I saw people mentioning doing this as a strat and I dismissed it as an obvious joke but I recently tried it for fun and it surprisingly works? During a recent match, I played roadhog and I started making pig oinks and snorts over the mic, and every time I got a kill I’d chuckle and slap my big, round, gassy belly. When I used healing, I’d take a hit from my pen too. Doing this really made feel like I was roadhog, and I felt so much more in tune with his kit. It helps with team morale too, my teammates love it and ask me to oink and they all ask to slap my big belly!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13sgqhmsuSeCgO5qofosgkUpdMhCJ8kGv5c5WdaDYYak/edit?gid=1683699085#gid=1683699085

My fourth season doing this, I made a spreadsheet people can use as a reference to see who is best on each map relative to their usual win percentage. The datapool I used is "all ranks" of competitive on console, since that's what I play and the all ranks gives a bigger sample size, but the relative effect of each hero shouldn't differ too greatly from console or PC.

I personally use it before every match, I've been picking my least played hero for over 1000 comp matches since the S1 reset last season and find limiting heroes to a small map pool (each hero only plays on about 3 maps, e.g. Pharah just on Lijiang, Ilios, Eichenwalde; Soldier on Queen St., Runasapi, Esperanca) helps me focus on using the heroes in ways that are geometrically advantageous for just them more than any other hero. I know if I'm on a good Anran map there's going to be a healthpack near every engagement that I can escape to.

I think the most exciting part is the first week of a new season with a new hero or map to see what Shion is going to be good at, and I'll be updating this spreadsheet about a week in to the season so you can figure out when to use her quickly.

Might be a bit of a crazy stance but I think the tradition of banning Sombra almost every match actually creates more Sombra than if she was ignored. Yes, she's annoying to play against. Everyone knows that. Right now, her ban rate comes in at 26% and I doubt that many people actually play Sombra. Her pick rate is only 3% which I know is heavily influenced by the bans a lot but I doubt it'd even be that much higher without it. Instead, the instances where Sombra isn't banned is gonna raise a flag in the brains of Sombra players. They don't get to play her in comp often so the rare opportunities where they can shouldn't be passed on, right? And that then leads to more Sombra. That's my theory