I’m not great, but I can at least get picks occasionally on Cassidy. I clean up really well.

I’m totally lost on Ashe however. The hipfire dmg seems completely negligible in most situations, and I can’t reliably hit the ads shots. There’s this weird delay almost like a faster hanzo arrow.

The only time I feel helpful is getting a good dynamite, but again, if the heals are paying attention it seems kinda weak. I also don’t really know how to position, if I try to stand back like a sniper, I get flanked and can never win the 1v1, if I’m too close it’s impossible to ads and die quickly.

It just seems like if you’re not amazing on the sticks picking something like hanzo feels more consistent?

Hey r/OverwatchUniversity

I'm nickyisonfire, formerly NickyOW. I play a lot of Sojourn and love teaching her to others.

This time, we are talking about how to position as Sojourn in a Ball vs Ball lobby.

This game features several Top 10 ranked players.. the rank 1 tank, rank 4 support.. etc.. (GM5 - C3)

Playing Soj in this matchup gets really tricky because she has 225 HP and dies instantly to Ball if she is out of position.. making her the primary target.

I talk about my rotations, positioning, and generally explain my thought process throughout the game.

I hope you guys can get something out of it. Let me know if you have any questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=incMCNyZh8U

I’m plat/gold/plat, main support. I’ve put roughly 3k hours in this game and only hit diamond once and dropped right back down.

The issue I’m having is this. HOW do I learn to identify mistakes? I am by no means blaming my team or think I’m in elo hell because I do truly understand that fundamentally I’m in the rank I deserve. But I can’t for the life of me identify my mistakes. I turn my brain off and autopilot and I cannot see my mistakes.

How do I learn to go “okay I should be / should have been there and done x and y” and actually start seeing my mistakes? How do I learn to be more present and not autopilot?

I feel like the second I stop healing to do any dmg or take an off angle my team just falls over. Every round I honestly just heal bot until I have my minor that does smalls heals when I hit kunai. But even when I have that I feel like the nano second Im not just spamming heals we roll over and die. I have to many games where I end up with like 11k heals and only 2k damage.

History (You may want to skip this section) - The reason I'm including this is to just give more context on what my mindset is in this game, so I can get better insights and advice on what to do. I'll still try to keep it brief. I started playing Overwatch in closed beta, way back in February of 2016. My very first season, I placed around mid-gold. I wish that had been enough then, and I had just resigned to never play Comp, but unfortunately my lust for those sweet, sweet golden weapons (and other variants) has locked me in. That and the desire, on some level, to just feel like I'm "good" at the game. I'm not sure what "good" is, but at one point I thought it was whatever rank was slightly above the 50th percentile. I think that would be Gold, but it may have shifted higher since OW2 released. I feel like that ship has sailed at this point, and in the past 10 years I've kinda given up reaching that level. I'm old, slow, and have a myriad of other issues (ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, Autism) that mean I will probably never reach the "heights" of barely above average. I don't say that as an excuse, just that I've accepted my peak is probably behind me.

Earlier on I was solo 100% of the time. Then, one-by-one, my friends started getting into PC gaming and joined me. The social aspect was nice, but I think there was a lot of carrying going on, too. All my friends grew up playing FPS, but I didn't, and I feel like it's held me back in a big way. In solo queue, I was <500SR, but with friends and the transition to OW2 I managed to claw my way back up over 3-4 years into Gold 5. Eventually, I made it to Gold 1, just one rank away from my ultimate goal, and somehow (I swear this is 100% true), despite winning against teams with higher ranked players and having a 50%+ win rate, I lost rank and ended up back in Gold 2.

Since then, my friends have either stopped playing or kept ranking up and, eventually, stopped asking me to queue, or if I asked they had no room for me. There was a brief moment of excitement when I got into a months-long, organized amateur tournament, but that died pretty quickly when I ended up being in "Mercy jail" (a hero I don't particularly enjoy) because no one else on the team wanted to play her, but our DPS carry demanded to be pocketed. We ended up with a decent record, but by the end of the season, I swore off ever playing Mercy again, let alone joining another tournament.

That was really the last time, about 3 years ago, that I had a regular group to play with. Since then, I've developed a bit of a complex about playing with friends; I'm already anxious and socially awkward enough as it is, and making online friends is really difficult for me, not to mention I'm flat out embarrassed about being so bad at the game; I don't really want to burden another group and get left behind again, so I guess playing socially is kind of just out of the question for me.

So, what now? - I kinda wish I had only ever played solo, because at this point I feel like I just don't deserve to be here (even in Silver) and would rather be playing at my "true" rank (probably back in <500SR/Bronze 5?) than constantly losing at my "inflated" rank and burdening my teammates. I think it's easier to just blame myself for the losses and tell myself I need to do better rather than ever assume it was anyone on my team's fault. I mean if I was actually any good, I wouldn't be losing so many games, right? That's the most frustrating part about all of this, I think; I never really feel in control of the outcome of my games. Even the wins feel like it's just luck that I got someone good enough to carry my dead weight.

I think this is probably a bad mentality? I don't know. I genuinely just think I'm that bad. I'm not, like, upset about it because at this point it feels kinda hopeless anyway. I am, at the very least, the worst player I have ever known. Where is the line between blaming teammates and accepting responsibility for getting rolled so often? It feels "safer" to just blame myself. I need help navigating this mentality.

Anyways, my goal at this point is simply to have a 51% win rate, regardless of what rank I'm in. This particular season, I am 29-40, which is a 42% win rate. Last season was also sub-50%, and even as low as sub-30% at times, but there's nothing I can do about that now. I just want to get back to a 50% win rate so I can tell myself I'm "good". I wish I understood more what people meant when they say "Play for fun". Like, there are lots of things I find fun in the game, but getting counter-swapped, diffed, and losing constantly makes the "fun" a lot harder to find. I've tried to break out of that mindset many times, but there seems to be something wrong with me. It's not that I mind losses; I just want to feel like I contributed, and that the match was fair. Both of those feelings elude me the majority of the time. How do I just play for fun?

Enough yapping, here are the replays; So, It probably goes without saying that I'm not particularly gifted when it comes to aim, and I tend to gravitate towards less mechanically intense heroes, which usually means Brigitte. I enjoy some Lifeweaver from time-to-time as well, but I am definitely even worse with him than I am with Brig. Here are the replay codes;

My in-game name is SlimeDevil.

Hollywood (Victory 3-0): 51SRRM (This is one where I very much felt like I was being carried.)

Nepal (Victory 2-1): AMWXGN (Another one where I really felt I was being carried, especially with my awful stats.)

Paraiso (Defeat 2-3): W3AXY9

If you took the time to watch any of these, and especially if you took the time to read all my bullshit, you're very kind. I thank you for doing so, and thank you in advance for any advice you may offer.