There are timestamps, check description! If you don't have time to watch the whole vid, at least watch Game 2 (Dorado) to expand your brain. Lots of tips being applied with great commentary.
Really happy you've been able to colab with high level creators to give more perspectives and get more exposure! It really is helpful to see how players like KarQ respond/adapt to your advice. You're doing great things!
When I started thinking about Awkward’s advice, I felt really silly when something incredibly simple hit me: It’s a gunfight. Shoot the enemies. Damage damage damage.
@@alexdahmane7025 the advice took me from silver to diamond. Supports should absolutely be applying pressure. If you’re just healing, your team won’t make progress
@@eriiicj.1558 honeslty your right,im diamon to and most of the healers play like that and its definitively working since you know,there in diamon!but as a tank player its more fun to play with healer who focus on heal so i can have a more fast pace gameplay even if its not optimal lol.
@@alexdahmane7025I don’t play a lot of tank, but I when I do, I also prefer healbot supports lol. I get that. It’s def more fun for me to be proactive as a support, so I guess someone is always gonna be on the losing end lol.
I am getting better watching Awkward content. He is so good explaining and playing at the same time. Remember guys: damage, damage, damage and no NPC questions.
I can tell he is an amazing coach already after like 5 mins of gameplay. He asks you your limitations so YOU can decide them. This is what you want to do when you tutoring someone in anything. It lets you cut out the BS of trying to figure out why someone isn't performant by just asking their viewpoint. It also lets them solidify what THEY want to work on.
I got coached by him for two months, 1 month for Ana, 1 month for roadhog/zarya. Sometimes we know the fundamentals, but we don't consciously do it. By getting coached by him as we play, it helps to increase everything. If it wasn't expensive, I would have done it for a year, pity in Indonesian money it costs a ton XD
Yes! Ana is such an offensive hero. Getting a good nade pretty much guarantees a fight, sleeping a single ulting opponent can save your entire team before they’re even in danger. You basically don’t allow the enemy to play so they can’t hurt your team. That’s mommy Ana ❤
When Awkward mentioned 'Whiplash' as part of the coaching, not going to lie, I got a little nervous for KarQ. It's a well regarded movie with some excellent lessons; just didn't want Awkward to go all JK Simmons all of a sudden. Given that KarQ answered confidently with "dragging" instead of stammering was actually super fitting for the scene too.
After SVB getting live coached by Awkward, I thought it couldn't get better... but now with KarQ? Two of my top 3 doing this is just awesome! I know it's going to be amazing before even watching
- Better to be accurate than to be fast - Find value = find chance to do (meaningful) damage, CC. - No one always plays perfect, but if you make good offensive plays you have higher % of winning. When you always heal, your chance of winning is 50/50 and dependent on your teammates - Sometimes you worry too much about healing teammates that aint really about to die and forgot to use your CDs - In high lobbies, every second matters - If you can't find value in a specific position, rotate to a different angle or move up to do more damage. So no damage or ur about to die = switch up the angle - The fundamental is applying pressure. You should heal people enough so they don't die but always do damage & pressure - When using a risky off-angle, shoot a few shots and then run away. If they all look at you and panic bc of the nade, nobody is shooting at your team and your team can take space to push them. Notice: when they all start looking and chasing you, you switch off and do not die. - When you off-angle, even if you miss your sleep you can still hit nade. If you miss both then you still make them look at you, then you switch angle do not die and your team can attack them while they distrated - Be careful when you get stuck in open space - In reality theres no need to wait for the perfect moment to use the sleep, usually you get more values when you just use your cool down on sleep offensively and hope for the best
It takes a lot of humility to get in a call with a coach in front of hundreds of thousands of people, for them to point out your shortcomings. Sometimes it can be hard and frustrating to accept feedback from someone, even if the teacher is more knowledgeable. I'm impressed that you did this and decided to make a video out of it for the sake of your viewers. Thank you
I watched every single minute of awkwards ur2gm for zenyatta and can’t believe my progress. He’s a great coach and never blames his team. I still go back and watch it from time to time if I go on a losing streak and try to reassess what I’m doing wrong, and it always helps.
Its hard to believe this guy doesn't have a huge following. This guy's content is not only fun to watch its also helpful. Anyone looking to get better especially with heroes like Ana and Baptiste I would highly recommend watching this guy.
21:46 I believe a fitting term for this is unconscious competence where you have a subconscious understanding or intuition. We also have conscious competence (you know your strength), conscious incompetence (you know what you don't know), and unconscious incompetence (you don't know what you don't know), which is why ideas like this video and coaching are so good for development
1:02:43 is the level of insight we want to hear when we watch these. Pretty awesome seeing someone who's already top-tier have their mind melted by a coach.
From a high diamond/low masters Ana & Kiriko main, this is by far the most educational video I’ve seen, and the talking points almost felt geared to all of the issues I seem to be having recently. Greatful for you both ❤️
Super happy to see this collaboration. As an Ana main, I have improved a ton after watching Awkward’s unranked to GM on Ana, and I’ve always watched KarQ. I just wish KarQ would play more Ana again. Nothing against Kiriko, she is just not Ana lol
This is so cool to see someone who does coaching for metal ranks being coached at the highest in the game. this is the next level coaching ive been dying to see for support, especially on my main support hero
In the middle of a team fight,awkward goes:have u seen the movie whiplash.After hearing a negative ,he goes:there is a scene ... This is out of the world coaching
That "what if" moment in the replay at the end has gotten me mind blown. Such a nice way to find opportunities from replays. Also I would like to add, I was expecting to be a high silver low gold player and ranked plat 4 this season. I thought I would derank but no I am now plat 1. My team yell at me all the time because my healing is always half the other healer and they say what are you doing at the front move back(or sit on the payload) but I noticed that 1 : the ennemy when they see me they commit ressources because getting a support is big, 2 : when the nade they did not expect hit they back up of they have no kiriko and 3 : the sombra is looking for me where I am not 😂. Then my team moves on. My main issue atm is greed and not rotating enaugh
This is the best Overwatch content I've seen in a long time. Watching someone near the top of the game make changes and see significant improvements over just a couple games is amazing. The best part is that Karq is on a different planet compared to my skill, but all the advice is advice someone at my level can actually follow and improve.
Very Good analogy and mindful critics. Improving on small things but very high skilled actions! Oh man, I’m so jealous! I wish I was that good to start paying attention to the small things😊 Really amazing coaching! Appreciate the content and the people involved☺️ PS: Pls make another video with different Main and this coach! I feel like you can do so much better! There was so much room you can improve on. It’s amazing when you realize that!🤯
@@lpeabodyI’ve been subbed to him for like 4 months now. He doesn’t really upload like 10 minute vids, they’re mostly hour long rank up vids unrank-master or something. He’s more like a coach tbh. As he said in video he doesn’t play overwatch as much anymore.
I love that even at your level you can be opened up to new thought processes and learn new things Also pretty satisfying when he asks you to move to a position and then seeing immediate value
awkward helped me changed my playstyle a lot i usually play tank and when i did support i did so much healing and lost, it’s important to realize there’s a difference between being a support player and being a healer
The last game was so hard to watch, especially as a support main. This is one of the cases where the game is unwinable, no matter how good you play. Still Karq and Awkward gave very solid insights and how you can (micro)adjust yourself to get the most out of any round. But having an Echo with 0-0-5 in the first round and having an entire DIFF-team... Crazy. But I think this has to do with matchmaking because they played... I say "very unusual for the ranks they've been put up against" :D
I’ve learned to fully trust Awkward’s teaching. I watched his unranked to GM Baptist and went from plat 4 to masters 2 just this season by practicing his play style.
Two of my most favourite OW streamers providing Top500 content (I was going to say gold, but ... lol). Awesome stuff! Would like to see KarQ do a follow up on this one where he applies this new advice to future games and do some analysis of like if back then I would have stayed back and done this, but now I see the opportunity to go do damage, damage, damage, etc.
This kind of mentality i only had with kiriko or zen and those are the only two i could kinda carry with. Now i see, i should deal more dmg with others. Kiriko headshot is dirtyyy
Awkward a goat. Man I watch all his rank to GM. He comes off as an a-hole but man he backs it up. And only wants to help his community doesn’t hide secrets. Shares everything he knows and admits to always keep yourself teachable because you can n always be better.
He needs to just keep being him, he used to be a lot more gentle and it never worked so he finally just got tired of it and started telling people like it is 🤣 people will always have an issue with the way you say something before they listen to what you’re actually saying
I watched Awkwards unranked to GM video on Moira and literally climbed to top 500 support (ChloeSchmitt) in roughly a month. I had been a platinum/diamond player for years. I did peek into masters with Sombra as well a little before, but I can highly recommend mimicking his style. I've been playing this game for many many many years and one day it just clicked.
I always implement stuff i learn in game to irl also cuz it makes sense. A way of seeing things differently can be true for irl too. Not waiting for things to happen creating oppurtunities seeking out things is one example.
Man, I wish I didn't have to babysit my team with heals. I try to output as much DPS as possible on support, but a lot of the time I need to shove my Ana rifle up my teams asses just so they don't get themselves killed doing dumb shit. Then they cry "where's my heals?!?!?!" and I'm sitting there saying in my head, "I can't heal stupid, sorry."
Don't play to make your team happy, play to win the game. Trust your own judgement, don't think about how your team will react to your choices, just do what you think is the best. And there's no point in healbotting xXxfartsniffer69xXx if they aren't getting any eliminations anyways
I've heard other people talk about the ebb and flow of the fight as a concept before, and had a little lightbulb moment while watching. The 2 things he's asking when in positions, "can I do impact dmg?" and "am I in danger?", provide an effortless thought loop to follow fight tempo without necessarily thinking of it as something as confusing and generic as fight tempo. Awkward has some uhhh.... interesting ragebait tweets but I'm convinced that he knows what he's talking about
21:26 i believe the word you're looking for is the "Dunning Kruger" effect. The tendency for unskilled individuals to overestimate their abilities, while experts may underestimate their own competence.
I watched some of Awkward's video and thought his play style wasn't really my type, but i just realized he have hit such a top level so many times and may be i should think again to adapt more on his style
I usually really dislike live coaching as you play, and instead prefer respawn tips/after Map vods. At least in my experience coaching anywhere from gm to brand new players, they don't respond to the outside pressure well, and sometimes make plays they wouldn't normally do just to "impress" me. I really prefer a student selected vod, where I answer questions they have because that usually means that they'll remember that advice if they ask themselves the same kind of question, followed up by another game where they try to input the coaching. I'm just some random gm tho.
22:30 makes sense, if you are 50/50 going into a 50/50 battlefield that's constantly switching from offensive to defensive playstyles, you have a lower chance of playing the right playstyle against the enemy's playstyle, compared to a 100% offensive/aggressive player going into a 50/50 battlefield.
