Oh wow, I missed the stream of this but happy to catch it here (this replay is my gameplay btw!). Thanks for taking the time to look over it, and for the great advice. Its really easy to see when you can step back and have it shown to you exactly where those crucial moments of indecision are. I definitely had too much of a "save this ult for the perfect moment" mindset rather than just "put it out there to get kills because won teamfights will add up to won games". Glad you think the aim is alright - I was actually in a very highly competitive Quake 2 clan back in the day so Ive been super down on how bad it feels to me compared to how I remember it from back then, but, maybe I'm just being too critical. Anyway, great advice and again thanks, maybe there'll be a follow up in a few months!

for no reason at all, i think is super wholesome when they are like 50+ y/o and play super good.

I’m not even gonna lie, I’m enjoying the gameplay. Like LITERALLY seeing this person play and actually growing and being humble, I love.

That Orisa AFK on cart as mercy flies by for the rein rez hurt my soul. Unlucky.

As a sombra myself, this guy is pretty good. Have really great aim, knows when to go for a pick. The only thing I would say is that he needs to work a bit on his awareness and reactions. I noticed he tunnel vision just a little bit and tends to not notice too much what is going around him and have slow reactions. To play as sombra, you need to pay constant attention to what is going on all around you. Besides these points, this guy is actually pretty good and definitely can get out of bronze easily

Easy tip. You know there is a mercy, and she’s rezzing your kills. Just wait on her and as soon as she goes to rez have hack ready (while your invisible) so you hack her mid rez. Could have easily stopped like 4-5 of her rezzes. She going for really bad rez attempts and getting them cuz bronze. But yeah you could tilt her just as much as the widow.

Don't forget to reload after translocate. I had that bad habit for a long time. It gets you in trouble

damn i guess quake and unreal player really do get the aim buff for their entire life

7:58 That cleanse... Without it Rein would've been hacked and fallen over without being able to use Shatter.

Haha I'm the enemy mercy "ChrissyCakes", im a very aggressive mercy when it comes to enemy sombras, at 11:24 I will agree I was getting fed up witg sombra in back lines haha this game was such a stressful one with that sombra really good at aiming really good game over all!

An OG Quake player!? My respect! If the person as Sombra sees this, I've been Silver many times during OW1 until the last OW1 season where I finally became Platinum. Keep improving. Rooting for ya. 👏

Id like to see this person on a hitscan or someone like echo. I feel like sombra at those lower ranks you have so much less impact while others are easy to understand and develop skills, and at the same time you get more control over your games.

I think the thing is comfortability in decision making. You're making great decisions late, and passing up on other good decisions. So, what might be helpful is practicing goal setting before a fight. As Sombra, you have plenty of time to figure out what to do, before you go in just make a plan and have a backup in case it doesn't work.

A couple of things I thought about during this that may help. At 1:19 my spider senses were tingling. You got the Widow elim early and when she comes back, be first thing she will see is you, not looking at her and the perfect target for a shot right from the spawn door. Make yourself scarce before Widow can see you, so she has to be more careful where to go or suffer at your hands again. Pay closer attention to Mercy; there were about three rezzes that you could have canceled, even when she was in valkerie and about to round a corner, you saw her guardian angel to the kill you just got and EMP would have caught her out. Against a flanking line-up of Genji and Reaper, I'd play more to guard the team and expose their movements. Use the ping system to point out where they are when they are going around to surprise your allies and spring on them just as they engage. Genji especially will be vulnerable right after going in with his dash move, hack him immediately when he starts to deflect to wait for his cooldown and he will be defenseless.

I think they're actually really good! Much better than the normal Silver players I get 😅

They're playing decent, even good. Especially for an old person that didn't played competitive games for a long time. Respectable a lot.

i am torn between rooting for my fellow old man and hating him for playing sombra

Close the translocator camera lock, you will be plat in no time

this video feels made for me, elder gamers AND sombra gameplay, yay!!!

This Sombra is more useful than most of the ones I see in my diamond games.

never thought i would ever see sombra with a white bears but here i am

he does have good aim, all that quake must've stuck with him

@tenfingerstentoes great mechanics! i would recommend practicing to do a 180° turn each time u translocate. having that small skill helped me a lot ❤

i cant wait to see this person in a few months!

They also need to change their translocation setting so they can turn in the animation to finish kills

ngl, this game overall felt like a mid- to high-silver game. like, just the fact that red team played as a core unit for most of the game and there was some regrouping froom both sides (usually due to team wipes but still) and the careful spy-checking + not leaving the cart unattended for backcaps.... like honestly i feel like some of my plat games don't even go this well. and the way the sombra played? absolutely at least gold material if you just work on ult timings and not overstaying your welcome.

I miss overwatch i dont miss my blood pressure spikes

Hack the Reaper when he pushes in so he can't fade out.

50 ish quake player too. You can still play quake these days on steam.

A fellow Quake 2 player, thats awesome.

The sens could be higher and it looked like they had camera lock on for when they Tp you want high sens so u can get out faster hope this helps someone lol

Sombra is great in higher tiers, but it's hard to get great value in lower tiers because of the lack of coordination.

Bruh, wish I could be like this when Im old :D

I'd be so mad if I got picked for spectating, and was called old and a boomer

So many Mercy rezes you could’ve hacked… especially on the Rein that shattered at the very end, you absolutely threw the game right there by letting her get away with that

11:40 pov mercy has ptsd

I think mercy awareness would go a long way. is something missing in general in low-rank lobbies but killing someone is not the end of the job! just take care that it may come and hold on that stun/hack/push for a few seconds, and is a luminous flying big ass mosquito with a laser pointing at it, if you didn't see it flying to a dead body is just because you were not paying any attention to it.

good shyt dude, and have an amazing day/night

I would be happy to have this guy in my plat/diamond lobbies. Well played!!

a player like this gets out of bronze just by playing more...i get the feeling he doesnt have alot of time to play and he logs in once in a while for maybe 3-5 games

Yuhhh I’m enemy kiriko

That's a gold player right there

i think this guy is a gold player. i don't think he fits in bronze, like a few more tweaks i think he's a solid gold.

Ok, how did they not go into a third round? They were two and two.

While it's true that sombra's damage numbers mean almost nothing, but a lot of low rank players literally just afk on sombra/not trying to make plays. They're always playing to reserve their kd rather than win the game. This sombra was doing more than the average bronze sombra I think.

Alright SO 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

Bro, if this is Bronze then how am I plat? Their plays feel nice and fluid, they are not lost/they are aware of their surroundings, just gotta fix few bad habits and learn few tricks (e.g. hacking characters when they are about to escape), but overall this is fantastic. Is the player base that good now?

Unfortunately EMP is not as solid of a victory in comp. People don't know what to do with a team that is heavily damaged and can't use abilities.

hi past me!

It's dafran

Love to see it

Their aim is SIGNIFICANTLY more consistent than mine (I’m D1 😂😭)

old are alwyas nice in game

based man

Looks pretty good to me. I've seen gold play worse. You should climb, just need to grind 100 games.

if some one told me this is plat sombra play I would belive it

Not canceling mercy rezzes was terrible

Day 03 of asking emongg to : OIL UP FOR RAMATTRA

leading with virus is bad advice for widow. youre letting her react and waste a huge amount of certain headshots which have higher dps than body shots and virus combined. usually you wouldnt want to virus at all in this situation.

This person just needs to switch to soldier or cass to climb near term until they understand the flow of OW better to play a character like Sombra.

I feel like the guy made his story up, not saying overwatch doesn’t have a wide range of players, but I just don’t believe an at minimum 35yr old man had his buddies recommend this over a cod game or br as his first game since the 90’s. I can believe the vod of the dad catching up to his son but this is a reach😅

bronze is horrible to watch

Very cool

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