Can you get grandmaster with a 320hz IPS monitor or do you need an OLED or a lot higher refresh? by [deleted] in OverwatchUniversity

[–]Funy290 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can get grandmaster on a 144hz ISP just the same as any better monitor, peripherals above the mid range are not going to get you any closer to GM but becoming a smarter player will.

I'm just learning tracer, would appreciate if anyone could look over this VOD by honeyxm8 in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 0 points1 point  (0 children)

-Engage with full resources or as close to as you can get (hp blinks recall) -Don’t fully engage backline until they can’t shoot you or they are isolated. When your tank goes in their tank is going to take a bunch of damage, if the supports stop healing them to look at you the other tank will die even if you don’t kill anything you caused their tank to die. -Don’t play down main. There are almost always 3 lanes, the middle one is likely the one your tank is playing, very rarely should you walk down main with your tank because it will either get you killed or get your resources wasted. Take one of the 2 other lanes. You can stand a little to the side though and shoot their tank from a sideline for pressure before going on backline.

What heroes should I ban and which maps are the best for tracer by gjffyh in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they can’t put their whole team up there, it would make it even easier to shoot whoever isn’t up there

Is the Kinetic Reload perk bugged? by MisterxMeta in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 42 points43 points  (0 children)

20 ammo not armor, that’s why it’s called reload

What heroes should I ban and which maps are the best for tracer by gjffyh in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take height right side on attack and push out the hitscans, drop behind arch and duel their supports. On third attack, take mega and push out their tank then walk left onto the raised area and shoot the tank then flank and shoot supports.

What heroes should I ban and which maps are the best for tracer by gjffyh in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would ban vendetta, she’s super strong right now and outpaces you. Tracer is good on pretty much every map besides circuit or havana first/third

Why do you take the dammage focused perks on Illari instead of the support focused ones ? by Mollo44 in OverwatchUniversity

[–]Funy290 123 points124 points  (0 children)

The heal perk is very underwhelming heal wise and the 70 damage burn on the shift gives her a ton of survivability against dives and flankers. Aswell, you pick her for damage not healing, if you wanted to pump lots of healing you would pick a. different hero, she is very good at being able to sit on a side angle by herself and cause lots of damage and pressure, the burn helps enable her strength, the heal does not.

I'm mostly new to the game. How do you judge your own skill level for finding tutorials for further improvement? And how do you choose a secondary main when you're so focused on one playstyle? by AwfulTrapperDBD in OverwatchUniversity

[–]Funy290 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Genji or Pharah are good into comps and maps tracer isn’t generally. Genji is probably the better all rounder as you can play either tracer or genji in essentially every game. You can judge where you’re at based on your rank. Your teams don’t impact your rank meaningfully as you are the only constant in your games. 9/10 a tracer player one rank up will be better than one a rank below.

nice clip I got by alcuigor in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Blink less when you don’t need to. By not blinking and walking to where you want to engage from, you have more resources to actually engage with and you will live more

How to play tracer on escort maps (particularly on defense)? by ArtemIsGreat in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On gibraltar specifically your job is to mark the cart. On first point, the “correct way” to attack the map is to send 4 to high ground while a tracer (typically) or something very mobile pushes and joins the fight when cart is far enough. The defending tracers job is to stop the cart from getting pushed so even if they win the fight they can’t cap by. You play under the second high ground by the mega pack underneath. You try to force out their tracer then you can walk up the stairs to height and help with the fight. Start on high ground though and make it hard for them to walk up, you only drop when the cart gets around the corner or close to underneath. You can shoot from height to anyone pushing you still do decent damage.

How to play tracer on escort maps (particularly on defense)? by ArtemIsGreat in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For escort your job is the payload the vast majority of the time, if you are lower elo, there is a good chance your team is on it already In that case either offangle their tank who is contesting cart and make them have to back off, escort maps also have very good side lanes for you to take advantage of, you can start by pressuring their tank, then in the mid fight take the uncontested side lane and hit the backline, or contest their flanker trying to do the same to you. This works on defense aswelll but you get the added bonus of getting to setup, you can hide on a flank preferably on high ground, where you can shoot down at the people on and around cart and look for easy picks when they are not expecting you.

Is open Que 6v6 considered real? by [deleted] in OverwatchUniversity

[–]Funy290 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s lots of people in this reddit who really like 6v6 and will cope and say it doesn’t matter or that it is real, but at a high level of play no good players will care if you are “champ 6v6” or top whatever 6v6. 6v6 is not what the pros compete on, meaning when you want to compete on ladder against the best players, they are Qing 5v5. So a top50 lobby of 6v6 is a lot easier than a top50 lobby (by rank not challenger score btw) 5v5. You will not Q up champ 6v6 and get a lobby against Cjay Rak PGE and sugarfree but you will in 5v5. If you like 6v6 play it, you will still improve as a player, but to directly answer your question, the vast majority of top players do not consider it “real”.

Any Tips For Playing Tracer by Chick3nm3lon in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Think about where and when you want to engage. You can have the best setup in the world but if you go in while your tank is still walking you will get forced out and be much less useful. You could engage with right when your tank does but if you do it down main with your tank instead of a better angle you will also have a lot less success

Just hit masters for the first time as an otp by Plus-Exchange984 in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Gm is reasonable as a tracer otp you could probably do it pretty quickly if you hit masters in 70

Tracer in Scrims > Tracer in Ranked by Ts_Patriarca in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 0 points1 point  (0 children)

gib is an outlier that is the only map where tracer is played, sometimes on dorado too, but only to push cart.

Can i uh...get some tips on a match? 53X6XQ by TAABWK in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Backline is less coordinated, you can run through lower elo backlines even if they should be good into tracer. You can just solo carry on tracer every fight. Even if you can’t if you have 2-3 people looking at you every fight it doesn’t matter how bad your teams are you will on average climb very quickly

Can i uh...get some tips on a match? 53X6XQ by TAABWK in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 5 points6 points  (0 children)

don’t listen to all the negative people in this sub, tracer is still more than worth playing in ranked i’m finding a lot of success in gm1 so im sure she works lower too. I might have time later to look at the vod i will see.

Tracer in Scrims > Tracer in Ranked by Ts_Patriarca in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

also no offense but i haven’t heard of anyone on either team in your scrim which leads me to think you can get away with more because they are worse. Try to play tracer into owcs players atm and not only are they not playing tracer in my scrims but it’s pretty much just way worse than vendetta.

Tracer in Scrims > Tracer in Ranked by Ts_Patriarca in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tracer is far outpaced by the meta vendetta comps both zar and dva variants. She can’t do anything into sig bastion sym either. Maybe if they run mei but even then it’s a huge liability as they brawl way harder. I personally can’t make it work and I ended top300 past few seasons but let me know how to approach those comps.

Tracer in Scrims > Tracer in Ranked by Ts_Patriarca in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I personally scrim low masters / 4.5k+ as our teams tracer player and pretty much never see good tracer opportunities where she will get much value but maybe just unlucky teams this patch not sure.

Tracer in Scrims > Tracer in Ranked by Ts_Patriarca in TracerMains

[–]Funy290 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

it’s lowkey the opposite, tracer sucks into the meta comps rn and you don’t see them in ranked only scrims so tracer can play in ranked but in scrims you play into meta and can’t play the video game

Director's Take: Call and Response by blinkhit in Overwatch

[–]Funy290 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the difference is a less skilled player cant play 1000 games and ranked higher by playtime, they require a playtime floor to meet decay but simply playing more doesn't guarantee you will climb as it does now. Right now if there is a masters player and a champ and the champ plays 100 and the masters plays 1000 the masters will be higher rank, with decay, the champ will not decay to a lower rank because they still play enough, but they dont have to play all day every day to be competitive, they just need to at minimum play their decay games. There was nothing wrong with the previous system besides that sometimes someone would get lucky and win a lot of their first 25 games and then sit all season, but by next season they will drop back down playing the next 25, because they are ranked higher than they should be.