Why I Stopped Playing In Top 500?
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How did I know Sombra was next to me at 12:25 ?
maybe you were isolated from the team and can be dived by winston?
Winston looked at you
You heard her place down her translocator or hack a med pack on the left side
your team was separated from you and going to take the next fight and multiple enemies were missing
Schizophrenia
Seeing Awkward vs ML7 is a joy, 2 players that I both massively respect as a support main
Awkward better
not really @@bbpoItergeist
@@bbpoItergeistML7 >
@@u3534Nah awkward is a generalist and is good at every hero, ml7 is a specialist, they're both good.
@@TrueOracleeh awkward is washed
I'd love to see you try doing in depth reviews of your VODs in GM1/Top 500. That would give you the time to explain these concepts you teach with more nuance and depth than you even can vs metal ranks. I know the plan is always the same no matter the rank, but as a high masters Kiriko trying to break into GM I think a more in depth breakdown of why you do certain things would help me a ton. You tend to say things like "I use swift step because I am in danger" but you rarely have the time to explain why you know you are in danger. The point in this video where you know Sombra is near you is a perfect example. Seeing your insight in the VOD afterwards is super helpful, and more of that could help give me context into how you're able to play like this without being punished by GM players. I know you're trying to help the average player and might not want to make content catered towards the top 5% of the playerbase, but I think most players could still benefit from more in depth explanations.
This please, Professor!
I think he probably reserve this kind of reviews and in depth explanations to his students in his Rank Up Academy
this
Absolutely
Love how you included loss at the end and admitting your mistake.
I understand this. I went from diamond to GM2 on support, then the queue times bumped up to 15 minutes. Now I mostly off role or play competitive mystery heroes. If I'm going to play a game, I want to spend my time actually playing the game.
Damn good shit, everyone starts somewhere
Same dude I climbed up to gm1 on support n I was like I don’t play that much anymore I’m not tryna wait super long after getting off work or before just to play super sweaty games.
Damn, do those queue times affect quick play too?
@@MisterZimbabwe no. It's still normal queue times for that, thankfully
how long did it take to get from diamond to gm?
quite simple, bro suffers from success
glazing
get off his meat lil bro
@@zanaisu it’s not my fault it’s just facts 🤷🏿♂️ if he was trash and it was facts I bet you would comment on that. So what now?
@@zanaisu know what the words means before saying it lil bro
@@seke9885 keep glazing lmao
the lucio shittalking his ana who doesn't even exist is fucking hilarious
i was saying im bad at ana because someone asked for an ana, why tf would i say a non existent ana is shit
The first lobby he loads into has 2 OWL players and ML7. LMAO
just epic
at 7:10 you read a comment that asks about starting the gym. He said he doesn't know what to do at the gym and I can understand that feeling. Some advice I have is bring a friend with you that knows what they're doing or ask someone at the gym if they could help teach you some exercises or even ask an employee, because I bet either party are willing to help! Good luck in the gym friends :3
Or they can watch RUclips before I worked out I started doing my own research on eveything I could 3 years later I’m still learning new things
My best advice: be a man and just go to the gym. If you are really that confused, just google what you need to know. Better yet ask someone at the gym. Grow a pair and realize no one is going to give a fuck how you look because they will not care about you until you talk to them.
Keep in mind that just by going consistently to the gym you're already better than most people who don't even bother going or go once a month.
@@sebaschan-uwu First sentence isn't helpful. He didn't say "i don't wanna go to the gym", he said "tf do you do at the gym".
stick to the basics
Hey Akward you're probably never gonna reply to this but i just want to say that i appreciate your educational videos, after watching your videos i've been consistently in Diamond to Master rank. I greatly appreciate your hard work and will continue to look forward to more educational videos.
Thank you floofy
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These guy not only teach us how to improve in game but also tell us how to improve in real life... Respect man❤
Awkward could you do voice overs of top 500 games so you can explain without having to worry about doing it in real time? I guess the only problem is that you can’t do that on stream. Also, I do think it is helpful to show it done in low ranks so that you can see how you overcome bad team mates.
He could do that that's what spilo does coaching. He could do a self vod review i think that would be interesting
Always nice to see your Zen as amazing as ever. Also thank you for the workout tips along the way.
I played for short periods at my peek in the upper echelons of top 500. The difference between lower half and upper half top 500 is something that hit me hard and will stick with me. Having played with and against ML7 for example, you just witness him do so much whilst still under immense pressure and its borderline art. When you play against contenders and ex ow league players like eqo or Poko, you just get punished for the slightest mistake and the game is so much more fast paced its hard to explain. I can confidently say that the difference between GM1 and top 50 is higher than between low masters and GM 1. This is not to brag, Im just a trash player who grinded a lot at one point, but really to share some insights on this almost esoterical realm that is upper top 500 after this video reminded me of it.
New to the game and just discover you a few days ago and I think you’re the best overwatch 2 content creator. Keep up the great work dude
That's like how I was playing Magic The Gathering, when I was in High School (I'm 40yo now) I would always play and win most local tournaments, and after a few years I just didn't want to play these tournaments anymore, so I still went to the tournaments, but I would mainly go to help others (especially new young players) on how to build decks.
41..and god damnit I had a small fortune in cards :(
You can also see in high elo lobbies that people actually stop ALL movement when they get hit by pulse bomb. Even in masters I still see people run and put others in danger when they get stuck with one.
I like the pressure you put with the heroes (Kiriko/Zen) that some NPC's would say there’s no value from them
Thanks for laying this all out for us. I watch a lot of Flats, too, so I was already aware of the queue times and totally understand when top 500-level players just don't want to play in top 500. That shit sucks.
Regardless of your own skill level or how well you play in a top 50 lobby, your videos are incredibly helpful and improve my gameplay. I couldn't care less if you played in Bronze - the results are good from your videos to my games.
Looking forward to more vids!
hey awkawrd loved your "unraked to GM with tracer" im learning a lot form it. I'd love to see you doing an unranked series with tanks, in particular with Junquer queen because she's so aim intensive, i think you would have a lot of fun playing with her.
Normal. I think many players can identify with that. Once the high end challenges in a game have been reached, you find yourself with no other challenges other than knowledge hunting through off meta experimentation and finding noobies that you can be a sort of sensei to. There is a real pride when you see one of your students reaching levels and then start dominating in their own way
this solidified my respect for you as a player, as i continue playing only your tips have held strongest and gotten me more wins on average
Honestly more content like this, it doesn't replace the unranked to gm but it's entertaining to watch. I'd suggest even keeping the entire gameplays
All very valid points! Love watching your gameplay and humour keep up the great work!
Aye dude watching your content got me from hard stuck low plat on dps for 4 years to diamond 1 in 2 weeks. Keep up the good work your shit is the best out there.
Thanks for sharing that top 100 experience..that was insane to watch.
Honestly, after watching a bunch of your support videos, and wondering why I kept losing in masters on Ana, I started getting more value through damage and off angling, especially when I can get a dps to come with me. It's made such a huge improvement to my win rate. Thanks for sharing the tips man, it's actually great.
i enjoy ur videos for lower ranks but vod reviewing ur top500 games and trying to explain more complicated/fast paced gameplay would be really nice as a top500 player trying to improve
The best advice i can give you:"just actually go on Thursday". Awkward you are truly a cool person who sticks the the reality. love your mindset
see, awkward is so good that blizzard moves the lamps mid game to nerf him
haha underrated comment
TL;DR: It is way more fun to stomp noobs than to play in your own skill bracket and also way more lucrative contentwise.
You do a great job man some people just cant accept the truth
"let's follow the 4-step plan that i teach!" [gets insta-deleted by entire team] 🤣j/k love the educational content (unironically)
love your educational content! I started watching your videos as a bronze player, and today I reached diamond. your advice is the best-- thanks for everything.
I appreciate your videos Awkward. You have helped me climb from silver to plat 🤟🏽
18:07 I’m weak😂. I could see in his face the exact moment he got locked in😂.
I pretty much watch you exclusively, I’ve only been playing for like 2 months now and I’m already ranked higher than my gf who has been playing since early OW1 days and a mutual friend from high school who’s been her duo pretty much that whole time. Nowadays I’m ranked Plat 2 and our mutual friend exclusively wants to play with me because I actually make solid plays consistently and we work well together. Overall enjoying the content and seeing real progress in myself that I wouldn’t have seen without your content. To me it doesn’t matter if you play for T500 because I don’t see myself ever getting to that level of play. I enjoy this game but know I’m not on some crazy level like T500.
Instead of smurfing constantly, you could do replay commentary in top 500. The game is too fast? Pause the replay, explain things.
Logic? Dont be crazy now 💀
Magical gaming moments! thanks, Awkward, for sharing your knowledge w us.
16:45 I think on stream he was confused on how he was spotted but the reason was that brig goes into 3rd person view when holding shield. It's crazy to think that in only this rank he dies for a small inaccuracy.
Beast video ur tips help me a lot
I know alot of pros when talking about games at high level, do voice overs of their high level games since it's easier to pause/ point out an key talking points. Just an idea. Love the content
Yeap he just making excuses to not play at high elo the game changed. He love stomping noobs
@@auriobunzaii6033I mean he went 4-1, seems like he was doing just fine to me, ur just mad bc ur bad at the game lmao
@@NameGaming i Don't even play overwatch i donwloaded because it was free 😂 be mad at him for love smurfing.
@@auriobunzaii6033 if u don’t play overwatch and don’t like this guys why are u on one of his videos and commenting?
Thanks for the insightful video as always Awkward. Play any game on any difficulty you want. Real life or online, pvp or pve. We'll keep watching.
Even as a doom otp, Awkward’s general advice on the game shot me up from high silver to high plat
The queue time is a valid point. I still think it's not the main point. I think the main point is passion. He lost it for the game and thats completly fair. If you love a game you will play it no matter the queue times or if there is bad balancing. You will play it b/c you love and you wont if you don't. He just lost it for OW and you can't blame him for that.
Yeah I agree, that's how I feel about it as well
13:20 its not the lamp but the winston LMAO.
Glad to see "feeding with Kiriko doing the 4-steps plan" can also happen to the teacher himself xD
Awkward, you are simply the best teacher in overwatch. I went from gold 5 to gold 4 on tank and gold 5 to gold 3 on support after discovering your Brig unranked to gm video a week ago. Small jump, but it's progress. One question, do you feel there's any change or addition to your Roadhog unranked to gm? Theres only 1 tank and he no longer 1 shots consistently. Im just curious if there are any more tips since those videos for my favorite character :)
Thanks!
i think all the roadhog advice you need is to simply not play him (at least untill he gets reworked). Im joking but id imagine hell make one post rework since it'll probably get more views.
Watch cyx
And this is why awkward is the goat
i’ve been in top500 since ow2 came out and quit overwatch altogether when lifeweaver came out. All the points you made is so true especially the queue times. You wait 20+ minutes just to get in the lobby with the same ppl over and over again. Barely anyone comms anymore, top500 is inflated af, and it’s just not fun
amazing content as always.. is it awkward of me to be waiting for his next upload already???
I wouldnt mind occasional top 500 videos in your style tho. Watching you get challenged is also a learning experience. A10 style vod reviews of your games would be nice too
Bro thanks your videos I’ve learned solider and getting good at him, I’m now plat 5 trying to rank up, I hope one day you could make an unranked Orisa to gm because I Main her and would love to see what adivce you could give for her
I'm going to be honest I always thought unranked to GM was genuinely somewhat unhealthy but you do bring up good points to why you do them in the first place
What I also definitely appreciate is that after looking at a lot of your posts and videos I notice that you genuinely advocate for the most important thing is genuinely believing in oneself and improving as a person
I definitely respect you a lot for that
Keep helping people out
Awkward I just got to Masters from Gold on Kiriko in a few months watching your vids this was exactly what I needed to see!!
Hey awkward, great video like always. Ehy wont you play normally your games in t500, but after that you can analyze it so you can focus on the game and also be educational in t500
Double the effort, and you can't be reactionary and in the moment thought processes.
Why be educational in t500 when he’s trying to help the people who can’t even get to diamond after 1000 hours in the game?
Glad you are addressing this. Seen comments about it and while I think it’s dumb, I see a lot of it.
Also, 4 step plan is super OP with Kiriko. Win rate went from 55% in plat to 62% and now I’m in masters.
Running into someone in a silver lobby when you have only a handful of ours played and they have weeks or months of time played is not a pleasant experience. The hate is justified. He could teach this on quick play just as easy.
@@MrDJViciousDeliciousDude you’re not running against them every game, I’m diamond and on average I run into GM smurfs once every 20-40 games (visible in profile).
Don’t play to rank up, play to improve which will make you rank up over time.
braindead @@MrDJViciousDelicious
@@MrDJViciousDeliciousI’ve run into a single really great player in over 1000hrs as a smurf. Usually it’s just people being bad and refusing to look at what they could done by whining about smurfs.
@@jolness1 I know there’s a lot out there because I play on console and on looking for group posts I have a Smurf teammate regularly, I leave the party when I learn it because I don’t want to be carried up the ranks. It’s fairly common you have people who are GM coming down to metal. Not high level Gm but significantly better than metal ranks
Even if you only got rank 1 one time there's no universe where you become a "bad" player you'll always be able to be t500 even if you took a very long break from playing from just muscle memory alone. That's why dafran quit came back and still t500 on every hero lol
now he's got the receipts
"I'm too good for this game" the video
Give the editor more love
13:22
Him: *Perfectly times a nade to hit the winston mid air by accident*
also Him: "Why am I hitting the lamps"
Well im korean and im so glad watching awakward is playing
I have watched unranked to gm conent many times again and again i went up to flat to diamond thank u
The most helpful and fun to watch
Plz upload many games of ur playing thank u
Just a question, what if you recorded top 500 games and did voice overs on matches you find valuable to teach with and then break down the gameplay replay so that you can slow things down a little and be able to explain it?
this guy is a beast man
suzu is most definitely bugged bc i cant explain how many times the animation will literally come up on my screen and even suzu my other teammates but not me
Bro why there’s no “damage damage” in this video!!
disappointed 😔
I’m gonna honestly tell you that you’re unranked to GM video with Baptiste helped me so much with my gameplay. I’m in bronze but now I can actually see myself climbing because of your tips. I get more damage, more kills and honestly I’m having more fun playing the game now. I’m taking off angles and doing all the things you said and it’s enhanced my experience playing. The only thing I need to work on I think to get out my rank is my aim. But I’m doing so much better after watching the video. THANK YOU ❤
TLDR. Reaching Rank 1 multiple times is akin to finishing an RPG game. You've essentially completed it. So there is zero point in grinding to maintain that rank, unless you've transitioned to pro-play. So you have shifted goals from playing to content creation (i.e., teaching).
This doesn't really take away from the fact that you're smurfing, but its easier to relate.
7:08 Damn timing of this is good timing, starting in the gym tomorrow myself.
„Im just to quick with those fingers“
13:18 I heal those lamps so often as Ana XD. they've probably gotten more healing than my team.
Can you do a vod breakdown on your main acc it’s is cool to watch also, I think it will be fresh content compared to the more educational vids
i mean to be fair styx goes MY ANA IS AWFUL talking about him self might be a language barrier
I 100% agree with the fact that it's hard to teach new players how to play by showing them high level gameplay. As a tank player, a good example of this is that while you always want to prioritize going for the dps and supports over the enemy tank, it can be hard to demonstrate this in high level games as the dps and supports will take smart positions out of your range. This forces you to often go for the tank trade instead.
Would enjoy to watch you play ball u2gm. Think it could be a lil bit of a challenge too, but you'd be able to prevail
I’m not nearly as good but I understand the queue time situation.. SoloQ low GM on support is like 10+ min. I find that I spend more of my time playing with my buddies in plat. The queue times for me are sometimes not worth me wanting to climb and get better.
I just did my placement yesterday as Zenyatta (because of your video unranked to gm) and instantly got put into gold. I have to say the gameplay I saw in this video is out of this world. I didnt know what the fuck was happening at any given time. But I loved watching it.
We gotta accept even the number 1 of t500 lose games. But underestimate ur enemy in that lobby is kinda disrespectful hahahaa
haha true but its good content
@Awkward2 This was great man, as a gm player this is the kind of content I need to improve. I don’t usually get a ton of value from your unranked to GMs, but I understand that content is targeted towards lower elo players. If you’re looking for a challenge keep practicing on making this content! I agree that the pacing is crazy and very tough but you could look at tape and break stuff down afterwards for maybe one or two games?
Awkward just wants more people to get to gm so that the queue times will be shorter.
The widow at 1:37 😂😂😂
I used to play smash bros competitively, I stopped going to tournaments before smash ultimate came out but I played online a lot and got my GSP to above 98% of online players (similar to like masters or bottom of GM?).
To learn, instead of watching top 32, top 8, or grand finals matches, I watched pro's decimate their pools.
Why? Because I wanted to see what the pros did that outclassed players like me, who were at best local/city threats. so I can see why you do what you do rather than grind top 500 for educational purposes, because that's how I got as good as I did, so I'm glad I found your channel because I want to be that good in overwatch as well.
this guy is so funny "lets pretend like i lagged" lmfao
Man put in gaur plains ost but he's the lvl 80 monster
This man's ego is unreachable
He literally included a loss in the last game of the video while admitting a mistake.
Or maybe people have too much of a fragile ego?
His point off waiting to play the game more than he plays it hits home for me since I am a console player from oce when I hit master 1 I have been getting 20+ min queue and it's killing my drive to climb
I like to flank as Zenyatta on support role.
I used to do this easily for a while. People stood still and never entirely understood who was shooting them since it did not make sense to them. 😅
After some time, it got more challenging to flank like this. I got focused in less than a second all the time and died in a heartbeat. I had to mind my distance and positioning way more to keep this up.
I do not play competitively, so I never got any rank. However, when I play in QP, I often play people showing off their "Grandmaster Role Challenger".
I believe this does not mean I am a GM, but it also most likely means I am more than a bronze 5 player. I hope 😂
I just got in your team deathmatch with you bro u are so good
I was once gold. I found your videos and am now GM. My new problem is oce queu times. So i just play qp and or play on an alt now.
Actually great advice about going to the gym. No reason to be insecure. What do YOU look at when you're training? Do you look at other people? No, you look at yourself to see if you're performing the exercise correctly. As long as you're not deliberately messing with other people, literally nobody cares about what you're doing, what you look like or how you lift. You basically don't exist to others. Don't know how to do an exercise? Just ask a gym bro or even a gym sis if you're a girl yourself. 9/10 they've been dreaming about the moment someone approaches them and they can share their knowledge. You can do your own research and optimize your training for a goal you're trying to achieve (get strong, lose weight, build muscle, recompose, anything), but if you've never been to the gym, literally just have a tour around the gym, try out different machines and feel what body part they work. In your first year you'll make progress regardless of how optimized your training is, as long as you're careful and don't injure yourself. A sub-optimal training routine is ALWAYS better than none.
Dude: Top500 are the best players, and the game is so fast
Also Top500 players: *Complains about a non-existent ana teammate*
Yeeeeah...
i was saying im shit at ana, he edited out where someone asked for an ana, why would i flame someone who doesnt exist
In that case i dunno which one of you two are worse@@kamiixow8345
@@kamiixow8345 I don't understand how he didn't catch that you meant that you can't pick Ana for more heals because your Ana skills are awful lmao
@@dounia4207 hes just very egotistical and his fans are also the biggest meat riders, awkward edited out the second round of this game fora reason, hes not the player he was
Your content is great. I need more
Even in Diamond, support queues are nearing 10 minutes atm, unplayable.
Fax! I aint Watching a streamer sit in que for 1 hour
I’ve been watching your videos and I’m almost Diamond in dps and support and I only got like 120 hours in the game so thank you for the advice
bro beat the game 💀
Yo awkward do a Console GM series. I reckon that would be awesome, it’ll really test your knowledge because you won’t have that god like aim
I watched this game from ML7 pov, I can remember he was impressed with the sleeps
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