I have a friend whos new and mostly plays DPS. But he is just straight up bad at this game. I try giving him callouts or advice or hero picks or whatever but he just is garbage at gamesense and aiming
He’s my buddy and all but it’s a 4v5 when I play with him and he’s just not improving, he’s been playing for months
Edit: I should also add my friend has a very short temper and takes the game very seriously. Not a great combo
If he’s committed to the game, get him to watch some guide or tip videos and let him play by himself or people in his MMR range so he can gradually learn and get better in an environment that’s suited to him. If he’s playing with you, who is presumably much better at the game (with more experience and playtime), he’s not exactly going to be learning a lot, is he?
Try using a spray bottle.
I don’t know but find the solution before he gets destroyed too many times and stops enjoying the game
Months ain’t long enough. I look back at me in the first year. Whoa boy am I a different person now.
It takes time to get used to other character C/D’s, clip sizes and how abilities are used in general with so many characters. It’s much, much harder to get into the game now than it was during the first few years.
im t500 and my friends are bronze-plat… and id go so far as to say that if you are diamond+ with bronze-plat friends, you should be playing on an unranked/low smurf every time you play with them… even for just quickplay/arcade… you would be surprised by how much your individual mmr shapes every match youre in, regardless of mode
they seem to learn best in comp by a mile, where things are more consistent, obvious, and less chaotic than qp/arcade, but again that means you need a smurf.
the absolute worst thing you could do is give them too much advice when they dont ask for it, and also forcing your diamond+ mmr on them. new players seem to quit the most when theyre bombarded with advice, they get rolled one too many times, and toxicity
Let Your Friends Be Bad 
… imagine if you were on the same level as them in this game, would you be so frustrated that they didnt play well? you have to keep stuff like that in mind
He just like me fr!!
Ya do t play on your main even in qp it will give hard matches for them, also in the new account you play with them do t tryhard play with some handicap like say if your ana only noscope shots this way you will keep it chalenging for yourself while also enjoying with them.
If you tryhard and get potg andwipe teams uozur mmr will rise fast
You can play right-click only zen etc.
Say if your dps try playing without one ability for example for hanzo i will play without storm and sonar etc.
Everyone learns at different speeds, and he might just be bad at the game and that’s okay. My little brother? Extremely bad at Overwatch but if he’s online and wants to join me I will always say yes. It sounds like it’s worth it to spend time with this person for you, so I recommend patience and remember that if you’re getting frustrated with him or not having fun, it’s a good time to take a break. It’s a game and you need to be having a good time too.
Bro i have a friend too hes like your friend hes just bad and cant learn and hes always in a tunnel and also cant hear anything around him and i played with him since overwatch 1 and hes the reason why i have a second account because its not easy to win with him XD But hes my friend and i like to play with him but its not easy thats why i have a second account so i dont mess up my real account.
He range from Bronze to low gold but im since overwatch 1 a Master to top 500 player XD So when i play with him i use chars i cant really play and to learn them so its still fair for the other players and trust me we loose a lot XD
Ya for them.jt might just be a super chill outing.
Like one of my friends only plays qp like twice a month, i was in his match it was third point Havana and i was setting y as ana , they were just chilling on the kart as mei with mercy and both were emothong lol
Here’s what you gotta’ do: disconnect your enjoyment from whether or not you’re winning or losing. Make the game you’re playing “have fun with my friend.” Go Mercy, Kiriko, Zen and hard-pocket him, discord his targets, rez him up. Combo ults with him.
Lose games. Over and over. It’s okay. If it’s not okay, it’s because you’ve decided it is.
On the other hand, if it’s been months and you’re QPing with him, the MMR has likely determined that he’s not a high performer, and if the devs can be trusted that means at least one of the enemy team are equally skilled… but again, I’d say take a page from Zenyatta. You can’t be disappointed if you don’t care about the outcome.
If they stop enjoying the game they’ll fit right in with the remaining playerbase.
You’re going to lose your sanity. Straight up not lying. It’s going to take them ages to catch up where you are and you are probably going to hate them 1/2 the time you play with the
I agree. This is exactly why I was encouraging my bf to play comp. But he wants to play the game casually. I tried explaining that he would be more likely to play with other bronzes in comp than quickplay but I can understand why he is reluctant to play it. Competitiveness can suck the fun out of a game.
i have a friend like that and when we play with him we just try to have fun and KNOW that we cant take it to serious. So QP only with him.
Everyone starts out somewhere. Months won’t make you better; different players have their own pace at learning.
Are you playing to just win or are you playing to have fun with a buddy?
I’m in the same boat. I recently got my boyfriend into the game because it’s free, and my lord he’s trash. He always avoided online shooters because he found them too hard, but he thought Overwatch looked good.
And yeah, 4v5 every game. He’s really bad and he just has literally 0 interest in getting better. He doesn’t want tips, or advice or to practice. He just wants to wake up and roll the enemy team. On his first day he even asked “How are you better than me?” And I replied that it’s just more experience he said “No, not how do you get better, in what way are you better than me?” He still doesn’t even know everyone’s name, let alone what all their abilities do.
It’s frustrating, because I want to play with him. But it’s really difficult trying to heal a tank that forgets they can do more than just stand in the open and shoot.
EDIT: We played a few games after I made this post and he didn’t do well in them and he may have just quit Overwatch for good. Shame. We don’t have many games in common and I was looking forward to actually getting to game with him.
Change your status to offline from the settings and then play the game as you wish.
ugh i know the feeling. i dont expect anything crazy, but a friend of mine had like 20 hours on (old) orisa, before they found out they can manually activate the grasp bubble to pull enemies in. its less about skill and more about like… an actual interest to really get into the game.
fast forward to today, they barely play anymore. might also have other reasons, but some people just lack the amount of interest it takes to really dive deeper. maybe you guys should play arcade modes or something when you play together.