I’ve been taking ranked a lot more seriously this season, and something really stood out to me: about 90+% of my losses don’t feel like a mechanical skill gap.

They feel like a teamwork gap.

Not “my team is worse” but one team is simply playing together better. They rotate together, pressure together, disengage together. Even the players taking off-angles or making aggressive plays are doing it in sync with their team, not as a solo mission.

One thing I think is missing from most improvement advice is an unspoken clause “Do this as part of your team.”

People say “take off-angles,” “apply pressure,” “dive the backline,” etc. But those things aren’t meant to be solo PoTG plays. If you take an off-angle while your team is backing up, or you dive when no one can follow up, you’re not creating pressure, you’re just feeding or forcing your team into a bad fight. Any time you make a play alone, one of two things happens: - You die. - Or your team dies while you’re doing your thing. Both are fight losses.

This is also why I think a lot of “tank diff” or “support diff” frustration is misplaced. It’s often not that someone is bad, but that they don’t synergize with your playstyle. A tank that wants to brawl while the DPS want to poke, or supports playing safe while the team wants to rush, will feel like a diff even if everyone’s individually capable.

So anytime you start to feel yourself thinking "X diff" change that to "how can I adapt my way of playing to work with X". If you have a room who jumps in, jump in with them, or shoot the enemy DPS trying to attack the doom. Don't sit back and poke. If you have a Sigma poking and the enemy is grouped up in defence,

Curious if others have noticed the same thing, especially in Diamond and below. Don't just dive at the enemy team and have them all focus you, use that opportunity to sit back and apply pressure to main, then dive the DPS who tries to off angle you and punish their bad position.

Is there any possibility that the Thunder Doomfist skin is ever coming back? I've only started playing OW since a few months ago and I really want the Thunder skin, but I've heard it was tied to Overwatch League which isn't around anymore. But considering there are currently OWL skins in the shop right now, does that means there is a possibility that Doomfist Thunder could return? especially after the Mythic was underwhelming, I really want a good skin I can run on my main.