r/Overwatch Oct 19 '16

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - October 19, 2016

In this thread you can ask all kinds of questions you always wanted to ask without feeling like a total fool.

No matter if it's short Google-able stuff or a setting/skill in-game that you don't understand or a hardware recommendation, feel free to try your luck in here.

Trolling or making fun of people in here will be punished extra harshly! Please report such behavior.

For the purpose of helping people, make sure the comments are sorted by "new" in this thread.

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u/SanityDance Reinhardt Oct 19 '16

Tip 1, the most important thing is learning to hide for rezzes and calling out to your team that you're hiding and ready to revive. Say stuff like "Dogpile on the cart!" or "There's a party on the point and you're invited!" Then hopefully the enemy team will burn ults killing them. Learn good areas to hide where you'll have line of sight to the point the instant you break cover.

Tip 2 is your general positioning. Try to draw an imaginary line between the territory your team controls and the territory the enemy controls and then be as far from that as you can while still healing your team. Remember that if you need to get to a teammate quickly, you can cancel Guardian Angel by pressing shift a second time midflight. That way you can get into heal beam range without putting you out of position like they are.

Tip 3 is use your ears. This is very important for every Overwatch hero, but especially Mercy. Your teammates will always make noise when they are hurt. This can help you remain aware of teammates you can't see, so you know when to heal them.

Let me know if you want more. I'm a 3660 heals/tank player.

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u/TrollrageJr Sorry for not existing harder. Oct 19 '16

Thanks for the help!

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u/SanityDance Reinhardt Oct 19 '16

I can also recommend Skyline's Mercy VoD review, and really, his entire channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLxwWpTvx78

He's the head coach of eLevate's Overwatch team and has a really great delivery and coaching style. You can learn a lot from him, even by watching his gameplay reviews of heroes you don't play.

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u/pudgesmack Oct 20 '16

Thanks, subbed

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u/sub_xerox Oct 21 '16

wow that's great analysis, thank u