I was watching Hadi in the Twitch Rivals tournament. When he was playing D.Va, he kept saying "I go to tap point, then come back." And he would literally just fly over to the point and then come back to the team fight. Or he'd instruct their Tracer to "go tap point once." It wasn't overtime. So what's the purpose of this? Just to draw enemy attention and punish them for pushing too far forward? Remind them they have to fall back to defend point?

Caption says it all. I’ve started playing competitive all the way back in season 2 of Overwatch 1 (2016), and finished in gold. Fast forward to today, I’m still in Gold. In terms of actual play time, I’ve only played consistently from 2016-2017, 2019, 2022-2023, and now 2026.

I have yet to reach Plat in any role, and my goal is to hit GM in 2027.

The main heroes I play are

Ana Lucio Brig

Rein Winston Sigma

Im one of the plebs that is coming from Rivals to Overwatch. I mained hulk to celestial on rivals but am having some big trouble transferring to OW. Winston and Hulk have very similar (yet still different) kits in the sense that they are both very divey off tanks, so i’ve been trying to play winston as much as possible. The thing is, the 6v6 format seems to work much better for off tanks like them because when I dive backline in 6v6 there is still a main tank to hold the line for my team. But when i play winston in 5v5 and dive, i may pick a support from the other team, but at the cost of my own since there is no tank to defend them. Im very new to overwatch and know it’s a totally different game to learn the concepts of so definitely no ego(yet lol), so I just wanted to know if there are any tips to share with winston in this situation. I know counter swapping is a lot bigger in this game, so when is Winston the move and when is he not?

I’m a flex dps main, mostly anran recently but I also play some tracer and reaper, and I’m finding a lot of my games are either I die a lot or barely at all simply from the fact that it feels like some masters players are allergic to actually playing with their flankers. I know matchmaking is still wack right now from the rank reset but lowkey I was getting some more coordinated better quality games in diamond, and heck maybe I’m crazy but I don’t find the game that hard at this level despite it being my first time here, like main problems are:

1. Enemy dps can sometimes actually aim, crazy

2. Anran is VERY weak against CC right now imo

And 3. I still have supports who healbot the tank in the games where I die a lot, like sometimes I’m standing blatant view of my healers for several seconds like a lost puppy in the rain, and hey, I don’t even need to be that much healed if they just follow up on my plays with me, like one or the other would be great

Idk partially a rant it just bothers me that sometimes I feel incentivized to only group up with people instead of solo queuing to even have a chance at consistency right now, because i definitely feel like people should know how to press the forward key in MASTERS of all ranks.

Anyway I’m on a winning trend right now and will probably hit high masters or low gm soon if I keep playing like I have been and hopefully it’ll be a little better once I am.

*anyway, I think my biggest point here is this: I think too many people take “play your life” to an absolute extreme, you aren’t going to win games if you don’t take risks and capitalize on weaknesses, because I guarantee you your enemies aren’t going to be twiddling their thumbs every game while you are twiddling yours. It’s absolutely ok and SMART to capitalize on pressure and sometimes even take it as far as the enemy spawn doors. There is an ebb and flow and rhythm to this game that you won’t get if all you do is “take the optimal position” (which usually isn’t optimal if you’re ALONE AND AWAY FROM BACKUP AND CANT WIN ONE V ONES CONFIDENTLY, I’m talking to you Ana and zen mains, but a little bit of everyone).*

Also another tip for people still stuck in lower ranks than me, especially if you play in chat, don’t try to count down to engages or say *do you want my ult now do you want my ult now?* you have the mental capacity to get into your teammates heads and know what they’re about to do, and those few precious seconds could mean a lost fight.

Overwatch isn’t strategy, like chess, it has elements of it but, overwatch is predominantly *tactics.* you may win a few games if you constantly counterswap and use *optimal* positioning and *proven* ult combos, but you won’t climb until you understand that you are playing with and against people, and those people will lose if you beat them in the mental game. Holding them at their spawn doors, killing them everytime they’re even a centimeter out of position, capitalization on every used cooldown, winning engages against a flanker, and also lifting up your teammates, body block your low teammate if they’re getting dove and you’re still full hp, even if you aren’t a tank, peel for them, praise them for doing well, play with them instead of making them fight alone. I don’t think enough people talk about this.

Anyway tl;dr: low masters players, please don’t play like you’re playing ultra hardcore Minecraft and use your brain, I know you have one and I know it’s capable of brilliance.

YOU ARE CAPABLE

YOU ARE CONFIDENT

YOU’VE GOT THIS!

Replay code: PX7JS8

Battletag / in-game username: Xenbo

Hero(es) played: Reaper, Soldier 76

Skill tier / rank: Placements, predicted Platinum 4

Map: Kings Row

PC or console: PC

Description of the match / things you want reviewed:

Went 1-5 with low damage while the rest of our team did everything they could. I spent most of the time trying to deal with and look out for a tracer but idk what I should have been doing. I absolutely know I'm the problem but I'm not smart enough to figure out what's wrong...

Been getting a lot of flack from teammates and I feel so bad like I'm throwing their games. I'm genuinely trying I just cant keep up.