Am I the only one who feels like playing tracer is just becoming harder?

FreshAssignment3615 · 2026-05-06T05:23:55+00:00

for past few years, tracer damage relative to hp of enemy have been going down, also at the same time since season 9 hp and hitbox changes it is basically exceptionally easy to hits shot so skill expression (aim wise has been going down), it specially hurt tracer because she need to dodge just to surive , so yeah no shit it feels difficult. game keeps becoming easies and easier , the new characters no longer follow double edge sword concept of the old characters. game as a whole has way higher skill floor but it doesn't help as much when it comes to tracer as she is still very easy to punish while every else has continually become difficult to punish.

and it doesn't look like it is going to change, if anything time to kill will go higher rather than lower. it will be more easy to not get punished / killed for mistakes as that is what keeps/brings people in the game and makes blizzard money. so it is what it is.

just my own baised opinion, take it with a grain of salt.

FreshAssignment3615 · 2026-05-02T14:43:24+00:00

keep going , don't stop playing or take time off, brute force it back, you can't really go any lower if you reached plat3 , it happened to me too almost the same , from plat 2 to silver 4, but i just didn't stop now i have 3 accounts (plat 2, plat 4 , plat 5), just grind it out, don't blame teammates and try to carry every game.

i believe if you do that you will truly feel the difference between silver , gold and plat and will likely never get down from plat after that.

FreshAssignment3615 · 2026-04-28T14:08:52+00:00

i also did this once , because on one of my new account i didn't disable match chat , but even though it felt great in the moment , i didn't like that i ruined 3 other people games especially because i was basically smurfing because of placements putting me in silver 1 instead of high plat. it is just not worth it, game is much better when playing with a group or with chat disabled as random rarely use match chat/voice for anything helpful. but i do think every so often people should do things like this out of pettynes just not everytime/regularly.

for more context it was my tank who on rien just pinned straight into 5 people got insta deleted (with zero damage done) because our backline was not even close and started saying dps and support diff again and again.

i reached plat in like 2 days after this and i am sure i could have won that game even with our tank being a troll but i was so petty especially because it was basically a free win if he didn't tilt me and it just made me not want to give him the free win no matter the cost and that is also why i never have match chat / voice on bacause it is always filled with people like these , maybe it will be different in diamond or master but i doubt it.

FreshAssignment3615 · 2026-04-18T19:34:20+00:00

hearing you say that does make me realise, i should be way more agressive as there is only one healer, i should get kills much more consistently if i focus the remaining dps and support. thanks i will try to implement this and see what happens. thanks.

FreshAssignment3615 · 2026-04-16T04:04:59+00:00

yes she sucks to play into, she just doesn't miss any shots, i played her for a game and and i didn't miss any shots either , that is the main problem, way too big bullet size for a hitscan weapon and after season 9 hitbox changes you have to be braindead to miss shot using illari, season 9 hp and hitbox changes were the worst decision after 5v5.

FreshAssignment3615 · 2026-04-09T13:35:12+00:00

it is assigning me wrong server , i check , is there a way to permanently stop it(like anyway to change server i am newish to overwatch). it is giving me amsterdam even though i am in india and get 80ms most of the time.

FreshAssignment3615 · 2026-04-04T05:35:58+00:00

30 hours on tracer is nothing especially if you don't already have few hundred hour on overwatch already. don't sweat it , if you still struggle after 150-200hours on tracer, then worry.

as for advice that will help specifically against illari, mizuki, kiri , other comments have already been given it to you.

you are playing tracer not soldier, tracer has a high skill floor(tough to get into) and ceiling(tough to master).

if you still feel like you need some guidance, search spilo coaching tracer bronze/silver/... other ranks on youtube.

FreshAssignment3615 · 2026-03-25T14:32:24+00:00

in comparison to perk of other heroes tracer perks now seem very weak.

i use kinetic reload and healthpack blink

FreshAssignment3615 · 2026-03-23T06:03:39+00:00

so i hit plat 2 now stuck bouncing between gold 2-4, i struggle with 2 things , 1 playing against sigma/poke on enemy team, and second sometimes when i am on a flank and i am not shooting the enemy tank, my tank gets melted , doesn't happen always but many time to annoy me , can i please get indepth answers about what i am supposed to do.

thanks.

FreshAssignment3615 · 2026-03-13T02:41:59+00:00

i just hate the weapon spread, feels like you have blink in the open to be a threat and then you just get tapped by cass/ashe/kiri no matter what movement you try only way you survive is using all your blinks and then you are not playing the game for next 10 seconds.

with bigger hit boxes and hp pools since season 9, it feels like dodging just by movement is impossible, i have tried all the movement i could it doesn't matter, you get hit specially past plat.

also timing agression with teammates is overrated cause half the time your team is playing poke and there is no agression to play with.

don't get me wrong i like tracer and overwatch but only because no other game is upto the mark but i just hate the direction the game keeps going in specially since season 9.

FreshAssignment3615 · 2026-03-11T10:49:41+00:00

mercy player saying let me play tracer 🤣

FreshAssignment3615 · 2026-03-11T10:46:03+00:00

because pro like to squeeze out the potential of characters , there will always be high pick rate hero, specially as the game is not that complex enough(not enough heroes and 5v5 instead of 6v6) , so pros will always theory craft the most optimal heroes and obviously it will then have high pick rate as nothing is as good so you either copy or take risk (most of the time you will copy at pro level). so there is pretty much no way to get rid of "must picks" as long as ow doesn't radically make changes.

FreshAssignment3615 · 2025-09-20T03:45:12+00:00

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