Today's tips are a bit more conceptual, but trust they apply to everything. Because the skill ceiling in OW is so high, your potential to improve is also massive. Remember ofc, making a big leap of improvement effectively turns your own gameplay into the likes of a smurf account at your rank, carrying the game and ranking up. -F
If you're aiming to be a flex but your mechanical skill is mediocre...do you benefit more from picking 6 heroes 2(primary/secondary) from each role and playing a consistent 100hrs on those heros...or by playing whatever the team needs(as varied hero pool as possible) in 5 hr ncrements? Which is a better focus for a flex player?
if you intentionally say at the beginning of the game "im going to troll and feed ults" then dont do anything in the spawn room, your technically helping your team immensely. since they wont get ults nearly as fast.
The duality of Overwatch: do you do what you know is the right play in order to potentially carry, even if your team is making a different play? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. And whose fault would that be? Would it be yours for going alone, or your teams for making the wrong decision? This is why people say you can't carry in this game. You can be punished for making the right decision
No that's actually the play that he should have done in that scenario, it's not 900IQ any decent genji would insinctively go infront and deflect and not miss 3 right clicks like a Pepega
On the subject of not dying in overwatch, try playing a few games of 4v4 TDM and see how much people feed. I think a lot of players don't even think about it because its an object game, but most people turn into god damn lemmings and walk straight into 1v4 fights. In comp that usually translates to a lost team fight, another 30sec of setup, and 5 salty teammates
Oh my god you have no idea. I main mercy and I'm high plat. I see my team's always running in a pmtrying to iv4 or 6 or something crazy. Then they get mad they aren't good enough, die, spam I need healing far behind enemy lines and then message me saying I was shit when I healed 10000 plus damage. My average healing per game is 9100.
From a useability perspective, having your health bar in the bottom left - almost literally the last place on the screen your eye goes to - is the cause of this IMO. I have one thing that I'm trying to learn at the moment which is to look at my health bar a whole bunch.
I think it'd be interesting to see a series of "Climbing from one rank to the next", where instead of giving general tips that are supposed to apply to everybody, you focus on the main differences between a bronze and silver player, then a silver and gold, gold to plat, and so on.
I think a key point missed is to keep your kill cam on at lower ranks. You'd be surprised at how much you can learn just by watching your death from the enemies perspective. That's my opinion though.
Simple, people just don't understand their hero's kit. If you think being a Genji Grandmaster is solo spawn camping then your dead wrong, if you think a pro Rein is to hold your shield up nonstop, your wrong. Every hero, every role, and every position matters. You can say that the first thing to master is aim mechanic, but not every hero relies on that mechanic, it's a big part for majority of the dps but its also knowing how to cover situations, ie know who the hero you are playing with can beat or assist in a team engagement.
when u said u made the wrong play against hanzo on route 66, i wasn't even thinking about ur aim. I was screaming " DEFLECT HIS DRAGONSTRIKE!" into my monitor, but both probably would have won the fight. Again, as you pointed out, there are many different habits, mindsets, and playstyles on all heroes. Good video.
Really good vid! I try to be as self critical as I can but I still tend to pass the blame at times. We ALL make mistakes, even gods like jjonak, but the degree of which and how we handle it really separates our ranks. Hoping to finally hit diamond this season
I am SO GLAD you mentioned that it's about making the right play within your teammates' play. I still use LFG to play comp and I've learned that "skill" as we know it is sometimes less important than people who work well together. I've gotten into groups with really agro Reins that just stupidly charge in ALL THE TIME, but we get a Zarya that knows how to bubble, my speed boost keeps the team on Rein's tail and suddenly those dumb plays put us on an 8-game win streak. It's like they say "One person doing something dumb is throwing; 6 people doing something dumb is a strat."
before 5:39 I honestly think the example with genji you gave there is more so a communication issue than anything. On both ends. Sure you can blame it on your awareness and that's obviously on your part, but I think you're letting your team off easy for essentially baiting you out on what looked like a committed push. You can argue that because Orisa is more of a turtle-y tank ANYWAY that as a genji you should've just been more patient and played with/around her barrier rather than try to flank until they committed so. I'd say it's 65% 35% with you needing awareness if anything (not that I don't get the message of some of these videos.) Edit -You mentioned "play behind the tank" after I finished commenting this so yeah xD before 6:37 - I understand this mentality but I think it's kind of suffering onto you. Overall I tihnk EVERYBODY should make the ideal play and learn some form of patience and humility. At the same time I don't think it's healthy to blame every single moment you have on yourself while your teammates probably do farther than ideal. Lets say based off of this, you DO play genji well; being aware of your team and where YOU have to be positioned. It doesn't guarantee that your tanks or supports will be in the IDEAL position AT THE MOMENT. The reality is not everyone is going to approach the game with this mentality, and because of this people hate the game and want to blame teammates before improving on their own gameplay. and because people refuse to look at themselves and their mistakes, they probably continue making them until they're slapped with it in the face by someone else, or they quit the game entirely and state that its garbage. Sometimes, how your teammates play will hinder the way YOU play. Sometimes because of what tank you have (Orisa w/ a genji vs a Winston vs a Genji) or how they're playing (whether passive or aggressive) it could be the right or wrong call. before 7:13 I respect this. Again, I think if as a community we approach this kind of mindset more. Of not only looking at ourselves/our flaws but also find people who want to approach the game with the same mentality (whether it be to win or to have fun) then the game will feel a lot better to play. 3 years into this game and I can safely say it's something I'm very much invested in. Even though I haven't played competitive in a while I still want to learn and get better for the sake of myself and I hope my friends are capable of doing that too (or we can take a break and play a different game as well if need be.) Before 8:00 I like this too. I think people don't take responsibility for themselves and their actions and thus when things go wrong look at others before themselves, like you mentioned. It's incredibly frustrating when people resort to blaming others rather than attempting to either focus or solve the issue through mechanics or composition. Overall I enjoyed the video as always. At first I didn't like the title of the videos and initially the concept rubbed me the wrong way. But as you and Eddie explained it more I get down with the idea of trying to be more humble and see what I can do better with myself, rather than always blaming others around me when I can improve and get even better :)
_I respect this, I will add to your post; play styles range to aggressive and passive, etc... it depends on the person but 1. Everyone needs some patience 2. Always get value, it’s perfectly fine to not playing with your tanks as Hanzo, I often flank high ground and try to position myself for easy picks and to be able to get out quite easily. It’s crucial to always have the upper hand._ _I do play with my tanks, and it’s crucial at times... but always try to open the fight up and get picks. Secure the important kills._ _I agree it’s annoying when people flame and stuff and blame others. Sometimes the game could be lost due to one teammate throwing and the team not being able to pick up the slack (including you) to win. It’s more-so just unfortunate and not much you can do, other then try to win._ _Definetly good to take breaks and play other games if needed. I have a habit I created a long time ago, if I lose 3 in a row it’s time to walk away and take a break... then to come back if I feel up to it._
Lot's of good advice here. I especially felt the part where you talked about adapting to how your team plays instead of expecting them to do stuff you want them to do. I watch a lot of GM streamers and coaching videos and I don't have enough fingers to count the amount of times I've lost because I expect my team to know the things I know.
This is very good advice. The one point talking about not being in sync with your team's goals and perspective is something I particularly struggle with in diamond/masters. Good content recently YourOW. Keep it up!
As a Mercy player I almost never focus on myself. Sure I might lose 3/4 of my hp, but I can regen that with no issue. Maybe I should worry more about myself but my support mentality just says “HEAL THE DAMN TEAM”
Same, I mostly play Lucio and Zen but I can't tell you how many times I've died trying to keep alive that one Genji that goes in while everyone else is respawning. It's hard to fight the healer urge.
Great video, as always. This one was particularly useful for me as I'm also learning genji at the moment. You guys always produce quality content on a daily basis, so keep it up.
3:15 here there's also an issue of patience. I do the same very often: shoot asap. But no, it's much more effective to take the time to align the shot. No need to leave mouse 1 pressed, it's better to press once you're confident in the shot.
If everyone thought like Freedo and Eddy, Overwatch would have the greatest community in gaming. Hats off Freedo- interesting, accurate, and well articulated video.
5:30 I agree in 50% I am high diamond/low master genji main, And this dash into their team was completely awful. I can understand that anyway,because you said yourself at the beginning of the video. “I am not the best genji,but I am trying to learn him” So this is part of the learning process. Keep up champ!
Also its good that you understand your abilities and the enemy team’s abilities. A lot of players don’t fully understand what their abilities are. Genji’s abilities are more escape options, not mobility. Sure you can try to use them to finish off enemies, but you have to recognize the enemies abilities. If there are cc abilities ie McCree stun, Ana dart, Brig bash, hog hook, etc. You need to keep an eye out for these abilities whenever you pop an ability or your ult. Like are they on cooldown? If not, can you still pop off despite the chance of being cc’d? Or If you are McCree, you need to keep an eye out for certain heroes. Watch out for snipers before you ult or commit a fight. When he ults, your ammo reloads and your mobility is much slower during that time. You also always shoot from right to left all the time so if there’s a deflecting Genji or need to kill a specific target sooner then look more to the left when you aim. You can just get your sight away from Genji and ignore his deflect. Also while not always practical, you can just use the ult and cancel for a quick reload. That’s more for higher levels of play tho and honestly you do need the ult in some situations. At the end of the day, you have to choose your fights carefully. There is no kill stealing, everyone shares their kills with each other. If you have to work together to take someone down then do it. This sound ridiculous I know, but my god people just don’t choose their targets very carefully.
I Am a Genji Master myself and I suggest that during dragonblade instead of doing two strikes, you do one strike,a dash, then a strike on the target again because that saves blade time.
Havnt watched the vid yet but I'm going to be mad if you dont talk about the importance of grouping up and stop peeking damage 1v6. It's actually the gold curse :( Literally see dva peeking with her fusion cannon. Like bro wtf is that going to do lmao
Lol. The only heros u should poke with is genji and zarya bombs. Not junk, thats just feeding support ults. It depends on a situation. When ur safe, genji can poke hella easily and get like 50 percent ult by the next team fight
@@kevint9471 nah any genji can peel fairly easily, positioning is a key factor, ive lost team fights and had blade for the next fight and im only low gold
D/\wny _I wouldn’t say less then one fight, as there can be 20+ fights on one point and people don’t get nearly that many... should be at least every other fight. Hanzo on the other hand should easily have an ult for every single fight and more. Genji doesn’t charge that fast unless you have a pocket or tanks are feeding you._
3:07 you should have swift strike on the floor in front of Hanzo and deflect when you hear his dragon strike 2:19 when that happens again move back while using your jump and your secondary fire (Only for genji secondary fire)
When I’m playing and someone’s says I’m doing something wrong I listen and try not to do it again, but when I or others tell someone else it turns real toxic... They start saying they’ll throw or they’ll start bringing up everything the teams doing wrong it’s just crazy to see how sensitive people get.
Ok we understand be critical on yourself. However you never told us how to improve any of those things. What steps are needed to improve something once you notice it is a problem. For example if I struggle mechanically in duals what steps are needed to improve and get better at that?
Brett Hafeman moar duals..dimple as that, be aware of yourself and actually THINK while dueling...like okay I’m leading my crosshairs this much and I works at this distance, or I won this duel with xyz on cooldown at however many seconds.
You need to outline the problem. If it's a positioning mistake you have to remind and correct yourself. If it's a mechanical one you need to just play the game and actually improve overall mechanics. The best players have hundreds of more hours played than average players. It takes time to get good and improve.
1) vod review 2) practice basic mechanics and/or combos against bots and in custom games eg with 0 cool down. 3) step 2 but in ffa 4) step 1 and the write down areas where you need to improve in basic combos then repeat 2 and 3 5) Play ranked 6) vod review 6-1) could you execute basic combos? 6-2) why did you die? For each death figure out a better position. 6-3) evaluate every ultimate and ability usage 6-4) evaluate your game sense. How much of the kill feed you missed? How much of the ability usage of the enemy you missed? Etc Then at some point you need to focus on match ups, target prioritization, communication and execution of simple and basic team combos
Good positioning, communication and not initiating a fight with your mobility option are the some of the easiest tricks that will make the biggest difference IMO.
It's easy to carry games as a dps. Click heads or feed. As a tank you can create all the space in the world, if your McRightclick misses 4 of his 6 shots the space is worth nothing. Same as a healer, fights are not won by damage healed but by damage not taken. If your tank thinks he should eat all the damage in the game you can't possibly heal through that. And you can't always follow your flanking Gengu with suicidal tendencies.
I've been practicing McCree. I really want to get very good with him. I'm low diamond on my alt account and just now trying to get out of low gold on my main. I started playing on my main with master players who had alt accounts to play with me and needless to say I brought the team down by a lot. I wasn't good and then playing by myself a lot I sunk lower Because I wasn't learning I was just pressing buttons like cod. Now my win percentage with McCree is over 50% and my shots are getting way better. Slowly getting better but today I actually carried 2 teams to victory. I must say it's a rewarding experience to see your hard work somewhat paying off.
This is so relatable actually. I main tank and support. When I play rank, I expect my healers to play like me when I play support. Same when I play support. I expect space. I always forget that everyone has a different play style and personality. *I also watch pros to learn how to play different heroes. But this will help me learn DPS because I’m awful at it. :)
this is exactly what I've been trying to tell people who tell me the reason I'm not climbing is because I dive to deep, as genji of course or even as a tracer. It's not that I'm diving in too deep its more of a problem of not being able to secure a kill fast enough before u get killed or their team focuses you...especially in low ranks.
1.aim 2.positioning 3. Knowing when to back off and push in 4.awareness 5.priority calling 6.baiting enemy 7.alt farming 8.cooldown calls 9 .configure your playstyle based off reading the enemies movements (very hard) 10.COMMUNICATING 11.DONT DIE follow these and you will get to gm also I'm not gm I'm 3400 even I still have a hard time mastering these. Especially 8 and 9
Pick Dva because on console from Diamond, people don’t abuse DVa enough. Next thing you know, I got into Master yesterday. Picking up Dva, I learn to open up and not be soo tunnel vision, learn to peal, protect my front line and back line. Tbh I am more mechanical better then making big brain move. Playing Dva it help me use my brain more, and overall it help me improve on my other Heroes.
Please post an updated advanced genji guide!!!! Your guides are the best on TH-cam but you haven’t posted a genji guide in a while!!! Thanks and keep up the good work!!!
I've played every hero and played a good amount of hours. To get good: - 1 trick a hero - warm up your aim rather than go straight into comp, practice drills. I like to vs bots using widow, mcree and tracer. This gets my hitscan good and warms up my tracking and reflexes. - build game sense, this really comes by playing a lot and playing at higher ranks. This is also where watching other players play certain heroes help a lot. Eg. widowmaker isn't all about aim but positioning is key. another E.G. playing ashe, you wanna generally always get high ground and shoot down into the enemy. - lastly play a lot of comp. Your gonna get flamed a lot for playing trash a few games but it is what it is. - and you can carry on a lot of heroes as long as you use your head. You can't be good at every hero, so pick the heroes your good at.
CONFIDENCE is another way you can massively improve your game. It goes hand in hand with the “Making big plays” tip. Basically, hesitation will fuck up even the biggest and best plays. Recognizing the opportunities and acting on them immediately and CONFIDENTLY will make or break team fights and win or lose games. When I play confidently (rarely nowadays), everything goes much more smoothly. If I hesitate, I usually die. The trick is figuring out what will work before you execute, and that recognition and confidence in your recognition will only come with time.
Having to play at a rank higher (in order to rank higher) is a very underrated statement not taken into account by most in the OW community. STOP FUCKEN WHINGING AND GIT GUD.
The best thing to do to get better at any hero is focus on one issue with your play at time, then move on to the next thing once you correct/perfect it. Youll get much better/faster results doing this and it will help you climb
While it's true that any role can carry, I find it very hard on a hero like mercy where I am basically completely dependant on other people pushing in, doing kills, etc. I can keep them alive, I can damage boost them at the right times, but when nothing comes out of it I am running back with my tail between my legs waiting for my team to respawn.
I'm updating my lucio/moira game so I get the full analysis on what is the better choices to make. I posted 3 videos up earlier where my death count was low. The Lucio one I got 0 deaths on match 2, but match 1 seemed impossible. Getting those impact plays are important. The Moira game I went more aggro than usual, but it feels like I don't have to focus too hard in this situation as it's easier to weigh the cool downs and distance/damage between each engagement. 3rd video was Junkrat and I pretty much had to plan out the win/loss conditions between 3 different control areas on Kings Row, but we ended up taking the game due to good zoning at the major chokes. Given you probably won't watch them, but I just wanted to say videos like these are important to review what is and isn't the right calls in every game.
1a-Be more self critical/less team critical 1b-Focus on your own play & how you can improve to make the key/power moves that make the difference 2- Know the fail conditions for you and your team 3a-Limit deaths. Best way to do this is 3b & 3c, but, could be mechanical failure on your fights 3b-Play within the sphere of how your team plays even if that way is sub-optimal/bad 3c-stay with team keep ideal position for where your team is make sure you look around/pan camera 4-Learn to make plays. Take risks (may contradict 3a, but, is a learning practice)
In currently trying to learn tracer and I mainly play hitscan like ashe cree and soldier and one thing I try to remember is target selection. Who should I be shooting to end the fight faster not where can I just do damage. Granted as dps when you are not doing damage you are getting negative value but if you can remember angles, high ground and target selection it has helped me climb. Sometimes killing a tank that's out of pos is the right move but if you can kill the dps or healers then the fight ends faster.
One of the best tips as a dva when a Reinhardt hasn’t used fire strike in six seconds don’t use your boosters and follow some junk rat instead absorb the fire strike and other stuff and get some poke damegs
I agree with not blaming teammates for the most part. However, there is nothing that I can do from stopping my teammates from dying to a good widowmaker. They take no cover and just repeat the same death over and over. I can try pressuring with a genji, but that only works on certain maps where widow is not dominant.
At 5:00 - you have a zen and an Ana as healers. Both can heal you easily at mid to long range. At 5:13 the Ana is NOT chasing the tracer, she is right in front of you for 3 full seconds and fails to heal you. Not to mention the Zen failing to throw an orb. A healer should always be consious of throwing heals to genji and a tracer as they are squishy. I understand being a flanker is risky and you did get caught out, but with a Zen and an Ana you could have easily gotten heals. I'm all about self improvement but you also have to call things as they are while telling the whole story.
Something that helped me improve was finding a team of mixed rank players I just went on the internet lfg tool for ps4 eu advertised myself as a healer/tank main and found a guild named tactical gaming just playing in that team against another in a scrim every so often helped me to improve my rank over time. I went from high bronze to low to medium gold in solo que after listening to my teammates advice
Please feel free to explain to me as a healer main how to carry if my team doesn't get any kills anyway? Even if I do massive amounts of healing my team will eventually get wiped when the enemies build up all their ults.
Hey, have you guys seen the posters of "The Queen" in Junkertown? Do you have any idea who she is or why those posters are there? When did they get there too?
The only teammates that make me mad are the ones that flame their team or go out of their way to blame others for lost teamfights (even if they have a point), or people that throw on purpose. It doesn't bother me when someone isn't doing a great on a particular hero because for one: they are at your elo so they must have a similar level of skill and everybody needs to learn somewhere. Just focus on your own gameplay, which also happens to be the only constant factor with an effect on the outcome of your games.
A lot of my unnecessary deaths are when I'm standing on point surrounded by my team and then a random hanzo headshot kills me. Or same situation except a rein charge boops two people out of the way and then sucks me in and I die...
Today's tips are a bit more conceptual, but trust they apply to everything. Because the skill ceiling in OW is so high, your potential to improve is also massive. Remember ofc, making a big leap of improvement effectively turns your own gameplay into the likes of a smurf account at your rank, carrying the game and ranking up. -F
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Your Overwatch vids like this are so cringe to me personally. Still love this channel tho
Why are u so slow. It looks like ur playing on console
If you're aiming to be a flex but your mechanical skill is mediocre...do you benefit more from picking 6 heroes 2(primary/secondary) from each role and playing a consistent 100hrs on those heros...or by playing whatever the team needs(as varied hero pool as possible) in 5 hr ncrements? Which is a better focus for a flex player?
If you never leave the spawn room, you never die, which means you’re helping overall right?
Shmarfle 47 yes
Technically, if you never download the game, you’ll never be the worst player in the game, while also never losing a game.
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And you're never feeding!
if you intentionally say at the beginning of the game "im going to troll and feed ults" then dont do anything in the spawn room, your technically helping your team immensely. since they wont get ults nearly as fast.
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The duality of Overwatch: do you do what you know is the right play in order to potentially carry, even if your team is making a different play? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. And whose fault would that be? Would it be yours for going alone, or your teams for making the wrong decision? This is why people say you can't carry in this game. You can be punished for making the right decision
As the old saying goes. One person can ruin the game. But what person cannot carry the game.
If you had 900 IQ you could have deflected the Dragon Strike.
Lol
No that's actually the play that he should have done in that scenario, it's not 900IQ any decent genji would insinctively go infront and deflect and not miss 3 right clicks like a Pepega
@@leg1tOW lol i l know just had to point it out
Trust him his name is half moon runes
He should have swift strike in front of Hanzo then use deflected when he hear his ult
On the subject of not dying in overwatch, try playing a few games of 4v4 TDM and see how much people feed. I think a lot of players don't even think about it because its an object game, but most people turn into god damn lemmings and walk straight into 1v4 fights. In comp that usually translates to a lost team fight, another 30sec of setup, and 5 salty teammates
yep, but apparently we're supposed to be able to 'carry' in these situations lolol
Oh my god you have no idea. I main mercy and I'm high plat. I see my team's always running in a pmtrying to iv4 or 6 or something crazy. Then they get mad they aren't good enough, die, spam I need healing far behind enemy lines and then message me saying I was shit when I healed 10000 plus damage. My average healing per game is 9100.
From a useability perspective, having your health bar in the bottom left - almost literally the last place on the screen your eye goes to - is the cause of this IMO. I have one thing that I'm trying to learn at the moment which is to look at my health bar a whole bunch.
I think it'd be interesting to see a series of "Climbing from one rank to the next", where instead of giving general tips that are supposed to apply to everybody, you focus on the main differences between a bronze and silver player, then a silver and gold, gold to plat, and so on.
Most important word TEAMWORK! But also situational awareness, mechanical skill and counter play.
Teamwork does not exist outside of tournaments. In competitive mode, all people are damn egoists.
Teamwork? What's that? Oh, I remember. It's that non-existent thing at lower ranks
Dashed so hard at the 2 min mark that he ends up in Dorado.
LightningPo Lijiang u mean?
@@gamingwithjaky5659 Dashes from Lijang to Dorado
I think a key point missed is to keep your kill cam on at lower ranks. You'd be surprised at how much you can learn just by watching your death from the enemies perspective. That's my opinion though.
Simple, people just don't understand their hero's kit. If you think being a Genji Grandmaster is solo spawn camping then your dead wrong, if you think a pro Rein is to hold your shield up nonstop, your wrong. Every hero, every role, and every position matters. You can say that the first thing to master is aim mechanic, but not every hero relies on that mechanic, it's a big part for majority of the dps but its also knowing how to cover situations, ie know who the hero you are playing with can beat or assist in a team engagement.
*Ends game 4/0 as mercy with 14 rezzes and 23k healing and still loses*
Mistake #1, I main mercy
when u said u made the wrong play against hanzo on route 66, i wasn't even thinking about ur aim.
I was screaming " DEFLECT HIS DRAGONSTRIKE!" into my monitor, but both probably would have won the fight. Again, as you pointed out, there are many different habits, mindsets, and playstyles on all heroes. Good video.
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Really good vid! I try to be as self critical as I can but I still tend to pass the blame at times. We ALL make mistakes, even gods like jjonak, but the degree of which and how we handle it really separates our ranks. Hoping to finally hit diamond this season
U got this gamer! While this season ima drop out of masters :(
I am SO GLAD you mentioned that it's about making the right play within your teammates' play. I still use LFG to play comp and I've learned that "skill" as we know it is sometimes less important than people who work well together. I've gotten into groups with really agro Reins that just stupidly charge in ALL THE TIME, but we get a Zarya that knows how to bubble, my speed boost keeps the team on Rein's tail and suddenly those dumb plays put us on an 8-game win streak. It's like they say "One person doing something dumb is throwing; 6 people doing something dumb is a strat."
Can you do a positioning tutorial please? Just came aware of its importance, and as a recently platinum player I would like to know more about it.
How to be good at every hero
Step 1: Play the hero
Step 2: Watch good Streamers who play that hero
Step 3: Play that hero even more
before 5:39 I honestly think the example with genji you gave there is more so a communication issue than anything. On both ends. Sure you can blame it on your awareness and that's obviously on your part, but I think you're letting your team off easy for essentially baiting you out on what looked like a committed push.
You can argue that because Orisa is more of a turtle-y tank ANYWAY that as a genji you should've just been more patient and played with/around her barrier rather than try to flank until they committed so. I'd say it's 65% 35% with you needing awareness if anything (not that I don't get the message of some of these videos.)
Edit -You mentioned "play behind the tank" after I finished commenting this so yeah xD
before 6:37 - I understand this mentality but I think it's kind of suffering onto you. Overall I tihnk EVERYBODY should make the ideal play and learn some form of patience and humility. At the same time I don't think it's healthy to blame every single moment you have on yourself while your teammates probably do farther than ideal.
Lets say based off of this, you DO play genji well; being aware of your team and where YOU have to be positioned. It doesn't guarantee that your tanks or supports will be in the IDEAL position AT THE MOMENT. The reality is not everyone is going to approach the game with this mentality, and because of this people hate the game and want to blame teammates before improving on their own gameplay. and because people refuse to look at themselves and their mistakes, they probably continue making them until they're slapped with it in the face by someone else, or they quit the game entirely and state that its garbage. Sometimes, how your teammates play will hinder the way YOU play. Sometimes because of what tank you have (Orisa w/ a genji vs a Winston vs a Genji) or how they're playing (whether passive or aggressive) it could be the right or wrong call.
before 7:13 I respect this. Again, I think if as a community we approach this kind of mindset more. Of not only looking at ourselves/our flaws but also find people who want to approach the game with the same mentality (whether it be to win or to have fun) then the game will feel a lot better to play. 3 years into this game and I can safely say it's something I'm very much invested in. Even though I haven't played competitive in a while I still want to learn and get better for the sake of myself and I hope my friends are capable of doing that too (or we can take a break and play a different game as well if need be.)
Before 8:00 I like this too. I think people don't take responsibility for themselves and their actions and thus when things go wrong look at others before themselves, like you mentioned. It's incredibly frustrating when people resort to blaming others rather than attempting to either focus or solve the issue through mechanics or composition.
Overall I enjoyed the video as always. At first I didn't like the title of the videos and initially the concept rubbed me the wrong way. But as you and Eddie explained it more I get down with the idea of trying to be more humble and see what I can do better with myself, rather than always blaming others around me when I can improve and get even better :)
_I respect this, I will add to your post; play styles range to aggressive and passive, etc... it depends on the person but 1. Everyone needs some patience 2. Always get value, it’s perfectly fine to not playing with your tanks as Hanzo, I often flank high ground and try to position myself for easy picks and to be able to get out quite easily. It’s crucial to always have the upper hand._
_I do play with my tanks, and it’s crucial at times... but always try to open the fight up and get picks. Secure the important kills._
_I agree it’s annoying when people flame and stuff and blame others. Sometimes the game could be lost due to one teammate throwing and the team not being able to pick up the slack (including you) to win. It’s more-so just unfortunate and not much you can do, other then try to win._
_Definetly good to take breaks and play other games if needed. I have a habit I created a long time ago, if I lose 3 in a row it’s time to walk away and take a break... then to come back if I feel up to it._
Jeez way to write an essay
How to ACTUALLY Improve at ANY Hero! >>> given advice is ACTUALLY Improve. this is the most tautologic video from you I ever watched....
Lot's of good advice here. I especially felt the part where you talked about adapting to how your team plays instead of expecting them to do stuff you want them to do. I watch a lot of GM streamers and coaching videos and I don't have enough fingers to count the amount of times I've lost because I expect my team to know the things I know.
This is very good advice. The one point talking about not being in sync with your team's goals and perspective is something I particularly struggle with in diamond/masters. Good content recently YourOW. Keep it up!
You are my favorite commentator on this channel. Your information is always refreshing and informative. Keep it up!
As a Mercy player I almost never focus on myself. Sure I might lose 3/4 of my hp, but I can regen that with no issue. Maybe I should worry more about myself but my support mentality just says “HEAL THE DAMN TEAM”
Same, I mostly play Lucio and Zen but I can't tell you how many times I've died trying to keep alive that one Genji that goes in while everyone else is respawning. It's hard to fight the healer urge.
Great video, as always. This one was particularly useful for me as I'm also learning genji at the moment. You guys always produce quality content on a daily basis, so keep it up.
3:15 here there's also an issue of patience. I do the same very often: shoot asap. But no, it's much more effective to take the time to align the shot.
No need to leave mouse 1 pressed, it's better to press once you're confident in the shot.
My God... This was a blast from the past in my recommended - you've given me the inspiration to pick up overwatch after months
If everyone thought like Freedo and Eddy, Overwatch would have the greatest community in gaming. Hats off Freedo- interesting, accurate, and well articulated video.
play the character. That’s it. if your struggle with positioning or decision making watch a pro. Simple
5:30
I agree in 50%
I am high diamond/low master genji main,
And this dash into their team was completely awful.
I can understand that anyway,because you said yourself at the beginning of the video.
“I am not the best genji,but I am trying to learn him”
So this is part of the learning process.
Keep up champ!
Also its good that you understand your abilities and the enemy team’s abilities. A lot of players don’t fully understand what their abilities are. Genji’s abilities are more escape options, not mobility. Sure you can try to use them to finish off enemies, but you have to recognize the enemies abilities. If there are cc abilities ie McCree stun, Ana dart, Brig bash, hog hook, etc. You need to keep an eye out for these abilities whenever you pop an ability or your ult. Like are they on cooldown? If not, can you still pop off despite the chance of being cc’d? Or If you are McCree, you need to keep an eye out for certain heroes. Watch out for snipers before you ult or commit a fight. When he ults, your ammo reloads and your mobility is much slower during that time. You also always shoot from right to left all the time so if there’s a deflecting Genji or need to kill a specific target sooner then look more to the left when you aim. You can just get your sight away from Genji and ignore his deflect. Also while not always practical, you can just use the ult and cancel for a quick reload. That’s more for higher levels of play tho and honestly you do need the ult in some situations. At the end of the day, you have to choose your fights carefully. There is no kill stealing, everyone shares their kills with each other. If you have to work together to take someone down then do it. This sound ridiculous I know, but my god people just don’t choose their targets very carefully.
I Am a Genji Master myself and I suggest that during dragonblade instead of doing two strikes, you do one strike,a dash, then a strike on the target again because that saves blade time.
this channel needs to do more content like this, more personal experiences in ranked that can be applied to similar players.
Every time I saw a nanoblade engagement in this footage and there was no dash & slash combo bits of my soul slowly died.
Every Main Tank: I’m doing everything i can but my dps don’t get kills and my Ana isn’t healing😂
Havnt watched the vid yet but I'm going to be mad if you dont talk about the importance of grouping up and stop peeking damage 1v6. It's actually the gold curse :(
Literally see dva peeking with her fusion cannon. Like bro wtf is that going to do lmao
Lol. The only heros u should poke with is genji and zarya bombs. Not junk, thats just feeding support ults. It depends on a situation. When ur safe, genji can poke hella easily and get like 50 percent ult by the next team fight
It happens in diamond and masters to though
@@kevint9471 nah any genji can peel fairly easily, positioning is a key factor, ive lost team fights and had blade for the next fight and im only low gold
@@rexolve1032 you should charge blade in less than 1 fight
D/\wny _I wouldn’t say less then one fight, as there can be 20+ fights on one point and people don’t get nearly that many... should be at least every other fight. Hanzo on the other hand should easily have an ult for every single fight and more. Genji doesn’t charge that fast unless you have a pocket or tanks are feeding you._
I think a lot of frustration is that people do this and apply these lessons and still dont see any progress.
I've been watching this channel since February 2017. this is by far my favorite video. by far.
I've been playing a lot of Winston and one thing that I constantly do is dive in in crazy situations to test the limit of my abilities
3:07 you should have swift strike on the floor in front of Hanzo and deflect when you hear his dragon strike
2:19 when that happens again move back while using your jump and your secondary fire
(Only for genji secondary fire)
I genuinely felt my self loose hope for humanity just a bit more when he uttered the words "The IQ needed to play Genji is higher"
When I’m playing and someone’s says I’m doing something wrong I listen and try not to do it again, but when I or others tell someone else it turns real toxic... They start saying they’ll throw or they’ll start bringing up everything the teams doing wrong it’s just crazy to see how sensitive people get.
Ok we understand be critical on yourself. However you never told us how to improve any of those things. What steps are needed to improve something once you notice it is a problem. For example if I struggle mechanically in duals what steps are needed to improve and get better at that?
Brett Hafeman moar duals..dimple as that, be aware of yourself and actually THINK while dueling...like okay I’m leading my crosshairs this much and I works at this distance, or I won this duel with xyz on cooldown at however many seconds.
You need to outline the problem. If it's a positioning mistake you have to remind and correct yourself. If it's a mechanical one you need to just play the game and actually improve overall mechanics. The best players have hundreds of more hours played than average players. It takes time to get good and improve.
I don't think anybody at my rank thinks about that shit while aiming I am in Masters. @@MrKeeyt-jm3ji
@@kpbevan_904 and that's probably what is keeping you from being gm. Even pros can improve by just looking at their gameplay
1) vod review
2) practice basic mechanics and/or combos against bots and in custom games eg with 0 cool down.
3) step 2 but in ffa
4) step 1 and the write down areas where you need to improve in basic combos then repeat 2 and 3
5) Play ranked
6) vod review
6-1) could you execute basic combos?
6-2) why did you die? For each death figure out a better position.
6-3) evaluate every ultimate and ability usage
6-4) evaluate your game sense. How much of the kill feed you missed? How much of the ability usage of the enemy you missed?
Etc
Then at some point you need to focus on match ups, target prioritization, communication and execution of simple and basic team combos
Y is this channel more philosophical than educational?
Good positioning, communication and not initiating a fight with your mobility option are the some of the easiest tricks that will make the biggest difference IMO.
It's easy to carry games as a dps. Click heads or feed.
As a tank you can create all the space in the world, if your McRightclick misses 4 of his 6 shots the space is worth nothing.
Same as a healer, fights are not won by damage healed but by damage not taken. If your tank thinks he should eat all the damage in the game you can't possibly heal through that. And you can't always follow your flanking Gengu with suicidal tendencies.
I've been practicing McCree. I really want to get very good with him. I'm low diamond on my alt account and just now trying to get out of low gold on my main. I started playing on my main with master players who had alt accounts to play with me and needless to say I brought the team down by a lot. I wasn't good and then playing by myself a lot I sunk lower Because I wasn't learning I was just pressing buttons like cod. Now my win percentage with McCree is over 50% and my shots are getting way better. Slowly getting better but today I actually carried 2 teams to victory. I must say it's a rewarding experience to see your hard work somewhat paying off.
This is so relatable actually. I main tank and support. When I play rank, I expect my healers to play like me when I play support. Same when I play support. I expect space. I always forget that everyone has a different play style and personality.
*I also watch pros to learn how to play different heroes. But this will help me learn DPS because I’m awful at it. :)
this is exactly what I've been trying to tell people who tell me the reason I'm not climbing is because I dive to deep, as genji of course or even as a tracer. It's not that I'm diving in too deep its more of a problem of not being able to secure a kill fast enough before u get killed or their team focuses you...especially in low ranks.
1.aim
2.positioning
3. Knowing when to back off and push in
4.awareness
5.priority calling
6.baiting enemy
7.alt farming
8.cooldown calls
9 .configure your playstyle based off reading the enemies movements (very hard)
10.COMMUNICATING
11.DONT DIE
follow these and you will get to gm also I'm not gm I'm 3400 even I still have a hard time mastering these. Especially 8 and 9
Pick Dva because on console from Diamond, people don’t abuse DVa enough. Next thing you know, I got into Master yesterday. Picking up Dva, I learn to open up and not be soo tunnel vision, learn to peal, protect my front line and back line. Tbh I am more mechanical better then making big brain move. Playing Dva it help me use my brain more, and overall it help me improve on my other Heroes.
One of the biggest tips is to never auto pilot, always think of every action you are doing or are going to do.
Please post an updated advanced genji guide!!!! Your guides are the best on TH-cam but you haven’t posted a genji guide in a while!!! Thanks and keep up the good work!!!
is there a "dont do it" rule for hero vs certain heroes? eg genji vs rodhog 1vs1?
I've played every hero and played a good amount of hours. To get good:
- 1 trick a hero
- warm up your aim rather than go straight into comp, practice drills. I like to vs bots using widow, mcree and tracer. This gets my hitscan good and warms up my tracking and reflexes.
- build game sense, this really comes by playing a lot and playing at higher ranks. This is also where watching other players play certain heroes help a lot. Eg. widowmaker isn't all about aim but positioning is key. another E.G. playing ashe, you wanna generally always get high ground and shoot down into the enemy.
- lastly play a lot of comp. Your gonna get flamed a lot for playing trash a few games but it is what it is.
- and you can carry on a lot of heroes as long as you use your head.
You can't be good at every hero, so pick the heroes your good at.
This is the best video you've ever made on how to improve in overwatch
CONFIDENCE is another way you can massively improve your game. It goes hand in hand with the “Making big plays” tip. Basically, hesitation will fuck up even the biggest and best plays. Recognizing the opportunities and acting on them immediately and CONFIDENTLY will make or break team fights and win or lose games. When I play confidently (rarely nowadays), everything goes much more smoothly. If I hesitate, I usually die. The trick is figuring out what will work before you execute, and that recognition and confidence in your recognition will only come with time.
Having to play at a rank higher (in order to rank higher) is a very underrated statement not taken into account by most in the OW community. STOP FUCKEN WHINGING AND GIT GUD.
As a Gm player, what i can say about this video. Feelsgoodman. A good video to rank up
The best thing to do to get better at any hero is focus on one issue with your play at time, then move on to the next thing once you correct/perfect it. Youll get much better/faster results doing this and it will help you climb
I really appreciate you guys using yourselves as negative examples, it really makes your point drive home. It's all of us trying to improve together!!
While it's true that any role can carry, I find it very hard on a hero like mercy where I am basically completely dependant on other people pushing in, doing kills, etc.
I can keep them alive, I can damage boost them at the right times, but when nothing comes out of it I am running back with my tail between my legs waiting for my team to respawn.
Hey Freedo whats the plan for vids for the upcoming season? I hope you do break down videos of big matches. Thanks for all the work you put into them!
For sure!
Understanding the optimal way to play the hero and how to get most value are the things that should be learned first
I'm updating my lucio/moira game so I get the full analysis on what is the better choices to make. I posted 3 videos up earlier where my death count was low. The Lucio one I got 0 deaths on match 2, but match 1 seemed impossible. Getting those impact plays are important. The Moira game I went more aggro than usual, but it feels like I don't have to focus too hard in this situation as it's easier to weigh the cool downs and distance/damage between each engagement.
3rd video was Junkrat and I pretty much had to plan out the win/loss conditions between 3 different control areas on Kings Row, but we ended up taking the game due to good zoning at the major chokes. Given you probably won't watch them, but I just wanted to say videos like these are important to review what is and isn't the right calls in every game.
1a-Be more self critical/less team critical
1b-Focus on your own play & how you can improve to make the key/power moves that make the difference
2- Know the fail conditions for you and your team
3a-Limit deaths. Best way to do this is 3b & 3c, but, could be mechanical failure on your fights
3b-Play within the sphere of how your team plays even if that way is sub-optimal/bad
3c-stay with team keep ideal position for where your team is make sure you look around/pan camera
4-Learn to make plays. Take risks (may contradict 3a, but, is a learning practice)
It’s funny because my comment on yesterday’s video was asking for advice on how to improve with Ana, and a lot of these are good tips.
In currently trying to learn tracer and I mainly play hitscan like ashe cree and soldier and one thing I try to remember is target selection. Who should I be shooting to end the fight faster not where can I just do damage. Granted as dps when you are not doing damage you are getting negative value but if you can remember angles, high ground and target selection it has helped me climb. Sometimes killing a tank that's out of pos is the right move but if you can kill the dps or healers then the fight ends faster.
One of the best tips as a dva when a Reinhardt hasn’t used fire strike in six seconds don’t use your boosters and follow some junk rat instead absorb the fire strike and other stuff and get some poke damegs
I’m actually trying to improve as Genji myself. Thanks for these tips!
How do you prevent your Reinhardt from charging in???
Max’s army tours the internet.
Excellent video, I think the entire OW forums need to watch this.
Very useful tips. Thanks keep it up
I agree with not blaming teammates for the most part. However, there is nothing that I can do from stopping my teammates from dying to a good widowmaker. They take no cover and just repeat the same death over and over. I can try pressuring with a genji, but that only works on certain maps where widow is not dominant.
Is Lucio still viable considering Ana and Moira are a thing?
Does going for the riptire with my dragonblade to save my team count?
This is gonna be super helpful.
At 5:00 - you have a zen and an Ana as healers. Both can heal you easily at mid to long range. At 5:13 the Ana is NOT chasing the tracer, she is right in front of you for 3 full seconds and fails to heal you. Not to mention the Zen failing to throw an orb. A healer should always be consious of throwing heals to genji and a tracer as they are squishy. I understand being a flanker is risky and you did get caught out, but with a Zen and an Ana you could have easily gotten heals. I'm all about self improvement but you also have to call things as they are while telling the whole story.
Really wish this video was longer, I was actually learning a lot
Hello everyone! Hello Your Overwatch! How are you guys feeling about this comp season/the new Nerfs/buffs coming out of the PTR?!
I enjoyed this and cant be the only one who needed to hear it
Yo, can you guys make a really thorough video on consistancy?
Very good advice I totally agree. And there are more variables that play
How do I carry as mercy ? Do I take out the pistol
Is there any way to get better with new hero without buying a smurf or throwing comp matches?
Thanks now I can finally hit a head shot with widow after 43 shots instead of 52!
I’m glad you mentioned how the Ana & Zen combo can be quite weak.
I think you’re mentality of learning gengu really helping is the same with phara. Wharf is so hard to learn and master like gengu.
Something that helped me improve was finding a team of mixed rank players I just went on the internet lfg tool for ps4 eu advertised myself as a healer/tank main and found a guild named tactical gaming just playing in that team against another in a scrim every so often helped me to improve my rank over time. I went from high bronze to low to medium gold in solo que after listening to my teammates advice
Solo q, duo q, 3 stack? full group? whats better?
Please feel free to explain to me as a healer main how to carry if my team doesn't get any kills anyway? Even if I do massive amounts of healing my team will eventually get wiped when the enemies build up all their ults.
Sick genji guide needed this
Hey, have you guys seen the posters of "The Queen" in Junkertown? Do you have any idea who she is or why those posters are there? When did they get there too?
You just gave all the genji mains(and there’s a lot of them) a big confidence boost and that’s not a good thing
The only teammates that make me mad are the ones that flame their team or go out of their way to blame others for lost teamfights (even if they have a point), or people that throw on purpose. It doesn't bother me when someone isn't doing a great on a particular hero because for one: they are at your elo so they must have a similar level of skill and everybody needs to learn somewhere. Just focus on your own gameplay, which also happens to be the only constant factor with an effect on the outcome of your games.
My problem is that people look at my account,they see I play rienhardt and then say I can’t play any thing else
A lot of my unnecessary deaths are when I'm standing on point surrounded by my team and then a random hanzo headshot kills me. Or same situation except a rein charge boops two people out of the way and then sucks me in and I die...
Use the animation cancels at genji Mainly with nanoblade. Some times you can get one slash dash more when you slash dash instad of slash slash :)
Ive been watching your vids and climbed from bronze to plat. Thank you!