I’ve noticed a certain core attitude that makes the whole healing dynamic less efficient and more toxic. That is, thinking of your co-healer as a rival instead of a duo.

I played a game recently that exemplified this. I was Ana with a Mercy. There were countless mini-decisions she made that boiled down to Mercy either a) not thinking about her co-healers strengths/weakness or simply b) thinking of me as a rival to be “diffed” in this match. For example, diving out of cover to heal someone with 50 hp who I could (and did) easily shoot, and dying in the process, on top of making me less safe where I might need to use my grenade inefficiently just to live.

Why fly across the map when you’ve got a healing sniper? I have to assume it’s a competitive mindset, snapping up available heals like Hungry Hungry Hippos so your numbers come out higher. A little friendly competition can be beneficial. But it can turn toxic; for example, one healer might be playing competitively and letting the other healer die so they can maximize their own numbers, and then use that discrepancy to blame and flame.

Another case for this is building ults. Be aware of the other healer’s ult status, and if they’re far behind you it might be wise to leave some heals to them for that reason alone.

Even if it’s just an implicit bias, it’s worth checking yourself periodically to make sure you aren’t playing like this, and instead think about how you can complement your co-healer instead of competing.

I believe all 4 characters popped their ults in a similar timeframe, or potentially an echo got 2 in a single activations. This was way back when echo would clone tanks since her health didn't get reduced at all

I'd appreciate any pointers

As someone who often struggled with awareness in matches, I realized that tracking enemy ultimates was a game-changer for my performance in Overwatch. Initially, I focused solely on my own abilities and cooldowns, but this often led to poor positioning and decisions, especially during crucial moments. By actively communicating with my team about enemy ultimates, I could anticipate their strategies and adjust mine accordingly. For instance, knowing that the enemy Reinhardt had his Earthshatter allowed me to reposition as a support player, staying out of range or pretending to be in a position to bait it. Moreover, I started using the in-game ultimate economy to gauge when to engage or disengage, which made my contributions more impactful. I would love to hear how others track ultimates and if you have specific strategies to share that have helped your gameplay or team coordination!

Ran into this echo a few games in a row and basically got farmed all game by her, not sure if she's just smurfing but I felt like no matter how much I looked at her I couldn't seem to kill her. I tried asking my team to look at her a bit more multiple times but to no avail. I'm in silver 4, Soldier main who has no idea what I could have done here. Got 3 games, one on Midtown, one on Gibraltar, and one on Eichenwalde. Please don't subject yourself to 3 matches worth of my gameplay, 1 is probably enough to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Eichenwalde is the game where we lost the hardest.

Also, any general tips on my gameplay would also be much appreciated, I'm pretty new to PC with only about 50 or 60 hours so any and all advice will be highly valuable.

Replay codes: 12FW6G - EC 7WS8GT - W:G A3EGAK - Midtown

Tag is ozlenny, played Soldier and Bastion

I'm only low Diamond on all roles but I feel like, if you get stomped, don't dive into the next game, look at the replay.

It's painful, I really hate doing it, knowing that I will cringe, but it's always deeply insightful.

If you're someone who watches U2GMs, or vod reviews, you have a fairly solid understanding of what looks wrong when you're not in time crunch tunnel mode of playing.

Most useful for tank, but all roles will be able to see that you've engaged too early, every enemy has LoS of you and none of your own team, or what you did wrong in that 1v1 (whether you should've even taken it or not), all your positioning issues become clear as day with the pause button.

And not just that, but if you pause and freecam on the moments where 'I feel like I can't do anything, we're all staggering, the tank is dying instantly, and we get full held on point one': you might see there is something that could've been done tactically. Or even better: there's nothing I could've done, I can forget about it and not beat myself up for it and go next.