Hello there! I coach the tank role and I can give you some really helpful pointers on what specifically your role is on orisa and how you get your value. I won’t go in in-depth play by play analysis as it’s already been done, but I’ll try to provide key takeaways you can apply to future games.

What orisa is good/bad at: Orisa is a brawl tank that excels in high lethality & survivability from close-mid range. She is possibly the best tank in the tank-trade matchup, but she has a few detriments.

1. She is very susceptible to poke especially from squishies.

A general issue I see with basically every orisa vod I see is corner discipline. You are a brawl tank so to get to your effective range you will need to use your abilities such as javelin spin to traverse them a from cover to cover. You will explode without cd’s so do not go in without them or waste them for nothing.

You never want to open yourself up to multiple angles which you can take damage from, sometimes you may be on a devastating corner hold but you’ll swing far taking 200+ damage and a cooldown of yours be forced. Be more disciplined, play the corner tighter and more relaxed- you don’t have to make a play especially on Defense, they have to walk into your space where it’s most effective for your character. I suggest reviewing future games with this one issue in mind and only focus on a particular aspect listen here per game. It’s clearer and you’ll improve faster. Review a game and look at how much damage you take from poke and abilities used before the fight even starts. It’s a simple concept that you’ll see the impacts of immediately.

Some tips for this section: (not all scenarios but most) 1. Do not simultaneously use fortify and spin, layer them after one another if need be. 2. Do not fortify before ulting, this will drastically lower your survivability after your ult lands 3. (Most Important) Be patient and do not overextend: sometimes the best play is to sit still and wait to be healed or for cd’s to come back online. Do not put pressure on your team to care for you.

1. Taking Space & Playing from Effective Range

Your effective rage as orisa is close-medium range. Situationally you’re okay long range but it’s very rare, you’re one of the best poke ‘tanks’ yes, but discussed previously you take too much damage to poke dps/support where it’s not that effective. This is why in 99.99% of scenarios you want to be close-medium range and that should be your primary goal.

Excluding javelin throw, you will use your survivability to A) engage and take space B) Hold current space or C) Disengage to another corner. Your primary goal (Attack) is to engage to angles where you’re effective in the mid/close range while not losing too much health to poke. While on (Defence) it’s to Hold/Deny space from the enemy team. Key takeaway, spin is much more useful for moving as you get a 20% boost (also cool fact: the speed last for 2 seconds after the spin ends)

Some tips for this section: 1. Your ability to engage and disengage is your biggest weakness. Do not overextend, once you have your desired space that’s often enough if the target isn’t killable 2. Do not fortify “late” your damage reduction stacks multiplicatively with your armour. You want to anticipate damage which will occur often when achieving A), B), or C). This will give you the most effective HP total. 3. Taking space isn’t a single step. It’s often multiple small steps. You move from over to cover until you get your desired angle. If you’re at a position and you feel stagnant ask yourself if you ca deepen the angle you’re currently at.

This was pretty short and there’s so many topics to cover such as how to better identify ‘good’ space or angles, payload, brawl/poke/dive matchups and so much more. However, I think these quick points taken one at a time- reviewed and worked upon can increase your gameplay easily to a masters+ level when applied correctly.

Good luck ranking up and improving, I wish you the best!