Educational Unranked To GM - Overwatch 2 - Rank 1 Peak - Dva

[@Pheminon1]

I remember watching A10 in like 2021 hard stuck plat/diamond for most of the year and even into some of 2022. Now I'm actually GM. One thing that helped me is that it's impossible for you to implement EVERYTHING he says all at once. Just take 2 or 3 things he talks about and focus on those for the week. Once those become second nature, then move on to the next

[@Ahrone1586]

Thanks

[@aliyahvargas250]

Thank you for this 🙏💯

[@cameronfallon2108]

Thanks for the advice

[@xlguerro]

dude i’m hardstuck bronze/silver. yes i know just playing the game more will help me but this video will 100% help me too. i don’t have much time throughout the week to put into comp like i used to either so that might play a factor in my ranks lol

[@FrankyColon]

I gotta say, the lessons you learn from A10 aren't just about game sense. Dude is dropping bombs about checking your ego at the door, always looking for ways to improve, just overall emotional intelligence and being patient. Inspiring my dude.

[@az3s160]

Yes. Exactly

[@arthurdukapell2796]

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[@arthurdukapell2796]

L'a

[@everilliem3292]

Ahhhh yes.... "Basic" life lessons

[@nisshoku1568]

That is game sense, if your focused on objectives, and winning, instead of inflating your ego. Example sometimes teabaging and taunting, is a strategy I use to tilt the other enemy players to challenge me, but at their expense by getting them out of position, or stopping them from doing their role. But if you feel like you don't care about objectives because you got diffed, that's why you need to check your ego. I've been in countless game where I had to tell my team to focus objectives not the stats, you can win being negatives easily if the other team is just kill hungry, or inflating their egos too busy trying to prove they are better. These things are game sense, not everyone have it though, but just because you didn't have don't mean your bad, we all learn differently, and this guy is like a teacher, breaking things down things for those who those who lack game sense. I noticed a lot of new gamers were born during the pandemic, So we have people that's been playing games for decades, versus people who are starting games for about a couple years or been off of games for decades, so keep that in mind.

[@lovekeego]

watching you go thru the ranks i'm stuck in and exposing all the mistakes they're making that i couldn't see, is helping me climb so much lol thank you a10

[@dzciple4931]

U haven’t climbed at all lil bro

[@lovekeego]

@@dzciple4931 ong

[@matthiasfikre6519]

I feel you brother. I know there are so many mistakes in my rank, I just don't know how to expose them as a tank.

[@jakemackie3639]

@@lovekeego sdndnfssfndmdmdmsmmmfmhmmm

[@ratzgum]

@@dzciple4931yes i actually climbed from gold to diamond, cry

[@yoyoshi5616]

Just reached gm on Tank for the first time after 6 years. Watching this in between the matches kept me in the zone, focused and motivated. Thanks A10

[@pcxPOT]

if your ingame name is yoyoshi too then we played together lol

[@yoyoshi5616]

@@pcxPOT do is

[@MaliReborn]

Do you mind sharing some replay codes from your games? Where you did good and bad. I wanna see how and what you improved so I can learn from it too!

[@solarft]

I’m the complete opposite, I was gm in 2016-2018 (4.2-3k) and now I’m only diamond 🤣 trying to get back into the game after 4 years, but I wish you luck!

[@itshel2677]

same. play 2 matches watch an A10 match. and always try and remember your last match and compare it to his. if I try'd this hard in school... well I'd still be working the saem job and all but better grades ig

[@phredbookley183]

Notes I've taken, felt like sharing. (EDIT) 18:00 DEF New New York stage 25:00 Oasis University 30:00 Oasis "Big T" stage 35:00 Push Collosseo (Before 51:00 a10, between these two maps: is reviewing and teaching) 51:29 DEF Shambali Monastery 58:00 Attack Shambali Monastery 1:01:01 Attack Rialto x:xx:01 Attack King's Row 1:21:01 DEF King's Row 1:29:01 DEF Junkertown 1:41:00 Attack Junkertown 1:48:00 Attack Dorado (I think. It's the place with the 76 Short) xyxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 1:23:01 The SOUND of a Sonic Arrow 1:34:01 "We found a way to stabilize." And. "You've been asking for this. A game where the enemy team is [crazy good]." At 1:34:20 ish, DVA didn't "Shoryuken" boop the Winston jump. I'm not nitpicking, I AM questioning the advice I've heard before. Boop him or not to boop him? At 1:35:01 "I guess the lesson here is, they'll eventually make a mistake (and we beat them then)" "When's the last time you had sixteen deaths in ten minutes?" (In that way. Yeah this was a challenging person to play with.)

[@sametekiz3709]

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[@PuffDaFluff]

these timestamps don't match up with that happens at the time they're set lol

[@phredbookley183]

@@PuffDaFluff they're lazy stamps. Just jump a few seconds around. Like it's might be at the ten seconds mark and it might be at the 55 second mark

[@ysnsmth]

W

[@virulenceconviction5343]

The rules for dummies Rule 1. Save your strength and strike when they are weak. Rule 2. Play intelligently to minimize resources used and then regenerate your strength. Rule 3. If you don’t need your resources for a while (when the enemy can’t threaten to take space) you can use them for a free cooldown Rule 4. Give space to reclaim advantaged positioning

[@lovekeego]

im super grateful for that slideshow at the beginning, those are things that people think are only for low elos when really they're the most important things in the game

[@ItsHeracles]

A10 you are undoubtedly the best educational Overwatch creator, you fact that you go through your entire thought process, and the fact that you teach the fundamentals that not many even in high elo know of is great, great videos man, keep it up

[@lilyoda787]

I think your the only ow top 500 player that actually “educates” in these videos, other unranked to gm videos are just top 500 players going vs lower ranks without explaining how to play or why they do things

[@belkruki]

awkward also does pretty good educational videos on unranked to gm

[@jonsnow9541]

the other guy is spitting, Awkward is an awesome player, love his vids.

[@ath3na74]

i think a problem with a lot of people is that we can hold our own if we have team members that we are communicating and making plays with, but we don’t know to carry in situations where your team isn’t on the same wavelength, and that’s where these videos help the most

[@jimrouge3437]

Love to see a Junkerqueen unranked to GM from you. I feel like the Hog changes have made her even more viable, but her weaknesses are still prevalent, she needs to really love corners!

[@crlitoh]

Fuck junker queen

[@Chigg22]

I love these unranked to GM videos. I’ve watched each one you’ve put out for OW2 keep up the great work! I really like how you stress that it’s not mechanics, it’s decision making that makes you successful

[@DeadKaat]

One thing i definitely noticed i didn't do was the importance of surviving, and doubling back and how it adds value. I noticed my main issue was that i would chase kills without thinking of the bigger picture. Thank you for these vids man they're amazing

[@bigal_5585]

Probably the biggest thing for me to realize is that you don't have to be on the objective to defend it. The objective is in open space (thanks a10) so if you aren't engaged with the enemy and you are holding the objective it is wayyyyy better to hold around the objective in a favorable position. My brain would always just think "oh the objective is important so I shouldn't leave

[@brandonszpot8948]

Definitely one of the worst things about low ELO is that players think “playing the objective” means standing in or directly on top of the objective. Countless games in Gold lobbies see an entire team of 5 only standing on the payload and never stepping away from it, even if it’s in a bad position.

[@jake9854]

but girls dont really focus on objective tho, they just wanna chase for kills

[@copsarebastards]

​@brandonszpot8948 a few of my friends are silver and this loses them games more than anything else. They never push advantages or hold better positions like high ground, which also makes it harder to play with them because if I off angle or play high ground or something, I'm alone and die.

[@SunAndMirror]

@@brandonszpot8948 I see the opposite. Doouble snipes, ana zen. No one wants to touch point and it moves for free.. Tiptoeing it doesnt work and the snipes dont want to rotate to flank. When you go round to flank as dva they all "tank throwing??? gg? play rein we need shield!" in chat

[@ozzy2361]

I can’t believe that this is free. What an eye opener of a video. The way I play the game has improved so much because of you. Thank you so much ❤

[@Yuriding]

What was your rank and Wich one is now??

[@김하준-h7p]

Such a great mindset for climbing ranks. Always looking for what u can do even if there is a massive team gap

[@armannirios7722]

Hey a10, haven’t watched this yet but have been waiting for this video because i already know its gonna be super helpful. Im a support main but Dva is my favorite tank and after watching ur dva unranked to GM in ow1 almost 2 years ago i went from a plat lvl tank to a masters lvl so im excited to see this. Thanks for the content you make :)

[@helljoes]

this is amazing content for me, havent touched the game since before sigma so i have a lot to relearn and starting it all over on mnk really appreciate this vid

[@JavaBott]

I don't play Overwatch anymore, but I love watching these unranked to gm vids. Looking forward to more vids!

[@travismurdoch7167]

Thanks for all the educational videos. I've gone from bronze stuck for a year to diamond 2 just from watching your content

[@commentbot9510]

Wow great job! You just needed someone to explain what to do like a10 does. I did too and I also got diamond after being hard stuck plat.

[@travismurdoch7167]

@CommentBot yes he explained the game in a totally different way any other videos I have watched. And has helped big time in climbing. Thanks A10

[@commentbot9510]

@@travismurdoch7167yeah for sure. Though it’s a lot of new information at once it can be overwhelming. I watched his old dva ur2gm many times and I feel like I forgot so much. Also, I just wonder how I could ever have that level of awareness yk? And like how do I make this stuff all stick in my brain while playing?

[@catgirlow]

@@commentbot9510 focus on a couple concepts at a time and once you can get it without thinking much or at all move onto other concepts baby steps :)

[@commentbot9510]

@@catgirlow I suppose it would help to know which thing is most important to improve. I don’t know what to prioritize so I end up focusing on too much at once lol

[@ropephobic]

this is incredible thank you so much!! i absolutely love and appreciate the slides as well, you have the information so well organized :) i will definitely be referring back to this video and recommending it to friends!!

[@Zorro33313]

Dva is not broken, but her entire kit is build around neutral gameplay. No special mechanics, no cheese - just fast vertical mobility, burst damage, second life chance, incoming damage reduction. Literally every skill boosts neutral gameplay, which allows you to exploit map and pick openings much more efficient.

[@siekura]

I don't realize just how valuable positioning was. My poor positioning was holding me back. It had such a large effect just because that alone. Thank you A10 :)

[@jake9854]

wait but girls dont play dva tho

[@ThySupremeFriend]

@@jake9854 they play her because she's cute. Other than that it's Orisa or maybe Zarya.

[@kookiesensations4798]

3:30 - "You'll never take me alive" Sometimes I take this very seriously and jump off the map as mercy if there truly is no chance of survival. If i cannot jump off the map then I will fight to the death whilst screaming over comms.

[@ricecube5079]

Current M3 tank , started to play dva after watching you. I went 5-5 which is not bad for first time picking up dva . Your vid is amazingly educational and helped me a lot . My main thing I found out about dva is it’s a very mechanically intensive character once you get up and close I have to work on my accuracy more but general game sense and looking for out of position and out of cooldown enemy to punish I got it down somewhat I feel like.

[@cassandraliciaga2812]

Thanks!

[@bstrouble]

Yessss! I asked for a dva guide and here it is! So excited as she’s my main since 2017.

[@natrium0_0]

Fkng genius, only streamer who would cut a u2gm early, if you cant get the educational part of u2gm then might aswell not stream it, loved the vid and learned a lot

[@wyattxiangli2533]

Thank you, A10!! As a Dva Main, that’s exactly what I want. Great thanks 🙏 😊

[@jabthelegend8177]

I’ve watched so much A10 that I know his “I fucked up” tell, is when he starts humming 😂 ❤

[@JQ888]

This video inspired me to try DVA. But when I dive an isolated hero, my mech just explodes and I’m stranded as the enemy kites backs. 😅

[@mmakilla2615]

“They handing it to us on a silver platter” made me laugh. Thanks for the video . I main with dva and this had definitely improved my game

[@MaliReborn]

A10 Dankjewel man! I enjoy playing Overwatch thanks to you. I kept raging till I watched your orisa unranked video. Then Ive seen I just sucked at the game. My ego told me I'm good in fps games so I should be good in overwatch. While I kept feeding as a tank. Today I picked up Diva and won all games played. Diving is so much fun. Seeing all those Confused supports. My teammates hate me in the beginning, but till now I was able to do my job to win em all with most elims in every game! Thanks again sensei! I will book a coaching session with you so I can just thank you :D

[@nogunk147]

I wish you had more games vs teams that pick symmetra cause i feel like she denys dva a lot. Its harder for me to take space personally when the enemy team has a sym cause she will just tunnel me while being double pocketed or something seems like my only options are to swap or ask my team to help focus her down.

[@333Abs]

I haven’t played tank in competitive since overwatch 1 cause I felt weird being the only tank but this really helped me! I placed in bronze (lol) but my winrate is 85% currently so I will hopefully climb

[@jake9854]

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[@Hermanator1124]

Did you end up climbing?

[@333Abs]

@@Hermanator1124 I actually got to diamond 5 but I keep dropping back down !

[@Hermanator1124]

@@333Abs I believe in u, u got diamond ez fr

[@MoonlightWalnut]

Holy I've learnt so much and haven't even gotten to the actual clips yet! I'm a diamond dva but I feel like I can deffo improve so much more. I'll try and take on your tips for all my heroes going forwards!

[@xxpyqxxk2454]

1:39:32 OMG, who let this man cook🫴🔥

[@captainjohansson5019]

First death in your third game is crazy. Good video btw, I’m a big dps main but I’m interested in tank play so this was very good💪👍

[@commentbot9510]

I was literally just thinking about how your other dva unranked to GM is hard to apply to ow2 and how I wished you would make one for ow2. Tysm!

[@iSuckAtGamesGG]

I love starting on attack because playing as the attacking team feels more proactive and it just feels better to defend after attacking rather than to attack after defending

[@flowtographycg306]

The scream at 38:10 💀

[@RustedSoup]

8:39. I was explaining this to my junkrat spamming "I need shielding" in my diamond game and got flamed by the 4 stack lol

[@cezusbezus]

Hi A10! I would love to see a video from you on sightlines on current maps. I know I fall into the trap of walking down the middle. I recognize I should pick my positioning better, but I have a hard time figuring out where it is optimal to be, and when.

[@APerson-co7er]

Next to cover, able to see the enemy, at the optimal distance for your hero to do damage

[@totallynottemirlan1915]

LEETSS GOOOOOOOOOOO, MY FAVORITE EDUCATIONAL CONTENT

[@lyphobia307]

the fact that its only a four hour unr to gm makes it amazingly time efficient for people who dont have that much time

[@Grim327]

I watched this as someone who had never played tank before and only played OW for about 6 months and ranked plat five after my placements. Not bad I’d say. Thanks a lot for the tips

[@btsk33]

"A10, back in action!"

[@dennisakaeze3066]

i’d love to see reaper ur2gm, also i gotta say the way u actually talk ab ur own decisions and not whine about what ur team is or isn’t doing is shockingly rare when it comes to videos like these

[@emmanuelgaming7005]

As much as using dva bomb to get the mech back is the best, I find chucking it across the map fun!

[@m1sara17]

Same it’s satisfying when u get kills but so disappointing when u mess up .

[@m1sara17]

Same it’s satisfying when u get kills but so disappointing when u mess up .

[@MoonlightWalnut]

Also what happened in that circuit royale game, did u guys get a bit stomped on attack xD wanted to see how to deal with widows

[@santiagogalf]

as a master dva im kinda dissapointed with the ending. The games that i enjoy watching the most are the ones with bad teammates and against masters and gm players. Its enjoyable to watch dva dive and team wipe a bunch of gold-plat players who are constantly feeding, wasting cooldowns and in bad positions, but what i rlly wanted to watch more was the hard games against good team comps and dva counters, for example that dorado game where u tried to do ur best against a mei + symettra comp. Im sad u only played like 4-5 of those tough games before u gave up with dva.

[@Xdxdxdmoneu]

FANTASTIC VIDEO A10

[@rdsalva]

Is the constant "Hello"ing for letting your teammates know you're close? Or just a compulsive thing? Awesome material btw, I got praised yesterday and I can only manage to apply like 10% of this at best for now.

[@destructo3457]

I get so lost with the view from above on the maps lol

[@Nostramux]

Honestly so useful and helpful. New to overwatch in general and have been playing some Dva. Tha k you for this. Ps. French Canadian, right?

[@animusinfernim6682]

I've been watching your content for a very long time and tonight something finally clicked from something my coach said... I tend to attempt to play way too fast... I would love some solid psychological tips to slow down my ADHD brain and be able to focus. I don't take meds because i feel they slow me down and I thoroughly enjoy going apeshit in my own head thinking about things (especially lines of code as I'm an amateur software developer). Keep up the solid work A10 and I'll keep learning!

[@grootman5725]

a10 i'm your big fan. please upload unranked to gm dva Part 2 asap. i really love this content. thank you

[@jjromee]

i wanna thank you so much for making me a amazing DVA main . ❤

[@blueberries408]

why did the rest of this game get cut? it seemed like it was going to be close 2:52:53

[@briandunfee4326]

Probably the same reason he didn't finish the challenge, he couldn't win

[@Flameysaur]

i wondered that too, even if it was a loss i would have liked to see it. maybe it was a complete steamroll and he thought it wasn't productive to watch? idk

[@greentext5]

Just found this content. Lecture at the beginning was super insightful. Does anyone know what program A10 is using that has the hero portraits and interactive map?

[@SeraphinaTAS]

Those slides at the beginning are very helpful. Is there a link so we can review them on our own?

[@L33730]

A10 I'm curious what is your sens with dva and hud settings? Really enjoying your videos. I'm watching it a bit at a time and applying to my game play. Managed to climb today vs no rank up twice in a row the last time lol (dps & healing).

[@shigaeki4769]

You made me discover I could move mouse to the left Now I never miss a shot anymore Thank you !

[@krank5793]

I feel bad for the enemy tanks. You know they were fighting for their lives in coms with all the tank diffs in chat

[@sendfoods4344]

i think i found the BEST EDUCATIONAL GAMER in YT

[@topunderbillionexecutivess7036]

Highly recommended.

[@larrycheong818]

Hi A10, what’s your eDPI on dva? I’m on 2.2 x 1200 and I’m wondering if that’s too high

[@A10Nerd]

that's fine man, nowhere near too high dw

[@larrycheong818]

@@A10Nerd thanks for the reply, will take note. Great guide as usual, going through your thought processes

[@brenndolacerda3576]

Perfect timing

[@Flameysaur]

what happened to the attack game at 2:52:57

[@rez9386]

1:59:21 OW rag doll physics are so good

[@RantKid]

"If you play well you win if you play badly you lose" wow that's some universal godlike logic you're dropping

[@pcxPOT]

Is there a way to download that slide in the beginning? :p

[@zendakk]

My 91-y-old grandmother knows how to take screenshots.

[@pcxPOT]

@@zendakk i guess that's one way to do it

[@kpkazan]

@zendakk too bad screenshots can't record the commentary that further elaborates the slideshow

[@zendakk]

@@kpkazan neither can slides in any other format. The VOD is right here.

[@SunAndMirror]

how does a singular Dva in Ranked deal with people flaming screaming swap? What do I do when entire team throws, early "gg"s etc

[@Htiy]

Chat off

[@rissyroono]

Mute chat

[@Fufusama1]

sadly the playstyle doesnt work for me because i dont have the aim to punish people even when i realize they are making mistakes the few times i do but great vid very informative (ive tried this playstyle over several months)

[@willmcclard206]

i love what you said at 56:00

[@willmcclard206]

through 57:40

[@randomhash]

JQ also would be fun to watch :)

[@jasperbennett3470]

51:09 I can’t move my mouse left, I’m on console!

[@eyupcan3067]

I woke up watching this video, And I like it.

[@shirosurfer8864]

Thumbnail so good I have to click

[@Krowkage]

I only have 35 hours game time total on overwatch but in plat 3, ranked is fun! I like the game a lot I’m ready to learn thank you for this video!

[@warsmith1294]

Here I was thinking this was going to be the fastest unranked to GM in history

[@THEREELESTMIKE]

What this program called? That he uses to show and mark the maps up

[@acrobatmapping]

rule 4? what are the rules

[@paul4381]

I got crazy improvement in my comprehension of the game with this video. Thanks looks like I won't be gold anymore

[@hkl4dplayer]

I'm certain that I'm always in losing team cause I'm 4 stacking with my friends and I know they rarely play any FPS games. We aren't even playing ranked, we only queue QuickPlay and we always end up facing Diamond above players, I even saw a top500 one time (their title tells).

[@ganzen0k]

Watching your content has improved my dps and tank game, but I'm a support main and would love to see something covering that role too.

[@APerson-co7er]

awkward is a really good support

[@arya4370]

I'd love to see a junker queen unranked to gm from you

[@randomhash]

can we get video of hanzo to gm? :D

[@roguewhitewolf]

First of all, this video is very helpful and educational, thank you! I will be using all this information for all heroes, because lots of tips are useful for most heroes in general Second, where are you from? I seem to be hearing a bit of a Dutch accent, very faint, sometimes when saying certain words

[@BLUDHOUNDZ]

he's half dutch/half scottish :)

[@roguewhitewolf]

@@BLUDHOUNDZ Nice! I thought I heard a bit of a Dutch accent sometimes!

[@FlipsMG]

Would love to see you do one of these U2GMs for Ramattra and Doomfist!

[@riss803]

I second Rammattra, maybe after they nerf his ult a little. I know A10 said in a recent video he was playing a lot of Ramm lately.

[@whitemilk6314]

When is the doomfist unranked to GM coming?

[@vbfglfgrhbm2484]

i always wondered in higher elos why does the defending team never hold at the choke especially blizzard world and kings row and just let them walk through, i’m sure it’s smarter to play that way but why????

[@atomictacobell_6773]

Attacking team can just pick characters with high spam or burst damage and walk forward together. They just burn down the tank and move towards point easily

[@ZSonnenblick]

if you play at the choke on blizzard world you're also in a position where flankers can end up behind you. by holding farther back, theres no possible way for somebody to flank and catch you off guard. for one. another is the idea that to walk through open space the enemy HAS to use a cooldown. next time you're in this situation really think about how you close distance. unless youre facing toddlers, if you simply just walk through open space not near a corner you're gonna get killed pretty fast. so in order to close that distance you need to use some form or resource. as the defending team, you now have a major resource advantage as the enemy used cooldowns to close the distance and theres no reason you should have used yours. save your cooldowns for when the enemy isnt near a corner, wait for them to use a cooldown, then punish.

[@granddaddy_funk]

I hate how bogged down my account is from learning the game on it. It's soooooo much easier to climb on a new account, but I wanna keep my skins lol

[@its_lucky2526]

19:05 "res is balanced because you can cancel it" also res:

[@tasin2776]

I think mic needs to be a little louder or gameplay sounds quietter

[@devinherron4375]

Pewdiepie of OW

[@bena8805]

but A10 makes good content?

[@lqserbeans3515]

goated video

[@bena8805]

omg perfect timing

[@AtlasDynamics]

Taking important lessons for getting General Master rank at this game from channel which is having a Zarya as an Anime girl art as his channel image its certified Overwatch moment.

[@ThySupremeFriend]

So we're just not gonna talk about the casual Hitchhiker's Guide reference?