I managed to climb from Silver to Plat over the last two season on DPS and I feel like I’m improving overall, but one thing I’ve noticed at this rank is that I get pressured a lot more, and I end up dead or at critical HP most of the match. Even just slightly peeking from cover or holding an off-angle without shooting often draws immediate fire.

So in my last few matches, I played around with that approach. I would peek repeatedly, taking small bits of chip damage, just to pull attention and cooldowns, without hard committing to any duels or fishing for elims. It seemed like it relieved pressure from my tank and created openings for me and my teammates to get picks while the enemy was juggling targets.

Is this a healthy way to play DPS at higher ranks, or am I building bad habits by not trying to frag out more?

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I know this probably won't help everyone but this realization helped me.

I'm sure there are some of you who are capable of fiercely staring at your reticle when you play and are perfectly capable of snapping it to targets away from the reticle based on sound and your perfect rendition of 3D space and clicking heads. That's not really me. I tend to look at the screen a bit more, see where people are, and kind of "point myself" at my target instead of heavily relying on my reticle. Yes, I know this is not ideal for aiming.

I've never had super good aim (not staring at your reticle will do that), but I do occasionally have flashes of really, really good aim and then periods of really bad aim. What clicked for me was actually that my hand position on my mouse relative to my reticle being aligned meant that what I was looking at, I was actually aiming at, correctly.

In other words, if I correctly calibrate what my hand is "thinking" it's aiming at with what my eyes are looking at (which isn't always the reticle, it's usually my target), my aim improves dramatically. Sometimes this is just picking my mouse up off the pad and putting it back down where it should be, sometimes it's actually rotating my hand a little.

I know this is weird, but it may help some people who also tend to not look intently at the reticle when they play. It might just be aligning your brain and eyes with your hand!

I recently got back into Overwatch after a 5 year break. The last time I played competitive I was gold with an SR around 2200. But that was years ago in OW1 so I'm probably silver now (I haven't finished placement matches yet.)

I was really good as D.va and pretty good with Zarya, but that was when I had a second main tank to back my team up. Now I keep diving the enemy backline and leaving my teammates without a tank or losing the objective.

I realize I'll need to relearn a lot to get used to the 5v5 composition, and the new heroes. But as a former off-tank, what's my role now?

It would seem that this is the most overtuned, brainless hero in the entire game for anybody you ask yet I can't do anything on her. ​​I can play several dps heroes comfortably at a gm level but my vendetta can barely function in even quick play. ​

It doesn't matter how long I wait to jump in, the entire enemy team will dedicate their entire lives to shooting me. I can't dive an isolated target without 2+ teammates immediately peeling for them. I can't peek a single pixel without two hitscans dumping their mags into me. ​

I wait for cooldowns, I try to wait for my tank to distract them, but no it doesn't matter. I never ever catch anyone unaware. ​​

It seems like everyone can kite me too. I can't stick on anyone. ​​​​

So what he hell is the deal with vendetta and what am I supposed to do? I find her kit extremely fun but I'm just dead the entire game. ​​