Flats shows that good mechanics can only take you so far (Vod Review)
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2021
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Vash here, lets just say I climbed out of silver and am currently at 2085.
Nice job man
Poggers man
Nice job dude, I just have one tip for Ana since she’s my support main as well, and I play on Xbox which is the hardest to play aim reliant heroes but everything takes time, quick scoping is a life saver, it takes time to learn but u got this my friend!! Good luck vash with your climb!
Well done dude :3
POGGERS
*Jumps off the high ground on top of the nano rein*, "You are feeding, death is coming"
i could pay flats to read me bedtime stories
Imagine if he starts reading kid's books on stream
I would fall asleep to those
says Dirty jesus, you sure you don't want more?
Dude Im going to be honest these are the best vod reviews and training I have seen thus far on the internet. They have very general information for newer players as well as nitpicky stuff for the masters and diamonds that actually care. Top Tier, hope to see these for years to come. :)
Also the fact that he isnt mocking the players he's reviewing... ty flats
Agreed, and even through teaching he maintains his entertaining tone
@@bruh-hr1mt he mocks the bronzes lol
Look up Spilo. Now that’s top tier coaching.
Being honest here. This is some of the best Overwatch Content out there. Fantastic Job! Love learning from you.
Ikr, it's interesting and helps us in the same time!
Foreshadowing
not only did he educate me in a way that made things click and not in a “ig i’ll try to remember next time” way, but it this was so motivating and made things feel less hard :) a true teacher
Flats doesnt play overwatch he plays 7D chess
@Thmr2012 cringe
@Thmr2012 haha funny number 69 but HAHAHA 169 get it because it has 69 in it! Funny reddit keanu chungus whoooosh moment funny shrek. The 2 responses lmao, really got to ya huh?
@Thmr2012 I'm making you angry because you're a little kid, dont sugarcoat it. If you weren't a kid you wouldn't be getting angry.
fight fight fight fight
@@tegteg5558 lmfao
Honestly, after watching the last video I've already improved just by keeping the main points in mind, especially the one about acting faster and not just being an indecisive bot. Not only because my gameplay is better but also because now I can tell whether I made a mistake or something else just went wrong. These videos are extremely useful
It's surprising just how much increasing your APM and your decision making speed can help you improve. Flats is doing a great job laying it all out!
@@untapped8776 Flats explained just that as well. Overwatch is a game of inches, a small taken or missed opportunity can change a whole fight and they add up quickly.
"YOU DID YOUR JOB WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE!?"
lost it there xD
I replayed that reaction so many times hahaha it was hilarious. And the way Flats voice just kept getting higher..
Same lmao
Hehe. It's like "You're not getting paid for Overtime! You can leave!"
" did this Rein make fun of your mom mid-fight ?! " lmaoo
Good positioning will carry you further than good mechanics
I'd say no because you can be in the right spot 24/7 and still miss every shot :/
@@Wigalot you need a balance of both, obviously if your mechanics are garbage and you can't hit anything then that's your issue, but tbh I know the reason I'm in gold is 90% positioning. My mechanics are ok but not brilliant and it's not enough for me to climb.
Good aim too. And good thinking. Too many people do the dumbest things on Overwatch. Hell, I have a friend who literally charges in first thing he gets out of spawn.
Above average mechanics and really good game sense took me up to 4600 and I kept it. If u don’t have god tier mechanics play characters you can fully optimize your value on is my tip for lower ranked players. If you’ve got amazing mechanics fully optimize it on bap zen and Ana. If you have really good game sense fully maximize that potential on mercy brig lucio Moira.
@@jonasriedel1324 4600 mmm nah
Flats singlehandedly improved my gameplay with just two words "Be Confident"
this ana has to be a rein main with the way he looks at enemy rein
This literally looks identical to my gameplay, and I’m the exact same SR. Thank you for this video I was always tilting because I thought my mechanics should carry me to atleast gold sup (boy was I wrong), but watching this video, it feels like my 3rd eye just opened or something like everything he says I’m like wowwwww that makes so much sense why didn’t I even think of it. Honestly this and the rein guide (tank and sup mains rise up) were the best guides I’ve seen for this game the 3 seasons I been playing, I feel like I learned so much more compared to other random ass 10 minute Ana guides. Flats ur goated my dude
Great video! Love the brutal honesty and the applause when shit goes right. Also really good to see the difference between game sense and mechanics, great student.
It's always extremely easy to identify people who are or who are trying to be good teachers, and flats is one of them. He's not making his criticism personal, and he's not being mean. He's not saying "you're such a bad player for doing X." He's pointing to specific incidents of wonky play and offering alternatives. There's not enough criticism done like this, and it's good to see.
I understand when flats says to go aggressive sometimes, but most people at that sr are solo queue so they CANNOT trust the other support to keep the team alive
Their mechanical skills are fine. Their game sense is the part thats lacking as Flats pointed out. But I would also say, I see them VERY slow at the decision making, they kinda take a really long time to decide who to heal, turning around, etc. Once they acquired their target and they know what to do they hit the shots, but once things become a bit hairy or multiple teammates are at low health he kinda freezes just enough for their team to get killed.
They said on the comments they got out of silver and are now gold, so props to them and Flats for being an educational strumer
i feel like you kinda have to be a "healbot" in lower ranks because otherwise you get screamed at by your dps and tanks for not enough healing even though you just came back to killing an enemy dps that YOUR dps couldnt take care of even after you called it out in comms
Ctrl+shift+c
The only reason you have to be a “healbot” is because tanks generally play more aggressive and feed more often and dps generally miss minor opportunities for big kills so yeah I agree
Let me say one thing as a plat Player. Nobody in Bronze to Gold is able to take care of a pharmercy bc of the hitscan nerf. When im smurfing for example the first thing i always need to do is kill the mercy then the pharah .
These Things will never earn the appreciation of your Team even tho you just won the teamfight by yourself.
Besides there a reasons these people are low elo. It doesnt matter what theyre saying bc theyre just garbage. Never waste your time talking to idiots. I always go ana when they have that the other Support needs to go moira or bap. Bap is best but the people down there dont know how to play him.
You do... people don't even like me picking Zenyattas when I call and keep orbs up... they want someone to babysit them with heals.
Just ignore them and do what you know is best. Seriously. That’s what will make you climb.
This actually helps so much, I've been getting a little discouraged from Ana lately as I feel my mechanics aren't up to par, but all of these tips you're pointing out actually help a lot more.
Loving the vod reviews man, great content
Most of my games are fiesta circus specials, now that's the kind of vids I want : not canonical overwatch but winning east coast specials !!! Please more of this
This is crazy. I had the same sr as the rein in the last vod review and my ana sr is like 300 more than this one. Thank you so much flats
More Coach Flats, please!
I’m gonna be having Flats in my head now when I play because I know I make some mistakes at this level too. 🤣🤣 but it’s totally a good thing, I need an imaginary Flats on my shoulder.
He may be a heavy guy but he sure is uplifting at the same time, both for mental and sr!
i really like that flats takes a mistake and talks about a bunch of different scenarios that could have happened or that he cause have done differently. ive noticed that a lot of vod reviews dont do that. they simply point out the mistake and say what you should have done, and im usually wondering, "well what if this happened? or that? or what if im not capable of doing that?" flats actually answered some of those ?s for me
PLEASE do more of these! YT recommended this and I'm now a subscriber. I love watching super thorough educational and applicable-to-anyone vod reviews.
These are so good. Probably some of the most informative OW vod reviews I have seen. I really hope you keep these up Flats because I enjoy the hell out of them.
My boss probably hates them since I don't get anything else done while watching them but oh well.
"Overwatch is like American Football, It's a game about inches"
This is a concept I recently learned playing back my VODs and It's awesome to finally have a great way to describe this concept. Thanks!
Thanks for taking the time to do this review. I play both tank and support and have watched both of these videos and it helps to understand the difference between what I am doing and what a better player would do in the same situation.
Flats, your clowncircus story, my god that had me bursting out laughing!! Great example! Keep up the good work you helped me climb from 2509 to 2980 thanks!
Thanks Flats!!! Just watched the rein one and this one back to back, love hearing the reasoning behind positioning and pathing, which id never considered in such detail
I love these vod reviews!! I find them super helpful! :))
Yes, I have been loving these reviews! Keep 'em coming!
Damn I literally said out loud “I make that mistake a lot” after some of Flats’ points. Especially the one about positioning around 10:18 my brain likes to flip on autopilot as Mercy or Ana and will suddenly b like “shit I need to move I’ve been in the same spot for too long!!!” with no motivation behind it, this video really made me realize that moving unnecessarily comes with a major opportunity cost. Subbed
I can't carry you across the finish line but I can get you about 2000 sr
Flats is a legend
Thanks flats, I can't really tune in on your stream often but I really like this kind of content you bring here sometimes, I'm mainly a flex player who likes to play everything so it's always nice to learn something new from these videos. Have a good one dude, cheers.
@Flats this is one of the best vod reviews I’ve ever watched.
Please do more!
Playing genji made me a better player. Aside from being punished heavily for having bad aim. I also learned the value and utility of my kit. Any good genji would know how wasting there abilities is just a death sentence. Also opportunising when enemies waste there utilities is often overlook. I feel like a lot of what keeping people from climbing is not realizing how much potential there one player can have.
@49:00 The height advantage has a hidden 3rd effect that not many people realize.
If you are up high (like the HD representation on the screen) it also cuts what the enemies see of you when you head peak them.
If you perfectly walk forward to the ledge, far enough that you can see the entire enemy (head to toe). From the enemies point of view they will only be able to see your head... Maybe your neck...
So you have the added advantage of being able to shoot at their entire body while they can only shoot at a third of yours.
Thank you, this helped so much
I’ve been playing Ana lately and I get frustrated so easily making small mistakes that you thankfully pointed out
I love these
please keep making them
Even though you don't do these often, you're a great teacher and still take your chances to make jokes, I love it.
Gotta love Flats! I'm loving these reviews. They're for low rank players (like me) and they don't focus on mechanical skill (which I lack or I would be diamond by fragging 😅)
I know this is an older video, but I recently picked up OW2 and have become addicted to your content.
I just learn so many little things on literally every single video I watch - on how to play the characters myself, what to watch out for when playing against them, and even what to be aware of with certain characters on my own team. Not even talking about general mechanical advice that applies to anyone and everyone. You just do such a great job on explaining things, instead of acting like all this stuff goes without saying. So many situations where I'd be like, "I am getting my ass kicked, and I know it's my fault but I do not know what to do about it." And you've made a lot of them clear as crystal.
I wish more people did what you did, but I can't seem to find them. Just watching a video or two of yours every day, I went from initially ranked Silver 4 to now Gold 4 in just two weeks. So thank you very much.
Great content! I really wish the replay viewer let you swap team colors. I find it slightly hard to watch and keep track of what’s happening, especially for a hero like Ana who shoots both red and blue.
KING! Love your new content! keep it up!
Thanks for such a deep and thorough analysis. Very helpful tips.
Love all the content my dude!
I just want to point out at 11:20 when hes doing the not needed rotation, the rein was full health until right as ana got Los again. The bigger problem was rein dropped his shield, took a zen charge to the face with discord and then charged in at half health. Point is, bad rotation, feeding rein.
Thank you for helping me realize that big problem making me stuck in plat is sometimes bad positioning!
This is SO helpful, thank you so much Flats!
I’m a support player but I love your content cuz of how well made and informative it is. This was great. Keep up the good work!!
So helpful. You’re a great tutor.
One thing I have seen climbing through lower elos is sometimes they will actually make good positioning moves but if it does not work once they will give up and take subpar positioning. Don't give up good positioning just because it did not work once because the next fight is going to be different since CD usage and ults charge is going to be different. No 2 fights are the same so don't handicap yourself just because the right play did not work the first time.
i love his vod reviews. i love him in fact
Bless you for having the patience to analyze this.
I'm so happy!!!! Learned from this!!! Thank you
Damn this is super educational! It's crazy this is available for free
Flats I know you are burnt out on the Main tank role right now in OW but, can you make more of this content. This and the Rein were some of the best VODs I've seen on OW. And yes, I am a crappy "Hard Stuck Plat" Support main.
This ana must have watched the karq 1 nade for each map tip video with that 1st nade lol
This really is a great vod review.
This is good stuff. Definitely improved my game quite a bit from what you said.
How can I submit a vod?
Loving the reviews btw!
Twitch watch time reward
Thanks. Your sharing is really helpful.
Bro, I had no idea I was going in to a 1hr video... and didn't even notice until I was already 45 minutes in. Well played, Flats.
I love this new vod review content
as an Ana main, this was so helpful. TY FLATS
I got stuck 1900 playing ana for a while and the thing that helped me climb to 2700 rn is remembering tanks are your priority (unless you have a bap or something) and to utilise your nade for mass healing over anti (70% of the time) for example if you watch at 16:43 you will see that 1 nade would have easily kept the tanks alive and probably anti their rein on top of that, completely flipping the fight on its head.
Thanks for educational content ♥️
Thanks Flats, I will be maining Rein when doing Tank que. Love your educationals. I don't understand players being way too passive, gotta risk it for the biscuit!
Love the content bro
Even though I dont main heals. I still watch these to understand my team better and still learning how to become a healer.
I’m a 3100 peak tank main on PS4 and this Ana legit has better aim than me.
Massive props, Elo hell is real.
this is a pc ana so she’s obviously gonna have better sim
The east coast circus is so accurate to my games its depressing
In the first round, in the last point, I would have used the Sym to TP the whole team through the upper passage next to the mega health pack and use all that cover to set up.
33:23 haha, I remember abusing pharah in silver to gold since people can't aim that well and I'm pretty good with projectile, and then swap to dive tank and abusing how people don't protect their support in platinum, now in diamond playing support
I was giving up on ana, but that helped me a LOT, thank you for making this video
I love this content from you!
I love these reviews
this video is the only reason i started seriously trying to learn to be better at ow (or any game). flats is easily one of the best and realest teachers ive ever had
Dude i love this and the rien vid so much i understand the game a bit better keep the good work
I missed "Death is coming" ;) but besides that - again one of the best if not the best coaching videos on OW I've ever seen
That football quote was definitely spot on!
Idk if you talked about this but what if your a lucio? would you still go up a bit but stay back as well??
You know flats is serious when he pulls out the ms paint
I luv your vods flats xD
"this guy is eating glue and saying 'but I'm shielding'"
that body block had me laughing for a good 15 seconds. 12:03
Gotta love flats commentary lol 😆
Great informative content
I think the real reason the ana in this match was so aggressive with the enemy rein, is to show in some sort of way, where flat stands... as a rein.
Fantastic guide, top 500 here i come :)
Wait do you do vod reviews? I'm a high gold supp. Could use pointers as well
I died laughing when he tried to jump sleep that nano'd Reinhart
Dude just explained the dam Shirov's Jaw-Dropping Bishop Sacrifice
I found this much more helpful than ana vod reviews from support mains tbh. a lot more generalizable and relatable advice here rather than super specific and niche things you hear elsewhere.
As soon as he said it’s like football my already growing love for overwatch jus expanded exponentially. This my favorite OW player easily
I like your comments about mechanics being your last resort. You should make good decisions first, and make mechanical plays second. Thats what makes the pros, pros.
Love this man 😭😭😍
This man should be a coach
Flats vod review is the best