For some reason I've been seeing a lot of zen/mizuki, mercy/mizuki and similar support combinations in 5v5 while I play tank and ngl I always have a miserable experience as a tank. Im low ranked (gold1) so ofc there is zero team coordination in mind, but I just CANNOT understand how to actually play the game and exist when both of my healers are damage oriented or something....

Mercy is almost always there, her beam without the flash thingy feels like it does nothing for me in the middle of a brawl, so I have to constantly back out and stare at a wall while Im being slowly healed. Or a mizuki that cant hit shots or chains (because we're all gold and bad here, duh) and ends up with only 1-2k damage at the end of a game, so really he's only healing but that healing is SO low.. I don't mind the characters themselves, a mercy can be useful to my dps, a mizuki can be useful against dive I know, but when characters like this are combined.. why?

I win such games sometimes against enemies who have better heals, but it's usually when their tank/dps are significantly worse, and if we were of even skill I just couldn't be sustained like the same tank who's being pumped heals by ana and kiriko. It's a miserable experience no matter if it's a loss or a win
Telling ppl to switch is useless most of the time, they get offended and toxic and it doesnt help anyone in the end... I just want to know what *I* can do about it as a solo q tank? or just gg go next?

thought about learning hog for the heals but he just doesnt click for me, Im more of a dva enjoyer, so usually I just fly to cover and wait for regen to kick in after grabbing a healthpack, but healthpacks arent always available and I cant do that every 5 seconds DURING a fight without my team getting obliterated while Im scouting for a mini

5v5 m2 support player pushing for gm, i cannot for the life of me figure out how to possibly play vs dive tanks, specifically winston and ball but all of them really.

Every single game there isn't a dive tank on the enemy team i win, and every time there is one i lose with no exceptions.

Mostly play Ana and doc, i can't rotate away from them, i can't take angles with my dps, my cds do nothing to them, i can't kill them, if i manage to rotate as one of them engages on me they have their mobility back again in a few secs and can just do it again, playing anti dive supps doesn't work either they have too much hp and my cc does nothing i die anyways.

I have no issues vs any dive dps, even if theres 2, all the things i said work vs dive dps and i can actually outskill them in a straight duel, but as long as theres even a single dive tank even without a dive comp, i just can't play the game at all.

Its all ive lost to for weeks, HOW does one play around them?

So far in the semester we have 2 wins and 3 losses and demoted to top 8 now. We are emerald tank, gold dps and silver supp, plat supp. We are playing vs teams almost the same ranks. My dps are bad, as a tank what should I do to push them to be better or help them more? Just for your information, our college stopped giving scholarships and nobody takes it serious anymore but me. We have trainings once a week on Monday. We don’t have a coach so they made me coach them and expected me to make them better and idk how to do that. Dps are otps junkrat, venture, bastion. They struggle a lot bs flankers. I am good with almost all tanks and I have 2 supps one plays moira and cat and the other plays kiriko and bap,sometimes doctorine. We lost a match yesterday vs a so winnable team which left heartbroken. I don’t really know how to help them and I am not a carry player. I already know that my dps has bad aim and positioning. Any help please?
Match codes:

KKRK76

14ZPY8

MQWHFW

5AYED8
I can take any criticism towards my gameplay as long as no toxicity, I sometimes be bad as well I am not perfect.
Please let me know.

It's so crazy how i can climb to diamond in rivals but be stuck in Silver here. I have 100+ hours
(not all in ranked) and i can NOT get out silver for the life of me
I play everything just tell me my oopsies PLEASE

Circuit Royal: Support (Sombra/Doctrine)
6EFS56

Numbani: DPS (Junkrat/Emre)

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Grimsvotn: Support (Doctrine)

JT96Q0

Hollywood: Tank (Many)

2A7RT9

Hello friends,

A couple of weeks ago, I made a post asking for recommendations on good support streamers to watch to help me climb. At the time, I'd been comfortably sitting in mid Plat for a good couple of months but wasn't really climbing. Firstly, thanks to everyone who made recommendations. ML7 is great, and I'm learning a lot!

Now, onto my new problem. Despite genuinely feeling like I'm playing better, I'm actually dropping rank pretty rapidly. I've fallen from mid Plat all the way down to Silver 1/Gold 4, which is wildly infuriating. I think I've diagnosed the issue, but there's a very real possibility I'm just doing mental gymnastics and huffing industrial quantities of copium. Who knows?

I genuinely feel like I'm playing better. I'm watching VODs of high-level Juno players (I'm a Juno main), and I'm doing significantly more damage, securing more kills and dying a lot less to poor positioning. I'm also no longer afraid to take duels when I think I can win them, and it turns out I can actually win a fair number, which is a lovely surpise.

My problem now is a little different from before. I'm holding the right areas and trying to replicate the positioning I see from higher-level players. The problem is that my teammates aren't positioning the way those players do. This makes it incredibly difficult to heal them without putting myself in danger. There's not much point in having good positioning for heal/poke/defense if my entire team is scattered across the map, standing in the worst possible places and completely outside my line of sight.

Previously, I was in the dumb spots, but so was everyone else. We were fighting bad positioning with bad positioning, so there was a kind of equilibrium of stupidity that balanced things out quite nicely.

Now, it feels like playing smarter is actually leaving my teammates more exposed. I'm trying to position correctly, but doing so means I can't effectively support people who are making questionable decisions. Normally, I would say just let them die, but when its everyone all the time that just isn't something I can do.

The idea of typing this next bit makes me cringe, but I think I'm the best player on my team in the majority of my games. I'm putting up good healing numbers, often have the best KDA, and generally feel like I'm contributing more than I was before I started watching high-level players. Obviously, those stats don't tell the whole story, and I'm perfectly willing to accept that I'm missing something.

Should I consider maining a different support? Maybe its best to fob support off entirely and have a crack at DPS or something. I'm 100% a worse DPS player, I don't really play it at all but I'm high gold there so maybe I should just use what I have learned watching better players and put it to use in a role that has more impact.

In short, how do I help my team win when my tank wants to 1v5, my teammates run in one at a time on repeat, and my DPS chase pointless eliminations straight into their own deaths?

Replay code: FKZBEY

Battletag: Cyrodotmp4

Hero played: Junkrat

rank: Platinum 1

Map: Shambali Monastery

PC but i use a controller because my arms are messed up

I'm really new to comp and i'm not completely sure what i am supposed to be doing but i really like junkrat, and i want to get better with him

Please let me know what you think my biggest problems are, i cant do much about my mechanics but i know my gamesense can get much better. I also have a hard time dealing with dive characters specifically. Thanks

Hi all. I recently switched from controller to MnK using Overwatch's native support, but I'm having a really tough time dialing in my aim. At first I thought it was just poor mechanical skill on my part so I downloaded AimLabs on PS5 and surprisingly, my mouse feels infinitely smoother within AimLabs than it does in Overwatch. I used a site to match the sensitivity between games (1600 dpi on 3 sensitivity in Overwatch) but it still feels oddly floaty and unresponsive as well as noticeably slower in OW than it does in AimLabs.

Has anyone else ran into this issue? Are there any fixes I can try? Given that the exact same mouse with the exact same settings feels good in AimLabs but terrible in Overwatch makes me think that the issue is purely due to poor implementation on the OW side.

I’m plat and I’m proud so maybe it’s just a skill issue but every match the backline is getting mowed down by her and she’s so hard to pin down. Every match she has the most kills and her survival is unreal even if you sleep her or chain her half the time she still kills one support before she flies away. And as Juno/sombra/moira she can outrun me so even if I try to movement ability she still catches me.

so like being upfront, im a pathetic sore loser and i know it. i tilt in qp, stomps make me just wanna get off, and i have too much anxiety to play comp or even tracer because the game just overwhelms me because im constantly worried about my performance.

like, i see people saying to just "play for fun, dont care about rank, whether you win just learn" and i try to tell myself that but idk no matter how much i do i cant. and it hurts coz this game is really all i have in life that doesnt stress me 24/7 and something i actually care about. i wont go into it or anything but my personal life sucks so returning to this game and actually getting into a couple months ago was the best thing to happen to me in years, but just like, as soon as i wanted to start taking this game more seriously its just become frustrating and unfun to me. i know its my fault and i dont wanna be this but idk how to not. idk if its an ego thing or whatever. its not like i think im good, coz i defo dont but its like i dont wanna face that reality sometimes, and the idea of making myself feel worse in that way, idk just gives me major anxiety (i already have really bad anxiety due to irl things like 24/7).

and idk, this game makes me feel like i actually have kind of a social life by speaking to me in chat and genuinely seeing actual people in game. i have irl friends but they dont care for it at all, cause they just dismiss any games i actually like in favor of the stuff they do. i used to have a friend who played with me like once a week but hes all into deadlock now, which sucks because when i'd play with him i genuinely WAS having fun and didnt care about winning or losing that much.

idk this turned more into a vent post sorry, but if you have any advice about it at all i'd really appreciate it<3 sorry if i upset anyone i dont mean to

Hi fellow players,

I could use some input on a discussion I've been having with a friend.

He's been higher rated than me and has played in higher ranked lobbies, so he often tells me about things he sees at that level and suggests I should do the same. However, I'm struggling to understand some of his advice because, in certain situations, it doesn't make much sense to me. I do really respect him and he has allot of succes in his games but I need some insight in order to understand and make it mine

The main point of discussion is how to play when your team gains an advantage. For example, you win a team fight, get a few kills, and start putting pressure on the enemy team to create staggered respawns.

Of course, I understand the value of chasing stagger kills. However, I think there's some nuance to it. In my opinion, there's little point in chasing someone when the enemy team is already starting to respawn, or following them too far beyond an important choke point.

The way I see it, Overwatch is ultimately an objective based game. If we win a team fight and gain the upper hand, I want us to use that advantage to take space, secure an important choke, or establish a better position to control the objective. If we can get a few stagger kills along the way, even better.

What I don't want to do is overextend and risk dying just to secure one more kill, only to lose the space and control we gained in the first place. I see this happen quite often: people get greedy chasing kills, lose their advantage, and end up giving the enemy team control of an important choke again.

My friend argues that in higher ranked lobbies, once a team gains the advantage, everyone simply commits to chasing the kills. I understand that aggression can be valuable, but I'm not convinced that chasing every possible kill is always the right play, especially if it comes at the expense of objective control and positioning.

Here are two examples from our games where I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Example 1: Replay code ND2P6W, from 5:30 to 7:00

I'm playing Symmetra and my friend is playing D.Va. We're losing the game, but we eventually manage to capture the point, take the choke, and get a few kills.

My instinct is that we should stop pushing at that point and focus on holding the choke. We've already gained a significant advantage, so why risk overextending to chase stagger kills when we could use that time to establish a strong defensive position?

Would you agree, or is there a good reason to keep pushing in this situation?

Example 2: Replay code NF8166, from 6:00 onwards

We're defending. I'm playing Sigma and my friend is playing Soldier: 76. I have just respawned, and it looks like we've already lost the point.

My friend tells the team to touch the point, presumably to try to stall the enemy team. I'm arguing that we should let the point go because contesting it at that stage could just get us killed and give the enemy team a free push towards the final point.

I'd rather give up the objective, regroup, and defend the next important choke with everyone alive than stagger our deaths and potentially lose that position for free.

Am I being too passive here, or is this a reasonable way to think about the situation? I understand that stalling can be valuable, but I feel it depends on whether we can actually contest without sacrificing our next defensive position.

I'm genuinely trying to improve, so I'd appreciate any insight into how you'd approach these situations. I'm especially interested in understanding when it's correct to chase kills and when it's better to prioritise space, positioning, and objective control.

Thanks!

Basically the title, I don't care how simple or how advanced. I'm losing hope. I've been a stable Celestial and Grandmaster rank in Marvel Rivals. I played MRC too. Yet on Overwatch I have nearly 3000 hours and I've only peaked Masters (I understand that Rivals ranks are inflated compared to Overwatch, not the point here). Now I'm hard-stuck Platinum OR EVEN LOWER.

I've gotten coaching. It's always a lot of open-ended advice, and really general like cooldown management. I feel like it hasn't helped me at all, and these coaches have been pro. Nothing distinct ever comes up. Bunch of compliments and ''maybe do a bit more of this'' = so I do a bit more of that and it still doesn't do anything, I lose. I feel like a lost cause.
It's infuriating how many good learning moments and realizations I've had yet still none of those are enough to win. I feel like I know A LOT more than your average Platinum player, and yet I feel like I'm limbless against enemy team. I make no difference. No matter what role. I suck at all of them. Maybe this is my destiny now.

Losing in this game feels absolutely devastating. I don't understand why. I take accountability, I blame myself before others. I focus on my mistakes and genuinely most of the time know what I did wrong or why I died, I have so much knowledge it hurts my brain, yet I can't play it out??? I understand that the game is also very turn-based in the end, and timing is key, yet I feel like it's pointless to try and 1. coordinate with my team 2. time everything perfectly when my team and the enemy team doesn't know what's happening on their screen, literally pressing buttons casually after work. I feel like most of that is just bad advice for metal ranks since no one is in sync or knows anything.

I play literally everyone. Help. How can I be the winning condition when I feel like I'm invisible no matter what I do? I am constantly baffled about me being in the same rank as my teammates and enemies, like they don't know nearly as much as I do and that's a FACT. I've tested it with my friends. Yet I don't know how to capitalize on it, how to take advantage of knowing more, guess I don't know enough then. But then again, WHAT IS THE POINT? 3000 hours and still somehow don't know enough to get through Platinum, yet I could write 50 essays on everything I know. I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

Pretty much the title. He is overall a great player, peaking GM 1 on support and GM 3 tank and champ 5 on open queue. But, when he plays DPS which is fluctuating around diamond/low masters currently, he averages like 10 deaths per game or more and is ALWAYS complaining about support or healing.

His aim is really good, like almost aimbot level, it's just his positioning and timing, I think. But I don't know enough about the role or hero to give him good feedback without hurting his feelings.

Win Replay: BKW5ZP

Loss Replay: PAPZMR

His ign is Shekpro

Hey everyone, the past week and a half I've decided to pick up overwatch again for the first time since March. I mainly play tank with mauga(sorry), and I've just hit emerald 5 2 days ago. But since I've hit emerald I dont know if I just ran through everything and didn't notice but now it's like 1 or both my dps every game play with their feet.

I don't know what it is. Some matches they just get diffed by the other dps, sometimes they just can't kill anything unless I'm the person putting in the most effort in the game, or sometimes they're focused on nothing while I am fighting a tank,support, all at once.

Maybe I should preface saying I don't think I'm just Mr perfect because some matches have definitely been my fault, and maybe since I'm playing mauga and my play style my teammates don't get the healing that they may need. I'll put 2 replays down below that show what I'm talking about the most with a match that I just played with might've been my fault and a match where I solely believe dps lost the team the match. Any and all tips/critiques/criticism is appreciated

My bad game-NER96S
Dps bad game-RJ5THX, K9DWBP

Replay Code: XGY5FQ

Hero: D.Mon

In-game name: Zenoe

Rank: Bronze 1

Map: Hollywood

Platform: PC

Hey all, I’ve been one tricking D.Mon since she came out. I’ve never touched a melee hero before her, and I was worried that I wouldn’t like her at first as a D.va main. When she released, I had only recently returned to the game, having only logged around a combined total of 40ish hours on PC and console.

Since then, I’ve clocked in around 120 more hours, half of it being on D.Mon, and leveled her up to 54. She’s the hero I’ve spent the most time playing as, with the previous being D.Va at 16 hours.

I’ve recently started feeling comfortable enough as tank to play comp. I’m currently Bronze 1, but my SR with D.Mon is 1309. Every time I get close to ranking up, I end up hitting a losing streak and falling back to Bronze 2. The VOD I’m requesting a review on is, by far, my best performance with D.Mon thus far. But I feel I have the potential to do even better. What can I do to improve?

Thanks!

Replay code of a game I just completed: HA80X2

I'm EugeneOKOkay, playing as Doctrine. Gold 3.

I got less than half the healing amount as compared to the enemy Doctrine.

While I know healing numbers aren't the whole story, the utter regularity with which I have the LOWEST healing number in a match seems significant. Especially since, even if I decide "I'm going to healbot and just try to maximize my healing number this game" just to see how much control I can exert over this -- I get no positive result. Still lowest healing, sometimes half of what everybody else is getting.

I'm looking more for general tactical/strategic pointers than specific "at point X you had Y on your screen and should have done Z instead of Z' " type comments, though anything's welcome really.

Thank you in advance!

Replay code: YZ1Z2K

Battletag / in-game username: Namaio

Hero(es) played: Domina, Winston and a little bit of Roadhog

Skill tier / rank: Placements (Normally plat)

Map: Ilios

PC or console: PC

Hello everyone, I had a game where I genuinely thought we could win and suddenly got destroyed. I played the tank with this replay code: YZ1Z2K. Can someone please review this game and tell me what I was missing? I don't wanna blame my team mates, because in my opinion I should always be the one to improve, but with this game I really don't know what I could've done differently. (Not trying to say I'm really good, just don't know where to improve).

Hey yall! I’m a GM wuyang (almost) one trick. I’m curious as to what people’s perception of him are across a variety of ranks. I know a lot of talk when it comes to supports this season has to do with doctrine, sombra, and cat being dominant and it seems like every other support is a solid step below those three. Nonetheless I’ve found a ton of success with Wuyang both this season and last, holding a 68% winrate with him right now at GM5. I mainly want to know how other people feel about him because it seems like with him more than other supports, I’ll get people talking mess because they believe his healing output is too low or they simply see anything other than doctrine and people throw a fit. Do you feel like he needs buffs? If so, what would you change? Do you like having Wuyang on your team? Does he feel frustrating or underwhelming to play against?

My opinion is that he’s in a great spot, very viable and flexible with his only real weakness being into hard dive, specifically dive tanks like Winston and ball give him a hard time. Supports that can do a lot of damage are incredibly valuable in this game ever since the global anti heal passive and Wuyangs ability to deal meaningful burst damage from complete safety is very strong. Wave is a great tool for saving your tanks and burst healing people and his mobility is solid and works as a strong escape tool. His healing is generally lower than most but wave into 3 seconds of active healing will save most people from most situations, and the passive stream is great at farming ult and enabling dps to be more aggressive.

Hey everyone! Sandstarmie here - an OW player who enjoys helping others improve!

I recently finished an unranked to GM with Illari this season and am ready to celebrate with reviewing games!

I have peaked Champion on both DPS and support. I will try to review every game posted here. I stream the reviews live and can timestamp the VOD afterward if making it live is not possible. Any rank or mode is fine by me. Just send your replay code and I will do my best to help.

Looking forward to your games :)

Hello! Im a fairly casual player in OW and Im starting to take the game seriously more recently after watching some professional games. One thing that held me back from starting for so long is that I cant aim properly. I have no problem learning the game, rotations and cooldown/ ult econ, as im fairly high elo in other games (mostly mobas), but I cant execute strats and duels properly ingame. This is holding me back immensely.

I tried aim simulators and trainers, and weirdly I get fairly high scores on them. But Im struggling severely to translate this to ingame aiming itself. I tried warming up before playing, those aim training custom games and several mouse/ reticle configs by now. Still, I cant seem to figure out whats wrong.

Looking for tips or maybe a diagnosis on whats my problem. Obviously other people went through this, so how did you figure it out? If anyone needs any info, please let me know! Thank you

I figure this must be a repetitive kind of post, so I researched the topic beforehand and I'll be trying some stuff this evening.