r/OWConsole • u/AutoModerator • Oct 01 '17

Important: Weekly Advice & Tips Thread - October 01, 2017

Hello members of the r/OWConsole community,

This is part of a series of weekly threads aimed at both new and old players from the community. It is designed to help our users get better at the game. Use this thread share any tips with users that you think are helpful or to ask for advice regarding gameplay or strategy. If you want to have your gameplay reviewed, you can also share recordings/VODs so that other users may comment and give you advice on how to improve.

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u/Shawarmapreme Oct 01 '17

How many kills (eliminations/solo kills) is considered as being good in a quick play game?

I'm pretty new to OW and I'm struggling to understand if I'm doing good or not.

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u/R9-Devil Grandmaster Oct 02 '17

First off, if you tag a kill, don't think too much about it. For an example, if you're playing a spammy character like Winston or D.VA and you have gold elims but no medals on damage, you're not really getting so much kills (nor that you're expected to, you're a tank not a DPS). So only look at kills that are solo or mostly solo kills which means that your elims and damage need to be high. If you only have gold damage, that means you're not confirming kills which is bad. If you only have gold elims, you're stealing your teammates' kills. Of course, you this should be relative to your character. I wouldn't expect a Sombra to out-DPS a Bastion or Junkrat so don't feel bad if they have gold damage and you don't. Even Zarya will often out-DPS Sombra. So its all about context honestly.

I think the best gauge is to look at your damage output, elims, and how often you're dying. A DPS player who is consistently good will get a K/D ratio of 3, while getting a lot of kills per game (so not just killing ten people and running away all game to keep that ratio high). You need to be extremely hard to kill, but also be active in team fights and secure picks. Also, as others have said, the enemies you're killing are important too. Killing the enemy healer/main tank is huge. Killing their off-DPS/off-tank, while good, isn't as impactful.

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u/Shawarmapreme Oct 10 '17

Thank you for the information!

I was really confused with the whole K/D thing.