Hey, so I just got Overwatch a week and a half ago and I’ve decided that I wanna main Tracer due to how fun it is to blink around enemies and confuse the flip out of em. On the other hand, my aim isn’t so good with her and I cant seem to track targets that are close up to me. Help would be greatly appreciated. 
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Oh why it is best to practice your aim with tracer mainly due to how fast she shoots in the midst of blinking around.
Proper practice is trying out accuracy workshop modes and going from there.
If that doesn’t suit your Fancy, starting off with hard mode lucio bots and disabiling their firing ability would make for a start in tracking moving targets.
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Hey friend! This is where you start…
Also make sure all forms of V-sync are disabled!
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I’ve been maining Tracer this season and the thing I found most helpful was trying the settings different pros use until I found one that suits me. I’d give that a try.
I’ve played around with some pros’ settings, and I think I’ve settled on 800dpi and 4 in game sens I just don’t know how to further work on my aim.
- Make sure you’re at the right distance. You don’t have to be point blank in someones face, it’ll only make your aim harder. You can still reasonably 1-2 clip someone from a couple meters away. Maintaining about a 1-blink or .75-blink distance is usually optimal because it puts you in the perfect spot for a blink melee while still losing very little damage due to spread. The closer they are to you, the more they move around on your screen, the better their strafing is.
- Make sure your own movement isn’t messing with your aim. Strafing one way and aiming the same way will cause you to overaim and miss. It’s easy to get out of sync and not even notice
- Go for easier targets. Even people like kabaji and dafran have potato aim sometimes, and it all depends on who they’re shooting at. Sometimes peoples movement is too good or the angle you’re coming in at is all wrong (like trying to 1clip a widow from above while falling down to the side while she’s strafing).
- Look for unaware people or people walking in straight lines relative to you. If someone’s a/d strafing sideways, and you’re on their side… they’re not moving at all relative to you (in terms of aiming). Kabaji abuses this a lot and showcases it really good in his unranked to gm video.
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That seems so slow to me. I use 400 DPI and in game sense of 14. If you’ve got the arm speed I guess it’s fine though. As far as aim practice, there really isn’t any other than just doing it over and over. Nothing else translates 1 to 1. That’s all I got.
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Look up, Overwatch NEW Practice Ranges - Better Aim Training and More! - Overwatch Workshop Maps - YouTube
It’s a video by BTC reviewing different workshop codes for better practice ranges.
Use the updated codes in the description
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I forgot about the workshop. There may be something in there. Good call, Dizzy.
Thanks. so apparently a post has to be 20 characters so this is filling up the last bit
Also thx so much for all the help guys.
By the way another really useful tip is to just stop shooting sometimes. You don’t have to empty your whole 40 rounds into someone at once, especially if you aren’t confident they’ll all hit. What works really good (this is also something kabaji does almost every time he takes a 1v1) is shooting about 1/3 or 1/2 your rounds, blinking, and then continuing. As long as your flicks are accurate with your blinks you’ll land more shots because you keep the initiative. If they aren’t dead after that 1 or 2 magazines worth of shooting, probably best to leave.
It works because they can’t strafe against you for that brief moment that you blink and force them to turn, and if you blink to somewhere that their strafe is useless against, you get free shots. Plus it’s good for survivability.
Wow, thx for all the tips.
Hi there, flex here. My tracer is just platish level but I can share some general advice.
Not just the settings. You need to do the drills, get used to her effective range, (please do not spray from 21m because it’s out of hog’s hook 
) get used to blink + 180 shooting.
Then you find your best settings. Her overall sensitivity should be higher than the rest of pinpoint heroes that you play, somewhat same as genji with his dash+180 blade. Fast enough to turn while comfortable for you to track up close.
The more I play the more I think a lot of issues aiming with heroes comes from hardware and connection than anything else.
Make sure you have a nice monitor with high refresh rate (60hz just won’t cut it, buttery smooth 140+ is where it’s at) that supports G-Sync or Free-Sync, a computer with a graphics card that supports it (those combo Intel HD Graphics + Nvidia mess everything up so avoid like the plague), and make sure your graphics settings are at least at low-medium level. If it’s not all up to snuff you can get awful screen tearing and low frame rates that make it much harder to focus your cursor on enemies. If you’re not in a position where you can upgrade you can always try to overclock your monitor refresh rate using programs like CRU (do this at your own risk, it’s not likely to damage components but it will shorten the lifespan of your monitor).
Do everything you can to get ping down, below 40 is acceptable but not great. There are lots of guides around to help you try to bring it down (changing your dns to a faster one, using Ethernet cable instead of wifi, getting a fiber Internet connection, closing all other bandwidth-hogging apps, increasing Overwatch’s task schedule priority, physically moving closer to an Overwatch server, etc.).
You’ll have to choose a mouse sensitivity that works for you, depending on if you’re a wrist aimer or an arm aimer. Note: arm aiming is generally recommended over wrist aiming, I’m personally a wrist aimer and have to use a pretty high sens for all the twisting around necessary.
I suggest you look up videos to help but if you want personal advice feel free to dm me on discord (bion#9999)
Just don’t play tracer. Shes a throw pick.
Just kidding
Kabaji is a really good tracer and you should learn from him
Try and find the right sensitivity. I personally find it easier to aim in tracer with lower sens. My dpi is 400 and sens is 6
i added you on discord, can’t dm you because you have it set to friends only. Also thanks for helping.
Mess with your DPI and in-game sensitivity weekly. Don’t change it every day because your brain will take a while to adjust. I improved my aim so much after finding my sweet spot. It isn’t an instant change, but it will definitely help.
If you’re curious, I’m on 3.50 in-game and 900 DPI on my mouse.