I’ve only played seven matches in total but I really want to improve my skills, especially in support. Any tips and tricks are highly appreciated! Thank you in advance.
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The short answer is to keep playing.
Slightly longer answer:
- Make conscious decisions. Try to avoid going into auto-pilot mode with your brain.
- If a play didn’t work out, ask yourself why it didn’t work and how you could have done it better.
- Review your game replays and look for areas to improve.
- Try not to blame your other teammates so much. Focus on yourself and your improvement.
- Higher ranked players can give good advice, but don’t ask TOO high above your own rank. The things they’ll say may not apply to you.
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7 matches? Great start now play 193 more. And see where you are. The point of comp is having the perseverance to keep playing match after match as you inch your way up. GL HF
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Play an eighth match. Then a ninth match. Then a tenth match. And then a few more.
nah fr tho, it’s probably really too early to give any tips, it takes a while just to understand what the hell is even happening in this game
also, based for playing support
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Are there any supports in particular you want to get better on?
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You can’t improve with your actual account. Create a new account with a different phone number and change your IP and you will have more balanced matches than now to challenge your skills.
This is a very comprehensive answer from ChopShopGuy and I have nothing further to contribute beyond urging you to focus on these core tenants if you are serious about climbing.
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Do you really need to reply to every topic? Best wishes to you dude but even you admitted you had nothing to add.
OP - petition Blizzard to police trolls properly - early on you’ll just be at the mercy of random matchmaking giving you more or fewer throwers.
Of course not. I do it because I want to.
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But seriously? Just starting out? Search ‘Overwatch Support Guide’ in Youtube.
Depending on which support you play, you might get some mileage out of an aim trainer. I would recommend this Workshop mode:
JPYHG
If you don’t know how to use the code:
- Click on Play on the main menu.
- Click on Custom Games.
- Look for the + Create button on the top right and click on it.
- Click on Settings, and then the Import Code button. For some reason it doesn’t have text; it’s next to a button with an icon of a floppy disk.
- After putting in the code, click Back then Start.
Good luck, have fun.
He doesn’t need to reply to every topic, but I need ThiccBuddha to reply to every topic.
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The only thing you have control of is matchup knowledge along with your hero and job role.
You consistently perform your job in your role and know how to use the map positioning to have advantage then most of the time you will win.
Matchmaker is insane. Sometimes you can have a full stack of hall of famers on your team to sweep the enemy. You shut them down to so hard you barely have to do anything.
Then a match or two later you get teamed up with people that have no business in your rank, never should have touched a mouse n keyboard, or just want to emote and troll.
That’s the nature of competitive. It is an inconsistent experience across all ranks.
The only difference is the higher you climb the less heroes you get to pick.
Go out there and have fun. The more you play and don’t care about your rank then the easier you will climb
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I’m a support main with a healthy side of dps (actually ranked higher dps, so maybe am a dps main) that’s relatively new to this game, but this isn’t my first shooter.
Your mental game is super important, and the first and biggest piece of advice is release all emotional attachment to your rank. Seriously, this is huge. It takes a lot of games for the software to sort you if you’re only playing at a division or two above your actual skill level. It’s absolutely essential to get your mind centered on the real evidence of improvement from game to game and move away from using rank rising and falling as any kind of measure.
Basically you’ll improve far faster than you actually rank up, so don’t get hung up there.
Second, play deathmatch on your main, even if it’a a brutal experience. Even if you’re Mercy, go try and beat Genji with your glamor glock.
Third, practice actual fundamentals in one of the many custom games. VAXTA is really good for most characters. No lie, hitting headshots consistently is a thing that almost every character needs to learn to do. That is the edge that’s gonna start giving you 1v1 wins.
Fourth, Watch your replays and be honestly critical of yourself.
Fifth, and this is completely serious always be having fun, or be in a pleasing flow-state. Never play tilted.
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Match replay review is a really good tool.
Especially when you lose.
If you got killed a lot, check your positioning from an enemy’s PoV and see how badly you were out of position and if you could do better to avoid enemy sight lines.
Aerial views are generally good to check out if you could have positioned better in relation to your team.
If a teammate kept dying, check the replay for if you could have done anything to support them better.
At least these two things the replays are good for with very little experience in vod review.
Check what heroes the enemy is playing every minute at least. Be ready to react quickly if you see a sombra or a tracer in the line up, be sparing with your cooldowns in these cases at least so that you have an ability to help yourself with when needed.
Learn the map base layouts. Walk them through in custom games and learn where at least the closest healthpacks are to choke points and make a mental note about flank routes.
You learn the maps by playing, but this will help you greatly in the beginning.
(This is a gold take btw. Someone more experienced point out if i’m giving bad advice)
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Play games with every character. That way you will know what they all do. When I first started playing, I didn’t know that I shouldn’t shoot the purple shield that zarya gives out. You need to learn the game, and the best way to do that is by playing every single character, at least once.
All this other “advice” is stupid.
I second this. It’s a phenomenal tool. You can literally watch the game from anyone’s PoV. So you can actually see if it was really your supports not healing you, or if you were constantly out of their LoS. There’s a thousand other such examples.
If every poster here took the time to review their matches instead of just flaming the mmr, balance, op heroes, etc etc, we’d actually have a chance to do more worthwhile threads, like this one.
Instead a high majority of posts are pure garbage. Imo.
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Oh one more thing:
Don’t spam jumping. Practice getting good at strafing instead, and jump only when you actually have to.
As an Ana player, its beyond infuriating when teammates keep jumping even when behind cover. My pet peeve you could say 
Its also a very predictable movement for enemies when youre in the open.
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one exception and i’m nitpicky about it. the overwatch community got this myth from somewhere that losses are more usefully coachable than wins.
totally not true. you’re going to make plenty of mistakes winning games as well.
The type of game that is mostly useless is a steamroll. Win or lose there’s not going to be a lot of useful info there.
For a lot of people I’ve coached I have found that highlighting mistakes made during a winning engagement lands better and sticks more readily
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For a person who’s never reviewed their games. It’s just easier to spot more obvious things.
Like getting repeatedly killed by a specific enemy.
Spectating a really annoying sombra will still give you insight of the routes that she can use to sneak up on you.
I aggree that stomps don’t give much material to analyze, but at least you can learn from the enemy’s positioning even in those. You can see what flank routes they use, how they time their abilities. And most of all, you get to see if you lost because your team didn’t group up.
The group up issue is a big one and reviewing even those losses briefly will teach you to recognize staggering when you’re doing it.
But yeah, it is more useful to review matches that aren’t stomps.
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Here’s advices to improve (CopShowGuy send you well) :
-Don’t think play only one hero is enough. Your opponent always try to switch to counter you (no matter the role). Play 2 hero (to begin. After 3 and 4, after playing), for each role. For support, always think if your opponent try to counter you (especially if you play mercy, Zen or Ana)
-When you have 3 or 4 lose streak, stop the rank and take a break. Tomorrow is the better day
-Always do your best, don’t blame others. Sometimes it’s your fault, sometimes it’s not
-If you’re tired, stop the game. You will throw the game because the fatigue will get you
-If you’re not in good mood to play rank, don’t play. You will lost so much games
Globally, your gameplay depends of :
-positionning
-aim
-reflex
-Tracking ultimate (look of the stats and think if they have ultimate. You will have it after games).
-For ultimate, depending of supports you play, use it to combo (Illari, Kiriko, Ana, Baptiste) or to defend your mate (Lucio, Zen, Mercy, Lifeweaver, Brig, Moira but she can combo to)
-Don’t hesitate to ping and check ultimate. No need to chat or text, use message on the game (My ultimate is charging, I don’t have ult etc…). Even if your mate doesn’t use ultimate good, a combo is enough to win (Nano visor, Nano shatter, Baptiste Bastion etc…)
After playing games, you grow your experience and you know how to use it
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