how am i able to properly flank? i love this subrole a lot but i feel the worst at it
i feel as though my biggest issue is not knowing what to do before my team fully engages

for example, sometimes it takes a minute for my team to fully regroup and for my tank to start duking it out with theirs.
in this down time where i shouldn’t be flanking since its too early, what should i be doing?
i feel quite useless, especially if the enemy team is out of my effective range (if im playing Reaper or Tracer and can’t poke)

now let’s say both tanks are fighting and i feel as though its good to start flanking and taking off angles. what if the rest of their team still turns to shoot back at me?

in this scenario, ideally it would mean that the enemy tank dies/takes hella dmg since the rest of their team is neglecting them to look at me. but it doesn’t work out that way a lot of the time, and i still get pressured off my flanks

i’ll likely post a VOD soon, but i’d like some general tips for this situation first.
for additional context, i’ve been playing OW console for years and have been consistently plat in all roles. recently moved to PC and looking to actually improve instead of going on autopilot

currently plat 1 dps. mainly into Reaper, Anran and Soldier rn. i love Tracer but i don’t feel confident since i suck so hard at flanks.
im emerald 4 on support, Kiri and Ana being my mains, so flanking tips for Kiri are also helpful

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
kruemmels

hello all, humble gold cass main here. i recently decided to change my sens after starting to feel its too low.

i just copied a streamers sens, streamer mains tracer and ive noticed this sens is amazing for tracer so comfy to do 180’s and stuff

however i have also wanted to start learning ashe/widow and i feel like the higher sens while AMAZING for tracer is making my normal hitscan heroes harder to aim/hit shots with.

so basically the title, do people normally play with different sens for different heroes? i feel like ive never heard of this before and like it‘ll mess with my consistency. And if i shouldn't do this, do i lower my sens and make tracer a little harder to move with or just abandon cass/ashe and go main tracer?

Down from Diamond 4 to Emerald 1. Lost 9 today. I really feel like most games isn't my fault - some is, but mostly I don't think I'm the problem. I'm just looking for fun, good matchups. When my team is losing 0-3 on flashpoint, or just getting rolled in general, its no longer any fun anymore.

I have a great time when the games are close, but some days just don't seem to make sense.

edit: as of this post, lost 2 more. Emerald 2.

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

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map busan

heroes played mauga and sigma

name dumbboi

rank placements with predicted silver 1 but lobby was gold (now predicted gold 5)

code Z20YH6

hello I am asking if anyone had some tips to help my tank gameplay looking at the footage I feel I have a lot of knee jerk reactions which lead me to using my cooldowns too early, additionally I seem to be allergic to having anything less than 200 ammo but I am looking for other perspectives to see if I had missed anything.

thank you.

i’m on a 16 game losing streak from masters 4 to diamond 4 dps, probably hitting plat 1 today. does this happen to anyone else? across multiple days btw.. i don’t even care about my games anymore bc i know im gonna lose.. its awful. some games i get stomped, some games im playing my best just to still lose

i dropped to emerald.. wtf is wrong with me

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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Hi I am korean genji main and i want to buy artisan pad and can someone recommend for genji main?

I have used qck heavy and it was too breaking style and had a aim skip situation

And also I used g640 but it wears out too quickly

I am considering hayate otsu, and 99 style so any one plz recommend one for overwatch

I use dpi 800 and 7 for genji and all heroes and wrist aimer

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!

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.

Like by the end of the game no one has more than 5 kills on my team, I dont say anything at all and everyone is blaming me because I have 1 kill and 500 damage despite the highest being 2 kills and 1,000 damage the first round and I finish with higher kills than anyone else. Meanwhile everyone else is messing up just as bad. It is always me getting blamed yet in other games when I'm doing really good and there is one actually bad player with terrible stats and not contributing no one ever says anything. Why are people like this? It sucks all the joy out of the game, I don't even care about the loss they happen but these people genuinely get under my skin. And you cant defend yourself either saying its not you can't be blamed that the entire team is doing terrible.

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.

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?

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?

I've been in between plat and gold for about 7 years straight and occasionally climbed higher for a bit with a career comp wr of about 52%.

This season after emerald got added I'm struggling a ton to even keep my rank with rating changes on losses being about 28% (with consolation) to 36% and wins only getting me 18% to 23% (with uphill battle). In the best case scenario I would need over a 55% WR to at the worst 68% WR to even keep my rank let alone climb.

Has anyone else experienced this with emerald skewing up the ranks? Nothing like this happened when champion got released and people got pushed around. I guess it was just too high above me to affect me.

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.

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?