The elephant in the room that went unmentioned... In order to practice, you need to actually practice. You need a routine, you need to dedicate time to it, you need clear objectives for each session, what drills are going into it, you need to write these things down, record objective metrics, review that data... "I warm up for 15 minutes shooting bots before I jump into comp." is a weak concept of practice. In addition to "knowing what your goal looks like," you also need to know what proper practice should look like to get you there. Maybe there's value in you or someone else actually streaming a practice session. It's not the type of content people normally want to watch, but hey, this is a unique channel already...
@@seanbryant3185 Bull. All need is to know what you do wrong. Play games and do it. Ive learned many things. No routines, drills, or any other bullshit is required. All that shit are just excuses for not focusing on the thing you need to learn and actually just learning it.
Yes. If you are missing for any reason it's a bad habit. Practice how you mean to play. Do not under any circumstances "fire" the gun unless you know your cursor is over somoenes head. Do this. Your mechanical skill will improve to above average in hours. People just practice wrong and think they can get good at something by doing it wrong a lot. Missing is bad. Under no circumstances should you be missing a single shot when trying to improve your aim. You are going to have to admit to yourself without good aim you won't be getting kills.
I know this doesnt have too many views or likes but damn skyline we need you back with this kinda content. This is top tier and Im sure if your channel wasnt about gaming then this wouldve been so much more popular. That doesnt mean I dont like it being with/about gaming but it means that this is some sound life advice which is simply undervalued in our circles. I always come back to those few vidoes of yours every few month and rewatch them to remind me what I gotta do in life and they really helped. I hope you´ll be back soon
These last two videos have been the most helpful. I haven't even started working towards my goals again, but I can already start applying them and they have changed my viewpoint, really great work
Dude you dont have idea how much you help with this video. Is kind of sad saying it loud, but my mistake was that i dont have any goals in life in general. Then anything is enough. Thank you so much!
You are an actual genius. I don't know what inspired you to share all of this incredibly useful advice about minset towards learning. I'm at a critical point in my life coming out of college and I'm coincidentally trying to create a game too and simultaniously become higher rank in the games I enjoy. So far, you've had more success than me at both, but I'm so incredibly thankful for you explaining all of this mentality stuff so clearly because I'm listening and absorbing all of it and it's legitimately going to make my life so much better, more efficient, and successful. Thank you so much, if you ever feel a desire to share more of your theories/mindset advice please do, im sure im not the only one who finds this stuff incredibly helpful.
Wish i had this video before i stopped playing overwatch. The last video got me very retrospective on my ana play and was still fresh in my mind. And relating it to other skills was inspiring so thanks
There is also a case of not getting anything because you didn't put enough hours into practice. Sometimes you're learning a skill then you think you've learned it but you just don't apply it into an actual game because the skill isn't into your habit yet. May help to someone...
Or the case of where you put so many hours into bad practice and they're so ingrained in you and can't get rid of them without a massive amount of effort.
Or sometimes you need to put more time into the game. I started OW as a gold player and climbed to mid diamond. Of course it gets harder and more competitive but I still managed to win around 200 SR every season. Then season was over and ranking started and I got ranked 200 SR less than last season. Didn't matter if I had good or bad ranking games. Always 200 SR. And it took me a whole season to get these 200 SR. This happened 4 seasons in a row. I could however not invest more time and was caught in this loop. So I stopped playing OW competitively. I had the confidence, the experience and the skill/preparation but in the end it was Blizzards SR system and my conclusion not to spend more time what made me quit. (Of course, losing a casual 75 SR because of random connection problems or bluescreens didn't help either)
The depth of that Portal FPS was distracting haha. It has so much tech. The double wall jump was cool. Using an anchor portal to hit rewind and try a play over but with scouting now. The cross room portal for peeking the whole door.
Glad you are back Skyline! Your videos has helped me alot during my path in esports, listened alot during overwatch and i can apply it all in Fortnite where i play professionally today!
Once in a while, UA-cam gets it right. No idea who you are, but I'm loving the videos and appreciate the value they bring. Glad you're back from wrangling space elephants or whatever.
"It's not talent. Anybody can get top 1% in a week or two. Just follow these simple steps." ... "If your vision for what you needed to do was wrong, maybe you don't have a knack for it." Look, put in enough time and effort and you can become better at a game. Much better. Much much better. Whether you become better fast than the playerbase as a whole? That's in no way guaranteed. If you are the kind of person who can literally make top 1% in a game in a week? You have a knack for it. That IS a talent. Telling people that they are guaranteed to make top 1% by just putting a week's worth of the right kind of effort? That seems like a message tailor made to increase the negative feelings of the people who don't succeed.
I've been playing competitive online games like Starcraft, Quake 2, and WCIII ever since I was twelve. It's what I did all day, every day, whenever I wasn't in school and my parents didn't make me do something else for many years. Most people don't have that sort of background and shouldn't expect the exact same results as me for the reason alone. As I said in the video, a lot of execution falls on practice and experience, of which I have probably exponentially more of both than the average online gamer (not because of any amazing quality, but just because I choose to not have friends as a kid and sit in front of a PC all day.) I don't think it comes down to talent. So, with that in mind, people shouldn't look emulate my exact speed and results, but they can definitely emulate the mindset and process. A normal Silver Overwatch player won't be able to hit Top 500 in a month, but with the right techniques they can hit Diamond or Masters which is way better progress than most people ever see. I just know that if I knew the techniques and practices that I use now for how to approach learning new problems, I'd probably have saved at least 5 years worth of time grinding that knowledge myself. I probably should have made this particular point clearer. As for the comment in question, the point was that if you go at something for a week and still can't figure out what's wrong, yes you COULD grind it out like I learned how to do but it's probably a good time to get another pair of eyes on it for time-efficiency sake. Thank you for your feedback! as I'm sure you aren't the only person with these thoughts after watching the video.
Look, I don’t want to diminish what you are saying. If people want to get better, they have to do the work. Whatever “talent” is, it’s not a substitute for the exercise of development. But, it would have been more accurate in the first video to say, if you want to quickly be top 1% in one FPS game, start out by already being top 1% in another FPS game. In other words, it didn’t take you a week to get top 1%, it’s taken you your whole life. And that isn’t something people can replicate in a week or a month. You also implied anyone could learn to code in no time at all as well. Not sure how much actually coding experience you have, but that is a dubious claim. And that’s something I have way more experience with.
If you did a third video in this series I would suggest a focus on willpower. This is a huge topic that I think more than depressives struggle with because of circumstances if the modern condition, but as someone who grew up fatherless I had to learn and develop alone in many areas of life and the one thing that taught me willpower as a skill I could relate to other areas in life was sort of surprising, NoFap, jacking off takes time, even in the most efficient situation you get horny and distracted, tug one out after 10 minutes of browsing for some good shit then you have this reprisal period where intense concentration isn't happening, you are breaking up your day and motivation and mental direction at least and when you get past the jonesing phase in nofap you've got more drive and energy because the only serotonin button you can press that isn't food or sleep is achievement, work out, resist urges, eat right and on time, everything can get to giving you a little hit of feel good juice when you aren't manipulating your reward pathing.
Ive gone from gold season 2 to gm, however i was more interested in team play and oh boy is that 10 times harder to learn, learning how to get people on the same page, commeing, playing for the team not just solo value, its very hard and i find most people even in 4.4 dont understand it, i know i still have a long way to go but yeah sometimes it just comes down to a teammate not knowing how to play with a team
thats what a coach is for . its different for every team. you can always play around your solo play makers rather then forcing them to conform when its not their style
Your videos are great. These videos help so much so thank you for making them. I have another question though. How do you know what you're supposed to be doing? You can look at successful people all you want, but how do you know which things they are doing are important and which aren't? How do you take things in a specific context and apply them in a general sense? How do you even know what to be looking for? Sometimes you can't even notice something critical somebody does because you're not skilled enough to even realize it's a problem. I don't know if it's purely a problem I have or if other people have it, but I haven't seen anyone address it. I have no clue how to look at something somebody else does and apply it to myself.
Most of my problems come from my pc just having trouble running the game and frequency of smurfers and weird shit like 1 trick winstons against bastions, which I saw the other day we asked him to switch multiple times. Also if someone has like way better ping than me, like my ping isn't the worst but it's not great. I wish there were more graphics settings so my pc can get consistent 60 instead of consistent 45 and spikes of 60. And I've fallen a lot during this event like 300 sr? I feel like the lack of decay in all ranks really effects the players that actually play the game like me, cause all the people "with lives" as they call it suddenly just go into comp with little practice and understanding of the game balance counters and such.
Hey Skyline, glad to see you back on UA-cam! Clearly you've been working a lot this last year so I was wondering what you'd think about this. Basically I have always been good at getting myself to do things, perservering through short term discomfort for long term gain and all that stuff, but I have for the longest time struggled with putting too much work into something to the point where I would get really tired and wouldn't be able to focus as well so the work itself becomes less efficient. What are your experiences with that and how have you dealt with that kind of thing? At least apart from the basic stuff like keeping on top of your health, taking breaks etc.
Sky I have a more personal issue with climbing but its not like im low rank. I wanna be higher rank and better but i am already high. Im gm and i peaked at 4400, its my 4th season on pc but i still feel like i have to get better but consistency is my issue. I cant aim somedays but idk how to help myself better
Hey Sky, relatively new but I absolutely love the message you're spreading. I am like this in person but I personally never realized I could apply this to video games too. For me I really struggle with playing and not tilting. Any suggestions?
What would be your response if someone said that they can't grind competitive because it's frustrates them/tilts them hard/is exhausting? Probably just stop playing because you obviously don't enjoy the game?
Question: if I have a 60% win/rate on Lucio but can’t climb. Should I just play more characters? I mainly play Lucio for his defensive ult. Plenty of times we don’t have a defensive ult on the team to counter grav or genji blade. I feel like Lucio requires way too much coordination. His speed just recently got nerfed, but when it was faster it was mainly to speed to a target/location or to disingage. So essentially speed was just to enable other players to perform an action. But if there’s no coordination then that utility is useless. Lucio feels like one of the characters that requires a lot of communication. And Lucio don’t do a lot of damage so I find that teams have a hard time killing a road hog or an Irisa. Then swapping to Zen would be better. You can discord and put out good damage but you lose out on heals.
Is that 60% number from your in-game profile? If so, then are you playing enough? Even with a 60% wr you need to play a substantial amount per season to see significant gains in SR. If you are truly on average winning 6/10 games like you said, then there is no logical way for you to not climb unless you don't play enough.
What I've been asking myself since your last video: since a few days before you're video was uploaded I stood before the decision whether I want do learn SF V or go to tryhard on Overwatch and try to improve there. So since I stood before the decision I was somewhat also considering try to do both... Since your last video I decided which path to take tho: tldr: Do you think that it could be possible / is a viable way to keep on trying in both / have you done so yourself?
I think you can definitely do both, but just one at a time seriously. So you can dedicate however many months to Overwatch, try to hit a goal there, then go try to advance in Street Fighter. You can play both at the same time, but actually improving and stretching your skills in both at the same time is quite difficult, especially because they are completely different types of games.
@@Skyline_OW oh and another one: talking overwatch as an example again: you said in the beginning you we're almost only playing widow. I am thinking about this way of playing often though I then think like e.g. I wanna get to masters with mccree that there just are situations where others heroes would've been a way better choice. Did you even then stick to the hero you wanted to practice?
Quick bit on hyping yourself. There's research somewhere that shows that it's far more effective to refer to yourself in the third person. Instead of "I'm ready!", it's "You're read" or "you got this" or "you've been doing well in your practice"
Up until 6:37 I think this is a very valuable video afterwards, I would skip it as I feel he speaks less well/perhaps less from experience there on in.
discord.gg/2e7kKd9 Hi I'm in this discord and while we don't have free one-on-one coaching, there are coached pug games every week and you can post videos of your gameplay at any time for people to review. The discord holder also has a really great educational ow yt channel if you'd like to check it out too. Hope this helped!
Yeah pretty hard to practice when you have a team of derps getting themselves cut down faster than 3 healers can heal them for. Focus on your own personal stats, but winrate on overwatch is a team effort. So when you play with legit low skilled players, one can be made to do the worn thing, that happens to work at lower levels. Like you can have a great Zen and Ana on your team, but if the DPS is bad enough, those two will NOT be able to heal as much as the team will need to win. If you swap to Mercy and Moria, now you are healing a ton but practicing the wrong skills that will be relevant at higher level play. It is REALLY important to point out that is many cases, you are going to lose because your team is so bad that unless you are Seagull level good, you can not make up for it. Most of us aren't Seagull clearly. Legit not everyone can make it to even Plat, most of the player base is gold and below.
Derp ToTheMax you're making so many excuses, and that's why you aren't getting better. I can promise you if you sent a vod in, people could pick it apart with mistakes you made. Why don't OWL players struggle to climb? People get Top 500 playing support only, all the time.
Derp ToTheMax you sound like the classic plat player, bringing up moira and mercy ( she doesn't do much healing btw) but half the time you don't need more healing. Ana is more healing than anyone and has the most powerful ult in the game arguably. ML7 has no issues carrying plat and diamond games as ana, instead of trying to do "moar healing 4head" he will flank and land a huge anti-nade and start dpsing and healing simultaneously. It's not your teams fault that you don't know how to carry as support.
@@seanbryant3185 if I send in a VOD of me playing, pros could pick apart my plays? Ya don't say... The overwhelming majority of the player base in a given game will spend the majority of their time losing at any given time. This isn't a game that 1 healer main can carry 5 other players. 100% *perfect* heals will not make up for the poor choices that other players make in their game. Meaning even a skilled player that makes 75% perfect plays has very little chance to do so.
@@seanbryant3185 you sound like the classic sub masters that thinks they can parrot what the pros do while going for some cheap ad home to win an argument. I brought facts to the table. Actual data. GGEZ
Second note, owl players have thousands of hours playing overwatch to learn, and 90% have thousands of hours doing that in other games, maybe for up to 10 years, they have wayyy more experience in everything, watching them might not help you improve lmao
I think that's precisely why it will help. They have the experience with the habits and mindset that it brings. Of course you won't notice everything and if you're not paying attention or thinking about what they do differently it won't help much. If you really pay attention though, there is a gold mine full of valuable information. I have improved a lot in different games and real life skills by mimicking masters. I have not gotten to their level, but in many situations I've elevated my own level more than I thought I would.
This was a lousy game to put with this video. It grabbed all of my attention trying to keep track of what the hell is going on, that I stopped listening. I had to start the video over, and not watch the gameplay. ;)
You keep missing the point, you think everybody can get better with the right mindset and effort. People are born different, people like me (I'm not ashamed of it) struggle with picking up new information and using said information into practice. We have a extremely low skill ceiling. It's a harsh truth. I do agree it's not easy being critical of your own game, I'll actually ask a friend to observe my game. : )
Glad you're back Sky. You've once again outdone yourself with this amazing video. Great advices to apply in-game scenarios as well as in real life
I went there to know how to get better at Overwatch, and then I had to reconsider my entire life.
The elephant in the room that went unmentioned...
In order to practice, you need to actually practice. You need a routine, you need to dedicate time to it, you need clear objectives for each session, what drills are going into it, you need to write these things down, record objective metrics, review that data...
"I warm up for 15 minutes shooting bots before I jump into comp." is a weak concept of practice.
In addition to "knowing what your goal looks like," you also need to know what proper practice should look like to get you there.
Maybe there's value in you or someone else actually streaming a practice session. It's not the type of content people normally want to watch, but hey, this is a unique channel already...
TrojanManSCP warming up on bots is just that, warming up. It's not even practice. Practice and warming up are 2 very different things.
@@seanbryant3185 Bull. All need is to know what you do wrong. Play games and do it. Ive learned many things. No routines, drills, or any other bullshit is required. All that shit are just excuses for not focusing on the thing you need to learn and actually just learning it.
@@wylie2835 Boi cant wait for any mechanical skill to improve relatively fast without any practice. Just gotta know to clim dem heads lol.
Yes. If you are missing for any reason it's a bad habit. Practice how you mean to play. Do not under any circumstances "fire" the gun unless you know your cursor is over somoenes head.
Do this. Your mechanical skill will improve to above average in hours.
People just practice wrong and think they can get good at something by doing it wrong a lot. Missing is bad. Under no circumstances should you be missing a single shot when trying to improve your aim. You are going to have to admit to yourself without good aim you won't be getting kills.
Liked how emotional the ending got
Your closing point, about not making yourself feel worthless over the accomplishments of others, was really touching. Thank you.
So glad you're back. Good thing i turned on notifications
I know this doesnt have too many views or likes but damn skyline we need you back with this kinda content. This is top tier and Im sure if your channel wasnt about gaming then this wouldve been so much more popular. That doesnt mean I dont like it being with/about gaming but it means that this is some sound life advice which is simply undervalued in our circles. I always come back to those few vidoes of yours every few month and rewatch them to remind me what I gotta do in life and they really helped. I hope you´ll be back soon
These last two videos have been the most helpful. I haven't even started working towards my goals again, but I can already start applying them and they have changed my viewpoint, really great work
Thanks for these videos. I have never heard these tips in this kind of light. Thanks for putting it out there so we can all benefit from it.
Dude you dont have idea how much you help with this video. Is kind of sad saying it loud, but my mistake was that i dont have any goals in life in general. Then anything is enough. Thank you so much!
Same for me
I don't know what goals to set
You are an actual genius. I don't know what inspired you to share all of this incredibly useful advice about minset towards learning. I'm at a critical point in my life coming out of college and I'm coincidentally trying to create a game too and simultaniously become higher rank in the games I enjoy. So far, you've had more success than me at both, but I'm so incredibly thankful for you explaining all of this mentality stuff so clearly because I'm listening and absorbing all of it and it's legitimately going to make my life so much better, more efficient, and successful.
Thank you so much, if you ever feel a desire to share more of your theories/mindset advice please do, im sure im not the only one who finds this stuff incredibly helpful.
My same feelings man
This kid is special
I find it awesome how such a nice gaming content creator is now giving relationship advice that many people could use just on the side :D
Wish i had this video before i stopped playing overwatch. The last video got me very retrospective on my ana play and was still fresh in my mind. And relating it to other skills was inspiring so thanks
Damn you're hitting those feels, amazing video, especially the ending. Such good advice here, thanks man
God I love the direction this channel is going
There is also a case of not getting anything because you didn't put enough hours into practice. Sometimes you're learning a skill then you think you've learned it but you just don't apply it into an actual game because the skill isn't into your habit yet. May help to someone...
I need to play more ranked on ow
Or the case of where you put so many hours into bad practice and they're so ingrained in you and can't get rid of them without a massive amount of effort.
The last 5 minutes of the video were amazing. Thank you for your kind words, Sky.
I'm 32 and this is extremely helpful ... glad you're out here making these videos, I imagine this can be even more helpful for your younger audience.
In the end everything suddenly became pretty wholesome. r/wholesome
Or sometimes you need to put more time into the game. I started OW as a gold player and climbed to mid diamond. Of course it gets harder and more competitive but I still managed to win around 200 SR every season. Then season was over and ranking started and I got ranked 200 SR less than last season. Didn't matter if I had good or bad ranking games. Always 200 SR. And it took me a whole season to get these 200 SR. This happened 4 seasons in a row. I could however not invest more time and was caught in this loop. So I stopped playing OW competitively. I had the confidence, the experience and the skill/preparation but in the end it was Blizzards SR system and my conclusion not to spend more time what made me quit. (Of course, losing a casual 75 SR because of random connection problems or bluescreens didn't help either)
I didn't plan on crying today.
channel revival only this time its life coaching not just videogame coaching
The depth of that Portal FPS was distracting haha. It has so much tech. The double wall jump was cool. Using an anchor portal to hit rewind and try a play over but with scouting now. The cross room portal for peeking the whole door.
Index its called splitgate arena warfare, its f2p
These vids are the most inspiring shit Ive seen in years! :D
Glad you are back Skyline! Your videos has helped me alot during my path in esports, listened alot during overwatch and i can apply it all in Fortnite where i play professionally today!
These videos are great insight, more helpful than the rank up tricks people have been posting for the past 3 years.
Once in a while, UA-cam gets it right. No idea who you are, but I'm loving the videos and appreciate the value they bring. Glad you're back from wrangling space elephants or whatever.
I'd like to say something because I find it interesting but I don't know what to say. But welcome! you'll enjoy the stay.
skyline, you should change the description of the videos to life pro tips =)
Really great fresh perspective!
You are one of the only youtubers where I actually turn the notifications on
This is why I kept the notifications on, even during your year-long absence!
more people need to hear ur shit dude. Ur actually brilliant.
So glad you're back Sky!
Always have the best advice. Glad your back
"It's not talent. Anybody can get top 1% in a week or two. Just follow these simple steps."
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"If your vision for what you needed to do was wrong, maybe you don't have a knack for it."
Look, put in enough time and effort and you can become better at a game. Much better. Much much better. Whether you become better fast than the playerbase as a whole? That's in no way guaranteed.
If you are the kind of person who can literally make top 1% in a game in a week? You have a knack for it. That IS a talent. Telling people that they are guaranteed to make top 1% by just putting a week's worth of the right kind of effort? That seems like a message tailor made to increase the negative feelings of the people who don't succeed.
I've been playing competitive online games like Starcraft, Quake 2, and WCIII ever since I was twelve. It's what I did all day, every day, whenever I wasn't in school and my parents didn't make me do something else for many years. Most people don't have that sort of background and shouldn't expect the exact same results as me for the reason alone. As I said in the video, a lot of execution falls on practice and experience, of which I have probably exponentially more of both than the average online gamer (not because of any amazing quality, but just because I choose to not have friends as a kid and sit in front of a PC all day.) I don't think it comes down to talent. So, with that in mind, people shouldn't look emulate my exact speed and results, but they can definitely emulate the mindset and process. A normal Silver Overwatch player won't be able to hit Top 500 in a month, but with the right techniques they can hit Diamond or Masters which is way better progress than most people ever see. I just know that if I knew the techniques and practices that I use now for how to approach learning new problems, I'd probably have saved at least 5 years worth of time grinding that knowledge myself. I probably should have made this particular point clearer. As for the comment in question, the point was that if you go at something for a week and still can't figure out what's wrong, yes you COULD grind it out like I learned how to do but it's probably a good time to get another pair of eyes on it for time-efficiency sake.
Thank you for your feedback! as I'm sure you aren't the only person with these thoughts after watching the video.
Look, I don’t want to diminish what you are saying. If people want to get better, they have to do the work. Whatever “talent” is, it’s not a substitute for the exercise of development.
But, it would have been more accurate in the first video to say, if you want to quickly be top 1% in one FPS game, start out by already being top 1% in another FPS game. In other words, it didn’t take you a week to get top 1%, it’s taken you your whole life. And that isn’t something people can replicate in a week or a month.
You also implied anyone could learn to code in no time at all as well. Not sure how much actually coding experience you have, but that is a dubious claim. And that’s something I have way more experience with.
What an awesome video. Great talk as always, really appreciate the upload.
"or a relationship" PepeHands
If you did a third video in this series I would suggest a focus on willpower.
This is a huge topic that I think more than depressives struggle with because of circumstances if the modern condition, but as someone who grew up fatherless I had to learn and develop alone in many areas of life and the one thing that taught me willpower as a skill I could relate to other areas in life was sort of surprising, NoFap, jacking off takes time, even in the most efficient situation you get horny and distracted, tug one out after 10 minutes of browsing for some good shit then you have this reprisal period where intense concentration isn't happening, you are breaking up your day and motivation and mental direction at least and when you get past the jonesing phase in nofap you've got more drive and energy because the only serotonin button you can press that isn't food or sleep is achievement, work out, resist urges, eat right and on time, everything can get to giving you a little hit of feel good juice when you aren't manipulating your reward pathing.
splitgate is such an underrated game :( it deserves way more then it has
Ive gone from gold season 2 to gm, however i was more interested in team play and oh boy is that 10 times harder to learn, learning how to get people on the same page, commeing, playing for the team not just solo value, its very hard and i find most people even in 4.4 dont understand it, i know i still have a long way to go but yeah sometimes it just comes down to a teammate not knowing how to play with a team
thats what a coach is for . its different for every team. you can always play around your solo play makers rather then forcing them to conform when its not their style
Your videos are great. These videos help so much so thank you for making them. I have another question though. How do you know what you're supposed to be doing? You can look at successful people all you want, but how do you know which things they are doing are important and which aren't? How do you take things in a specific context and apply them in a general sense? How do you even know what to be looking for? Sometimes you can't even notice something critical somebody does because you're not skilled enough to even realize it's a problem. I don't know if it's purely a problem I have or if other people have it, but I haven't seen anyone address it. I have no clue how to look at something somebody else does and apply it to myself.
Glad you're back :)
This video helped a lot
Please more content on HOW to practice, with some practical examples.
definitely something I want to cover in the future
Hey skyline welcome back and I'm loving these general videos thanks man good luck
Thank you.
Sky line please make a Overwatch Meta Analysis video for the current state of Ranked!
you're amazing.
Skyline is BACK BITCHEEEES !
Most of my problems come from my pc just having trouble running the game and frequency of smurfers and weird shit like 1 trick winstons against bastions, which I saw the other day we asked him to switch multiple times. Also if someone has like way better ping than me, like my ping isn't the worst but it's not great. I wish there were more graphics settings so my pc can get consistent 60 instead of consistent 45 and spikes of 60. And I've fallen a lot during this event like 300 sr? I feel like the lack of decay in all ranks really effects the players that actually play the game like me, cause all the people "with lives" as they call it suddenly just go into comp with little practice and understanding of the game balance counters and such.
Hey Skyline, glad to see you back on UA-cam!
Clearly you've been working a lot this last year so I was wondering what you'd think about this.
Basically I have always been good at getting myself to do things, perservering through short term discomfort for long term gain and all that stuff, but I have for the longest time struggled with putting too much work into something to the point where I would get really tired and wouldn't be able to focus as well so the work itself becomes less efficient.
What are your experiences with that and how have you dealt with that kind of thing? At least apart from the basic stuff like keeping on top of your health, taking breaks etc.
Wise speak
Sky I have a more personal issue with climbing but its not like im low rank. I wanna be higher rank and better but i am already high. Im gm and i peaked at 4400, its my 4th season on pc but i still feel like i have to get better but consistency is my issue. I cant aim somedays but idk how to help myself better
I love these....
Hey Sky, relatively new but I absolutely love the message you're spreading. I am like this in person but I personally never realized I could apply this to video games too. For me I really struggle with playing and not tilting. Any suggestions?
You kinda sound like fitzyhere xD
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Can you do a video on being a good coach or team captain
What would be your response if someone said that they can't grind competitive because it's frustrates them/tilts them hard/is exhausting? Probably just stop playing because you obviously don't enjoy the game?
Question: if I have a 60% win/rate on Lucio but can’t climb. Should I just play more characters? I mainly play Lucio for his defensive ult. Plenty of times we don’t have a defensive ult on the team to counter grav or genji blade. I feel like Lucio requires way too much coordination. His speed just recently got nerfed, but when it was faster it was mainly to speed to a target/location or to disingage. So essentially speed was just to enable other players to perform an action. But if there’s no coordination then that utility is useless. Lucio feels like one of the characters that requires a lot of communication. And Lucio don’t do a lot of damage so I find that teams have a hard time killing a road hog or an Irisa. Then swapping to Zen would be better. You can discord and put out good damage but you lose out on heals.
Is that 60% number from your in-game profile? If so, then are you playing enough? Even with a 60% wr you need to play a substantial amount per season to see significant gains in SR. If you are truly on average winning 6/10 games like you said, then there is no logical way for you to not climb unless you don't play enough.
Love you vro
What I've been asking myself since your last video: since a few days before you're video was uploaded I stood before the decision whether I want do learn SF V or go to tryhard on Overwatch and try to improve there. So since I stood before the decision I was somewhat also considering try to do both... Since your last video I decided which path to take tho:
tldr: Do you think that it could be possible / is a viable way to keep on trying in both / have you done so yourself?
I think you can definitely do both, but just one at a time seriously. So you can dedicate however many months to Overwatch, try to hit a goal there, then go try to advance in Street Fighter. You can play both at the same time, but actually improving and stretching your skills in both at the same time is quite difficult, especially because they are completely different types of games.
@@Skyline_OW oh and another one: talking overwatch as an example again: you said in the beginning you we're almost only playing widow. I am thinking about this way of playing often though I then think like e.g. I wanna get to masters with mccree that there just are situations where others heroes would've been a way better choice.
Did you even then stick to the hero you wanted to practice?
Can you touch up on fighting games more often?
Don't know if it helps check my play list
whats ur sens? i tried playing the game but the sens was soo different than what im used to in other fps games
Quick bit on hyping yourself. There's research somewhere that shows that it's far more effective to refer to yourself in the third person.
Instead of "I'm ready!", it's "You're read" or "you got this" or "you've been doing well in your practice"
Up until 6:37 I think this is a very valuable video afterwards, I would skip it as I feel he speaks less well/perhaps less from experience there on in.
Nice one Skyline (Y)
Could you give an example of a discord channel or something with free overwatch coaching?
discord.gg/2e7kKd9
Hi I'm in this discord and while we don't have free one-on-one coaching, there are coached pug games every week and you can post videos of your gameplay at any time for people to review. The discord holder also has a really great educational ow yt channel if you'd like to check it out too. Hope this helped!
You plan on playing halo when it comes out?
Edit: what’s your splitgate rank?
Before the reset a couple days ago I peaked at rank 24 skirmish, 18 FFA
Yeah pretty hard to practice when you have a team of derps getting themselves cut down faster than 3 healers can heal them for. Focus on your own personal stats, but winrate on overwatch is a team effort. So when you play with legit low skilled players, one can be made to do the worn thing, that happens to work at lower levels. Like you can have a great Zen and Ana on your team, but if the DPS is bad enough, those two will NOT be able to heal as much as the team will need to win. If you swap to Mercy and Moria, now you are healing a ton but practicing the wrong skills that will be relevant at higher level play. It is REALLY important to point out that is many cases, you are going to lose because your team is so bad that unless you are Seagull level good, you can not make up for it. Most of us aren't Seagull clearly. Legit not everyone can make it to even Plat, most of the player base is gold and below.
ua-cam.com/video/bOTpx5-MhPU/v-deo.html Skyline touches on some of what you're talking about here.
Derp ToTheMax you're making so many excuses, and that's why you aren't getting better. I can promise you if you sent a vod in, people could pick it apart with mistakes you made. Why don't OWL players struggle to climb? People get Top 500 playing support only, all the time.
Derp ToTheMax you sound like the classic plat player, bringing up moira and mercy ( she doesn't do much healing btw) but half the time you don't need more healing. Ana is more healing than anyone and has the most powerful ult in the game arguably. ML7 has no issues carrying plat and diamond games as ana, instead of trying to do "moar healing 4head" he will flank and land a huge anti-nade and start dpsing and healing simultaneously. It's not your teams fault that you don't know how to carry as support.
@@seanbryant3185 if I send in a VOD of me playing, pros could pick apart my plays? Ya don't say... The overwhelming majority of the player base in a given game will spend the majority of their time losing at any given time. This isn't a game that 1 healer main can carry 5 other players. 100% *perfect* heals will not make up for the poor choices that other players make in their game. Meaning even a skilled player that makes 75% perfect plays has very little chance to do so.
@@seanbryant3185 you sound like the classic sub masters that thinks they can parrot what the pros do while going for some cheap ad home to win an argument. I brought facts to the table. Actual data. GGEZ
can you try and dig deep on a specific problem someone has? one of your viewers
Second note, owl players have thousands of hours playing overwatch to learn, and 90% have thousands of hours doing that in other games, maybe for up to 10 years, they have wayyy more experience in everything, watching them might not help you improve lmao
I think that's precisely why it will help. They have the experience with the habits and mindset that it brings. Of course you won't notice everything and if you're not paying attention or thinking about what they do differently it won't help much. If you really pay attention though, there is a gold mine full of valuable information. I have improved a lot in different games and real life skills by mimicking masters. I have not gotten to their level, but in many situations I've elevated my own level more than I thought I would.
Giving life advice, spreading positivity all around, what more could ask we for?? Makes my day when i watch your videos!
Wait, if most free coaching is a scam, are you just scamming us too? 0.0
I kid, you got my gold ass to diamond man haha.
This was a lousy game to put with this video. It grabbed all of my attention trying to keep track of what the hell is going on, that I stopped listening. I had to start the video over, and not watch the gameplay. ;)
I really miss the in-person format of your last video. It feels less distracting and more engaging than gameplay footage to me.
You keep missing the point, you think everybody can get better with the right mindset and effort.
People are born different, people like me (I'm not ashamed of it) struggle with picking up new information and using said information into practice. We have a extremely low skill ceiling. It's a harsh truth.
I do agree it's not easy being critical of your own game, I'll actually ask a friend to observe my game. : )
He did considered this.Thats the EXPERIENCE/TIME factor.
lol