Having played about 800 hours of Cassidy (altho almost all of it in OW1), ive used hes ultimate 99% as a zoning tool, back then you dident have the 40% damage reduction to self that you got now eather. Something to think about is that the lower health a enemy has the faster the dead eye locks on, so it can be used in a super low greed way to simply secure a kill on a enemy thats really low but is beeing evasive or maybe your out of ammo. The main way i used it was to zone out a enemy trying to use a ultimate, since your main idea is to scare/zone them out and not acctualy kill them, then you can stand in HEAVY COVER with a bad angle even as your just denying there approach, they will hear the voice line and get super scared and hide cuz they almost cant see you in your weird "bad" angle, wasting there entire ultimate.
Diamond players are still above average in comparison to the normal playerbase. Of course Masters and GM players can identify misplays by diamonds, but I wouldn’t call them “bad”.
Tracer's skill curve is even more punishing; I don't plan on playing DPS long-term so there's no reason for me to basically start from scratch with her and need hundreds of hours to see any payoff if that makes sense
I'm more surprised that you have 3 hours on widow. I remember you saying that cassidy is like a close range widow, where you just live or die by your aim. Btw, an aim mechanics I noticed from this video is that your flicks as cassidy are sometimes wide. When I play cassidy inbetween shots I will track the enemy's head almost like a soldier so that when the next shot is ready my crosshair is already in their vicinity so I only need to do a microflick. I noticed I hit more shots this way esp against evasive heroes like tracer, more than the usual put your crosshair besides your target shooting style. I play on a high sens tho so I don't know if its doable with your sens
Yep that was part of the armor changes recently. It's 25% less damage: overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/ It doesn't change the fact that consistently hitting headshots still gives you way more DPS than fanning though.
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Having played about 800 hours of Cassidy (altho almost all of it in OW1), ive used hes ultimate 99% as a zoning tool, back then you dident have the 40% damage reduction to self that you got now eather. Something to think about is that the lower health a enemy has the faster the dead eye locks on, so it can be used in a super low greed way to simply secure a kill on a enemy thats really low but is beeing evasive or maybe your out of ammo. The main way i used it was to zone out a enemy trying to use a ultimate, since your main idea is to scare/zone them out and not acctualy kill them, then you can stand in HEAVY COVER with a bad angle even as your just denying there approach, they will hear the voice line and get super scared and hide cuz they almost cant see you in your weird "bad" angle, wasting there entire ultimate.
While zoning is definitely a potential use for his ultimate I don't think that provides enough average value if that's your *primary* use case
@@adderoverwatch Its not? even if it shuts down something like Genji blade or Monkey primal etc ?
Diamond players are still above average in comparison to the normal playerbase. Of course Masters and GM players can identify misplays by diamonds, but I wouldn’t call them “bad”.
Did I say Diamond players are bad? I think I just said that I'm bad at Cassidy
@@adderoverwatch You did but past that point I have a question. With the current meta in mind have you thought about giving Tracer a go?
Tracer's skill curve is even more punishing; I don't plan on playing DPS long-term so there's no reason for me to basically start from scratch with her and need hundreds of hours to see any payoff if that makes sense
Great video teaching how to self-review yourself. Thanks!
I'm more surprised that you have 3 hours on widow. I remember you saying that cassidy is like a close range widow, where you just live or die by your aim.
Btw, an aim mechanics I noticed from this video is that your flicks as cassidy are sometimes wide. When I play cassidy inbetween shots I will track the enemy's head almost like a soldier so that when the next shot is ready my crosshair is already in their vicinity so I only need to do a microflick. I noticed I hit more shots this way esp against evasive heroes like tracer, more than the usual put your crosshair besides your target shooting style.
I play on a high sens tho so I don't know if its doable with your sens
Crazy that you are in my rank, feel free to stay and suffer a bit!
Great breakdown, but this guy sucks how are they diamond (kidding lol)
this was a really interesting and informative video
21:45 i could swear that i heard some news about tanks taking 30% less headhshot damage now as a passive
Yep that was part of the armor changes recently. It's 25% less damage:
overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/
It doesn't change the fact that consistently hitting headshots still gives you way more DPS than fanning though.