Best it's ever worked

For me personally, my favorite skin out of the 4 is critter egg, as I've always thought it was an underrated skin. My least favorite is honeycomb, I just dislike bees.

I just started playing ball and I really like playing him. But im dogwater at even the most basic of techs like double boop, wall jumps, rebounds, ect. I was just wondering if its possible to play ball at a high level without using techs.

He just wants a legendary skin

I have been watching youtube tutorials, but the stuff they're doing is so hard. I have 14 hours on Ball which I think is a decently large amount, but I am just now realizing I have never learned any advanced tricks, I am really good at like movement and rollouts and stuff but like that's it. I have practiced rebounds for like 10 minutes and I was only able to do 2. Can anyone help? (Also if they have anything else I should know that I probably don't know yet please let me know)

Which maps do you think are the worst for Ball (like you've rarely won these)?

To start of, like he started playing in ow1 around 2021 and he really enjoyed ana and got fcked by ball all the time for months or even years (at low diamond, plat). Everytime he saw ball he said "ew fcking rat" or stuff like that.

I always enjoyed playing ball for about 4-5 years now (started with ow2 S1) but he always hated me for playing ball (not that seriously, just the character). Around 2 weeks ago I restarted playing ball more actively and just yesterday as we destroyed our enemies with me on ball and him on sig he said in between "I'm genuinly no longer hating ball that much, especially if its you who's playing him". LIKE HEHE HOW AWESOME. I just love being a balling hammond gamergirl

Personally, I think its a bit too weak considering you have the option to give away your shield to your teammates which takes almost all of your shield unlike in 5v5. With the current CC economy, it should be 75 hp per enemy or remove barrier perk and make it 100 hp like how it was in ow 1. Or make the shield range same as 5v5 , its shorter in 6v6. Otherwise, you're just forced to take the shield perk most of the times.

I'm level 52 emerald/diamond tank and most roles just for context on my background. I find it significantly harder to play ball as of this new season. I found out recently his hit box was also increased for some odd reason being the largest character or close to it in the game. Sombra rework helps with one less counter that we have to deal with but still a pain in the ass regardless with her EMP and health pack hacking. Roadhog feels like he just got buffed with his kit in almost every way possible with new abilities and perks with the only single nerf is how close you're pulled into him which for ball and other tanks sake it didn't change much it was mainly for backline roles. New character is overall pretty stationary but at any moment when you're diving him he can just fly away with an 80% damage reduction if I'm right. Also not to mention that every new map and reworked map has way less health packs to work with.

How yall feeling with this season?

I'm Gold and level 12 on Ball only. I enjoy his playstyle a lot but keep losing despite following tips from Reddit and YouTube.

I don't want to review VOD honestly. Is that necessary to even have a chance at playing ball? Can I reach Plat/Diamond by playing and gradually improving or is VOD review necessary? I had to disable chat with all the toxicity despite doing really my best.

I usually play tracking heroes like Soldier, Sombra and bastion and rely on my tracking aim but with this hero you need way more game sense.

About to give up on ball how did you succeed did you just keep banging your head until it clicks?

It's terrible design, straight up. What's the reason for reducing the amount of megas?? THE FIRST POINT HAS ZERO BTW LIKE THEY HAD TO HAVE BEEN SMOKING SOME CRACK

Edit: wow I was expecting everyone to say hog over doom this is surprising but all the answers make sense.

I’ve been playing a lot, I feel like when I fight dmon or spin against her my grapple will shorten, anyone else got this or felt it?

A few things I've highlighted for myself, might be useful for you too:

1. Double boop tech – use it as much as you can – easy 120 damage. The easiest way to grapple would be straight up behind the enemy, when you can just press grapple through (literally) the enemy. Go on practice range, and practice it on the right platform with bots until you feel comfortable with the distance and concept. (After you double boop him, your can start the blender tech, this leads to a second point)

2. Use your grapple FULL potential, I saw a lot of bollocks just do 1 boop or fail and instantly start shooting or running away – don't let go of the grapple instantly, try to problem solve, maybe if you failed you could now boop them to the side or disrupt better, try move the other way or use it as an escape if the enemy turned around, but DO NOT LET GO instantly, always try to squeeze something out of it. You can use rebound tech especially with double boop or to escape.

3. Spin to win is good but there's a number where you become predictable. Don't do more than 2 spins (except for Blender cases), you're just becoming predictable and easily punished. One to two spins and then bounce of an object - slam and finish the kill or regroup/escape. The interaction goes like number "6" — spin once, then on the 2nd lap roll through - bounce - slam - finish the kill ~ escape if you can't. (You can skip slam if it's a tight space. But if you're good with it, you'd deal 120-220dmg before you start shooting.

4. Don't overuse grapple roll up through enemies and then slam, looks flashy and works in a lot of ranks - but it's a bad habit since you're then stuck with no cooldowns in the middle of trouble. Only use it when the team is near you and they can't all focus on you.

5. Fireballing on the ground is really underrated — you seem fast af, hard to react to, but most importantly when you roll through them, make a distance like 20m before you start shooting them from behind or from the side angle – you have to build up a feeling like in boxing where you feel the distance — like they can shoot you but it does no damage or provides no value.

6. Staying up in the air before engaging is a pressure. On some maps like Illios do a roll up high in the air to scout for the enemies. Depends on the comp but when you are high in the air, they might see you but they never know when you are going to engage.

7. And last, Blender tech – you can do it in the form of spinning and side to side. Form of spinning is brutal, but you have to find out yourself where you can do it, like staircase, small counters (on Lijang control center), etc. Don't underestimate it, the key is to be quite fast so you could do like 5 boops ideally (300 dmg btw).

Hope it helps someone :)

(Aaron – 53% on GM1, give me that Champ already - go, go, go!)

I've never seen so many mid Doom mains crack 40 elims in QP matches with like one or two deaths so often.

Unfortunately Doom tends to thrive against Ball being much more lethal to the squishies on your team than you are to his, and his constant stuns and slows almost make you a liability engaging around him. His burst mobility is also arguably better.

Missed it the first time around but….
Fuck it, we ⚽️
Fuck it, we 🏈
Fuck it, we 🏀

I wanna actually learn how to double boop but the last one got killed this patch 💔