well gotdamn... spill the tea! How? Who did you play? Solo q? OMG!
1) Be really good at 3 classes and focus on playing those classes for like a few weeks.
2) Make sure you have a DPS, a Tank, and a healer
These are the "easy to master" classes imo (easy to be able to carry with)
1. Zarya
2. Roadhog
3. Reaper
4. Pharah
5. Zenyatta
7. Tracer
If you are good enough to carry with one of these classes, then you should practice with these classes. You should learn two healer classes as well as a lot of people default to Zenyatta. Lucio, Mercy, and Ana all take a shit ton of skill to play at a pace where you can carry.
3) When you're playing "off", dont keep playing comp. You should go to quick play and practice other heroes. This is always fun to me as I can excuse my team winning because it's partly my problem we're loosing. Use this info though. learn how they should approach as your class, learn how far they move up on you or how they try to bait you etc. Learn the places they go to on maps. A lot of times you can be somewhat "efficient" at a character merely by playing gimmicky since you'll be surprised at experiencing a strat you havent seen, and with such a huge playerbase, you wont meet the same amount of people
4) Develop your own gimmicks. If you have a gimmicky character you can throw out occasionally, this can really help in a pinch. But I notice is that the more you do that gimmick the less reliable you get. It can only last a little bit in the meta. People learn that gimmick, and you're left with a bad core.
5) You're focus should always be that you want to carry as hard as possible. The thing you hvae to learn is that if you consistently carry you have a much higher chance of winning. It's the inevitable fact of competitive. If you can't carry, you aren't going to win as much since relying on your teammates to be competent is a mixed bag. If your team loses and you know you didn't carry, then get upset at yourself for not carrying. Yes this is annoying as fuck to do because even when you do carry, your team may still lose, but it's invevitably the most efficient way too play unless you have a dedicated team to play.
6) Learn to communicate with your team. When things are going bad, use the "Group up emote" and it's surprising how often it works in comp. And dont be afraid of spamming that after a failed push. If you're teammates aren't willing to group up, then they are generally going to lose their battles. Only 1 healer? Spam the "I need healing emote" worst comes to worse, they just ignore you, which is what they are doing anyway. It's worth adding to your game if you play solo queue. I always joke about this, but I always try to get their attention during setup. I'll go stare at them, maybe emote or spam voice lines, or maybe say hi. This builds trust with your teammates, and once again, if this doesnt help then it really doesnt do anything. But if Romance of the Three Kingdoms has taught me anything, is that morale is important to a battle.
7) Sit closer to whatever screen you are on. There's a lot of things that are really hard to see far away, you can really tell the game was designed to be played on a computer monitor. Get into a proper position too, no leaning back while playing
8) Learn the meta. YOU NEED 2 HEALERS. IT IS NEEDED AGAINST COMPETENT TEAMS. I prefer 2 tanks and 2 DPS on my team, but you can roll with 1 tank and 3 dps, and you might be able to roll with a Lucio or Mercy as your only healer if they are absolutely incredible at the class. If you solo queue, you can really only count on only 1 other person on your team willing to play healer/tank, so be aware that you're probably gonna be playing a lot of tank. But try to stick with the meta. Don't test out your wacky class comps in Competitive.
9) yes, you'll run into bad teammates, but that does not absolve you from the guilt of the loss since games can come down to very critical team wipes. Team wipes are super important. Coordinate your alts, figure out when others have ults by checking to see if they have a shiny checkbox under their portrait. Use the "ult status emote" when playing solo to see if someone wants your ult to work with theirs. A lot of ults in the game work well with other ults.
Learn how to use your alts really well. Think about it like this, In football everyone focuses on having a good defense and a good offense, but what's also important is the special teams. Yours ults are your special teams, and being good with them is key. Do not feel like you have to use your ult. Only use it when the time is right. Yeah, sometimes you'll miss, so dont get too worriedl but if you're playing a class that can really change battles around, try to save your ult, as a wasted ult wastes a lot of time. You'll learn to be more efficient with them later
Ive been thinking about making video tutorials on how to play classes, but im not sure if I'll have the time. Is there any character you guys want to learn how to play. Im fairly comfortable playing anything nowadays except for certain classes in non comp matches
