What are skills or tricks you learned over the years, you are proud of?
For me it’s survival
Killing me when I’m on Ana is a real pain in the booty. Dodging, Juking, abusing cover, very good sleep timing and general awareness.
As an OW Veteran who played through dive meta, I got real good at it.
Sometimes people complaining in chat about how I am still alive
If I had to say probably awareness. And partially because it’s a skill that extends outside of overwatch and outside of gaming. Just being aware what’s going on around you is very useful I hear.
Overwatch can pretty fast and chaotic so by comparison most other things are simpler to deal with
For me its survival too.
I’ve learned to not answer my flaming mates.
I started OW not knowing how to aim in the slightest. I mainly played characters that don’t require aim back then.
Then I improved slowly at the mechanical level. Now i’m fairly OK at aiming, with Ana being my most played hero.
However I still go back to aimless heroes very frequently.
Other notable improvements across the years:
Maybe it’s people underestimating Roadhog’s admittedly pitiful range on his trap throw, or people accustomed to him only using the trap to pretend they’re still playing pre-rework hog, but I feel like I’m very good at catching people with it in positions where they just don’t expect it to be.
Lijiang has loads of opportunities because of all the walls you can chuck it over. (And nobody ever seems to expect it to be in the window that Reapers, Pharahs, and Syms love to enter the point with on Garden). I’ve made Sombras paranoid of every doorway while Tracers have to pay the Blink Tax every flank attempt.
The forethought that goes in to it I think makes it one of the most fun Tank abilities, which is why I’m sad it’s intended to be axed in 6v6 formats.
My pinpoint aim and tracking with moira
Timing critical kills instead of chasing high stats
Kiting and baiting enemy players and cooldowns
Not responding to trolls
Short effective clean callouts/communication
These 4 things help me in life as well.
My ability to surprise myself. Maybe it’s the sometimes support player in me but when I’m on widow, I’m especially proud of a match if I’m not throwing. Actually being an asset to my team while simultaneously playing my favorite hero is one of my favorite parts of OW. They are the moments I’m most proud of.
Never been banned
I play a lot of Symmetra, I know every corner of any map inside and out.
I can completely ignore what my teammates say/write.
And just focus on myself. Unfortunately, only a few can do that
Blocking doorways with Tree, especially knowing which spawn door to block at the end of certain payload maps on attack
Also blocking Rein’s ult as Brig. I play mindgames with them, flashing my baby barrier, and as soon as they go to ult, I bring out the fat Rally shield and ruin everything
I struggle with that sometimes, but only when I’m off-roleing. When someone on my team says “tank diff”, it’s an internal struggle to not show then what an actual throwing tank looks like
Killing widow players as Lucio and emoting on them
For me, the skill I am most proud of is movement.
I’m still using movement tricks that very few players use even to this day. It has served me well for years!
If you see a player wriggling around like a worm on Hanzo, Reaper, or Genji in mid-high GM, it may or may not be me lol
if I had a skill in game i’m kinda proud of it’s flanking at just the right time to win a fight, like one time I was in watchpoint Gibraltar and I was using Mei, we were close to losing and a few seconds left on the clock and I dipped out and went behind them and used my ult so my team could finish them, they were so focused on the fight they didn’t see me.
The fact that I have eyes, ears, and cognizance is more or less enough to always set me apart from the other girls, uwu.
Considering that I can get 5ks as Hanzo, with all headshots and be told it’s all luck/firing logs… That’s my proudest thing.
Making people cope.
Gaining the skill of awareness/positioning is a double edged sword, cause then you realize how many mistakes people make and how many people lack said awareness lol
That’s a benefit of my one (two) tricking. I have such limited knowledge, that I can’t get mad at my teammates cause I don’t know any more how to play their hero/role than they do lol