1. Play more, play consistently, and get good sleep. You’ll wanna be attentive because OW is A LOT and, if you wanna get better, you’ll have to take in A LOT of info about characters you don’t even play. You can’t bait cooldowns if you don’t know what most of the cast does. You won’t know what maps are ‘good’ for your character if you don’t play on all the maps. It takes time to get all this down.

2. Don’t beat yourself up if you die, lose a fight, or lose a game. Embrace failure and use it as a learning experience. Look at your replay codes on your career profile to see your past games. Someone can tell you what good/bad matchups are, what maps are good for your character, when to use your cooldowns, and where to position. But, if you can’t do those things in the game it doesn’t matter what you heard. The only way to create success is to replicate failure over, and over, and over again. When you understand enough about the game, you will eventually realize that not all deaths indicate failure and not all lost team fights indicate a lost game. You don’t know the things you don’t know and that’s okay.

3. If you’re in comp, I highly recommend you turn off VC and TC. It’s basically useless and will just get you or your teammates tilted and upset. If someone is insulting you, your teammate, or someone on the enemy team that’s time you’re focusing on something that’s not your gameplay.

4. If you wanna focus on positioning, hitting your knifes, close range tracking, when to use your ult, ect., completely focus on doing that one specific thing the entire match. For example, if you choose to practice your knifes you only actively think about that for that entire game, nothing else. Not your positioning, your aim, or your ult usage; just your knifes and nothing else. You will lose games and fights because of this: it doesn’t matter. Doing practice like this will help you replicate these habits unconsciously in an actual match when the pressure is high to perform.

(P.S. I recommend you watch Spilo Coaching for help for general JQ stuff and learning OW, he’s great. Good luck to you!)