You aren't climbing because you don't think like this. Learn Overwatch With Me!

[@CH4R10T_TV]

I've been learning Tracer and basically while flanking and fighting, I always try to have a "reserve blink," so two are for using creatively/aggressively and one is for using in emergencies. If I know I have to double blink, I just hold cover until I have all three unless it's like overtime or something and I have no choice. It basically upgrades her kit from one escape (recall) to two escapes. I think I picked it up from a Tracer guide from back in the Overwatch 1 days. Good times.

[@iviorgan_]

smart

[@Pam234]

No…. If you have a blink you should use it in the 1v1. There’s no reason to save it in the 1v1. A 2v1 is a different story and typically you shouldn’t be taking more then one enemy.

[@aurora245]

@@Pam234They didn’t specifically say this trick is for 1v1 only. This is a general must-have mindset

[@nxm3162]

@@Pam234this is a general knowledge thing for playing tracer lmfao

[@AceOfSpadesDestinyOne]

@@Pam234 As a tracer main since ov1.. Thats not what they were talking about, but again, you only use the third blink.. if you HAVE to, emergencies only

[@may829]

Finally I’ll be out of Bronze 5 !

[@drkirbkennethkirby7634]

x to doubt!

[@rockstarxcks9728]

I'm so bad I'm still in Oak 3 🪵 😢

[@doginpillows20]

Perhaps I can get out of participation 4!

[@Kosovo1G]

I GOT BRONZE 4

[@mng8680]

If youre bronze, its better to play easier to use heroes such as Soldier 76 than Tracer on DPS. Tracer requires good skill cooldown management and mechanical skill for her to be strong, so she is not good for beginners.

[@hbelleasmr]

as a newer ow player I am extremely grateful for your energy and mindset, it seems so many others fall victim to the stress the game can put you under. I’ve only watched a few of your videos so far but I’ve learned so much already, thank you so much for your unique contribution to the community ❤

[@aoxomoxoa1]

also as tracer, i like to play the cleanup role. the fight is a bubble and you’re constantly in orbit looking for the weakest link. even as annoyance, staying alive gets a lot of value. you gotta think about how their team views you and be two steps ahead. practice makes perfect :)

[@BigPapaMitchell]

Im nowhere your level but a good piece of advice I heard back in the day that I think feels pretty good for blink management is to use your blinks the way you'd use zarya bubbles, you try to always have at least 1 blink up and try to keep your blink until you're almost at 2.5 seconds before using, so that you always have blinks stocked up for emergencies or for a quick sudden engagement if you still have recall up. I find I never quite run out of blinks this way and always have enough for whatever maneuver Im trying to pull

[@ridleydaemonia1134]

Eskay is so soft spoken it's relaxing 😌

[@JD-ub5ic]

ₗₑₜ'ₛ 𝓰ₒₒₒₒₒₒₒ!

[@carterm8029]

I love this type of video. I find my thought process wavers a lot during games and I often don’t know how to problem solve while in the moment. This video helps more than you know 🙂

[@jack-goose]

It's impressive how well you can explain your thought process while playing. Most of my decision making is subconscious so videos like this really help me understand what I should be thinking about in a fight :)

[@TomMorello725]

An underrated tip for getting better and climbing (no matter rank or hero): Focus on yourself. How many times have we got tilted, and then, distracted about dumb things? If the game is hard, playing it and being distracted just makes it worse -and typing arguing in chat, do not do that-! HealthyGamerGG has a good video about the "flow state"... it helps a lot with your approach to playing competitive games (or even everything).

[@endless_del]

every time i start to get frustrated by my teammates, i make a conscious effort to think about whatever mistake i noticed from my teammate, and how i contributed to it or something i also could have done differently to maybe change the outcome of the fight. it's helped me a lot to unlearn some of the blamey mentality i've picked up, to the point where i almost always focus on my mistakes first and i only have to consciously think about myself if we're getting steam rolled in an unusually frustrating game. if i ever start to have a thought that begins with "they" i immediately finish it, and begin again with "i".

[@leogallis8959]

I commend your ability to actually generate targeted goals and truly focus on them as a means of improving rather than just playing to win. It really helps defaulting and its been a godsend to save my mental. Also, a general tip that helped a ton with a lot of characters and especially tracer, is that if you are using movement cooldowns to get somewhere you could get by walking (ex. changing angles behind cover/out of danger) then you are being lazy and impatient and in an effort to decrease your downtime you are actually increasing it

[@leogallis8959]

Also a tracer specific tip is when you dont have the resources to effectively engage backline, or if the other team is investing heavily in to marking you, pumping damage into tank is very effective and tracer does a surprising amount of sustained damage to tanks due to large hitboxes

[@leogallis8959]

Also sticking tanks without damage mitigation like jq, rein, orisa/ram without gold/form, etc is stupidly underrated and strong if.timed well with team engage

[@Jellysfrickingstuff]

Watching eskay play tracer is giving me ptsd from when I was shit at tracer ToT she’s not easy. Engagement timing, mechanics, target priority, effective, range, movement, audio ques, matchup knowledge, map knowledge. The difference between tracer and the rest of the roster is that if you mess up sometimes just 1 of those things, you die. But yeah players like gale think they should bring back all the abilities that used to one shot her randomly and also nerf her.

[@TomMorello725]

Tracer is the hardest DPS no doubt about that!

[@turtley8581]

i mean, tracer should always be a pretty potent character but they damage buff was just unnecessary lol

[@Jellysfrickingstuff]

@@turtley8581 nothing was dying bro. We were in a turret meta. A couple season ago, unless your team pushed all the way up, you couldn’t do shit on tracer. Additionally they increased everyone’s health and they already nerfed tracers fall off damage so you have to play even closer. I feel like her feeling broken is a result of other players not realizing how much better you have to be than everyone else in your rank to play tracer

[@turtley8581]

@@Jellysfrickingstuff she fell off for one season and then the next season to come out was genuinely perfectly catered to her, which is how she's once again, the best hero in the game i picked up tracer after the damage and projectile buff and god, its never felt easier to kill things. when i'm performing this well on tracer with genuinely zero experience is when i start to feel like somethings wrong by no means does that mean her skill ceiling still isnt insane, but even at a mediocre level of gameplay, tracer is insanely strong and has been for so, so damn long

[@leogallis8959]

​@@turtley8581damage buff? They nerfed her damage in response to a bug, then patched the bug and later reverted the damage nerf. She has been 6 damage per pellet since effecticely release, and now despite the projectile size buff, along with the hp buff it is effectively just as difficult to one clip as before. The dps passive just disproportionately affected her as she could take any angle and proc it on several people safely, denying the ability to use cover to remove it. Effectively its just the dps passive along with her 175 hp which just avoids many of the previous 150hp thresholds. The damage is not and has not been the issue for a long time

[@futurefreefall4697]

Just a thing to know - when you want to pulse bomb - instead of throwing it forward in a line - you should be throwing it at the feet of the enemy -/ it does more than 1 thing the lower body hitbox it bigger and as u aim at feet you won't over throw your pulse so if it doesn't *hit* it could be close enough to kill without stick or at least do a little damage also

[@BigMan-ni9un]

Just found this and your attitude towards this game and learning is inspiring! PS: I’d love more tracer videos!

[@astro_m3ta]

Having no ego and analyzing your gameplay. Dopee

[@QHuman]

Playing tracer taught me that I have a HORRIBLE habit of holding down three directional keys at the same time. I think maybe I never unlearned it when I first started playing because the characters I played were not challenging or specific movement-wise. Apparently I unconsciously learned to RELEASE the directional key opposite to where I want to move, instead of just pressing ONLY the appropriate key. I played like that for years and never noticed. Honestly baffling how my brain works sometimes 🙄

[@intrepidmonkey]

55 seconds into the video: niiiice, those are some good tips for me to focus on as well when trying to learn Tracer.

[@maneater]

i don't play tracer but eskay's voice is so calming, this was so nice to listen to in the background while working

[@timsagmyr2014]

Opening my eyes to tracer, I have good cool down usage but sometimes struggle to figure out to do. Forcing cool downs on tracer makes so much sense. Thanks Kay

[@gaines8807]

20:35 this type of teaching style is how I learn best 😎 excited for more videos like this

[@HirasSketches]

Try watching awkward's unranked to gm tracer. It was in ow2 so its sorta recent and he gives the best advice for hours straight

[@Paal2005]

29:27 Yes. yes we do. Tracer isn't quite as bad as Sombra's but she's pretty high up on the hit list.

[@MrJamedawg]

you might not want to hear this... but i think the heart cross hair is holding you back from your full potential! lol =0 =P

[@rioriorio17]

Hey Eskay I don’t think you will see this but it might help someone else climb as well. You talked about feeling overwhelmed when you talked about trying to also focus on aiming with movement as well as all the other things. The solution to this is to NOT focus on a bunch of things at once. For example, for a number of hours just focus on blink usage and recall usage and “autopilot” everything else. Eventually you won’t need to think about those things and good usage will become your autopilot. Then you will move on to something else. Obviously you will have to cycle back to ability usage as your focus as you climb higher. Naturally though, when learning a new character in this you will loose SR temporarily as you make plenty of mistakes. Although you WILL be learning at a very fast rate. Ironically, to climb you have to not care about climbing. You can’t think about winning and loosing. You have to just focus on your own performance. Which is incredibly difficult. Though can be trained over time. Thank y’all for coming to my TED Talk lmao

[@guineapig9928]

21:50 it looks like she dropped the shield for a split second, which would allow the pulse to restick to directly on her (fi believe)

[@Ava-uj3ux]

I love your positivity so much

[@nickarispe6030]

I think you should do this more and with other heroes I love this type of vid

[@RedPotato1510]

This is super helpful. It's easy (for me anyway) to forget about target prioritization and just click red stuff in comp. I'll try to remember this next time but I'm just a potato

[@CamSpaghett]

I’m not climbing because I’m shit actually. All the gm1 players are chillin in masters and I’m hard stuck down here

[@rubensargsyan5634]

great video eskay. i cannot wait to see more uploads from my favorite youtuber.

[@aoxomoxoa1]

pulse doesn’t need to be fancy, just think of it as a free pick. if you can be unpredictable with it and be more of an opportunist you’ll get more value imo. also don’t be afraid to fling that thing you can get it back pretty often

[@RawThyme]

I'm trying to learn tracer but scared to do comp for it. Qp feels inconsistent though

[@matthewrayner571]

Go for it! If you're playing enough you can always get your deserved rank back with a character you're comfortable. Also, it's a videogame. Rank doesn't actually matter irl, so if you drop whil learning it's no biggy.

[@SolenoidGamma]

I'd suggest just playing comp. If you drop, it's fine, you'll climb back up as you get better. QP doesn't prepare you for the actual gameplay you'll experience in comp, so you sort of cheat yourself with that.

[@dankshrek277]

This is the calmest gameplay iv seen

[@MiniePie16]

I started playing overwatch 1 week ago (i had only around 20 hours of gameplay before that) and now i just like to play tracer and now youtube decided that i was going to watch this lol

[@solsoman102]

anyone notice at 6:19 the killfeed says zarya killed mech with a reflect?

[@Seekabro]

this was a great video! would love to see more like it :)

[@Strawfairy_milk]

At 22:12 she says she should have died on the cart. Why? Someone please explain to me

[@nhotion]

I actually love this video thank you eskay

[@Aquaescobar]

Think of tracer as a queen chess piece. The better angles you cut through, the more advantageous your position is. Also.. reverse blink is underrated

[@gap0011]

Coach Eskay? Hell ya! Im down!

[@scottwillian2120]

21:53 she let her shield go so the bomb dropped on her, not a bug

[@scottwillian2120]

if you slow it down u will see that the bomb sticks to the shield, she releases the shield to hit you, the bomb drops and sticks her

[@baconpancake2542]

how did zaria kill somebody with deflect 6:19

[@fugonee]

Gonna rank up to Bronze 5 now❗️❗️

[@MrJamedawg]

12:55 That window!!! oh mannnn. that woulda made me tingly in my pants if that happened to me!

[@aliengodxo]

We love Eskay! Hope everyone having a good day

[@jimmyj956]

2:34 why doesn’t Eskay go with teammate comms?

[@T1ddlywinks]

I thought the same thing looool

[@Jerm8x]

i know this may come off wrong but i love watching ur videos because ur so soft spoken like the feminine voice u have it so soothing in a way

[@wyd3rf335]

you owned me on shambali, wp

[@meloooooooooooooooooooon]

Eskay has a Mega brain 🧠 :>

[@Amia_Lily]

love you eskay hope youre having a great night :3

[@gabrielludlum6248]

Love your content, queen!!!

[@doombringer4519]

WHAT IS THE SONG IN THE BACKGROUND I KNOW IT BUT I DON'T KNOW IT

[@waterwind73]

hope you get gm good luck!

[@RealDragoth]

What is that custom game called or how do we get it I would like to practice with that?

[@greglurt]

Can you make a video showing how to climb as Ana? Please

[@user-fc3um2ko1v]

Btw what happened with being shield was she dropped it momentarily meaning the bomb stuck to her, weird tech to know

[@EternalTriadthePaladin]

It’s crazy seeing a GM level player start out looking worse than you, a bronze console tracer main, and then immediately adapting because of sheer mechanical skill. It’s so cool. The misuse of blink and missed pulse bombs was definitely difficult to watch tho 😭

[@echopho]

Came for the knowledge, left cuz the stuffed animal staring at me

[@unklrukkus]

Everyone always says go torb for the tracer, but tracers know genji is your biggest counter.

[@allanlugo7842]

I would like to know tracer but in console im stuck with that awful FOV i get disoriented way faster than with other heroes 😢

[@Lessen0]

this combination of high speed skill, strategic/tactical awareness, and calm gentle low-ego explanation is amazing and something gaming communities need but don’t deserve, lol. So many loud egotistical raging strategically-dense shitheads in gaming who are maybe a bit mechanically good but are… missing the forest for the trees.

[@veikureinn]

I really love content like this, just feels very raw and is good to view over to see the kind of way i should strive to approach improving on tracer

[@AntonyGreenman]

There is nothing more frustrating than getting a zen to 6 hp and then watching him murder the whole team cuz you didn’t kill him!

[@thebluecomet3974]

Never been this early to an eskay video

[@KingofPho75]

@2:40 “shoot orisa.” For what? How about the damn zen who is 1 that she has been pointing out?

[@frky_fred]

The only chance ill ever have of eskay saying hi. Hi eskay

[@commentbot9510]

Why should you aim at the body on Tracer?

[@alexandrebatista8600]

Yes plz school me eskay love the videos like this. I’m plat and I need the tips.

[@mairafarias]

tracer is so fun, one day I'll be good

[@Casuuuual]

So I'm a silver dps and 100% know Im a silver dps, but legit feel overwhelmed by how much Idk xD Was wondering if anyone had advice on what to focus on early when just learning how to play overwatch.

[@Mr.Beaucoup]

What’s the workshop code?

[@Logan-bh8tc]

Oh boy can't wait to get out of gold

[@le_beru]

i came here to learn and first thing i see is tickling everyone and missing pulse bomb, u still higher rank than me . what can i say

[@frosty4894]

what's the background song called? It's supper relaxing.

[@doginpillows20]

Seems to be a remix of I think it's "Super Star" or something like that from Mario odyssey

[@frosty4894]

@@doginpillows20 I searched it but it doesn't seem to be it.

[@doginpillows20]

@@frosty4894 sorry it's called "jump up super star"

[@m_t1n45]

if you're talking about the song in the first part of the video it's "relaxing background" by Shaka hope this helps

[@frosty4894]

@@m_t1n45 I love you man. Thank you!

[@commentbot9510]

15:44 is why ranked sucks this season 😭 The games have been good though.

[@obiwantschernobyl5650]

cant count how many times bastion saved my ass after i couldnt bring enough value with tracer lol

[@williamlevy6964]

I wish I had a pc. I think I could climb really high with a mouse and keyboard.

[@marionluigi6517]

Could you hook up a keyboard and mouse with the console to play? Some games have keyboard and mouse support on console (it feels a little weird but it's better than controller for doing better at games)

[@hammsterminator]

bold of you to assume I think a all

[@comd.shepard]

How is this plushy better than me on Tracer & I am a Tracer/Zen one-trick???.....Truly I am sad 😣

[@jahkareramkissoon419]

All I see is more reasons to play bastion

[@mmdawg2]

58 seconds !!

[@Sckysz]

Its either a bug or just a new thing for Brig, but her shield doesn’t block pulse bombs anymore

[@TyBillion]

Long ahh title we gotta do better

[@RikkeDK1996]

man you falling of the map cus the boat you blinked onto glitched or whatever was rough. like you made it but game decided nah.

[@dominicpirola8240]

There's a gap in the corner of the boat on the left which is so troll especially since dipping ur toes in that water kills u

[@dominicpirola8240]

Oh wait I was tired when I first watched it rewatched and yeah that's just a glitch mbmb

[@EdwardGlizzyHanz]

Yeah I’m basically plat

[@jfd8288]

meow

[@doxd7441]

Hi :3

[@waynewilson3580]

Not climbing fast cause i get lucio zen onetriks on supp that get trains ran on them n healing simply out damaged n my rank got reset from top 500 again for the 100th time n for some reason yall never find jesus or a new character to play or understand that ttheres 1000s of u now n that ur heals are basically even more underwhelming somehow after the healing nerf yall will continue to force ur bad selfish picks and choose to be hinderrella and leach the SR and patience out of ur teammates as y watch them perish around u never swapping or jus going and playing a one player game since yall obviously dont wanna play supp yall jus wanna wonder around emote spam voice lines and play dora the explora n not even do it in qp like a decent human being would

[@gridddo]

no, im not climbing because im not playing the game 😎

[@geno3573]

The view count goes up as you’re watching now??

[@pultie7927]

Same with comments I think

[@tylerbacoka4248]

zen 1, but he's sitting behind 3 full health players....newb....bad callout...i need to be careful because I'm playing in front of my tank and really i can't do much here but die....tracers who just hope everything works out....yep wasted abilities...you really teach new hero's you don't hardly know well....eskay play with no battle pass, see how amazing you really are for once...games rigged and you can't teach it anyways...lameeee vid

[@2am17]

it's really not a bad callout, it's just in case anybody had an oppurtunity to get him, you're genuinely looking for things to complain about

[@tylerbacoka4248]

@@2am17 its an impossible callout at that moment, don't act like you know.

[@2am17]

@@tylerbacoka4248 know what??😭😭

[@2am17]

@@tylerbacoka4248 also, one mistake doesn't define a player. chill out

[@beckyfortune8335]

I climb and drop not because I don’t think like this but I just have leavers and teammates who don’t know what they are doing 😂

[@Excentrix54]

Perfect example of how streamers are boosted...... this is gold level tracer play

[@kalekalahan351]

She's literally solo queuing in last season GM lobby equivalent and winning games while also off roleing. Grow up lmao

[@Excentrix54]

@@kalekalahan351 ok simp

[@kalekalahan351]

@@Excentrix54 wow nice one didn't see that one coming. You get called out for being stupid and the only thing you have in defense is that. What a well thought out argument I'm sure to change my mind!

[@Excentrix54]

Do you actually think i give a shit what you think? Fuck outta here ​@@kalekalahan351

[@ultimateblaze23]

why are you playing sniper Tracer? my Tracer is better than this i'm in gold

[@forestgreengloves]

it puts pressure on the enemy team and they have to turn to look at you! Helps ur team be able to get picks and take up space. Also u can bait enemies into better positions for ur team if they move because of u