Hi all, while back there was a post here with heroes sorted in dive, brawl or poke hero. People said that a hero is not d/b/p, a team composition is. That was an eye opener for me, but now I'm wondering, what makes a team composition a certain category? For someone who is learning, how can you quickly see which comp the team is using? Do you look at the tank, or is it just general playstyle? I'm asking because I'm trying to adjust my playstyle to the enemy team composition, but for that I have to be able to recognize when they use which. Hope this question makes sense

Hey guys, I think we can all agree that there is an issue of toxicity within the OW community and especially in game.

The advice of "mute chat and voice" is a double edged sword, because it does stop all the negative chatter, but it also stops the positive and social aspect as well. So many people leave it on, but then struggle to deal with negative teammates.

The problem is that many people don't have the confidence to just ignore others and the support role in particular I believe attracts more empathetic individuals who enjoy the aspect of the game of being helpful.

On top of that, there's self sabotaging beliefs that are repeated so often that is probably creates doubt in many people on whether or not they can actually get better. Just a few examples are saying people not in GM are basically braindead, or if you just watch a few videos you can understand how pros position. These blanket statements only exist to make the person saying it sound superior, but some people will actually believe them to be true and start thinking they suck at the game because they are stuck in their ranks.

So to try to help those who are struggling with the mental part of the game, I made a video that talks about negative thinking in the form of limiting beliefs and how it prevents us from playing how we should, how it creates and spreads toxic ideas and what we can do to counter-act this type of thinking:

https://youtu.be/2SsJj54-8f8

I know this isn't your typical Overwatch content on positioning or how to play X character, but I believe the mental game struggle matters just as much as simply playing Overwatch better.

I used to be a professional poker player and in our community, it was almost understood that at some point, everyone would eventually have a bad losing streak. Losing money, while bad, wasn't nearly as bad as the metal health struggles during a downswing. Lots of otherwise smart and confident guys would go into depression, have dark thoughts and some would eventually quit altogether. I mention this because it was recognized and validated as a real issue, so that there is no stigma attached. It just happens and is accepted as part of being a professional. We didn't have edgy kids trying to troll us for weak mentals or to git gud, because absolute honesty with yourself is one of the fundamental tenants of poker. If you lie to yourself, you suffer.

While Overwatch isn't a livelihood for the vast majority of us, it's still a source of emotional enrichment that can bring both positives and negatives. But when the negative gets too much, I think that point is often brushed off as "it's just a game" or "maybe you should do something else" when in reality people are playing because there IS positive value, but they just need to understand how to handle the negative aspects.

I don’t really understand positioning, so I’d really appreciate it if any experienced players could help me out!
Replay 1: 9SWNZP
I played Widowmaker at the beginning, then Ashe for the rest of the match.
Replay 2: NWH4FJ
Same thing here — Widowmaker at the beginning, then Ashe for the rest of the match.
I’m not sure where I should be positioning myself or what I should be doing in different situations. I’m currently Silver 5, by the way…
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

So I recently climbed to gold one and was one game off, and then everything went bad. I averaged 1000 healing per minute plus extra damage (for example for a 10min game I would have 11k healing and 5k damage) I’m currently a gold 4 with and I have no clue what to do.
I feel like every time I load into a game it’s not up to me if I win, and the odds are never in my favor.

I do free coaching reviews. I peaked GM4 and I can offer u advice for ALL roles.  

I can help with positioning, CD usage, engagement timing and other game sense that could help u develop. All my advice will be tailored for what I think is best for u to focus on for improvement.  

If this sounds interesting, then DM me on discord to join the queue! 

My username on discord ogxslayer_7 

Anyone is welcome 

I coach for free. I peaked Top 61/GM1 and I can offer advice for EVERY rank and EVERY hero!

I can help you with positioning, engagement timing, ability usage, and all other game sense that you might need help developing. I always provide constructive advice tailored to you.

If you are interested, shoot me a DM on Discord to join the queue! My discord username is gyro_x.

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code:

5cjw0m

name:

RaccoonHands

background:

I primarily play monkey but for this game I felt like I wasn't able to make anything happen. i'm aware I overextended to kill the tracer with my primal at the end of the first point on attack and should've died but otherwise I wasn't able to determine what some of the other problems with my game play are. additionally when they picked zarya and I was on defence I knew I needed to save primal in order to try and do some sort of back line trade but I felt I was at an inherent ult disadvantage and wasn't sure exactly what I needed to do in order to survive the grav emp combo

range:

this is an emerald - diamond range lobby

I have played kind of a lot for someone who doesn’t really understand the game super well. I play easy characters and hover around plat. If the matchup works it’s fine and if it doesn’t I will lose 1000% of the time cuz I just don’t have the understanding to affect a game that much. I am way better at every other game I’ve played cuz I never learned the fundamentals of this one properly. I feel like everyone is always using terms I don’t know. How do you learn the basic theory of this game.

CODE: XSSGCW | IGN: Oen | RANK: Placement matches
newer ow player, usually main tank and peaked around gold 1, but the matchmaking been kicking my ahh so I decided to try dps.

played ashe all game bc I’m learning her and genuinely felt locked in, but first we had a leaver when we were 2-3 and then they all swapped easy characters like mauga and moira and then reaper and just stalled point ending in a draw.

either way, I’d appreciate a review of my ashe gameplay bc I really enjoy her playstyle and the playmaking potential of bob.

Honestly, I can’t stand Doomfist. Playing against him in Overwatch 2 is just painful, and it completely ruins the match for me every single time. It doesn't even matter what role I’m on—if the enemy Tank is running a decent Doom, the whole game becomes a chaotic mess where nobody gets to actually play.
What pisses me off the most is his movement and how absurdly hard he is to punish. He just slams into your team from nowhere, displaces everyone, knocks you into a wall with a charged punch, and then flies away with a massive chunk of overhealth before anyone can even aim at him. Even when you think you’re positioning well or tracking his cooldowns, he closes the distance in a fraction of a second. It feels like he gets rewarded for playing like a maniac while the rest of us have to sweat twice as hard just to survive. Trying to play Support or squishy DPS against a sweaty Doomfist is genuinely infuriating because you’re constantly looking over your shoulder instead of focusing on the fight.
At this point, I’m done dealing with it and just want to ruin every Doom player's day. I need a full breakdown of every single counter to him in the game for Tank, DPS, and Support. Which heroes shut his mobility down completely? Who can interrupt his block or punish him best when he dives in? I want to know all the matchups, abilities, and playstyles that make his life a nightmare so he can’t just run over my lobbies anymore.

To start off I’d like to preface that I’m a low elo (emerald) player, and I know both myself and my lobbies are usually not playing as well as pros and high elo players and utilizing our character’s kits so it’s probably just a skill issue but I’d still like to get some help with my skill issues. For the past few seasons I’ve been feeling very useless on support, I feel like almost every match I’m forced to healbot instead of doing anything else so I’m definitely doing something wrong. I main some of the best meta supports including Kiri, Bap and Juno who supposedly can pump out some of the highest healing out of the entire support cast, yet I’m struggling to keep my team alive unless I continuously hold my heal button at them. It doesn’t feel as rewarding to play support recently as I find much less window to dps and get kills compared to before. Furthermore, my none meta supports (brig and mercy) doesn’t even feel playable unless the entire lobby fulfills their niche. I’ve been noticing this change mostly after the s1 30% healing reduction implementations and especially this season with genji and venetta dominating my lobbies rn who can explode people very quickly especially combined with a doctrine drone. Now my question is how do I combat this? I can’t really heal my team out of a lot of the situation as well as I could have before but if I dps too much my team starts dropping like flies around me and I don’t really enjoy getting flamed. Should I learn different supports? Or is my playstyle just outdated now?

hey everyone. I'm new to the game, maybe 15-20 hours. I play jetpack cat mostly, and I use my purr to properly heal and repel enemies in fights. I spam heal my team, I rarely go attack unless it's my ult and I can cheese enemy tank. every game I get ~7.5k-9k points healing damage and 2k in damage.

but every SINGLE time I focus on purely supporting and the occasional damage, we flop. hard. I see meta video makers say to be greedy with purr and use it for myself. I see them talk about flanking and using claw. but what do I not often see? a GENUINE video on actual support play without being hyper-damage thirsty. how do I help my team win? I out heal my other support team that does even more HP/s than I do. what am I doing wrong?

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Replay code: 66SHVB

Battletag / in-game username: murkymocha

Hero(es) played: Juno

Skill tier / rank: silver 2

Map: Grímsvötn

PC or console: PC

have had a huge loss streak recently and it just feels like it's up to random chance if I play well or not? really enjoyed this match but we struggled defending despite winning. just wondering how/why it felt like I was playing so much worse in the second round

Replay code: V52RBQ/844J91

Battletag / in-game username: Hypersick

Hero(es) played: Dmon/Rein

Skill tier / rank: silver

Map: neon junction/grimsvotn

PC or console:

Description of the match / things you want reviewed: so basically im trying to improve myself, sometimes im confused on my role as a tank. The first VOD is a winning match, im just trying to go to the backline and be annoying as dmon. The second VOD is where dmon was banned and im playing rein and i have to deal with winston, at that point i dont really know what to do, do i push? Do i just stay back? I dont really play that much i used to play back in the day in 2019 but i started playing again now

i have not played support before this season so im not sure what im doing wrong, with my placements i got placed in emerald and been hard stuck here, just win-loss over and over, have around 10 hours, i feel like i do well most games but i just dont know what i need to improve on, any help would be much appreciated ty.
if u have specific things i did, it would be much appreciated if u can say what i did and why it was wrong ty <3.

my win rate is exactly 50% on doctrine who i mostly play.

Replay code: PX1HYZ

Battletag / in-game username: wire1k#2277

Hero(es) played: doctrine

Skill tier / rank: emerald 3

Map: shambali monastery

PC or console: pc

Replay code: B85N4S/QXKB1Q

IGN:Wattawat on Jetpack Cat

Rank: Silver 3 Console

Hello, im asking for tips on what I could've done better on these games, it feels like im doing alright, but as a whole we're losing and im not sure what else I can do. It feels like every time theres an enemy roadhog my team just does not know what to do. To be clear I dont want to blame anyone, I commonly blame myself but sometimes I watch out for certain things that some people will just ignore(roadhog DM) This just ultimately turns into tilt because I simply do not understand what else I can do. Its only recently ive felt like this too, usually things are pretty neutral but all of a sudden it feels as if im improving(dying less, not healbotting, getting picks, general awareness) but everything else has stayed the same. I know for a fact im far from perfect, even good, in these games there are moments where I catch myself doing unnecessary things or having bad positioning/getting too close. Ultimately it feels like if Im not carrying then the whole team loses and I feel helpless. I don't want to blame other people since the only reason I play ranked is to improve myself but in certain scenarios im just not sure what else to do.

Hi all - might be a dumb question but I honestly don't know where to start looking. Are there any tournaments for Emerald players? Where can I look to find a group or try outs? I'm a support main and would love to find a solid team to practice with. I play PC only, I'm open to role queue or open queue (if there's tournements for that). Thanks!

Last week I lost two games in a row on dps. I decided to put it down, take a break, and try again next week (I only play competitive on weekends)

Well it did not, I lost another two games and I’m currently about to drank to bronze 2.

My stats didn’t look amazing by the end, but I don’t even think I played that bad.

Replay code: H4Z04Z
Rank: Bronze
Hero played: Widowmaker

I do tend to get more anxious when playing competitive and you can kind of tell? I’ve been working on it but for now it is what it is

I have about 50 hours in this game qp + competitive, and I still don't know if it's possible to know where you're getting shot from without seeing the person. Sometimes, I know I'm getting hit but there's people in front so I think it's them but actually it's someone flanking me so if I don't see them then I'm already dead pretty much.

I wonder if there's a way to know where I'm being shot from or no?

(multiple replays included)

Hello all, I am a high-level Kovaaks player getting back into OW. On my last post, the majority consensus was to diversify my hitscan hero pool and try to play angles. I've been practicing that as well as my engagement timings when enemy squishies are distracted in Quickplay, but considering I went 1-9 in Gold placements yesterday I think something is still fundamentally wrong w/ my understanding of the game. It's doubly annoying because these lobbies feel quite easy mechanically so I can't really understand intuitively what I'm still doing wrong. I attached replay codes of the games where my team didn't just get perma slammed the whole game. I know my replay notes are 99% the result of Dunning Krueger effect but I don't know how to address what I'm pretty sure is a knowledge gap on my end. Pls help.

Tag: Sephiroth Rank: Gold 5 after placements

J93F48 [Circuit Royale, Widow/Soldier] (think me popping off here turned what was supposed to be an enemy stomp into a genuinely close game, think my only major mistake was the very last fight)

JCGAZK [Hollywood, Cass/Widow] (did my best but I think this is team diff)

WWJ8QB [Shambali, Soldier/Widow/Ashe] (felt like I did more than enough to win especially in terms of engagement timing and juggling enemy aggro, but probably some fundamental stuff wrong with my gameplay)

9CT3A9 [Lijang Tower, Soldier/Soj/Cass] (Map 3 was the only close map so that's the one I want review on specifically my positioning and what I did wrong mid-teamfights, can include first two also if you want tho bc I was so lost on what to even do)

DZ1NHT [Esperanca, Emre/Cass/touch of Widow] (had a few stupid positional deaths due to tilt queueing but I feel like besides that, this was genuinely team diff that I couldn't do anything about unless I had the intuition and game knowledge of a higher-ranked player.)

EZ7XJ1 [Nepal, Emre] (do I keep playing angles even if I'm alone and keep dying for it, or just run down main with rest of my team and let enemy dps playing angles fry us anyways?)

Also on 76, is it okay if I beam enemies to low health but don't finish them or is that throwing because I'm ultimately feeding enemy supports ult charge? Because my tracking under pressure is pretty rusty [which will get better as I continue to derust from being employed] and causes me to leave squishies very low a lot of the time but not dead

I was playing tank, enemies were holding a high ground with bastion. I tried to always go to the side and kill their tank and even got him 2 times but each time I couldn't push in because bastion has being pocketed with heals and their damage output is too high.

My dps got 0 picks, especially BASTION and the many times I tried to push bastion I just had to die. Then I thought OK doing that is not the play and just waited for dps to get picks while shielding them and waiting for opportunities but nothing happened and I just had to go back to trying to go to the side.

In a case like that is it not the DPS that are supposed to get a pick or put some sort of pressure? Especially when I'm taking 100% of the enemy aggro. Even if I just go and suicide, if I take the entire teams aggro I expect my dps to get a single kill at the very least.

Matchmaking has been unreasonably insufferable lately, the teammates I get are truly something new. I have gotten bad matches before, it's not new, but the consistency of it lately is miserable. Either we demolish the enemies with 0 resistance or we get demolished so bad we might as well have arms. And I've seen this trend for many other people lately too (maybe something to do with microsoft or whatever?)

hi, i wanted to post this here as this is probably one of my better games and the most healing I've ever done as a support player.

I recently have begun playing Mizuki so this was my first serious game with him as I'm trying to climb back to Platinum. I played Ana (she's my top support) during the latter rounds and I just want to know if there's anything I could do better? Last round was rough & I kinda feel like there was more i could do so I want to understand if this was the case or was this a case of "either or"

Battletag: Laelaps #11406, PS5, Replay code: CHSZHG, Rank: Gold 4. Hero: Mizuki/Ana, Map: Grimsvotn.

To reiterate this was a console game.

DPS:

I migrated to OW with my Rivals DPS sensibilities, thanks to a tank named Devil Dinosaur.

If you’re unfamiliar with Dino, he’s essentially rein but tankier, more lethal, has high overshield generation, and an instant, easier grab. This character warps the game to such a degree, he forces everyone’s gameplan into Operation: “heal the dino” or “shoot the dino.”

Here, I’ve been prioritising squishies with Reaper and Shion to middling results, so my OW experiences and the existence of Dino have rewired me into shooting tanks. It often feels.. effective? But in exchange, there’s more off-angle pressure and some points feel impossible to retake. Just how responsible are DPSes for killing tanks in this game, and how do I identify my priority targets?

Support:

This was a jarring transition. The differing support design philosophies are immediately apparent, where healing here feels significantly worse, and is even slashed by recipients under enemy DPS fire.

There seems to be no such thing as outhealing one’s mistakes—unlike in Rivals—so I’ve adopted a really aggressive playstyle with the likes of Juno, Kiriko, and Mizuki, where I play for picks and only heal when necessary.

The question is, just how aggressive should I be? There are many situations where I’m torn between healing and doing damage, like when I interfere with DPS duels. I could heal, which is guaranteed value, or I could just shoot the enemy, but I might miss and turn a winning fight into a 1-for-1 trade. I also had a recent game where, as Mizuki, I held an off-angle for quite some time, managing to fend Genji and Anran off alone. However, this left my teammates in main with 1 Moira support, and I was torn between returning to my team and denying the enemy dpses.

What should a good support be doing in such situations?

I know it's probably a simple question, but as someone who started playing about 2 days ago (I know, not alot of time), I'm just absolutely lost!

I see the other supports in my games rushing off, not really focused on staying with the team. Is that what you are supposed to be doing? I feel like when that happens I'm stuck running to each teammate, making sure they don't die. And when I do try to look for kills or just to do some damage, I explode immediately.

The supports that I play are Mercy, Lifeweaver, and Doctrine. Are there any beginner friendly supports to help me understand how the role works? I feel like every match I've just been a punching bag for the enemy team, or a healbot.