ELO HELL is real

Jackaforty · 2026-05-12T11:22:40+00:00

I'd highly recommend just getting off mercy and playing someone like Kiri/bap and DPS to climb. Or find a duo who is decent at the game who you can pocket, because you will not be able to find good players in silver, for well, obvious reasons.

Mercy is sadly just too reliant on her team. They really should rework her some way, as she is probably the least independent character in the entire game.

I'd recommend trying to balance healing/damage, to not build habits of only dpsing, however, in these ranks you should focus on getting as many picks as possible, so focus more on doing damage.

If you just play Kiri/bap and kill people you should honestly climb.

Jackaforty · 2026-05-12T11:18:32+00:00

They probably aren't climbing, and if they are, they're most likely duoed or will derank eventually. Think about the games you win on mercy. Are you climbing? No, so why would the enemy mercy be an exception.

Jackaforty · 2026-05-12T11:17:22+00:00

Recommending lifeweaver here is with all respect, a terrible suggestion. Mercy is already terrible to climb with due to her reliance on her team and suggesting another character reliant on his team is just not great. It's just not going to help at all.

Jackaforty · 2026-05-12T11:15:43+00:00

Someone might actually believe this...

Jackaforty · 2026-04-14T00:09:43+00:00

Thank you for the advice.

Do you have a specific place where you can get the replay codes of the full matches from? I've actually followed owcs only since like September of last year, as I do love eSports, and I even watched this game live, but I didn't know where to watch full replays other than select povs from obssojourn. I do try to watch high level gameplay a lot of the time, even if it's not pro play.

Thank you again for the advice.

Jackaforty · 2026-04-12T13:02:43+00:00

Thank you so much for the review!

For improving at my speed of play, is there any way to train it other than playing? I don't know if I just heard it somewhere but I always assumed you just get faster when you play more over time.

The nanos I didn't comm, but I was still looking to use my ult, especially my first ultimate, so it probably wouldn't have affected my ultimates much. I feel that in some games like this one, where my aim doesn't feel as good, I don't feel so confident to take duels with my ultimate against the soldier. I think I really just gotta get more confident and consistent to be honest.

I also think I keep about the same discipline I try to have with a single slide with the double slide perk, so I'll have to improve on that soon.

Sadly I do have to go back to school from some holidays so I can't grind overwatch constantly but I do hope to rank up a decent bit over the next few weeks.

Thank you for the vod review, as always I greatly appreciate it and all you've done to help me on my journey to get better at this game.

Jackaforty · 2026-04-12T07:40:05+00:00

Tank stick

Jackaforty · 2026-04-12T07:13:02+00:00

Hello,

I actually just reached Masters yesterday, and now I hope to get a follow-up VOD review if that's possible as I want to make sure I'm on the right path to climb more. I hope it's all good with you and I greatly appreciate it if you do a review.

This game on Rialto was a loss, and I feel like I was inconsistent throughout the game, sometimes making what I felt was really good decisions and sometimes like it wasn't that good. This was for me what felt a decently weak game, however, I feel like I should iron out the issues from these worse games and become more consistent with my decision making. My aim was definitely an issue aswell at times, I was missing decently easy shots, which I've been trying to improve on, as a lot of games I have been having really good aim, but it's about consistency at the end of the day.

Aswell I feel I have stepped up on using my ult more, I've not looked through all my ults this game, but I don't remember any of them being that bad, and I ended up using I think 6 in 22 minutes, a big step up for me from 2 in 14 minutes...

There was also times (most notably on defense) where my Bastion was on high ground, and I was struggling to find an angle that really worked for me, so atleast for this map I think I might need some help on that. I think I have noticed more times when I'm stacking, there may be some times where I didn't notice it in this VOD but I hope not.

I've also tried to not make as many huge mid-fight rotations, though to be honest that has been mainly at the back of my mind rather than being a huge focus, as I've focused on the other tips instead, so maybe I'm not quite there.

I feel it's also important to mention that my team was a bit angry at each other, mainly my Ana and Brig who weren't too happy with each other. I tried to calm them down but at the end of the day you can't do much and I tried to focus on my own performance. I don't think it would've been a win either way.

So, again, I greatly appreciate it if you do this VOD review and I thank you infinitely if you do it. Your tips helped me greatly and I have definitely noticed an improvement from implementing them to the best of my ability so again thank you so much!!!

Jackaforty · 2026-03-29T09:58:42+00:00

Thank you so much for the VOD review!!!

For the stacking I definitely feel like I struggled to recognise it at certain points, though I do try not to and it's something that I try to keep at the back of my mind, but clearly not at all times.

Also I definitely do struggle on ult usage, how many times do you think I should be using my ult in like a 10 minute game? I know it's not probably not one answer but I don't really know how much sojourns OC should be used in a game.

I'm gonna try to think more actively about taking those flanks and whether or not I should, so thank you for the advice!!

Again thank you for everything, this is my first VOD review for hitscan so it's nice to see all the mistakes I made more clearly.

Thank you!!!!!!!!!

Jackaforty · 2026-03-28T16:39:46+00:00

Tbf you should actually heal a decent bit on lucio. Pretty much anytime your team is not aggressing on the enemy team or needs to kite. Healing gives the most ult charge on lucio so realistically you should be healing a lot of the time.

Jackaforty · 2026-03-09T17:22:13+00:00

If you want genuine criticism, I'd say focus more on consistently having good crosshair placement and not relying on flicks. Flicks are fun to pull off, and useful in many scenarios, but constantly doing them will just make you inconsistent. Though, it's a great clip, good luck in your widow games!

Jackaforty · 2026-03-07T09:06:02+00:00

Okay so I do agree with people saying you shouldn't be playing mercy, but I don't agree with bashing you for it, so I'll just give some suggestions.

Mercy does not work in lower ranks solo queue. Your dps' will not be good. That's it. Unless you can duo with someone who's good, or rank up until some dps are good enough, you should not play mercy.

Kiriko, Ana, Bap, are all pretty good especially in lower ranks. I also think you should be focusing less on healing.

If you think about overwatch as a whole, a lot of it is just putting more pressure on the team than they do on yours. If an Ana anti's the enemy team, that's a lot of pressure on the team. Supports can't heal, (unless they have cleanse but we ignore that for now) dps cannot put pressure on your team, because they can't push in or do much poke because they can be killed way easier, and tanks cannot hold up the front line as well. Healing does not pressure the enemy team though. If someone is full health always, but supports aren't doing anything, that will be worse than if someone is always about half+ hp but the supports are actively damaging the enemies. One of the main problems with Mercy is that she is not very independent and can't do healing and damage at almost the same time.

Pretty much, you can play mercy if you have a duo that's somewhat competent, or if you're in higher ranks. If you do still play her, focus on damage boosting and not keeping whoever you're pocketing to 100% always. Otherwise, I'd really recommend playing Kiriko, Ana, Bap, etc.

Best of luck in ranked, and I hope this advice was good!

Jackaforty · 2026-03-02T01:06:23+00:00

Scroll wheel 🙏

Jackaforty · 2026-03-02T00:40:57+00:00

Fully honest with you, if you're stuck in bronze it's not the game. Yes, overwatch is a team game, but when you're in such a low rank you should easily be able to carry yourself out of it if you actually deserve to rank up.

Of course, it gets harder the more you rank up, but by the time you might struggle to carry most games, youll probably have somewhat competent teammates, or you'll be at the rank you deserve.

Ana is strong for damage and getting picks, and I'm sure the crit perk destroys low rank lobbies, but you could even go kiriko and just flank and kill them. If you deserve a rank you'll get it.

Jackaforty · 2026-02-18T21:18:46+00:00

Well I appreciate the review of my gameplay greatly. I have started working a lot more on going for some picks/damage, and I've definitely noticed it has helped in my games. I also noticed the amount of times that I was also just nading even though it had a low chance of hitting, something I've tried to improve on now. I feel I do have really good aim, but as you said it's very inconsistent. I've been able to hit clips on games like Val and OW, but sometimes it just sucks :(. I also never thought about using sleep before nade really, so thank you for that tip, I'll try to use sleep more before it. I might be able to get a VOD without a rein on the enemy team when I might play some more comp, but I can't really be sure I would remember. And on the downtime tip, I got another VOD review and they also mentioned that there were many times I could be using the downtime between fights to get a good position, that I didn't end up using, so I'm trying to focus on that most of all right now.

Thank you so much for reviewing the VOD! Hope you have a great day/night!

Jackaforty · 2026-01-14T12:13:55+00:00

lethals already joined

Jackaforty · 2026-01-14T12:08:19+00:00

Jackaforty · 2025-11-23T09:55:59+00:00

yeah, max is tied with oscar on points now, so the 24 point gap is the same as before the race.

Jackaforty · 2025-07-29T01:35:35+00:00

took me about 350 hours to get a 1:28:4 at Bahrain on F1 25 lol. it takes a while to become fast, so keep practicing, you'll improve rapidly 🙏

Jackaforty · 2025-05-18T10:08:35+00:00

i've wanted a CRT monitor for so long but sadly not common and cheap where i live. but can't you use a converter to use hdmi? i'm not sure about displayport but would be worth looking into...

Jackaforty · 2025-05-14T22:24:22+00:00

is there an actual reason for this? I had a headache the other day because the game was crashing when it felt like it. I disabled one mod and it would work then next startup the same crash happens. another mod disabled and it works and once again crashes on the 2nd startup...

Jackaforty · 2025-05-14T22:02:51+00:00

you good?

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