jump and use her blinks alot. Also i noticed that the dot crosshair helps alot with tracer with accuracy which means more head shots. Also droping pulse bombs on tanks or heals healps alot or turrets and bastions. and just keep shooting and your ult is up in no time tbh.
Alex Cavazos I actually use the standard Cross hair with the bloom on. It helps me understand the flow of her guns. Don't know how, I just do so much better with that setup than the dot.
Alex Cavazos you should never ingage a fight after using your blinks, the worst mistake almost every tracer makes is over using those blinks, and then dying bc they only have that recall.
Be sure to watch to the end as i do say some things earlier on that do take time to explain, tracer is a lot more complex than people think and her timings are very important in winning the game. Its hard to know who to target sometimes and it really is a case of practice makes perfect. Let us know what you think and be sure to drop a Like & Subscribe if you enjoyed!!
I like to call that last minute pick Tracer the final stand pick. I've seen soo many games where a tracer has held overtime or stopped a capture just long enough for the rest of the team to reset, hence the name 'final stand' xP
I think technically you're wrong about the 300hp. As you would have to be dead to actually regain 150hp...and in most situations you really let yourself only get to 50-100hp before you heal. So it's more like 200-250. Nit picking I know...
Holy shit mate. Watched you back in the Black ops 2 days and stopped watching after ghosts bc i stepped away from the cod scene, but I'm glad to see you're making videos on overwatch. Keep up the good content and its glad to watch you again, Liam.
i use lb lb lb LT rb. lt is unused on tracer, but i think i want to get a bumper jumper for her, after seeing how easy PC players have it. but i have no room. just another reason for the elite controller.
Jared Alonge your on xbox, well why don't you set her blinks to the analog stick then. it is the way I use tracer, by pressing in the analog to blink, the left analog stick. also I am on Playstation.
Another tip I would give is to try to know the maps in as much detail as possible. She can blink in any direction so it's good to know where doorways are exactly so that way you can just blink backwards or to the side if you're in trouble without looking for the doorway. I loved the guide and gameplay! Tracer is my most played hero btw.
This guide just outlined most of what I do wrong as Tracer..that would definitely explain why I'm not good with her. Helpful video, I'll be sure to use it to refresh whenever I fall back into bad Tracer habits
I've had some real good success with Tracer on offense and defense. Really it just comes down to smart ability management and doing your best to act as a harasser, distraction, and such. Any opponents that get drawn away to deal with you are fewer for the rest of your team to deal with.
I think it's all about priorities. If you dont have at least one good tanker and supporters, the Tracer realy doesnt matter that much. Dont get me wrong, a good Tracer is pretty handy, but tankers/supporters, in defense, have to be the priority. If the tracer is chasing the supporters and "breaking" the formation, you're getting the job well done... probably better than a Reinhardt that only stand still with a shield with bad positioning.
Tracer player approaching Diamond. This is a great video for anyone learning tracer and a lot of the tips apply to Genji too. Good stuff, this is by far the most relevant Overwatch guide channel on TH-cam the way I see it.
Hey just wanted to say last night I played a game as Tracer where not only I had PotG with Tracer but 4 gold medals to boot. I kept in mind saving at least one of my blinks which really helped me out of bad situations. I still need plenty of practice with her, among every other hero, but thank you for the tips. Hope everyone who watches this series learns something new to help them too. :)
I'd love to see an advanced winston guide- Now honestly, i love winston- and i think he's amazing. But lately it seems like there's a disconnect for a lot of people where they think because he doesn't require a lot of mechanical skill, that he suddenly doesn't require any game sense, and they try him, go in, die 500 times, and come away from it thinking, "well this character is garbage made for people who can't aim." There's a lot of people asking for winston buffs, and a large majority of people think he and his ult are some of the worst things in the game. Icarus made a great video about it but i don't know how much visibility it will get. Winston is a character that gets run by pro teams. quite often. Yet at an average level he's very rare and a lot of people think he's bad. He can't be both a high tier character and one of the worst in the game, and i certainly don't think he's the latter.
I saw Icarus' video and he's completely right. We've done a few vids on Winston -F th-cam.com/channels/EzOHrh9snmHJSGu9wmOvsw.htmlsearch?query=winston?&ab_channel=YourOverwatch
Your Overwatch Hey wow, a response! You guys are coolguys. and thanks for the links. I just felt i had to mention it because i don't know if there's another character that is as strong that most of the general playerbase seems to completely fail to understand.
SylemGistoe Truth! He's so key! But shooter fans expect things to die immediately when they shoot them, but Winston is more of a spacial/brawler character, like Donkey Kong from Smash Bros! -F
I agree sylemgytoe. I main Winston and he is still slept on two years later although people are starting and pretty much already have found his potential. A lot of them also try him out and get better with him when I destroy them with the monkey. Lol
After being an active follower on @Your Overwatch and @Overwatch Central I have to say that it has helped me tremendously in improving my own gamesense and trying to find my own weaknesses with every hero and fix them! Awesome work guys. Keep it up
These videos are always so helpful. Keep up the good work! Quick suggestion, you guys should totally do a video dedicated to core game ideas. Gamesense, positioning, team composition, focused fire over trash damage, picking targets, etc. A lot of people could use some in depth clarification on what these ideas mean and what they look like.
I just started getting back into OW and this video helped me so much w/ getting reacquainted with Tracer, she def plays different now then she did then (ie blink in do chip damage rewind back). So thank you for this!
It baffles me how people are able to constantly keep trained on enemy players with characters like Tracer or Zarya in order to melt them. To me, it seems like everyone is moving at the speed of sound.
Victim of Lag it always happens where I'm about to die and it feels so slow yet when I see the replay it goes by in like half a second because I'm seeing it without actually having to keep up with everything.
I used to watch Weagal way back in BO2 when he got 100+ kill gameplays and talk about hotboxing tents at metal festivals. I haven't watched him in years but today I just now randomly clicked on this videos and was plesently surprised to hear his voice. I'm back Weagal. :)
This got more views in 5 minutes than my advanced guide got in 2 months, I need to work on my upload game! Really enjoyed listening to someone else's viewpoint on tracer at a somewhat high level but I do have some points of my own, being a tracer main and all that... First off I think trying to keep all 3 of your blinks is a bit excessive. I prefer to use a dash to get into a favorable position so that I have my third coming off of cooldown, which means I can effectively use at least 4 dashes during an engagement. Secondly holy crap someone else finally said it... Mei doesn't counter Tracer. If any hero gets frozen by Mei they're probably dead but that doesn't mean she counters them. It usually means there were mechanical misplays or some sort of CC involved. Really common misconception that I'm glad more people now know. I'd love to do a video of sorts with you guys in the future, maybe when I get my current projects uploaded and out of the way. Let me know if possible
"How could they know where I am as Tracer???" Because she has the footsteps of a 400b lineman in full sprint, makes loud swooshing noises as she rends spacetime asunder, and yells peppy phrases the whole damn time.
You should probably do a video on target picking. Like analyzing situations. Who is the most vital, who is the most vulnerable, when to focus fire with your team, and when to pick out targets that are overextended.
one of the most satisfying things to do as tracer is to blink up to a bastion in his turret and pulse bomb him after hes been causing so much trouble for your team
One thing I've found about Tracer is that she's really good for getting others' abilities on cooldown if you know what you're doing. I've gotten to a point where if I can see a Roadhog I know exactly when to blink to avoid the hook, and this can apply to almost any hero with an "instakill" ability. You have to have a good sense of how to bait it out, though. If you can figure out when that Reinhardt is charging or the Hanzo is using a Scatter arrow, you can usually blink before it kills you.
One thing I wanted to know in this tutorial/guide is timing. Namely when to go for healers, when to protect your healers, when to attack as a group, when to flank. Targetting Mercy, or other healers aren't as easy once you hit higher SR and in a non KOTH map. Zen has discord, lucio's movements, mercy also can fly around a lot, ana has dps and her potion thing. Ana+mercy is also hard to deal with.
Hey, Great video, I would just add her benefits of working with Mei. She works extremely well with Mei when they are frozen and you can just shoot pure head shots.
Tracer is the reason I love torbjorn and Bastion.Auto lock turrets keeps them in check to some degree and as Bastion so long as my team can handle them self I normally auto trigger ppl to use there ult on me.
Maps where there is one gateway to the objective and the other team is defending in an unstoppable manor is where tracer/genji can excel. Just to sneak behind and get on the objective will disrupt the teamwork going for the other team because more than likely 2 or more heroes will come to fend you off leaving a 5 v 4 for your team to deal with getting through the gateway. The two maps that come to mind where this helps the most are Hanamura and Volskia Industries
Thanks! This was very helpful- I think the number one thing I need to work on as tracer is being more consistent with headshots and learning how to trick-throw that damn bomb. She needs to learn how to toss it better!
I think the main thing that helped me with tracer (and aiming in general) is switching the crosshair to a simple green dot. Makes aiming for the head 10x easier than a spreading crosshair.
As a tracer main I've found it surprisingly easy to take out roadhogs actually. All I do is get them to focus on me and in that same instance blink away expecting the hook (which it always comes) and then use my remaining blinks to blink behind and in front of the roadhog until he's dead
As someone with 70+ hours as Tracer this video was spot on. Especially the part about Mercy. She can almost nullify Tracers effectiveness if not killed first. I also have the same issue of going off on my own.
I just remembered i changed the reticle on all my heroes to short crosshairs and changed the color to pink/purple because of you guys lol i don't regret it though
The one thing you missed is that Tracer's recall has about 0.3 second cast time. It's small but it's really important to know. I die many times as Tracer because of that cast window and I would have all the power, I would remove it. Hitscan weapons are truly annoying because of this cast time, but even Hanzo has killed me before rewinding.
How to be a good tracer... 1. Learn map layout. 2. Run/walk/blink backwards throughout the map. 3. Do jumping Shots. 4. Do not use recall throughout the game, until you are able to only die 0-3 times in a game by average. 5. Play against different heroes. 6. Develop little techniques for specific heroes, or situations.
I hope you do a Symmetra guide video. Lately, I have been doing well with her, but most people still think she's bad and crap on me for it, so I hope you can change their minds.
cool video. my priority targets are usually zen > zarya > the rest. the first two are just such strong with discord orb and gravity ult respectively. after those two i just go for picks and anyone distracted.
Tracer's killing potential actually makes her very similar to Winston imo (other than being not being able to create space like him) in that she can do a lot of reliable damage but doesn't have anything in her kit that makes for easy kills. She's incredibly good at hopping into engagements your teammates are in and sweeping up after them, or rather having someone near her team near her all the time to sweep up kills on all the damage she does (since getting someone in one burst is no cakewalk)
Can you please make a guide on how to be a good Reinhardt? I want to learn how to be a good tank, since no one in competitive seems to watch your videos, and everyone picks DpS or Roadhog, even on defense. This has caused me to lose pretty much every game. I want to end up reaching Platinum by the end of the season, and I feel Reinhardt or Winston would be good to learn. I want to learn Reinhardt, tho, because Earthshatter seems better for the team fight, as compared to primal rage. Thanks!
if you have a pulse bomb, you can use all 3 blinks to get in, drop it on a group, and rewind out, then wait for at least 2 blinks to come back out from cover, of course, it's a tough call to make, and do NOT miss that bomb or you're dead. Do that extremely sparingly.
If u ever have trouble with a mccree or roadhogs shoot them a bit and blink away to bait the flash bang and hook. Once it's baited just light em up and charge ur ult
Good guide, covering the essential mindset behind Tracer. But now, that the secret is out, I fear competition for Tracer stats is going to get tougher.
Good guide mate! I think I knew most of what you said except the 1v1 don't bait thing. It would be nice if you talked more in detail about the mechanics/combos you can do with her though. Like if you recall first play with your blinks a bit and you'll have 2 recalls almost certainly in 1 fight. Oh and by the way, it's 299 health max not 300 or she'd be dead before the blink. Sorry for the long paragraph and keep up the good work. ;)
I have somewhat fallen into the ana main pick for my team. I played her and did alright and now I play her all the time. I am nowhere near good with her in my opinion (I miss sleep darts all the time, I am still working on nanos, and my aim isn't the best) but yet I do think I have gotten pretty good at knowing what's going on and having that battle awareness so I did get better at something!
sound if she's close/blinking through you, and if she's far away you can see the trail left behind. after seeing what corner she darted behind you can get some predictions on which way they would head. as for recall you have sound("let's try this again") and just remembering where you saw the tracer 3 seconds before. you have approximately a second from when they activate the recall to snap your aim to where they were 3 seconds before that.
Play Tracer. Tracer is my most played hero so I have no trouble predicting where the enemy Tracer's will be. People who think Tracer is OP haven't played her enough to find her limitations. Just count blinks and recalls and pounce. You just have to keep a mental not of where she was three seconds ago.
You guys should do a video about when to use different, similar heros (genji vs tracer, torb vs sym, mccree vs soldier) based on map, team comp, enemy carry etc. Obviously your own skill matters, but are there some situations that one flanker/hitscan outshines the other generally?
The mark of a good Tracer is her survivability. A Tracer should be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. I like to think of her as a mosquito, as she is there to be annoying, and to make the other team focus on killing her first, which divides the fight, and with her ridiculous mobility, she can zip in and out of fights and get to health packs to make sure she stays alive, but that is the thing about her. As a Tracer, you need to know the maps inside and out, and have the health pack locations memorized. She is a High learning curve character, and at her best can be a true menace.
3:50 - I'm so glad someone else said it. I don't frequent Overwatch communities so I won't assume I was the only one who's been mentioning it but I've never seen/heard anyone else bring that up aside from me. She's a fucking tank. A hella-mobile, high-speed tank with self-sustaining abilities. Broken on consoles.
Any other tips for 1v1'ing Zen's? I am pretty solid 1v1 on everyone but him, I feel the fact he has projectiles is almost a benefit against Tracer because as Tracer you are always moving around and he doesn't have to have good aim to hit you with his 20 ammo spam.
Maybe a nitpick, but I'd try to engage that Reaper from your example at 2:17 since he probably is in position to kill respawning people and stagger your team.
Great video, I would like to know more about effectiveness in terms of aiming the bomb. I can DPS fine with Tracer, and I understand positioning, but I just seem to suck at sticking people.
can you guys try to make a guide on dva? im not really sure what shes supposed to be doing whenever i use her and youve mentioned playing her agressively and stuff in the past just some clarification as to what youre talking about would be appreciated.
Engage, kill healers/squishies, Regroup with team using boosters. also, if you hear a Soldier/McCree ult boost into them and matrix em in the face, your teammates will love you. One last thing: Zero Suit D.Va is an actual threat if played backline so stand behind everyone and do some damage until you have mech EDIT: If you're at full chase down healing roadhogs and start shooting them in the face. ALWAYS go for headshots. Widowmaker, Bastion and other backline nukes FEAR you. If you're losing health fly away to the high ground and get some poke damage before going and getting healed. lastly, protect your healers: you have a great shield and automatic shotguns that don't need reloading, why would you not use them to help them? I think that's about it. If you need any more help don't be shy!
Great video tracer is my strongest character. Eg my team is doing bad 85% of the time i can carry with her. not saying i know it all but agreed with all your tips solid advice guys wouldn't have put it better myself!
I would probably just recommend to remember you don't always need to rewind when you use your pulse bomb, its tempting, but most of the time you can get away with just a blink or two.
ive actually noticed having a lot of problems facing mei. not because of her freeze gun, its pretty easy to blink out of range before getting frozen, but because of 1. tracer cant get around the wall and 2. meis heal buys her so much time that its basically not worth focusing her down. if its a big teamfight, i generally try to avoid mei because i know shes has a decent amount of hp and if i dont immediately burst her down shes just gonna heal to basically full and waste even more of my time
i usually target the zen before the lucio. for the simple reason that i don't have a high chance of getting blasted into near death by the lucio while i'm killing the zen :|
What I like to do against tanks is run at them while shooting, blink through them and shoot them in the back. That works well with Dva especially, but you gotta be more careful with Reinhardt and Roadhog. And you need to take your distances with Winston.
Another thing about Tracer and pulse bombing the Reinhardt while his shield is up that i've learned from experience is that all his allies are behind the shield right next to him, especially weaker opponents. XD
4:40 - Man, you missed the perfect time to kill that Mei by putting down a pulse bomb so it exploded after she got de-iced. It would have been so funny if you had done that. I love doing that to Mei as Tracer.
very informative, love it, but do you guys think you could do a short breakdown on the arc of tracer's ult? Big targets like rein are obviously easy to hit, but for someone like lucio with his duck and weave walk animation I struggle to stick a bomb like you did at 11:27
I mean, effectively more than 300hp if you consider rewind's invincibility frames. But let's be realistic, it's not going to be 299 or even 280 most of the time.
+Levi-san 299 would be correct though. 149 the first time, 150 the second time, because you just have to stay alive to use recall. I think it's dumb to say "she has more hp" tbh, because all she really does is heal up to the amount she had before.
Can you do an advanced Reinhardt guide? I'm terrible with him and in competitive I usually have a team without one and I think he's almost a essential part to any team comp. learning some advanced tech could prove helpful for a lot of Reinhardt mains too.
Well, look at the comp, rein is very helpful but isn't necessarily needed if for example you have, genji, tracer, dva, lucio, and zen. That could be a useful Winston pick rather than a rein. But to answer your question, get better at using the fire strike, hit at least %70 or more on successful hits. And make sure that your shield never breaks, the shield recharges faster when it's not broken. Never go off by yourself, your the man of the team and if you go down your chances of holding the point go down drastically. Hold chokes on defense, and stick together on offense. And ult on the enemy rein, or in the choke, if you kill their rein then they will not have a shield. Focusing priorities like healers is also good. Other than that, if there is three players, ult.
in addition to that, dont push/rush (what is the shift ability called?) into a group of enemies. Pick single targets. And a tip for when in a 1v1 with tracer, drop your shield and attack her. You can kill her in 2 hits. (I personally think Reinhard is the best counter to tracer)
Positioning is so important. Attacking when the enemy is distracted by others. Let the tanks roll in first then blink in behind, pick a healer and trip pulse bomb on main tank.
Question: I loved your comment on baiting but a lot of the time with tracer I'll find a solid enemy back line with a bastion, hanzo, ect. The kind of set up where I can't pick someone off without dying before the final blow, in these cases what I find myself doing is poking at this back line and effectively doing trash damage, but enough to pull their attention and bait two or even three people and effectively use my blinks to evade and not die. Is there a better strategy to use when coming up against this problem or is scrabbling the defense a good call?
This is not the first time I have heard the term "gamesense" in your videos, and I am genuinely curious about its meaning. How can that skill be trained (I think I know what the answer's gonna be though)? By the way, I have found some advices that you offered to be very helpful. For example, I tend to blink a lot without trying to conserve them, and then waste Recall to get out. I will try to be more careful with these abilities. And one more thing I am worried about: You have mentioned setting the mouse sensitivity a bit higher to keep up with Tracer's mobility. Wouldn't getting used to that sensitivity cripple my McCree aim (Yeah, right, like there's anything to cripple lol (Shut up!))?
even if you were a bad tracer a simple blink out of Meis range then turning around and attacking her from a reasonable distance. Tracer does decent damage at medium range
Rate my Comp.: 2-2-2; Zarya-Tracer Duo; Mercy-Pharah Duo; Lucio and Reinhardt/Roadhog (Standard/Dive). Zarya and Tracer can couple their ults and Zarya can shield Tracer. Mercy and Pharah can really easily pair up. Lucio can speed boost/heal Roadhog/Reinhardt while Mercy and Pharah protect him, protecting Reinhardt, protecting Zarya, protecting Tracer, While she keeps their eyes off of Pharah and Mercy
Trying to be as difficult to hit as possible while being accurate with your guns is the biggest struggle when using her.
jump and use her blinks alot. Also i noticed that the dot crosshair helps alot with tracer with accuracy which means more head shots. Also droping pulse bombs on tanks or heals healps alot or turrets and bastions. and just keep shooting and your ult is up in no time tbh.
Alex Cavazos I actually use the standard Cross hair with the bloom on. It helps me understand the flow of her guns. Don't know how, I just do so much better with that setup than the dot.
That is what they call skills, that's how games work if you want to be the best, git guut 😂👍
I'm trying to play overwatch but this one player keeps kicking my ass.
Alex Cavazos you should never ingage a fight after using your blinks, the worst mistake almost every tracer makes is over using those blinks, and then dying bc they only have that recall.
Be sure to watch to the end as i do say some things earlier on that do take time to explain, tracer is a lot more complex than people think and her timings are very important in winning the game. Its hard to know who to target sometimes and it really is a case of practice makes perfect. Let us know what you think and be sure to drop a Like & Subscribe if you enjoyed!!
I like to call that last minute pick Tracer the final stand pick. I've seen soo many games where a tracer has held overtime or stopped a capture just long enough for the rest of the team to reset, hence the name 'final stand' xP
I watch all your videos till the end! Also I'm a new player and all these guides really help! Thank you for uploading these!
I think technically you're wrong about the 300hp. As you would have to be dead to actually regain 150hp...and in most situations you really let yourself only get to 50-100hp before you heal. So it's more like 200-250.
Nit picking I know...
I could then argue she actually has 9999HP if you get enough rewinds without dying ;) -W
then why didnt you in the video? because no one is talking about one who never dies, they are obv talking about health from one rewind
Holy shit mate. Watched you back in the Black ops 2 days and stopped watching after ghosts bc i stepped away from the cod scene, but I'm glad to see you're making videos on overwatch. Keep up the good content and its glad to watch you again, Liam.
Thanks buddy!
What was the channel name back then?
I thought I recognised the voice holy shit!
Ａｍａｔｅｒａｓｕ
What channel name did he have?
Weagal he was the leader of the WetheOp channel aswell
1. Unload your magazines
2. Blink while reloading to break the enemy's tracking
3. Repeat
Actually, its LB LB LB, Y, RB. Repeat (Xbox controls since i play xbox)
i use lb lb lb LT rb. lt is unused on tracer, but i think i want to get a bumper jumper for her, after seeing how easy PC players have it. but i have no room. just another reason for the elite controller.
Jared Alonge
your on xbox, well why don't you set her blinks to the analog stick then. it is the way I use tracer, by pressing in the analog to blink, the left analog stick. also I am on Playstation.
lmb r rmb if ur on pc
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Teacher is one of my favourite characters, thanks for the guide.
Sorry autocorrect, Tracer
not teacher
Teacher is also my favorite. Really useful in solo queue so I can teach everyone how to actually play decently.
+alranican haha
*decently
Another tip I would give is to try to know the maps in as much detail as possible. She can blink in any direction so it's good to know where doorways are exactly so that way you can just blink backwards or to the side if you're in trouble without looking for the doorway. I loved the guide and gameplay! Tracer is my most played hero btw.
You should have mentioned that if you get a Discord Orb on you, Recall removes all debuffs. It's a great thing to keep in mind.
8:19 did you just trick junkrat into killing himself with an ult?
That was sick
yup :)
This guide just outlined most of what I do wrong as Tracer..that would definitely explain why I'm not good with her. Helpful video, I'll be sure to use it to refresh whenever I fall back into bad Tracer habits
I've had some real good success with Tracer on offense and defense. Really it just comes down to smart ability management and doing your best to act as a harasser, distraction, and such. Any opponents that get drawn away to deal with you are fewer for the rest of your team to deal with.
I think it's all about priorities. If you dont have at least one good tanker and supporters, the Tracer realy doesnt matter that much. Dont get me wrong, a good Tracer is pretty handy, but tankers/supporters, in defense, have to be the priority. If the tracer is chasing the supporters and "breaking" the formation, you're getting the job well done... probably better than a Reinhardt that only stand still with a shield with bad positioning.
This, Tracer is extremely effective on both defence and offence. I get crap in coms all the time for running her on defence.
Clyde Marshall qqqA
Tracer player approaching Diamond. This is a great video for anyone learning tracer and a lot of the tips apply to Genji too. Good stuff, this is by far the most relevant Overwatch guide channel on TH-cam the way I see it.
Hey just wanted to say last night I played a game as Tracer where not only I had PotG with Tracer but 4 gold medals to boot. I kept in mind saving at least one of my blinks which really helped me out of bad situations. I still need plenty of practice with her, among every other hero, but thank you for the tips. Hope everyone who watches this series learns something new to help them too. :)
"It's all about knowing who to target" As you zip right by the mercy in plain sight xD 7:45
Didnt see her lol, tunnel vision XD
It happens to the best of us lol xD Love your videos by the way! Keep up the good work :)
lol he kills her literally 15 seconds later
True lol but its easier to kill the rest of the team if the Mercy is dead
"Something's wrong here... This Zarya seems to be somehow regenerating her health as I atta- OH SHIT A MERCY!"
I'd love to see an advanced winston guide- Now honestly, i love winston- and i think he's amazing. But lately it seems like there's a disconnect for a lot of people where they think because he doesn't require a lot of mechanical skill, that he suddenly doesn't require any game sense, and they try him, go in, die 500 times, and come away from it thinking, "well this character is garbage made for people who can't aim." There's a lot of people asking for winston buffs, and a large majority of people think he and his ult are some of the worst things in the game. Icarus made a great video about it but i don't know how much visibility it will get. Winston is a character that gets run by pro teams. quite often. Yet at an average level he's very rare and a lot of people think he's bad. He can't be both a high tier character and one of the worst in the game, and i certainly don't think he's the latter.
I saw Icarus' video and he's completely right. We've done a few vids on Winston -F th-cam.com/channels/EzOHrh9snmHJSGu9wmOvsw.htmlsearch?query=winston?&ab_channel=YourOverwatch
Your Overwatch
Hey wow, a response! You guys are coolguys. and thanks for the links. I just felt i had to mention it because i don't know if there's another character that is as strong that most of the general playerbase seems to completely fail to understand.
SylemGistoe Truth! He's so key! But shooter fans expect things to die immediately when they shoot them, but Winston is more of a spacial/brawler character, like Donkey Kong from Smash Bros! -F
I agree sylemgytoe. I main Winston and he is still slept on two years later although people are starting and pretty much already have found his potential. A lot of them also try him out and get better with him when I destroy them with the monkey. Lol
After being an active follower on @Your Overwatch and @Overwatch Central I have to say that it has helped me tremendously in improving my own gamesense and trying to find my own weaknesses with every hero and fix them! Awesome work guys. Keep it up
These videos are always so helpful. Keep up the good work!
Quick suggestion, you guys should totally do a video dedicated to core game ideas. Gamesense, positioning, team composition, focused fire over trash damage, picking targets, etc. A lot of people could use some in depth clarification on what these ideas mean and what they look like.
Really nice guide for Tracer!
Played with her several times, but didn´t know who I should attack etc. ^^
Did you know you can blink whilst emoteing it's actually pretty funny
Remix Gamer yeah boi
I just started getting back into OW and this video helped me so much w/ getting reacquainted with Tracer, she def plays different now then she did then (ie blink in do chip damage rewind back). So thank you for this!
Thanks! I've been playing a bit more Tracer lately and I needed some help with blink/rewind management. This helps a lot.
It baffles me how people are able to constantly keep trained on enemy players with characters like Tracer or Zarya in order to melt them. To me, it seems like everyone is moving at the speed of sound.
Victim of Lag it always happens where I'm about to die and it feels so slow yet when I see the replay it goes by in like half a second because I'm seeing it without actually having to keep up with everything.
Victim of Lag to be fair, tracer moves at the speed of.. time?
Well... what? Is she going to go faster than time?
I used to watch Weagal way back in BO2 when he got 100+ kill gameplays and talk about hotboxing tents at metal festivals. I haven't watched him in years but today I just now randomly clicked on this videos and was plesently surprised to hear his voice. I'm back Weagal. :)
Gameplay is old. Tracer blinked through Junkrat's trap.
Nope it just went to the side, pretty sure that gameplay was very recent -w
I have no purpose in life.
Jump +blink let's you get through a trap undetected
blink is a short range teleport, not a quick forward movement
Actually it is a quick movement, because Tracer only Speeds Time up for her with her Chronoaccellerator.
This got more views in 5 minutes than my advanced guide got in 2 months, I need to work on my upload game!
Really enjoyed listening to someone else's viewpoint on tracer at a somewhat high level but I do have some points of my own, being a tracer main and all that...
First off I think trying to keep all 3 of your blinks is a bit excessive. I prefer to use a dash to get into a favorable position so that I have my third coming off of cooldown, which means I can effectively use at least 4 dashes during an engagement.
Secondly holy crap someone else finally said it... Mei doesn't counter Tracer. If any hero gets frozen by Mei they're probably dead but that doesn't mean she counters them. It usually means there were mechanical misplays or some sort of CC involved. Really common misconception that I'm glad more people now know.
I'd love to do a video of sorts with you guys in the future, maybe when I get my current projects uploaded and out of the way. Let me know if possible
I have no clue why I'm watching this, I main tracer. I guess it's OK to have reminders
lol ikr?
I main Mercy with 80+ hours on her but I still watched the Mercy video, I just like their commentary
congrats
"How could they know where I am as Tracer???"
Because she has the footsteps of a 400b lineman in full sprint, makes loud swooshing noises as she rends spacetime asunder, and yells peppy phrases the whole damn time.
Awesome video. That headshot clip into Lucio at close range was so satisfying too (Lijang map)
You should probably do a video on target picking. Like analyzing situations. Who is the most vital, who is the most vulnerable, when to focus fire with your team, and when to pick out targets that are overextended.
one of the most satisfying things to do as tracer is to blink up to a bastion in his turret and pulse bomb him after hes been causing so much trouble for your team
Ye just make sure you kill the mercy 1st or your team will scream at you XD
You are the only guy that I find helpful in hero guides love man
please do a video on the impact of sensetivity. high vs low and how to tell if you need to change.
One thing I've found about Tracer is that she's really good for getting others' abilities on cooldown if you know what you're doing. I've gotten to a point where if I can see a Roadhog I know exactly when to blink to avoid the hook, and this can apply to almost any hero with an "instakill" ability. You have to have a good sense of how to bait it out, though. If you can figure out when that Reinhardt is charging or the Hanzo is using a Scatter arrow, you can usually blink before it kills you.
One thing I wanted to know in this tutorial/guide is timing. Namely when to go for healers, when to protect your healers, when to attack as a group, when to flank.
Targetting Mercy, or other healers aren't as easy once you hit higher SR and in a non KOTH map. Zen has discord, lucio's movements, mercy also can fly around a lot, ana has dps and her potion thing. Ana+mercy is also hard to deal with.
Hey,
Great video, I would just add her benefits of working with Mei. She works extremely well with Mei when they are frozen and you can just shoot pure head shots.
Tracer is the reason I love torbjorn and Bastion.Auto lock turrets keeps them in check to some degree and as Bastion so long as my team can handle them self I normally auto trigger ppl to use there ult on me.
Maps where there is one gateway to the objective and the other team is defending in an unstoppable manor is where tracer/genji can excel. Just to sneak behind and get on the objective will disrupt the teamwork going for the other team because more than likely 2 or more heroes will come to fend you off leaving a 5 v 4 for your team to deal with getting through the gateway. The two maps that come to mind where this helps the most are Hanamura and Volskia Industries
Thanks! This was very helpful- I think the number one thing I need to work on as tracer is being more consistent with headshots and learning how to trick-throw that damn bomb. She needs to learn how to toss it better!
You have no idea how helpful this is
I think the main thing that helped me with tracer (and aiming in general) is switching the crosshair to a simple green dot. Makes aiming for the head 10x easier than a spreading crosshair.
Excellent video. Your videos lately have been top class. I've learned so much!
As a tracer main I've found it surprisingly easy to take out roadhogs actually. All I do is get them to focus on me and in that same instance blink away expecting the hook (which it always comes) and then use my remaining blinks to blink behind and in front of the roadhog until he's dead
As someone with 70+ hours as Tracer this video was spot on. Especially the part about Mercy. She can almost nullify Tracers effectiveness if not killed first. I also have the same issue of going off on my own.
This really helped dude thanks a lot I'm still learning
the gameplay video was really instructive for the points of emphasis
I just remembered i changed the reticle on all my heroes to short crosshairs and changed the color to pink/purple because of you guys lol i don't regret it though
The one thing you missed is that Tracer's recall has about 0.3 second cast time. It's small but it's really important to know. I die many times as Tracer because of that cast window and I would have all the power, I would remove it. Hitscan weapons are truly annoying because of this cast time, but even Hanzo has killed me before rewinding.
Do you think tracers alt needs a slight buff further throw distance or maybe some auto tracking idk I just think it's kinda weak
William Umstattd I think widow makers ult is the worst as it only lets you see enemies
RogueReaper_ It's amazing for pro widow makers. They can see and predict enemies and easily headshot them.
How to be a good tracer...
1. Learn map layout.
2. Run/walk/blink backwards throughout the map.
3. Do jumping Shots.
4. Do not use recall throughout the game, until you are able to only die 0-3 times in a game by average.
5. Play against different heroes.
6. Develop little techniques for specific heroes, or situations.
What do you mean in #4?
Charle Magne you have to learn to survive without recall, because most people start panicing and spam rewind when they get damage
Do not jump shot. At masters that will get you killed cos it's easier to track.
10:50 I laughed so hard when you said that because it's so true
I hope you do a Symmetra guide video. Lately, I have been doing well with her, but most people still think she's bad and crap on me for it, so I hope you can change their minds.
cool video. my priority targets are usually zen > zarya > the rest. the first two are just such strong with discord orb and gravity ult respectively. after those two i just go for picks and anyone distracted.
Would it be possible to make a video on gamesense and how to improve it?
"8 Steps To PvP Greatness" is a really good video about game sense, /watch?v=pnXk85uSvPY
Tracer's killing potential actually makes her very similar to Winston imo (other than being not being able to create space like him) in that she can do a lot of reliable damage but doesn't have anything in her kit that makes for easy kills. She's incredibly good at hopping into engagements your teammates are in and sweeping up after them, or rather having someone near her team near her all the time to sweep up kills on all the damage she does (since getting someone in one burst is no cakewalk)
Can you please make a guide on how to be a good Reinhardt? I want to learn how to be a good tank, since no one in competitive seems to watch your videos, and everyone picks DpS or Roadhog, even on defense. This has caused me to lose pretty much every game. I want to end up reaching Platinum by the end of the season, and I feel Reinhardt or Winston would be good to learn. I want to learn Reinhardt, tho, because Earthshatter seems better for the team fight, as compared to primal rage. Thanks!
if you have a pulse bomb, you can use all 3 blinks to get in, drop it on a group, and rewind out, then wait for at least 2 blinks to come back out from cover, of course, it's a tough call to make, and do NOT miss that bomb or you're dead. Do that extremely sparingly.
number one rule when playing Tracer: respect tha booty!
If u ever have trouble with a mccree or roadhogs shoot them a bit and blink away to bait the flash bang and hook. Once it's baited just light em up and charge ur ult
Good guide, covering the essential mindset behind Tracer. But now, that the secret is out, I fear competition for Tracer stats is going to get tougher.
Good guide mate! I think I knew most of what you said except the 1v1 don't bait thing. It would be nice if you talked more in detail about the mechanics/combos you can do with her though. Like if you recall first play with your blinks a bit and you'll have 2 recalls almost certainly in 1 fight. Oh and by the way, it's 299 health max not 300 or she'd be dead before the blink. Sorry for the long paragraph and keep up the good work. ;)
I have somewhat fallen into the ana main pick for my team. I played her and did alright and now I play her all the time. I am nowhere near good with her in my opinion (I miss sleep darts all the time, I am still working on nanos, and my aim isn't the best) but yet I do think I have gotten pretty good at knowing what's going on and having that battle awareness so I did get better at something!
What's the easiest way to track an enemy Tracer? I find when she blinks or rewinds, it's hard for me to figure out where the fuck she actually went.
sound if she's close/blinking through you, and if she's far away you can see the trail left behind. after seeing what corner she darted behind you can get some predictions on which way they would head. as for recall you have sound("let's try this again") and just remembering where you saw the tracer 3 seconds before. you have approximately a second from when they activate the recall to snap your aim to where they were 3 seconds before that.
Just type on youtube: d1bz tracer drills. It's just in-depth tracer guide
get gud
Play Tracer. Tracer is my most played hero so I have no trouble predicting where the enemy Tracer's will be. People who think Tracer is OP haven't played her enough to find her limitations. Just count blinks and recalls and pounce. You just have to keep a mental not of where she was three seconds ago.
TheShwantz27 if she rewinds just look to where she came from
Can we get a Rien guide please? Knowing how to use his shield properly, and when to drop it would be great.
You guys should do a video about when to use different, similar heros (genji vs tracer, torb vs sym, mccree vs soldier) based on map, team comp, enemy carry etc. Obviously your own skill matters, but are there some situations that one flanker/hitscan outshines the other generally?
The mark of a good Tracer is her survivability. A Tracer should be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. I like to think of her as a mosquito, as she is there to be annoying, and to make the other team focus on killing her first, which divides the fight, and with her ridiculous mobility, she can zip in and out of fights and get to health packs to make sure she stays alive, but that is the thing about her. As a Tracer, you need to know the maps inside and out, and have the health pack locations memorized. She is a High learning curve character, and at her best can be a true menace.
3:50 - I'm so glad someone else said it. I don't frequent Overwatch communities so I won't assume I was the only one who's been mentioning it but I've never seen/heard anyone else bring that up aside from me. She's a fucking tank. A hella-mobile, high-speed tank with self-sustaining abilities. Broken on consoles.
Any other tips for 1v1'ing Zen's? I am pretty solid 1v1 on everyone but him, I feel the fact he has projectiles is almost a benefit against Tracer because as Tracer you are always moving around and he doesn't have to have good aim to hit you with his 20 ammo spam.
Fantastic guide. Will definitely attempt some more Tracer play :)
Maybe a nitpick, but I'd try to engage that Reaper from your example at 2:17 since he probably is in position to kill respawning people and stagger your team.
Great video, I would like to know more about effectiveness in terms of aiming the bomb. I can DPS fine with Tracer, and I understand positioning, but I just seem to suck at sticking people.
Nice Tracer guide. Keep up the good work.
can you guys try to make a guide on dva? im not really sure what shes supposed to be doing whenever i use her and youve mentioned playing her agressively and stuff in the past just some clarification as to what youre talking about would be appreciated.
D'va plays very similar to tracer and reinhard. Kinda a mix between those 2.
Engage, kill healers/squishies, Regroup with team using boosters. also, if you hear a Soldier/McCree ult boost into them and matrix em in the face, your teammates will love you.
One last thing: Zero Suit D.Va is an actual threat if played backline so stand behind everyone and do some damage until you have mech
EDIT: If you're at full chase down healing roadhogs and start shooting them in the face. ALWAYS go for headshots. Widowmaker, Bastion and other backline nukes FEAR you. If you're losing health fly away to the high ground and get some poke damage before going and getting healed. lastly, protect your healers: you have a great shield and automatic shotguns that don't need reloading, why would you not use them to help them?
I think that's about it. If you need any more help don't be shy!
Great video tracer is my strongest character. Eg my team is doing bad 85% of the time i can carry with her. not saying i know it all but agreed with all your tips solid advice guys wouldn't have put it better myself!
I would probably just recommend to remember you don't always need to rewind when you use your pulse bomb, its tempting, but most of the time you can get away with just a blink or two.
ive actually noticed having a lot of problems facing mei. not because of her freeze gun, its pretty easy to blink out of range before getting frozen, but because of 1. tracer cant get around the wall and 2. meis heal buys her so much time that its basically not worth focusing her down. if its a big teamfight, i generally try to avoid mei because i know shes has a decent amount of hp and if i dont immediately burst her down shes just gonna heal to basically full and waste even more of my time
I like tracer, because you could pick her and not kill a single thing, but still be useful if you're occupying the attention it 2+ players
i usually target the zen before the lucio. for the simple reason that i don't have a high chance of getting blasted into near death by the lucio while i'm killing the zen :|
What I like to do against tanks is run at them while shooting, blink through them and shoot them in the back. That works well with Dva especially, but you gotta be more careful with Reinhardt and Roadhog. And you need to take your distances with Winston.
Another thing about Tracer and pulse bombing the Reinhardt while his shield is up that i've learned from experience is that all his allies are behind the shield right next to him, especially weaker opponents. XD
4:40 - Man, you missed the perfect time to kill that Mei by putting down a pulse bomb so it exploded after she got de-iced. It would have been so funny if you had done that. I love doing that to Mei as Tracer.
very informative, love it, but do you guys think you could do a short breakdown on the arc of tracer's ult? Big targets like rein are obviously easy to hit, but for someone like lucio with his duck and weave walk animation I struggle to stick a bomb like you did at 11:27
wow I was gonna search for tracer tips today anyway :D
Uh, no man, it gives you 299 HP.
I mean, effectively more than 300hp if you consider rewind's invincibility frames.
But let's be realistic, it's not going to be 299 or even 280 most of the time.
Scurvebeard True, but if you meant "total damage you can take in a short time," it's 299.
+Levi-san 299 would be correct though. 149 the first time, 150 the second time, because you just have to stay alive to use recall. I think it's dumb to say "she has more hp" tbh, because all she really does is heal up to the amount she had before.
NO HE WAS WRONG AND SO ARE you
Goldy he sad if you don't die
Can you do an advanced Reinhardt guide? I'm terrible with him and in competitive I usually have a team without one and I think he's almost a essential part to any team comp. learning some advanced tech could prove helpful for a lot of Reinhardt mains too.
Well, look at the comp, rein is very helpful but isn't necessarily needed if for example you have, genji, tracer, dva, lucio, and zen. That could be a useful Winston pick rather than a rein. But to answer your question, get better at using the fire strike, hit at least %70 or more on successful hits. And make sure that your shield never breaks, the shield recharges faster when it's not broken. Never go off by yourself, your the man of the team and if you go down your chances of holding the point go down drastically. Hold chokes on defense, and stick together on offense. And ult on the enemy rein, or in the choke, if you kill their rein then they will not have a shield. Focusing priorities like healers is also good. Other than that, if there is three players, ult.
in addition to that, dont push/rush (what is the shift ability called?) into a group of enemies. Pick single targets. And a tip for when in a 1v1 with tracer, drop your shield and attack her. You can kill her in 2 hits. (I personally think Reinhard is the best counter to tracer)
Positioning is so important. Attacking when the enemy is distracted by others. Let the tanks roll in first then blink in behind, pick a healer and trip pulse bomb on main tank.
Question: I loved your comment on baiting but a lot of the time with tracer I'll find a solid enemy back line with a bastion, hanzo, ect. The kind of set up where I can't pick someone off without dying before the final blow, in these cases what I find myself doing is poking at this back line and effectively doing trash damage, but enough to pull their attention and bait two or even three people and effectively use my blinks to evade and not die. Is there a better strategy to use when coming up against this problem or is scrabbling the defense a good call?
Just found this channel, omg how blind i can be sometimes xD Some sick plays and explanations, sub!
Thanks!
This is not the first time I have heard the term "gamesense" in your videos, and I am genuinely curious about its meaning. How can that skill be trained (I think I know what the answer's gonna be though)?
By the way, I have found some advices that you offered to be very helpful. For example, I tend to blink a lot without trying to conserve them, and then waste Recall to get out. I will try to be more careful with these abilities.
And one more thing I am worried about: You have mentioned setting the mouse sensitivity a bit higher to keep up with Tracer's mobility. Wouldn't getting used to that sensitivity cripple my McCree aim (Yeah, right, like there's anything to cripple lol (Shut up!))?
10:50 i love that whoopi xD
Really helpful guide!
Thanks for sharing :)
When I emote at the end of the round um I did the tea pose :3 that's just awesome
even if you were a bad tracer
a simple blink out of Meis range then turning around and attacking her from a reasonable distance.
Tracer does decent damage at medium range
i learned to play her on my own but this vid helped me more thnks xP
live this channel, keep it up guys
heh.. funny that the most important thing to playing Tracer well is time...
IMO all fights are relevant no matter where it is, it builds your ulti and stops a possible flank/ulti
Rate my Comp.: 2-2-2; Zarya-Tracer Duo; Mercy-Pharah Duo; Lucio and Reinhardt/Roadhog (Standard/Dive).
Zarya and Tracer can couple their ults and Zarya can shield Tracer. Mercy and Pharah can really easily pair up. Lucio can speed boost/heal Roadhog/Reinhardt while Mercy and Pharah protect him, protecting Reinhardt, protecting Zarya, protecting Tracer, While she keeps their eyes off of Pharah and Mercy
Nice video! Keep up the good work!
thank you so much for the guide for my main
I love it when he says
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Excellent guide, thanks!