I started playing Overwatch back in February and didn’t have much experience with hero shooters besides Marvel Rivals. I jumped into competitive when it became available even though I didn’t have a good understanding of the game.

Because of this, I spent a lot of time in Bronze learning the game from the ground up and figuring out what I needed to do to rank up. I feel like a lot of guides talk about what to do to rank up, but they present the data as someone who has probably never been in bronze. Bronze is essentially a different game, so trying to play “Overwatch” won’t get you very far.

Most of your games you’ll run into things like a tank who sits on the payload after winning a team fight, surrendering tons of space. In higher ranks it’s probably not a great idea to run up ahead as a DPS to hold space without your team, but in Bronze it’s almost necessary to pick up the gaps in your teammates strategy.

I made a breakdown where I reviewed a game from when I was back in Bronze and talk about the decisions I made and what “carrying” looks like in a Bronze game.

Here’s the video! I think it could be beneficial for newer players to pick up some tips from someone who was in the weeds with them not too long ago.

I'm only Gold but like...the number of scoreboard merchants is genuinely insane.

I've won games where every single person on our team is negative and has worse healing/damage than their counterpart on the enemy team. I've lost games where I've healed more than both enemy supports combined.

You'd think enough people would have had similar enough experiences to understand how little raw numbers matter.

Especially raw healing numbers. As a support main it drives me insane. People will say support diff if there is even a tiny difference between you and the enemy supports. But they genuinely cannot seem to comprehend the idea that you can only heal as much damage that came in. Your tank could be playing Sigma/Domina and the enemy tank could be on someone like Mauga the entire time, and people will act like you threw the game for having like 20% less healing than the enemy support lineup. Or maybe you were just made to push cart for a while so your other support farmed numbers, etc.

I feel like it especially drives me insane because I main Ana and Moira is very popular in Gold. They will generate some arbitrarily large healing/damage/kill number and people act like they hard carried the team and are the second coming of Christ.

I would argue that tank as well is a very scoreboard irrelevant role. Obviously if they are just feeding then they are feeding. But even just having more deaths than the enemy tank doesn't mean you played worse. Usually playing tank well creates opportunities for your team to pop off. I lost a push game where I went 27/6 on Orisa and the enemy Mauga just W keyed into our team every fight and went like 16/14. But he just made so much space and forced a support to pocket me to save me that they won a lot of fights off it.

I don't play DPS as much, but the biggest thing I notice there is people really value K/D over the actual impact of kills or deaths. One DPS might get the majority of the kills cleaning up won team fights, but somehow they are always the first one to die every team fight leading to us losing the entire fight. Meanwhile the other DPS is peeling for the supports, playing good off angles, pressuring the enemy supports etc but don't have nearly as many kills.

It really drives me insane. I feel like you fundamentally have to not understand how the game works to say some of the stuff I see people saying. Another certified classic is "we need a shield tank" lol.

Usually if I go back and watch a game the majority of games are won/lost because of better ultimate use or getting early picks/dying first in the neutral team fight.

As the title says got suspended from overwatch for doing the cat and dva method in arcade (cats just fly into dva to let them win and get quick win credits for the event) blizzard saying its win trading.

Just wanting to let everyone know so you don't get in trouble like myself.