How to Improve Positioning

• How many enemies can see me right now?
• Where is my cover, and how long does it take to reach?
• Am I within effective range of my own hero's damage or healing?
• If this goes wrong, where do I go?

Standing far away is not automatically safe. A long, open sightline exposes you to anyone who can shoot down it. Breaking line of sight often matters more than adding distance.

The cheapest time to move is before contact. If you only start repositioning once you are being focused, you are paying for it with health and cooldowns.

Watch a clip and pause at the moment you entered the position, not the moment you died. That earlier moment is the decision you actually need to change.

• Holding an angle alone with no exit.
• Standing in the open because nobody is currently shooting you.
• Walking straight back into the same spot after respawning.
• Blaming supports for deaths that happened outside their line of sight.

• For three games, name your exit out loud before each fight.
• Review one clip and mark the moment you entered each bad position.
• Pick one map and decide your two default holds on it.

Upload a clip and the Match Analyzer reviews the hero you actually played in that recording.

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• How to Stop Dying So Often — Most deaths are decisions made several seconds earlier.

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• Hero guides — abilities, strengths, weaknesses and rank-specific tips for the hero you play.
• Counter Watch — a plan for the enemy hero that keeps ending your games.
• Overwatch news — balance changes that affect the heroes in your pool.