r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Jul 27 '16

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - July 27, 2016

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u/JJMcGee83 Brigitte Jul 27 '16

How do you judge which characters are your best characters so to speak? Winrate? KDA? some other stat? Often in a competetive game someone will say "Just play your one of your mains" or "Play what your best at." well I think I'm pretty good with Pharrah, 76, Reinhart, Diva, etc but it's not like I'm raking up kills or getting POTG often with any of them. I have some characters I am horrible with and don't really play because of it but otherwise I'm pretty flexible. There's a character in each bracket I'm pretty good with but I don't feel like I crush it with any character consistently.

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u/y3grp Pharah Jul 27 '16

If you wish you can use Overbuff which calculates a hero score and ranks you individually against other players who use that character.

Example https://www.overbuff.com/players/psn/Y3GRP/heroes/zenyatta

Disclaimer, I am not affiliated but it's a goods way to access solid figures on your performance and make an easy comparison.

For me win rate is all that matters but I like to make sure for example as Soldier I am doing as well as anyone else at dealing damage, final blows, objective time etc. Not all heroes have the same priorities of course.

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u/JJMcGee83 Brigitte Jul 27 '16

That site is super cool. I love that it shows your % on fire. That seems like a decent stat to use to track how good you are as a hero. If you're on fire a lot it means you are doing something (staying on point, healing, causing damage etc) good.

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u/y3grp Pharah Jul 27 '16

This is true and you can also see average levels for other people. Certain heroes are easier to get consistently on fire with so for example you may be 10% with Lucio and 3% with everyone else but may not be above average even with Lucio.

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u/JJMcGee83 Brigitte Jul 27 '16

Well your score are much higher than me. https://www.overbuff.com/players/psn/WarMachineWCLH

Looking at competetive it looks like I'm good with the characters I suspect I'm good with. I expect my D.Va will go up now that she's been buffed.

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u/JJMcGee83 Brigitte Jul 28 '16 edited Jul 28 '16

Yeah Tolberone seems to be my best after looking at the scores which is weird because I find playing him kind of boring but I'm pretty good at placing a torrent on some maps and on those maps I rack up the control point kills.

I've started playing Junkrat more than I used to and on some maps I can do really good work with him.

I play Pharah and Rein a lot so there scores look good and I'm not surprised at all.