Initial Disclaimers: This post is long, beware. | It also includes pointers to my Content Creation stuff like Youtube. Yes, I have received permission for this.

Hello everyone. My name is Moonttra. I am a former OW1 high rank tank player who recently creates mods for other games and made some "decently popular" custom games for OW2. I am returning to competitive and I am planning to show the slow and difficult process of improvement in OW's competitive ladder as a series on Youtube. I am very rusty, washed, what have you. I plan to include the hardships, frustrations, and major screw ups I do in this series. I have multiple goals I wish to follow here. But an important one is to show an adaptable mindset and a strong will to slowly overtime reach your goal in the ladder. Funny thing is? I will be learning and relearning things too. I do have... other, bigger motives in mind, but its more of a widescale problem I am trying to soft reorient.

Note: Tank will be the first role I do and will attempt for this series. But if I can manage it, I will look into DPS next, then finally Support. Tank is just my strongest role and is probably regarded as the hardest or one of the hardest to play.

These videos will be very calm, not overly edited and chaotic. Just simple thoughts and strategic ideas during the matches with as much soft positivity I can bring to the board. Plus a few funny edits, but nothing extreme. This may end up being boring for many and that's fine. The goal is to be something helpful. Heck, I may even get tilted in the first couple videos as I am trying to relearn and stabilize my own mind. I am also a very anxious individual, so this will impact my climbing ability too.

I am not a very popular content creator, I am still learning how to make better content, and I am not even a super high-ranking player in the current OW2 competitive scene. This will not stop me, and I will try my hardest to make something people can follow alongside with and maybe pick up some key tank strategies, styles, and general mindset adjustments for dealing with the brutal environment that is Competitive from a long time player's POV. I am also usually in a duo group early on, but trying to go completely solo. Nothing bigger than that. The duo is more or less to help me feel more comfortable with tank anxiety.

I did do my placements to reorient myself and it threw me into low diamond. But then pushed me up to Masters 5 thus far. Which is probably where the series will softly begin. The main heroes I will be playing are: Domina, Junkerqueen, and Winston. But I can adapt and play other tanks too. While this is technically higher rank and may be rough to translate into say platinum or silver. I do believe the learning curve and ideas will still be important enough to put into your matches, no matter where you are on the ladder below low GM.

I am currently working on the series over time, but due to self-struggles it may be slow to produce. Also, I will gladly take any advice or even corrections to what I do or say during this series. I want it to be as helpful and as correct as possible. If I am wrong, then I am wrong.

If this succeeds, this may end up being very valuable info for newbies, returning veterans, and currently struggling players to sink their teeth into and maybe gain some insight to the tank role.

HOWEVER, this is has a very high chance to fail completely. This is some overwhelming odds and I am also only human. Plus my anxiety and habit of beating myself up over small things. I know this will take a long time and its possible it may never see the end of the road.

I do apologize for my mess of a post, I am completely new to reddit. But I figured I would try to make an adapting guide by letting my quiet nature speak out more, but letting the game do most of the talking for me. I will do what I can to make this function and work as intended.

Thank you for reading. I will update this post accordingly with thoughts, struggles, and breakthroughs. I plan to hopefully construct the first episode within the next week or two. I may also look into streaming despite it not being my cup of tea, so live interaction is a possibility. Think of this initial post as the setup to the beginning of the journey.

Any and all comments are welcome, if you have questions on tanking thus far feel free to share and maybe me or fellow tanks can assist. If you're skeptical about my really dumb plan, thats fine too lol. You have every reason to be. It is definitely a shot in the dark, but you miss all shots you don't take, right?

Stay resilient out there, fellow tank players. :D

Currently very anxious about a post like this. But I believe it's something positive.

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Current Thoughts From Placements:

Probably due to the new season, 5 new heroes, and general high player counts for the game. But holy hell do the matches have some really bad balance sometimes. It's not 100% of the time, but its definitely sitting at around 70% of them. I'll see brand new players and veterans, even extremely high ranking players in lower lobbies. I even saw an obvious booster account for the first time in all of my time on OW. It's atrocious right now and I understand why people avoid start of season. But this could provide good learning opportunities, though it has a risk to allow none at all.

Hi, I am looking for the VOD of the season 1 preseason that was aired in december 2017, on the MLG website ( http://eve.majorleaguegaming.com/overwatchleague ) that is not accessible anymore. Does anyone know if there is an archive somewhere ?

What I mean by this is that I am a lot more interested in the chess-style strategy of the game than playing the actual game. I play fairly often and i have around 1000 hours since 2019 (but only been playing properly and regularly for 2+ I feel like something went wrong with the tracking because i should have more), but I spend just as much if not more time consuming educational content and creating comps and counters that a team could actually use. This results in a really awkward situation where i'm talking to someone about the game and then they go 'wow you know a lot, what rank are you?' and I have to look them dead in the eyes and say 'plat 2' after spending half an hour talking about a sym counter comp. Does anyone else feel like this, and what is some good advice on how to convert this knowledge into wins. (i know i just need to play more though)

Replay code: WV0X4X and 7T2VSR

Battletag / in-game username: Ang4lo

Hero(es) played: Hanzo

Skill tier / rank: Plat 2

Map: Kings Row and Rialto

PC

So I'm a Hanzo player in Plat currently, played 3 matches today and lost all of them, the first one I played Cass and did terribly, the most horrendous perfomance imaganiable, I already reviewed it myself and pointed out tons of mistakes, but these two matches when I played Hanzo I really struggle to pinpoint anything major that I did wrong(not to say I didn't - I most definitely f uped a lot) so I need help to figure out what exactly I did wrong/could've done better

I feel really annoyed not being able to do anything this game dorado genji and freja are skinning me alive 3F6TPP, on busan widow is taking over the lobby and I am getting bend over P7H8VF. I don't understand what I should be doing and what to focus on to improve and I am getting really tilted at my performance