How to Stop Dying So Often

A death at the end of a fight often traces back to entering a bad position seconds earlier, or to a cooldown spent for no reason. Look upstream of the kill.

If you disengage at low health you are already in the range where one more hit ends it. Set yourself a personal health threshold and leave when you hit it.

Whatever your hero uses to get out of trouble, treat it as reserved for that purpose unless taking a fight is clearly worth it.

Chasing a low-health enemy into their team is one of the most common repeated deaths at every rank. If you cannot finish it before their support reaches them, let it go.

• Chasing kills past your team's position.
• Using an escape ability to enter a fight rather than to leave one.
• Re-entering a fight immediately after respawn, alone.
• Fighting from a position with no cover.

• Play three games with a rule: retreat at your chosen health threshold.
• Count your avoidable deaths per game and try to reduce it by one.
• Review your deaths in one clip and label each as avoidable or reasonable.

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

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