r/OverwatchUniversity

I’m just not sure what I’m doing wrong. For background, the only shooter I’ve played before OW is Rivals, been playing since it was first released, and I have a lot of fun playing that most days. And I feel like I’m decent in the heroes I play. I play exclusively quick match and intend to follow that pattern for this game also. I was expecting the experience to be similar to Rivals and I was wrong.

two weeks into playing and I can tell I’m missing something, but idk what. No matter who I play, I’m doing almost no damage but if something so much as stares at me I am down(less so for tanks) that’s mostly what my matches have been, make my way over to point or my team, die almost immediately, repeat. Games are usually pretty one sided. I’m not expecting to be cracked or anything but I do want to be competent enough to not be outright throwing, if that makes sense.

That said I’d hate to just drop the game so soon, because I do understand the appeal. I guess I’m curious if this is normal when you start out and how does one make it past the hump? The answer is probably git gud lol.

Also probably worth mentioning that I’ve only played standard mode, would stadium mode be better for a casual player?

Any help would be welcome, thanks.

I started playing this game towards the end of season 9 of Overwatch 2. Right before Venture came out. I’ve been hooked ever since. It’s the only game I play and I play everyday. The issue in having is despite having this many hours in the game, I am high silver on DPS and support, and high gold on tank.

I’m just… disheartened. It feels like everything I do is wrong. Try to take high ground? Sniped. Dove by a dive tank/flanker etc. Try to take an off angle? Deleted. I love this game so much, and I try to watch education content to genuinely learn from it, but I’m still stuck in the same place I was a year ago.

If you have any advice or even just words of encouragement I’d greatly appreciate it.

So I picked up overwatch a few weeks ago and I think the game is awesome - I’m a much bigger fan of it than marvel rivals (I now realize how stupid support ult immortality trading was). That being said, I’m equally awful at all roles - I’m like hard stuck silver 4-5 in dps, support, and tank. I do well in quick play (I used to try and get reps in there) but it doesn’t translate at all to ranked and I’m kinda shocked because a year back I was plat 2 in marvel rivals (I know it’s a newer game so it was easier to climb but still I didn’t expect to be almost bronze in this one). For whatever reason my aim is only “good” on Emre (I’m kinda bored of his kit and could probably climb a bit higher) and when I switch to other hit scan, I can’t hit anything at all. Flankers I do well in quick play then in ranked I’m just dying nonstop. Tanks: Domina and Junker Queen (aim is good) but I’m not in love with their kits - I think hazard is super cool but I’m garbage with him. Then on support I like Illari and Kiriko (I can’t hit kunai for my life tho) but I’m still losing despite thinking I’m playing well so it must be that my numbers aren’t good enough idk. In any case, any advice for how to approach this game and get better? Or to better understand why my aim can be significantly better on Emre then I play Ashe and miss everything? Anyways,

Thanks!

I play a lot of Soldier 76, Ashe, and Sojourn and one thing I'm always doing is trying to take off-angles to surprise the enemy. but sometimes the enemy is n a comp where every angle is contested or they send someone after me the minute I show myself. I usually end up playing really close to my team and feel my value goes down. but that's better than dying, right?

For some quick context as to why i sound so full of myself here, im a dps one trick who constantly gets banned so i have an array of alt accounts.

For the last 5-6 seasons i have been masters on all of my accounts but as of this season i feel like im falling off? I can barely hold diamond these days but the way i play has only improved..?

As much as id like to blame consistency im still spending hours on the game daily, i still know who i can take duels with and im taking the same angles i always have but it feels like somethings missing, like i have forgotten a piece of the puzzle and im only one step away from being able to be as high ranked as i was. i’m not even saying i was masters 5, i was consistently masters 1-2 even hitting gm a few times so im sure you can understand why im so confused as to why im struggling in diamond games?

Hey all, pretty new to Overwatch and I’ve been maining Roadhog lately.

I feel like I take a ton of pressure off my team since the enemies tend to focus me and burn abilities trying to bring me down.

The problem: I keep getting chat complaints that I’m “feeding.” This confuses me because I actually don’t die very much.

I did some research and I think people mean that by standing out in the open and eating damage, I’m giving the enemy team a bunch of ult charge? So they end up with ults faster than us and snowball fights? Therefore, I am apparently still “feeding” the enemy team ult charge, even if I am not dying.

If that’s what feeding means, my question is, wouldn’t it roughly even out? My supports are healing me through all that damage, which gives them ult charge too. I’m generating my own ult charge from the damage I’m doing, from tanking hits, and from self-healing with Take a Breather. So is it actually a net loss?

Can someone break down what “feeding” actually means in Overwatch and any best practices to avoid it while still playing the frontline tank role.

Thanks in advance, trying to improve!

Yeah, I know it's just a game and just pixels on a screen, but I love this game and I love playing it. I'm a DPS player, I recently got to M2, and I think I'm doing okay, but I know I'm making mistakes here and there; otherwise, I'd be higher. Basically, when I want to play DPS and rank up even higher, I get really nervous for some reason. Even though I seem to have everything I need to climb: the right mindset, enough time, a good hero pool (Ashe and Emre have been enough for now, with other hitscans as needed), and a stable win rate of around 60%, which I've maintained since the previous season and M4. And this nervousness and fear that comes from nowhere really interferes with my ability to feel good while playing. But I still play because I dream of playing well and reaching a high rank. I don't know how to deal with it. Has anyone else experienced something similar?

(I apologize for any errors in the text, english is not my native language)

I have a soilder friend whom i always told not to shoot reins shield cause its feeding his ult. It was a problem then. But recently i started playing soldier myself and havent noticed rein having ult every 15 seconds.

So how bat it is? Im not aware what are charge rates now or ever - I rerely see a rein that will allow shield to actualy deplete, but it puts pressure on him to not advance

I’m a bronze 3 soj main. I know my mechanics aren’t the best but I just had a match where I was trying to put pressure on the back line and doing what I thought was a good job of it. We barely missed getting the cart to point on Hollywood when my whole team started telling me I was the reason we were losing. At this point I was 6-6 with 5k damage so I was definitely putting pressure on them even if my KD didn’t show it. Was I really hurting my team that much? Second round I don’t think I really changed that much but was able to clean up more kills and get a 10k streak and we won. No apologies from my team of course. I know chat is toxic but I do like to communicate and my kid broke my headset. When I watched it back I felt like I was doing a decent job providing value with both my kit and pressure the whole time but there were some poor plays as far as pushing too hard or not realizing I was alone. Was I really the reason we came up short the first round?

Dumpsterfire, PC, Sojourn, Hollywood Hybrid, bronze 3, JKNY89

I’ve been playing mostly hitscan because I miss my projectile shots so often. I really enjoy Sojourn but I can’t hit anything with her primary or secondary fire. But with Sierra, I’m sniping with both. On PC.

Side note: with Sojourn whenever I’m about to use my sniper shot, my hand does this weird little jerk motion like every time. Very annoying, dunno why.

Hi, I'm a silver player across all roles and need some advice, I get tilted a LOT, and that effects my gameplay heavily which causes me to get into a bad mindset, and lose the game which gets me even more tilted, I need some tips to start learning to ignore the bad plays that happened and focused on my own gameplay.

Some background on me, I am a GM/champ DPS main on PC, but I've hit GM on all roles. I had surgery this year and as a result have not played as much comp as I would've liked, so I've taken an interest in coaching and vod reviews. I've also felt I've been able to improve my own understanding of the game through reviewing others.

I'm offering to vod review and have small coaching sessions with anyone in any rank. I don't have much experience coaching but I have been able to coach my friend from 6 years hard stuck bronze to plat, as well as small vod reviews for diamond-masters players. I believe I'll be able to help you most on DPS since it is my main role, and I won't be able to give much hero specific advice for the other roles.

So, I've been on a bit of a losing streak in plat. I've been keeping my cool, trying to get teammates to group up, watching my positioning, always thinking about what I could have done better - that kinda thing!

However, I've noticed that in a lot of these losses, I've been paired with supports who pick low/trickle/AoE healers like Brig/Lucio/Mizuki together. Usually I'll ask if one of them can switch to another higher HPS support, but I'll get ignored.

That's fine! I'll just play around it. More safe, hug corners, right?

Buuut, I learned that only goes so far. When I get chunked, it's like slapping band-aids onto an open wound. I can't hold the frontline and I'm oftentimes forced to give up tons of space under pressure. It usually leads into a steamroll from the other team with their tank being pocket healed.

Long-winded explanation aside, what should I be looking to do in this scenario? DPS aren't getting picks, trickle-healers who seem to be absentminded, and a pocketed enemy tank plowing through the ranks? I usually play Orisa/Rein/Mauga.

The only thing I can think is switch to a dive tank and pray that I can distract their backline and not instantly get blown up.

Hi, I’m a support main who sits around Gold 3, so I’m still not great with the game. Problem is, the only I can actually do well with is Zen and sometimes Illari. I’m trying to learn Kiriko but I’m getting wiped in all my game until I inevitably switch, and then do really well with Zen.

How do I become more versatile between the characters? Is Zen just a very specific playstyle?

I’m not even going to rant about my frustration and annoyance with Overwatch adding a character with an auto aim ability and a spammy gun with projectiles.

Im just going to ask how I can protect myself against her especially when she’s targeting me in a game. I’ve been dying to her a lot lately. All she seems to do is lock onto me with her auto aim and even if I try to duck behind cover im dead.

At least once a day, there will be someone opening match chat to whine about something that didn’t go their way within the first 30 seconds (usually blaming the tank for everything), followed by them throwing the match by either giving up or spending too much time typing (on console).

Even when the team is otherwise doing great and getting a good push off, it’s always one guy who starts whining and then that tilt causes them to visibly & noticeably start performing worse. They tear the whole team down and next thing you know, nobody even cares to win anymore because it would help THAT guy.

What can even be done? I deal with this so often in my gold DPS lobbies that it’s literally a 50:50 chance of someone crying to match chat or straight up leaving altogether; I don’t see it anywhere near as often in my plat+ games (or wide matches played w my friends).

It’s just so aggravating because we’ll literally be winning till someone wants to tear the team apart. Sure is funny how it’s always the guy with the lowest heals, assists, etc.

So basicaly i am a gold player who mains Lucio and i started to learn him a couple weeks ago, something i have noticed is that my players dont seem to use my speed.

There are many fights where for example the tank gets low and its going to die and i usualy speed boost in order to get them out but like 9/10 times they just stand their ground and die a couple moments later and then i die to because i went to help the tank and i cant escape.

Other times for example i see that the enemy has like 3 players on low health and i speed boost and rush in in order to kill them but my team usualy just stays behind and i die after killing one or without killing anyone.

There are also times when we for example get caught in a orisa ult and i speed boost and go foward towards the enemie team because i feel that its the best choice * but most people just fall back and die later because they got caught in the ult and yea once more i have no value.

So what are some ways i can get my team to use my speed, i am always playing attention to my team and i do a good job peeling and holding highground (although most of my team dont use it) but speed is the one thing i dont know how to use properly.

Could you guys give me any tips ? If needed i can also provide a replay later i am sure its my fault too why my speed isnt that useful

*About this something i have noticed is that orisas usualy overextend or simply forget about their backline when using their ult and leave their backline opened, i feel like its more useful to have your full team rush towards the enemie team backline since orisa ult is already going to do little damage because of my speed. Is this stupid ? Am i a idiot ?

For context, I've gotten to diamond on DPS roll queue and on 6v6 open, and most seasons I'll place high plat and level out in diamond. But recently I've been queueing with some friends and ended up in silver/gold after placements and even in solo games, they are FAR harder than anything I see in plat or diamond. I can have games where I go 50+ kills, focusing their healers and tanks all game and we still lose. If its not my own teammates struggling, its the enemy team being carried by one player thats clearly just pissing about in silver on an alt account. I've never had less fun in this game than I've had in the metal ranks.

As an OG OW1 player I hated OW2 because most of the things promised never happened and it was during the downfall of Blizzard before Microsoft.

Recently I keep seeing creators play OW and streamers saying the game is better now. Can someone explain to me why it's better?

Or is it that people who never hated the game are just glazing it?

So I’ve been playing Ana since ow1. Back in the day the most challenging heroes to play against was genji and tracer for the obvious reasons. Back then you’d practice landing sleepdarts on a blinking tracer and ulting genji.

In lower elos (diamond and below) a flanking Moira and sombra are also viable counters and threats.

… then they added Aran and vendetta who all have some form of fast dash / dive ability, absolutely annoying to play against especially in low elo when you do not get as much peele as in higher ranked games.

And now with sierra, if you happen to be on high ground and don’t have a viable cover, as in cover that allows you to retreat to a closed space (like a tunnel), you’re simply not winning this 1v1 as she can use the anchor, get a better angle on you and they simply don’t even need to track you that much due to their right click ability.

In my opinion currently, there’s just too many dps heroes that counter Ana and makes her unfun to play especially in lower elo games. I might have to move on from her and focus more on kiri and Juno. Anyone else feel this way or is this a skill issue on my side?

Edit: I’m plat 3, have been in middle to high plat for the last few seasons. Even in plat, you simply can’t rely on players consistently peeling for you.