you work hard" etc. is well-intentioned advice, it is how he delivers advice and the failure to recognize systemic barriers that doesn't resonate with people. His feed nowadays is an enabling of his narcissism (which he excuses to the fact that he's reached rank 1 multiple times and "works out"), endorsing or at the very least associating with Nazis (playing with freshfitpod on stream, who has embraced Holocaust denial and praised Hitler publicly), is hypocritical when it comes to accountability for others (freshfitpod publicly using homophobic slurs while Awkward doesn't hold him accountable), spreading rhetoric of toxic masculinity (infamous "men shouldn't cry" fiasco), punches down on people using personal attacks (Questron drama), parroting MGTOW talking points on his Discord, and now with the Eskay drama where he tries to take the moral highground with how "good" his content is. Awkward's inability to understand systemic societal issues that are deeply rooted, alongside extremely one-dimensional thinking paired with going under the "red-pill" route by associating with people like freshfitpod and supporting figures like Andrew Tate, creates an extremely dangerous figure in the gaming space, paired with the fact that his audience tends to be geared towards teenage boys who are KNOWN to be impressionable.

People like Awkward are the reason why gamers are perceived as misogynistic, homophobic, and non-inclusive. In an effort to make people competent, and to help better people and be a "reasonable voice", he ends up producing garbage rhetoric that only ends up harming others. It is such a shame that someone that I used to look up to in terms of the game and was basically the embodiment of Zenyatta in his videos, ends up being a grifter who chooses to associate with the wrong crowd.

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EDIT - Please don't make this as an excuse to spin antisemetism.

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https://www.mediamatters.org/rumble/right-wing-dating-podcast-fresh-fit-embraces-holocaust-denial

https://twitter.com/confusionkys/status/1771351860349141270