3 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Was Top 500
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Want to learn how to ACTUALLY rank up in comp? Learn how to play from a top 500 experienced rank player, NickyOW. In this video, I go deep into detail of how to actually climb ranks and discuss the 3 things I wish I knew before I was a top 500 player. I explain positioning, ability usage, and ultimate usage. If you watch this video all the way through, you are sure to learn something new to take out onto the ranked ladder!
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I take full accountability for my actions last video....
My bed is made😒
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I agree that fundamentally there are two different games, low plat and below, and high plat and above. They play fundamentally different games. High plat TRIES the things that GMs do... they just fail and make way more mistakes (timing, mechanics, gamesense, little details they flub).. Sub high plat it's just serious fundamental flaws. The way I describe it is that you can get to high plat by learning how to not lose, but to get past that you need to learn how to WIN games.
So true. This is where when I was ranking up the difference in players/playtypes became most evident was low plat vs high plat.
This is exactly what I wanted!! Awesome video, dude!
Thanks! Hope it gives a clearer picture of what you should/shouldn't be doing.
Thanks for the upload
That was a good watch. Thx for this
this is helpful!
i’d love to see how to enable teammates from other roles. your rules of engagement in a gold game would be great!
Maybe a series? 👀
Great video. As someone coming back to OW ater years, your vids are super helpful.
Earned a sub 🎉
Awesome content, thanks. Please post more. I think there’s big opportunity for new UA-camrs making OW content as all the big content creators swap to MR
Small request: I like the notepad outline in the beginning but next time, could you please make the font size bigger, where it fills up more of the white space? I started watching this on mobile and couldn't read it.
This was an interesting POV/idea to watch! Honestly I do find positioning and rotating/pathing challenging. It feels great to find a new good position but my rate of progress feels really slow with this especially. Progress doesn't seem to come automatically, i feel like I really have to slow down and think deliberately about it to improve it. Is this a me thing or part of the process?
Great feedback, just checked and I agree, can't even read it 😂.. I like to think people have natural ability to a level, then the rest is studying.. for instance my natural ability was gold, but I had to spend around 1k hours learning the game being stuck at gold , then the next 1k hours focusing on improvement and learning the concepts I showcase in my video.. Slow and steady improvements will improve your gameplay. Making thoughtful decisions is so important to build it into your subconscious. It's important to know why you're doing what you're doing
Thanks for making your bed. That was disturbing.
that's a top 500 bed, maybe top 400
the reactions had me dying
How come on forums and reddit, the higher rank players say you need to take aggressive off angles to rank up? I found it accurate and it splits the resources up from the enemy team so they can't just fire down main. I made it to diamond 3 as sojourn by taking aggressive off angles every game. I find it conflicting that you say everyone has to stick together. Maybe its different in top 500, but for the games I play in diamond, the hardest flanking team always wins.
Its just that the off angles you take need to be timed with your teams pressure so that its actually effective and they cant just chase and deny you easily. I agree mostly, but when you say the hardest flanking team wins its probably a bit of positioning error from the other team also. Obviously some heros have mobility and cds that allow them to flank solo but most of the time it still needs to be timed so that enemies have to make a choice of where to look, who to heal/dmg if that makes sense. Off angles that pincer the enemies are usually the best way not a hard flank where you teammates cannot shoot the same enemies.
@igtmj6444 good take 👌
@ Ok that makes sense. I will keep that in mind. Its upsetting because I felt like I cracked the code just to find out that I'm still not playing optimally
How do you balance playing as a team and also utilizing off angles as a DPS? I actually didn't think the venture was super out of position the first time you mentioned it.
Venture would have died in plat+ , but silver players don't punish plays like that as efficiently. They don't hear the footsteps, see the ping, or play angles to cover venture from walking in. Venture will go haha that worked it's a great play! But it will work less and less as you become a better overwatch player.. as for off angles it depends on the dps, need more info!
Flankers would usually try to get a safe off angle to poke/hide then enter the fray when the team fight breaks out
sometimes I struggle with mobile tanks like doomfist and wrecking ball, how do you go about enabling your teammates with these tanks? They seem more like a get in, get ult charge, get out and maybe get a kill on the way playstyle.
just live
More often than not the best defense is a good offense. Support them by taking attention and forcing CDs. Be a nuisance basically but don't die trying.
I do not care about your rank, your skill, your hamster whatever... Please stop misgendering characters. The gaming community is already so hostile towards people like me. Not caring makes you a culprit as well. Do better
Venture uses “they” pronouns. You called them “He”
on the internet men are men, women are men, and children are fbi agents.. but seriously my bad, I just say what I'm used to quickly and don't give things like this much thought. I hope venture can forgive me
There's male and female there is no they kid
It’s a video game… if “they” look like a boy then people are going to say he, gtfo