For a long time, I’ve been a Genji one trick, but I’ve recently started trying to diversify my hero pool. I’ve been having success with Echo when Genji stops working, but I feel that there are a lot of situations where a long range character like Hanzo would be beneficial. The only problem is that I cannot hit a shot on Hanzo to save my life. Does anyone have any tips about how to get better with him? I’m plat 3 if that helps.
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According to the overwatch community, you don’t. Apparently he’s super busted and his super large spammy arrows will carry even the worst players to GM.
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Train you aim - it’s essential, because Hanzo is supposed to hit headshots. Know your positioning on the maps - Hanzo always keeps a distance on the highgrounds, don’t jump into the crowd. Learn the right time to use his ult, watch Hanzos gameplay from professionals, search for some guides. Your skill grows as you get used to the character, so play!!! Good luck
Just practice your aim. That’s all Hanzo is, really. It’s impossible to punish someone’s positioning when they have a close ranged one shot they can consistently hit, so he doesn’t really need much skill in that regard.
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fire more arrows, not that hard 
Custom hitboxes per hitscan or each character I have custom keybind and hitboxes for each hero I mostly play any way
Hanzo you need to customize mouse sense, hitbox size, and color and transparency helps A TON
Leadshot with proper customized hitbox and color = massive improvement
You need a rabit’s foot, a 4 leaf clover, a horseshoe and high 5 every chimney sweeper you can find 
you aim head hight and press a and d
and watch lots of arge
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Watch entire video do each character imo
COMPLETE GUIDE (2023There is a strong posibility for that 
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Subscribe to Aarge’s stream and watch his content, and ask questions about things you don’t understand. Aim for 50/50 split of watching and playing (ranked), or more playing if you can bear it
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Spend all experience point on luck stat
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Bro just randomly fire around corners and spam storm arrows on tanks…
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in my experience the biggest problem with hanzos in mid ranks are the angles they take (or ignore) and how much danger they expose themselves to
aim should correct itself over time, but the rest can easily become a reinforced bad habit
if the aim refuses to come, death match or some other aim intensive lobby helps keep sharp
Become a lumberjack and familiarize yourself with logs
Spam Spam SPam, dont stop Spamming.
Search for Spilo on YouTube – he’s a professional ex-OWL coach – drop in on his “Spilo 2” channel and watch various Hanzo VoD review sessions.
In my experience as a long time Hanzo main, its all about refining your mechanical skill and positioning.
You gotta learn the flicks and aiming styles, sometimes with Hanzo is better to wait for the enemy to walk into your crosshair rather than trying to track him, sometimes you need to look for a flick. Gotta learn patience and good sonic arrow placements to be consistent as Hanzo. Takes a bit of pratice but you can get there.
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Try not to shoot at someone that notices you. Prioritize people standing still or people walking in a predictable path to cover (like an ana scoped in).
Dueling while there are easier targets around will waste a lot of time.
When you get better, don’t think you need to kill pharah 24/7. Mercy is higher priority and teammates can help too. Focusing too much on air targets can cause a lot of downtime as you’re hitting a lot of nothing.
Watch Arrge videos and go for consistency before you go for headshots only. Let them walk into your crosshair and hold it still if they strafe too much.
I learned everything from Arrge on Youtube and Twitch. He deserves more rep.
When you get good at Hanzo, primary fire is usually better at headshotting flankers than worrying about storm arrows. As you get comfortable with the hero you will start aiming higher for headshots.
Using lots of cover and using sonic arrow can bait the enemy into you. You will see more of their body before they see yours. (this applies to almost every hero in a shooter)
I feel like Hanzo being a skirmisher sniper makes him very squishy, so try and only peek 1 enemy at a time after you gather intel of where everyone is.
His primary fire is rather stealthy, so if you are flanking don’t bust out the storm arrows at all if you don’t want to be insta-pushed. (they’re very loud and low damage)
Sometimes I’ll go for one shot on supports while ignoring tanks or dps if my team can brawl with them. The sustain can win a fight alone so target priority is good.
Hanzo is mostly prediction. Think logically about where an enemy will want to walk the moment they feel threatened. If you think about a defending ana, they will generally walk left to cover and the team/objective. Attackers have to push you so they often walk right. Against genji, hug the wall and/or wall climb above him to release and arrow on him and minimize his ability to headshot fan you. Hug wall corners against tracer too.
You can get back to cover and bait her into your shots.
As a sniper it can be thrilling to want to one shot but don’t forget to peek your supports so they can shoot you up with heals when you’re on the highground. (As a genji main though I imagine you know to peek your heals enough)
Yes, easy as that surely. Especially since no overwatch player knows the downtime between shots. “There are no consequences for spam.”
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