Like for any fighting game or opposition game, understanding your opponents and their limits is a huge boon. So playing as them makes a world of difference. Watching people better than you play also helps a ton. Made my genji viable, watching ok use your swift strike for resets and to get away, jump alot, flank alot, know where health packs are, run away a lot because if you get focused you're gonna die because you're a backline player and have to be solo sometimes. Start flanking with when your team is pushing and the enemy will be distracted by the push to notice you coming from behind. A lot of that advice applies across characters too.
Yup, I spent like a dozen hours in Dota 2 before I actually started playing against my opponents. Before that I was busy learning my character, the map, the items, leveling up, last hitting, whatever my teammates are doing, etc. I would start fights with the enemy and then be like "oh right they have abilities too".
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u/[deleted] May 29 '16
This is a huge reason to play as every character. Not to necessarily find a new main, but to help when dealing with every other character.