• Cooldowns things like hogs hook if you want to be a good tracer, you need to actually play hog a bit. learn his hook range and cool down. learn to count down their cool downs and your own.
  Another is cool down of Mcrees flash bang, if you actually play him you start feeling the time rather than counting. All heroes have something you need to be aware of, including the infamous Genji, his deflect! once used he is the easiest to kill ( baiting it we will discuss below)
  
• BAITING Has to be the funniest thing to do in game as long as it is successful! Genji deflect lets say we have tracer so we can just tap him to about 60% hp, unless he dashes your about to bait a deflect, you prepare for this by waiting and reloading! by now you know its a 2 seconds, so you spray his ass down!!!
  
• Baiting in general Every hero has something you can bait to your advantage, this can make it easier for you if they are an even match for you.
  
• Distance! Symetras left beam helps you learn wheres safe to poke from, soldier learn how his damage decreases over longer distances.
  

• Color - I prefer a green one it helps my eyes better than the original white default so i never lose it.
  
• Each hero? what shape? should it show you spread? - Personally my go to is dot on Mcree as I feel he needs to be precise, soldier small cross hair ( no accuracy spread)
  
• Opacity - I tend to change mine to 100 default i believe is 80
  
• One thing for sure is if you can deal with cross hairs being smaller its just less gunk in your way while you aim.
  
• Find what fits you! there's guides all over youtube to help you with ideas, pros,cons etc
  

• By now you should have learnt the speed at which each hero tends to ult charge, some faster than others but! there are factors.
  
• Obviously if someone is getting a ton of kills, its likely there ultimate is up or close!
  
• Tracking locations this is as good if not better than counting "hooks" or "deflects"
  
• This will take time to master, but put your head into that thought process, and look at where that mcree is going? up high? has he not used ult for a long time? well you should know whats coming!!
  
• Finally use this timing to suit your team,  example -- say you play zen, your pretty sure Zarya has graviton ( your certain) then predict it and use your ultimate to counter!
  
• There are many Ultimate counters! stuns or some ultimates that can completely negate someone trying to wipe your team.
  
• Side note to this is there positioning, like I explained if Mcree is trying to flank, or they seem super eager to make a push. You will want to know you are close enough to a building to hide from a DVA bomb or any obstacles!
  

• Get out strategy's - or in if your a flanker!
  
• knowing where hp packs are ( great for tracer) sometimes you may be too deep away from your healers
  
• knowing all flank routes for you to flank, but for you to hang back and watch!
  
• Not going to lie this is basic and obvious but if your not comfortable in lets say a new map, your performance will lack - I can vouch!
  
• you can go in a custom match, play AI, play with friends, or just use regular QP and try to observe things. Even other people may show you a good area you didn't think of using before.
  

(Nov 3, 2017 04:10 PM)m_rk Wrote:  Something I didn't notice in the thread is predicting ults, its pretty much key to ranking up.
Ex. If a high charge Zarya is walking up past a shield/team pushing up behind them its pretty obvious they're going to ult.

Other then that this could be really helpful for new players, nice guide.