POV: You're an Average GOLD Support

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This is what the vast majority of player's gameplay looks like (Minus the positioning). Boring, out of control, and lacks any offensive ability to control the outcome of the game.
Most of player base claim that healing is what is going to win you games, so I decided to show what it would look like if I were to heal only and make no offensive plays looks like.
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[@Milkra]

Evil awkward be like “healing healing healing”

[@joulesapura349]

"im in the open, they push forward i push forward"

[@rogue4340]

Lmao

[@puppergump4117]

@@joulesapura349 You see, they can shoot me, not in cover. No damage, no damage, no damage

[@sirjestahlot6436]

My team takes damages, boom! Healing! Healing healing healing!

[@hawk8898]

I'm going to walk out in the open, not using cover and I'm gonna do healing. Healing healing healing.

[@gettem6341]

If you listen to your teammates in gold, you'll never get out of gold.

[@Penguin-gq7mp]

sometimes there right

[@gettem6341]

@@Penguin-gq7mp given enough monkeys they'll eventually write shakespeare.

[@azurasenpai3783]

@@Penguin-gq7mprarely

[@bihazards]

If you have chat on in gold, you're doing something wrong lmao

[@the_clarinetster6568]

@@bihazards😭😭

[@ItsAllEnzynes]

I love this. It really shows how much of a trap heal-botting is for support players. Even when you're playing near optimally just one small misstep causes you to die and completely lose the fight. In some way it feels like *that* was the mistake you made, like holding the 'D' Key for an extra 200ms and getting picked is the reason you lost the fight. It feels like if you just lived a little longer maybe you could've kept the tank up or saved the Genji or whatever. In reality you're just giving yourself no room for error by providing no value outside of healing! If you do some freakin damage the whole match just becomes so much easier and more forgiving.

[@ryujin1201]

skill issue bro

[@puppergump4117]

@@ryujin1201 Is it unskillful to have more to learn?

[@ryujin1201]

@@puppergump4117 can't none take a old stupid joke

[@lussor1]

Thats why i main zenyatta

[@JohnLeidegren]

I learned I was heal-botting a lot for the first time yesterday. OMG what a game changer. You don't see it until you see it everywhere.

[@rockstermaniac]

he was so committed to playing like a gold support he even chose a game where his other support was mercy to do his lucio run

[@projectzeeno]

I wanna watch that Tracer's "Miss all the shots" challenge 😩

[@penguinbro896]

The Kiriko one hurt to watch, because I played like that for a while. The reason it doesn’t work is because if you’re playing with a worse team no amount of healing in the world can save you. That’s why doing damage yourself to carry is so important

[@kja1217]

Right, same here. I was climbing pretty easily with healbotting kiriko until i realized what a trap it was after I started losing a lot more.

[@MechaStorm7]

People look at my Lucio or Zen stats on the scoreboard and say "please heal more" when my only way to do that is to literally heal them and die atferwards

[@nightslash2561]

Exactly man. I remember reading a Reddit post that said “If your team sucks. All your healing does is keep them alive to suck longer” lol which is so true. Along with healing, you need to be aggressive and damage

[@ccricers]

I think it's hard because it's such a balancing act. If you let them die even if it's their own fault they are also feeding more to the enemy. So yeah you don't want to healbot but you also don't want your team to be feeding a lot

[@khaledm.1476]

Honestly in the kiriko match, the other support is playing a lucio so being a bit of a healbot is a good decision. Sure Awkward top 500 gamer can extract alot of value regardless but are you a top 500 player? Wouldn't it be better to play the best you can with your current skill-set. You would take much longer to make a meaningful play which considering your team comp means the team loses their main healer and all get squashed. Copying a youtuber/streamer mindlessly doesn't make sense

[@pardoxia7242]

Only healing on support feels like you're playing an escort mission where you're the person being escorted

[@xJaZ3]

i can’t play ana anymore without hearing “damage damage damage” in my head lmao but honestly it helps soo much

[@AmondraLive]

Just now seeing this & im in the same boat lol

[@mantasvalciukas5734]

Just tried playing with voice chat and text chat disabled today for the first time and I got to say, I felt significantly better, the nonsense people say is just brain breaking.

[@alfred9805]

That's a good idea actually. Pretty sure nothing good came out of team text chat since May 24 2016

[@nickmatzke9314]

I did the same thing. It’s so much less pressure when missing a heal and not getting flames for it

[@Painjusu]

Always turn it on to spit logical facts and disable asap 💀

[@GermanYankeeFan1]

how do i turn off the text chat?

[@D-Doc-C]

​@@GermanYankeeFan1In the settings or type /hidechat

[@matrixyst]

this is so mind-numbing and yet it's a completely accurate representation of how people in bronze-plat understand the support role lmfao wild

[@JackTse]

i think this is extreme. i believe that the level of these players is to pocket the tank otherwise they lose and that only applies to some of the heroes like ana where the player makes the choice.

[@heyheyhello3733]

@@JackTse obviously it’s extreme but the overall point still stands. there are so many support players who think they don’t have control over the match or that their role has no impact, but their playing like this. “i had 20k healing, how did we lose” while only having 1k dmg as ana in a 26 minute ranked game. it puts these players into a cycle of “i did X amount of healing, so it’s not my fault we lost” instead of actually learning how to contribute to the game with cooldowns and dmg.

[@javierhzo2846]

My friend always say that plat is where Anas start shooting pharahs out of the sky.

[@naaamgs]

@@javierhzo2846 well, I’m in plat 2 as bap and idk if I’ve seen an Ana shoot a pharah. SEEMINGLY, ppl acknowledge her but only I shoot her. Sometimes I get lucky with a Cassidy killing her. Other than that, I THINK I rarely experience and others shooting her

[@rockstermaniac]

@@naaamgs Anna/Moira main here in plat and yes we shoot the pharah. Problem is Plat is also where I start seeing pharahs actually show some level of discipline with their flight paths and a certain amount of restraint when it comes to locking the character without a mercy pocket. When they make the mistake of failing those 2 checks to playing the character I can afford to take my eyes of the fight for the 3 seconds it takes to land 3 shots on her. When they don't best I can manage is 2 shots into the mercy and a reposition so I dont die to her rage and then its over to you dps hitscan mains.

[@dustinbiester4401]

I was playing on Ilios last night with Zen and we won the first round relatively easy. Going into the 2nd round our tank and a dps were complaining about how I had too much damage and not enough healing (I had 2nd most damage, most kills, the least amount of deaths, and only 1200 less healing than our Moira). I switched to Kiriko to appease them and barely put out any damage, probably 90% healing and 10% damage. We got obliterated the next 2 rounds. Now that they knew I was heal botting, they continuously got in bad positions with the expectation that I was supposed to heal them through 1v5s, 2v5s, etc. Btw, the complaining didn't stop even though I was doing what they wanted. Moral of the story: when you only heal you are 100% reliant on your team to win. Good luck getting out of gold that way.

[@alfred9805]

Moral of the story: if somebody asks you to switch mute them. You play the video-game however you want

[@cortexion4128]

Winning playing like this shows the trap in healing, how helpless supports can feel, and how you will get flamed for taking a step in the right direction by DPSing because "wHy dIDn'T yoU hEAl Me???"

[@hamsterinmykitchen]

Such a build-up of anxiety at the "no purple" part, the sheer fucking discipline on this man is astonishing. Also, Kiriko without kunai is just so much dead air, it's like notes missing in your favorite song. Edit: I just got to the Lucio part, oh god the PAIN, THE PAINNNNNN NEVER STOPS

[@FallenEvaneskyro07]

Now that i see the benefits of focusing more on damage i cannot unsee and cringe about "healers"

[@josephosorio8862]

I'm plat on support and whenever I play kiriko I do some damage. Then my teammates get mad for "dps kiriko" even tho I get like 2-4k damage and some kills. But then I have like 8-10k healing (also a bunch of saves) and I just don't understand what they want man.

[@Awkward2]

They want you to stay in Gold just like them

[@pr0faker]

if you only heal you depend on your team to do all the damage. And with ana no anti nade, only healing, takes away so much from the potential for diffing in your team.

[@gabrielbland7955]

Those players who flame you for low healing are just mad you’re doing more damage than they are on dps

[@adantayevans3088]

It's really weird how people react to supports doing damage, I'm low gold and I got a 4k on first choke midtown as Baptiste in like 45 seconds of the game starting and my dps flamed me for not healing but we capped point immediately from my play

[@Seraphicarus]

Love the content Awkward keep it up! Still would love to see an updated Unranked to GM Baptiste OW2 some day!

[@Natomics]

i second this like a mother fucker. not enough bap love out there

[@MK-tn6uv]

Yes please!!

[@jamesdaly1111]

This was like watching one of my replays, except for the part where you won most of the games

[@CRDeu_]

In GM you still get people flaming you when you're putting up high dmg lmao

[@puppergump4117]

I remember seeing Hacksaw Ridge. Desmond's dps carried him because he did nothing but healing. Reports would later say it was a support diff, however. This is such a shame.

[@Phillospillo777]

When I’m dps id much rather have an ana or bap doing damage, than a mercy or kiriko that just heals. Even if it means I have to play by a health pack. I never ask for heals anymore unless my support is in front of me and they can’t see me. Learn where the health packs are dps. My win % has gone up greatly by just doing that. Let supports enjoy the game or use there cooldowns to save themselves in 1v1s.

[@ren92015]

this is honestly so accurate. my team gets so angry at me whenever I do damage on ana in gold lmaooo

[@ClaraBennett]

I get that it was painful to leave so much value on the table, but for the most part, I feel like this experiment shows that simply staying alive and hitting the *impactful* healing is sufficient to climb in low rank, at least on heroes that have at least moderate throughput potential. It’s not really playing to win, it’s just playing to not lose, but in low rank it’s enough to just resist the loss until the enemy team hands over the win, if that makes sense. There’s a limit to how far that will take you, of course, but I think a lot of what gets players sucked into the healing trap is being too late or too timid to heal someone who is being aggressive and spending a lot of healing on either lost causes or allies who have already disengaged, when other allies are still fighting. I think learning how to help teammates while they’re actually posing a threat to enemies leads to the team taking a lot less damage, and then it doesn’t seem so impossible to find space to fit damage in yourself.

[@m1rac1e]

basically gold is the highest you can get doing this. by plat, you cannot get away it. another factor is his awareness/positioning allows him to almost never die so he's doing way more healing than an avg gold healbot anyways.

[@MCbeccy89]

I mean, that's honestly a terrible mindset to have. Even if you're just "playing not to lose" the enemy team is doing the same as well. In the end you can try heal botting, but that can only get you so far. You have to be lucky with your team mates knowing how to use your time more valuable rather than just running into a fight that you can't even out heal. Your healing is worthless if the enemy team has enough people shooting at one person. In the end, this is honestly just coping. And I have a bad mindset as well of just heal botting at times. But at least I'm not delusional enough to think that's winning anything. If anything, I get lucky by keeping some dps/tanks alive while the enemy team just absolutely ignores me. If people want to be timid or passive, that's fine. They're free to do so, and stay at their low ranks. But when they start complaining about elo hell and not being able to climb. There's seriously no room to talk. In the end, people are free to play the game however they like, but if you think this is a genuine way to play and actually win [without luck on your side] you're sorely mistaken lol. Also "learning how to help teammates while they’re actually posing a threat to enemies" is so dumb. This literally only applies to mercy. Otherwise *you'd be damaging on most other supports because healing won't do shit* there. If they're pushing and posing a threat. Support their ass by picking off those who are low or by getting people low enough for them to shoot off. Even as Mercy you wouldn't be healing them, you should be damage boosting. You could finish off a whole team fight by just pushing forward with your dps. Rather than waiting for that poor guy to literally get 20+ more kills than the second highest person in the lobby and still losing a fight, you could have helped him finish the fight. Instead you sit back thinking healing him at full health will help, while the team just comes back from spawn. It's just coping man.

[@Lemoneshade]

Great format!

[@FlamingNinjaBoi]

Awkward going through an existential crisis because he can't shoot the enemy is some funny shit.

[@renyoudie]

Poggers gold gameplay, keep up the uploads man!

[@swegdoge]

Healing healing healing

[@zadinal]

The crazy part is I can SEE the pauses where the reflex to damage is there and he is forcing himself not to. The frustration in the situation is palpable.

[@wesmundo154]

Hahaaaaaa this was so funny and so true. You can’t please people on support. It’s either not enough healing or too much DPS… I just disable voice chat and text and have fun.

[@karsalesman4382]

the only inaccurate thing about the lucio section was wallriding ive played with lucios that sit on the ground and walk in circles locked on healing aura

[@RealLifeLuca]

I love your videos they are amazing. This video was so unsatisfying tho haha especially the Moira one xD

[@Awkward2]

Should've named it try not to cringe challenge

[@FirebladeXXL]

yeah thats wild. lower elo ppl will literally not expect supports to do any damage at all. heartcrushing conclusion.

[@shianl6699]

my lord...that tracer at the end of the game got 1 elim and 11 deaths, how that even happened.

[@EuSouRCS]

"Stay in gold,i don't care" -Awkward Ramone

[@JoyDaBeast]

simple solution: just heal more 4head if you outheal widow headshots they wont ever die and u can win. just need to out heal the cars on oasis yk

[@leonp.2171]

That mid-air Bap heal hit on the Winton

[@ShibaInu102]

Nah, I remember those days. But I still sometimes get flamed for “not healing enough” in high Diamond/low masters. I just remember it being MUCH WORSE in the low ELO. You could be doing so much for your team, but if the stats show you don’t have over 100k healing then you’re obviously playing the game wrong. 🙄

[@leonp.2171]

I feel like this is the reason why do many support players complain about having no control over there games and not being able to carry, they're just heal botting. Ofc there's other underlying issues with the game right that does make the support cast feel frustrating to play now but as you pointed out it feels entirely out of control wether you win or lose the game if you only heal. But no, the hard stuck silvers will keep on saying "but healing is my job, not damage" when you tell them that they should look for more offensive value. Bro if you say that don't complain about being hardstuck, if you don't have an improvement focused mindset you just won't be able to climb. The way I climbed out of bronze was by picking up Bap and playing really damage focused, I had around a 1:1 ratio of healing and damage, when I got dived I'd switch to Moira where I'd do much of the same (1:1 heal damage ratio). I basically zoomed through all ranks up to plat with something like a 70-80% winrate, and there learned to play other heroes at around that level like Lucio, Ana or Zen, always playing with that aggression and offense heavy mindset, that's what carries games, especially in the lower ranks on support. Of course right now I'm just plat, not a god at this game by far and my ranked journey had to stop there since I didn't have good internet since Ow2 released and didn't wanna disconnect during anyone's games but I'm looking forwards to getting that sorted and starting improving at the game again. Thanks for this video, awkward, it shows so many points: you may be able to win with only healing but you have so much less impact doing so.

[@user-te3fu3rv6u]

Future challenges of the Awkward: win without damage and healing; win without touching the keyboard and mouse; win a match in Overwatch 2 with the pc turned off

[@intovertjohn2924]

I had a friend who doesn't bother doing damage on Kiriko because they said they can't hit shots... Not even to help break shields, poke chokes, whatever it is, literally just holds M1 the whole time.

[@snouthlly1479]

You shouldn’t hit shields because you’re doing 80 damage per second on a 1000 hp shield. You can argue that it still helps but healing your team is better.

[@Tutualoe]

@@snouthlly1479 u can sneak it a few shots in between ur heals it’s better to be efficient to get Max value

[@user-et3xn2jm1u]

@@Tutualoe Kiriko's reload is one of the worst in the game, you shouldn't waste kunai on shields. Kiriko is penalized for hitting non-headshots so you should only throw kunai if there's a possibility of hitting them, no matter what your hs% accuracy is.

[@naaamgs]

@@Tutualoe fax. I think people tend to forget that we play a support role… Our job is to enable our team to do more damage, and breaking shield is a big part of achieving that goal. I see a shield and I’m unloading the clip on it while we back up, break it, then heal as we start holding our ground

[@alfred9805]

@@snouthlly1479 if you weave one kunai between each ofuda burst it's more like 40 every 1.6 seconds so around 27dps

[@bonic7217]

It's just how the rank is. But lets give the supports a brake as pepole in gold are so relaiant on healing the moment you start dealing dmg as support 3 pepole are already dead

[@Orongenschale]

For me it was the most funny gameplay from overwatch ever seen

[@Ctrl_Alt_Elite]

I wish I could send this to all people who complain about support in-game

[@EtonuiYoutube]

Heal Heal Heal 😂

[@therebelfrogy9287]

Healing is important but if you're heal bot and heal is your only way to support your team then you're just stalling the fight. Damage has its own value

[@raciawelli]

you can heal 100hp/sec but if u just kill or just force to retreat one enemy, its more then healing his whole potential dmg. Huge difference.

[@matthewsevers5862]

This was both awkward and hilarious. Thank you for doing it. Subscribed.

[@amirabbasdjamali7602]

Fun fact is as a Zen main, Everybody flames me for picking him in the beginning of the match, and every time I proves them wrong with having as enough healing as the rest of the match and doing almost more dps than the actual dps role.

[@walking_dragon]

You switched from support to healer in this video :) It felt strange to watch...but "lucio you are not healing"...that felt like an average OW2 video to me

[@Ropewatch]

Whenever I play dps I love it when supports actually kill people. It makes me so mad when I‘m one of the only two people on the team actually shooting at the enemy

[@Nikhil-cd1uk]

Love these new challenge videos :) Keep it up awkward

[@Cloud7050]

This is bloody hilarious

[@im3ntal3]

My favourite Overwatch KZbinr dropping another video? 🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@tylerlegend7205]

Also, try this with kiriko, mix in maybe 500 damage, and you got my old diamond teammates, now I'm masters lol

[@eoghanmaloney9561]

I’m glad that I’ve been sort of playing Ana right. As a dps main playing support I always end up shooting the enemy team way more than my own so I’m happy that it’s a good thing

[@DGreatDane]

This was probably so against ur instincts that you can never bear to do this again

[@edapplederry5888]

Ever since I discovered your Unranked to GM for Ana I doing my best to follow your advise. I'm only Gold 3 and mostly play Ana but it is hard when teammates start nagging that they need more healing. People are so needy, run in alone, or facetank as dps. It feels rewarding though to gets kills or impactful sleeps.

[@yeetdagamer8546]

The most important tip for metal rank players is to not listen to your fellow metal rank players. It holds you back a _ton_ . I got out of the metal ranks by playing supports that have solo frag potential(bap, zen and kiriko even)

[@slyze6933]

I know this is two months late but seriously, turn off chat if it gets to you that much. Nobody communicates in metal tiers anyway, and it’s gave me so much peace of mind in doing it. If you can, just play with a mate and you’ll have all the sociability of the game you need. Hope you managed to climb out of gold since.

[@JohannesMariaRunge]

Not gonna lie in the early days I played many hours support like this.

[@fadedcake1068]

This was a huuuuuge eye opener for me!!

[@Mars-1995]

This was so funny to watch

[@thecalmbro]

Seriously though, if ur complaining about supports MAKING THE GAME EASIER AND FASTER FOR YOU BY DOING DAMAGE have fun in bronze-gold forever. I'll be in plat and above with zenyattas that can do 13k damage.

[@Awkward2]

Exactly

[@onion8216]

Amazing vid 👏

[@alfonsohuescar7326]

When I was in gold I had a really close match where I told my Ana (I was Zen) that we needed her damage in order to win the fights. Her stats at this point were something like 600 dmg and 7000 healing. Her response was: "I'm a healer so I heal". And in the other hand when some idiot sees you have slightly more damage than healing as zen they start insulting and reporting you. Is so discouraging this game sometimes...

[@user-dg2en2uu5b]

I took awkward advice on Ana I’m still stuck in bronze but now I got the same dmg as my dps

[@atlas4428]

Bro I literally did this until I started watching streamers never played the first Overwatch and thought I was only supposed to heal 😂

[@noahsarkhive4482]

It's true. I see so many supports with basically no damage n you can always feel the extra struggle this brings along

[@adequtemaster6802]

yeah this is average support players, and then they say "my team sucks"

[@vitorbauer5163]

BRO CASUALLY HITTING WINSTON MID AIR WITH HEALING LIKE HE DOESNT HAVE AIM

[@WoWbloodcrazy]

Only one problem, you still heal better than all these heal bots. But for real, good video. Glad I found the channel, its taken me some adjusting but starting to do some really good damage on supports myself.

[@CJStrykr]

I love seeing the chat! Great video

[@pacnb]

your editor has great taste in videogame tunes, I gotta say

[@Frobro669]

Can’t wait for the mercy unranked to gm so we can get “damage (boost) damage (boost) damage (boost)”

[@BussyEnthusiast]

This physically hurt to watch

[@sapperEvO]

To be fair, you also hit your heals.

[@ItsHeracles]

Awkward you should do a Lucio unranked to gm next

[@randyurban6636]

Babe wake up awkward releases another unranked to gm.

[@manh-haimuller6027]

3:44 that’s so cool 😎 7:42 fact!!!

[@iluon2541]

Dam, this was very AWKWARD to watch ... ;)

[@lukasg4807]

13:26 he's talking about moira, she makes no difference to killing the orisa or not but might have saved him.

[@dragonsl8r]

Kiriko ult gets blocked by walls so it probably got blocked by the mei wall

[@Tichondrius-]

So you just proved yourself that it's not only "damage" that helps to win, but many other things that Top500 player is aware of, and metal ranks don't.

[@elimanator911]

Most low rank supports will do healing only or damage only, rarely both. Thats why they are happy when you heal them

[@CoreyTF2]

Blizz putting healing on left click for Kiriko was such a dumb choice, I feel like its made so many players heal bot as her.

[@austintraylor9740]

the lucio heal only reminds me of the time my cousin was playing lucio on my team and someone says lucio stop dpsing and heal! HUH?? He started shooting at him and said here is this helping is this healing you?? xD

[@Kallifluff]

we all know nobody is heal botting on moira

[@katek5067]

The really sad part is, in this elo, support sometimes have no choice but to healbot. People sometimes feed like crazy, and it's almost a constant babysitting job to make sure they don't die.

[@MrXantrias]

I disagree. I sometimes let a dps die because he just doesn't know when to retreat and is going in alone all the time. I prefer to use my time better healing less targets and doing more damage instead.^^ And even if you have to heal a lot, there always enough windows to get a couple of shots in.

[@lissbird3390]

That's why i felt so pleased when my dps said "nice damage boosting" after my tank had asked me to switch to Mercy. They thought i would be healboting. Hell no! P. S. As partly Lucio main that Lucio part hurts so much

[@Star_4000]

honstly i was one of those who heal bot the whole game than I watched your video and ML7 to and I start doing more dmg and it became more clear why I used to lose everygame before from silver 2 to plat 3 just when I start doing dmg and caring about my safety and doing what I should do

[@bink97]

That tracer 😭

[@perfidiouss]

this is genuinely so hard to watch oh my god lol

[@caylorsirk4628]

I press ability and my teammates lifebar goes up and I get a pat on the head :3

[@JetGravy]

My goodness our guy actually did it, thank you for letting me contribute to the channel!

[@codecraftercc]

nice vids! I would also love to see some gameplay on your main acc...

[@aidenmontgomery9205]

i had a game where i healbotted on bap most of the game bc i was scared of getting flamed. 25k healing and lost the game, the only fights i won were the ones i did dmg over healing and got picks

[@zippah]

in one match the enemy team had a mercy with more damage than their kiriko. their mercy had 50 damage. how is that even possible.

[@zeal.512]

awkward video posting speedrun 💪

[@aidenmontgomery9205]

i remember playing in open queue and a “masters” lucio had 14k healing and blamed me on rein. i hard carried that shit swinging on back line

[@billyvanderlinden7045]

Flanking only challenge maybe? Where you always go off solo

[@Awkward2]

I already do that in my normal gameplay