Thanks for this! I was heartbroken, when I dropped from high plat back to silver when I decided to get back to Overwatch. But my road to reach diamond is still on. Hope your channel will have a good future
@@scumknight6074he said "when I decided to go back to overwatch" so he lost his skill, so of course he dropped When I stopped playing overwatch and returned my skill dropped from GM (OW 1) to high plat-low diamond (OW2). Yes, that was a long break I know It does feel kinda painful knowing I was there in GM now struggling in plat/low diamond. The game is so much different now
@@scumknight6074lol I was masters in OW1 and when I came back to OW2 I have been hovering in low diamond/high gold lol hell even the streamer Dafran recently did a placement on a new account and got placed in silver 1 after going 9-1. Something is wrong with their ranking system.
Man, I didnt even think this could be someone's first video until you said it at the end. You're very well-articulated and you seem to know damn well what you're talking about. I hope you make it big, my guy!
Seriously, like what? You did such an amazing job making this video for it to be your first was a huge surprise. I really love how the focus is on us the whole video and you explain it's all about you and not teammates. It's what everybody doesn't ever talk about and really needs to be said. I was expecting you to have at least 500k subs and it baffles me that you're still new on youtube. I hope you make it!! If your content is this good already it will only get better and we need somebody like you here!
@@ITZCASPER420 console aiming is more difficult than pc, but overwatch's aim assist is notorious for being very generous so idk anything about numbers, but if you play further away from the enemies, aim assist can do a huge part of the job
as someone who climbed all the way from bronze to masters (trying for gm lol), this is by far the best advice anyone can give on this subject and i hope everyone listens and writes this all down! this is exactly what helped me climb!
There’s a HUGE issue in low ranks that you didn’t hit on. Something I’ve noticed in plat and below is people hold ults for 5-10 minutes or never use it the WHOLE game (I’ve seen that so much). Another thing they do with ults is they stack all the ults, and when one person ults then EVERYONE ults. These aren’t things I see happening once in a while it’s every single match. So many winnable games and team fights are lost because people just hold their ults, which can make it hard to rank up. I remember what helped me get to diamond back in OW1 was watching top 500 streamers and I noticed they would ult as soon as they were able to get value out of it. I used to play a lot of Zarya and enjoyed watching Harbleu. What I noticed was as soon as he got grav he would immediately chuck it and get kills. I implemented this into my gameplay and noticed that you can create an aggressive perpetual ult cycle where you do lots of damage/get kills, build ult, use it, and do it again (or using support ults to save someone or the whole team) Not saying that as soon as your ult hits 100% you should use it, but you should use it right away if you can secure at least 1 kill, bait out an ult, create space, etc. It’s pretty situational but you shouldn’t be holding ults the whole match, always try to use them as soon as you can.
the stacking ults part is so true. I played some dps this comp season (only like 12 games lol but hey), and if i notice our team use 3 or even 4 ults i'll hold mine. I play echo and torb, torb ult on its own can be very good (i use it to zone people off of kitsune for example), and an echo copy at the right moment can turn a fight or end it early, even. No need to use more ults if you're in a 5v2 and winning by a landslide. I'm guilty of holding ults sometimes though. Mostly why i do this is because in some games my teammates just get picked off before i get in position so my ult won't be very impactful now, but i admit i sometimes lose patience instead of waiting for my team to regroup once again, because sitting on an ult and not using it feels so awful.
Yeah unfortunately low ranked players can't even conceptualize tracking enemy or even team ult percentages much less min maxing ults and ult fights by cycling them efficiently.
I mean he didn't touch on it specifically but I think that falls under the idea of "what mistakes can I make less of" and "what can I do better" and also the idea of learning better mechanics . as you rank up you will start getting lobbies where you will start seeing different strats and your game sense improves as you go up
@@STartist.I play in silver and players are capable of tracking ults. What they struggle with is knowing what to do with that information, planning, and properly executing it. You can call out "Reaper has ult" all day long. You and half your team will probably still die to blossom, because no one actually knows how to follow up and hopes someone else will just kill Reaper or Reaper will waste it. That's the real problem in lower ranks, not the tracking part.
true. i’m a lucio main and when i get beat i usually try to offset my ult to save them for when my team inevitably does what you stated. but ive noticed after i started doing that, my teammates acknowledge it so much more. i think not only does it help in a game sense but it’s a morale booster as well
Big tip to rank up: Don't use chat. If you don't use the chat (text and coms) you have a statistically higher chance for teammates to not throw. Not huge odds, just 4x the likelihood your teammates don't sell. In inverse is true, don't start talking, if you do you will have 4x more bad teammates Edit: Overall this guy has good advice, the only thing to add that nobody talks about is how long it will take to rank up. Each rank is a learning experience so don't worry about anything other than being a better player
@@cvgneeb2040 Most people who use chat, don't use it to their advantage. They'll use it to complain or vent out their frustrations instead of trying to make useful call outs for the team to listen to. Nobody trying to hear dat shiz. Basically if you have nothing useful to say, don't say anything at all type of deal.
Thank you for this! I've only been playing "fps" games for about a year now, and have only been playing Overwatch for 3-4 months. I've been wanting to try out Ranked, but the tip videos and misery I've seen of it keeps psyching me out of even trying. This is way more motivational than any other video on the topic I've ever seen.
Honestly, great video. Earned a sub. Can’t stand all these people who have been top of the leaderboards since the beginning of OW1 (who the comp system basically just carries from season to season) basically just insulting lower ranks with no help to improve.
I didnt realize that this was your first video until the end and would have never guessed with how well this was put together and how you made everything easy to understand. subbed lol
Really nice video. Something else to mention: If you are going to dedicate time to trying to get better at Overwatch, then 1. Get 8 hours of sleep after every session (will help with retention), 2. Make sure your diet is getting close to if not achieving a nutritional state with your vitamins, minerals, carbs, fats and proteins. 3. Exercise will improve everything across your whole life. Mental acuity, energy, retention, etc. These tips are useful across all of life but especially for periods of learning.
Great video! :D I agree and also think one of the best tips truly is to stop caring about rank and just focus on self improvement! Some of my friends just stress so much about winning or losing that their mentality is ruined and make them lose more games eeven if they do not realize it
it’s been about a week since i saw this video. right after i did i changed my dpi and sense settings and at first it did seem really slow, but even as a lucio main i had someone on the other team say “is the lucio exploiting?” yesterday while i was on 20-2 tear on Numbani. MY AIM IS SO GOOD NOW THANK YOUUUUUU
I got this video show up on my recommendation yesterday and really loved EVERYTHING you said in it. I think there was a video that a youtuber made. I can't remember the name off the top of my head where he was talking about toxicity, I think it was a stylosa video. But that video really help me be less toxic, cause I get mad when we lose. Then in the video they mention, why are you getting angry at a video game for losing? You aren't enjoying it. It helped out a lot. I started to not really care about losing but it sometimes gets to me and I take a break.
Genuinely the best rank-up video I have seen on TH-cam. I myself am working on making it to high masters low gm. I started around the same time you did and was hard stuck bronze for my first year. Overtime I have improved peaking at masters 4 and working my way towards GM. I have also shared my experiences on TH-cam and methods I've used throughout climbing through every rank below masters, NONE of which are as good as this video. I look forward to seeing more of your content in the future!
I think this man needs a Oscar for the tips that he gives and for his first vid dang it’s good plus i’m stuck in silver 5 but i hope this video helps other people stuck like me
I really like this video, feels like the boot up the arse I needed to realise it was my own complacency rather than teammates that was preventing me from improving as a player. I've got the potential to be better than I am, just was focusing my attention toward the wrong things.
what a great video. i’ve felt like i’ve been stuck in elo hell, and this was the first video that ACTUALLY HELPS and explains how to do things, rather than just give generic garbage that we all know 😅 “get good aim” like i know, but you actually show HOW to get better aim. very great video, you deserve more exposure. keep it up
im returning to ow, was gm in s5 and most of my career and im trying to relearn the game and god i make some mistakes old me would scream at. this really helped my mental i havent been the best teammate ngl. thank you cant wait for my content brother
From a person that hops every year to a different compeitive game. This is a really good guide what is realistic. I see many video without good information. But this is really straight forward and good everything what the problem is you solve it with this video. You can implement this every rank and every comp game. [So not only Overwatch 2]
Great tip about comms. Team morale is so important in this game, and it’s okay to be frustrated. But there are positive ways to vent to your team/ seek solutions to any problems arising. Also props to JQ gameplay as a JQ onetrick lol.
I've played this game for around 2-3 months. I'm not hard stuck. I don't anticipate being hard stuck anytime soon. I know good advice when I hear it though. Subbed.
I remember when I was in masters on support and I was so proud of myself . I quit playing for a few months because my friends did now I’ve been hard stuck low diamond/ plat . I know why it’s because I wasn’t following these tips like it or not . Thank you for the video and hopefully I can get back to were I was .
I peaked D5 last season and now im almost down to P4. I'm trying to pull it back together and hopefully make it higher this season. Thanks for the insightful tips
Excellent advice. And a key point you alluded to is patience. One mistake I made was playing lot's of QP but only maybe a dozen or so ranked games per season. And while I never had huge expectations, starting off at bronze 5, yeah... was a bit of an ego blow. Coupled with seeing an abnormal amount of games, as you noted, where I'd have leavers or throwers was discouraging. But it is indeed a numbers game. Certainly I've improved over time, but the biggest difference I've had in the last 2 seasons is actually playing ranked games more often. I went from barely seeing sliver (sometimes) in the first 8 seasons, to rapidly climbing in gold with plat looking very attainable, just by keeping cool and persisting.
Yo I always liked consuming educational Overwatch content so I've known mostly everything you've gone over but these are by far the MOST important and useful tips I've gathered! Fire video man.
New subsciber. Great vid. It's weird for me it seems what I've learned is difficult sometimes to put into practice I guess. I've been learning from Spilo and TooAwkward. And I know Damage, Damage, Damage, cover, Positioning, looking around constantly, and shooting from cover, and flanking. There are matches ideal with where the other 4 just feed, and never group up. There will be lobbies you can't win. Like if someone leaves the match on your team. which statistic your chances go lower. But you win the ones your supposed to.
(Sorry for the rant) Do you have any tips for support stuck gold? I feel like I’m at the very peak of what I can do for mercy (my main) I push 11k for 10 mins avg and don’t heal bot , when I win I’m heavy carrying when I’m loosing I’m heavy carrying , I don’t have high deaths. I’ll push all the way to g3 just to have 5 rounds back to back with awful tanks going 17-11 while the opposing is a widow and tank cranking out 40 kills a match , I’m thinking about just trying to find ow groups on discord but if I can improve myself in anyway I’d want to do it, how can I make a tank good even when they don’t listen to coms or just have horrible positioning/mechanics
My anxiety prevents me from playing comp a lot but I managed to place on all three rolls. My best roll currently is silver 1 tank and I'm about 2 games away from hitting gold 5 but man I'm trying to get back in there to play more but I'm terrified to disappoint my team! Sorry for the rant and getting personal but I wanted to share my experiences and I plan on playing comp tonight using these tips! Awesome video and I can't wait to see more! Keep it up, I've got the bell on :D
Honestly if you have ranked “anxiety” just don’t fucking play ranked lol it’s bad enough getting brainless teammates if you can’t handle a video game comp game you should stay the hell away lol😊
Great video, and I agree with pretty much everything you said. I'm one of those players who thinks they deserve a higher rank. In my case, it's because I play ~12 competitive games per season (if that). I know that this will limit me, and I accept it. It also throws off the calculations you made in terms of probability in the fact that the percentage affected by any throwers/leavers will be higher (I went 8-2 on tank, placed in Plat 5 then my next three games were: leaver, flame-in-text-chat instead of playing and then a thrower. Back to gold with me!). I'm thinking of grinding ranked a bit over the summer holidays (I'm at university so don't have a machine to play on in term time) to see just how far I can climb. I'm hoping low masters but I'll settle for diamond. Congrats on the climb!
This guy is giving good information. A few things that miss from the vid would be that meta doesn't matter up until mid gm. I got gm5 onetricking doom in season 5 back when orisa illiari was meta. Meta is useless until very high up in the ranks. Another thing would be if you don't even know a mistake exists watching coaches could help. The one I learned from is Spilo. Very high quality advice. He worked with the london spitfire as their coach for a long time. He has 2 channels, spilo and spilo 2. His main channel is more general stuff that can be applied to all roles, or certain roles and life advice and his second channel is full vods. Highly recommend his content. That's how I got gm.
meta does matter. you reached gm onetricking because your mechanical skill is higher than the teams you’re against. players of the same skill bracket going against eachother but one uses meta and one doesn’t will result in the latter losing. or struggling to win badly.
great video! I'm gold 5 in dps and plat 4 in support but I'm looking to get to somewhere between diamond or masters. I'm a visual learner and will 100% take watching my replays into consideration, thanks for the tips!
I started playing OW2 in season 2. In my first ever season I was plat. By season 7 i hit GM1 and I currently sit comfortably in T500 after 700 hours on the game. I agree with your point that anyone can rank up if they commit to improving. I have never been mechanically gifted at any fps I’ve played but mastering the fundamentals helped me a lot. Things like positioning, ult usage, crosshair placement, decision making, etc are simple things that make a big difference over time.
After S9 I got a goal to learn Reinhardt and reach Diamond, I was very stucked until I began to see my replays, now I stopped over extending my plays and im getting better with him, I think this season I'll got it, thank you so much for the tips PD: I was in gold 4 when I began and I'm in Plat 3 at the moment
Random tip: DPI affects input lag. A higher DPI = lower input lag, although resulting in diminishing returns with higher DPI values. for best results, use a DPI of 3200 (or greater). 3200 DPI results in a significant reduction in latency compared to 800 DPI.
Great video. When I was a teenager I did sports shooting and it taught me a lot about questioning myself to improve. You will always be your own enemy, and even if you have the game mechanics, it is your mind that can work against you. At the shooting range, they said "the most important bullet is the one you are going to shoot"
I made it from dps bronze to platinum 1! I learned from this video the “low elo brain”. I absolutely agree. I played my tank and support in bronze/silver then I would go on my dps and it’s not the same synergy! The people don’t have the positioning and the comps down and then I go into a sweaty lobby and forget to get on my plat mindset which isn’t that good either. Since I been in plat I realized it’s just a lot of toxic players but sometimes some hard to hear stuff pushes us to do better lol
For the first video you did extraordinary. I honestly was flabbergasted when 6pu mentioned it is your debut. Keep up the good work!!! Also how can I send you a vod to review? ( If you agreed to do such a thing)
Ive got 7 accounts for playing with friends or learning new shit, from plat to Gm2 in s9. Knowing how each rank plays is HUGE. I found myself occasionally feeding in games where i was far and away the strongest individual on the map, because I was running dives like I was in my own MMR. The people I played with just couldn't make decisions and take initiative fast enough to join me, and no one 1v5s . One small adjustment and I had 3 games in a row without a single death as ball Another big one is speed and pacing is everything, making a decision quickly, be it right or wrong. Dont ever let the enemy do what they want to do
Thanks for the input! I haven’t been playing the game for a super long time so been trying to find out how to catch up on some lost time! Also will you be doing Vod reviews as well? If so how would we go about requesting one to be viewed?
As a widow main, one thing that helped me climb to top 50 is to learn the patterns of each player on the other team and to exploit them. Once you have enough gamesense you can manipulate the other team to throw cooldowns or ults on demand if you coordinate with your team well. Also for the hitscan dps players, having good raw mechanics can carry you to diamond even with 0 gamesense. GL
I would like to consider myself a really good widow main, but I cannot get out of gold. I do good every match and just feel let down by my team which I know isn’t the right way to think about it but when I consistently have highest damage, most kills, and least deaths I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong
Sometimes it's genuinely a team diff. Best you can do is just keep trying to improve. Gold is notorious for being hard to get out of because its like the perfect middle ground of people who got boosted by friends and people who are below where they should be. Its very polarized.
All you have to do is switch to reaper, bastion, torb or mei when needed. Then youll climb. Its really that simple because widow doesnt help tank take space very often. Sometimes the team needs help elsewhere. If you have a tank whose getting constantly farmed by a dva you may have to switch to help. Its a team game through and through. Sometimes your teammates suck more than you and you are able to make up in areas they lack. Its just utility that your team needs sometimes and if they're unable to supply the gamechanging utility it's up to you. @@drewbee2024
I know already what my mistake was watching this video... had to watch it multiple times because the JK skin+ gold weapon just looks so damn hypnotizing 😂😂 in all seriousness marvelous video!
I'm glad I took the chance to look at this video, while there are some points that get repeated often by others, its the way it was said and presented that made it easier to understand exactly what to do :D Thanks for the vid!
The mood thing for sure is true. When i actually tried to rank up I was calling shots and setting a good mood and that got me to high masters on all my roles relatively quickly in one season. When i saw my first GM's and t500 instead of getting intimidated because of some dumb rank i just took it less serious and not making a big deal out of it. Mindset can greatly improve your performances.
This is such an underrated part of ranked. I hit diamond back in season 10 after trying to get it for like 3 months (I was low plat before). Once I hit diamond, I took a break, got rusty and deranked back to low plat. It tilted me, and I'd say about 2 weeks ago I started trying again with an open mind, and not caring about my rank. I'm now back in diamond lol. It's actually wild how much your mental affects your gameplay
Since you offered, I do actually have a recent VOD I would like commentary on and a second opinion on. It was a very close game and I felt like my opposing tank, (I was tank as well), was exceptionally good. Which, even in Master, I don't find myself often thinking that.
I was happy to hear that you too have been in the lower ranks…I watched alot of videos where you could clearly tell the people giving advice had no idea what its like being in the lower ranks. However, i’m not sure if its because it was a while since you have been in lower ranks, it still seems like some of these tips are assuming things that aren’t the case. I just started playing again and I feel like in general the mechanics of both teams average out (although sometimes it feels like a huge mismatch) but the most difficult thing is team chemistry. Ive been playing support to ease back i to things, and Ive noticed that 69% of the time no one is focusing on the enemy support, while im always under pressure as support. Coincidence? So many games where the enemy mercy has 0-1 deaths and I just feel like everyone is just playing their own game, shooting at anything without any purpose. To make it worse, the change from 2 to 1 tanks makes so many games dependent on who has the better tank. Simply things like the tanks overextending and throwing the tide of a round keeps happening. I was never the type to get on mic or chat and tell people how to play, especially as I assume everyone at silver and up know about these basic tactics, but I just have a feeling that there’s alot out of your control. But as you said, focus on what you can do, and not what everyone else can do. People are going to play how they like!
Thanks for this! I was heartbroken, when I dropped from high plat back to silver when I decided to get back to Overwatch. But my road to reach diamond is still on.
Hope your channel will have a good future
Dropping from diamond to silver was even worse trust me, back up to plat now tho wby?
No offense, but that shouldn’t be possible unless you’re intentionally throwing.
@@scumknight6074he said "when I decided to go back to overwatch" so he lost his skill, so of course he dropped
When I stopped playing overwatch and returned my skill dropped from GM (OW 1) to high plat-low diamond (OW2). Yes, that was a long break I know
It does feel kinda painful knowing I was there in GM now struggling in plat/low diamond. The game is so much different now
I was mid plat. I watch "awkward" videos and yerterday i reach master 5 with moira
@@scumknight6074lol I was masters in OW1 and when I came back to OW2 I have been hovering in low diamond/high gold lol hell even the streamer Dafran recently did a placement on a new account and got placed in silver 1 after going 9-1. Something is wrong with their ranking system.
Man, I didnt even think this could be someone's first video until you said it at the end. You're very well-articulated and you seem to know damn well what you're talking about. I hope you make it big, my guy!
Seriously, like what? You did such an amazing job making this video for it to be your first was a huge surprise. I really love how the focus is on us the whole video and you explain it's all about you and not teammates. It's what everybody doesn't ever talk about and really needs to be said. I was expecting you to have at least 500k subs and it baffles me that you're still new on youtube. I hope you make it!! If your content is this good already it will only get better and we need somebody like you here!
I've never seen mouse sensitivity explained so clearly, simply and with actual numbers. This is one of most helpful tips I've seen.
Ok now explain controll/console settings the way you did the dpi. What settings are best to use on console.
@@ITZCASPER420 console aiming is more difficult than pc, but overwatch's aim assist is notorious for being very generous so idk anything about numbers, but if you play further away from the enemies, aim assist can do a huge part of the job
0:01 I don't even know this guy and he's already insulting me
as someone who climbed all the way from bronze to masters (trying for gm lol), this is by far the best advice anyone can give on this subject and i hope everyone listens and writes this all down! this is exactly what helped me climb!
true vids to rank up are a10
There’s a HUGE issue in low ranks that you didn’t hit on. Something I’ve noticed in plat and below is people hold ults for 5-10 minutes or never use it the WHOLE game (I’ve seen that so much). Another thing they do with ults is they stack all the ults, and when one person ults then EVERYONE ults. These aren’t things I see happening once in a while it’s every single match. So many winnable games and team fights are lost because people just hold their ults, which can make it hard to rank up. I remember what helped me get to diamond back in OW1 was watching top 500 streamers and I noticed they would ult as soon as they were able to get value out of it. I used to play a lot of Zarya and enjoyed watching Harbleu. What I noticed was as soon as he got grav he would immediately chuck it and get kills. I implemented this into my gameplay and noticed that you can create an aggressive perpetual ult cycle where you do lots of damage/get kills, build ult, use it, and do it again (or using support ults to save someone or the whole team) Not saying that as soon as your ult hits 100% you should use it, but you should use it right away if you can secure at least 1 kill, bait out an ult, create space, etc. It’s pretty situational but you shouldn’t be holding ults the whole match, always try to use them as soon as you can.
the stacking ults part is so true. I played some dps this comp season (only like 12 games lol but hey), and if i notice our team use 3 or even 4 ults i'll hold mine. I play echo and torb, torb ult on its own can be very good (i use it to zone people off of kitsune for example), and an echo copy at the right moment can turn a fight or end it early, even. No need to use more ults if you're in a 5v2 and winning by a landslide.
I'm guilty of holding ults sometimes though. Mostly why i do this is because in some games my teammates just get picked off before i get in position so my ult won't be very impactful now, but i admit i sometimes lose patience instead of waiting for my team to regroup once again, because sitting on an ult and not using it feels so awful.
Yeah unfortunately low ranked players can't even conceptualize tracking enemy or even team ult percentages much less min maxing ults and ult fights by cycling them efficiently.
I mean he didn't touch on it specifically but I think that falls under the idea of "what mistakes can I make less of" and "what can I do better" and also the idea of learning better mechanics . as you rank up you will start getting lobbies where you will start seeing different strats and your game sense improves as you go up
@@STartist.I play in silver and players are capable of tracking ults. What they struggle with is knowing what to do with that information, planning, and properly executing it. You can call out "Reaper has ult" all day long. You and half your team will probably still die to blossom, because no one actually knows how to follow up and hopes someone else will just kill Reaper or Reaper will waste it. That's the real problem in lower ranks, not the tracking part.
true. i’m a lucio main and when i get beat i usually try to offset my ult to save them for when my team inevitably does what you stated. but ive noticed after i started doing that, my teammates acknowledge it so much more. i think not only does it help in a game sense but it’s a morale booster as well
THANK YOU!!!!! I climbed from Bronze 5 to Gold, and now I'll use this to get to Plat or Diamond!
Nice! Hitting Gold feels so good
Me who's Plat and wants to go higher 💀
@@TheUnseenKrabeverytime I reach my last game to rank up to diamond, I lose 😭 this game just doesn't want me to go back to masters-
@@TheUnseenKrabliterally once you get to plat start grouping up at this point 😭
I was silver 4 at the start of season 9 and ranked up an entire division. It feels so good to be in gold
actually the best video ever, instead of being told the same things, im told that it's MY fault and I have to do something about it. thanks dude
Big tip to rank up: Don't use chat. If you don't use the chat (text and coms) you have a statistically higher chance for teammates to not throw. Not huge odds, just 4x the likelihood your teammates don't sell. In inverse is true, don't start talking, if you do you will have 4x more bad teammates
Edit: Overall this guy has good advice, the only thing to add that nobody talks about is how long it will take to rank up. Each rank is a learning experience so don't worry about anything other than being a better player
Wdym if you don’t use chat your teammates will be less likely to throw
@@cvgneeb2040 Most people who use chat, don't use it to their advantage. They'll use it to complain or vent out their frustrations instead of trying to make useful call outs for the team to listen to. Nobody trying to hear dat shiz.
Basically if you have nothing useful to say, don't say anything at all type of deal.
I like to ping that can be helpful.
Abysmal advice, use vc for callouts and leave immediately if it turns to a toxic mess
@@bonafidemonafide7810Almost every match at all levels is toxic. Permanently turning voice and text off immediately improves the experience.
Thank you for this! I've only been playing "fps" games for about a year now, and have only been playing Overwatch for 3-4 months. I've been wanting to try out Ranked, but the tip videos and misery I've seen of it keeps psyching me out of even trying. This is way more motivational than any other video on the topic I've ever seen.
Honestly, great video. Earned a sub.
Can’t stand all these people who have been top of the leaderboards since the beginning of OW1 (who the comp system basically just carries from season to season) basically just insulting lower ranks with no help to improve.
I didnt realize that this was your first video until the end and would have never guessed with how well this was put together and how you made everything easy to understand. subbed lol
Really nice video. Something else to mention:
If you are going to dedicate time to trying to get better at Overwatch, then 1. Get 8 hours of sleep after every session (will help with retention), 2. Make sure your diet is getting close to if not achieving a nutritional state with your vitamins, minerals, carbs, fats and proteins. 3. Exercise will improve everything across your whole life. Mental acuity, energy, retention, etc.
These tips are useful across all of life but especially for periods of learning.
Great video! :D I agree and also think one of the best tips truly is to stop caring about rank and just focus on self improvement! Some of my friends just stress so much about winning or losing that their mentality is ruined and make them lose more games eeven if they do not realize it
I wish, that you get everything good in this life this is the first video about ranking i see that is finally helpfull. Thank you!
it’s been about a week since i saw this video. right after i did i changed my dpi and sense settings and at first it did seem really slow, but even as a lucio main i had someone on the other team say “is the lucio exploiting?” yesterday while i was on 20-2 tear on Numbani. MY AIM IS SO GOOD NOW THANK YOUUUUUU
I got this video show up on my recommendation yesterday and really loved EVERYTHING you said in it. I think there was a video that a youtuber made. I can't remember the name off the top of my head where he was talking about toxicity, I think it was a stylosa video. But that video really help me be less toxic, cause I get mad when we lose. Then in the video they mention, why are you getting angry at a video game for losing? You aren't enjoying it. It helped out a lot. I started to not really care about losing but it sometimes gets to me and I take a break.
This video needs more recognition; Keep up the good work bro!
Genuinely the best rank-up video I have seen on TH-cam. I myself am working on making it to high masters low gm. I started around the same time you did and was hard stuck bronze for my first year. Overtime I have improved peaking at masters 4 and working my way towards GM. I have also shared my experiences on TH-cam and methods I've used throughout climbing through every rank below masters, NONE of which are as good as this video. I look forward to seeing more of your content in the future!
Unrelated but this is a really good first TH-cam video,! Good tips,good pacing, and good sectioning.
I think this man needs a Oscar for the tips that he gives and for his first vid dang it’s good plus i’m stuck in silver 5 but i hope this video helps other people stuck like me
Actually just great advice that isn't the usual trite high level players spew. Keep it up man, looking forward to seeing what other vids you produce
Got a new sub just by how you talked in the start of the video. A good high rank player who went through the same BS were all going through lol
I really like this video, feels like the boot up the arse I needed to realise it was my own complacency rather than teammates that was preventing me from improving as a player. I've got the potential to be better than I am, just was focusing my attention toward the wrong things.
what a great video. i’ve felt like i’ve been stuck in elo hell, and this was the first video that ACTUALLY HELPS and explains how to do things, rather than just give generic garbage that we all know 😅 “get good aim” like i know, but you actually show HOW to get better aim. very great video, you deserve more exposure. keep it up
You helped me so much more then you think I’ve been struggling so hard and my mentality kept going down the shitter thank you❤
im returning to ow, was gm in s5 and most of my career and im trying to relearn the game and god i make some mistakes old me would scream at. this really helped my mental i havent been the best teammate ngl. thank you cant wait for my content brother
Hey man, I just want to thank you for being a person of TH-cam that actually makes good content keep up the good work, and please stream.
this is the exact type of advice that took me from silver to diamond in one season! great videos :) now, to masters!
this is very helpful, thank you! insane that this is your first video man it’s very good!
This is very high quality for a first video, I'm excited to see where this channel goes in the future.
this video is amazing and you have a new subscriber. I've been stuck in bronze for a long time and ow is also my first fps
From a person that hops every year to a different compeitive game.
This is a really good guide what is realistic.
I see many video without good information.
But this is really straight forward and good everything what the problem is you solve it with this video.
You can implement this every rank and every comp game. [So not only Overwatch 2]
For your first vid this was amazing, very helpful tips.
dude i needed this. beautiful video layed out nice and the tips are genuine! best of luck to all you grinders
Great tip about comms. Team morale is so important in this game, and it’s okay to be frustrated. But there are positive ways to vent to your team/ seek solutions to any problems arising.
Also props to JQ gameplay as a JQ onetrick lol.
FIRST VIDEO? Didn't feel like it! Outstanding work.
The most honest video I have seen about this topic!
For you first video this was insanely knowledgeable and helpful thanks
Best part of this video is that it works for any competitive game not just overwatch
This is great. I hate that i’m a console player but these tips still pertain. Ty!
I'm watching this with spotify in the background and I was impressed by your music choice. heh
The best Video I have seen so far about this topic
I've played this game for around 2-3 months. I'm not hard stuck. I don't anticipate being hard stuck anytime soon. I know good advice when I hear it though. Subbed.
I remember when I was in masters on support and I was so proud of myself . I quit playing for a few months because my friends did now I’ve been hard stuck low diamond/ plat . I know why it’s because I wasn’t following these tips like it or not . Thank you for the video and hopefully I can get back to were I was .
Honestly assumed this was going to be full of bad takes, but instead I'm pleasantly surprised. Really good stuff. Cheers.
Thanks for the video! Much more clear on what to actually do to improve than most I've seen.
I peaked D5 last season and now im almost down to P4. I'm trying to pull it back together and hopefully make it higher this season. Thanks for the insightful tips
u so real for that !! and the fact that this is your first yt video is really impressing :3
This was very well done and most informative. And this is your First Video! A-mei-zing!
Excellent advice. And a key point you alluded to is patience. One mistake I made was playing lot's of QP but only maybe a dozen or so ranked games per season. And while I never had huge expectations, starting off at bronze 5, yeah... was a bit of an ego blow. Coupled with seeing an abnormal amount of games, as you noted, where I'd have leavers or throwers was discouraging. But it is indeed a numbers game.
Certainly I've improved over time, but the biggest difference I've had in the last 2 seasons is actually playing ranked games more often. I went from barely seeing sliver (sometimes) in the first 8 seasons, to rapidly climbing in gold with plat looking very attainable, just by keeping cool and persisting.
This is some great quality for your first ever video keep up the good work ❤
Some solid advice! You didn’t blow sunshine up anyone’s rear & still got your point across without being a dbag. Cudos!
First ever TH-cam video!? You crushed it!
Yo I always liked consuming educational Overwatch content so I've known mostly everything you've gone over but these are by far the MOST important and useful tips I've gathered!
Fire video man.
As an oldhead veteran who has done the same climb as you,, this is all PARAMOUNT advice!!
New subsciber. Great vid. It's weird for me it seems what I've learned is difficult sometimes to put into practice I guess. I've been learning from Spilo and TooAwkward. And I know Damage, Damage, Damage, cover, Positioning, looking around constantly, and shooting from cover, and flanking. There are matches ideal with where the other 4 just feed, and never group up. There will be lobbies you can't win. Like if someone leaves the match on your team. which statistic your chances go lower. But you win the ones your supposed to.
Top tier content! Definately deserves more views.
This was a great video anf helped me even tho i havent played again yet lol hopefully you continue making stuff
I climbed from bronze to diamond on support and now I’m stuck in sicker on dps and tank and ready to struggle the same way! Thanks for a great video
(Sorry for the rant)
Do you have any tips for support stuck gold? I feel like I’m at the very peak of what I can do for mercy (my main) I push 11k for 10 mins avg and don’t heal bot , when I win I’m heavy carrying when I’m loosing I’m heavy carrying , I don’t have high deaths. I’ll push all the way to g3 just to have 5 rounds back to back with awful tanks going 17-11 while the opposing is a widow and tank cranking out 40 kills a match , I’m thinking about just trying to find ow groups on discord but if I can improve myself in anyway I’d want to do it, how can I make a tank good even when they don’t listen to coms or just have horrible positioning/mechanics
you deserve more subs bro this video was realy good and detailed it also realy helped me keep it up
As a hardstuck silver player on every rank, this actually really helped!! I've made my way to gold on support! Hopefully it only gets better from here
that dpi x sensitivity advice has me actually scoring elims. Thanks!!
Thanks very much pal, idk how you dont have more subscribers cus youre very cool
Simply amazing content. Thanks!!!
I'm bronze 4 and will come back in two weeks. Thank you for the video.
Update?
@@abdel2351 bronze 2 😅
@@ForestGoblinJo Another Update?
@@HeksTooFrisky silver 4! The last season was brutal for Mercy. I ended up switching to tank instead of supports.
@@ForestGoblinJoanother?
My anxiety prevents me from playing comp a lot but I managed to place on all three rolls. My best roll currently is silver 1 tank and I'm about 2 games away from hitting gold 5 but man I'm trying to get back in there to play more but I'm terrified to disappoint my team! Sorry for the rant and getting personal but I wanted to share my experiences and I plan on playing comp tonight using these tips! Awesome video and I can't wait to see more! Keep it up, I've got the bell on :D
Honestly if you have ranked “anxiety” just don’t fucking play ranked lol it’s bad enough getting brainless teammates if you can’t handle a video game comp game you should stay the hell away lol😊
@isaacs8888 thanks for your idea.
@@Darth_Romanswtf dont listen to this guy play whatever you want its a free video game at the end of the day if you have fun you have fun
Thanks, I've climbed out of OW and into touching grass tier, now my life is way better!
Thank you so much I went from low bronze to Plat 1 almost diamond
Amazing video you just earned a loyal subscriber
I am going to subscribe best video I have seen in a long time
Great video, and I agree with pretty much everything you said.
I'm one of those players who thinks they deserve a higher rank. In my case, it's because I play ~12 competitive games per season (if that). I know that this will limit me, and I accept it. It also throws off the calculations you made in terms of probability in the fact that the percentage affected by any throwers/leavers will be higher (I went 8-2 on tank, placed in Plat 5 then my next three games were: leaver, flame-in-text-chat instead of playing and then a thrower. Back to gold with me!).
I'm thinking of grinding ranked a bit over the summer holidays (I'm at university so don't have a machine to play on in term time) to see just how far I can climb. I'm hoping low masters but I'll settle for diamond. Congrats on the climb!
This guy is giving good information. A few things that miss from the vid would be that meta doesn't matter up until mid gm. I got gm5 onetricking doom in season 5 back when orisa illiari was meta. Meta is useless until very high up in the ranks. Another thing would be if you don't even know a mistake exists watching coaches could help. The one I learned from is Spilo. Very high quality advice. He worked with the london spitfire as their coach for a long time. He has 2 channels, spilo and spilo 2. His main channel is more general stuff that can be applied to all roles, or certain roles and life advice and his second channel is full vods. Highly recommend his content. That's how I got gm.
meta does matter. you reached gm onetricking because your mechanical skill is higher than the teams you’re against. players of the same skill bracket going against eachother but one uses meta and one doesn’t will result in the latter losing. or struggling to win badly.
great video! I'm gold 5 in dps and plat 4 in support but I'm looking to get to somewhere between diamond or masters. I'm a visual learner and will 100% take watching my replays into consideration, thanks for the tips!
Solid vid man. Keep up the good work
I started playing OW2 in season 2. In my first ever season I was plat. By season 7 i hit GM1 and I currently sit comfortably in T500 after 700 hours on the game. I agree with your point that anyone can rank up if they commit to improving. I have never been mechanically gifted at any fps I’ve played but mastering the fundamentals helped me a lot. Things like positioning, ult usage, crosshair placement, decision making, etc are simple things that make a big difference over time.
Hey, nice video! You should make a vid about the best heroes to learn for each role to have a good basis for every map.
After S9 I got a goal to learn Reinhardt and reach Diamond, I was very stucked until I began to see my replays, now I stopped over extending my plays and im getting better with him, I think this season I'll got it, thank you so much for the tips
PD: I was in gold 4 when I began and I'm in Plat 3 at the moment
Watching replays really helped me a lot I tend to overextend and just get blown up.went from gold 3 to diamond 4 by just seeing my mistakes
Random tip: DPI affects input lag. A higher DPI = lower input lag, although resulting in diminishing returns with higher DPI values. for best results, use a DPI of 3200 (or greater). 3200 DPI results in a significant reduction in latency compared to 800 DPI.
Great video. When I was a teenager I did sports shooting and it taught me a lot about questioning myself to improve. You will always be your own enemy, and even if you have the game mechanics, it is your mind that can work against you.
At the shooting range, they said "the most important bullet is the one you are going to shoot"
I made it from dps bronze to platinum 1! I learned from this video the “low elo brain”. I absolutely agree. I played my tank and support in bronze/silver then I would go on my dps and it’s not the same synergy! The people don’t have the positioning and the comps down and then I go into a sweaty lobby and forget to get on my plat mindset which isn’t that good either. Since I been in plat I realized it’s just a lot of toxic players but sometimes some hard to hear stuff pushes us to do better lol
For the first video you did extraordinary. I honestly was flabbergasted when 6pu mentioned it is your debut. Keep up the good work!!!
Also how can I send you a vod to review? ( If you agreed to do such a thing)
Ill start streaming and doing vods over on my twitch in the next week or two so stay tuned!
thank you dude , this video really helped me a lot
I refuse to climb up
Good for you.
Ive got 7 accounts for playing with friends or learning new shit, from plat to Gm2 in s9.
Knowing how each rank plays is HUGE. I found myself occasionally feeding in games where i was far and away the strongest individual on the map, because I was running dives like I was in my own MMR. The people I played with just couldn't make decisions and take initiative fast enough to join me, and no one 1v5s . One small adjustment and I had 3 games in a row without a single death as ball
Another big one is speed and pacing is everything, making a decision quickly, be it right or wrong. Dont ever let the enemy do what they want to do
Thanks for the input! I haven’t been playing the game for a super long time so been trying to find out how to catch up on some lost time!
Also will you be doing Vod reviews as well? If so how would we go about requesting one to be viewed?
I’ll probably start streaming and doing vods over on my twitch in the next week or two so be on the lookout :)
SWEET! Keep up the good work!
As a widow main, one thing that helped me climb to top 50 is to learn the patterns of each player on the other team and to exploit them. Once you have enough gamesense you can manipulate the other team to throw cooldowns or ults on demand if you coordinate with your team well. Also for the hitscan dps players, having good raw mechanics can carry you to diamond even with 0 gamesense. GL
I would like to consider myself a really good widow main, but I cannot get out of gold. I do good every match and just feel let down by my team which I know isn’t the right way to think about it but when I consistently have highest damage, most kills, and least deaths I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong
Sometimes it's genuinely a team diff. Best you can do is just keep trying to improve. Gold is notorious for being hard to get out of because its like the perfect middle ground of people who got boosted by friends and people who are below where they should be. Its very polarized.
All you have to do is switch to reaper, bastion, torb or mei when needed. Then youll climb. Its really that simple because widow doesnt help tank take space very often. Sometimes the team needs help elsewhere. If you have a tank whose getting constantly farmed by a dva you may have to switch to help. Its a team game through and through. Sometimes your teammates suck more than you and you are able to make up in areas they lack. Its just utility that your team needs sometimes and if they're unable to supply the gamechanging utility it's up to you. @@drewbee2024
Thank you for all the tips. I’m just wondering, when you were talking about vid reviews, do you do them?
Ill probably start streaming vod reviews over on twitch in the next week or two so be on the lookout!
@@JeffyJA will we have to pay for them?
@@Mr.Empsalt No you will not :)
OK thanks
Just got into the game some ~4 days ago. Want to impress my friends. Very nice tips, thank you.
I know already what my mistake was watching this video... had to watch it multiple times because the JK skin+ gold weapon just looks so damn hypnotizing 😂😂 in all seriousness marvelous video!
I'm glad I took the chance to look at this video, while there are some points that get repeated often by others, its the way it was said and presented that made it easier to understand exactly what to do :D Thanks for the vid!
yeah i felt like it was a guide from owboost site but the way he explained everything... idk just hits different ig lol
Hey, I love the video! I’m going through the same journey here as well. Went from bronze to diamond and looking to push into masters here soon!
whoa, first video but you sound like a YT vet my boy. good job & video sir.
The mood thing for sure is true. When i actually tried to rank up I was calling shots and setting a good mood and that got me to high masters on all my roles relatively quickly in one season.
When i saw my first GM's and t500 instead of getting intimidated because of some dumb rank i just took it less serious and not making a big deal out of it.
Mindset can greatly improve your performances.
This is such an underrated part of ranked. I hit diamond back in season 10 after trying to get it for like 3 months (I was low plat before). Once I hit diamond, I took a break, got rusty and deranked back to low plat. It tilted me, and I'd say about 2 weeks ago I started trying again with an open mind, and not caring about my rank. I'm now back in diamond lol. It's actually wild how much your mental affects your gameplay
WOW!! 🤯🤯 JEFFYJA OW THIS WAS AN INCREDIBLY INFORMATIVE VIDEO 🤯🤯 I WILL NOW GO DIRECTLY TO TOP 500 WITH THESE INCREDIBLE TIPS!!!!! 😁😁😁😁
Can’t wait to see what other high quality content you can make if this is your first TH-cam video ❤
thank you so much you've earned a sub and inspired me to try my best no matter what!
Since you offered, I do actually have a recent VOD I would like commentary on and a second opinion on. It was a very close game and I felt like my opposing tank, (I was tank as well), was exceptionally good. Which, even in Master, I don't find myself often thinking that.
Ill probably start streaming and doing vods on my twitch within the next week or two so stay tuned!
@@JeffyJA whats your twitch?
@@killingkirby "JeffyJA" :)
I was happy to hear that you too have been in the lower ranks…I watched alot of videos where you could clearly tell the people giving advice had no idea what its like being in the lower ranks. However, i’m not sure if its because it was a while since you have been in lower ranks, it still seems like some of these tips are assuming things that aren’t the case. I just started playing again and I feel like in general the mechanics of both teams average out (although sometimes it feels like a huge mismatch) but the most difficult thing is team chemistry. Ive been playing support to ease back i to things, and Ive noticed that 69% of the time no one is focusing on the enemy support, while im always under pressure as support. Coincidence? So many games where the enemy mercy has 0-1 deaths and I just feel like everyone is just playing their own game, shooting at anything without any purpose. To make it worse, the change from 2 to 1 tanks makes so many games dependent on who has the better tank. Simply things like the tanks overextending and throwing the tide of a round keeps happening. I was never the type to get on mic or chat and tell people how to play, especially as I assume everyone at silver and up know about these basic tactics, but I just have a feeling that there’s alot out of your control. But as you said, focus on what you can do, and not what everyone else can do. People are going to play how they like!