What should my weapon accuracy be on Ashe?

I understand a lot goes into accuracy vs the impact your actually making. For example you could just shoot the tank and have a high accuracy, but could be doing nothing except feeding the enemy supports ult charge. Because of this I understand this isn’t a question with a perfect answer but what accuracy should I be aiming for? Pun intended. I’ve been playing Overwatch for a long but haven’t played much Ashe or hitscan in general. When it comes to DPS I’ve been a junkrat one trick for many years… I currently have 24 hours on Ashe now (not a lot), and have an accuracy of around 40% - 47%/48% Usually with around an 11% - 18% crit. I feel like I’m doing good, but I’m not sure. Of course I still want to improve even if my aim is good, but it’d be nice to get an idea on what I should be striving for and if my aim is bad. I’ll know and try to get better of course especially seeing as I have barely any time on Ashe/hitscan. My elims per 10 mins based on my last 5 games was 17 - 24/27, in case that helps if anyone wants to know my elims per 10 mins compared to my accuracy.

Focus on positioning and kills accuracy varies depending on enemy team comp, if they run a mauga or hog you will have more accuracy a sigma will drop it a lot, instead focus on your ability to position properly and get kills with opportunities.

Gotcha, normally I’ll focus supports and then DPS unless they have an Echo, Pharah or really anyone out of position that I can reasonably kill without using all my abilities/bullets. Because those are very easy picks I can make which knocks it down to a 5v4 instead of a 5v5, and then if they have a Mercy, Mercy goes for rez get the Mercy and I’d hope win the fight, better win it anyway lol.

My positoning however, I’m not sure how good it is. Usually I’ll try to either stay somewhat near my supports if they are getting flank, or I’ll play around a wall/high ground/off angle depending on the enemy team. I probably should look into proper positioning with Ashe. I don’t think mine is awful but I’m not sure exactly how good it is. A perfect example is Nepal on sanctum. Normally I’ll play near that mini so I can get an off angle but also control the side bridge thing, so then my team can play point or push spawn without having to worry about flankers etc.

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You’ve just answered yourself. Outside of KD, most stats in OW don’t really matter much unless you have specific context or reasoning for that stat. Things like “per 10min” or whatever don’t matter much. And KD also isn’t that useful. Sure if you’re going 30-25 then that means you’re dying too much, but outside of some scenarios like that there isn’t much to do with stats.

If you want to determine what you need to work on to improve, after a game watch the replay of it. Looking at the replay you’ll notice a lot more you could’ve done and analyzed that to learn what you should’ve or could’ve done. But other than that, looking at numbers in game isn’t really the way to improve. VOD reviews is the way to go.

Yeah, I was mainly just trying to get an idea on what a good accuracy is overall. I don’t put too much merit into most of the stats except K/D and sometimes damage but not always, depends. The last game I played which made me want to ask this, I had a K/D of 46/6 and an accuracy of 46% - 48% the entire game which I’d consider good but yknow. With me not playing Ashe/Hitscan for a long time and only starting to try it more recently I just wanted to get others… feed back? I guess is the word I’m looking for. I’d hate to just assume I’m doing good and get a huge ego when in reality I’m not and I’m just “stealing” kills or just in general, could be doing a lot more and wasn’t.

I’ll def look into rewatching VODS, and probably check a few videos on positioning lol.

Yeah, trying to determine what is a good stat is meaningless. Don’t bother with it as much as you are. 100% accuracy doesn’t mean you’re playing perfectly and you’re aware of it, but not accepting it for whatever reason. Do VOD reviews if you want to figure out where you’re lacking and then focus on that the next game. If you think your aim is lacking, you’ll notice that in VOD reviews too.

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What should my weapon accuracy be on Ashe?

It should be: Get a mercy pocket. Hit fat nades. Dont die.

Accuracy varies match to match depending on blah blah blah etc. etc., but a quick eyeball of Overbuff makes it look like 40% is a respectable number for scoped accuracy.

You didn’t ask for one but if you want a custom mode aim trainer, try JPYHG.

Good luck, gamer.

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It doesn’t mean much, but that isn’t really an answer.

If you look on Overbuff, it currently says…40% scoped is average. I am not sure where to find mine without going into OW itself, so I couldn’t say. I feel like mine is better than that? But then there are things like headshots, target selection, etc etc etc. It doesn’t mean much, but there’s at least that much data for you.

Potatoad beat me to it.

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Youre already hitting the nail on the head. Theres a lot of context that goes into accuracy.

As one consideration: player 8 is a crack shot, lands 80%- but only fires 10 shots. Player B fires willy nilly, landing 30% of their shots, but firs 50 in the same time span the first player fired 10.

Of course, who are they hitting, and when, etc. But point being: dont be married to an accuracy rating. 40%+ is plenty good. If youre dealing less damage because youre holding back for juuuust thee right moment, it can be detrimental as well.

Positioning, and target focus/priority are one of the biggest things you can work on. Making yourself difficult to get to, while being able to apply pressure in the area it needs to be applied is huge. Recognize who is vulnerable, is huge. Seeing who your team mates are focusing in your LoS, and focusing them down with your team? Huge.

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If you can afford paid coaching i would recommend having a session with spilo, if not if you post codes in awkward’s discord they are many people there that will vod review for free, some even through discord vc.

They are generally good for positioning and game sense advice.

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Get a better aim bot program, blizz doesn’t seem to care so no harm no foul right?

65% scoped and 21%+ scoped crit, otherwise this character is not playable in ow2. Ashe main 4.5k hours 4371 SR peak. I give up playing her in ow2.

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I had someone watch a VOD from the last game I played just a few hours ago. I’ll work on the things they mentioned and then once I feel like I’ve gotten better at those things, I’ll probably join that server and have someone watch a VOD then if they want to of course. At that point maybe I’ll look into coaching if I’m truly a lost cost by then lol.

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Aim is overrated in OW. Imo, plenty of masters players suck at aiming. Doesn’t matter in the slightest. They are still quite good players, sometimes extremely good if you get into Master 1‐2.

Just my opinion, agree with most of the responses here. Much love, best of luck in future games :+1:

Your numbers are similar to mine (31 hours on Ashe in QP), but I’m not very good at all. Haven’t played ranked in OW2 and didn’t play much ranked in OW1, but it had me down as silver on dps with those numbers using Ashe exclusively.

Currently I have a 2.24 K/D in QP, average of 15.74 elims per 10 minutes. Weapon accuracies, both scoped and unscoped, vary from 42%-65% and crits between 10%-20%.

That said, the accuracy numbers are literally affected by any shot you take in OW2, like ANY, like if you’re just shooting railings or balloons or whatever random stuff between fights because you’re fidgety and need to be always pushing buttons ( :raising_hand_woman:) it’s gonna affect your numbers because the game is stupid now and counts those as missed shots. (It was smarter in OW and only counted missed shots if there were enemies in your LoS)

So it’s really best to determine how well you’re doing by a.) your up time (aka try not to be dead a lot, b.) your ability to confirm your kills, c.) target priority, and d.) Good Bob usage/placement.

Ashe is aim-dependent hero, ofc you can hit masters which is like OW1 plat basically, with any hero.

Accuracy is irrelevant. Elims per 10 and Deaths per 10 matter the most.

But if you really care about your accuracy then anywhere between 45 - 55% scoped accuracy is usually where some of the best Ashe players sit.

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Im gonna give you a huge tip and advice, don’t worry about stats. Seriously don’t even look at it. I could shoot into a tank all day as soldier 76 and have 100% accuracy and still lose 100% of my games. Thats because I’m basically feeing their supports free ultimate charge and nothing is gonna die if I was wasting my time shooting tanks while their supports are alive. What you really need to focus on is positioning, aim, TARGET PRIORITY, and a bit of common sense as you keep learning by playing the game. Stats mean nothing in this game, I could have the worst stats in the world and still be a top 500 player. Thats because I spent more time focusing on how to win games than worrying about making my stats look pretty. No one is gonna look at your stats, no one is gonna care. Plain and simple.

OWL ashe players have an average of 50% accuracy with 8-12% crit accuracy