You know when you’re a Successful Ball Player when you not fighting with just the enemy team but your teammates as well

You know you’re a true ball main when you start getting 1v9 in lobbies

As a guy who decided to play only wrecking ball for like a year before OW2 launched, I am infinitely jealous that you got Yeatle to personally coach you.

As soon as he started yelling about “ I’m just a hampter “ I knew he had become one with the ball

Someone needs to make a "How to play dps with Ball as your tank" guide because it's always the dps that don't have their brains on to realize how you need to change your playstyle to work with Ball's playstyle.

As a GM ball player of 4 years now it's really exciting to watch new people try out and realize how much fun ball actually is. He is so different from the other tanks in every way! I think this video is an eye opener for a lot of people who never really tried or understood ball before. Great video overall, well played SVB! o/

As a doom player I also got flamed a lot and told to switch after one lost teamfight in the past seasons. Players seem to think that the hero pick matters more than individual skill. I just turned chat off completely and it helped a lot. With chat on, I not only needed to manage my own mental, but that of my teammates as well, even if they get tilted way easier than I do. I have now managed to climb all the way to Diamond, which definitely proves them wrong!

The life of the ballers was rough last season, I would know man. I was just vibing in quickplay to get my mechanics and aim back up to where they were on him after taking a break from him when sombra was meta in season 1, but people still asked me to swap like bro it's just quickplay 😭

As a Ball main I feel vindicated. I almost cried watching this. Awesome video. Welcome to the Ball family SVB

Ball is super rewarding. It is key to understand that people who flame typically can’t play him any better than yourself. And they are in your rank for a reason. So keep improving and ball on!

with your connections with many 4.6 players you can do very unique series of "I spent 10 hours learning...." with coaching from the very best) was super interesting to watch

Loved this vid a lot, and the climax with that Monte Carlo game was gold 😂 Love how the positive Mercy whipped out the Pistol to help with the Ana at the end. Better target priority than the toxic DPS shooting the horse

i'm a gold ball main (ball actually carried me to gold for the 1st time last month, i know i suck) and i have to say that ball has never felt so good in either ow1 and ow2. the shields on top of the armor are such a game changer, it protects my armor plate from poke and regens by itself so good and that's not even including adaptive (over)shields on top of the body shield. you have no idea how much time i wasted getting megas because the supports' skill level is just as "meh" as i am (same sr). when ball is going well it's the most fun i've had on any video game in maybe 5 years edit: i also get abuse from players who don't understand ball. it's pretty crazy some of these guys are actual adults. they'll get toxic even if you have the most damage and elims and you're tanking.

Honestly so cool that you tried this out! I'm a hardcore Ball main and the toxicity is insane, and people never consider it. Even now with Ball being good, I still get flamed off the hero select screen more times than I can count.

I absolutely adored this. More please.😊 I like that you have access to the best-of-the-best when it comes to the coaching sections. The other 10-hour channels are usually focused around comedy or cool montages, but you really have the skill and resources to make it super interesting. And that last game! I’d like to imagine that I would be like that Mercy player and just be kind, no matter what’s happening in the game up to that point.😊

Ball is the most fun hero in any video game ive played

As a Wrecking Ball main…….The wrecking ball hate is real. When you get your own teammates refusing to heal you…you know you are in the thick of it.

Love this video so much! Wonder where the idea came from 😗 Jk of course amazing video as always... Would love to hop on that podcast on yours if you're interested

You're a refreshing content creator. It makes overwatch fun again. Also love that you share to us viewers player mental, toxicity, openmindedness. Your playstyle, flexibility, and learnin are so sick, realest guy.

This made me so happy, thank you for this video! I'm a ball main who just peaked mid diamond and honestly I think one of the biggest things that helped me was muting chat and just communicating with my friends I'm queued with. The toxicity we get as ball mains is ridiculous, and I don't think I realized how much it was affecting my game. Be nicer to us! We're good gamers :)

I love how you bleeped the word shit but not fuck. Lol.

As someone who's sunk a lot of time into Wrecking Ball (3rd most played and is Okay-ish at the Hamter), its nice seeing other people try him out and understand the perspective of the Ball :D

THIS IS HOW CONTENT SHOULD BE DONE. All the other content creators take notes about how to take your gameplay and highlights from just another cheesy highlight game from Twitch with memes and create CONTENT, real content. Something you can engage with and enjoy. Something to connect with while also being instructive and helpful. SVB I'm so so so glad that you came back man, you make real content and the other big names need to take notes.

Dude that last match was a top tier story victory more exciting than anything I'd watch in OWL. Great story telling and narration, love it!

15:00-15:20 Praise that mercy! Also, I love seeing Wrecking Ball players eliminate Sombra players. Satisfying lol

Great vid! I think there are a lot of players who are good at aiming and therefore think they're good at Overwatch, but fundamentally don't understand the interplay of systems. They can't understand that disrupting an enemy position can be as or more effective than really good "I shoot red".

Loving this content, SVB! You’ve had me playing JQ the past week while watching Guru’s U2GM and having a blast on the Aussie screamer. Patreon support incoming.

As a ball player when I first started playing Overwatch2, when it comes to Wrecking Ball I don't play like a tank instead I play like a ball. Wrecking Ball is extremely squishy for a tank and he is built for traversing instead of face tanking everything. I had to learn to be very bouncy and always on the move when it comes to Ball, because sitting still is a death sentence. Now let me say a few things for new players as well. 1 - Ball's shield is a safety net, use it when you are in the red. Especially when you need to make a quick get away. 2 - Aside from the poop & scoop trick, I have one that I find really easy to use on certain maps. Just grapple onto a thin pillar and spin, for a short minute you'll be able to cause damage especially when the enemy team tries to get back to the point and as a added bonus you can release at the last minute to make a quick getaway due to the extra speed and you can run over a few players on your way out or for added protection you can use the shield while spinning. I call it the "Spinning Wrecker". And finally be prepared when you gotta deal with teammates lacking in support or don't know how to use a support character. My last teammate had life weaver and tried to send me out of harms way only to get me blown up by D.Va's ultimate.

It just shows how important teamwork and sportsmanship is Not only do you play better if your team works with you, but you have a good time playing, even if you lose

You know the fun thing about ball... is that you make your team mad and even the enemy team mad at you lol. I remember that chazm said that in one of his videos. I love ball, i kinda miss the grapling hook without the cooldowns when grappled

learnt two things: 1. Gamers are nerds... like crazy nerds. Telling someone to TKO themselves because of a choice (that is IN THE GAME) is nuts! 2. Never underestimate the impact a good mentor can have!

Just about every game, I force a Sombra switch. I stay in the backline and constantly annoy them and then just run away swipe a pack and in 3 seconds, I’m back at it again. The worst thing about ball is that often times, a Kiriko (ally/teammate) will try and chase me to heal me and leave herself stranded in the backline. Rule 1 for healers playing with ball with never chase him. If he is a good ball, he will survive and live off of health packs.

All the hate for playing ball is exactly what it's like to be a sym player before seagull made people realize she's actually good

14:14 one might say you were unstoppa-ball

Literally your video was right under yeatle’s so I watched his and came straight to yours. Here’s to learning Wrecking Ball, I’ve been opening up and playing many unpopular/underpowered characters lately and man has it actually been quite fun to learn and make them look good (Mei, Doomfist, etc.)

OMG I PLAYED WITH YOU AS ANA IN ONE OF THE GAMES THATS CRAZY, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK! I’ve learned so much!

I love this series and am glad you did wrecking ball. For such a cute character, he certainly causes more hatred than any other. Both your team trashing you and the enemy frothing at the mouth to counter you. Takes a super strong mental game to pull it off. Love this video!

I love how SVB goes to type "ggez" and immediately changes it to ggwp instead

I stopped maining ball after OW2 because of the absolute disgusting amount of toxicity people had towards him. Watching this was so much of the end of OW1 for me. Now that he is buffed I am starting to get back i to him and I love it so much. GREAT video!! Hope you keep in touch with the Hamter play💪🏽

I love you for doing this. Also credit to Wolfbrim the mercy player!

There needs to be something In the game explaining that some heroes fundamentally function differently than others, even if they're in the same roles. Same goes for support players who get flamed for not being heal bots.

That last gameplay was such a treat, I bet that felt sooooo good for you and that mercy.

i shed a tear at the end. just a misunderstood hampter

Scout is the most important tip Yeatle gave you. Balls rolling form has Third Person view by default. Which is huge for examining potential targets and making calls. Combined with just how much fun Ball's movement is, you can scout and approach from numerous angles.

Well, it looks like I can see that wrecking ball and widow maker users have something in common 😭 I’ve been trying to master widow for a while. And the first thing I get told when I queue into a game is that I’m dogshit and I should die. It’s crazy how a video game warps people’s view on how the people behind these characters are human too. It’s hard, really fucking hard. The entire server was on my ass once and it can get overwhelming. If you suck at them, you’re called names. If you’re godly at them, you’re called names. It’s like a double edged sword and there’s no way to avoid it.

You're a Baller SVB.

Tips for Ball players *DON’T RELY ON SUPPORTS.* Ball is really fast so you can easily get health packs and get back to fights fast plus it’ll mean 1 less person for them to heal. But they should heal you when you’re close to them and just needs a lil healing. So next time you lose a game don’t blame your supports blame yourself (or the dps if they’re doing bad)

You could spend 10 hours easily just learning the parkour course.

I love playing ball, but the thing that taught me how to play him was mount and blade. He is CAVALRY! Quick, effective strikes and causing a panic or route of the enemy is his specialty. On defense, you set up and crush any pushes to your point. Hammy Spammy baby, much love!

As a hard stuck diamond ball main, I can confirm that I receive the craziest, wackiest, most violent, and most depressing chat messages after every loss.

yeatle is such an great teacher and streamer

The best ball-specific setting is to turn off text chat

Ball is my go to anytime I'm not having fun. He is super under appreciated and loads of fun to play and learn. When I'm sick of sweating as a support main, Hammond reminds me to "Be the Ball" and keep rollin' 🎱❤🐹

As someone who mains Tanks, this is proof that we only need 1 Support to believe in us to make the big plays.

Gone through the same stages, though my Yeatle was just a recording but the same tips apply. Ball's so much fun and I found it can really be the unexpected solution in uncoordinated matches with low heals AND against anti-nade. Use Yeatle's 3 S' strategy and find the best way to exploit the chaos. It's like playing Katamari Damacy except you're rolling egos. Hampter's been the answer to switch to in so many matches that it slowly grappled all the way up to be my most played hero.

Now learn the 122 techs Ball mains have to go through as a rite of passage

Man as a ball main I felt this video so much, great job!

As a fellow Baller, I'm so happy you actually covered the verbal abuse aspect as well. The toxicity in this game is already seething, but playing Hammond on top of that? Season 1 & 2 was pure abuse lmao, but so far after the buffs, most games people have kept quiet. I've only had a game or two so far in season 3 with ball haters on the same team.

There is some phases to the ball player mentality, phase 1 is confusion, phase 2 is sadness, phase 3 is being a psychopath 1x9 every match and any toxic behaviour in chat is a Win, thats my goal everyday.

This video really shows the ball experience, I kid you not I had 16 games in a row where people told me to switch either in hero select or after the first fight, it was and still is my fault. Ive gotten better since then though so quite often other teamates defend me. IMO hes one of the most (if not the most) unique hero/champ in any competetive video game.

the flaming..... welcome to the life of a ball. Getting flamed is just part of the process. you have to play at an extremely clean level for teammates to even tolerate your existence.

man really didn't give credit to special

Amazing video. We need more of these

I LOVE playing Ball so much, getting everyone raging is the pinnacle of my existence. You're sniping on height in Kings Row? Now I'm on height applying the pressure. Teammates too far to contest point? I've contested point for 2 spawn rotations back to back. Disruption and banter is Balls game. Ana, Roadhog and Sombra are definitely the only counters, we can slingshot into the sky and knock a Pharah off her ability timing or even as she's about to land you pile drive her back up. Remember that the payloads destroy your minefield so placing them behind the pay load is a little bit better if it can be helped. If someone is one shot use your grapple to finish them off (like you tried to do to the Bastion) :D great video

The reason I hate ball on my team is because they’re always flanking and you leave your team vulnerable to attack. You’re literally not tanking any damage. On top that, if I’m defending a ball, after awhile you just ignore them until you can get a good shot. If you don’t know how to play it well it’s not beneficial to the team at all.

Great example of why I don't do competite. I love playing rein, but he isn't the only tank and I don't want to play him every game but people don't seem to get that

This is why I don't join voice or text chat in game. I don't care if it limits how high I can climb.

It was absolutely perfect! Thanks for this video! I remembered how I learned to play Ball myself! Everything was exactly the same. It was very interesting to see how someone learns to play Ball and faces the typical behavior of teammates. it's very cool how you didn't succumb to toxicity and showed a great game!

YES I love this video. SVB and Yeatle my two favorite OW content creators and sticking it to toxic supports. So satisfying.

It's somehow so satisfying to watch the Zen trainer get trolled by his teammates. Now you see the game the rest of us are playing ;)

There's GM balls, and then there are chazm and yeettle

I dont even know how ranks works yet and i didnt even paly 20 games in ranks but people still tell everyone to report me an they talk sometimes about "diff" all the time, no wonder overwatch is dying when even on the lowest ranks people are toxic af, really glad to find content at all thx

I love Wrecking ball, it's Such a fun hero. One of my simple setup's is to get behind the enemy and just shoot at them from a distance to cause a distraction. I will shoot at them for as long as they turn around to shoot back. sometimes you get lucky and cause enough distraction for your team to capitalize on. If the enemy stops focusing me that is when I will come in swinging around and knocking them all out of position. When im really on a roll (no pun intended), i love to spam the "frustration detected" voice line.

For me...i always found that getting the supports out los seems to be overall better than just killing them. Annoying the hell out supports, grtting their cooldowns out, pushing then far back out los... As opposed to killing them and everyone quickly swapping to counter what they think is the biggest threat. It also undermines the enemy's team play as they all stsrt flaming each other (when do they not)

As a ball main I can attest that no other tank gets hatred like ball. No matter how much work you do and space you create, ball will always take the blame

Best Ridge wallet commercial producer, Best up and coming ball player, best awesome vibe spreader. Love your videos. This one made my day.

These episodes are really well edited, entertaining. You do a great job of weaving in the narratives man

As a ball main, it makes me proud to see you experience what it’s like being one of us. Enjoy the rolling!

I would love to see a video of you learning Echo

Playing ball for about three days i found out a lot of these lessons, its nice to see i was on the right track

as a hardstuck Masters 5 ball player, ty for going through the hell of teammates giving up and throwing just because we lose one fight.

Ball is his own subway surfer game with guns attached ... if you master the mobility and line of site no one can touch you and if you get the charge runs right u can flank so damn quick! Even sombra will cry

2:09 most replayed LMAO

I've played 260 hours of Wrecking Ball and I can address very important things here. Is wrecking ball a good tank? •No, unfortunately he is not a good tank and that is why they always say “swap”. He has to leave his team to attack. Ball's job is to first eliminate or distract the healers. DPS attacks the tank, when he realizes that he is not getting any heal, he retreats and you get your area to attack. This is one tactic among many. So please remember that Ball doesn't want to leave you alone because he doesn't like you, but because he's trying to attack from two sides. But it doesn't always work. I play ball because I love the way it is played.

Very interesting! Should do more videos like this!

As someone who's considering Balling, this was a great motivator

This is why I play eu not only because I live there but also because no-one really communicates even on the other team and that means no toxicity and no one will tell you to get off something or really be toxic through vc but maybe through the chat

Of course that picture of sombra is the most replayed part of the video.

When I dedided to become ball OT I simply muted chat for several days straight. This was the best advice what I get from Chasm.

As ball u have to learn to giga carry bc for some reason everyone hates ball and you will inevitably run into teammates who will actively try to work against you

8:00 I think your hamster want some drinks too

These thumbnail choices lmaooo i love svb

you know they were sitting in there chairs malding over shit talking then losing lol

2:08 notice how it's the most replayed...

I decided to main ball a little before ow 2 launched. And the best feature when ow2 launched was the option to disable all chats.

"Okay fkk this shht." ( 1:30 ) Haha. I'm a Ball main. I legit forgot hot it was. Thank you for this video. Haha.

I love your videos so much man I actually learn something from them and watching you play characters I've never really played much either makes me feel like I can.

This video made me think and now ima be a ball tank main

Recently got back into the game and had to go ball for the good old times. Still fun as hell to just swing, Bowl, and fling myself across the whole map.

i have had teamates do this but all i do is mute chat or tell them to get better if they cant keep up with the skill you did great man🎉