My Advice for Every Rank in Overwatch 2

[@luscasuwu]

Bronze - 00:22 Silver - 03:50 Gold - 09:23 Platinum - 11:55 Diamond - 14:52 Masters - 19:00 Grandmaster - 21:35

[@FlareOW]

Ty

[@Jduba21484]

Thanks Brodie!

[@sandraisaweeb]

Thank you

[@JonezBBQ]

Was gonna say. Timestamps should be there

[@owConfidence]

Thank you! ❤

[@mamamia6513]

No matter what rank you are there is always a Sombra behind you waiting to torture you

[@Bee-wk7hw]

NOT ANYMORE AYYY

[@defenestrate7544]

dang, this really is one of the best, most comprehensive guides i've seen, esp being under 25min. Nice stuff Mills.

[@TheTalesofTimGaming]

I really appreciate how you broke down mechanical skill vs. pure game sense.

[@kevind4323]

that's my philosophy for rocket league too. once you fill up both buckets of mental skill and mechanical skill, you rank up and get bigger buckets, but both need to be full.

[@ale3for913]

I've floated in between low gm and t500 for a few years now (masters this season, but let's not talk about it). This is the most accurate and helpful summary I've ever seen on how to rank up. I'd endorse basically every word of it. One thing I'd add, which you briefly touched on, is to play difficult heroes. Moira, Mercy, and Lifeweaver are heroes that make you hardstuck. While Tracer, Genji, Dva, or Zenyatta would be ideal, even someone like Mei or Ana forces you to aim a lot. In addition to that, a mistake a lot of bad players make is just blasting the tank all game, whether it be damage, heals, cooldowns, or ults. Start shooting at and fighting with squishies. Someone who goes from being a healbot Moira to an Ana who does 60% healing and 40% damage to enemy squishies will see their progression rate ramp up. Even if Moira is your calling, fade to different parts of the fight and try to duel the dps. This will force you to learn movement, cooldown tracking, cover usage, map knowledge etc. Just don't play like a healbot or tank shooter and you will get better.

[@ElectrifyMySoull]

Aww but I like being a healbot :(.. I'm really good at it :P however, my tracking is awful which is holding me back. I've been a Mercy main since day1 but terrible with her weapon. Until they came out with Lifeweaver! His kit sort of clicks with me and I can actually finish people off. His reload time and heal ramp up though feels rough. Is he played in top tier? I haven't done much research yet on him, just putting in the manual labor hours in learning to optimize him, though if he's not as good as I think, maybe I'm wasting my time?

[@Flameysaur]

@@ElectrifyMySoull Lifeweaver is kinda in a weird spot, but I'd say he's at least better than Mercy for most situations if you're set on healbotting. If you can get good with his pulls and platform then he definitely has more value than a Mercy. He is a lot more reflex based imo. I just see way too many Lifeweavers waste their pulls or put their teammates in unfavorable positions or not take advantage of the platform to mitigate some enemy ultimates. That being said, a lot of Mercy players tend to have an easier time with Moira, so I'd try her if you'd like, at the very least you'll get a feel for balancing damage and healing.

[@Sophie-if1jc]

I'm ashamed to say Moria is my calling

[@padarousou]

I think Moira is my calling I average 10k heals/ 8k damage per 10 mins

[@fluid1978]

​@@padarousoushe's a statistician, you can have the best stats in the game on her and still not contribute significantly to the team(not saying u necessarily are)

[@engineergaming3830]

"feeding" means doing something that makes you REALLY easy to kill (like going out in the open,ignoring the enemy team or just straight up running at the enemy team alone) "staggering" trying to run away and dying a long time after your team died resulting in you respawning last if your whole team is dead just try to die as quickly as possible in any way so you are groupped up after you all respawn (this does not have to be done with heroes with REALLY good mobility like tracer or sombra since her stealth is a free getaway) so you don't die again while trying to get back to your team honestly people should try to explain what ov2 slang means to newer players you can't expect them to instantly know what you mean oh and if ur trying to get better don't put too much focus on aiming the longer you play the better it'll get most of the top 500 players or popular content creators have thousands of hours on the game I've never used aimlabs or any kinds of aim trainers and still managed to get to diamond in a year by practice alone (I played mainly echo so I had to at least understand all the heroes dx)

[@ciach0_]

feeding means giving the enemy team free ult charge by being an easy target

[@engineergaming3830]

​​@@ciach0_ yeah all that I listed was that you can't be too general with people that forget you exist just because you ran behind a corner

[@ZER0punk]

Feeding is any kind of free ult charge for the enemy. The ways you listed but also. Going up to a corner or high ground and spamming damage while your team is trying to regroup. You see this a lot in lower ranks. They don't realize that they are just charging there enemy healer ults and possibly the enemy tanks ult. While you are also making your self an easy target or at the very least revealing your location. Even worse is if you call them out on it, they point out their damage stat. Mean while being completely oblivious to the fact that you are calling them out for the trash damage they were just doing making their damage stat an unreliable metric as you have no way of telling how much of that damage is actually meaningful.

[@givrally]

As a long time hardstuck silver support, I think the advice that "dying is the worst thing you can do in the game" fundamentally broke me, because a lot of times I'd be trying to run away as soon as I saw the team fight was lost, I'd end up dying way later than the rest of my team, and then my team would lose the disadvantaged 4v5 by the time I'm back and the same would happen, losing minutes of precious time. I recently got coached by a GM who told me "Don't bother running away with your picks, if all is lost dying quickly is the best thing you can do, so run towards their support guns blasting". And as it turns out, it worked, now losing one fight doesn't mean losing the next three as well, and I've been slowly climbing to gold.

[@Spacebanana2]

my tip for gold - plat is just to be really aggressive. In gold or plat most players like to play brawl or more slow poke strats. So when you go dive theyr not expecting it and you will roll the first fight. Then they will start to panick swap and u win. This worked for me and i am now in gm

[@itsmark1991]

This is so true, I'm stuck in gold 1 and anytime a good ball,Winston,Sombra is in the match the whole team scrambles.

[@hidden-senpai]

It can be an issue to be aggressive too. I was mid-plat and because of a hard lose streak I fell to gold 4. And now I'm a little stuck there (even if I managed to climb to gold 1-2) but the thing is, if I play as aggressive as when I was playing with plat players, my team often doesn't follow or are just too slow to react.

[@Spacebanana2]

@@hidden-senpai I got to gm in like 1 month from just playing aggresive with winton

[@oSw1ftzz]

I’m in silver one and i was at 93% and i got people with negativity and bad mental. The best way to climb is to put in a lot of time in and be positive. As long as YOU are a consistently good player you are garunnteed to have above a 51% winrate

[@Lappmogel]

If you have the mechanical skill you can definitely do that. Just having decent aim and movement from any other fps will get you to plat or higher in one evening.

[@SgtBean999]

16:39 wish my teammates would realize this before saying "tank trash 🤓"

[@organicallyhannah]

Playing tank in silver or gold means you might as well disable chat 😭 They all want to be carried

[@dogidogediggidydogedd957]

​@@organicallyhannah this is so real. I have been playing wiston only on comp, and I am currently on Plat 4, People think the tank should be the one to do everything. But if you have bad DPS or Sups, then it will be extremely hard to win a game. Trying to reach masters with him.

[@kryptian6109]

@@dogidogediggidydogedd957if you wanna q i’m plat 3 and bap/kiri/ana guy

[@AtlisDe]

I hate when people don't know how the game was lost. I'll be walking back from spawn or far away as a support like ana and I'll see everyone straight up abandon the tank to go chase after one enemy together. Then it becomes just a domino effect of deaths.

[@PWSC_live]

However, if each teammate says it in every game, make sure to reflect and see why everyone is saying it

[@His_racer180]

I’ve been needing this for a while now while playing support I’ve been stuck in silver and this is helping a lot ❤

[@d1o2c3t4o5r]

Metal ranks: people stand out in the open too much. Choose an Omnic hero to maximize value when people don't use map cover. Maybe go Winston when the opposing team is too aggressive to group up. Diamond and above: use map cover to ensure your supports can do damage; have a game plan in mind before choosing your tank; keep your Sigma skills sharp to shorten your comp games.

[@greatmatt301]

God I'm gold in supp and tank. I went on like a 10 game losing streak on tank so i decided to watch my gameplay from the supports view. I realized i am just taking so much useless damage requiring so much attention from the supports they cant do anything else. Im still trying to work around that when i play but it was such an eye opener XD

[@upsetti6404]

His chat about transferable role skills is actually so true. I main support, have done since Ana got released way back when. When I play tank specifically I play with my support line in mind and position myself perfectly for them to support me and that in itself made me rank up incredibly fast on tank (which I only play with friends cause my support rank is too high to group, or now the queues are far too long in season 10). On DPS I play around my supports and protect them as much as I can.

[@Matrixwithzombies]

Personally I’m a silver overwatch player and I Like to ask myself what is happening to me and my position, then ask myself what has changed about the overall team fight and finally I ask myself what can I do to deal more damage, get more healing, take and/or gain more space. Overall I main dva and used this technique and went from silver 4 to 1 and I’m also working on my dives because that’s the meta, if you are seeing this please reply and like and I hope I helped some people.

[@sesshonuyasha]

Well said ! in addition the thing i need improvement in is tracking my team positions and deaths

[@NBASFAN]

If you're casual I say it's fine to think like that because you won't spend a lot of time on the game. However if you do want to be a little more sweaty and climb the easiest way is to just be more efficient and comfortable with your aim and communicate whatever it is you need in the comms while keeping your cool. Metal ranks are definitely more on the "I know this game more than you/I have a main in GM" type of vibe and can trigger a lot of people to rage. Just like any other team sport. You just need to be mechanically good, you don't necessarily need to know the meta or peel/dive/poke/etc. What you really need is to tell your team where you're going. Who is where and what ability you/them are going to use. Instead of "hey team let's run dive, please no Ana/Zen etc" because metal ranks typically aren't very good at being organized and team play. So most of the time that will just trigger them and made someone rage right at the start of the game. I know it's a long read... Doing shot calling isn't 100% going to work, but it's a good habit to get into and it will get easier the more you do it. If you're even more sweaty you will remember all the cool downs in the game and nail your ability timing, etc. That's really how I got to GM from metal ranks. It took me a while to realize, but I believe you certainly need to be very comfortable with your mouse and keyboard before you can climb. Because people in Masters and GM will punish you for mistakes in an instant. This is something I wish I knew earlier because this game has levels to it more than other FPS games being how fast and confusing it's abilities are and insane healing/hp pool. Even Shroud was hard stuck diamond tells you if you aim well you will climb, but you will peak if you don't communicate about cool downs and timing etc.

[@45blank16]

looking behind me to check where my team is as a tank player got me to plat quickly

[@milesy8207]

As a plat player in silver you just have to pick a good tank and get a friend that’s a healer

[@kinggomax]

Eva can play against every take with exception of Zara in less u bait bubbles and rein if u fight ram kill supports first or out of position people same as with sig and orissa if u fight hog mauga junk q free sr good luck !

[@darrionrobinson8553]

Need timestamps

[@purehearted7249]

09:23 for gold 👍

[@JohnIvoryMusic]

Bronze is at the beginning bro

[@rygktransrights]

There are timestamps. Dummy.

[@justsatan6747]

​@@purehearted7249 thank u

[@justsatan6747]

​@JohnIvoryMusic We're all just here to learn mate be nice. Even Mills agrees bc he pinned a comment with the timestamps.

[@june5877]

woah, I didn't realize how fresh this video is

[@_RJG_]

Coach “can’t pull out” mills

[@eviljoshy3402]

For awhile I felt if I wanted to rank up, I had to counter pick. But every time I did that I wasn't having fun and I wasn't improving with the characters I like to use. I knew what my problem was but I couldn't quite describe it. Thank you for putting it into words. Now I will tell anyone who asks me to swap to pound sand :P

[@justinmiller3873]

I think something that’s very important that you didn’t mention is being able to communicate without communicating. Being on the same page without anything being said. Very rarely are other people in voice chat. The teams I have the most success with, are those who communicate silently. We know what the other teammates are thinking, when they’re going to ult, when they’re going to push or fall back. You almost have to pay attention to determine what kind of players you have, and what the strategy is without words. It’s something that can’t be taught and just comes with time, but is a huge difference maker between winning and losing.

[@AtlisDe]

Yeah, it's really that the synergy that makes or breaks games sometimes. Sometimes as individuals you might not play bad, but together things just don't fall into place. Then you get a team really gets it, peels for you and others, and pushes when it's time to push.

[@Maha1313]

People really need to internalize the plat advice. Team game, play as a team, also know the status of your team, don’t ult into a losing team fight, pick your battles

[@noahm6782]

6:08 whoah there coach 😂

[@fueshun]

He knows what hes doing

[@MixeOxbrownGaming]

Not funny at all 😐

[@nicholasmillette374]

Lmao

[@Apoçoelÿpse]

@@MixeOxbrownGamingits very funny 😂

[@watsmadhatter9068]

Okay, @Coach_Mills , but I have some questions. If the reasons for Silver not rising are related to them feeding, not knowing how to retreat... and among other things that are a lack of game knowledge... How can players with more than 2,000 hours of gameplay, or even more than that, remain stuck on the silver like that? Would it be considered some type of learning disability for players? stubbornness? bad habits? why look closely. It is scientifically proven that if a person has 10 thousand hours of theoretical and practical knowledge in a certain subject or something, they become a specialist in that area. 2 thousand hours is 1/5 of that, it's enough knowledge to be trivialized and considered something as superficial as feeding or not knowing how to retreat... So why are there players with so much time spent on the game, stuck together with the other 66% of players, who are currently stuck in the silver, since the Rank update? And I still question: How do you explain gold or even platinum players, who make exactly the same mistakes you listed about silver players in your video and move up easily and are in these higher ranks and even with less playing time or a smaller hero pool? ?

[@engineergaming3830]

They Play the same way all the time get predictable and develop bad habits like being toxic for example the people that ranked up propably stopped making as many mayby they even watched a few guides with an open mind

[@atagen2186]

10k hours is not "scientifically proven" to mean anything, this is literally just idiomatic nonsense, and 10k hours of blindly feeding with no self reflection or effort to improve compared to 100 hours of actively trying to improve are worlds apart.

[@TwiggehTV]

Its one thing to learn new things for 2k hours and a completely different thing to just autopilot vibe for 2k hours, if you dont analyze then nothing will change.

[@johnnnie]

gold / plat players who do the same mistakes as you most likely just have better mechanics. as simple as that

[@cbraband1953]

this came out just in time, i have been having a rough time this season, i went from being high plat/low diamond to now being gold 3 on both support and dps, and i have been going insane trying to figure out what could have changed from last season to this season

[@andirmiga]

Its a mix of not getting much sr for a win so former gm 1 t500 players are stuck between masters and mid gm and some masters players are still in plat if they havent played much and they also rank up a lot slower because of the gm players and they basically play against other former masters players but with the plat icon. I was mid-low masters last season and I had to start high plat and am still diamond 3 right now. I always get 18-19% for a win no matter if expected or nothing only sometimes i get 21% for a hard fight or after 5 wins in a row I maybe get 20% but I always loose between -20 to -23% for a loss. (Also expected win/loss is sometimes just random) So If I go 50/50 I will actually rank down and not stay the same rank. Thats why its so damn slow even when you are about 60% win rate.

[@ianchambers37]

​@andirmiga I struggle with all of that stuff, too. If I win, it's between 6 and 20%(often get expected when its a tough fairly competitive game), but any losses are easily between 10 to 40% or so. Even brief win streaks barely budge the meter towards the next rank, but any losses heavily alter it. Feels like if i was to lose 5 in a row, then that would be a rank easily gone, but if I won 5 in a row? Maybe halfway to the next rank if lucky. Even if I go 50 50 or 2 and 1 it feels like I still go backwards more than forwards sadly.

[@MacEnally]

Thanks so much for this video! I just started last week and am 3 games away from unlocking competitive. I was playing a lot of games and getting better each day, but yesterday I got my first Play of the Game and my first 10-0 match. so now I am HUNGRy for the ranks.

[@TheLeetCasualGamer]

650 hp Torb gives me flashbacks

[@urworkbuddythepainter4280]

Thanks for this video. The info was very helpful. New subscriber

[@johnnyjones7410]

Facts about silver. Admittedly I’m very inconsistent with execution, but I lose a lot of matches unnecessarily due to lack of fundamental understanding from other players: Don’t group up, try to 1 v 5, pop Ults for no reason, over extending, don’t use cover, don’t retreat when at a disadvantage. I’m gonna try the advice of lowering my character pool and working on mechanical skills more to start.

[@engineergaming3830]

Focus on gamesense more than your mechanical skill it will get better with time and stop focusing on your team but yourself if you are mad or distracted by your team you ain't gonna do as well as u could

[@johnnyjones7410]

@@engineergaming3830 I feel like I have some game sense, I’ve been playing since OW1 at gold rank. It wasn’t until recently I’ve been stuck in silver and can’t get out. It’s hard (for me at least) as a support main to carry. I say mechanical skill because then I can solidify kills by landing crits more consistently instead of relying on dps to. When you spend most of your resources pumping into your team to keep them alive because they absorb so much damage I can’t help with dealing damage, or your constantly healing but nobody is killing anything, it’s just a vicious cycle at that point. I’m open to any pointers with that because currently I’m at a lost.

[@RyanNyx]

I'm new to the game and a big part of ranking up from bronze and silver is literally just learning the game

[@superbumpyshadow3961]

It got to where you were talking ab the amount of heroes played and I went from smile to oh God that's me😂

[@bananabruce]

10:52 chat didn’t have to ruin my dreams like that

[@AegisEdge]

I love that conquest from FE awakening was used here.

[@RavageDionne]

"it'll trickle over" >me seeing a hanzo player at 3.1k (peaking at 3.6) on dps and bronze on tank/supp a few years ago

[@captaintetra8945]

Coach Mills my glorious king again with the education

[@shyquis]

The gold advice was my problem on DPS, I always switch off of honzo but I wanted to play him. Finally stop doing that couple seasons ago and now I’m diamond

[@missy434]

nice

[@frozenfury0]

Mechanics is a huge component of the game especially in low elo as players will not peal or heal unless things are right in front of them and people completely disregard the health bar so you'll commonly get low health people aggressing on you instead of backing away.

[@thegamingillustrator]

me: very close to reaching gold 90% of the games I play. also me: 8 year old laptop held together by tape running the game with over 1000 ping.

[@Amy_399]

ping is different from fps ^^

[@thegamingillustrator]

@@Amy_399 i know. I meant what i said. Imagine rubberbanding back to spawn mid team fight due to lag. That's my ping.

[@Amy_399]

@@thegamingillustrator might wanna check your network adapter then

[@engineergaming3830]

@@thegamingillustrator oh I get you man sometimes I get ping issues for no reason and I just fly around the entire map xd (though you can kinda guess where ur going based on hero speed since you don't actually move back) but that's about what you can do during it

[@supercraig89day]

I used to play overwatch 1 casually until overwatch 2 when I decided to play comp. Obviously I went into silver so I decided to work on my gameplay. After a bit of practice and learning I got into gold but for then 3 seasons I was hardstuck. I took a break from ranked, focused on my aim then everything else. I watched guides every day. I picked comp back up and went for tank first. I went from gold 2 to plat 5 in one season. I was overjoyed. Next was dps. I grinded for 1 season before returning to comp. I went from Gold 3 to Diamond 1 in 3-4 weeks. My aim on Cassidy and Ashe was perfect. My best match I believe I had above 75% accuracy. Then I tried out for masters and failed miserable (0-9). Now I’m just washed

[@AngelxMp3]

“ima call up blizzard and have them buff mauga again” scariest subscribe threat ever

[@voiceofreason2674]

If youre a tank main down in bronze or silver i salute you , it is so grimy down there and you have to be very unorthodox. Some people don't have the quick twitch coordination to get out but to have the courage to lead the troops into down right WICKED conditions , you have my respect

[@Auzuru]

The tip with sticking to one hero is pretty damn important for Overwatch 2, you wouldn't really expect it but there are 28 maps right now in OW2, if you play 15 different champs, you need 420 (lol) games, just so you played each champ on all maps a single time, if you try to be someone who "mastered" every champ on all maps that would probably need like at least 200 games on each map which would leave you with 84000 games, have fun trying to play that many lol.

[@NumberUp1]

Underrated aspect. I'm a new player, have around 120 games played and I'm pretty sure I still haven't played some maps even once.

[@williamlindroos2250]

no way there are 28 maps, feels like its 5

[@revalgamer3850]

Dont run in alone, you will die.

[@britt0nia]

Thanks for the guide, I am a noob stuck in silver this was very helpful

[@ThySupremeFriend]

In the diamond section Coach Mills said diamond players need to realize who's getting value. How do you figure that out in a game? I've struggled with that issue lately and playing tank it feels impossible to figure that out unless I'm watching a replay because I only look behind me before the fight starts most of the time. Is the secret in tracking where all 5 enemies are? I don't know how to do that when there's an enemy Sombra because she's always invisible until she's in my backline. I try to listen for her but sometimes the game is loud or I'm focusing on killing the enemies too much to concern myself with flankers.

[@AtlisDe]

There's a number of ways really. It's a little harder as a tank, but you should turn on the sound effects that indicates teammates deaths. Once you hear those it'll allow you time to realize something is going wrong and turn around. I play ram a decent amount, every now and again I'll check on my back lines. If sombra is in play, people should be positioned a little closer so teammates can peel. Check the scoreboard at times, see which teammate is getting the most kills, the most heals, the least deaths. If sombra has 20 kills and 2 deaths she's getting tons of value without pushback. If mercy rezzes tons of people, has near 10 k and 0 deaths, she's getting value. It's a good rule of thumb to try and track enemies in the sense of predicting when they might strike. If you haven't seen the sombra, reaper, or widow in a little bit it's best to stay on alert. Keep an eye on the support or dps that's out of position cause they'll be the one gets targeted (doesn't always work) as a support I can usually tell who I'll need to peel for.

[@Trapsii]

I've been stuck in the middle of top500 for like 20 seasons now lol. The gap between me and top players just seems so crazy to me and I honestly have no clue how to get better.

[@MartinStaykov]

To me it seems like what is key is understanding which aspect you need to improve. Bcs it's not all the same. Usually mechanics come before game sense. And mechanics alone can get you far, at least to plat. But then you hit a brick wall. Suddenly enemies are just capable enough to not let you destroy them just like that. Now you have to start working on other aspects, like consistency, playing as the underdog, target prioritization, etc. Bcs you could literally be in plat and have gm mechanics but not climb, if you're lacking some other key aspect and your awareness is bad.

[@nicolol1232]

As a silver widow, i can 100% confirm that every single game after the first or 2nd "team fight" they swap to sombra. Btw every teamfight i kill 1-2 ppl but i still loose :D love my life (on dps i play mainly widow but also cass junk and a little soldier but i still loose. I feel like my positioning is good on widow but bad on the others, i have a good aim (imo) and i have, i think, a good cooldown management and a good map knowledge, i rly don't know what to do

[@vyrbie1981]

literally me, i play widow, cass, soldier, and a little bit of tracer

[@averagekickboxingstudent7977]

For some reason its realy hard for me to stick to a character, like ive played alot on bastion but then swtiched to ana, and then just went nuts trying every single character. I dont know how stick to one character cause it gets boring

[@TheWanderingVali]

When would be a good time to jump into comp? I win most of my Quick Play Games and can go quite a few of those without dying. I'm a Support playing mainly Lifeweaver and Moria. Still get shouted at when I get an awful Tank but I guess that's just the life of a Support Main lol.

[@missy434]

ranked is good when you are feeling confident and warmed up, so maybe after a qp or two. be careful with heroes like Moira, LW, and Mercy, they could keep you stuck in a rank from my understanding and my own experience.

[@missy434]

also, everyone is screaming at everyone in this game, it’s better to mute your chat if you want to play ranked. focus on building your skill personally

[@Casmir02]

Hey Mills, great video, when are you going to have new slots open for coaching? Everything is listed as "Sold Out" currently.

[@openendedfate]

i am stuck in bronze! i have fast reaction speed, good settings, and good gamesense. im not perfect, but i deserve at least high silver to gold, BUT! i genuinely and seriously have such horrible luck when it comes to teammates. today alone i had multiple throwers and leavers in VERY winnable games. even if i am not perfect, ive been playing since 2019 and i understand how to play the game properly but i am stuck with people who dont get any of it. so frustrating 😭

[@nathanboyce2727]

Bronze support won't get out of bronze until they fix the troll lobby trolls. It's 1 in 2 matches now where someone is doing 28 to 30k damage and 50 elims. If on support and you're on a winning streak, the game will see if you can "carry" where you're the best player on your side. Well if you're a mercy or lw main than you are just seriously postponing the inevitable loss as the surf builds ult and then wipes out your team

[@alf21124]

I went silver 3 with mercy after not playing for 4 months. Its not impossible but I have been winning more games doing what these videos say. I use ping and am concentrating using a few supports.

[@happinessarcade]

im saying. im stuck in silver and have been playing since 2017, used to be in diamond back in ovw1 but now i cannot leave even though i have good game sense, understanding when ults should be used, i don’t feed etc. but i genuinely cannot rank even if i solo the entire game myself because of my team. it’s miserable😊

[@Justin-cw7zf]

Kaneshiros palace music W

[@nevinrosenow7271]

Did super double jump on winton at 11:00

[@BummerFace]

11:06 Just like in rocket league, gotta stay one step ahead with mechanics by then

[@Haz48]

Before this vid I would always check teammates outs and normally fall back and I’m still in bronze

[@engineergaming3830]

well these aren't the skills you need to play solo or you are falling back way too much there's alvays that sweet spot that you just have to find

[@galaxybiminiboy5293]

That "I will tell blizzard to buff mauga again" is now a reality 😢

[@supersonicman4353]

I peaked platinum with doomfist and genji should i try exploring new characters because i know i could climb way more with them or stick with doom and genj

[@naterunner256]

Coach Mills actually the goat with these videos

[@jerpgrayson425]

Why am stuck, No matter how well I do I get stuck with awful ppl. Recently one match with an anna that had like 700 healing after 3 control maps or different team that we had a tank that only had 2k damage after 3 control maps

[@immortaldev1489]

if you can't carry your team, you don't deserve to rank up, simple as that, and remember, on average, the enemy team gets the same amount of throwers as you do

[@missy434]

then find teammates to queue with and stop crying

[@sergeymorozovpiano]

"why do you die first" Me: Getting hard targeted by a sombra n tracer

[@Yummeosbada]

I’ve started to sit back with Winston and dive on low targets to goomba stomp them and finish them off when I have a lot of counters to play against. If I have no counters I just decimate the team until they switch.

[@killertofu3600]

I did all this naturally as i learned the game to get better,but the truth is you have to be diamond level to rank up on any rank, in that i mean ur mechanics and game sense have to ne enough to solo the lobby cause ur teammates arent doing anything, and i mean that people just dont play the game.Example: so many morias just fade for no reason and dont use heal orb even on themselves. Even as a support u have to do this, i couldnt get out of bronze until i learned solo the lobby as moria even with throwers. THE problem is that its like this for every rank but lower ranks is harder cause there just worse. [THIS IS MEANT FOR SOLO Q] if your in a group i dont know how u lose if ur been playing the game for a long time.

[@engineergaming3830]

uh dude it isn't "harder for low ranks" if you have people that are having bad days,lag or anything really makes the already good players kill you faster than some reaper shooting you from longer range you need to learn how to work with your team even if they're shit if you can use them as a meatshield or a distraction that's a huge advantage and yeah if your moiras "don't use heal orb" just use the healthpacks or wait a sec for health regen? I mean it's not that hard honestly the update was really good for us

[@killertofu3600]

@@engineergaming3830 AGAIN I naturally came to that same advice, I play Tracer, so i dont use up team resources, so why does my team die still? Because ur teammates DONT WANT TO WIN. I literally mean that they dont do anything, they will purposley not Heal, use abilities/ults, or not take cover no matter the role.You can can carry a team of 4 bad players, You cannot carry a 4v5 starting at least higher silver, even top 500 struggle with this. If YOU are someone u can do this, congrats not only are u Gods gift to Overwatch, but ur aslo not supposed to be there anyways as u have the expierence to do that, BUT even then thats not the real issue. The REAL issue is that people use bronze accounts to sell to others or they want to stay bronze cause they dont want to rank up, so they throw on purpose. YOU ARE PLAYING WITH PEOPLE WHO WANT TO LOSE, EVEN IF U DONT WANT TO ACHIEVE A HIGH RANK, YOU WILL NOT BE PLAYING OVERWATCH AS INTENDED, ITS JUST NOT FUN. And ye the rank system did help a bit as you can rank up consistenly again as before u had to have like 3 win streaks of 5 to rank up

[@7r1663rh4ppy]

I think part of my problem is that I don't have the mechanical skills. I'm afraid I've maxed out on reaction time and aim and I won't get better.

[@FutureParty9138]

But what do I do if your in bronze but you get 45 kills every game and average 26k damage but im still stuck

[@Lumaz001]

theres more than damage. are you taking all the heals? are you peeling for your supps? what hero are you picking? etc

[@mega-doom]

The randoms you get on bronze is painful auto uninstall the game.

[@engineergaming3830]

you are bronze for reasons like: being toxic,getting triggered by your team,not noticing your mistakes or thinking you are a god that shoudn't be in your rank someone that's bronze should not have that much ego man

[@ace2311]

You can't be complaining bout randoms when you're bronze yourself😭

[@Da5kone001]

Just wait till you realize your one of those randoms for your teammates

[@matthewsullivan3581]

I only have ever played support and I’ve never left bronze. I just started playing about 3 months ago, or so? I play every single day of my life for at least 3 hours. I consider myself a decent player in bronze actually but I feel like my destiny is tied to my tanks ability. I often end up with tanks that rush in and die instantly by themselves or they just refuse to take any sort of cover to get healed when they are low or they run off away from the team to hunt for kills while the rest of us battle to move or defend a payload. When I find a good tank we will attempt to duo and it always goes poorly. Feels like the matches are harder so it’s pointless to try to pair up with someone. Discouraged to play with friends. Why do they do this to us? Whatever the case may be, but then the more I lose the further I sink into the madness of new players and it just gets worse and worse. Now I’m at like 50/50 win to lose ratio. My games are either a decisive win or a decisive loss. There are no close games. It’s always one way or the other now. It feels rigged sometimes… I can play a hero like mercy and get 20k or more healing, 1500 to 2000 boosted damage, 5 kills, 30 assists, and 2 deaths and still lose these games by a landslide. Idk, though. I probably just suck and this is me blaming others for it. I’m not sure anymore. 🤷‍♂️ Sorry for the rant. Just felt like bitching a little bit. Maybe there are others that feel the same way. Good luck everyone.

[@JohnRonson88]

I touched grandmaster in OW1. Ending up in games with streamers who play all day and semi pro types was brutal. As a normal guy with a full time job who plays ow1 to unwind, I was not mad when I dropped back into masters, much more enjoyable

[@organicallyhannah]

As a silver 1-gold 3 player I keep wondering why I’m not ranking up. My damage can be twice the tanks but I know I must be doing things majorly wrong. I’m just at a loss. I try to keep all of these things in mind and am constantly checking & telling people to fall back when they’re trying to 2v5 people. I’m tired of seeing my team try to be the “hero.” These ranks seem to be big on ego (based from insecurity). I find it so hard to navigate since I don’t have friends to que with. I’m welcome to feedback comments (please keep in mind i’ve been playing since it came out and it’s my favorite game, and have watched countless videos and streams).

[@immortaldev1489]

welp, as a masters tank player who had to play through silver dps after I did shit on my placements (currently diamond in dps), it's entirely possible. remember, YOU have to be the carry for your team, there's clearly something you're doing in your metal rank games that people in diamond+ aren't, whether it be cd wasting, terrible positioning, bad timing, bad awareness of ults, etc. (also, never ever pay attention to stats when you're trying to rank up, they mean next to nothing in the overall picture)

[@jakel.1724]

i feel same. amy my aim never gotten better

[@missy434]

stop focusing on the stat board find people to queue with use ping system and watch guides practice, practice, practice bro

[@vchente27]

@coach_mills I'm not gonna lie I am in gold but I kept running into people who were smurfs or hackers and they had gamertags like popcorn, pickles, cheese, notsmurfin, icantaim, notwidowmaker. They always have default skins but yet their aim is absolutely flawless. So I was put back down to silver. And yes I can confirm 4:30 these silver players don't utilize plays and I found myself telling them what to do and was the only reason it put me back to gold😂

[@engineergaming3830]

honestly I recommend you don't tell people what to do but just ask them some people might not take what you said kindly and think you made fun of them or smth trust me I know from experience (I'm diamond) but yeah good job on getting to gold you are getting close to the majority of players!

[@vchente27]

@@engineergaming3830Yeah some people get offended and honestly i don't really like telling people what to do but some silver games there would be a 3v4 and no one would utilize. I'm never the type of player to tell others swap or diff I'm always the one to adjust to my team.

[@engineergaming3830]

@@vchente27 the word diff is dumb like how do you base the diffrence on? if the enemy team has like a sombra winston and here you are sombra with orisa as your tank it's kinda obvious based on the team comp that the enemy sombra and tank will outperform yours but yeah being flexible is good even if ur not "good" at a hero if that's what your team REALLY needs being the guy to do it is the right thing to do even if ur not gonna get that many kills

[@kallah0e990]

Is it still possible to be able to do everything in your rank and just get unlucky with teammates so you're just stuck?

[@engineergaming3830]

Are you really trying to blame the fact you just aren't good enough to rank up on your teammates when the enemy team gets more randoms than yours

[@minuwasfish]

@@engineergaming3830 unless you are playing tank, it is the teammates fault sometimes tho. cus if you are a support main, and your tank is either playing backline support, or straight up feeding by standing in the open with a discord orb on them, or running in 1v5 and dying in 3 seconds, and your dps left, and the other dps runs in 1v5, because they dont know how to group up, then it is literally impossible to win. because even if you are a top 500 smurf, you literally cannot contest for 4 whole minutes, when you are on support and the enemy team on mauga, phara, bastion, zen and kiri. and even if you live, once you get a payload map ur fucked. cus how are you gonna win a 1v5 on support, while also contesting?

[@engineergaming3830]

@@minuwasfish uhh even a plat support can mop the floor with bronze lobbies also support is literally one of the best roles to play solo as you get a ton of survivability,self healing and dmg again not ALL of your games are gonna be like that if you are better than them you will rank up blaming others for your inability to learn from your mistakes and sticking to bad habits is what keeps you there

[@minuwasfish]

@@engineergaming3830and what if you are NOT a smurf? what if you climbed your way up like a normal person?

[@Turnip7917]

What’s your advice for people who haven’t unlocked ranked yeg

[@prismaticpaul]

So, i'd say my hero pool is a good enough size, but i feel like i tend to focus on just one archetype so i end up with a weird hero pool. What should i do? By that i mean, i can't play dive tanks at all except a little winston or dva on dorado if i feel confident for example. My support hero pool is ana zen and moira, and both ana and zen are these high impact supports but without any mobility which could mean i'm forced to only play moira if i want to survive a sombra or tracer consistently. And only playing moira won't get me too far because people will have a much easier time punishing me higher up in ranks.

[@735c7]

This game is all about teamwork and how good your team is. I’m currently in Gold 2 in competitive and have been stuck bouncing back and forth between Gold 4 and Gold 2. I’ve been getting the worst tanks in Gold 2 they seem either new or clueless. I main Tracer and Cassidy and can get 20-40 kills with only 6-10 deaths. Honestly, I need tips or advice on how to carry my team. I’m just tired of moving between Gold 4 and Gold 2 repeatedly. Any tips or help would be appreciated! Thanks!

[@comet8133]

0:23 the bronze rank? yeah i know him he played for the lakers right

[@_Legendary__]

If you are bronze-silver you DO NOT climb. You DONT, your teammates at that level are FAR too inconsistent. If you are not in at least a 3 stack. You are STUCK the entire season. This is a TEAM GAME. A lot of the time it is NOT a you issue. It’s the fact that you are stuck with teammates who don’t play the game enough and don’t know how to ACTUALLY and consistently play the game.

[@dustm4664]

Very informative video. Im plat 3-4 and only play 6-8 games a week. There are many scenarios I don’t know how to play. I think diamond is reachable and enjoy the slow grind atm.

[@phredbookley183]

I play so rarely these days. (Been at least a month of two) (Work has been crazy). I'm...pretty fkked when it comes to climbing, aren't I?

[@engineergaming3830]

yeah dx I remember for the first few seasons I had like 300+ games now I barely get 40 comp matches

[@hecc3540]

I am genuinely asking for anyone who knows this. I have been playing OW since 2019 and i got placed in bronze in 2019 because I just never really played ranked like that, but now that I do want to grind ranked, my mmr is so abysmal its baffling. I get 8-13 percent gains and 9-12 percent losses. I am only about 30 matches into ranked this season, so why am I already in elo hell? my friends who I almost exclusively play with also have old accs that were low ranked and they have the same amount of games as me, yet they get 70+ gains, and 20 losses. WHAT DO I DO. I've been debating making a new account, should I? These number are really making me not want to grind ranked

[@starnue9389]

The reason a pro is so much higher than a GM is kinda like a race. Pros have all maximized their times, so it is incredibly difficult to improve at all; and just a tiny increment creates a huge gap in skill. (And since in O2 skills/plays compound, it’s noticeable).

[@angrybeaver1142]

I have a specific question about the advice you around minimizing characters. What happens when the hero’s me play aren’t meta? I play zen and mercy most, but it felt like people were really getting annoyed about me picking zen recently so I was trying to learn other supports. Same with mercy not being as good recently in peoples minds (although I have been able to get 12k heals on her, so it is confusing).

[@immortaldev1489]

never pay attention to stats if you're looking to rank up, also, mercy isn't a very good support to climb with since she relies on her team instead of having individual impact. what'll have more impact, a mercy damage boosting a soldier missing all their shots, or landing an anti nade on the whole enemy team and sleeping the ulting genji. you should play more supports with carry potential like ana/bap/kiri to remove any potential of your team holding you back. Zen is a pretty good pick, but something i see a lot of low rank players do is just forget about their healing orb. you NEED to have it on someone 24/7, and you NEED to constantly be damaging to make up for your lack of heals. you're also playing a projectile hero, so you don't need to get up in their face to do damage, because you'll do the same amount from 30 meters away

[@p4r4d0x3]

I got my mouse for only 10 USD, and it's actually really nice. Customizable DPI, side buttons, and oscillating lights

[@TwiggehTV]

Bet you 10 bucks its got input latency for days and the dpi interpolates. Get a good mouse.

[@p4r4d0x3]

@@TwiggehTV it is a good mouse. It works great

[@Language_guy100]

Thank you lol been playing for about 4 months but have been stuck in gold for a month

[@WeirdCrusader]

What's the background music starting at like 6:15

[@warmdachshundhotdog8446]

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[@pandaboss5085]

Is there anything I can do about people purposely throwing and the enemy team being decent? Like if someone on my team is trying to lower their rank or whatever reason they have for throwing and the enemy is also decent. Also if there's any tips for how to hard carry on ana I'd appreciate it

[@missy434]

no just say gl next if u have a thrower and report them for Ana learn positioning fast and track enemy ults for sleeps and know when to use nade

[@pandaboss5085]

@@missy434 the problem I have is that even if I hit everyone with the anti or sleep someone my team doesn't use it to their advantage, I instead played Baptiste and it was working until I decided to just stop playing but I felt like on ana it didn't matter how much I did and on bap I actually made an impact

[@missy434]

@@pandaboss5085 find people to queue with, if u have discord there’s a lot of ow servers

[@ace2311]

​@@pandaboss5085what do you mean by throwing? Because I see alot of players blame their teammates rather than try to understand what could be the issue. Like If I see my soldier going 5-8, I'm not going to shit on him and just keep going on with my game. I'll switch to someone like zen or mercy to make his job easier and enable him. Also I would stop expecting your teammates to "do their jobs." When I played Tank and the enemy team had a widow, I would just go Winston cuz there's no point in hoping your dps go sombra or tracer or literally anyone that could take the widow out.

[@pandaboss5085]

@@ace2311 by throwing I mean doing it purposely, you can tell when someone is doing it on purpose literally some people will constantly jump off the map or not shoot at the enemies at all there's alot of ways they do it but they do it to lower their rank and I'm unfortunate enough to find them more often then not and I don't know what to do about it

[@Iam_Arym]

So what if I know what to do and got mechanical skill but im still in silver

[@hampter64]

6:57 that's like a part time job dude💀💀 20 hours to 30 hours

[@Bluemansonic]

Yup, welcome to ELO Hell, been Gold since OW1 S2

[@hampter64]

@@Bluemansonic I'm convinced that the way to rank up is fr to just quit any form of life you have and just dedicate 8 hours daily to overwatch lmao, I mean I saw a flats video and he played like 50 games 1 day into season 9💀💀

[@johnnyjones7410]

@@BluemansonicI was low to mid gold in OW1, now I’ve been at high silver and cannot for the life of me get out 😕

[@engineergaming3830]

​​@@hampter64the konger you do IT the better you get at it (with a proper mindset)

[@caleb6373]

@@hampter64still bad

[@The_AvGamer]

I'm mainly stuck in silver because I'm a solo player, and most of the matches I am in, we get throwers or leavers or no communication toward teammates.

[@BigT2011]

i play on controller on an xbox series x is that fine or do i need to switch to kbm? im in gold 4 rn

[@CharmingRose]

im hard stuck in bronze as support. i cant get out of it no matter what i do.

[@drk1983]

Whooops I am exactly the no grind time wrong setting bronze ...

[@matteoschlechtleitner4550]

So in the end: Bronze: play more to know the game and to react quicker and get some hardware that doesn't suck. Silver: same as bronze but less worse + work on fundamentals so u don't die for free so much (dont stagger, use cover, dont feed and so on). Focus on learning a character. Gold: same as silver. Mechanics start to matter. Work on synergies, counters. Favored and unfavoured matchups. Plat: Mechanics. Start to understand when u have advantage to push and the opposite (watch kill feed and CDs). Change positioning according to that. Diamond: Need great mechs. Good knowledge of counters and adapt. Adapt to strategy of the team (dive, poke, and brawl) or lack of it. Understand who's carrying the enemy team and find the win condition (f.e. deal with the uncontested zen in the backline). Masters: work on finding and eliminating mistakes/weaknesses. Find value, but don't overdo it. GM: you up there. Look for perfection.

[@joshuakriel5598]

What do I do about every 2nd or 2rd game I play I have bots on my team? 😂

[@immortaldev1489]

on average, the enemy team will also have the same amount of "bots" on their team over multiple games, so it balances out to the point you are the significant factor in your ranked games

[@CursedPR]

How do I improve my mechanical skills? Im a flex player, and can use most heroes very well. My tracking is good, just not up to a Masters player, and my game sense has become better. I think the only reason I am stuck is due to my mechanical skill. But... how do I improve. I have 900 hrs on the game...

[@andreasaanensen7967]

Currently kinda stuck plat 5/gold 1 territory. I always have the least deaths, i always die last in fights and i do have a pretty good understanding of comps and fight tactics in ow. The problem is, i play junkrat… I could quite easily climb out if i just played soujurn, but i cant bring myself to do it. I carry, and as long as i get 2-3 kills BEFORE any of my teammates die EVERY fight, we win. But staying that consistent as junkrat is pretty hard. Especially when you’re teammates are screaming at you for playing junkrat even though they’re 2-10 and youre 20-3. Also, yes its a hard life, especially when echo exists. And i will admit my execution of thought out plays is prob my weakest point. And if i just played the game more id be a higher rank. I have played on diamond level before

[@hillwoop9101]

Are these ranks before or after season 9, because masters in past season is like Diamond/Plat in season 9

[@Ben-yj9wz]

Not really 😂😂

[@EzMaisti]

For me prsonally im alright with being in plat/ diamond bc im 2/3 blind but im always for advice, so thanks for this video❤

[@alien3239]

Bro I was with my 3 mates who were in the top 500 back in season 4, we came back tot he game were gold n plat now but damn were getting rolled

[@xaniso6955]

One thing I want to mention to you all that halfway in I haven't heard: If you want to rank up, you have to play consistently as a player in that rank, not just a great player in your rank. The best Gold player is still a Gold player.

[@bigbagaas9220]

man, the real problem I have with ranked is synergy, I'm a main tank and I play in my particular style (I try to be as calm and adaptable as possible), of course the team doesn't have to change their style for Because of me, but at least the minimum amount of synergy and empathy you expect from your team. And the worst of all is if your team loses, of course they will blame you because you either didn't change your character or because you are bad.

[@missy434]

yeah playing tank is a thankless job and every1 is a bully to you even when you outperform the lobby

[@Avsi7340]

Bro really did call up blizzard to buff mauga :skull:

[@tdcstormx794]

Yo coach mills is it ok to play the same character every game.Like if I main genji and play him every game.

[@engineergaming3830]

well I'm not him but during a comp game it's best to have 3 heroes that play diffrently like if your are going to get stuck playing circuit royale (a sniper map) and you are the only one on your team playing dive you propably won't have fun but if you also played a sniper you would actually be able to do a lot during the game or even a diffrent diver like sombra and just pick off the snipers easily obviously there are players that one tricked to high rank but it took them THOUSANDS of hours to achieve that level

[@victorstausholm2898]

lets say i play with my friends on one role and something else on sole que does it matter that i focus on more than 3 heros on the (friends role)

[@ReedoTV]

I once watched a video like this from some c*nt who said for bronze: "Just turn your monitor on harr harr harr". It took me a long long time to get out of bronze and my top tips are: 1. Group up as best as possible. This will rarely be all 5, but if 2 or 3 of your team go in, go in with them! It's the best chance you'll have. 2. Use cover and wait to be healed up before "making a play". 3. Accept that you will be bronze forever. It will be a lovely surprise when you hit silver. 4. Focus on the above things and keep trying new heroes. If you, like me, want to be good at all the heroes, do the opposite. Pick one or two heroes and play nothing but them.

[@engineergaming3830]

okay lemmie say once thing "accepting that you will be bronze forever" is a REALLY dumb mentality it won't make you want to improve you'll get stuck thinking "I stuck anyways what's the point" set the goal to a rank like plat and don't get discouraged by a lose streak don't focus on the rank you have right now and think of what you WANT TO BE

[@ReedoTV]

@@engineergaming3830 Both can be true. That outlook is draining for me. I'd rather enjoy what I have and be happy with the improvements I make. I'm not playing OW to become pro, I'm a guy in the sad half of his 30s who is happy to see gradual improvement while having fun along the way. 😊😊

[@engineergaming3830]

@@ReedoTV yeah we are trying to be pro dx that's why we watch guides tbh I get what you mean but I remember focusing too much on my current rank that I just coudn't rank up anymore I had to rethink how I view ranks to actually get out and not worry as much anymore