Awkward, holy shit. I've been playing for a year, my duo for 7. I've watched all of your videos and I showed him your Zen u2gm. We adopted your strategies and immediately our win rate shot up. If you can see how well this works as a solo, imagine how it's going as a duo! We are absolutely carrying and it's amazing.
Always avoided ranked, but you gave me the confidence to just take your philosophy and go for it. I always aim well in shooters, but probably too aggressive. I took a step back and focused on off angling and even with tanks and I get to diamond just man handling teams by myself. I was like wow, these people WILL actually keep shooting me while I'm standing behind cover. What I notice is you have to SHOW that you are aggressive enough to go if you want to, but don't actually go in to keep that focus on you when you're actually shooting someone else. It's pretty cool since instead of focusing on what your teammates are thinking, you actually start to focus on what your enemies are thinking.
Ranked is by far the best gamemode. Just drop the "ranking" and play it as a match. The filter is quite good so you usually make the difference for the team. In quickplay you get stomped pretty often or stomp the enemy team pretty bad. You own play is usually not important there.
Because it is when you have T100 aim. Positioning is cool and all but its not more important than having good aim and clicking heads. Especially with this character.
Noticing the improvements in my own gameplay and positioning just by applying what I’ve learned from watching these U2GM videos. I know you’re all about the education and teaching BUT I wanted to say you are also extremely entertaining. The commentary keeps it very interesting. Thank you so much!!!
Just wanna say that i got to gold almost exclusively 1 tricking kiriko after watching that u2gm a couple months ago. Thank you for these videos. You are the definition of quality over quantity, and thanks to that, ive improved at the game significantly.
Isnt gold like average so ur basically dogwater ive watched only 2 videos and im already diamond just damage damage damage and shoot from offangle ez just be better
1:30:02 Awkward the reason why it was so slow compared to your tracer or bap u2gm is because they made it so quick play mmr transfers over to your first placements for ranked. So whoever leveled up this account did horrible on the 50 quick play games to unlock comp. I had 75% winrate on quickplay for tank and first ranked match was masters 3
Awesome Illari gameplay + Zen gameplay for that one match! Thank you for inspiring your viewers to better themselves not just in-game but in every aspect of our lives.
that Sombra at 5:04:10 complaining about heals as she stands as far away from the pylon as possible and raging at you the whole game for not healing her kills me lmao why do people act like this
This happened to me when a teammate as Echo was spamming " I need healing" flying far away from me ( I was standing on point on with other teammates cuz we were capping it) I literally tried to heal her but my healing beam didn't have enough reach, I was looking straight at her and her straight at me and she still kept SPAMMING THE BUTTON as she couldn't see I was literally trying to heal her but couldn't 🤥 instead of coming near me she didn't so I eventually shot her back to see if she understood and then I turned away lmao. I hate pharahs/echo who don't understand they can't ask a Baptiste, Moira or Illari for healing as they fly away... Unless you get close to my pylon or myself it's not going to happen...
@12:50 this is a great point about her damage. I played her a fair amount on release but what I think I prefer about Bap, Kiriko, and certain other characters is the speed they shoot. There's so much time between Illari shots for targets to get healed or escape. Not that this makes her bad, I just don't think her damage is as crazy as people have been saying.
It's exactly the key as to why Illari is not op. The charge rate makes it extremely difficult to finish the kills even to those with exceptional mechanics. Good observation james.
This is true on paper, or if we're talking about pure headshot DPS on a point-blank target, but this isn't a realistic comparison at all. Kiriko for example has twice this DPS in this case, but we have to consider the massive differences between hitscan and projectiles. Illari's shots are *significantly* easier to land at any range, and allow her to easily contest flying targets. Kiriko may have twice the headshot DPS, but reaching that potential is extremely unlikely in most cases. Kiriko shoots twice as fast as Illari, but those headshots deal the exact same damage. In that case, I'd take the hitscan any day. Bap has higher potential DPS as well, but one has to land every shot in the burst for this to be true (and a single Bap 3x shot burst = 1 charged Illari shot). Again, it's much easier to land a single Illari headshot at any range than it is to land every Bap 3x burst headshot. In short, Illari's potential DPS is lower than other supports, but her very reliable 112.5 headshot burst damage is why she stands out so much.
@@nether796 Skill issue tbh you get much better with Kiriko headshots in time. You also have the mobility to put yourself in the necessary positions to land headshots more easily. They also do more damage than Illari headshots by a tad. Bap doesnt need all three shots to connect because of headshots. 1 headshot and 1 body shot is 75. Or two headshots is 100. Plus since you fire nearly twice as fast you could miss an entire round burst, hit another and still do about as much DPS. And again, not being able to track is a skill issue. Illari’s advantage is range since it’s hitscan without as much damage falloff. Both Bap and Kiriko have more DPS potential in the right positions and with the right skill. Illari has flexibility for long sightlines and better defensive control over chokes and control with her pylon and boop.
@jamesburnett3594 Reading comprehension issue. Dude, reread my comment. I'm talking about consistency. It's not about being bad at hitting headshots with Kiriko, or being unable to track with Bap, it 's about the objective fact that no one is going to be able to connect *as reliably* with them as they could with Illari. I don't care if you're Bronze V, or Top 500, you're going to land headshots more reliably with Illari due to the very simple fact that she's a semi-auto hitscan with a large hitbox. All of her damager *per shot* is a single click - no need to track or lead targets. Just click heads. I understand that Kiriko and Bap have higer DPS potential. I made that *very* clear in my original comment, but if you think that makes them better damage dealers by default, you're completely ignoring nuance. This game isn't a spreadsheet. Also - no, Kiriko headshots do not deal more damage than Illari "by a tad." Illari is 75 x 1.5, Kiriko is 45 x 2.5. They both deal 112.5 headshots. Illari only deals less when entering her falloff range.
You literally see this man improve on the hero all throughout the video optimizing little things and learn what he did wrong immediately this level of adaptability is insane
This is wonderful! Never played her, but after watching this...i had to. My friends were jealous of the progress on the first day 😀. I absolutely love your advice! At first i thought you were good but cocky. Now i totally get it. You are the best! Thank you for the content. You make me laugh a lot, and your positivity is just great! Helped me on multiple characters. Can't thank you enough.
if you are ever planning to play illari again here are some tips Headshot + bodyshot + lowest charge shot will be enough to kill 200 hp targets To get maximum height: Dont hold down any movement imputs, jump on the spot, at the apex of your jump you hold shift and then after that you can use a movement imput
@@NEDinACTION that is literally not what you said you denied that jumping would give you extra height which is completely proposterous and now you change what you are saying to "uhm actually you dont need to stand still" when I specifically stated that this was to get maximum height and standing still and using the ability at the apex of your jump will give you the most height.
1:30:28 Actually thanks to your advice i was able to get from bronze 5 up to silver 5 within a day's session, after that i went on trying different roles and landed all three on silver with my highest being silver 1 on tank despite being the role i play the least, and i'm sure that by the end of the year i'll be able to reach diamond, thanks for everything and keep up with the good work
Exactly. He nails it with such a perfect explanation. 4:24 You need to understand that as a support you shouldn't be haveing 12K heals with only 2K dmg. That's not as helpful as you think it is. It just mean's your team dies less often, not the enemy team is dead more often, the latter wins games. People flame me for my Dmg numbers as Moira in Bronze, even though I usually have just as much healing as my Mercy/Ana. They legit can't understand that I'm doing her job, her ability to 1v2 with ease is her utility, I pull attention away from the rest of my team so they can 4v3. Yet they still sometimes loose anyway. It doesn't matter if people don't like that about her, that's how she's to be played, just like Lucio.
Yea someone complained at me (gold 1) the other day for “dps Moira”. Another in the same game complained that I was “pocketing tank too much” lol I had the second highest healing in the lobby and dmg around my dps numbers.
Especially in Moiras case when you actually need to dps in order to refill your healing meter lol. Especially since she provides no utility, just healing
If you know where the portrait is, you can start clicking on the char select screen before it fully loads. Helps if you're running OW on an NVMe drive with fast internet as well.
"When someone on your team is 'feeding' - he's basically creating a distraction for you to have an opportunity to get a kill." Thank you for being one of the only people out there that understands this shit. Makes me feel so much better knowing I'm not the only one that goes by this logic, and the countless of times i've been creating opportunities for my bot teammates only for them not to take advantage of it and instead result in just pointless deaths that should have got us team kills if they had higher iqs.
"Here's a new character, I practiced it for 10 minutes, let's carry to masters..." I'm over here trying to stay in plat with the one trick I only play.
I've never played healer in OW (and only been playing comp for 2 months) I saw this and thought I'd try Illari. Your advice is stellar. 25hrs in with her and I'm mid plat and climbing solidly with 70% ish win rate. Funny how simple it is. Just have to ignore the team whining about heals and do damage.
i really want to see you play sigma. "finding damage" would be really fun to see with a hero that can shoot around corners, and it would be interesting to see how your aim is with heroes who get close to you
Nowadays I tell myself after a loss, "I am not good enough YET" but I try and reflect on what I could have done better and make efforts to do better next game. Your content and words of encouragement showed up at a really interesting time in my life and have helped not only in Overwatch, but in my daily life as well. Thank you sir
Hey Awkward just wanted to mention your teachings allowed me to climb from gold to diamond in dps, just by implementing your basic fundamentals of off angle, cover, damage before the fight, they go back we go forwards etc. If anyone is questioning these teaching's i say try implement his teaching's in your own games to see a difference. also id like to mention my aim is not the best but in most cases staying alive or off angling provides so much more value than trying to burst down supports etc from a forward angle. Anyways thanks so much awkward you da goat.
8:29 poor ramatra was so done with his team, i feel you man. sometimes i just stop and stare at my teammates questioning why i havent left the game yet
Nah his tank gameplay was trash af, definitely part of the problem. Watch him charge in like a buffoon 8:00 lose half his health and keep swinging. He's not free of blame, and he's being toxic af giving up looking at his supports like it's their fault they're not healing his dumbass charges
I was gold before i watch your channel . I said my mates are bad ect . And 4 weeks after i am low master / d1 on tank. Thx you very much . I hope unrank to gm on rein . You just save my game experience.
I'm usually the Ana that stays on the backline, keep my team topped up while peeling for them, looking for any opportunity to deal damage. A very selfless act, but this has lost me more games than I can count. Many needs a support that can take off angles or flank; Illari is the support to go when DPS are cowards. But, when I pick Illari I still carry some of that backline habit when I could just play her like Moira, very aggressive, fearless playstyle. I'll try my best to repeat your mantra in my head. :)
@@woke2646 Yes and no. I have lost several plat games on Ana, even though I've played her in GM+ confidently since season 12 OW1. Some games are simply just not winnable by your own meritm at least in my experience (I'm a bit washed in fairness, but better than plat players for sure as I placed Masters 1 on DPS on a fresh account). Could easily be me not adjusting to difference in support tempo that was shifted going from OW1 to 2, but I always dps'ed on Ana, even before Awkward "popularized" it.
I would like to see you playing Lifeweaver, most of the people says he is not good, but maybe they are just playing him on the wrong way. Anyway, I love your content, you change my gameplay and my life, keep doing your videos and helping others!!
coming here after watching dafran unranked to top 500 talking about streamers hiding behind educational streams while having insane GM level aim hiding behind it to punish new players, this needs to stop
id love to see awkward do a unranked to gm using high sensitivity on a mouse. If you can prove that perfect aim is less important than positioning you could have the most educational video with 0 excuses of getting good after watching it.
When I watched your Ana U2GM my k/d ratio, damage, and healing all shot up literally the next game I played. I'm now a reformed Mercy Main, she was my first love but Ana is my new love. Thanks man.
What happens if you were the only one alive and whole team was dead and respawning? Would you still wait for them or would you head in and do constant damage?
@Awkward Thank you so much for your videos. I was clueless going into overwatch 2 on how to play properly. Started playing a month ago and now i am top500 player thanks to your teachings. Cheers mate
Awesome video man, I don't have the best aim (something I'm working on), but I've followed all your other tips and I'm slowly climbing rank. Finally hit plat open queue for the first time ever yesterday and I'm continuing to climb. Keep up the good work bro
1:50:45 That probably didn't explode due to Lassody's damage reduction while rolling, it's so absurd it can actually survive tracer's pulse bomb, same goes for bastion
It might not seem like a lot but Ive watched 5-6 of your vids all the way through and it got me from bronze dps and support (brand new to overwatch) to now being gold on both o7 still climbing see yall in diamond soon
I would be interested in seeing a lucio unranked to gm. Being a lucio main myself sometimes i find myself just feeding constantly and sometimes its hard to find value. There aren't many unranked to gm with lucio online that are recent and it would be interesting to see what you have to say :)
GM lucio otp here. I'm no where near as knowledgable as awkward but, I can say some of the most valuable things to practice and learn is your movement, managing risk to get more damage to build beat and apply pressure. For example, just like any other hero find angles that you can deal damage without being melted, how to peel, when to engage, and when engaging, communicating with your team. Speed is useless if no one actually uses it to pursue isolated targets/engage or to rotate/back. Also, beat is a very strong mid fight ult, so don't always save it to use reactively. Also, remember that boop is great at displacement. Got a poke comp sitting on high ground on Dorado? Boop em off. Got a genji blading your Ana and you dont have beat? Boop after he dashes. Junker Queen landed a knife and is going to use her slash? Boop. Targets hiding around a corner from a deadeye/dva bomb? Boop. You get the point. ALSO: avoid dying at all costs if possible. Hope this helps at all.
Watch frogger and eskay! Theyre the only gm lucio mains i can think of. Frogger is a contenders player and posts a lot of gameplay, hes pretty funny too.
@@tstatts Ya because im in lower rank nobody is in voice chat. Also for some reason nobody likes to back up if we lost the fight so whenever I try to speed amp in or out they sort of just strafe back and forth. Which is VERY ANNOYING. But thanks for the advice 😃
I do watch them a lot and I also some time watch avocadojelly and I use to watch redshell before he stopped (which probably wasn't the best inspiration for my lucio gameplay)@@yomama2376
@@haydenl7573 of course! And as sad as it is, that happens sometimes even in gm. Really just have to hard comm to the team the rotations that you want to take with speed or else they most likely won't do anything with it. Climbing solely playing lucio especially while solo que is very difficult at low ranks, unless you've got good enough mechanics to take duels. Biggest thing to work on first in my opinion would be cooldown management. I only ever use amp for engagement/retreat, and amp heals in midfight and to build beat or when absolutely necessary, but of course remember, cooldowns are meant to be used, there never exists a so called "perfect" time to use amp, if you know what I mean. You'll get a feel for it. Also, beat is an excellent midfight tool as well. You can easily win fights during the midfight by using beat then amping speed to overwhelm them while they dont have all of their cooldowns. So don't always save beat exclusively for defensive plays against things like grav and blade! Also lastly, remember, damage damage damage. Building beat as fast as possible is massively valuable. Good luck in the grind!
Man, I love watching these types of videos. I managed to make it to gold in support, but im bronze in dps (I dont touch tank). I'm decent when it comes to game sense, cooldown usage and stuff. Watching your videos has also helped me improve on things like this. However, my main problem is my aim. Recently started playing overwatch 2 and its kinda my first fps game (not counting cod i used to play when I was really young, it was mostly zombies anyway) and my aim is really holding me back. I know its a thing that develops overtime but I truly wish there was a way I could improve faster. It just seems like no matter what I do my skill with aiming stays the same. Keep up the good videos man! Love them!
I was stuck in silver tracer lmao. Then i watched your vid and a week later im plat only losing games when theyre late at night. I was playing overwatch like cod i literally have no brain. THanks for the full VODs
yo Awkward, just wanted to tell you that I appreciate your content, i've just hit grand master for the first time as illari and that's because of your educational content.
I’ve been wondering, what are the specifics of those accounts you use for those runs? Because from what I gather the quick play win rates will be taken into account for your first placement matches. For instance, I played on a fresh account where I did my quick play wins myself ending up with a ~80% win rate on bap and eventually going 5-1 on my initial placements - this put me in Master 1 being higher ranked than 73% of my division (so 3973sr I assume). After one more update I already reached GM. Do you purposely use accounts with subpar unranked win rates to make it more of a challenge?
Can you make a new hog unranked to gm video he is different to play now and I want to play him as a secondary tank and I don't know how to properly play him or can you just make a video when the rework drops thank you if you read this
Brother, I appreciate you have other things to do IRL and I respect you for that. But part of me also wants you to make more videos because I learn so much from them - keep it up 🙌🏽
You get more value out of your pylon if you place it higher. At least the enemy team has to take their eyes way off your team to focus killing it giving your team another off angle distraction advantage.
I learn so much from watching you! Not just on how to play with certain characters but got to play the game in general! You do such a great job of breaking it down and making it easy to understand why you do certain things and when you do them. You truly have a gift for this! Great content!
FINISHED! 3:13:33 Born to Illari. Forced to Zenyatta. 3:27:23 The (immediate) return of Six. 6:18:15 SATISFACTION 6:19:32 Born to Illari. Forced to Zenyatta. Pt. 2
Well, I tried illari and I think I am doing fine😅 I started from bronze 4 to Diamond 5 in 9 hours of playing her, after I watched this video like 6-7 times and I still watch it and I learn something new every time
i watched this and thought i can't be too bad to play ranked so i q and get a malder in one game a thrower in the next and a guy who has probably never touched a mouse in his life on the third
Once again the chat on that first game tells so much, gold players really have no idea what's going on. They have a top 500 support and they're arguing over whether it's a tank diff or a dps diff. They just have no idea, ignore the opinions of other players if you want to climb.
I think what's great about Illari's ultimate is that even if you don't get any kills with it, it forces whoever got tag with it to stay in cover for a few seconds. It makes it very easy for their team to be split and more isolated which makes killing those who wasn't tagged easier as well.
Do this on lifeweaver to prove that nerfs don’t really matter. If you seemingly waited for them to make weaver much better in the new changes than it will make me question your words at the beginning“nerfs don’t matter”
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Awkward, holy shit. I've been playing for a year, my duo for 7. I've watched all of your videos and I showed him your Zen u2gm. We adopted your strategies and immediately our win rate shot up. If you can see how well this works as a solo, imagine how it's going as a duo! We are absolutely carrying and it's amazing.
How much did he pay you for this comment? 😂😂😂
@@chrism4403it's not like he's wrong
@@chrism4403 i think he payed in Ranks XD
Always avoided ranked, but you gave me the confidence to just take your philosophy and go for it. I always aim well in shooters, but probably too aggressive. I took a step back and focused on off angling and even with tanks and I get to diamond just man handling teams by myself. I was like wow, these people WILL actually keep shooting me while I'm standing behind cover.
What I notice is you have to SHOW that you are aggressive enough to go if you want to, but don't actually go in to keep that focus on you when you're actually shooting someone else. It's pretty cool since instead of focusing on what your teammates are thinking, you actually start to focus on what your enemies are thinking.
Ranked is by far the best gamemode. Just drop the "ranking" and play it as a match.
The filter is quite good so you usually make the difference for the team.
In quickplay you get stomped pretty often or stomp the enemy team pretty bad. You own play is usually not important there.
offangle and damage, basic principle for every hero
offangle with rein yeah yeah XD
@@martinengene7804 tanks different u got the point
Off angle and damage with mercy got it👍
TH-cam commenters when they find a slight inaccuracy:
@@chillrendbeatslol
You make Overwatch look so effortless
Because it is when you have T100 aim. Positioning is cool and all but its not more important than having good aim and clicking heads. Especially with this character.
t500 smurfing in lower ranks will do that..
because that is the main point of his playstyle with off-angles. notice how he's timing everything to make the red team split their focus
@@mobaisi13that’s a dumb mindset why can’t u have aim like his? What’s holding u back?
@@mobaisi13 He has reached GM with characters that doesn't require aim (Like Moira) so your point its invalid bud.
Having good aim its only a plus.
Still feel bad for the gold lobby’s trying to blame each other when they’re playing with a man who has 1000 Gm accounts
I love all the tank and dps diffs in the chat lol
that's why I hate this videos. a GM playing in a gold or plat is 100% unfair and cringe if we're being honest.
@@thedude0000 if we're being honest, it's very nice to see the bare minimum simple tactics to punish bad players
@@thedude0000 who cares, gold players are all toxic trash. they were barely contesting him that's why they kept dying.
@@thedude0000overusing the word cringe like a 12 year old girl. Good job bud
As soon as this came, I was sure I would watch this in one go. I'm kinda new to this game, but I always play to win. Your content is most fun for me.
Appreciate it.
@@Awkward2 I didn't watch in one go, but I'll finish it like I finished Moira 😅
@@Awkward2 you help me rank up tysm :)
thanks for these vids awk, i’ve been watching them for a few months now and managed to rank up support from low silver to mid plat, all thanks to u ⭐️
awkward thank you bro you helped me hit masters on Moria and its dope that you could get a 92% winrate on a new hero , keep crushing it bro
"healing done : 7674 DAMAGE" 😂😂 this should be your bio
Noticing the improvements in my own gameplay and positioning just by applying what I’ve learned from watching these U2GM videos.
I know you’re all about the education and teaching BUT I wanted to say you are also extremely entertaining. The commentary keeps it very interesting. Thank you so much!!!
Just wanna say that i got to gold almost exclusively 1 tricking kiriko after watching that u2gm a couple months ago. Thank you for these videos. You are the definition of quality over quantity, and thanks to that, ive improved at the game significantly.
very true
I bet you could go even higher
That's incredible to hear daisuki. Keep kicking ass
Isnt gold like average so ur basically dogwater ive watched only 2 videos and im already diamond just damage damage damage and shoot from offangle ez just be better
@@adrianmaymo6124average overwatch player
1:30:02 Awkward the reason why it was so slow compared to your tracer or bap u2gm is because they made it so quick play mmr transfers over to your first placements for ranked. So whoever leveled up this account did horrible on the 50 quick play games to unlock comp. I had 75% winrate on quickplay for tank and first ranked match was masters 3
average account seller
@@gradyyrI don’t sell accounts and even I knew that
@@akimbo.5wlvs905 that wasnt what i meant bro
Awesome Illari gameplay + Zen gameplay for that one match! Thank you for inspiring your viewers to better themselves not just in-game but in every aspect of our lives.
All love.
that Sombra at 5:04:10 complaining about heals as she stands as far away from the pylon as possible and raging at you the whole game for not healing her kills me lmao why do people act like this
This happened to me when a teammate as Echo was spamming " I need healing" flying far away from me ( I was standing on point on with other teammates cuz we were capping it) I literally tried to heal her but my healing beam didn't have enough reach, I was looking straight at her and her straight at me and she still kept SPAMMING THE BUTTON as she couldn't see I was literally trying to heal her but couldn't 🤥 instead of coming near me she didn't so I eventually shot her back to see if she understood and then I turned away lmao.
I hate pharahs/echo who don't understand they can't ask a Baptiste, Moira or Illari for healing as they fly away... Unless you get close to my pylon or myself it's not going to happen...
Gold mindset. They don’t understand the game.
@12:50 this is a great point about her damage. I played her a fair amount on release but what I think I prefer about Bap, Kiriko, and certain other characters is the speed they shoot. There's so much time between Illari shots for targets to get healed or escape. Not that this makes her bad, I just don't think her damage is as crazy as people have been saying.
It's exactly the key as to why Illari is not op. The charge rate makes it extremely difficult to finish the kills even to those with exceptional mechanics. Good observation james.
This is true on paper, or if we're talking about pure headshot DPS on a point-blank target, but this isn't a realistic comparison at all. Kiriko for example has twice this DPS in this case, but we have to consider the massive differences between hitscan and projectiles. Illari's shots are *significantly* easier to land at any range, and allow her to easily contest flying targets. Kiriko may have twice the headshot DPS, but reaching that potential is extremely unlikely in most cases. Kiriko shoots twice as fast as Illari, but those headshots deal the exact same damage. In that case, I'd take the hitscan any day.
Bap has higher potential DPS as well, but one has to land every shot in the burst for this to be true (and a single Bap 3x shot burst = 1 charged Illari shot). Again, it's much easier to land a single Illari headshot at any range than it is to land every Bap 3x burst headshot.
In short, Illari's potential DPS is lower than other supports, but her very reliable 112.5 headshot burst damage is why she stands out so much.
@@nether796 Skill issue tbh you get much better with Kiriko headshots in time. You also have the mobility to put yourself in the necessary positions to land headshots more easily. They also do more damage than Illari headshots by a tad.
Bap doesnt need all three shots to connect because of headshots. 1 headshot and 1 body shot is 75. Or two headshots is 100. Plus since you fire nearly twice as fast you could miss an entire round burst, hit another and still do about as much DPS. And again, not being able to track is a skill issue.
Illari’s advantage is range since it’s hitscan without as much damage falloff. Both Bap and Kiriko have more DPS potential in the right positions and with the right skill. Illari has flexibility for long sightlines and better defensive control over chokes and control with her pylon and boop.
@jamesburnett3594 Reading comprehension issue. Dude, reread my comment. I'm talking about consistency.
It's not about being bad at hitting headshots with Kiriko, or being unable to track with Bap, it 's about the objective fact that no one is going to be able to connect *as reliably* with them as they could with Illari. I don't care if you're Bronze V, or Top 500, you're going to land headshots more reliably with Illari due to the very simple fact that she's a semi-auto hitscan with a large hitbox. All of her damager *per shot* is a single click - no need to track or lead targets. Just click heads.
I understand that Kiriko and Bap have higer DPS potential. I made that *very* clear in my original comment, but if you think that makes them better damage dealers by default, you're completely ignoring nuance. This game isn't a spreadsheet.
Also - no, Kiriko headshots do not deal more damage than Illari "by a tad." Illari is 75 x 1.5, Kiriko is 45 x 2.5. They both deal 112.5 headshots. Illari only deals less when entering her falloff range.
@@nether796Well, you shut him up quick, wild how people read, but simply don't comprehend the meaning.
You’re the goat awkward I used to be a loser who blamed his teammates but now I damage and take accountability you’ve helped me a lot 👍🏻
You literally see this man improve on the hero all throughout the video optimizing little things and learn what he did wrong immediately this level of adaptability is insane
And that's what I was looking for, great mindset for pretty much everything in life. Love your work man !
Nice. An Unranked to gm with tanks would be goooood
off-angle and damage isn't just a way to play the game...
its a lifestyle
Facts.
This is wonderful! Never played her, but after watching this...i had to. My friends were jealous of the progress on the first day 😀. I absolutely love your advice! At first i thought you were good but cocky. Now i totally get it. You are the best! Thank you for the content. You make me laugh a lot, and your positivity is just great! Helped me on multiple characters. Can't thank you enough.
Thx for the video I’m actually seeing consistent success now thank you
if you are ever planning to play illari again here are some tips
Headshot + bodyshot + lowest charge shot will be enough to kill 200 hp targets
To get maximum height: Dont hold down any movement imputs, jump on the spot, at the apex of your jump you hold shift and then after that you can use a movement imput
@@NEDinACTION I explained how to get maximum height
@@NEDinACTIONyou get maximum height by doing that, like with junkrats mines or doomfists leap what part of that do you not understand
@@NEDinACTION that is literally not what you said you denied that jumping would give you extra height which is completely proposterous and now you change what you are saying to "uhm actually you dont need to stand still" when I specifically stated that this was to get maximum height and standing still and using the ability at the apex of your jump will give you the most height.
@@NEDinACTION you wont get maximum height that way and that anyways and that was not what your comments implied
@@NEDinACTION which means you are standing still, right?
1:30:28 Actually thanks to your advice i was able to get from bronze 5 up to silver 5 within a day's session, after that i went on trying different roles and landed all three on silver with my highest being silver 1 on tank despite being the role i play the least, and i'm sure that by the end of the year i'll be able to reach diamond, thanks for everything and keep up with the good work
Respect brother
I am surprised this isn’t your favorite hero Awkward she is literally the embodiment of do damage and off angle.
her ult turns any good off angle into a team wipe as well
I like how people were raging about him being a smurf but they still failed to kill the rest of the team when awkward messed up 😂
went from gold 4 to diamond 5 watching your video's and i am still climbing. thank you for all your tips and tricks. It really has helped!
Whats ur rank now?
Exactly. He nails it with such a perfect explanation. 4:24
You need to understand that as a support you shouldn't be haveing 12K heals with only 2K dmg. That's not as helpful as you think it is. It just mean's your team dies less often, not the enemy team is dead more often, the latter wins games.
People flame me for my Dmg numbers as Moira in Bronze, even though I usually have just as much healing as my Mercy/Ana. They legit can't understand that I'm doing her job, her ability to 1v2 with ease is her utility, I pull attention away from the rest of my team so they can 4v3. Yet they still sometimes loose anyway. It doesn't matter if people don't like that about her, that's how she's to be played, just like Lucio.
Yea someone complained at me (gold 1) the other day for “dps Moira”. Another in the same game complained that I was “pocketing tank too much” lol
I had the second highest healing in the lobby and dmg around my dps numbers.
Especially in Moiras case when you actually need to dps in order to refill your healing meter lol. Especially since she provides no utility, just healing
If you know where the portrait is, you can start clicking on the char select screen before it fully loads. Helps if you're running OW on an NVMe drive with fast internet as well.
"When someone on your team is 'feeding' - he's basically creating a distraction for you to have an opportunity to get a kill." Thank you for being one of the only people out there that understands this shit. Makes me feel so much better knowing I'm not the only one that goes by this logic, and the countless of times i've been creating opportunities for my bot teammates only for them not to take advantage of it and instead result in just pointless deaths that should have got us team kills if they had higher iqs.
funniest fight ive ever seen 1:00:00
happens to everyone at some point no matter the skill level
Awesome man, love these series of videos. Very informative and are very helpful.
"Here's a new character, I practiced it for 10 minutes, let's carry to masters..."
I'm over here trying to stay in plat with the one trick I only play.
Which hero is it?
@@Awkward2 Moira, after watching your Moira video lol
I've never played healer in OW (and only been playing comp for 2 months) I saw this and thought I'd try Illari. Your advice is stellar. 25hrs in with her and I'm mid plat and climbing solidly with 70% ish win rate. Funny how simple it is. Just have to ignore the team whining about heals and do damage.
i really want to see you play sigma. "finding damage" would be really fun to see with a hero that can shoot around corners, and it would be interesting to see how your aim is with heroes who get close to you
Damn this was quick. Great job as always Awkward!
I love your honesty. Too many people overthink this game. It's not that deep
Nowadays I tell myself after a loss, "I am not good enough YET" but I try and reflect on what I could have done better and make efforts to do better next game. Your content and words of encouragement showed up at a really interesting time in my life and have helped not only in Overwatch, but in my daily life as well. Thank you sir
Hey Awkward just wanted to mention your teachings allowed me to climb from gold to diamond in dps, just by implementing your basic fundamentals of off angle, cover, damage before the fight, they go back we go forwards etc. If anyone is questioning these teaching's i say try implement his teaching's in your own games to see a difference. also id like to mention my aim is not the best but in most cases staying alive or off angling provides so much more value than trying to burst down supports etc from a forward angle. Anyways thanks so much awkward you da goat.
8:29 poor ramatra was so done with his team, i feel you man. sometimes i just stop and stare at my teammates questioning why i havent left the game yet
I feel that as a Support main💀 teammates staggering, ppl peaking a high noon, getting out of cover while half HP or less, etc😮💨
Nah bro he was being a bitch. Stop blaming teammates and just play the game
Nah his tank gameplay was trash af, definitely part of the problem. Watch him charge in like a buffoon 8:00 lose half his health and keep swinging. He's not free of blame, and he's being toxic af giving up looking at his supports like it's their fault they're not healing his dumbass charges
Awkward, your my favourite OW contet creator, id watch this one, but im headed to the gym!! Push day bro! Stay healthy my friend!
PUSH!
Bro I love how strong his will is when it comes to mindset
I was gold before i watch your channel . I said my mates are bad ect . And 4 weeks after i am low master / d1 on tank. Thx you very much . I hope unrank to gm on rein . You just save my game experience.
Nice haircut! Also, would you ever do a reaper or doomfist unranked to GM?
Yes.
@@Awkward2Can you do sigma?
Can u do lucio so we can both learn how to play him
I'm usually the Ana that stays on the backline, keep my team topped up while peeling for them, looking for any opportunity to deal damage. A very selfless act, but this has lost me more games than I can count. Many needs a support that can take off angles or flank; Illari is the support to go when DPS are cowards. But, when I pick Illari I still carry some of that backline habit when I could just play her like Moira, very aggressive, fearless playstyle. I'll try my best to repeat your mantra in my head. :)
Always play to live, but you have to be in a position to shoot the enemy. Use cover at all times
Dawg ana is still better than illari and moira for her abilities theres more to it than “coward dps” for why youre losing countless games
@@woke2646 Yes and no. I have lost several plat games on Ana, even though I've played her in GM+ confidently since season 12 OW1. Some games are simply just not winnable by your own meritm at least in my experience (I'm a bit washed in fairness, but better than plat players for sure as I placed Masters 1 on DPS on a fresh account). Could easily be me not adjusting to difference in support tempo that was shifted going from OW1 to 2, but I always dps'ed on Ana, even before Awkward "popularized" it.
@@mathiaschristensen1194ML7 was the og dps Ana though imo
I would like to see you playing Lifeweaver, most of the people says he is not good, but maybe they are just playing him on the wrong way. Anyway, I love your content, you change my gameplay and my life, keep doing your videos and helping others!!
No lie I legit recommend your channel to anyone who wants to learn or climb with any character cause your guides are so helpful!!
coming here after watching dafran unranked to top 500 talking about streamers hiding behind educational streams while having insane GM level aim hiding behind it to punish new players, this needs to stop
id love to see awkward do a unranked to gm using high sensitivity on a mouse. If you can prove that perfect aim is less important than positioning you could have the most educational video with 0 excuses of getting good after watching it.
When I watched your Ana U2GM my k/d ratio, damage, and healing all shot up literally the next game I played. I'm now a reformed Mercy Main, she was my first love but Ana is my new love. Thanks man.
What happens if you were the only one alive and whole team was dead and respawning? Would you still wait for them or would you head in and do constant damage?
Honestly i appreciate you roasting us 😂😂😂 because I used to blame my team, until I discovered you.
@Awkward Thank you so much for your videos. I was clueless going into overwatch 2 on how to play properly. Started playing a month ago and now i am top500 player thanks to your teachings. Cheers mate
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Awesome video man, I don't have the best aim (something I'm working on), but I've followed all your other tips and I'm slowly climbing rank. Finally hit plat open queue for the first time ever yesterday and I'm continuing to climb. Keep up the good work bro
Yessss thank you! Been waiting for this video!
Already watched the entire video 62 times, eagerly waiting for the next one 😊
(I appreciate the consistency of your format)
It released 6 min ago...
bro watched the video for more then 15 days
Most hinged Awkward fan
@@TehJakeifyyou mean least hinged awkward fan
Well the video is 6hrs long but it released and hour ago.
1:50:45 That probably didn't explode due to Lassody's damage reduction while rolling, it's so absurd it can actually survive tracer's pulse bomb, same goes for bastion
It might not seem like a lot but Ive watched 5-6 of your vids all the way through and it got me from bronze dps and support (brand new to overwatch) to now being gold on both o7 still climbing see yall in diamond soon
I would be interested in seeing a lucio unranked to gm. Being a lucio main myself sometimes i find myself just feeding constantly and sometimes its hard to find value. There aren't many unranked to gm with lucio online that are recent and it would be interesting to see what you have to say :)
GM lucio otp here. I'm no where near as knowledgable as awkward but, I can say some of the most valuable things to practice and learn is your movement, managing risk to get more damage to build beat and apply pressure. For example, just like any other hero find angles that you can deal damage without being melted, how to peel, when to engage, and when engaging, communicating with your team. Speed is useless if no one actually uses it to pursue isolated targets/engage or to rotate/back. Also, beat is a very strong mid fight ult, so don't always save it to use reactively. Also, remember that boop is great at displacement. Got a poke comp sitting on high ground on Dorado? Boop em off. Got a genji blading your Ana and you dont have beat? Boop after he dashes. Junker Queen landed a knife and is going to use her slash? Boop. Targets hiding around a corner from a deadeye/dva bomb? Boop. You get the point. ALSO: avoid dying at all costs if possible. Hope this helps at all.
Watch frogger and eskay! Theyre the only gm lucio mains i can think of. Frogger is a contenders player and posts a lot of gameplay, hes pretty funny too.
@@tstatts Ya because im in lower rank nobody is in voice chat. Also for some reason nobody likes to back up if we lost the fight so whenever I try to speed amp in or out they sort of just strafe back and forth. Which is VERY ANNOYING. But thanks for the advice 😃
I do watch them a lot and I also some time watch avocadojelly and I use to watch redshell before he stopped (which probably wasn't the best inspiration for my lucio gameplay)@@yomama2376
@@haydenl7573 of course! And as sad as it is, that happens sometimes even in gm. Really just have to hard comm to the team the rotations that you want to take with speed or else they most likely won't do anything with it. Climbing solely playing lucio especially while solo que is very difficult at low ranks, unless you've got good enough mechanics to take duels. Biggest thing to work on first in my opinion would be cooldown management. I only ever use amp for engagement/retreat, and amp heals in midfight and to build beat or when absolutely necessary, but of course remember, cooldowns are meant to be used, there never exists a so called "perfect" time to use amp, if you know what I mean. You'll get a feel for it. Also, beat is an excellent midfight tool as well. You can easily win fights during the midfight by using beat then amping speed to overwhelm them while they dont have all of their cooldowns. So don't always save beat exclusively for defensive plays against things like grav and blade! Also lastly, remember, damage damage damage. Building beat as fast as possible is massively valuable. Good luck in the grind!
Yay! Thanks so much for posting Awkward😊
Man, I love watching these types of videos. I managed to make it to gold in support, but im bronze in dps (I dont touch tank).
I'm decent when it comes to game sense, cooldown usage and stuff. Watching your videos has also helped me improve on things like this. However, my main problem is my aim. Recently started playing overwatch 2 and its kinda my first fps game (not counting cod i used to play when I was really young, it was mostly zombies anyway) and my aim is really holding me back. I know its a thing that develops overtime but I truly wish there was a way I could improve faster. It just seems like no matter what I do my skill with aiming stays the same.
Keep up the good videos man! Love them!
That Doom giving up in the beginning was hilarious
I was stuck in silver tracer lmao. Then i watched your vid and a week later im plat only losing games when theyre late at night. I was playing overwatch like cod i literally have no brain. THanks for the full VODs
Lu-ci-o! Lu-ci-o! Lu-ci-o!
Come on my fellow NPCs
Lu-ci-o! Lu-ci-o! Lu-ci-o!
😂😂😂
yo Awkward, just wanted to tell you that I appreciate your content, i've just hit grand master for the first time as illari and that's because of your educational content.
Lmfao that one dude telling you to learn how to play after your first loss if only they knew
I’ve been wondering, what are the specifics of those accounts you use for those runs? Because from what I gather the quick play win rates will be taken into account for your first placement matches. For instance, I played on a fresh account where I did my quick play wins myself ending up with a ~80% win rate on bap and eventually going 5-1 on my initial placements - this put me in Master 1 being higher ranked than 73% of my division (so 3973sr I assume). After one more update I already reached GM. Do you purposely use accounts with subpar unranked win rates to make it more of a challenge?
caps 1.5 points... 'I forgot to throw this thing...' Had me cracking up hahaha
Awkward doesn't need half her kit
Thanks for the video! Hopefully you'll do a Junker Queen one eventually.
my guess before pressing play was you would be doing damage from the offangle, correct :D
Your aim is so crisp :O Good job
Was hoping we'd get this video soon. As always it didn't disappoint
You don’t know how much this helped me very very good guide
Can you make a new hog unranked to gm video he is different to play now and I want to play him as a secondary tank and I don't know how to properly play him or can you just make a video when the rework drops thank you if you read this
Awkward, I'm convinced bro.
You're the best.
Period.
Brother, I appreciate you have other things to do IRL and I respect you for that. But part of me also wants you to make more videos because I learn so much from them - keep it up 🙌🏽
‘i’m gonna use this ultimate right away, i can’t save it for the next round’ proceeds to not use ultimate till the round ends
Glad you could learn from my mistake.
37:56 Mercy: "I'll see myself out" 😆
saw this on stream, i’ll watch it again for support
You get more value out of your pylon if you place it higher. At least the enemy team has to take their eyes way off your team to focus killing it giving your team another off angle distraction advantage.
The beginning matches told me that its not about how much you heal, its about when you heal.
W content man🙏🏽 can we get a u2gm on Ashe??
I learn so much from watching you! Not just on how to play with certain characters but got to play the game in general! You do such a great job of breaking it down and making it easy to understand why you do certain things and when you do them. You truly have a gift for this! Great content!
Went from iron to conflict diamonds using your tips, thanks man
FINISHED!
3:13:33 Born to Illari. Forced to Zenyatta.
3:27:23 The (immediate) return of Six.
6:18:15 SATISFACTION
6:19:32 Born to Illari. Forced to Zenyatta. Pt. 2
The sustainability Illari has is just insane in any 1v1 scenario.
people tend to forget the most basic principle of playing a game, which is enjoying their time
Absolutely insane ty awkward! Sojourn next?
The fact six took your character… then once he saw how good you were then gave it to you…. Overwatch to a tee
Well, I tried illari and I think I am doing fine😅 I started from bronze 4 to Diamond 5 in 9 hours of playing her, after I watched this video like 6-7 times and I still watch it and I learn something new every time
I’d like to see a Junkerqueen Unranked to GM video
Great guide! What's your rationale behind having changed colors?
i watched this and thought i can't be too bad to play ranked so i q and get a malder in one game a thrower in the next and a guy who has probably never touched a mouse in his life on the third
Once again the chat on that first game tells so much, gold players really have no idea what's going on. They have a top 500 support and they're arguing over whether it's a tank diff or a dps diff. They just have no idea, ignore the opinions of other players if you want to climb.
Could u do a hanzo unranked to gm i am trying to improve with that Hero
You make me feel like I can do anything in this game rofl
I think what's great about Illari's ultimate is that even if you don't get any kills with it, it forces whoever got tag with it to stay in cover for a few seconds. It makes it very easy for their team to be split and more isolated which makes killing those who wasn't tagged easier as well.
Do this on lifeweaver to prove that nerfs don’t really matter. If you seemingly waited for them to make weaver much better in the new changes than it will make me question your words at the beginning“nerfs don’t matter”
Why don't you add twitch chat?
Hey man, I have been watching your videos for a long time, really makes my day
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