Continuing our now established series of Tips and Tricks, we’re moving over to Overwatch. Currently enjoying its well-deserved off-season and with the community awaiting for Overwatch 2, it’s the right time to read through our Overwatch Tips and Tricks!
Mechanical Skill
Although the first-person-shooter can be played on both console and PC, we’ll be focusing on where the competitive scene is primarily based, being PC. Overwatch is renowned for its incredible intensity. Accordingly, this is due to having six players on each team all rushing towards one objective.
Bearing this in mind, here are some mechanical skills for Overwatch which are similar to other PC shooters like Rainbow 6:
- Use an aim-trainer – try and take the time to make sure your aim is perfect. Just an hour every now and then can make all the difference here. Indeed, you’ll want to practice flicking and quickly changing your aim.
- Mastering movement – depending on your character, movement will vary in importance. Lightweight heroes rely heavily on movement to become a hard target. Combining fast dashes with quick aim makes yourself a very hard opponent to encounter.
- Utilizing the right abilities – managing all your abilities will take a lot of focus on a lack of hesitation while making the most of the situation
- Consider investing in a more powerful PC and other peripherals. Indeed, running the game at a higher frame rate could help you out incredibly.
In-Game Knowledge and Awareness
Besides mechanical skill, in-game knowledge and awareness is more essential in more than one way. Take note of the following to possibly take your game to the next level:
- Know the maps inside out. You’ll need to know where each objective sits for whatever game mode, including the best spots for cover and the quickest routes.
- Map awareness extends to ability usage – knowing how you can corner your opponents, where they spawn and how you can help your team best
- Knowing your roll – amongst a team of six players you need to be fully aware of what you look to accomplish. The following are some roles: healer, support, flanker, offense and tank. Damage dealers may also be frontline and non-frontline.
- Be aware of where your teammates are in order to coordinate attacks, ability usage and to strategize rotations – this can be done by observing the map more often
- Develop strategies for each game mode to help yourself and your team succeed
- Follow the Overwatch League to learn the newest strategies and peaks
Personal and Interpersonal – Overwatch Tips and Tricks
Communication is key in Overwatch unlike any other esport. Having 6 teammates on one team makes teamwork more important than any other. High pressure situations need to be handled appropriately and calmly – here are some others you can read:
- Communicate only the essentials: you’ll want to focus on enemy positions, ability availability and map positioning
- Keeping calm for difficult situations: executing a win will take some stressful situations which can shift the tides
- Following each game, you’ll want to learn from how you lost and how to overcome it.
Sitting as a Tier 2 esport potentially pushing to Tier 1, Overwatch is still growing. The Overwatch League is constantly growing and next year, some new changes will be implemented.
We hope you enjoyed those tips – make sure to try use them next time you’re playing competitively.
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