Overwatch 2: Why You SUCK at Lifeweaver! - Git Gud Guide 

Lifeweaver guide opening with Ana gameplay is a chad move.

We were worried about the troll liability or Lifeweaver. These clips prove we’re not good enough to troll a damn thing. Not for a long time

To be fair, i suck at him because i haven't unlock him.

Like Symettra, the most important element of elite gameplay is _knowing when to swap off_

11:45 I'd say there's one instance where it's important to stay on high ground and that's if you know you're about to get dived on. Using a petal while on high ground guarantees that you get the _highest_ high ground. If the dive enemy player also ends up on your petal, you can dash away and escape all the way down to the low ground...and ideally petal back up again to high ground once they've chased you down. Lifeweaver can be a VERY slippery hero if you use him right.

Thanks for the advice on my match I submitted. That was the first time I managed to play Lifeweaver against other players so mix that with my other flaws like my habit of tunnel vision and I'm going to have a lot of flaws.

There's a hidden nerve to lifeweaver's dash. Since you have to be in mid-air to use the dash, heroes like ramantra can prevent a lifeweaver from escaping their circle and the momentum tech to extend their dash is effectively removed as well. Overall it doesn't feel that good.

Love your guides man! Been trying really hard to get used to the character

Bold of you to assume, I had the money to buy him

I like LW and I think he's pretty strong, but I still don't know why I would ever switch to him right now. Like, I don't think there's a situation that I would want to switch to him over other healers.

I don't even have this character unlocked and I'm already being told I'm shit at him.

Cheers for the breakdown Freedo :>

i love those vod reviews but i think it'd be nice if you also mentioned things the player did well :D for example when that lifeweaver used platform to get him and his teammate out of zarya grav, that was quite huge

He's fun I've been practicing a lot with him an got 21k healing in game. Hear is the easy way to play him. You stay in the far back an heal like ana an zen bam there ya go

They should implement the parting gift passive into the Tree ultimate, when it gets destroyed the tree drops it.

The one thing I don’t like is how they made his dash a double jump and yiu can’t get the benefit of fast primary switch without the double jump control. Having to double jump adds an extra input and since overwatch is a heavily fast paced game, that extra input can and will be the difference between life and death.

Trying out the new control mode, and honestly having the dash on a double jump command feels really bad. It means you only have that one half-second later to activate it when you really need to dip out and save yourself. Also, sometimes it just doesn't work depending on where you jump to? I'm not sure if I should switch back to the old control mode or stick with it, because the weapon swapping DOES feel better in the new way...

I’ve mained lifeweaver in comp for 24 straight hours now and gone from silver 2 to bronze 5 Proof that ow2 support role is a luck based game in terms of matchmaking. My own gameplay has only gotten better. I only use life grip to save teammates from ults and environment, but it doesn’t matter if they are completely incapable of killing anyone. I have anti dream luck. I use platform as an escape or as high ground for myself almost exclusively because if I try to pull up a hit scan all they do is walk right off.

If everyone sucks doesn't that mean we all are average? 😂

3:36, are you sure this dude is gold? he looks bronze like he literally doesnt even have basic movement mechanics down, he looks like he doesnt really understand how to even move inside the game, doing things like missing picking up the healthpack etc

The spongebob guy doing the turn around meme at the health pack killed me 😂😂😂

This is my honest idea of how to rework Lifeweaver. He's really powerfull and useful, the problem is that he's neutral game feels useless. Would be cool if someone that he hurt dies to drop the flower he used to when he was dead. That way he just prioritize dealing damage to heal and chargin ult which is he's super heal. Other than that i think he's a really tactic hero

"Clicks Lifeweaver Get Gud Guide" "Sees Anna Footage" "Problem Solved!" ;)

Weapon swapping can still be useful for reloading both the heal and the thorn gun. They both have their own ammo supplies, so makes sense to swap and reload vs try firing

The masters player rarely used the full heal charge. Stopping at around 35-40 charge. Is that better?

I've blocked fire strikes with a well-timed pedal lifting

I wish they had made it so if you hold down the jump button after jumping that you activate a glide like Mercy, with an animation where the petal on his back spins and acts like an umbrella, softening his fall speed, then maybe make Dash be on a crouch double click Double tap and hold jump to glide Double tap crouch to dash Then all the other new controls they’re introducing Idk, could’ve been a cool way to do it, might also lead to so cool lifegrips Edit: also maybe make it so you have to hold the petal platforms button down and fill a little circle to destroy it, but if you place it and then tap it after somebody steps on it and it starts going up, you stop the platform mid ascension, allowing for some shorter elevators, then eventually they could introduce new animations to it, so the platform originally isn’t bloomed, it’s closed up but still flat to step on, then when you step on it, it starts going up and “blooming”, unfurling, as it does, that makes it so it gives a tiny bit more cover until it’s full flat at full height, not a lot more, but it’ll reliably cover the bottom half of shortish characters as it goes up, characters like tracer and Torb would probably be able to crouch under it, but they can’t shoot through it, or shouldn’t at least Also allow junkerqueen to cancel her ult like a rein pin, I’ve been wanting this change for the longesttttttt, just do this Quality of Life thing before changing anything else about her

Good timing, just sat down to eat

Absolutely love life weaver after the rework on the controls but I’m so confused why his healing is on a road load when his healing is already very slow.

There should be an option with these new Lifeweaver settings to still have your Dash on LShift. I didn’t mind scroll wheel down for Petal Platform with Dash on shift. Now if you want to use the new shooting style, you are forced to have Dash on jump. Not a huge complaint but I don’t know why it’s not customizable.

First day Lifeweaver was in ranked and the team whose Lifeweaver didn't switch early was the team that lost. Going to take a while for the community to learn how to use him well. This should be required viewing before selecting him!

Can we just appreciate the Lifeweaver's name in the clips at 6:10 onward

why I am bad at Lifeweaver: 1) I do not have him unlocked 2) (see above) 3) ^^^ 4) profit?

There is another shadow nerf to Lifeweaver if you use the new controls. If you use the new controls you can no longer bunnyhop with dash because you have to double jump and bunnyhops need to be done on flat ground.

I'm having a hard time watching that gold player gameplay. I've seen bronze players play more actively than that.

Can you make a guide of heroes suited to game mode?

I still use the old control layout for Lifeweaver, Space for Dash and Shift for petal feels SO clunky and wrong to me. Might just be me tho

Git gud guide hell yeah!!!

We should get this change for Mercy and Torbjorn just sayin Double jump for mercy jump and alt fire as pistol Melee should just be hammer for torb

Ok ok if I have 15k healing 25 assist in comp but only 1k in dps as Lifeweaver am I making the team loose because I’m not doing as much dmg as my dps in comp

The dude has already created a guide when I haven’t touched the hero yet!

After first day of Lifeweaver in Comp I have mixed feelings... On one hand, his healing buffs feel pretty decent now, so he does manage to somewhat keep squishies alive. Also obviously had a troll in one of the games (kept life gripping people on full HP that were safely taking space and dealt a total of 300 dmg in almost 15 minutes of a match) but that's bound to happen. The real problem comes when he's played with another somewhat low/targeted healing output support as his combo. It's very low healing for the team as a whole, especially for the tank since they lose a lot of HP very fast due to their large hitboxes. Also, I haven't played him yet, but I was expecting with the buffs to his weapon spread and controls, that Lifeweavers would be doing a lot more damage. Sad to say that i didnt play a single game where a lifeweaver had more than 2500 dmg, and most games, they had around 500-1000 dmg. Healing numbers were fine, but as we know every burst takes a long time to charge, so its hard to do damage in between heals. This makes it so that if not played with another support that could in theory deal high heal numbers from all ranges (like Ana or Bap), people always play Lifeweaver like a healbot behind the team and don't help with any damage on their end. This makes for very difficult games especially if your support combo is Weaver/Mercy. Mercy has the damage boost at least to help, but she doesn't do any damage herself, and neither does Lifeweaver or else the tank is literally dead

Dear Lifeweaver: It’s not me, it’s you.

The title for me cut off at “Why you suck at life…” The universe is speaking to me!!

"You need a character that wants to int" You see Fredo that's why I play Lucio

I really really don’t like having the dash be bound to double jumping

I really love Lifeweaver, he once saved my rein from certain death by pulling me out of a corner

I always poke until im almost dead, then grab a buddy to shield myself as i run in fear. 😂

I'm going to go ahead and assume that it's because I haven't played him yet

tbh, I still suck on lifeweaver because I refused to train my muscle memory on him until the rework hit. Lets see how it goes now

I was playing him yesterday, i found out that you can destroy the petal even when you are spectating. So whenever enemy is on my pp I destroy it lol

I'm the first lifeweaver and yes I have got the hang of the character 😅😅

Does anyone know how to revert back to the previous LW control scheme?

I do believe your basic concept of weaver is a bit off. Yes its good to throw an early petal ... But that cool down makes Weaver a mobility character(when used properly) he can position a bit more aggressively than maybe you realize.

I’ve been playing him today. He falls apart on a crap team for sure. He’s all about enabling other characters but he’s actually not bad. His healing is totally fine. Life grip is useful for tanks and pulling other supports back when they get low supporting someone. I had some great synergies with a torb turret in my last game (did a 6 minute hold on last point when our crappy tank left). His lock on is useful. Yeah. He’s fine. I played him before the rework and he SUCKED. He was terrible. Now he’s not bad. I would play him over some of the others especially depending on the map

Okay so LW works well with tanks that can't get out of the fight fast enough on their own like Rein, Ram, Orisa and Zarya. And any DPS that doesn't have an ability thatll save them when they are low like cass and Genji. This will help me know when to play LW cuz during the wrong match ups, he is just trash lol

I really need an option to let me assign old shift!!!!

I was playing him for two rounds and the other support asked me to swap so he could try the character. Two minutes later he swapped cause he didn't like it. Too many people want to play this character as a huge play maker and not as a support.

haven't even got the chance to play him yet, 34 BP levels to go...

Lifeweaver hitbox massively huge

I hate the new controls it basically nerfs your dash distance by 50% I don't think there is a single good reason to use it unless u are incapable of swapping weapons with a button

I hate that I cant rebind my dash anymore. So f'ing annoying, so I'm back to the old config... :s

GG that was me…

Hol6 shot. That gold lifeweaver footage was painful to watch. This was not only gold footage. It was console gold footage at that.

I bought the season 4 pack been two weeks and still haven't gotten anything from it

i suck at lifeweaver? but..ive never played him...

Whelp, gg me. The whole fun part of his kit was swapping back and forth for the free reload and no downtime. Now the reload is PAINFULLY long. I really wish we could have played with the auto reload longer before they dumpstered it.

It's called a magazine

I hate playing with lifeweavers on my team. Whenever I'm trying to bait someone into a room with a mine on the ground and 2 ready to go they pull me out from making the play. Just a waste of space

Why you taking to me that way, Freedo?

Already top win rate and second-highest in total healing... then gets buffs. Yeah, good job Blizz. Why don't we buff Ana while we're at it... maybe extend anti-nade to 8 second duration.

My God I can't stand Dva players who sit in their own backline and try to snipe from range with her shotguns. The fact that the last clip was a Masters game is actually just atrocious. That Dva should be in silver.

How to play lw:healbot because hitting his projectiles is too hard

To be frank, my muscle memory after 7h of playing him don't whant to give up, so the last few matches with him i totally sucked

I’m actually not bad I get him BUT I get melted his hitbox is ridiculous for what he does to get hit by everything

Every Life Weaver player playing like a wood rank rn

Brig shield for your feet 😂😂

I don't even have Rammatra yet

can he be u locked without paying?

i keep pressing shift thinking its my dash lol. if i could i would remap it to dash instead of double jump... anyways, i would give him 2 charges of his platform and let him dash to them if they arent too far away. kinda like how kiriko can port to allies, he could tp to his platforms.

I suck at life weaver because I don’t have him unlocked (thanks Blizzard)

They should add a DPS with a RPG that can one shot with primary fire. Can also go back in time like tracer on 5 second cooldown.

These Life Weavers only playing the hero cause it's new and shiny and not because they understand how to play him or wanting to learn to play him. I wish people would stop throwing matches thinking they're good .

I haven't hit 45 yet 😅

A GUIDE ALREADY????? gud

I hate his new rework. It's supposed to be better but after playing him for over 10 hours it feels clunky again. I'm getting used to it but I miss his original controls.

best way to play lifeweaver is to swap off life weaver

Lifeweaver still needs buffs. I’m a support main and his healing and damage are just way way too low. What a shitty way to release a character. Sojourn was meta for like 2+ months and support get this gimpy hero. Also charging up his heal is very tedious after doing it a bunch. It just doesn’t feel good healing with him compared to other healers. The targeting when your teammates are grouped sucks. Compare it to zen where if you harmony the wrong teammate you just hit the button again and it goes to a different teammate even if they are stacked. Really disappointed

First ranked match: 4k damage , 20k healing --- I MEAN NO WAIT BUFF HIM! He sucks!!

How are people not able to climb in overwatch 2 its literally so damn easy i lost 30 games and i still ranked up to grandmasters 3 from master 5 like wtf

I just don’t think he’s worth the effort. His kit is too niche and controls and abilities still not intuitive, even with the update.

This gold player looks incredibly consistently confused lol

I'm not everyone . I'm good in my hood

Lifeweaver sucks ass. The changes made him at least feel cleaner to play with, but he still just doesn't do anything. The core issue with this hero is that he doesn't have anything proactive that he can do to influence the game on his own. His whole kit is designed around your teammates making the plays for you. The pull can do cool things, but it ultimately does nothing if your team doesn't know what to do after. I wouldn't be surprised if he sees some pro play due to much higher levels of coordination, but he is a straight-up garbage hero for ladder players.

LW still doesnt do enough pure healing so you actively handicapping your main purpose its ironically hes bad at control because thats half his kit

Im still at level 30

i REALLY dislike the way he heals it feels so clunky

I just want the platform to be used by pressing interact,being able to go up and back down again, teammates would need to get on top of it to use while lifeweaver can activate from distance. Also he should be able to reposition his tree once per use, as your team takes space you can follow them with the tree on a new position or use the burst heal to save an ally then move the tree to the frontline and keep it there.

Sorry but im just done with him. Not because of my team mate, its ME. I genuinely want to help but im a silver player. went i make the right move i get yelled at and the refuse to accept why i did it, when i make the wrong move ( like pulling someone to safety only to find out they were about to kill a mercy) i get flamed. This hero was not made for lower tier players like myself and is a throw pick because the healing is disappointing, team mates dont even use the pedal lift, damage is weak and the pull move is gonna take ALOT of practice, thus hurting every team i play on. I can tell hes god tier in like diamond and above, but seeing how little amount of people are actually in those ranks (10% at best) its basically a different game at that point.

I swear the gold gameplay showcase is embarrassingly bad, like, wow, are they playing sarcastically?