I've been there mate, i was hard stuck silver 2 on every role, i struggled A LOT to climb to gold and from gold to platinum, even tho it's not a big rank, i felt so good like if i climbed to top 500 because on Solo que it's A HELL to rank up, i've spent on overwatch 1k hours and i finally started to climb up, slowly but still. Keep it up! Hope's the last thing you should lose (sorry for bad english, not my main language).
If you do want to genuinely climb rank, I could offer you some advice. Feel free to ignore. I'm hard stuck high diamond/low masters, so not an expert. Things you do well: Coordinate abilities with team Target prioritization General aim habits Things to improve roughly in the order I would learn them: Positioning Getting value out of your abilities Prioritize winning the team fight, then the objective (More often than not) You use your abilities well with your team, so you're doing well to pay attention to them. You use your abilities on things that can actually die, well enough. And, I like your style of aim that allows the enemy do the work for you. It's similar to mine, and many others, but it's smart. Positioning is one of the hardest concepts in OW. In most shooters, really. One easy tip for any rank below diamond is to play soldier and flank hard. Learn how to live in the backline and be a nuisance. Learn the paths to take to avoid being found in a vulnerable position during the flanks, and use your good team coordination to pop out and fight when they're engaging ( Just remember to either have a planned escape route/plan, which very often should be toward your team once the fight starts). Other than that, be very conscious about high ground. It's the best positional advantage possible and it can win fights straight up if they have nothing to contest you. Keep it at all costs. Tell your team to help you take it, whatever you have to do, including ignoring the objective to secure it. Getting value out of your abilities comes down to using it often enough to purely increase your denominator and holding onto an ability that's important for countering their play. For example, Soldier's helix should be spammed very often. You hold it too long, even when you're winning. Use it early so you get another one. On a flank, I open with the helix to burst down. By the time the projectile reaches them, my hitscan shots will be coming in. An easy example of holding an ability for shut down value is Ana sleep vs BOB. You want to be casting sleep often to get as much time with the enemy asleep as possible, but then you must save it for important team fight winning moments. The last point kind of speaks for itself. The objective is important, but it's not worth fighting over if you all die anyways. On defense, you don't need to touch until the attackers make you. And on offense, it's not worth taking a prolonged engagement on an objective that's going nowhere. This one kind of ties in with both the other ones where maybe you take a Mercy or Kiriko on flank as Soldier and pick off a squishy or two, and then swarm the objective with your team and sweep them off rapidly. This is still very superficial, but still maybe a good place to start. Also, look up some information on the geometry of engagements. Like how standing right next to, or far away from, a corner you're peaking and how that changes who has which advantages. Even infantry fighting doctrine, weirdly enough, can translate in many ways to FPS games in general.
As a softstuck Plat 3 on everything, I can confirm that positioning is one of the most important things I can't say how much positioning matters. Just the small things, like using corners to their full effect, pathing to healthpacks / your team if you're in danger, and of course adapting your positioning to if they have snipers / high burst, maybe trying to take off angles to pressure them That reminds me of something I find important, though I'm plat, so it's not hard facts. Just shooting enemies for the sake of scaring them is huge value. That's how for example Doomfist is best played, by contesting / distracting the enemy supports, and the rest of his team can just eat up the enemy tank, so don't be afraid to Play Life (playing to survive) and just tickling the enemies, and not getting disappointed when they back away into cover
@@trevorcoolboy7034 TLDR for Fizz: Use your abilities. Force them (enemies) to trade cooldowns to respond to YOUR initiation. Be proactive during fights, stay within your range to damage them but make sure that you're out of their range to damage you. If fights are breaking out and you're running away at the start, you already were too far forward. If enemies go forward, you hit s, but keep shooting. If enemies go back, hit w and keep shooting. Learn the difference between a flank and an offangle. Lower ranks struggle with multitasking, causing distraction in their backline FORCES them to peel back buying rest of your team to hit W. Don't be the payload princess huddling up on point with the rest of your team. Only 1 person needs to push cart/take objective. Don't be that person. PS: This part is not part of fizz's comment but me throwing it out there. Set up for the next engages, keep track of respawns and try to pick off stragglers from the fights that enemies lost and stagger them. Be proactive and not the clowns emoting on payload (you know the players I'm talking about.)
TL;DR: Focus the enemies that are likely to die High ground is key, use corners for a safe retreat Use your abilities often, but be mindful to save for example Sleep Dart or Chain Hook for important enemy ultimates Winning the fights is winning the game, and is the top priority unless the enemies are close to getting a point/checkpoint
Climbed from gold to Grandmaster, and I can tell you, watching educational channels like Awkward or Spilo was the only way I managed to improve so quickly.
Top 500 here you come 🎉
Thanks man! Super appreciate the love!
I've been there mate, i was hard stuck silver 2 on every role, i struggled A LOT to climb to gold and from gold to platinum, even tho it's not a big rank, i felt so good like if i climbed to top 500 because on Solo que it's A HELL to rank up, i've spent on overwatch 1k hours and i finally started to climb up, slowly but still. Keep it up! Hope's the last thing you should lose (sorry for bad english, not my main language).
0:15 this part was funny
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Quick tip for Soldier:76. Even though your ult gives you aimbot, you should still try to go for headshots as the headshot multipler still applies.
There's a lot of Widow hate going on in this video lmao
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If you do want to genuinely climb rank, I could offer you some advice. Feel free to ignore. I'm hard stuck high diamond/low masters, so not an expert.
Things you do well:
Coordinate abilities with team
Target prioritization
General aim habits
Things to improve roughly in the order I would learn them:
Positioning
Getting value out of your abilities
Prioritize winning the team fight, then the objective (More often than not)
You use your abilities well with your team, so you're doing well to pay attention to them. You use your abilities on things that can actually die, well enough. And, I like your style of aim that allows the enemy do the work for you. It's similar to mine, and many others, but it's smart.
Positioning is one of the hardest concepts in OW. In most shooters, really. One easy tip for any rank below diamond is to play soldier and flank hard. Learn how to live in the backline and be a nuisance. Learn the paths to take to avoid being found in a vulnerable position during the flanks, and use your good team coordination to pop out and fight when they're engaging ( Just remember to either have a planned escape route/plan, which very often should be toward your team once the fight starts). Other than that, be very conscious about high ground. It's the best positional advantage possible and it can win fights straight up if they have nothing to contest you. Keep it at all costs. Tell your team to help you take it, whatever you have to do, including ignoring the objective to secure it.
Getting value out of your abilities comes down to using it often enough to purely increase your denominator and holding onto an ability that's important for countering their play. For example, Soldier's helix should be spammed very often. You hold it too long, even when you're winning. Use it early so you get another one. On a flank, I open with the helix to burst down. By the time the projectile reaches them, my hitscan shots will be coming in. An easy example of holding an ability for shut down value is Ana sleep vs BOB. You want to be casting sleep often to get as much time with the enemy asleep as possible, but then you must save it for important team fight winning moments.
The last point kind of speaks for itself. The objective is important, but it's not worth fighting over if you all die anyways. On defense, you don't need to touch until the attackers make you. And on offense, it's not worth taking a prolonged engagement on an objective that's going nowhere. This one kind of ties in with both the other ones where maybe you take a Mercy or Kiriko on flank as Soldier and pick off a squishy or two, and then swarm the objective with your team and sweep them off rapidly.
This is still very superficial, but still maybe a good place to start. Also, look up some information on the geometry of engagements. Like how standing right next to, or far away from, a corner you're peaking and how that changes who has which advantages. Even infantry fighting doctrine, weirdly enough, can translate in many ways to FPS games in general.
tl;dr please
As a softstuck Plat 3 on everything, I can confirm that positioning is one of the most important things
I can't say how much positioning matters. Just the small things, like using corners to their full effect, pathing to healthpacks / your team if you're in danger, and of course adapting your positioning to if they have snipers / high burst, maybe trying to take off angles to pressure them
That reminds me of something I find important, though I'm plat, so it's not hard facts. Just shooting enemies for the sake of scaring them is huge value. That's how for example Doomfist is best played, by contesting / distracting the enemy supports, and the rest of his team can just eat up the enemy tank, so don't be afraid to Play Life (playing to survive) and just tickling the enemies, and not getting disappointed when they back away into cover
@@trevorcoolboy7034 TLDR for Fizz:
Use your abilities. Force them (enemies) to trade cooldowns to respond to YOUR initiation.
Be proactive during fights, stay within your range to damage them but make sure that you're out of their range to damage you. If fights are breaking out and you're running away at the start, you already were too far forward. If enemies go forward, you hit s, but keep shooting. If enemies go back, hit w and keep shooting.
Learn the difference between a flank and an offangle. Lower ranks struggle with multitasking, causing distraction in their backline FORCES them to peel back buying rest of your team to hit W.
Don't be the payload princess huddling up on point with the rest of your team. Only 1 person needs to push cart/take objective. Don't be that person.
PS: This part is not part of fizz's comment but me throwing it out there. Set up for the next engages, keep track of respawns and try to pick off stragglers from the fights that enemies lost and stagger them. Be proactive and not the clowns emoting on payload (you know the players I'm talking about.)
TL;DR:
Focus the enemies that are likely to die
High ground is key, use corners for a safe retreat
Use your abilities often, but be mindful to save for example Sleep Dart or Chain Hook for important enemy ultimates
Winning the fights is winning the game, and is the top priority unless the enemies are close to getting a point/checkpoint
Climbed from gold to Grandmaster, and I can tell you, watching educational channels like Awkward or Spilo was the only way I managed to improve so quickly.