Which Support Should You Play in Overwatch 2 - Beginner's Guide

Mercy main here! For anyone who is new and trying to understand mercy theses are a few tips I can give.

1. Learn how to super jump.
When you GA to a teammate you should see a bar on the right side of your screen, at any point you can press crouch to flinging you in the air. The more charged the meter is, the higher you’ll go.

2. Guides.
Don’t underestimate guides! They really helped me to get better with mercy. Personally, I recommend watching most of @Niandra’s content. Along with any other position guides you can find.

3. Dont under use damage boost.
Mercy has the ability to amplify a teammates damage by (at the time of writing this.) 25%. This can be a deadly tool and is one of the main reasons to pick mercy over anyone else. (Again, I would watch some of Niandra’s content for tips on damage boost.)

4. Raise sensitivity.
By default, all hero’s sensitivity is pretty low. But you won’t get a lot of value out of mercy if you have low sensitivity. Which is why it’s important to raise it. What you want as your sensitivity all comes down to preference. But from experience, I can tell you that 30% and 15% won’t get you far.

5. Don’t constant try and go for kills.
I know that we’ve all seen at least one clip of a nano-mercy on TikTok and wanted to try it. But, mercy just doesn’t do enough damage, (unless you have a nano.) to be good. You don’t get a lot of value out of her gun so it’s usually just best to save it for defending yourself.

Hope these help :)

Me watching this video and then going to play dps moira

idk why i’m watching this as a top 500 ana

Tank: Orisa
Damage: Ashe/Pharah alternating
Support: Briggite

"Ping targets" No one pays attention to pings.

Baptiste Players ftw

nah he really didnt say moira is the most ahted charecter...

Mercy is off heals and kiriko is main heals. I could understand mistaking mercy as main heals due to her former heal boost if someone was under 50% but hey, her utility is all thats good about her.

Thanks for the vid. My buddy is a Plat tank main and I'm a gold tank main but we can't duo anymore since 5v5 and we're both basically silver on the other ranks...so I'm wanting to learn support so my higher skilled buddy can be his tank

I didn't know when I was starting, I just needed to know I gotta go fast. So, Lucio. Thing that irks me are those little signs along the walls. I break em when I can so I don't get slowed down.

Same thing as on your tank video: So... LifeWeaver is a main, burst hero right? I just wanna know if I'm playing him right.

!DO NOT USE BRIG AS A TANK! please!!! She is used to protect ur team from divers, shes played in the backline like a zen, play close to ur ana to protect her from dva, tracer, hammond, genji, all those divers. Just dont feed and use her like a tank. Ask any high lvl player and they'll tell ur the exact same (with high lvl i mean t 500 gm and owl players, not ur diamond dps friend who might not know how to play support:)

Kiriko heals much more than mercy, yes kiriko goes on flanks for kills and tps back but every supp provides some kinds of dmg, other than mercy but still that doesnt make her a main supp, her healing output is very low (Only reason ur plat mercy might have more heals than ur ana, is mercys movement, making her not die so she constantly can be there and help ur team. While ana might not be hitting all her shots or not having the best postitioning or for example just getting dove alot... or mercy is healbotting, witch no support should ever do especially not mercy)

he really said mercy is a main healer?

Ive pulled off 40 kills 10k+ damage and 10k+ healing and 30+ assists as brig and have gone toe to toe with tanks she is a force to be reckoned with

The only thing I'm good for in this game is support. Good thing i enjoy it.

Lucio is my favorite

Ana doesnt need to her shot on ally if healing

Its amazing seeing this video when moira is really saing kamehameha in his ult

Brigitte is a defensive hero, you should not I repeat not be on the frontlines, you will die way to often, peel for you other support & deny flanks “space” & ping snipers as much as possible, unless you have a sigma or junkerqueen avoid the frontline

One thing you forgot to mention is in brigs passive healing last 5 seconds after damaging someone so you can use her whip to re prock that ability because whip only has a 4 second cool down

new player: meh im not gonna main support

just fyi mercy is not a main healer, she is a main support but thats a completely different thing

Mercy is not a main healer she’s a damage booster

At the moment im just trolling every round, it just makes more fun

I like how you said Moira is a healer.

It's important to know: no matter what, people will find a way to blame you if they lose no matter what class you play. Especially support though

Fun fact: brigg's whip can also be used on wrecking ball which doesn't get him out of ball mode but interrupt his momentum

Mercy is not a main healer tho?

Nice vibes :3

I NEVER KNEW ANAS RIFLE COULD HEAL I FEEL SO DUMB RN💀

Just don’t play support. It’s an awful experience. Hell the whole game honestly sucks. There isn’t a single character that’s exceptionally fun. Pick a another game friends and save yourself the headache.

All of this might seem like the most basic of things that need not be said, but recently got back into overwatch after not playing it for years, and some things I learned for those on console at least:

Kiriko has specific settings for her healing - toggle or hold. If you want more control and be able to cancel your healing in a tight pinch, switch the setting so you're not throwing all of your healing when you use the ability. Teleport/Suzu makes a great combo for heading off to apply pressure and then zipping to a teammate in need (as long as you're not placing yourself in an unwinnable situation).

For Ana, I think it was pointed out, but she does have some leeway when it comes to healing teammates while scoped. When hip-firing, her biotic dart has travel time before it hits a target. I think she also has settings for tolerances on her Nano and hit confirmation.

Zen is fun. Play more Zen.

Mercy uh... I haven't played Mercy, but I figure Mercy mains play her with indirect malicious intent as an incentive to damage boost more often, but a rare Chad Battle Mercy moment can definitely help in a clutch.

I think Lucio has a backwards wall run setting?

All of this probably seems braindead-levels of obvious, but Kiriko and Ana after not playing forever are my go-to, and I'm slowly learning Zen.

And for the most boring and obvious tip - never get caught without cover, or you're definitely gonna feel like you're playing Dead By Daylight instead of Overwatch. Going from having a second tank that can peel to - at least in lower ELO - no help at all is already way more difficult, and not having cover will make it even harder. If your Support has an escape, use it judiciously when you get dived on, because Dive comps will definitely go for you first.

That said, support is fun. Having the lives of my teammates in the palm of my hand is a fun concept in itself, and keeping the team alive to make sure we win feels more fun than playing DPS. So have fun as a support!!

... And be malicious about it. >:)

To every person who watch this video to be better at support, you all are angels, thank you <3

I'm not sure if this is offensive, but is your hair real? It's so beautifully full <3 haha also, great video :P

every day I play this game people tell me to kill myself for playing lucio

I had an Echo the other day who just kept coming after me as Mercy, I managed to give her the slip a few times but jeeezus! Lol and in a Push Map game, the enemy Junk Rat kept coming in behind us and I'd always hear him coming with his stupid peg leg and I would PING him but my team would never react and the amount of times he's killed me because I'm trying to warn them and then escape and he's just throwing down his stupid explosives. Then if I did escape him (I did actually kill him once as he hobbled after me lol) I would GA to a teammate just for them to die and then I Rez one and then another one dies to the Junk Rat they wouldn't acknowledge! I was so frustrated that entire game lol.

It should be mentioned that Baptiste's healing burst is doubled if the people hit are in the critical state, allowing you to get even more use out of it.

Just dont play zen or you will die in 3 seconds.

kiriko is my second most played hero at abt 9hrs, and in those 9hrs i can say that once u learn when to use things like suzu and kitsune rush, she is amazing. i often am able to get more headshots off on kiriko games than when i play widowmaker (who was the first hero i ever played), and her teleport is rly crucial if ur in a tight space with an enemy like junkrat bc u can just poof to ur team. i totally agree that she is quite the aggressive support, and i’d recommend her for dps mains having trouble playing support. if ur having trouble with kiriko i’d also recommend zenyatta, hes my 2nd most played support and hes rly useful with discord orb and transcendance.

while i agree mercy is great for new players and that she is a lot of fun when you master her mobility, her lack of burst healing as well as her single target heeling makes her less of a main healer and more of a utility support with her damage boost.

Symmetra in my book is a Support Hero more than a DPS, due to very effective Area Denial and Teleporters providing utility, so play her if you want to support your team in different ways

Doesnt matter who your supp is , you just get 1 shot anyway

Great video. Only thing is brig is not supposed to be front lines. She should be baby sitting your backline characters. Keep your ana alive or people off your DPS. She's a babysitter for squishies not tanks.

Brig main here. It is tricky to play Brig because it's very deceitful the way Blizzard makes you think how you should play her. For Brig, you must prioritize your life, play around hard cover (or at least, you tanks as cover), use health pack for critical situation, don't prioritize Inspire, and use Rally aggressively if you see an opportunity. Overall, she's effective against flankers, if play to perfection can solo a tank and take out squishies.

It's completely dependant on team comp, but mostly the tank and their deficiencies.

I feel with mercy’s movement buff, valk becomes an even worse ultimate 💀

correction: mercy is an off support