Emongg Reacts To "The 7 Stages Of EVERY Overwatch Player"

[@TheWatchOverOW]

Thanks for checking out our video! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@steinschlange1457]

I love Emongg being so happy about a pun, like a small child showing you a cool rock, he's just vibin'.

[@-L1K-]

Great video. I am also in the Enlightened stage. I went through all the others and it was def a journey.

[@Battleress2]

hit burnout early this year.... honestly this vid gave me a little hope that i might have a future of non-toxic engagement with the game again

[@PrimarinaBay]

personally, I swap between toxic and non-toxic engagement and have had my breaks as well.

[@liathedoll]

This list feels like a callout post 💀 I feel attacked

[@canineatnight6026]

Som...u a hardcore?

[@DyingBreed8]

During our journey we have been all of them. At least for the ones who have played for 3 or more years. Either that or youre about to be a hard-core soon because youre watching emongg. People watch emongg to escape the pain of being a hardcore, the immense pain that penetrates the fabric of our being every night as we try to sleep it wakes us up, or that couod be from glaring at the monitor for countless hours. Who knows..​@@canineatnight6026

[@KLUSTERIZER]

Yes it's meant to do just that.

[@derunfassbarebielecki]

One of my first times playing OW was on Ana and because she heals teammates by shooting at them, I guessed all supports do that and shot at my teammates for some time until I realised they received no healing from it. Im that kind of person who will only watch guides, if im more invested into a game, so the first 100 hours of Overwatch 2 I learnt anything on my own, there are a lot more instances like the support one from this time.

[@simplyluis6548]

Bro, i feel that. I used to shoot my teammates as Lucio, thinking that's how he healed them lmao

[@jerrisatyourwindow]

Bro….i thought the only way you could heal with Ana was by throwing Grenades

[@guyturtle]

I was frequently watching Ow1 plays and when I purchased game myself, I still was convinced that I have to shoot teammates as Lucio. I mean these bloops are designed that way that I thought I SHOULD shot these in team mates xD

[@Real_Nutella]

I used to be a hardcore player back in ow1 but am completely burned out and am barely even a casual player. It no longer makes me happy and feels like a chore to play now. I only get on when my friends need a final player to fill their group.

[@Lilian040210]

Idk about other people but I get latched on on a different game, play that until burn out, and then come back to previously burned out games and they feel fun again. Do that. Don't touch it for like half a year and go play smth else.

[@Devon-hw6ih]

I'm so casual. I've gotten into gold on all ranks but maybe 5% of my time is in ranked. I play every role and all characters. I often look at my least played heroes and pick them out. Had an actually decent doomfist game for the first time last week. It was actually so fun.

[@Devon-hw6ih]

The least casual thing I do is watching some overwatch content I guess. Flats ftw

[@JACKrollz]

⁠:0 holy shit me too

[@howdymista2299]

I just tried playing my least played hero and got rolled 0-6 as torb😭

[@mdc867]

Doom is so much fun, keep with it😁

[@snipingway]

Felt, I used to be hardcore but now I lean toward very casual. I actually hate playing comp, my peak was mid-diamond and I can't be bothered to play comp again. I just play arcade.

[@nekogami87]

12:50!and that's why I stopped watching most of my previous list of content creators and kept going with emongg, just a better vibe in general

[@azseal2669]

13:55 God that Nickelback comment took me *all the way back.* So true! lmao

[@spxke_94]

Love watchover! Glad you found him!

[@TechnoSpice]

A lot of people who tell you to hate on the game are likely players who's preferred heroes just aren't faring well at the rank they want to be in. Like high ranking Moira/Mercy/Illari players who have seen their OTP get nerfed to the point it's only viable if you are literally the very top of players to have mastered the ceiling and even then you struggle. I'll always be someone who believes people should play what they like but that comes with the cost of knowing you'll experience toxic teammates yelling at you to switch in maps/comps that don't favor your preferred heroes or that you'll find points where it's nearly impossible to keep ranking up and that really does just sour the experience for anyone. You won't notice it nearly as much if you're not particularly picky about what hero you play.

[@Josh_Kidding]

5:54 um.... i feel called out because i was thinking about flats.

[@aerostrafe1075]

I definitely sit in the burnout stage and i'm ok with staying there. I pulled the move on to other games and tackling my single player favorites.

[@tswrangle1000]

I know that marvel rivals comes out in a few hours, but I like to go to paladins when I feel like that

[@Lexieidk]

By definition of this video I’m the hardcore ow gamer. I genuinely believe the only way I’ve avoided burn out is the fact that I’m a mercy main. She’s soooo much fun, even before I started playing overwatch I knew I was going to be a mercy main from the few clips I’ve seen of her. I thoroughly enjoy game characters that are easy to learn hard to master. I loooove minmaxxing her sm

[@megamecha100]

Lexie is a cool ass name I thought it was a reference to the singer for a minute

[@rhiisnow]

mercy for me at least feels like the most frustating character to play, if your team is simply bad theres nothing you can do about it, the same goes for lifeweaver too

[@royceblack6752]

got burned out in ow1 especially the last two years. now im past that. tbf though big parts of it dont got anything to do with ow. i played a ton of celeste and that gave me a different view on life, games and much more patience and allowed me to laugh at my mistakes and so on. thats how i was able to enjoy ow again

[@christhiantrevisan8084]

I'm a Destiny player, a dedicated one(8k+ hours) and all the thingsI hear people complain about OW are mostrly of what I hear in D2

[@averylfong4843]

LOOK AT THIS GRAAAAPH! (I agree 100% about being Enlightened, life's too short to worry about liking/hating what other people want you to like/hate)

[@Birch123-z9p]

I’m mega burnt out and depressed because of Overwatch because the broken trust from OW2 and PVE

[@MarcusSinlak]

I feel confused because I would say I'm in the enlightened stage, but I have bits and bobs from the other stages. And that might be because I've hit a wall that I don't see myself overcoming.

[@crazyface2154]

2:35 not even his cat liked that

[@bubblewrap8823]

I’m away from home so these videos are like I still get to watch em with a friend. Thanks Emongg :)

[@frayziedaisy]

im a casual for two reasons: 1st: my friends to play overwatch are only online late at night and i gotta go to bed early to work in the morning (when i play this game alone it just feels terrible beacuase random mates are something else) 2nd: i can’t keep playing this game without completely losing it takes 5-10 rounds depending on my mental.. but this game is just a rollercoaster on drugs (i have 500hrs in ow but played since OW1 beta and always had this cycle of playing on and off) this game is not able to balance itself and there are more and more hero’s coming and they will struggle more and more to balance the game..

[@pterafier]

i never find emongg particularly funny, usually just chill and relatable, but he was actually pretty funny in this video. many laughs, love to see it

[@thatsnotgonewellatall5517]

see i watched all the breakdowns of abilities and dmg numbers and overwatch content for literal years before i ever played, now im a new noob still

[@adamkerns]

He literally hit every possible type of player. Of course you're gonna be one.

[@cookiigames]

I wish we had the ability to just forget and re-experience games for the first time again

[@viscarte]

Im very much in the hardcore stage right now, overwatch has been my special interest for the last few years and I watched OW1 content growing up. I don’t think that this is gonna change any time soon

[@liz6702]

Might sound weird, but I fluctuate between Enlightened and Burnout. When I get Burnout, I play it for a lower amount of time for a while so I have some distance to woo-sah and get into a better mind space. I can be a really critical person about myself mostly, and that definitely doesn't help 🤣

[@aimlesswitch]

I feel like im still in the invested stage and I'm happy with it, don't want to be considered hardcore to keep my sanity at bay

[@joshualee6702]

Passed into enlightenment in only two years, who needs to meditate on a mountain?!?

[@secretblue0290]

If it makes you feel any better, I found you because this video popped up in my feed, so the algorithm does like you

[@user-wm9pj2xj7z]

I have been through a lot of these stages but I’m in a strange place I want the game to get better and waiting for that and I find myself to get burnt out quick with current gameplay loop, of tanks and supports so taking a sidelines approach, keep up with balance and future trails and events but cautiously dipping my toes into it when people want to play every now and then. Used to grind hard and reach high ranks now I am just waiting for a big change

[@nopenope4046]

I work 8-10 hrs a day come home, do chores/cook and spend the rest of the night on over watch. 2-3 hours a day playing ranked mostly. On weekends I get stuff done and take breaks to play a few rounds. Listen to overwatch toxic videos/ hot takes at work. Overwatch is my bread and butter. I love not knowing what friend is gonna be on to queue up with that night and having lots of laughs at the absurdity of the doom fist shooting into the sky as he dies. So basically im in between casual and dedicated. I don’t get burnout because at the end of the day, it’s just a game to me, I don’t get pissed and crash out like some of the people on the game.

[@alekbi_le5875]

3:33 BIOSHOCK MENTIONED 🎉

[@zel7396]

What about the lurker? Has kept up with the game but played super late, knows a bunch of stuff but still isn't used to it

[@Bad3abdul]

@@zel7396 I think that's after casual no?

[@SpacePirate549]

I think I live somewhere between the Invested and the Hardcore stage at the moment lol. Mostly in the Invested stage, but I do still tune in to OWCS every now and then and know a little bit about the teams. but I'm also not grinding ranked anymore now that I'm out of college. been there done that, hit a peak of gm5 after a lot of time and effort and now I can say I did it 😅 but I definitely don't play very consistently anymore and when I do play, it's just qp with friends to have fun :)

[@fluffydragon3333]

I’m at the invested stage I think, I’ve been playing about a year and a half at this point now…

[@Mystik_05]

Love the vids Emongg!

[@Pyromaster_]

8:25 Jay3 PB

[@Otterdoesgaming]

dang enlightened at 300 hours thats crazy

[@maxthemachine3894]

Its weird that he said that only Hardcore is invested in rank

[@Dansull123]

At least Emongg named his cat after me

[@heartcoma]

i miss when I first started playing and all i wanted was to be bastion and collect his lil skins

[@crwferrum3159]

I am currently getting out of a burnout state, I did watch the video from the WatchOver but I also wanted to see your opinion on this, great vid as usual.

[@asmod4n]

I’ve started the game fully fresh, hit the right level, went straight to plat and from there it just went down after learning more about the game 😅 That was when sigma got released.

[@TechnoSpice]

There's documented tests that new accounts will fly up the ranks to get new players hooked while older accounts will struggle to rank. Blizz is sheisty ASF like that. That's also why Unranked to GM videos are so easy to pump out. It's easy to unranked to GM compared to rank reset on a 5 yr old account to GM.

[@tonyolsson3880]

I am a hard-core gamer and was in overwatch, tho i didn't care much about the battlepass. I always look up guides before i start a new game especially if it is a multi-player game.

[@Mr.Goufball]

Damn. I’m Jerry.

[@keeg1538]

Currently burnt out 💀💀

[@mintmango0]

Ive been in the invested group for like 6 years now lmao

[@leftrighttoe]

The nickleback comment is so real I always think about that

[@TopoSalsero]

Poe 2 is going to be fun when we don't know shit, shooters ain't it, you feel like shit until you know shit.

[@brianmoore712]

Getting flamed in rank is my favorite past time. Playing a non meta soldier is a hilarious time for insults

[@frantiseksram9741]

Deffo in the last category

[@Caiofoca]

Started as a casual, invested within the week, hardcore in a month or two, burned out and then got enlightened within about a year. hehe, funny video.

[@Rohndogg1]

I'm casual/invested going on enlightened. I'm working on accepting that I'm washed and probably not gonna climb back out of plat anymore and just enjoy the game and not care so much

[@jowanmay6358]

One mistake he made is just because you play more overwatch doesn't mean your hate for overwatch changes .

[@falmer5639]

I burned out in ow1 right after brig came out

[@ltsReallyHim]

Yeaaaa i cant wait to play some wolverine in rivals

[@kaleidoughscope]

I haff to be mad: they took out my favourite maps, and chopped out a rule, and then added the "halo shield" into the game, and they forced me to update to Overwatch 2 (because it was too good a deal to pass up!). Anyway the new tank looks like a projector-rocket-launched Mei.

[@rondiggity1677]

4:06 You can't spell Emongg without ego!

[@Disappointed_Philosoraptor]

This is missing the "disappointed" stage. i am not burned out. i am just sad to see the game did not become what it could and should have been

[@fpsman01]

A hardcore player? Wow do I feel called out now lol

[@paulcassimere2570]

Highly recommend The Watchover’s channel. Always great

[@You-g8g6i]

I’m Causal at this point but heroes like doom , widow , sombra and sometimes mauga make me try . They are so annoying

[@BlackJizus]

Love the game and honestly my favorite shooter game, it’s so fun. Have about 100hrs (most of which have been in the past 2 months) I wanna play ranked more but sadly don’t have anyone the gets on as consistently as I do to played ranked.

[@BlackJizus]

I learned to play OW by watching others in my game play the characters they use and once I know the abilities it’s kinda easy to learn how to use them. I get frustrated sometimes but play anyways because I know the next game could be different. As long as I focus more on how I play and well I do and use that to get better then I’m fine and it helps me enjoy the game more.

[@questionable_live]

I missed hardcore by a few hours cause I'm only at 900 something otherwise it's completely the same to me

[@Dansull123]

Ut oh, Im a Hardcore, Old Man, in Bronze......

[@Naianasha]

I can't look past the issues as a Brig and Mei enjoyer, the glaring issues hit me every single game in top elo lobbies where Tracer is played 24/7. Everytime I Rally bash her as Brig, she recalls for free and doesn't die. Every time I icicle headshot her as Mei, she recalls fof free and doesn't die. And don't even get me started on how much more it takes to take down a tank. I wish I could ignore the problems, but these are issues that season 9 introduced that after 5 painful seasons, I can no longer ignore. "Nothing quite like it" might have been true for awhile now, but won't any longer on the 6th this month. Thank God I'll finally be free of this once great and now terrible game.

[@RyeCA]

Hitting one icicle headshot and thus forcing a highly important cooldown is a good trade though

[@travistaylor8774]

Bronze hardcore player here. Quite the disaster

[@ravencomiccollector4019]

Currently stuck between Hardcore and Burnout. Will never drop the game though. No game out there like it. MAHVEL RAVIOLI will help with the burnout

[@Shinobu764.]

im like 3 mixed in 1

[@DarkestNova556]

I think Flats hit Burnout tbh. I’m personally on Invested.

[@thesquirtlesquad8446]

Cmahn guy, it’s Dunks ovah here. I know Rhode Island is fah from ya ovah in Bawston

[@AnimeVampire234]

i am 100% the burnout i'll play like 3 games max whenever i log on then that's it lol. maybe play once a week for like just a few games

[@froggynutz]

im in my burnt out stage rn i stopped playing when i realized i was getting way too mad at the game tbh

[@maxpower7113]

Been a casual since 2016

[@thearkhamnerd8393]

You should react to a Noxylicious video next lol

[@UnappreciatedSupportMain]

I love overwatch but I don't play it 7 or 8 hours a day like I used to lol. I gave up on comp after all my friends quit and I mostly do mystery heroes now because it pisses me off less than all the throwers and aimbots I was finding in regular quick play. I take every battlepass to 80 and play 3-6 games almost every day. But I can only play so much by myself before I want to go do something else lol Still my favorite tho!

[@OverWatchMenVid]

I’m 100% hardcore and not budging anytime soon 😈

[@OkayPakaLolo]

I'm one of the "Enlightened" ... nice

[@LucidFacade]

Playing since 2016 and still in the noob stage.

[@DecayedPony]

I'm a 6 and a 1 simutaneously. I never play the game unless i'm piss drunk and i'm playin like a noob. truly the only way i can enjoy the game anymore, but i got 2xxx hours on it so i got my moneys worth.

[@Lilian040210]

I'm not a healthy individual. I have ADHD. No meds. I need the dopaminicles to function. Can never get enough. So it's gaming gaming gaming. So idk I'm somewhere between Invested and Hardcor. Edit: again thx to ADHD I get burnout from any game after 6 months tops. I need fresh and I need different and no an event or game mode is not it. I'm sure most dead.game screamers don't realize that they hit burnout and they need a different game entirely. Shame that's not a category

[@meajess9580]

is 14 hours a week bad?

[@kaleidoughscope]

Especially a live service game ^_^

[@kaleidoughscope]

I strongly disagree with the video's premise that the casual player only plays "not daily".

[@canineatnight6026]

I have the tjme of a hardcore But a mood of ca casual

[@Definitely-dr.bright]

0:44 yes IAMREMORSE i have read TOG not quite what you asked but close enough

[@yoda7518]

I started overwach weirdly I was watching content for 3 years but never downloaded the game so I new a lot of stuff so this video doesn’t really apply to me so I guess im just a casual? Or started as a casual I play a lot But idk im like a combination of different things he said but I just downloaded it a couple weeks ago

[@violetvampy]

i love overwatch but i really dislike some in the playerbase, being a mercy and other girly hero enjoyer can be so miserable when theres dudes and other girls even telling u to kword urself on a weekly bases and tbagg u every game :(

[@nuggies2959]

Im a casual for overwatch lol

[@D_Jilla]

Emongg is too positive. That's why he's not popular in the algorithm. I want emongg to succeed, but it may be a good thing he's not popular cause then you get all vibe killer commenters.

[@Sxnderjyden]

Overwatch and apex is far the best shooting games atm. Sadly they Are ruined by stupid rules.

[@farqueue001]

If you say “Winton” on your video I’m sorry but I’m not watching it due to your cringe. It shows if someone is new and young. Only the OG players call him by his real nickname.

[@Ingu.z]

first!

[@its-tinyavocado]

That's called fanboy state, not an enlightened state. There must be another category for ow1 veterans, who care about the game, but don't buy anything and can go without actually launching the game for months, come back - and still play at the same level.

[@Matt-sx6do]

3 minutes n only 36 views? Falling off.

[@Bad3abdul]

? is this like the trend now?

[@ciach0_]

@@Bad3abdul it's a trend since the beginning of the year it's a worse version of "first"

[@Bad3abdul]

@@ciach0_ 👌😆

[@Matt-sx6do]

@@ciach0_ fair ❣️

[@Fishrah]

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[@Alcohelix]

I'm in-between the casual & invested stages. 🫠