I’ve hit a wall. My team can no longer depend on me to perform as I had been doing for the 7 season run I’ve had with them, longer if you consider I’ve been playing seriously since season 3.
We’ve climbed together, we’ve practiced together, and have had a blast playing and meeting new people along the way. I brought a skill set and a unique and rare instance of a OTP that could live up to the expectations talked about, at least until season 13.
Unfortunately tonight, after I failed to step up and fill my role properly, I left after the match and was told to learn another hero and then come back.
My 447 hours of Pharah, the countless hours of additional practice and effort gone into perfecting a solo experience not reliant on a pocket, all negated.
I’m lost, actually lost. I’ve been able to pull it off until this season in which I’ve just hit a brick wall. Overwatch was one of the first games I actually invested time and effort into, I might have 1500 hours in CSGO, but it was for the fun, not for seriousness. I’ve put effort and time into this game to get where I am, and it’s all gone.
I don’t know what to do about it either, I don’t want to quit, but at the same time I don’t know what else I can do to get any better. I’m being bested by other Pharahs in duels which I took pride in stomping for years, my stats have plummeted, and I haven’t changed any of my methods or muscle bound reflexes or gamesense. Last time I had a problem that hit me like this, it was linked to an FPS limitation and antialiasing options I didn’t know about, but now all I can point to is the most recent change having a direct impact on my performance. But even that’s a stretch.
I just don’t know what to do, I’m actually lost.
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Keep practicing the new Pharah, or learn a new hero. That’s really your only options if you want to continiue playing.
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I have 300 hours on Pharah myself. The recent change to her means we must adjust our aim. We’re so hardwired to our old rocket firing speed that we have it built into our muscle memory. X hero runs Y fast, I must shoot at Z to hit him. We are constantly performing trigonometry in our heads as we aim, and now we need to adjust our calculations.
I’ve found that it’s actually easier to adjust now by holding down primary fire and just drilling my rockets into/at someone. I used to never do that. I still find it weird feeling to do it, but it actually seems to be helping somewhat because now our lead time for each rocket is much smaller and we can make smaller aim adjustments on a moving target.
It’s really just a matter of getting used to the new rocket firing speed and training out our old muscle memory. I maintained a 67 percent winrate on Pharah over 300 hours, this season I’m at 48. 
Practice, practice, practice. Just like before.
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Not trying to sound mean but, if you only know pharah then you need to learn a new hero and/or role.
The game is so much more fun beyond the scope of 1 hero.
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Season 13 is a unlucky number
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are there any other characters you are interested in? honestly your team sound kinda rude but still
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Maybe he’s like me. I know other heroes. I can play them. I can play other roles. I’m a good Zenyatta (who I am maining until I adjust my Pharah aim), Lúcio, 76, Moira, Roadhog, and D.Va. But I love Pharah. I love her playstyle, I love the feel of her, I love her armor, I love how she reminds me of old-school Star Wars Mandalorians. I love her tattoo. I love her voice. I love firing rockets at people. I love flying.
No other hero appeals to me as much as Pharah, no matter how hard I try to love them. So it does feel bad, in a personal sense, feels… sad, that I am no longer able to perform on her as well as I used to because my hundreds of hours on her are actually acting as a detriment due to muscle memory build up conflicting with her new firing speed.
I totally empathize with the OP.
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Dunno if these are new to you, or old as dirt, but I thought it was pretty cool.
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how the hell she flies forward when uses skill under feet?
Jump, Aim down, press e.
Been in the game since day 1.
I don’t know what you expect if you only play one hero.
My main is Pharah but I play everything except Doomfist.
You should also ask your team what they need and learn that hero.
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Overwatch, isn’t a game that runs by WHAT WORKS, and WHAT DOESN’T. There are hundreds of grey areas, all of which players find crevices and cracks to slip their own personal skill into.
Also, most recently Pharah was pretty reworked. After every big change I have to think about my own personal skill, and evaluate my own personal decisions based on the changes in almost every situation depending how big the changes.
With big changes, things you could do before, just don’t work like they used to anymore. Sometimes as big as Roadhog’s hook 1.0 to Hook 2.0, abilities can go from consistent to extremely difficult to use over night. No more flinging raw hooks down hallways, hoping I’d snag me a squealer from around the corner.
I’d say you shouldn’t commit to giving up on your hero, unless you’re willing to commit the same effort into another hero.
Hit the drawing board. Relearn all your core fundamentals. Practice splash testing and angles. Use everything at your disposal to improve.
It’s really not. Flexing just means never being allowed to play characters you actually like to play. You’re a slave to the meta, and your team makes all the decisions for you.
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I mean if you’re an Otp I wouldn’t want you on my team either 
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Learn a new hero. Pharah players i know, have gotten the hang of Genji rather quickly, maybe start with that.
Play another hero?
Why exactly aren’t you performing as good as you used to?
You’re absolutely wrong. I mained Torb and Hanzo since day 1 until my account got suspended for “disruptive gameplay”.
Thanks… reporting system… and those abusing the @#$% out of it
i didnt give up with new symm. btw phara git buffed. perfect your aim and im sure you will put out more damage. i didnt give up when they made halo 5. you got this, ir you can try new hero.
None of my teams want me either and I carry them. Jackanapes…
But seriously, pick up Widowmaker. She is lit and only realistically countered by double barrier if you have a premade that can peel.
I mean that’s the thing, my direct hit accuracy dropped from 28% in season 10 (my peak) to 17% in 12. Like plummeted. Up to that point it was about 2-3% fluctuations.