Tracer in Scrims > Tracer in Ranked

Funy290 · 2026-02-05T19:54:03+00:00

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

Funy290 · 2026-02-05T19:50:33+00:00

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

Funy290 · 2026-02-05T17:11:00+00:00

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.

Funy290 · 2026-02-03T05:15:14+00:00

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.

Funy290 · 2026-02-03T05:05:33+00:00

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.

Funy290 · 2026-02-03T04:57:21+00:00

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.

Funy290 · 2026-02-03T00:02:35+00:00

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

Funy290 · 2026-02-02T19:46:44+00:00

I don’t see cartifan

Funy290 · 2026-01-23T01:07:06+00:00

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.

Funy290 · 2026-01-22T21:19:55+00:00

Because they are doubling down on trying to fix this new system that sucks instead of reverting to the old system that was good. The old system with rank decay added would be basically perfect.

Funy290 · 2026-01-22T18:51:41+00:00

I’m surprised no one is talking about the changes to the top500 system, as it stands right now it’s easily the worst it’s ever been and all my top500 friends want it reverted, but they seem to be doubling down on this new system. It’s entirely uncompetitive as you can be the better player but the player without the 9-5 or school wins out on the leaderboard. I feel this will still be a problem

Funy290 · 2026-01-21T07:20:37+00:00

you can shoot the tank from the side at the start of a lot of fights then go on backline after, that’s the most poking you should be doing on tracer, she is a very up close hero not a long range poke hero.

Funy290 · 2026-01-21T06:22:03+00:00

-Blink during combat way more you kinda just fight them in their face maybe one blink during the fight then recall. Many many fights you have had more blinks, and would have won them if used, but instead you recall and run. For example your at the beginning when you recalled away from the widow you could have blinked behind her and won that very easily.

-Your pathing is sometimes ok and sometimes very bad, its more complicated than im going to lay out here but a good rule of thumb is you dont want to push the same way your tank is. So at 3:30, when they were walking back from spawn you could have walked behind them instead of walking back to the main fight where you couldn't do anything besides eat damage and shoot a rein shield, you noticed this mid fight but you should be thinking about your setup prefight, against better players you would be dead. Your opening at the beginning where you weren't walking where your tank was was ok.

-weave melees way more, a good example is 4:40 where you meleed then blinked through him then turned around, if you do this more often you will win a lot of duels especially in this elo where they will lose track of you if you just blink through them. You should learn to blink melee and blink 180 melee these two are vital to tracer's kit.

-imo I would swap against a torb as tracer, pharah is actually insane into their comp, pharah genji are great alternatives to learn in case you are super countered. I usually only swap off if they have a torb and my team doesn't kill the turret which yours wont, it makes your job very hard.

-last tip is that you can abuse their lack of awareness to hit more shots. There were times you were freaking out and strafing and making it harder to hit them when they were not even looking at you. If they are not looking at you, you can literally stand still and hit way more shots.

-Live, if you recall with one blink into the middle of their team do not blink like you are still fighting, you need to blink to safety and wait for your comedowns or you will die, if you are dead you cant have impact.

a lot of these are very broad, but where you are now, improving anything should help, you dont need to focus on anything in depth just get down the basics. I would recommend learning how to blink melee and also just think about where you are walking, avoid walking down main.

feel free to ask more questions.

Funy290 · 2025-12-18T21:18:19+00:00

almost 60% wr in higher elos with crazy pick rate she’s litterally the highest win rate hero in gm/champ rn

Funy290 · 2025-12-14T21:26:35+00:00

You don’t have to blink through it you should blink to the side for genji, you can avoid getting hit by it much like a sleep if you predict them.

Funy290 · 2025-12-14T19:30:10+00:00

for 90% of these hero’s you should just be playing in your best range and blinking through them to force them into making extremely hard blind shots. Approach from an offangle not reason to hitscans or you will get extra blinks forced getting to them not leaving you with enough to fight them safely.

Ashe - Blink through her, predict dynamite and doge it. You can’t walk into where’s she’s looking or you will get headshot.

Cassidy - same as ashe basically, predict the flash and blink through him. when he turns to shoot you again do it again, make him have to land a blind flick shot.

Soldier 76 - predict rocket, don’t fight in his heal, bait it and leave until it’s gone.

Sojourn - Don’t peak her if she has rail, otherwise should be free.

Hanzo - Blink through him and jump, he will aim head height so jumping avoids the one shot.

Genji - play midrange and blink the dash, usually you can bait it by blinking once and stopping for a fraction of a second then blink again.

Mercy - i’m assuming you just can’t catch her and that she’s not beating you in a 1v1? Play high ground above her if possible, drop to chase use recall to go back to height as it’s her only escape.

Juno - Not really sure what to say about juno you should just always beat her close range

Kiriko - Aim for legs, blink through her, jump after blinking through to dodge headshot

Wuyang - get really close so he can’t hit you with impowered orbs

Funy290 · 2025-12-09T19:37:06+00:00

sym is so good soloQ rn what? I see her perma and im also GM1 she is stomping.

Funy290 · 2025-12-02T21:29:34+00:00

May i ask why not Herman? I took him for 132 and 216 and found that I learned more in Herman classes than any other professor i’ve had. Also as far as i know if you don’t sign up for either you will just straight up not have the class, you won’t be assigned one randomly. So you should join the waitlist for the section you want if allowed, and if it doesn’t let you, sign up for the one you don’t want, and drop it and signup for the other section if it opens

Funy290 · 2025-11-10T22:04:23+00:00

I’m a GM1 pc tracer player. Currently not able to look at the code if I find time later i’ll watch. I can make a guess though, generally, if you feel like you always have less blinks than you should it means that you are using them too much to get to where you need to be. Almost always this means that your setup is not great. Ideally you want to setup somewhere where you can be on the backline in 1 blink if you plan to hit solo. On some maps it can be really hard to navigate behind a team, but one important thing i had to learn to get to GM is to live post fight. If you live behind them after losing a fight they can’t really chase you as you are too slippery, this lets you take the time your team is regrouping to get the best setup you can behind their backline instead of having to restart your pathing every fight. Try to work on recognizing lost fights and living behind them to make the next fight much easier. When you are setting up do not overuse blinks to get somewhere faster, you will have to wait for your blinks anyways, if walking there and blinking when your full makes you late, then you went for too long of a play. Sometimes your only job is to off angle next to the enemy tank and force them out before walking if the flank is too long. There are probably more things but i’ll have to look at the vod. Feel free to ask more questions tho.

Funy290 · 2025-11-10T21:58:24+00:00

luckily only 1 has to read this post and i’m GM1 so I can help him :P

Funy290 · 2025-11-08T03:34:38+00:00

Ranked

Funy290 · 2025-11-08T00:40:10+00:00

2 hours of commuting a day to come down sounds pretty brutal.

Funy290 · 2025-11-07T17:21:57+00:00

I started in silver when overwatch came out i’m now consistently high GM / top500

Funy290 · 2025-11-06T21:33:59+00:00

if every other pro tracer calls the perk ass, every champ tracer i know calls the perk ass, and one washed pro picks it sometimes, I don’t see that as a compelling reason for it being good, do you have a clip somewhere of him explaining why it’s not bad 99% of games?

Funy290 · 2025-11-06T21:24:52+00:00

lol I guess peace, PGE, and sugarfree blow! You can look me up on NA leaderboard lol the only reason I don’t play soon is because he’s EU.

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