I'm GRANDMASTER But This Ana Coaching Blew My Mind

[@Awkward2]

SVB you are a capable player and you have proved it within a few days after our session. It was a pleasure to watch your progress in just an hour an a half together.

[@rks6276]

i recommend all of my friends to watch u...i consider you as my guru...thanks again for making unranked to gm ...waiting on torb..

[@nuclearsimian3281]

There was a story I remember hearing about Tiger Woods. How after he won one of the major PGA tours, it may have even been the Masters, but I can't find the article anymore, he immediately went to the course's driving range, and someone asked him, "Tiger, what are you doing here, you just won the tournament." He responded by saying, "Yeah, but I could have done better on a few shots here and there." One of the biggest legends in pro sports as a whole immediately went back to practicing after winning a major tournament. You guys kinda seem to embody that and its great to see people like you, SVB, and ioStux all still being so invested in this game that's really rather niche in the grand scheme.

[@nope6008]

would you ever consider lucio unrnked to gm

[@TiresAreForCars]

I haven't watched this guy before but was he legit not a GM one and now 3 days after awkward coaching he's gm 1 and pushing top 500? Thats insane

[@savoirmonstre]

Hello awkward Why did u Ask him toi not jump ?

[@therebelfrogy9287]

We need more Awkward coaching contents. His playstyle in support is hyperactive and coaching lessons usually stay on point adding basic knowledge about the game and the heroes he's using

[@Sindoku]

Agree. Awkwards playstylw is freaking fun and makes people actually want to play OW.

[@Mr_SamuelAdam]

Yes! More please! 😊❤️🙏💖💖

[@mcpremier3544]

I find these just as (if not more - I know it’s a hot take) helpful than the unranked to GM series. Because he’s not actively playing he can explain his thought process more , rather than engraining “dmg dmg dmg” and “they move forward, i move back” 😂

[@Gobbygoblin]

being an agressive kiriko main is peak enjoyment

[@MajoraFeels]

Do you know if he's coached Mercy on vid or anything?

[@EtonuiYoutube]

Awkward is just built different, dude is goated at what he does

[@CallumDT]

I have watched awkwards content closely for years. Single handedly the reason I was able to blast through diamond to master recently

[@jaylonburchfield6730]

Wasn’t there just rank inflation? Cuz so did I lmaoo

[@YaBoyReiner]

​​@@jaylonburchfield6730 most likely, unless it was ranking up through wins, which seems to be the implied case

[@justinreynolds6318]

@@jaylonburchfield6730 That's what will happen while a game is dying. The lower ranks move up as the upper ranks quit the game because it's shit.

[@InevitableTruth247]

@@justinreynolds6318 game is dead when i stop playing

[@AdvancedGamingYT]

@@justinreynolds6318 keep coping lmao

[@r3v301]

Live coaching is SOOO underrated and not to mention how cool it was to watch someone who has a career surrounding this game improve

[@pink7930]

Slow is smooth; smooth is fast.

[@ghostirq]

This isn’t BD6

[@Yea___]

​@@ghostirqthis isnt real life

[@ghostirq]

@@Yea___ oook?

[@JLo83]

As a veteran, i got a combat boner from that comment. It's so true. Lol

[@pooliner]

@@JLo83 🤨

[@Memo-yh4nc]

I haven’t watched the video yet, but knowing Awkward, I’m guessing the video is going to go something like this… “Damage, damage, damage! Don’t heal! Do more damage!” And his advice works. I went from Gold to Diamond hearing that :)

[@soyunbonus]

They move forward, I move back, next to cover.

[@ReaveIdono]

Forgot about off angling lol

[@micahbucy6855]

He's misrepresented for saying not to heal. He says to heal enough to keep your teammates alive, but don't worry about topping them off if you could be keeping pressure off the team through damage

[@puppergump4117]

@@soyunbonus They move forward, I move forward, in open space. Healing healing healing. Save your abilities.

[@cpypcy]

I went from gold to silver after that tip :(

[@noobtv2033]

The way he coaching, the instructions he gave really cleared my eyes, help me knowing how to get the most out of ana's kit. But it also made me realize how difficult it is to do that. It would take a huge amount of skill, mechanic, game sense, surrounding awareness and constant thinking to be able to do that while maintaining the high accuracy of sleep and nade.

[@micahbucy6855]

Awkward doesn't get enough credit in the Overwatch community, partially because some people are put off by his self-confidence. That guy is in a tier by himself though. Great vid

[@khele2k]

This is such a valuable coaching session and it fits practically all supports well. Find rotations, find the damage, don't get greedy with your kills to stay alive.

[@dylanroyboy]

Svb, I showed my friend this, and he picked it up as fast as you did. I went 5-0 yesterday for the first time ever and got closer to my ow1 rank very quickly. By incorporating this and a couple of other concepts. Thank you.

[@alejandrodimarco8436]

first time ever?

[@icarus7552]

Meanwhile your team while you’re learning: 💀

[@grl7753]

Thank you so much for posting this, SVB. As a regular viewer of your, channel, and Awkward's, this was quite an eye-opener. Learnt a lot, and I think it merits a second viewing as there was so much to digest. Watching you learn, and Awkward's coaching,, in real-time is absolute gold, well worth a hundred traditional educational videos. Thanks again.

[@aquilanusUK]

I learned more about Ana in this one video than dozens of hours watching anyone else. Ty to both SVB and Awkward for this 😊

[@jonathasvieira6414]

I appreciate so much this coaching sessions SVB have been posting on yt. Awkward is amazing, I have been improving a lot on Zarya thanks to his unranked to gm video. The Fitzy Sombra coaching session was also amazing (think about res, think about res). Thanks so much for this, SVB.

[@judopunch2672]

D5 here, Like 20 min in and I have actually learned a lot about things I have been trying to understand about my play. Thanks for uploading this. and thanks @awkward2 for agreeing to let SVB upload this.

[@shioramenrabbit]

Alright this is amazing. I'm coming back to it when I actually have the mental bandwidth to understand what's going on properly, but immediately never even though of swapping the open angles and using that sleep whenever the heck I think I can get something with it.

[@MasterE1]

Honestly @awkward and @SVB-Side I improved more from watching that coaching session that most other pieces of educational content. that was amazing coaching and svb you pick up everythign so fast. keep up the amazing content both of you. (coming from a mid diamond andy who thought about climbing to masters this season)

[@darkcircle899]

I miss content like this in the OW community. Years ago closer to the start of the game content like this was plentiful and I credit all of that to my climbing all the way from Bronze when I started to Masters. Nowadays it seems like there is not that much super high-level coaching content out on a regular basis and it feels like not only have I as a player begun to stagnate but the game is as well because of the lack of content for the hardcore ranked player who really wants to improve and get to the highest ranks in the game. Really hope to see more videos like this in the future. This really invigorated me to go play some ranked for improvement.

[@stevelappy]

This makes me so happy to see. My coach is the best coach nobody can convince me otherwise

[@slavward]

our coach is the best fr

[@smasherlord]

Our coach is fucking baller

[@kerolbp]

I had too much fun playing like this, but I felt a little guilty 😂 but my gameplay improved a lot. I just need to practice more. Thank you both for this live, it's gold ❤

[@Taylor95x]

i felt exactly the same way.. how has the ranked grind been since u posted this

[@kerolbp]

@@Taylor95x I managed to climb the ranked a bit, but not long after that I stopped playing Overwatch. I played a few matches that way, but I was never completely aggressive playing Ana like Akward. As I said, I felt a bit guilty playing this way, so I brought balance to my gameplay, I stopped being so passive playing as Ana and started doing more damage. I climbed a bit, but after a while, the rank stabilized again. Maybe by being more aggressive I could climb higher, but for that I'd have to keep playing. Anyway, you can try this method in competitive play and it will work. Try to incorporate it little by little and find in Akward's tips your own way of playing, which you feel more comfortable.

[@libertyprime9307]

It's fucking hilarious how he tells SVB not to save sleep, then next fight he Sleeps and whiffs it and then Bob comes out. Then as soon as he gets another Sleep, he whiffs it again and then immediately Sigma ults.

[@PainOW.]

Awesome video! You learned so well, adapted so well even with someone talking in your ear mid game, and the coaching was great, concise and kept it simple, hammering in the same important points.

[@ontoshere]

It's crazy to see how much more impact you were steadily making after just one game. Awkward is great. I commented on you fitzy video and complimented him too. But you are a really really good learner. Super impressive

[@BashFPS]

I love Awkward so, so much. A few years ago I had a coaching session with him for 1 hour. Back then I was a low plat scrub and after his coaching session I got to 3.8k in OW1. Right now I'm Masters 1, but I realise I have forgotten to do more damage as he taught me before and that's why I'm stuck. Back to damage, damage, damage for me and hopefully will get to play with SVB and Awkward at some point in the high ranks! Thank you SVB and Awkward for the productive session, hard work and dedication. Much love to you both :)

[@sgn8753]

Lol, I couldn't unhear "If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly" in my head when they were talking about speed. LingLing still haunts my dreams apparently XD

[@AntonyGreenman]

I love everything about this video, thank you so much! I have been watching the unranked to GM Awkward out out and have been learning a lot. I get so annoyed with people complaining about my stats, I guess I need to listen to the advice about muting and blocking!

[@antoniomqzfdz]

I thought I recognise the voice of the coach, then I heard "Damage, do damage, damage" and I knew who it was. Good coaching and thank for sharing SVB

[@johna6028]

Absolutely enjoyed this video! Both the coaching and the gameplay. The communication/understanding from both of you made this super enjoyable, learned a lot! Hope to see more of these.

[@eevee5889]

ok i haven’t finished the video yet but how is this svb guy gm2 on support… bro had less than seven percent sleep accuracy in the first ten minutes of the match and also missed the sleep on the stationary bob… like come on bro

[@luiscordero1072]

Everybody should watch awkward Ana unrated to gm video, you can see him play while he explains how to Ana properly

[@strykerdh]

this might be the single most impactful video i've watched. it's immediately given me so much to work on but more importantly improved my gameplay. Thanks for putting this together SVB!

[@AdrenResi]

There was one time on eichenwalde second point defense which I went down the stairs, got a clean 3 shots to kill the enemy ana, and went back upstairs. It was so satisfying, and turns out there is a playstyle that focuses entirely on this

[@jeffl8549]

Thanks for sharing this video. That's very considerate, and it's really going to help a lot of Ana players. I do think it's funny that people are surprised that a GM player learns quickly. A GM player is already a special player, analytical and intelligent, intuitive. My primary notes to self: Find an off angle to do early damage, using your sleep and nade and quick scope (typically). Back off, and rotate as necessary. But like Awkward says in his GM to 500 videos -> do damage, damage, damage!

[@noahsarkhive4482]

the text chat during the new york match was so damn toxic; glad to see GM’s still have all the time in the world to flame everyone (espeiclaly svb’s hanzo had A LOT of time to spam his opions and micromanagements :”) ). i’m glad svb was so busy with listening to awkward and thinking about his plays, and didnt let himself be too distracted by the text spam

[@shioramenrabbit]

Yeah that Hanzo really needs a different hobby 100%.

[@h2o684]

​@shioramenrabbit For sure, blaming everyone but yourself in every match isn't the healthiest hobby out there

[@Vaedyx]

The first ten min so far is very similar to learning Reinhardt. Understanding the balance of aggression vs shielding etc I’m really enjoying this so far. Always giving you something to do with this mindset

[@SidewaysGts]

One of the best coaching sessions ive seen.

[@dariuswhite3285]

8:52 was a damn JUMP SCARE 🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭

[@Seppe1106]

Damn, I am an Ana main myself and consider myself a pretty aggressive Ana-Player, so I can incorporate all those advices in my own playstyle. Love the aspect of " do damage " , "create off angle " and stuff like that which i like to do as well. You don't need to permanently look at your teammates to be ready when they take 10 damage if you can make a 100 damage meanwhile and peek mates in between ( random numbers taken ). Love it. Now I can probably self-confidentally hold my place in Diamond x)

[@Teflora]

I've been playing lots of support and tank since OW1 came out, now I'm more focusing on learning DPS and this is actually great advice for that too. Learning to find the angles, when to rotate, how to maximize the impact of your cooldowns. A lot of the things go against the "instinct" of a support player, who wants to stay safe at all times. But putting yourself into danger aka I can shoot them and they can shoot me while staying safe is core for DPS and great to see here. Atleast that's my takeaway

[@ReaveIdono]

Metro and Awkward really drilled home the importance of high ground on 76. It's disgusting what that does for him.

[@shoulderoforion115]

Awkward has a funny way of not getting his point across in unranked to gm but here he does it so well. Much more helpful than "What am I doing? Healing? No. Im doing damage. When they go right I go left, they move up I move back." I get he's in the heat of battle and granted his editing is done well, but this kind of coaching is far more influential. Its like taking a masterclass, pun intended.

[@samk3141]

What I found really challenging in Overwatch, coming from an MMO background, is the fact that healers /supports, can do as much, if not more DPS than a DPS character. Like anna has typically 3 hots to kill someone or 2 + nade and lucio can easily 2 - 3 burst someone at any range, given there's no damage fall off, whislt healing people. I think a lot of people stuggle with the idea that you should do a mix AND position to be able to do so, almost putting yourself in harms way to effectivly do both. I found playing moira to be a good balance, as you can sit in saftey, whilst doing damage with your orbs etc. whereas anna and bap require you to be out there with the DPS, exposed to the potential of the enemy damage. But then bap and anna can easily kill people and anna can shoot throguh the tank, either doing damage or healing automatically, given her primary fire does either.

[@boardefraud290]

just wanted to say i found you through the group up podcast and have since smashed your content. HUGE fan of your work keep it up and hope you continue to get the recognition you deserve

[@chaikovsky]

Quickplay warrior here. I applied what I learned here to my games today, and I played my best Ana of the season! Love the ongoing SVB Education theme from recent videos; the mix of edited, narrative content and longform has been fantastic. More please!

[@cesarcaballero4662]

Genuine question. Why do u only play quickplay? Bc when I play quickplay I see people with 4k hours on quickplay but none in comp and I found that odd

[@chaikovsky]

@@cesarcaballero4662 Honestly? People are nicer in quickplay. Even though I’ve found strong morale wins games, lots of players in comp get tilted and ragey (that’s not to say it doesn’t happen in QP too, but I have far more positive experiences). I genuinely enjoy building up my teammates: complimenting their good play and supporting/peeling for them so they feel like unstoppable badasses, and that attitude/style of fun is more welcome in QP.

[@MansterBear]

@@chaikovsky I would play alot more QP if you got to do offense and defense on cart. Obviously with king of the hill or push, it's the same. But I hate "losing" a QP even though we get it 99% of the way there. That could easily be a win in ranked. Not that it matters, since it's unranked lol

[@h2o684]

​@chaikovsky for me quick play has been more toxic than Comp- but theres definetally some funny matches and wholsome ones in quick play that never happen in comp

[@intrepidmonkey]

This is great content. Looking forward to watch the rest of this upload later tonight. Great stuff (as usual) SVB. Thanks for sharing and teaching this pleb. I really enojoyed Whiplash.

[@TheNerd]

"You rushed it". Fits perfect to almost all of my sleepdarts, except when I know enemy rein has shatter xD

[@Raven-lg7td]

jesus this was incredibly educational! Awkward is a great teacher, i like his style of explaining much more than ML7

[@samfacultad9669]

I like ml7 for technical skills but awkward has some good advice for gameplay

[@whambulance8607]

Awkward for the insane fundamental revelations. ML7 for the big brain specifics.

[@TheBiancaCM]

This was so fun to watch, great vibes, and super insightful, i love Ana but (exatcly what you mentioned) i don't play her much cause i don't feel confident playing her and i don't wanna ruin other people's games, i'm hyped up to continue to play her, she's so much fun!

[@tarizar]

What a great coach! This is a great video! Thanks for sharing! I actually got so much from this.

[@shrikesghost1]

This was a great learning experience.. I'm bronze low Silver and I'll implement this into my game and when I watch my VOD's. Thanks for this it was great.

[@menamebepinchy]

It's the dps that spam I need healing while standing DIRECTLY beside a health pack that really send me over the edge.

[@h2o684]

Yeah i noticed that 😭

[@sebastienmccown-kobinger2984]

Most helpful video I’ve seen, got me to push from gold 1 to diamond 3 in weeks following these principles

[@noahsarkhive4482]

awkward is a great coach! i’ve been doing so many more plays with ana since i first saw his video about her. it’s simple advice but very effective and mot too hard to implement into ones own game play :)

[@craz3424]

If this guy is gm2 then i have to be top 300 cus no way he's missing all those bullets 💀

[@julian-xj3nv]

U dont realise, higher ranks= harder to hit shots. More danger, more distance and moovement is so much better

[@craz3424]

@@julian-xj3nv But im gm 3 and i can hit shots perfectly fine ☠️

[@h2o684]

​@@craz3424even if it may seem like a small division gap, the skill difference can be massive, like the difference between top 50 and top 10 in Smash Bros Melee

[@slackerr]

It's console. Absolutely NO fucking way this is on PC and they aren't diving the shit outta him.

[@Non-StopGameplay]

The nanoed ram getting punched off the map broke my heart🥲💔

[@LiiChinHo]

More Awkward coaching sessions! Maybe a 1-mo progress update!

[@tommy6742]

I learned so much playing this season with the release of Illari that you have a much greater impact on your team when you dps as often as you can whenever you can with support role instead of solely focusing on trying to keep your team up with heals. If you can kill on support role you don't need to heal as much, dead enemy players = no need to heal teammates. 5v5 change the gameplay style of supports by reducing the amount of healing that you needed way more in 6v6. DPS players swapping to support role will realize how much easier it is to engage and kill other players.

[@spyroms7620]

I got coached by awkward for 4 months and went from silver 1/gold 5 to masters 2 after being hardstuck silver/gold since early 2017.

[@Oliver.Pfahl.]

I love both of these guys Just don't forget: damage, damage, cover, damage, Cooldown, of angle and then damage, damage damage

[@hughjanusguy]

“i wanna see you find a sleep, find a nade and do some damage” *SVB instantly spams and misses both sleep and nade*

[@EliteWea]

8:50 pls follow this advice against hitscans, speccially in diamond+ if you're jumping you'll most likely to get hs. Also, I'm super grateful you shared this, thank you SVB!

[@ultimategunyu4152]

Man Thank you so much for the great content 🙏🙏 I was confused how to carry as support in some matches. Watching U showed so much progress and improvement in just 2 games, I see my goal so much better. Keep up the great work and thank you SVB ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@psouza4]

Thank you for posting this, it's helped a lot

[@v1kke299]

All i hear in my head when im playing overwatch is Awkward going like "Damage! Do damage!"

[@iSuckAtGamesGG]

the way awkward tells u to play ana is like the way my intrusive thoughts tell me to play ana "go fight this tracer a little bit, go take the 1v1" lmao

[@nirenjanms6910]

awkward might be one of the best players as well as one of the best coaches i’ve ever seen. love his content and love what he preaches

[@alfadog8618]

this guy gives the same advice through all the roles . he makes it so easy and simple to understnad

[@youpitreza]

This is huge. Thank you so much to you two!

[@TiresAreForCars]

awkward is the goat at teaching this game. its literally freelo to watch one of his unranked to gms

[@blakecarter537]

Love this type of OW content. Thank you for paying for my coaching 💜

[@MaliReborn]

After watching awkwards baptised unranked to gm I finally made it to GM on DPS from D5. Mostly the push forward when they move back and move backwards when the enemy push helped a lot. Combining it with the fundamentals A10 preaches about corners and flipping them

[@JetBrews]

i lost it when he said, "my own psychological baggage as a player" ..yo this is a game. LOL

[@lian7092]

watched all of it , will definently try to not forget , tough ig mostly just listened in , still helped alot , will try all this when i will replace my switch lite joystick

[@khele2k]

Definitely an intense coach, but if you can keep your head it's a great way to push your comfort level.

[@IKGAOPUMUILSLAAN]

Having watched the first two min I'm blown away that your gameplay is GM lmao

[@apiranha1]

You must have been extremely nervous cus frankly this doesn’t look close to GM Ana gameplay, None the less this video is the best of its kind so thank you for it.

[@jaslyyn7796]

I’m just admiring the first torb cause his name is from an anime that I see no one watches. Vincent law torb id get down my knees for you

[@yogran1]

I know SVB play better than this on a normal day but having someone talk in your ear and second guess your decisions really makes things a lot harder

[@LeatherNinja]

Svb is very good at processing information and he adapts very fast, as seen in this video. He is the one that signed up for this and he was clearly prepared. Maybe it's just that you're not capable of having someone suggest things while you're playing, which is understandable.

[@snowleopard9907]

​@@LeatherNinja chill homie lmao

[@PyroInferno110]

@@snowleopard9907 he dont gotta chill, he spittin.

[@TylerMelendez-j5z]

“Stop jumping SVB…” this reminds me of when Danteh had to unbind jump to break the habit.

[@nirenjanms6910]

lmaoo not surprised this is your highest viewed vid on this channel. awkward is the goat

[@ericsanchz]

More content like this!!! A++

[@harrisonjordan4383]

Bro that hanzo was complaining the WHOLE game lmao

[@anuraexe]

i think the most frustrating thing about playing like this is the players like the hanzo not noticing all the impact and just spamming i need healing the whole game 🙃 but oh well

[@jayi31]

Took this guy 10+ minutes to hit a single sleep

[@Yea___]

He knows exactly what he is talking about, this is great

[@Samuraithekid]

Absolutely amazing! This is the kind of content I crave. Now if I could just hide this from the rest of the Ana players so I can actually play DPS without 4 people shooting at me 😂. No seriously it is awesome to let us see you get coached even though you are already top 1% of ladder.

[@Vealkutlette]

SVB was looking like ML7 on route 66

[@sleepygirlfriend878]

I watched this and it inspired me to play ana and it resulted in so many more wins its crazy. thank you for this! super helpful

[@sunvesu]

reaaaaaally helpful coaching thank you bro

[@stevenseufert2520]

"Stop jumping" Okay, look, you can't ask for the impossible. Joking aside, as an Ana player this video seems really helpful.

[@downey6666]

I've been maybe trying to do the wrong thing -I've been trying to stop myself taking aggressive dps angles on supports; watching this is making me want to reevalutate it

[@tvxic19]

well simply go for damage but also don't be too greedy and try not to overextend

[@harry.knut.69]

easily one of the best watches to learn what you should be doing on healer. I never played supp before this season, climbed from gold 4 to d1 by focusing on DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE

[@rz810]

I recognise this voice « damage damage, all ways damage » 🤣

[@CS-pg4go]

i love the whiplash movie reference at around 8:45

[@Anonymous_McNugget]

It’s nice to see Awkward coaching someone else just cause Awkward is so mechanically gifted, he can get away with stuff nobody else can. Obviously SVB is a great player but there are very few players that can do what Awkward does as smoothly as he does

[@kelvintran5709]

getting coached while youre playing is hard. respect for uploading the learning curve as you did

[@333Abs]

I took a break from the game for majority season 4 and start of season 5 and feel SUPER rusty. Kept losing games. Re-found awkward and now I feel like I can get back to where I was

[@joshp3446]

I Love this, I am a Mastera 3-4 Ana Player, and I do a fair amount of damage but I am learning so much from this video and the advice from Awkward

[@TeMeister]

I immediately hear in my head “damage damage damage”

[@CSyoutube90]

Love Awkward. I had the wrong mentality. I was WAY too worried about healing. I started focusing on DPSing WAY more and I am much higher rated now. GG Awkward.