Overwatch Voice Comms Explained By The Pros - The Importance Of Communication and Shotcalling

When it comes to any competitive team environment, learning how to communicate efficiently as a team is pivotal to achieving success.
During the 2019 Overwatch League season, we asked the pros about the importance of proper voice comms and their experiences with the management of shotcalling responsibilities at the highest levels of play.
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Interviewer: Adam Neylan
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[@Akshonesports]

Do you actively try to use voice comms or do you prefer to listen and type?

[@krzysztofkinowski2904]

I listen and type cause I am mostly tired while playing and don't feel like saying anything

[@krzysztofkinowski2904]

however in scrims I talk 24/7

[@Radom7]

I’m on console so I have to use comms and can’t talk

[@kinfe6756]

I’m usually the only person saying anything. It really be like that sometimes (Xbox)

[@mybirthwasamistake]

i’m a active voice comms(tank main), but not to Korean/Chinese cause their sounds annoying for me

[@G34RBOX]

I'm looking forward to the day when Custa is a coach, because he will be amazing at it. He's clearheaded, focused, and communicating his nuanced perspective in this video. He has gravitas in this interview, and one day he will bring that to bear on an entire team org.

[@BrickbyBrick_Productions]

Pros: Voice coms are important... Me: laughs in gold...

[@PolskaHerobrine]

It should be cries in gold

[@datboyandrei]

The importance of shouting a hero’s name repeatedly is to reassure your teammate who to focus in a super fast game where targets can change fast.

[@omaa11]

if communication is that important why After every win they put me in a game with no one in the team chat

[@lawrenskypierre8962]

FACTS

[@seanevans335]

Because most players just sit there and get resentful in their silence instead of being a team player and calling stuff out

[@thiebautjoel]

@@seanevans335 I feel like everyone agrees with that on youtube, but when playing, it's a whole different matter

[@omaa11]

@@seanevans335 i don't want them to talk i just want them to join the team chat so we know when we should push

[@seanevans335]

@@thiebautjoel I mean, I'm the same way. I only talk in like half of my games. I imagine most people agree on paper but don't want to risk getting flamed. Obviously some people react very harshly to very small things, calling their team shit etc. It's just mentally exhausting to play a game for fun and then have to deal with childish virgins who think they always play perfectly. I can understand why some people just don't give enough of a fuck to deal with that in practice

[@aqua2k210]

I want to listen to a recording of a team's comms throughout one map just to hear what its like

[@stevengarren6740]

Me as a plat Rein main: I'm going in. Its hammer time

[@putheo7745]

Custa is the one i agree the most, while Boink and Coolmatt... well, i strongly disagree. Comms should be loud, because the volume and the emergency in someones voice is much faster to understand that actual explanations. Screaming REALLY loud: "REIN REIN REIN" is faster to understand as priority than saying: "rein is very punishable". The shootcallers isnt the guy with good awarness, the team as a whole shootcalling makes good awarness, the shootcaller needs to be decisive and make the right questions like Custa said.

[@Turnpike_]

In my Console gold games it’s usually me and 1 or 2 others in voice

[@adcrengar9877]

Can't you use a headset? How else do all those Halo and CoD player screaming montages get put together if voice comms don't exist on console?

[@imnotsure3674]

ADC Rengar They exist but nobody uses them

[@noahla4019]

Pros: voice comms are important... Me: laughs in console

[@templarexemplar35]

yep

[@noahla4019]

Wait you can!??!?!?😮😰

[@kinfe6756]

I am a loser funny joke

[@noahla4019]

For anyone who didn't understand the joke. The higher you get on console the more arabs there are. So when reaching masters and top500 there is absolutely no use of it cause everyone I just shouting in arabic. also console is just a mess so no one takes advantage of voice comms

[@malenky4057]

My experience of being a plat support player is that most games where everyone is on voice and myself and at least 2 other people are talking, we win. When everyone joins voice, but I'm the only one talking, people tend to just do their own thing and ignore any calls/plans I make, making me wonder why they join voice in the first place. Sometimes however, if literally no one joins voice, you can just type a really simple plan and as long as the team is aggressive and executes on that plan, it can go really well.

[@uwutrashyuwu5044]

My average ranked team needs to see this

[@adcrengar9877]

Just going to say that Rascal is super cute and he knows it too

[@PadayonHana]

Hahaha their voice comms are adorable! :3

[@MaRia-xt8ub]

how to be pro: SCREAMSCREAMSCREAMSCREAMCREAMAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@meniimya5148]

Pros: comms are important Me: laughs in muted kid

[@waaq5012]

TESTING TESTING MIC CHECK. oop sorry too loud

[@themountaingoat2284]

My dumb ass read the title as "voice cameos"

[@lamasekte4357]

OH JESUS!

[@apples95]

Voice comms = GG

[@gabrieldorn4708]

DON'T TRADE BUMPER

[@krokodeilakiasGR]

communication in low-mid platinum HAHAHAHAAHAHAHA nice joke

[@yoriow877]

just communicate a general plan or target to your teammates, thats enough. Dont expect anything from your teammates, not even you are able to do.

[@aqn01]

MIC CHECK

[@jamiegillespie5754]

Hi

[@kexerino]

Who tf is boink?

[@Akshonesports]

Houston Outlaws' Support player who specializes in Lucio play.

[@diogodinis39]

Noice

[@rasheedbh]

Coolmatt has a bigger forehead than super xd

[@smaxippo6232]

Oh hey, I'm early.