Since Overwatch launched in 2016, it has not only become one of the most popular FPS games, it’s become one of the biggest games Blizzard has ever made. Considering that Blizzard has made World of Warcraft and Diablo, that’s saying something. It’s always hovering around the top 5 games on Twitch and it never takes long to find a match when I play Quick Play. When a game sells as well as Overwatch has🗹, that means that it’s reaching a wide range of people and everyone plays games differently. The point of playing games, to me, is to have fun but it’s also cool to win some and not lose all your matches.

Once Wrecking Ball is off the PTR servers and added to the full game, there will be 28 Heroes in the game... that’s a lot! With that many characters comes a lot of different play styles. What I want to do with this list is give 25 things to help out casual players of the game that they may not know. For console players, this could be the first game they have played like this and it can be intimidating. Even after a year or so playing it on and off, there are still things that are easy to miss. I’m by no means an expert Overwatch player, but I have play🐼ed it a ton and wanted to give some pointers about what casual players might be missing. So let’s get to the list!

25 🦋 We Talkin’ About Practice

I know that practicing seems like the most obvious thing in the world, but a lot of people don’t take advantage of it in Overwatch. There’s a training mode with training bots so you can test out all the character abilities and see what kind of range they have and stuff like that. I’m not saying you ne🙈ed to spend hours in there or anything, but 5 minutes or so to get the༺ hang of things before jumping into a match can be a good idea.

24 🎃 Rallypoint

The main game modes in Overwatch are objective based and playingꦆ the objective is the only way you can win, not your K/D ratio. Taking out people can d𒊎efinitely help but you won’t win strictly doing that.

You heal when next to the payload playing Escort.

You can play at a distance and still be effective but just don’t go lone wolf and wander far from the objective much. Even after b☂eing out for 2 years people still think they can go at it alone but they normally find out pretty fast that you get rolled on iﷺf you do.

23 Doc In A Box ꦕ ✨

Having healers on any team is almost a must but they can’t heal everyone at all times. There are health packs that recharge all over every map and learning where they are is a must! Some are small and some are large but hey, they all heal you. If there is a Sombra on your team she can hack them and make them recharge faster for your team 𓃲and slower for the other. Sticking with a healer is the better option but knowing the spots to at least some health packs can make a huge difference.

22 🌳 Non-Exclu🐬sive

Having a main to play as is important in Overwatch, but there are a ton of characters and c🧔lasses to play. Having a team full of offensive characters can work but having a diverse team is normally the best🐎 option.

So being able to play as a character from each class will benefit you and your team.

If your favorite character is chosen or if your team needs a tank it’s good to have another go🐠-to. I always try and get Sombra but I can play as a few others if need be.

21 Chill Bro

One thing that I run into when I play Competitive Play is people ﷽wanting you to not play a certain character and telling you to switch. I get that people have a thing against Hanzo, but you really should just trust that the person knows what they’re doing with that character. If they are not helping the team then maybe ask them to politely change. This only applies to Competitive Play, if you’re asking people to change characters in Quick Play th꧒en you might just want to chill. Quick Play is a place to just play for fun.

20 ꦑ 🔯 Take The L

Overwatch is an online shooter, the game has been out 2 years, so you’re going to lose some matches. This mainly ap𒆙plies to Competitive Play since losing brings down your rank, but that’s fine. It doesn’t go down as much as it used to so loosing isn’t as big a deal. Plus, the main reason for playing competitive is to get golden guns and if you aren’t into that then it mi༒ght be better to stick to Quick Play or Arcade. You are more free to experiment with those and honestly, that's what I play when I play now.

19 New Digs

This is ❀more for console players, like me. Some ch🐽aracters like Mercy are a little hard to use with a standard controller. Mercy is actually my preferred Support character but going from healing to buffing makes me kinda claw one side of the controller instead of holding it normally.

Xbox One already has an Elite controller and PS4 is coming out with a new Scuf controller later this year.

They are around $200 to get and that's steep but worth it if you play a lot of FPS gam🌸es.

18 I Know, Gotcha The 🐬First Time

The Genji meme of his saying “I Need Healing” can honestly repres▨ent how some people act in games. You can use the control pad on console to ask for healing and man some people spam that! Support characters can sometimes only heal one person at a time and tend to stay around the action. Plus, icons appear on their screen when someone needs to be healed so there really isn’t any need to spam that command unless you’re just trying to be obnoxious. They did add a reputation system that appears next to your gamertag now, so I’d watch with stuff like that.

17 🌠 No Bling Bling

I love going for trophies/achievements as much as anyone but this is not the game to stress about those. They are all meant to be gotten by just playing the game and you will naturally get most of them. Half of them are character-based though, so you’d need to play as that character to get it. I play on PS4 and I found myself going for trophies and 🐠it was an awful time and I played bad! Just play and enjoy the game and don’t stress about those with this game.

16 𒁏 Hey, Listen 🐽

I get just casually playing some Overwatch, but the game has a lot of audio cue🐟s that are easy to hear with some headphones or the volume up. Every Ultimate is very loud on purpose so no-one ca🎐n sneak up on you with one.

Most offensive Ultimates can knock you out very easily so it’s worth listening for them.

Every Ultimate has a time ⭕limit so you can just hide from most of them outside of Widowmaker’s. So just listen the next time you p♎lay and it’ll help out a lot!