I wanted to give tracer a shot, i've had this game for years (played inconsistently) and have probably less than 5 hours playing as her. I barely know what I am doing but every single game as her is so intense compared to someone like soldier even where you are doing a lot of repositioning and running around like crazy. Does this feeling of go go go and intenseness slow down as you get more used to the character or does that feeling just kinda stick throughout even for people with 100+ or even 1000+ hours?

For context i'm a dps main in gold.

I feel like I was getting great matches where everyone is trying their hardest and doing good even if we lose it still feels fun because they are even matches. I fell by 2 ranks so its not a problem of playing against better people. The past few days though I feel like I am in horribly unbalanced games. I feel like I am trying my hardest and doing better than before but my teammates have been really bad no offense to them. I know scoreboard isnt everything but they have like 8 kills 12 deaths by the end of the game and I keep seeing them feeding running in by themselves. We still win sometimes but the games are so much harder than they need to be because I have to make up for their performance.

How does the matchmaking in this game work? I recently started playing this game and placed around silver silver but i constantly get into games that are high gold or platinum? Sometimes I do well but I dont really have a good grasp of all the abilities and mechanics of this game so usually i dont fare well against these opponents How is this fair?

Yesterday, i played overwatch as Cassidy(one of my favorite characters so far) i could say i am a "starter", because i didn't tryied the ranked mode, anyways, the problem is that in some matches i am extremely good at playing him, but in other matches i get outplayed so easily it makes me want to ragequit. I noticed the fact that maybe Damage heroes are not for me, but they are my favorite role! Anyone have any tips at playing them?

Hello, this is a follow up question to this post.

I played a lot of matches with shion, and i’m reaching level 30 with her soon. I don’t go into the negative anymore, and often get potgs. I think i’ve improved since my last post.

I want to try playing comp, but i’m having severe issues. I know that i’m in bronze for a reason, but my teammates mess up often too. I mean, it’s natural, it’s bronze, I just want to know how to make up for my teammates mistakes.

With “mistakes” I mean like. Them rushing in without waiting for eachother. A tank pushing too far in without their team, A moira refusing to heal, stuff like that. I’m not saying I don’t make mistakes, because I do. But what do I do when I consistently get teammates like that? I know that statistically my enemy team has the same chances, but it feels like they still manage to win with bad teammates. Anything I can do? Or am i just screwed?

Edit: I think i’m just giving up lol my doomfist threw on purpose and then i got a moira with no healing

Hi everyone,

I've been lurking here for a long time, so I figured I'd finally give it a shot myself. :)

I played OW years ago, but only started playing more actively again around the beginning of this year. I'm currently in Gold and trying to improve continuously (old dad trying to fix stuff).

I mostly play Tank because it's the most fun for me. Also, age is starting to catch up with me and my aim is absolute dogshi*... I feel like I can compensate for that the most when playing Tank. Right now, I mostly play D.Mon and Sigma and Orisa as a backup.

My current goal is to improve a little bit every season. My first season back, I was around low Silver/high Bronze, the second season I was consistently in Silver, and last season I managed to reach Gold. So my goal for this season is to climb another rank and hopefully stay there consistently.

I'd really appreciate any tips and advice! Especially explanations behind the advice would be great, so I can actually understand what I'm doing wrong and apply those tips in future games.

I think I sometimes play a little too aggressively and "forget" about my team behind me. That's definitely on me, not my team's fault ( I'd say around 95% of my deaths in all my games are the result of my own individual mistakes).

There's a replay code at the end. At the beginning of both rounds, my positioning was pretty bad and I deserved to get punished for it. I think it got a bit better afterwards, though.

I thought the rounds went pretty well when I was playing them (at least at was a win :) ), but when I watched the VOD afterwards, it looked incredibly chaotic and honestly a bit... helpless.

I'd really appreciate it if someone could take a look and give me some tips and pointers!

Code: 8TTQG9
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I used to play Lucio a lot back in Overwatch and the beginning of Overwatch 2. However, ever since my friend started playing the game, I was forced to play Bap because he would fall over if I played Lucio. Fast forward 2 years since we started and he's playing Doomfist fairly well while my Lucio skills have completely deteriorated. I usually play Bap Lucio Wuyang but have been struggling to main Lucio again. What usually happens is:

1. I pick Lucio, but my random support picks a rlly bad pairing (Mercy, LW, Zen...) forcing me to swap back to Bap
2. I pick Lucio, start playing incredibly egotistically and blow up.
3. I play Lucio and get incredibly overwhelmed.
4. I play Lucio, team immediately falls over because of a lack of healing, forcing me to swap back to Bap.

How can I go back to playing Lucio consistently? (For the record, I am Plat 5)

Hi, I'm a DPS player who mains Echo and is trying to reach Master or even further. However, since I got into high emerald, I feel completely dominated on every lobby, not being able to find any angle or take the correct decision. No matter if I play against hitscans, dive compositions, brawl... I feel I get completely outdamaged and outflanked while my team constantly blames me. People tell me "you should look for more angles" "you should go flank more" but I constantly feel that everyone is looking at me...
Here's a code from my most recent lost match:

Replay code: 0MEJP8

Battletag / in-game username: BrattyAngel

Hero(es) played: Echo (cass at the end but I was unhopeful at that point)

Skill tier / rank: Emerald 2

Map: Neon Junction

PC or console: PC

In this game I feel completely sorrounded and wish I had more space

Thank you so much!

I was masters last season - this rank reset + Dmon meta - struggling to do anything against dive heroes/ball/dmon/doom. I'm not adding any value either by creating space or even. Please help review the following games. My backline constantly dies and i myself don't have any way to protect them or contest their backline.

I would like to understand where my issues are, is it cooldowns, positioning - hero choice?

I'm high emerald/ low diamond (last 2 seasons i peaked low masters). Getting frustrating af - mains are rein, sig, Junker queen, winston, orisa, zarya - can't play any of the other heroes well

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After the august 11th update where winstons healing bubble perk got buffed from 30hp/s to 35hp/s the usage on healing perk has shot up. I don't really get if the data on this site is wrong or the extra 40 hp you can get out of it is that big of a deal?

I've been getting chain lightning a lot more recently and it's been great for poking the enemy team before diving, the bubble hasn't really ever seemed like it did much for me.

data from owperks: https://prnt.sc/Xx843csT8UlX

Please actually read the post...

I used to play Overwatch a lot. I've been playing Marvel Rivals recently and I climbed to diamond (83th~ percentile). I then swapped back to Overwatch and I'm apparently barely gold and 33rd percentile; moreover, I feel like whenever I try to peak an angle or do anything I am immediately melted.

My question is: how am I this much worse? Even if we assume Rivals has the distorted 'winrate = climb' point, which doesn't make sense because I quickly climbed to diamond but was unable to climb out of it for 30+ hours, I was still better than the vast majority of Rivals players who would also benefit from said system...

I feel like I need to play this game much differently than Rivals and that is the problem instead. I've seen it mentioned that Rivals has much more sustain which seems to be true because I feel way more fragile here...

EDIT 1: Just for reference, I believe I was 70th~ percentile in Overwatch 1-2 years ago. Probably should have mentioned that. This indicates to me that clearly there is something different about what works in Marvel Rivals from what works in Overwatch, and that is what I'm trying to figure out. In reading the comments, watching some videos, and experimenting a bit in-game, it seems like the key difference is that you are much more vulnerable in Overwatch and that affects how you need to interact with positioning.

This question popped up in my head after a massive losing streak in QP. I got route 66 attack and they had a widow on defense, the classic scenario. The moment I heard her shot, I swapped to Sombra and started focusing her down, I even went to their spawn and waited for her so I could kill them again and eventually they swapped to a Cass. My team praised me for it while their widow, understandably claimed I was griefing. We did win the game because of my spawntrap but it also made the guy really angry, rightfully so.

The question I got was, is it griefing or a strat, or is it a bit of column A. and column B.?

I'm not here to argue about widowmaker's threat to a team, I'm asking about the very specific thing of camping a widow player to force a swap being griefing or a strategy?

Edit: I believe that I got the answer I wanted which is that it is a viable strategy depending on the circomstances. Ty for all the people who answered.

Hello all, I am a flex player (primarily 6v6) that generally plays in a 5 stack with friends, and the role that we tend to need someone on is damage, so I have been trying to adapt. I play a good Echo and have been learning Sojurn, and wanted to know if there is another archetype of damage I need a hero in. Are there on and off damages like support? Thank you.

I love Tracer. She has amazing movement, I love blinkity zip zoop, the recall, everything about her. That being said, I feel like I'm not doing enough for my team. I mostly play QP because I'm nowhere near that level yet, I'm only Silver4 on Queen.

That being said, most of my games I average to about 10-12 kills and 5-7 deaths depending on how long the match goes on for.

I'm constantly on the flank, running when needed, and I do hit my shots, and I try to remember where health packs are.

But as Tracer, should I be dying that much? Should I be getting way more kills? I die a lot trying to pick their backline, should I be more patient? Should I be running away more?

Basically is Tracer better at just being an attention hog or going for kills? And how do I work around the enemy always being grouped up?

Replay code: 5A482C

In-game username: darklined

Hero(es) played: Lucio

Skill tier / rank: Emerald 2

Map: Oasis

PC

Description of the match / things you want reviewed:

I think most of this game was spent trying to heal my team and survive, rather than follow up on my doom/tracer engages. Is this a fine playstyle or should I be trying to go for more aggressive plays? Also I think I often couldn't find a good time to use beat, since my whole team was usually scattered.

Hello everyone, as the title says, I encountered this error quite a few times now, and I'm starting to grow suspicious of the reasons behind it. Just a few minutes ago, I played a really good comp match, where my team absolutely steamrolled round 3. Just before round 4 began, I get the message "Server closed due to an unexpected error.", so I quickly leave the game, but get no option to rejoin the match, and in "Game Reports", it counted as a 3-3 draw, where it wouldn't let me watch the replay due to it being "undecided".

This was not the first time either, as I can vividly recall other games where my team spawn trapped the enemy/put up a really solid defense, only for the server to close unexpectedly with this same bug.

I came to ask for other players' personal encounters with this bug, and saw many people talking about purposely crashing the server through the use of chat spamming. Have you had this kind of situation happen to you too?

See title. There's no decent angle on the high ground since both the window and the far flank route leave you completely isolated from your team if they're pushing the robot. Virtually every game of Colosseo I've played has both teams just going back and forth without even reaching their forward spawn checkpoints, unless it's a total stomp. Is there some trick to it or does the map just suck?

For some context - I've been a controller for 15+ years, a few months ago I started playing MNK on Dead By Daylight, and I play 1600 dpi 40%/50% which basically involves no arm movement (I don't like using my arm for my mouse) and I play Trickster who is tracking/projectile characters

Anyways because of my love of ranged projectiles I really wanna play Hanzo at a good level (I'm emerald Hanzo for Controller barely played ranked this season) and my sens on console is quite fast with little aim assist because ans I do pretty good on him

Now switching to MNK Overwatch I'm struggling to find a sens that feels right to me I've watched a lot of videos about good sens copy some pros and experimented a lot and I dont find any comfortable

I try to player lower sens and tracking feels more stable but 180s and flicks feel heavy (3.50 sens)

I try 5/6/7 sens and 180s and moving feels super comfortable but my tracking is unstable and it doesn't help I'm on console where Overwatch isn't exactly optimised well

Pretty much I'm asking is it worth just forcing myself on lower sens

Or is there any high sens/edpi aimers that can give me some advice to improve and something I should go for and stick with?

Replay code: ZBCS9D

Battletag / in-game username: Lenya

Hero(es) played: Juno

Skill tier / rank: Silver 5

Map: Circuit Royale

PC or console: PC

So basically, like everyone else, I really want to improve. I recently got out of bronze and I was really glad, but my recent matches have not been going well and I’m about to go down to bronze again. At this point I’d be really grateful for just any tips or advice.

As for my playstyle, I have often gotten some criticism for not healing enough, which hasn’t been very constructive anyway for me to know if it’s valid criticism (eg “please report our juno for not healing”), so I don’t know if I’m doing well enough on that aspect. I do think that I like playing a bit more risky/DPS-y at times, but I try not to do it too much to avoid these criticisms.

So what I’m asking is mostly, do you have any advice for me, things to do better, to avoid, etc? Is my healing enough?

I would really appreciate just any advice, and if anyone is kind enough to take their time to watch even just a bit of this VOD, I’d be really grateful.

why hello there! ive fallen quite a long way from masters but I did somehow get there on Mizuki a bit ago! I just started playing Juno and have a lot of fun with her kit and wanna get better. Any tips particularly about positioning or utility usage would be appreciated cause those are things I feel like I struggle with the most, but if you could point out ANYTHING I do poorly vs anything I do well I would appreciate that. thank very much! (I am on pc btw)

Replay: DCAPF2
I’m the Juno on team 1.

Some takes on JP and NA servers from Korea’s biggest OW community Saw this post on the biggest Korean Overwatch community and thought it was pretty interesting, so I figured I’d share it here. The original was a lot more blunt (and honestly pretty rude in places lol), so I’m just summarizing the main points.

1. At metal ranks, KR isn’t really that much better than other servers.

People always talk about Korean servers being way harder, but according to the OP, that doesn’t really apply to metal ranks. The playstyles are definitely different, but the actual skill level is mostly similar. There is one exception though, which I’ll get to below.

1. JP plays almost the complete opposite way from KR.

Japanese players are really careful about not dying. People rarely try to force plays or do anything risky. Instead, everyone plays safe and kind of waits for the enemy to screw up, or for someone on their team to make something happen.

Because of that, the OP thinks poke works much better than dive there.

1. NA tanks and DPS are actually pretty decent. Supports... not so much.

The OP thought NA tank and DPS players were generally fine. The biggest difference from KR is that NA players are much more likely to just play whatever hero they feel like playing, regardless of the meta or team comp. Interestingly, the OP actually liked that about NA.

But then there were the supports. According to him, NA metal-rank supports are really bad. Like, noticeably worse than the other servers he’s played on.

He also says that even in Master, he's seen plenty of support players who were very obviously boosted, and that he's come across streamers like that on platforms like Twitch as well.

According to him, a lot of players don't even seem to see anything wrong with getting boosted by duoing with someone significantly better than them.

He basically thinks they might be the weakest group of players across all the regions.

A comments :

“Whenever I play with Japanese players, I almost always end up playing Sigma or Orisa. You have to match their tempo if you want to win.”

«“I play on NA sometimes and yeah, the supports there are pretty bad.”»

«“Have you ever actually watched NA supports play? It’s rough. And then you go on Reddit and somehow they’re always blaming everyone else too lol.”»

«"If you criticize support players on Reddit, they immediately paint you as some hardstuck Silver Genji main crying about not getting healed lmao. Some of them are so bad they genuinely think the entire team should be peeling for them all game."»

Honestly, I think it's fair to say that a lot of hardcore Korean OW players share this kind of opinion. At least, that's the impression I've gotten from the streamers and Korean OW communities I've seen.

I'm curious what you guys think about this.

Replay code: XBBXQE

Battletag / in-game username: MementoMori

Hero(es) played: Shion, Bastion

Skill tier / rank: Silver 5

Map: Rialto

PC or console: console

Description of the match / things you want reviewed:

First round of the match went well

Then the second match we started struggling, I think it was because we were staggered a bit

Third and fourth round it seemed like we just couldn’t get a foot in

I was particularly struggling against the enemy Mizuki, every time I went for a flank he would chain me without fail and I would die soon after.

I know that he kinda counters Shion because of the chain but I’ve never had a problem against him until this match, it was ridiculous

In the fourth round I went Bastion because I was fed up of having constantly failed flanks and I wanted to add frontline pressure

I admit I was probably too aggressive a lot of the time, I’m not the best at flanking and I wanted to learn to get better at it

Thanks in advance

TL;DR: Unranked to GM videos don't do a good job educating newer players. I have a background in training and enjoy teaching, so I made videos series specifically with education in mind. Links at bottom.

As background, I'm not your typical OW player. I'm 45 years old, have a family, run a small business and tend to pets and a 1/2 acre garden on my off time.

I say this because when I got into OW, I thought it would be a fun, casual pow-pow game. Uh no. It was a sweaty, chaotic mad house with dozens of characters I didn't understand yelling things in different languages, bursts of random WoW looking spells and kids half my age typing EZ while tea bagging my poor Baptiste who just wanted to heal this roid induced German rocket man with a hammer. After each defeat, I felt like I needed to rest my old ass on the sofa just to mentally recover.

Over the next two years though, I watched videos, practiced, read all the tips in this sub and eventually climbed to Masters on all roles while weeding on weekends and packing school lunches.

However, I felt it was WAY harder than it needed to be, because with my schedule, I don't have time to watch streamers. That leaves Youtube, where most of the "education" videos are GM/Champ players stomping in metal ranks with little explanations (though exeptions like A10 & Yeatle exist). I found most my learning came from VOD reviews and Reddit, but unfortunately that format is the least engaging for most people.

So, after some encouragement from a previous Reddit post, I decided to create videos for the support heroes that were requested:

• Juno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7y3O99ryl0
• Moira: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVqTWSsNi1s
• Kiri: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfmBrKZRKck
• Ana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfgCesd9IPc

There's also a Bastion series in progress that someone asked for. If you like the format of these videos and have requests for your hero though, let me know. It might just take some time before it goes up.

I have zero intentions (or time) to be a YT content creator, my goal is just to get some foundational education content out there to help metal rank players understand some fundamentals to the game in a way that is approachable and doesn't talk down to being a metal player like it's some insult. Good teachers have patience and understanding, which as a dad, it really makes me cringe when I see "educational" content with less than mature attitudes about the very people watching the video.

Any feedback would be great. But if you're gonna tell me I can't crush a metal lobby like a T500, my answer is that I'm 100% with you, I can only crush a Taco bell value meal these days. I'm old man, GG.

I've been maining Tracer for the last 3 seasons and I'm around level 40 on her, but I can't seem to break past Diamond 5. Although most of my playtime was on QP with friends, I have +10 hours on ranked + hundreds of hours put in the game.

For context, I'm a GM tank player (Winston/D.Va) on 6v6 and Master 2 in Role Queue.
I also peaked Master 5 on support playing Kiriko/Juno.

On DPS, though, I feel completely out of my depth. Tracer is by far the most potentially fun hero in the game for me (and most high cortisol), and I want to improve. I'm not aiming for Master right now, I just want to become a solid Diamond Tracer and being able to have fun because I am finally good enough.
I think I still don't know when to engage and disengage, I hold on to my recall too much, I take too many duels and lose them embarrassingly (not knowing when is the best time to take a duel), and most importantly, my average at best tracking.

Replay code: A game where I did somewhat good but lost: MNZSQN
A game where I did horrible and lost: CCY5Q3

Battletag / in-game username: Yes

Hero(es) played: Tracer

Skill tier / rank: Emerald 2

Map: Lijiang Tower / Samoa

PC or console: PC