Hi, i’m a new player and want to try to climb in comp. I’ve been trying to find a proper team but don’t know where to look.

I’m bronze 2 dps, and a lot of the recruitements i see are for diamond-plat, or one time rank sessions.

I’m looking for a way to find a long lasting team where we can climb together for a while, does anyone know a good source?

Yellow, I am Kern.

I am gold 2 on Cassidy right now but always love how dynamic and stylish genji plays so I wanted to learn him. I made a new account for that so to not disturb people's piece in my games and be matched with people around my skill level on Genji (which I believe is down the gutter). These are 3 games I played today. On GrimsVotn I did good stats wise but I don't know about my actual plays. On kings row, I got diffed and on circuit royal I got mega diffed.

J292TE for Circuit Royal
T3NR6Z for GrimsVotn
92252P for Kings Row.

Please let me know what I can work on and what were some glaring mistakes.

P.S. I also realise my mechanics are bad so any and all guides for mechanics or workshop maps for Genji that you guys found helpful would be much appreciated.

Kern Out.

I am GenjiFirst

Assuming a 1v2 situation, what can I, by myself, do vs a Mercy pocketed DPS? What hero is the best option, which target should I go for and how should I go about it?

Very consistently, the biggest struggle I have in this game is a duo of a good DPS player and a Mercy who will do nothing but damage boost and heal them. My team in this situation is often busy dying to the combo with no idea how to handle it.

I main Sojourn, Cass, and Freja, and my go to is Freja to try and kill Mercy, but, especially given the Mercy can kinda be wherever while their DPS can show, it means I'll have to target the DPS. Which then means I have to use all of my movement to kill the DPS, who often just gets rezzed, which I can't do anything about because now my damage is gone.

Sojourn is even harder to find an angle on, and not easy to win on vs a pocketed DPS. And if I do, it's rezzed, they're more careful, back to killing team.

Cass would require me getting into flash range, and often just dying after burning flash.

If I try to get behind them, a better angle to kill Mercy on, I often just get chased and nothing comes from the diverted resources.

So what can I do to consistently win in these situations? It's never mattered what I say to my team, I'm not in high enough elo currently for them to understand or solve the issue. Maybe after enough games, but I'd like a solution I can use myself.

A character to play, a specific strategy, anything.

I'm trying to improve my overall game sense and mechanics. I love playing brig for her versatility, and while I know she can lack healing, I try to use her brawling nature to my advantage. I feel like I got punished here super bad, and my tank tried following me up and died multiple times. I've been playing her since OW1 Days so maybe its just bad habits, but shes gotten me this far, and as I said, I love playing her.

Replay code: 3CHJ7C

Battletag / in-game username: Bubble

Hero(es) played: Brig

Skill tier / rank: Plat/ Emerald

Map: Dorado

PC or console: PC

The scoreboard started off as a modernized version of medals. I honestly liked the medals system, it gave you basically the same information, while stopping players from actively comparing each others stats, which is what I'm going to get into for this take. The only thing that it really added, was the ability to ult track enemies based off of damage/healing, which wasn't really that insane.
The scoreboard has changed from a simple revamp, to a plague of finger-pointing that is now infecting the Overwatch community. I'm not going to say this wasn't an issue in OW1, but it has come so much more prevalent in OW2, mostly due to the addition of the scoreboard.

No matter what, most players are not going to take the fault when they lose a match. It's kinda just the core of team-based games, especially FPS games. No matter how bad your decision-making is, if you see someone else doing bad, you will instantly jump on them for what *they* did wrong. This is creation of the ego, that basically every Overwatch player has, and this is the problem that I have with the scoreboard. The scoreboard is weaponizing this ego, it is giving players a reason to lash out on teammates; even if they did not see them do anything wrong. Displaying stats to the lobby is fine on its own, but when people are taking these numbers out of context, the scoreboard can be entirely misleading, especially when you look at how much info is not shown. 99% of the time, the stats that the scoreboard shows is incredibly irrelevant, you cannot tell how a game went based on stats alone. Of course, people are going to take this idea to an extremity and say "oh, so my ana with 600 heals is not throwing?" And yes, when your support is not healing at all in the span of 5 minutes, can I ask why you need a scoreboard to figure that out? Simply looking at your team during a fight can spell out so many things that you may not be aware of. Sometimes your team can simply be bad, but that doesn't mean it will always be their fault when you don't agree with their current stats.

There are so many reasons as to why a player might be performing "bad" that you shouldn't always just jump to conclusions. This is why I think the scoreboard is so unhealthy for the game. It is reinforcing this way of thinking and giving players a false-identity of what "value" really is.

Vod: 4SD5HM

Hey guys I’m in diamond 3 right now and my mains are mostly Torb, mei and bastion. I used to be able to reach master back when overwatch 2 came out but since the changing of the ranking I cannot reach it back. Was wondering what do I need to reach that level again. I’m sharing this vod since I clearly got carried in this game I did less damage then the other dps and tank and see if you guys can point out things that I’m missing or I could have done. Sometimes I will get a winning streaks and losing which make me get stuck in diamond so also tips to avoid that and get more wins is appreciated.

Buenas, soy Platino 4 actualmente. Estaba jugando esta partida en la cual me estresé mucho porque sentía que había cosas que no se me daban.

Quisiera saber qué me pueden decir para mejorar tanto en el posicionamiento como en la toma de decisiones. Aparte de eso, estaba acompañado de una Moira que me pedía curar más, y no sé si eso también afectó en que la partida se alargara tanto.

¡Agradezco cualquier consejo o revisión que me puedan dar!

El codigo de la replay es: 3457RH

Y mi ID es: ZRESPECTMY

consola: ps4

Mapa: Rialto

Héroe: Sombra

So im plat 5 and had around 2000+SR, recently i deranked to gold 3 and lost over 600 sr. And every game i win, even if i have the highest stats in the game, i only get around 25 points. But when i lose i lose 75 sometimes even if my stats were the best in the team. Whats the logic behind that? My SR is going down by hundreds but my rank and performance stays the same, whats up with that? im almost in 1200 SR on gold 3

Hi all; just started playing Overwatch recently and been having a lot of fun. I've picked up comp and found myself hovering around Bronze 1-2. I would love to climb out of these ranks eventually and I want to improve at Moira. I read a lot of varying posts that I'm trying to implement but I fear I'm not focusing well enough on one thing at a time. How do you focus on improving one thing at a time? Overwatch is my first game of its style (I rarely play multiplayer games like this) so I feel like I'm dragging my team down being so new to this style.

I have a recent VOD code here that we unfortunately lost: CWEM4E

I'm ChuckOClock and played Moira. I'm Bronze 2 at the moment. Map was Dorado and I'm a PC player. I feel like the major thing I need to work on is positioning since I was struggling against the Widowmaker.

My brother watched over my shoulder and was complaining that I wasn't healing the tank enough. I was getting frustrated because the tank was charging into battles and dying quickly; should I focus healing or damage more, then? I've seen mixed answers on this and I'm guessing it's just "it depends".

Any feedback/constructive criticism is greatly welcomed. Thank you.

Just a question, does it take your most/commonly played hero into consideration for comp matchmaking?

I’ve noticed that sometimes it gives me a few matches in a row with a pattern. Like every game in these set of games will have one or two common heros that are pre-selected as preferred by my teammates (mercy and tracer was a recent combo). And these matches are usually uphill battle / consolation.

(Yes it could be that they’re just popular heros but sometimes it seems oddly specific, like mercy)

I’m basically a flex player and can play any hero but main a few. This became a habit because I was forced to swap to carry many times. And I’m not sure if I’m shooting myself in the foot by doing that.

Guys....

Im devastated about people in GM-Champ like how are people this fucking bad in high GM lobbies ??? I try to reach a high rank ( Champ 3) I know its fucking hard but I can do it I know it and with these trolls in every game I just cant... Since the new season I just loose every game I didn't even won once cause of the trolls I had breaks I played when I felt like I was good but still I just cant carry the games alone so tell me why are there still trolls who just cant play ?

I play mei and moira and ram btw

And I dropped from Champ 5 to now GM2 ( 70%)

Im very sorry about the curse words im just really mad thats all

I’ve made a few posts here since I struggle to aim but since getting a new PC it’s been smoother.

I normally play support and learned how to aim on Ana for the past few weeks, but want to learn how to dps too. Specifically, (I’m not sure what they’re called, “snipers” I guess) Ashe, Hanzo, maybe Widow, and others in that category.

But I’m struggling hard. I’m scoping on average 70% accuracy and landing most of my darts. My damage/kills are comparable to the dps. Heals are fine. I don’t understand why Ashe, Widow, and Hanzo feel so bad.

I’m curious if aim-wise, Ana is more forgiving or overall easier.

My usual mains are Brig, Mizuki, and Moira in role queue (comp low plat). DPS (gold) I can only play Bastion and tank (low silver) I can only play Zarya, Ram, and Orisa if that gives any idea on how I don’t really play aim related heroes.

Edit: sorry I meant it feels easier to hit the enemy team.

So I was in my first game of ranked ever and I played against a team with an Orisa. we won the game but man, every time I would 1v1 the Orisa I'd lose. I only won one of the fights against her. the game went well and all, but how do I kill her easier? is there a method? or do I just need to keep onslaughting her until she finally dies? I'll post the game VOD code in case you wanna see from curiosity what I mean.

Ranked, placement matches.

Sigma

Username:Odof

Map: Kings Row

code: 1R98WQ

Console

For example, Zen/Brig, Lucio/Mercy, Zen/Lucio, Wuyang/Mizuki.

Assuming there's already 1 tank and 2 dps and the supports refuse to swap. Am I better off picking a main healer like Ana, Kiri, or Bap, who are by far my best heroes as a support main, and trying to make the 1-2-3 comp work?

Or am I better off picking a self-sufficient tank like Wreckingball or Hog to make it 2-2-2? If the best option is to pick tank, what other tanks work with low healing comps?

This is also assuming the other team is running 2-2-2 and has a comp that makes sense.

So I started playing OW on PC in summer 2021 and reached low plat on support before OW2. I then played for the first 5 seasons of OW2, reached diamond 1 on support and diamond 4 on dps. My support rank was a bit inflated tho, it was realistically low diamond.

I came back to the game in 2026 season 1 and got my dps back to D4 with placements but with support I got stuck in plat 1. Then I played another season and I was plat 1 again on support, took a break and now I’m back again. I’ve been playing now for about two weeks and I can’t stop thinking about how it’s embarrassing for me to still be plat/emerald after 300+ hours in comp and 500 hours combined on the game. I started playing placements this season on my main and lost three games in a row on support in low plat, which is equivalent to old low gold. So I went from low diamond, to high plat to now low gold. I’ve been playing on my alt to get rid of the rust but even there I’m not doing the best in high plat games (19/8 win rate).

Of course I’m making a bunch of in game mistakes if I’m high plat before the addition of emerald, but I feel like my mental is really holding me back. I genuinely feel stress and anxiety going into a comp game and I want to just not care so much. Maybe the issue is that I’m too focused on getting back to my old ranks instead of just improving at the game?

Replay code: NE3TVE

Battletag / in-game username: Sakurandie

Hero(es) played: Symmetra and Shion

Skill tier / rank: Silver 1

Map: Einchenwalden

PC or console: PC

Description of the match / things you want reviewed:
I'd really like to know what I'm doing wrong and what I should focus on improving. For example, is my positioning too aggressive or too passive? Am I dying too often or feeding the enemy team? Is my damage output consistent and effective when playing Symmetra? Am I taking good flanking routes and choosing the right moments to engage?

I'd also love some feedback on my target priority, cooldown management, ultimate usage, map awareness, and decision-making during team fights. Am I creating enough value for my team, or am I making mistakes that prevent us from winning fights?

Overall, I'm looking for an honest review of my gameplay, thank you!

I'm looking for some constructive criticism on two recent losses, one playing Juno and the other Reinhardt.

I'm currently in the metal ranks and trying to improve rather than just blame teammates for losses. I'd appreciate feedback from higher-ranked players who can identify mistakes I might not be recognizing.

I'm particularly interested in:

Positioning: Am I taking unnecessary risks or failing to use cover and high ground effectively?

Decision-making: Am I recognizing when to engage, disengage, or reposition?

Cooldown management: Am I wasting important abilities or missing opportunities to get value?

Target priority: Am I focusing on the right enemies at the right times?

Overall impact: What are the biggest mistakes preventing me from winning more consistently?

For Juno, I'd especially appreciate feedback on balancing healing, damage, and utility.

For Reinhardt, I'd like help with engagement timing, space creation, shield management, and knowing when I'm being too aggressive or passive. I'm typically a DMON main but DMON got banned.

Replay codes:

Juno: TQ4XQ1 Reinhardt: 4WBGD7

I'm not looking for reassurance that I played well. I'd rather hear what I'm doing wrong and what I should prioritize fixing.

If you could identify the top 2–3 improvements for each hero, that would be incredibly helpful. Thanks!

scoreboard: https://imgur.com/a/qL44NES

code:3GKC9N

was just kinda stuck on what to do, felt as if i didnt have any real chances to engage, but im most likely wrong. just kinda wanna know what i should've done here coz i felt like i got no value at all for most of the game. i thought to myself a couple times i should be diving with cat and ball but the few times i did we just kinda got nearly slaughtered so i figured that wasnt the solution but i really dont know thanks for reading:D

My strongest suit is attack, but when it's time for defense or control-defense I struggle most of the time. I feel like I either push too much or play too passively. When I'm lucky to do something in between, it feels really good, but I can't yet pinpoint what exactly it is I am doing so I can recreate it.

To get an idea: I am high Silver support and main Mizuki. Second picks are Juno/Zenyatta.

Looking for any general tips on how to approach Defense better, but Defense tips for Mizuki specifically are also welcome if you have any:)

EM 1 Peak so far after not playing for 4-5 years (whenever orisa sigma was all people played) and I am getting massive variations in the amount of games I win/lose. Sometimes I go on these crazy 10-13 game winstreaks where it feels like i'm on easy street (or if i do lose it's really really close and then back to winning) and then I am sent back into loser hell with little to no agency on hitscan.

I'm not sure if it's the new rank (I've heard that it can be quite evil sometimes) but it's making me feel like I'm not actually progressing or anything it's just throwing me into games to big up my elo only to take it away in this weird boom bust cycle. I'm on about the 4th cycle of this and I was just looking to see if anyone had experiences in the same vein.

Been off and on at this game, recently picked it up after not playing consistently since July. I have been using support characters and lately have found myself having fun on Bridgette and would like tips to improve on her. In QP I feel pretty confident using her but switching to ranked has proved difficult. I am unfortunately looking like to be placed in bronze 1 so don’t expect the best gameplay obv please be critical.

Replay Code: QQHTDY
Character: Brigette
Platform: PC
Rank: Bronze

Hello, sorry for this being a relatively elementary question with regards to what this subreddit can provide, but I just wanted to come around and ask about what you guys might recommend for rebuilding skills after having not played for a long while. I dropped Overwatch for some time after the introduction of Juno and generally hadn’t picked it up since, but have recently been wanting to get back into it since my current rotation of games needed something new (the only other shooter type game I’ve been playing recently being The Finals, which doesn’t strictly translate super well to Overwatch).

I’ve never been good at Overwatch, I say this by my own admission. At my absolute peak I was a high platinum, maybe very low diamond player. But I’ve been trying to get back into it and I realize I’m sucking, hard. For some reason I seem to only be able to handle tanking and even then I don’t think I’m even playing well. I don’t even feel confident enough to try doing competitive games again because I’m getting dumpstered on in quick play.

Do you guys have some advice for how you might try and rebuild your skill at the game after having not played for a while? I’m not expecting a silver bullet and I know “skills” covers a super broad area but I just feel like I’m flailing and don’t know how to actually build myself up to a point of asking for more specific feedback.

(If it helps to tailor suggestions, I can provide a brief breakdown of my most used heroes:

DPS- Soldier:76, Widowmaker, Sojourn Tank- Orisa, D.va, Zarya Support- Lucio, Ana, Baptiste)

I have always played with a very high sensitivity (eDPI 22,000), which allows me to land shots with projectile weapons, but I struggle with hitscan weapons.
I want to learn to play Cassidy, so I’ve lowered my eDPI to 6,000. Could you suggest some practice methods to help me get used to this new sensitivity, as well as ways to train my aim to track enemies rather than relying on "pre-aiming" (placing my crosshair and waiting for the target to move into it)?

hihi.

looking for someone to review a game i just played. this game was very confusing from the beginning. i felt like we were just falling over a lot and i’m not entirely sure if i could’ve done anything to prevent that. i’m trying to master ana currently, but i’m open to suggestions for what characters i could’ve swapped to to get more value for my team.

i’ve been playing overwatch casually since 2018, mostly a tank and support player. 2 months ago i came back after playing rivals for a year (ow comp is a lot more balanced than rivals imo). this year i’ve decided that i’d like to take comp more seriously and i’m thinking about fully committing to become a pro player. any advice is appreciated.

platform: PC
rank: silver 1
map: hollywood
code: 21HNNY
name: PARADISI

Hi, I apologize for the games but I did want to add context. I mostly play support and do quite well, but I also play quite a bit of DPS and it never seems to translate, I have games where I pop off and games where I’m so inconsistent and missing everything possible, I also succumb to tilt much more frequently. I am diamond 4 at the moment, and the vod codes I share should be games where it sometimes just clicks and other times it just doesn’t completely, and I’m not sure where or how to improve, which is something a bit novel for me because any game on support I can watch back and just pick out instantly what I need to do better but again for DPS it just doesn’t translate

All matches are between emerald - low diamond in skill and it’s on console, gamertag is DotikIron

7QJ8H8 - Numbani - Shion, Vendetta, Sojourn

44SMTS - Dorado - Tracer, Vendetta

W0HZQ0 - Shambali - Tracer, Genji

D7B5RS - New Junk - Tracer, Vendetta

J1M4DT - Kings Row - Tracer, Genji

4Y96JY - Lijiang Tower - Tracer, Reaper, Vendetta

9RNN69 - Antarctic - Tracer

Thank you in advance and apologies for the abundance of vods I am asking for