What’s the best way to go about analyzing your game play? I’ve recently started taking advantage of the replay feature to help myself realize mistakes I’m making however, I find myself watching myself in first person and am having a hard time knowing what types of things to look for.
I also find the menu in replay kinda annoying and am not sure how to use it properly. Any tips on things I should keep in mind/look for to better myself would be helpful.
Watch a guide on the hero you are playing (a good one made by a high ranking player who ACTUALLY mains that hero I.E don’t listen to Freedo for Sombra or Symmetra tips, listen to Fitzy or Steevo) take notes and see if you are doing them in game, thats what I do.
Or compare your best games to your worst games and see what you are doing differently (IE your best game you have recorded on Rialto, compared to your worst game played on Rialto)
Um replay tool? 
I’m no expert here so take my suggestions with a grain of salt, but instead of watching yourself play and trying to think about what stuff you dotn know about, try to find key moments where you feel like something went wrong and thinking about what you could’ve done differently.
For example if you died, see if maybe you couldve lived if you did something differently, and then think about those choices in your next game. Take note of what happens after you die as well - could your team have maybe won a fight had you been there to help?
Good advice guys, thanks!
Side note: anyone know what “RCONTROL” is/what button on the keyboard it is? Is it the CTRL button on the right side of the keyboard?
Its a little outdated but still worthwhile but Watch iostux video on ow gamesense positioning then look at your own and youll find many errors im sure.
Well, the best thing you can do for yourself is to have someone else analyze it. Your judgement will always be tainted by both hindsight and your own intentions. But if you can’t have someone else do it, that’s the key - think about what you could have done differently without relying on hindsight. One of the best things you can look out for is preventable situations. If you die or lose a push, rewatch the footage and ask if there was anything you could have done differently based on actual tangible evidence.
For example, if you lost a fight because you made a split second judgement call that felt right, try and analyze it and see if it really was right. You may have missed something that was clearly visible to your POV, but you just didn’t focus on the right things. When I’ve watched my own gameplay and looked at fights where someone flanked and wiped out my team, more often than not I find that they’re perfectly visible going on the flank - I just didn’t catch them as they slid by.
Another thing you can do is watch people who outplay you. Figure out why. You’ll realize you might not be as slick as you think you are. And if they do something that goes against your intuition, try to figure out why. There may be a perfectly clear reason to it that you don’t understand.
i typed out a super long reply…only in the end deleting it…
basically this is what i was saying
i love the replay feature, i find that i get much more value while watching a player on the other team, in 1st person view
How i do it.
I write down the things i do, just so i have my decision tree laid out in front of me as i rewatch it. Anytime something goes wrong, i go back and see where i could have done something else. The next a similar situation happens, i try the alternative.
I’m not doing any big changes at once, just small gradual ones to my playstyle.
If things get complicated and i need to know what the other team is doing, i record multiple videos and mash them together so i’ll know where the character is relative to me.
Especially useful when someone else is using your main on the other team and you’d like to know how they’re performing so you can adjust your playstyle based on what they do.
I typically watch a game four times. My first watch on the replay is an overhead view with the labels turned on so i can track where everyone is (this is my second video after my ingame video). My third video is on a teammate that seems to be carrying based on the overhead watch, and my fourth is on an enemy that gives a view of how i’m doing.
One thing to note is that i don’t play to win. I just try to be efficient with my hero and that doesn’t necessarily mean i win my games. When Sombra’s winning playstyle was to be an EMP bot for example, i shunned away from that because i’m only doing a fraction of what Sombra can do. Granted, the other 80% of her playstyle doesn’t do anything, but it’s more fun than focusing on just her EMP.
Best and most obvious - winratio.
Apart from that, for myself I track:
K:D Ratio - 4 kills per death
Solo kills per 10 minutes - 20 kills per 10 minutes.
Headshots - highest for selected hero, for Hanzo its about 14%.
PS Dont watch any guides. You must git gut yourself, use your own brains, otherwise youll just fall into a meta slaves type of players.
I look for positioning, protection, and comp countering.
Positioning: Utilizing/ protecting choke points
Protection: Do I come to the aid of a team mate in distress? Do I help protect healers enough?
Countering: Look for enemy team mates that seem unopposed. Was there enough pressure on Widow for example or Phara? Is our counter comp wrong?
Overall, I look for things that have caused losses. Even though I can’t play every role in one game I try to determine the better hero pick for a situation to reduce the chance of losing.
I use 2-2-2 to practice to win. Those that say “relax man it’s quick play” belong in quick play classic.