Silver 5 D.Va/Zarya Colosseo

[young anchor]

Hey everyone! I recently ranked up from the pits of Bronze 5 to Silver 4 (Silver 5 to start the season bcs of a bad final day) and was wondering if I could get some feedback on this recent game I had on Colosseo, a game I honestly felt cheated out of since I thought we made some relatively decent pushes and had some good teamfights. I was just left sitting there wondering what the hell happened and where I could have done better.

I'm primarily looking for criticism regarding my Zarya gameplay, but I'm Silver so D.Va notes and tips are also appreciated.

Replay Code: DCFQHY
IGN: escitanolol

[young anchor]

someone already approached me in DMs for a vod review, but i uploaded a first-person POV to youtube since i'm gonna try to save replays of my comp games S5+: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX2LAb_OvSs

[crystal magnet]

@young anchor i like to watch people misuse their zarya bubbles.

when do u use zarya bubbles

1. when u are waiting for a teammate on attack for a bit of charge cause space doesn't matter.
2. when u were out of position or ur healers were distracted and u really need to survive.
3. taking space and being agressive.
4. life threatening situations like ultimates

U will mostly use ur bubbles on the 3rd one. if you do it right you don't have to worry about charge.

so never bubble for charge.

You probably make alot of mistakes but i want people to focus on this

6:19 first bubble not necesarry u were full hp and a mercy behind u. u got a bit of charge but no one cares.

2nd is to block the shatter so thats a good one. or atleast tried to.

Ignoring the fact that ur 3 teammates died somehow u could've saved ur mercy here if you didn't waste the 1st bubble.

3rd bubble don't care since u were gonna die anyways

New fight lets see the bubble management here.

4st bubble wasted for charge
5nd bubble wasted for charge
6rd bubble wasted for charge
7th bubble wasted for charge
U were full hp the entire time...
8th bubble wasted for charge or maybe u were scared even tho u were still full hp

Now they pop ultimates u have a decent amount of charge but no survivability and no space

9th bubble wasted because of positioning error and not having any space to back up to

10th bubble wasted because there was no followup for ur grav and they poppeed counter ults. worst part is that bastion ult and pulsebomb were so close.

U died becuase u had no bubbles remaining cause u wasted every one of them.

U got revived in a tricky situation
U have to instantly back off since u have one bubble no charge and they are in ur face. u are a bit slow and stick around.
Should've used the last bubble on ur bastion anyways even tho he got pinned

Anyways lets continue.
11th bubble was wasted for charge
12th bubble was a great bubble u forced the enemy out of their zone even tho its kinda scary since u have only 1 bubble.
13th bubble nice block of the shatter
I forgot the timestamps anyways im at 8:54 now
Dont stand in front of the bot since u didn't had los of your supports.
so 14th bubble isn't wasted because of charge even tho u got 40 it was because u were out of position
15th bubble wasted for charge
16th bubble ur team was dead
17th bubble blocking an ultimate alright. even tho u might not even need the bubble but thats something i can't tell.

18th wasted for charge. u seem in danger but don't forget ur full hp and 2 supports behind u
19th bubble wasted for charge
20th bubble wasted for charge
21th bubble wasted for charge

u die because u have no bubble i wonder why...
they even hit u with the disrespect shatter but u were probably dead anyways, maybe u could grav the rein in order to save ur life but meh shouldn't have happend.

So lets count how much bubbles u have wasted how many were neutral and how many were good

wasted = 1, 4,5,6,7,8,11,15, 18, 19, 20, 21
Neutral(didn't matter alot or different mistake) = 3,9,10, 14 ,16
Good = 2, 12, 13, 17(just in case)

So u wasted 12 bubbles
5 bubbles that didn't matter or u messed up somewhere else
And 4 good bubbles which was only 1 for space. and 3 for ults.

See where im going?

[young anchor]

I get the general point, but I don't understand fully bcs I was trying to not solely bubble for charge during the match.

if i have 2 bubbles. am I essentially supposed to just keep walking forward until I or my teammates are abt to die or something?

[crystal magnet]

exactly search the limit that's the point of zarya, try to go as far as u possibly can but make sure u don't die. U will make space and at the same time u will get charge cause if they wont shoot u you can demolish the backline without any charge or annoy the fuck out of them. currently you are bubbling for charge which means u lost 250 healthpoints or something like that which u will definitely need later on in the fight. just make sure u know where your healers are. keep line of sight and expect to pop a bubble when its blocked (by either you turning around a corner or the enemy tank blocking their vision either by body blocking being annoying or shields)

[snow smelt]

Understand that HP is a resource to manage and its something that can always be replenished. Unfortunately your cooldowns have a set replenishment. When you start playing higher up in the ranks players will track your cooldowns and strike when you are down.

Like the biggest tell of a low level reinhard player when the round starts is they hold up shield and walk forward until they are striking distance. Taking unnecessary damage to the shield and having to fall back constantly when it breaks. A better player pushes with their own HP and constantly pump their shield on and off to give grace periods to recover through healing.

With zarya its a bit more straightforward because you should be able to explain each cast of bubble and why. You cast on the genji who is setting up his blade, you cast it on the support getting picked off, you self when you pressure and brought to critical health to get those extra steps back behind cover.

People confuse it with getting charge and make that a top priority, but it's better for all the utility it gives.

Like look at 7:49 in your vod when you grav surge it's potential for a lot of damage but because you had no bubbles you get blown up for being exposed.

[young anchor]

ty that's very helpful

[young anchor]

i'll only share the first round since this was an almost 20 minute game (that we lost 😔), but if it's not too much trouble, would one of you mind quickly looking over this VOD and telling me if this is more akin to how I should be bubbling as Zarya? You don't need to go into specifics like saying which bubbles are bad and which are not, I just want to know if I'm heading in the right direction here bcs i felt like i was playing more aggressively this game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgfEyvVLQoE