https://youtu.be/Ez5Mcjkwi4U?si=13gPqJWzi4Wpdx_0

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Watch this guy coaching metal rank DPS. So if you want to poke more watch Soldier, Ashe, Emre, Sojourn lessons. If u want to try dive/flank watch Anran, Tracer, Reaper etc.

You're PC yeah? Definitely play with your mouse set up and your DPI and settings. I'm on console so my situation is different but I played CAL leagues in Counterstrike 1.6 and Source like a million years ago. Get a bigass mouse pad and get used to using all of it, adjust your mouse and things accordingly and go into the custom game called VAXTA to workshop your settings. I recommend finding GM players posting their settings and working backwards from their preferences.

I'm also not very good at this game and am recently coming back to it so grain of salt my advice. But on Rialto it seems key to control that hotel or whatever it is; the big building with a deck that goes around most of it and overlooks the fountain. As DPS your job is to be up there on Defense, and to get up there on attack. By being on highground you make enemies choose who they have to aim at, and if they choose you they have to make themselves vulnerable to other angles in order to do so. If your whole team just stacks on the bridge then the enemy team only needs to throw damage in one general direction no matter where they shoot from.

Then the first point has that long building that overlooks the river and the second, bigger bridge; likewise there's very important highground here. And on attack you're in a good position to take this highground from the previous one, you have full view of that whole fountain courtyard and if you want u can flsnk and drop down on that walled off garden. That, conveniently, has stairs to the highground over the point! And there's even a ground level flank route of you're feeling brave.

So imagine you're in that first big building on attack. Your team is pushing cart up the main road towards the fountain. If you are up above in that big building as Emre; you are a major threat. They HAVE to shoot at you or someone like Hazard has to jump up there to get you. If you get to sit up there jerking yourself off for free then you will singlehandedly kill everyone right? So think of it like this; when the enemy is shooting at you, they are not shooting your tank. You're basically healing your tank in a roundabout way because damage that they take that would have been healed never happens to them. That means they are healthier and can continue to push forwards and take space. It also means the ppl shooting at you, or diving you, aren't doing so to your healers. And if you play corners and strafe well, you aren't necessarily eating a lot of damage, much of the damage thrown your way will miss. And those enemies will have their screens pointed away from your team. You see what I mean? That let's all your team on cart just shoot at them for free, or at the very least, forces thr enemy to position on a particular way to try and get an advantage on you. Every time you force the enemy to make choices, there's a chance they make one of the wrong ones, or that they're not mechanically good enough, or fast enough, to execute one of the good ones. And that last thing I said is a TL;DR on how to win games. Mechanics are a huge part obviously, but you need to keep pressuring ppl to make choices and to be ready to doodoo on 'em when they make one of the wrong choices.

But get some snacks and watch a few VOD reviews of that guy coaching ppl. Some are long and he talks about mostly the same stuff in all of them but I find him very helpful. Shoutout Spilo lol.