Educational Unranked To GM BAPTISTE (WORLD RECORD) 

'"But Awkward, your healing is low." Who cares? Your healing is high and you lose games, my healing is low and I win all the games.' XD w quote.

“The great thing about baptiste is that he can heal.” Lol that line made me watch this whole video

Awkward proving yet again that the real healing is the friends we make along the way.

What I got from this: Baptiste is a full time damage dealer and a part time healer. He specializes in shooting from places his team isn't, getting in/out using his vertical mobility, healing teammates on the weekends or when it's convenient, and making his team incredibly difficult to kill without jumping through the hoops he can setup. Now, if only I could hit my shots....

Hit GM3 support today with mainly Baptiste thanks to you Awkward. No comms, no OW1 experience, just damage damage damage, off angles, they push forward I push back, they push back I push forward, and cover at all times. You guys can do it to, quit listening to your bronze teammates and listen to Awkward.

I did the math (no pun intended). From Unranked to GM: 443 Eliminations. 159,755 Damage Damage Damage. 49 Deaths. Dude is crazy

I love how in the beginning he’s talking to us about what to do, then when things get serious in masters he starts talking to himself saying the same things. Good stuff right here.

For people wondering what he means here: 2:13 "The great thing about Baptiste is that he can also heal, while doing damage." He's not being silly, he's talking about Baptiste's unique rhythm between his primary (3 round burst) and secondary (heal grenade) fire. The cooldown on the nade is long enough that you can squeeze one burst (more healing) or two bursts (more damage) between shots. The best pattern is and always will be two bursts. This isn't a debate, it's just the best way to play him! So if you're feeling like you're having to healbot 'because my team is taking so much damage': that is a SKILL ISSUE, because if all you're doing is firing nades, you're choosing to be lazy and not using him to his full potential! If you're playing Baptiste and not shooting at something whenever you can (DAMAGE), *you are playing him wrong* Awkward, you're amazing

The crazy thing is that in another universe there is an awkward that says "healing, healing, healing"

1:07:31 idk why but this moment was so funny to me. "You know what he wants to fight, i'll fight" **uses ult and blazes down soldier**

Teaching diff. No one except for Awk has the ability to perform at such a high level, while explaning every single thing he's gonna do before during and after execution in such a way that anyone could do it. Rank #1 teacher.

I watched the first 10 minutes of this video, qued ranked, played bap, got called out for low heals, didn't care, won the match.

1:02 Esperanca - Push 10:41 Shambali Monastary - Escort 26:40 Colosseo - Push 35:04 Eichenwalde - Hybrid 51:34 Lijiang Tower - Control 59:59 New Queen Street - Push 1:06:20 Junkertown - Escort 1:17:00 Route 66 - Escort 1:28:58 Midtown - Hybrid 1:39:02 Watchpoint Gibraltar - Escort 1:52:45 Ilios - Control 2:02:05 Dorado - Escort 2:14:25 Busan - Control 2:24:28 Numbani - Hyrbird 2:39:00 Rialto - Escort

I love how the guy who complained "bap can u dps more little dick" is the pharah that's constantly out of position and getting killed by Awkward

Really like your play style! I enjoyed overwatch more because of you. Thank you!

“I’ll just play like I don’t have teammates. That way I can’t be disappointed” best quote ever

For anyone wondering 17:06 Cass always shoots right to left, so the lamp always wouldve been destroyed first. You would ironically want to throw the lamp to YOUR right and the exact opposite would happen where the lamp is destroyed last @Awkward

I seriously love this guy lol. “anyways…back to the damage”

you didnt say this in this video but, "It's simple, but not easy," is something that really helped me build confidence. I am new to ow altogether, so I just want to play the game right, the mechanics will come over time, even if I am somewhat casual. thanks!

Thank you so much for uploading a bap video, I can’t wait to watch it. It’s annoying that you are so good because now I only have 3 hours of gameplay to watch instead of the normal 11 😢

Went from hardstuck Diamond for 10+ seasons to GM1 Support in a couple months thanks to you. I always appreciate when you do one of these as I'm still learning and trying to improve. Specially coming from a healbot mentality these videos were a god send! Thanks a lot Awkward!

"You're not a loser if you're silver, you're a loser if you're silver and you blame your team"

I used to think bap was boring because… newsflash. I was just in the backline pumping out heals and occasionally shooting. Now he’s become much more fun after learning your tips!

By adjusting my playstyle to his, got me from high gold-low plat to high masters-low GM. It was my dream since 2018 when I first started to become GM. Thank you for creating content like this!

Literally the first 5 minutes of this video is exactly how a friend of mine plays Bap lmao and he carries me...every...single...time..........

poor Yamato, didnt like the DAMAGE

I changed my playstyle to follow what awkward does. I was gold in OW1, and steadily climbed to plat. When OW2 came out, and so did awkward's unranked to GM came out, I binged it and studied every little thing he did and adjusted my playstyle accordingly. Now, I am GM 4 support, playing mainly flex supports (Ana, bap, zen, kiri). Thank you awkward, you are godsent to the OW community.

Bap is so crazy dawg, i went from Gold 5 to GM 4 when i finally decided to try Support in Ranked lol

I watch all of your UR2GMs for supports, but as a Brig main, I would really love to see a new Brig one for OW2 (I've seen the old one from OW1). I would really be interested to see how you would approach the challenge on Brig.

Me: I'm a healer , I'm gonna stay next to my teammates Awkward: Damage.

For those who have trouble aiming. There is a custom match you can join. That has the AI do nothing but strafing or using their movement abilities. It really helps to practice and for a good warm up so you can get locked in quicker.

that 46 elim game was absolutely insane at the end. He wiped the whole team nearly singlehandedly MULTIPLE times without dying once.

The comment that helped me understand what when they move forward I move back was “when they move forward around that corner, I’m already at this corner” The corner statement helped me realize when the right time to move was

I'm bronze support and I think this video will really help me climb. Now that I think about it, it makes complete sense why damage should be main priority. More damage=more pressure which can lead to the enemy retreating/panicking/prioritizing you which helps save your teammates so you don't need to heal as often as you think you would need to. I'm definitely gonna try this out when I play Bap! Edit: I'd also like to add it's hilarious he's antagonizing the enemy team. Getting in their heads is half the battle. If they're mad, they're gonna make more mistakes, play too greedy trying to get kills, or overextend trying to chase you to get revenge.

Phenomenal explaining! I love that you're trying to hammer down in everyones head to stop heal botting and start to do more damage because that's the main difference in strategy that makes you climb as a support.

This man graduated from DAMAGE UNIVERSITY

This is insanely helpful, thank you so much. I realized I was focusing too much on healing and this has totally changed the way I view Bap. He IS the third DPS.

Watched this, went from like 39% to 50% winrate on bap almost immediately. My team ofcourse is crying to me about not healing and questioning my playstyle just like you said would happen. Edit: Currently 61% winrate and made it to diamond.

Time Stamps Unranked 0:00 - 59:17 Diamond 59:26 - 1:52:36 Masters 1:52:42 - 2:50:22 Stats 2:50:37 This comment now has no use as the time stamps were added afterwards

I've heard a lot of people online say that awkward's playstyle is carried by his mechanics. People don't realize the pressure created just by shooting at someone even if you don't hit. Creating off angles and pressure by itself can carry games at low elos. positioning alone can carry games at low elos. Yeah he has great mechanics, but anyone can have great mechanics with time and practice. Its showing that with effort you can climb. Some people believe its actually impossible to climb because of teammates but fail to realize the impact you can have towards victories with small wins through out your matches.

The reason it went so fast this time, is because in this season they give you a rank similar to your mmr instead of just getting you closer to that rank in every 'placement'

You are one of the only people who’s unranked to gm actually teaches how to play. Most other videos are just gms smurfing and getting mad at teammates. Went from the plat to masters cause of your videos

I don't play comp that often due to compxiety. But after learning to damage all the time and not healbot. I was able to go from silver 2 to plat 5 in a couple of hours. I mainly play quickplay but I feel if I tried I could be better. Thanks Awkward! been a fan for a while now.

I truly truly enjoy every unrank to GM content you create. whilst i'm not playing competitive, the quality of my unrank/QP games have improved significantly. Not only as a support, but every piece of advice you gave has helped in EVERY role i play - tank, dps, characters that i didn't used to play - you name it. It has allowed me to put myself in a positions to proactively look for damage opportunities WHILE staying next to cover, keeping myself safe. I've also not only been able to acknowledge whenever i mess up, but i realise my mistakes much SOONER. this has allowed me to correct my mistakes earlier, and survive longer. i am now able to make plays (off angles etc.) i never thought was possible before, and that has contributed greatly in my games. thanks Awkward, you've made me enjoy OW again :)

13:51 Ana and rein apologizing at the same time for not keeping bastion alive was really funny to me

God I know you're a rank 1 support, but it just never ceases to amaze me watching you put on such a clinic. It's such beautiful Bap gameplay and it's inspiring. I'm Masters 2 and hoping that using this will help me break into GM!

This guy knows his stuff ngl, I went from like Bronze 3 to Gold 1 from last season just by listening to his tips.

Key takeaways 1. Damage (of course) but remain aware to heal critical teammates 2. Take advantage of his exo boots to constantly find off angles, especially on high ground 3. Constant damage, even before and AFTER team fights 4. Use lamp behind corners 5. Use windows around corners when the enemy is unable to retreat to secure kills (or on high ground to get picks when off-angling) 6. Don’t be afraid to engage isolated enemies one-on-one when you have cool downs 7. Push forward when enemies are retreating and fall back when they come nearer, while doing damage 8. When getting pushed, always fight back to prevent the enemy from easily killing you

“The great thing about baptiste is that he can also heal” Was a lot funnier than it should have been

i realise what im doing wring now. my teammates take 10 billion dmg every three seconds but thats bc im not distracting also and getting off angles/ dmg

5:06 another thing that's great about Baptiste is that he can jump out of Mei ult if you time the jump right.

Thanks Awkward. I went from a silver player who had less than 1 year of MnK experience to Plat tank, dps, and diamond 3 support because of your videos. Still have a lot to work on, but you sped up my learning process exponentially. You’ve also made the game so much more enjoyable for me now that I don’t worry about my team and focus on what I’m doing and what I can improve on.

Thanks for the great Unranked to GM videos you don’t sugercoat anything and get straight to the advice. I was hardstuck diamond 2 as baptiste but after watching some of your videos and practicing aim and mechanics I was able to climb to GM5 this season

Your accuracy while jumping is insane... the stick drift in my 5 year old controller makes it impossible no matter how hard I focus on it haha. Great video!

When I sleep I hear "damage", when I wake up I hear "damage". Thanks man.

Your tips are so useful man. Been going back and forth from bronze 1 and silver 4 for 2 seasons now, but after applying the stuff you say in the video, I broke the cycle and now im in gold 2. Keep up the good work my guy, the videos really help.

Love the blunt honesty when responding to comments😂 rare to see people actually speak their mind without catering to others feelings

applied your advice to my own gameplay and went from mid masters to GM1 last night. Your commentary really helped me out in those higher tier lobbies.

Thanks for this video, it has really helped my game. I like your teaching style of repeating the same playing principles over and over like a mantra, while showcasing the validity of those principles. I am now playing much more aggressive as support, inserting more off angling into my play. It also works mentally well for me to never blame my team and always take responsibility for my deaths. It forces a mindset of improvement. Subbed.

whole point of this guide: DAMAGE

How are babies made? DAMAGE

you'll probably never see this but man, I used to talk soooo much sh*t about unranked to GMs. But 30 mins in and I've learned more than a whole season of trying to play bap, big ups for the free coaching! And for showing me that I have a lot to work on to actually get out of plat

This is the way. Played Bap for most of last season, ended up Masters 3 after only peaking Diamond 4 before. Had multiple games where my team literally said in chat "Bap, how tf do you have so much damage and still healing?" Had one game where I had 24k damage and 13k heals, by far my most dominant game, went 44-5 on Oasis. These guides are still top-notch. Good stuff.

I just won several games in a row after watching This. 😂 the bap on the last team was flaming his tank. For chasing the “dps bap” around I had 13k damage 5k heals. He had 3k damage 11k heals.

Actually straight from silver to plat after this. Thanks

I've been playing Overwatch since it first came out and I've never had so much fun until I started watching your videos. You make the game make sense. Thanks for posting all of this great content.

i watched this specific unranked to GM literally countless times and for real, in my eyes you are one of the best players dude not only in overwatch but in general, because you have a GREAT mindset i love watching this its eductational, impressive and funny at the same time, GG WP dude

its funny how people say these kind of things only work because you are T500, literally got back into overwatch after years and recently hit masters on all roles after being gold a couple of weeks ago and we just focused on understanding the game and watching people that are actually good at it instead of just going in thinking you know everything and hoping that doing the same thing over and over and over again is going to do anything other than making bad habbits, thanks for the videos, you along with other creators like a10 and ml7 have helped me so much through the climb

I'm glad you mentioned spamming the enemy tank with damage doesn't equate to doing well. My main dps is Hanzo and I sometimes get flamed for my damage being lower than the other dps and the tank but I always have more kills than both because I'm not playing for damage numbers, I'm playing for kills.

This was surreal to watch and it's even on RU-vid to watch how everything happened in detail. Thanks for the knowledge!

The last bap video got me to diamond. It's time for a refresher with everything that's changed.

Great content as always, Awkward. Your playstyle and lessons took me from gold to masters when I started playing more on support.

A Lucio one would be absolutely godly

You're a lifesaver man. Been watching these for the heroes that i like to play and using your positioning I've found huge success. Im pumping the same dps as my actual dps and i'm outhealing almost evey healer i see in my games.

I love you man haha, this stuff is great and a huge help thanks!

You should mention that people should disable "recoil recovery aim compensation" on the per hero settings for baptiste

Hes still healing yall. Just reverse healing on the enemy

Genuinely amazing teacher, repeating the same things over and over gets it into peoples heads. I just watched the tracer unranked to gm and all I can think about is off angles, *damage always* and picking off vulnerable targets. W video as always 🤘

5:10 Awkward: How am I able to not die in the middle of the fight? Me: BECAUSE DAMAGE! Awkward: Because I keep my distance and close enough to cover... Me: Oh....

I love the part where he does damage

I added up all the game lengths and he did it in 2 hours 22 minutes and 19 seconds. Fastest game was New Queen Street at 5min 4sec and longest game was Eichenwalde at 14min 34sec. Average time per game was 9min 29sec. Very nice.

Bro could play mercy and still say “okay guys, mercy, it’s all about damage”

17:02 "excuse me, i put a lamp" made me giggle 😂😂😂😂

Hi Awkward. Just wanna say thank you bro. I was a tank main ever since Overwatch 2 came out. I always tried to learn how to play the game (as I was bronze back in 2016 lol, but could climb to gold and then diamnond). I saw ur unranked to gm video on Ana, and you showed some concepts no other content creator told us about. Today I got masters 5, i wasn´t good in support role (struggled to get plat). In one season, as Overwatch 2 made everyone fall a little of sr, my average was high gold in all roles, and in one season I could get to high diamond and master in support, and not putting so much effort on it. Keep up the great work, you have no idea how many people you help with your content! 🙂

"DAMAGE" - Sun Tzu

Got to love the trash talking Hanzo on the Colosseo - push. Goes from talking trash to accusing of aimbot.

Your tips have helped me exponentially; the repetition and idea of questioning sticks in my brain so well. It really changes your mindset if you repeat it enough time. Went from gold to diamond in a week, much love

Looks like the new system is now much better at determining someone's skill level hence why you got to GM so quickly. About flipping time.

U should also mention in the title that u have 100% winrate., Thats huge!!!

The playstyle you use on Bap and Kiri has the added bonus of making players who don't understand the game avoid you.

Was up against some Bap in Diamond. He played exactly like this and carried, he had like 16k damage and heals. He was off angling and always looking to poke for damage but at a safe distance and flanking at times.

average hanzo main in chat: 28:08 29:37 33:06

So if a bap's heals are high, its because they let the enemy live long enough to hurt their teammates?

Great video the way you explain your thought process; makes it easy to implement this in my gameplay. Thank you.

Hey man, I’ve recently been trying very hard to adopt this playstyle but I’m finding my damage numbers even on my good games are much lower than yours. I think it must be mechanical diff, because on these good games i feel like i am constantly dealing damage and very rarely dying. Do you think there can be another cause?

Would love to see one with Lifeweaver, considering his damage isnt consistent at longer ranges. Love the content, keep it up!

I think the essential awkward quote. The crux of this play style is, “anyway, time to do damage.” If you got nothing to do, do damage.

we need a counter for how many times awkward says DAMAGE lol

Bronze to Masters feels super linear in progression, but Grandmaster (where this video stops) and Top 500 feel like a totally different game.

Recently went from diamond 3 to top 500 on bap if you’re like me and get anxiety when your team says heal more leave team chat and put /hidechat and just played your game helped me a lot