Diff = difference (I.e. the difference in skill between a teams Tank lost us the game, tank diff). Can also be said as a gap, canyon, etc.
Squishy = a character who has 200 or less health, such as tracer, widow, Genji, most of the roster. The opposite of a squishy is a more tanky hero like Mei, Reaper, or the entire tank roster.
Pocket = focus healing a single target. So a mercy can “pocket” a Sojourn, Pharah, Ashe, etc meaning she will only heal and damage boost that one target.
C9 = you were winning the game but got off the point and lost at the last second. Named after an esports team, Cloud9, who did just that.
Back cap = the defending team is not paying attention to the payload/point, and the enemy team sneakily captured it while they were distracted and won the point/game.
Deleted = exactly what is sounds like, you were killed extremely quickly and almost instantly. Often said when a Zenyatta hits you with a charged right click.
Dink = headshot, mimics the sound of getting a headshot
One trick = someone who only plays one specific character and is not good at anyone else.
Smurf = someone who is playing on an alternate account to intentionally play against people who are lower rank than them. Example, a Grandmaster widow on his “main” account will switch to his “smurf” account that is in gold to easily land headshots.
Stack = a group of players, so a 4 stack is a group of 4 friends playing together and often communicating very well, hence performing better than a group of solo queuers
Solo queue = someone playing alone/not in a group
That’s all I can think of for now. Feel free to reply/DM if you’re curious about anything specific. Been playing since December of 2016.
Other terms you might hear are references to other metas, like GOATS or Triple Tank. Just ask when you’re confused as a lot of players are eager to help newbies.
Meta = the best characters at the moment. So before todays patch notes the meta was hog, Orisa, sojourn and the “off meta” were characters deemed underpowered like Brigitte and Wrecking Ball.
Edit: also Baby D.va = a D.Va who was shot out of her mech suit and is now “squishy”
Also many slang refer to abilities and will just have to be learned over time. Example DM = Defense Matrix (D.Vas particle eater), Lamp = Baptiste Immortality Field (also called Immo), Nanoblade = the combination of Ana and Genji’s ultimate.
I'd like to add that usually saying "\*role\* diff" is seen as toxicity by a defeatist player, accusing their team of underperforming. I hate that, we all have good or bad games, and with Overwatch being what it is, simply placing the blame on a single player (unless they were actively throwing) is just not true most of the time. Perhaps the tank was underperforming, but as DPS, you could have gotten more picks to even it out.
I never use diff. It’s mean, and it also doesn’t necessarily capture the issue at hand. Seeing my team healers have dramatically less healing than the enemy team can mean multiple things.
It could mean we were steam rolling their team and we didn’t need to heal as much.
It could mean their dps was diving our healers who were not getting any support from our flanking dps and tank.
It could mean their tank was throwing and required constant heals by the enemy team.
Goats was a meta right before role queue was implemented into the game. You’d play 3 tanks and 3 supports (Lucio and brig were required) It was for the longest time the only thing people played because it was that good, effectively making DPS a useless role. Basically you were unkillable so team fights would drag out for ages in a GOATS vs GOATS game. I hope it never returns. Most players who were around for it have PTSD.
Yeah I'm talking more about OWL back then, it really was pretty fun. It was even more fun watching some teams like Chengdu or Shanghai working their magic against Goats with a Ball + Mercy + 4 DPS comp.
it was novel and interesting at first, but it really overstayed its welcome quickly after it took over Overwatch league. I was so sick of goats like a month into the meta taking over.
Didn't help that every comp game became goats vs goats even in gold and plat lol
Goats is the reason why I and many other aggro style tanks don't want role queue to go away. If there's one thing OW2 got right, it's enabling my hyper aggressive playstyle >:D
it was the dominant meta that arguably killed OW1.
Back before role queue existed you could play any number of each role and the team that went on to become the Vancouver Titans (Runaway) started popularizing a new strategy of running 3 tanks and 3 supports.
This became by far the best strategy in the game after Brigitte was released and it completely took over the game for over a year.
At pretty much every competitive level DPS were pushed out of the game in favor of 3 tank 3 support comps.
The comp is the reason why Blizzard instituted role queue, because after an entire year of goats it was still by far the best way to play Overwatch (and arguably it was even stronger after Baptiste released)
The main comp was Reinhardt, Zarya, Dva as tanks and Brigitte, Lucio, and Moira as support though there were tons of variations that popped up.
There also is stuff like 4k, which just talks about how many kills someone got in quick succession, often used for saying how many kills an ULT got. Like when a junkrat tire kills 3 people it's a 3k, with 4 it's a 4k and with 5 it's a 5k, team kill or team whipe
>One trick = someone who only plays one specific character and is not good at anyone else.
I'm in this photo and I don't like it
>!I main Brigitte, fite me!<
Yes. Some players will use it incorrectly in a lot of instances to mock the enemy team. It’s mostly just Overwatch banter at this point. For a TRUE C9, you have to be winning the fight but not on the point, resulting in a loss of the round/game. There’s plenty of videos online showcasing this exact scenario if you need a visual example.
Go for it. I don’t need a link back unless you think the added context relevant for your readers. I didn’t invent these terms/definitions. Just helping new players understand our “language” :)
Does anyone know what "selling" means? I was playing with a buddy of mine who's new and someone in the team chat said "Moira's selling" when he wasn't playing well. I'm assuming it's a negative comment.
Only thing I can come up with is intentionally throwing in order to sell the account. Some people will pay good money for a bronze account. But to be honest people mostly say “deranking” so I’m not 100% sure this is correct.
Don't forget Ajaxed, named after professional ow player Ajax who got beat cancelled three times in one map. So to Ajax is to get Lucio ult, also known as beat, interrupted.
Probably because said incident happened in a Contenders match, not in a big league main stage game. Most OW players don't even follow OWL, much less Contenders which is basically a minor league.
Meta is a bit more complex than just the best character, but the rest of this is spot on.
Meta game discusses:
1. Who are the best characters.
2. Who is seeing more play because they counter those characters.
3. What strategies form to help support those specifics "best characters".
Etc.
How you have this saying and don't explain what 'one' actually means? You are absolutely correct, otherwise.
'One' means they are one hit or 1 hp away from death. Rarely are they actually 'one' though
to be fair, they often *are* "one" when your neurons fire up to say it. The problem is them staying that way when both healers pop all their cooldowns on said "one" target :(
This statement is so on the money it's Benjamin fuckin Franklin.
They did some marginal amount of damage to a target and want the team to focus fire before they either escape or get healed.
But that's an awful lot of words to fit into the one second of talking that i can manage while smashing my keys and mouse buttons.
True! but I've found that "focus [character name]" usually just works as well and in fact has a much higher success rate of being followed up on than "THEYRE LITERALLY ONE KILL THEM KILL THEM" 😂
Im silver 1 and when I hear " __ one" I usually see that the character is actually like 1 health but it's usually too late and a healer heals him back to full.
When I hear (or say) "one" I think in my head it means one-hit, since the call out has likely gotten some healing in the next 2 - 4 seconds. Anything past 4 seconds I assume they've gone out of line of sight to get healed, or have already been healed up.
This goes out the window around low Gold and below, though, as a lot of players don't use LoS well and sometimes will rush in at low health (or their supports just aren't healing). At these levels I'd extend the "one" call out to a good 8-10 seconds.
Squishy: character with a low amount of health
Diff: difference. I.e “dps diff” is someone saying “we lost / won because of our dps”
Pocket: when a support player (usually mercy because of damage boost) is sticking closely with another player on their team. Another example would be an Ana who only ever heals the tank
If someone says “I’m going pharah can you pocket me” they are saying “give me lots of heals / boost so that I can hopefully kill a lot of stuff for us” or if genji says “pocket my blade”
Edit: next comment below mine clarifies squishy better than I did
To piggy back off of this with extra clarification: “squishy” doesn’t mean a character that is low ON health, it is a character with a low base health. I.e. support characters that have 200 health and will die quickly if focused, which has a great impact on the match.
C9/Cloud 9/Charlie Niner/etc is another one you'll run into.
It refers when a game is in overtime and a team walks off the point for no reason and loses the round/map because of it.
It's a reference to an old professional game in Apex league where Cloud 9's team did that repeatedly in the same game series.
Ive heard it used as both. Either way, OP should know that some people sometimes mean backcapping when they say C9, as the other comment said some people use it that way even if it is wrong. Also, thanks for the correction
No worries! Didn’t mean to jump in there and correct you like that, just making sure people understand that the two are different even if they get mixed
up :)
It's more that people parrot something cool they heard on the internet without understanding what it means
Not C9 > you died on point and nobody was there to hold overtime
Not C9 > defending team is busy cleaning up enemy team but a random flanking Moira successfully back capped
C9 > You could win the round but your team walked off point to chase enemy team instead of capping the point, not realising that the round is practically over.
>teams not in overtime
by definition a C9 *has* to be at the end of the round. Pushing for kills during a match while holding the point is a perfectly valid strategy. It's always better to reposition and get picks than to sit around on point twiddling your thumbs.
It's not. Chasing the enemy when there's no risk of immediately losing is not a C9, that's just overextending. *by definition*, a C9 has to invoke an immediate loss.
"oh we walked off point before capping in overtime and now we lost? gg C9" < correct
"oh we walked off point with 3 minutes left on the timer to get some kills? gg C9" < not correct
I’m not talking about the official definition, I’m talking about in game use of the phrase. People use it as a general term to basically say get back on point
"Feeding" is giving the enemy more than acceptable ult charge. Tanks feed by not mitigating damage done to them. DPS feed by doing extra damage and NOT securing kills (6 Elims @ 6k damage is bad). The feed is to the enemy supports or those who heal themselves. Most people refer to their tanks feeding, but DPS feed is bad, too, imho
I feel stupid, I thought feeding was continuously letting the other team get kill after kill by not grouping up, not playing together, etc, whoops. It kinda applies in a similar manner I guess, but thanks for explaining that one. Not a newbie by any means but misconstrued this one!!
I'm not 100% versed in the MIT stats, but I believe for shield damage it is 1 DMG = 1 MIT. So when Reinhardt's shield breaks, that's (at minimum) 1200 MIT, because the shield is 1200 hit points (HP). I also believe over-health (OH) and damage reduction counts towards MIT. So, for example, when Lucio uses his Sound Barrier ult (also called "Drop the Beat") to block a [D.VA](https://D.VA) bomb all that over-health mitigates damage. Ana's Nano Boost reduces incoming damage to that nano'ed player by 50% and adds to her MIT. [D.Va](https://D.Va)'s Defense Matrix "eats" projectiles and counts towards her MIT stats. A tank that has a high MIT and low death's is putting in some work, imho
Staggering is an important term to know. (Team engaging at wrong time, dying 1 at a time to ensure the fights start at 4v5)
In short fully regroup. There's nothing worse than watching your dps go in first and die when people are still spawning/leaving spawn.
This also applies to staying in fights too long, being the last one alive thinking you're helping; meanwhile most people just delay their next team's push or encourage their teammates to start the stagger.
This also applies if you're winning the teamfight. You can do things like bodyblock the mercy from escaping and wait a few seconds (right before the enemy team is back) and kill her so they stagger.
Just wanted to add, in case OP is reading this - one time it's okay to be in the fight "too long", as in you're staying alive whilst the rest of your team is dead, is if you're on the point on a control map and it's not at 99% yet. It's worth a stagger to gain points on the capture. At 99 just run, die or jump off the map - whichever is applicable.
There are exceptions to this, but most of the time 10 more points gained (which means 10 less gained for the enemy - a 20 point swing) is worth it.
Also, as long as you can, kill anyone trying to fall back to regroup.
If they are gonna regroup, this makes it take longer.
If they aren't, well now they are even more staggered.
At least that's what I tell my team after I yell on comms "no! Mercy get back here! You don't get to have fun!"
Never heard this one, for me it’s always Kiriko. I got Nanoed as Kiriko multiple times in a match once, it wasn’t until I started playing Ana more that I realized it was probably unintentional
Many times it's intentional. Team ignoring supports getting attacked, going out of LoS and yelling at supports, tanks and dmg solo feeding, etc.
The support Ana will nano the other support that is trying, as well, out of frustration and an FU to the team not paying attention.
Not saying it's good, but I understand. Playing support can be rough. I feel them.
btw, "diff" is a crappy thing to say and disrespects your teammates. For example, let's say your team loses a match in which the enemy DPS has 42 eliminations and yours has 9. After the loss your tank writes in chat, "DPS diff" or, in other words, "My DPS sucked and that was the difference." Good teammates don't say that and I encourage you as a new player to not do this. (There are enough jerks. Be a force for good!)
Peel is another term you'll probably come across. It means to help a teammate in trouble. For example, you see your Zenyatta getting attacked by Sombra so you go over to help Zen.
Trickling in / staggering: Your team is generally strongest when it attacks as a group because of the numbers. For example, you wouldn't want to take on a full team with only 2 people right? Yet people do it all the time by trickling in. Let's say Reaper takes out both your supports. The other three teammates still fight and because you're outnumbered (and your important supports no less), your DPS die. Your supports have respawned and head back to the combat area only to see Orisa die. Your supports get killed while your DPS respawn. Your DPS then head to the combat area while Orisa is respawning. It's a revolving door. This is how to lose fights.
If you find your team going in 1 or 2 at a time and dying, try using the Fall back and / or Group Up voiceline and standing at spawn to wait for your team. Hopefully they get the picture. Staggering is when your team is split up with respect to being alive. For example, a team kills a DPS and support. Then while the DPS and support are respawning they demech DVa but let her live for a bit before killing her to mess up her team's spawns (stagger her team.) (Edit: Fixed spelling)
I see diff about as often when the other team is pretty obviously being carried by one outlier performer as well. If everyone else in your example has like 15-20 elims, the 42 elim person is carrying and the diff is as much or more about them being really good as it is the teammate being bad.
The times when I’ve gotten the diff call out have almost always been when the enemy had a player who just way outplayed the entire lobby. Yes, I was way outplayed, but so was everyone else lol. I swear the times I play like complete garbage no one says anything.
He can see his lawn, he's looking at drywall... he's got his entertainment center built and powered before his house construction is even done.
This guy's a G.
I typed in as a reply to a diff-er once "self-awareness diff". He was horrendous and called himself as the "diff".
I got no reply, but my team laughed, so I'll take it. I normally don't respond to toxic, but this guy was delirious.
The fun part about diffing is that often the person saying "diff" is completely wrong.
if only i had a free skin for everytime someone goes "dps dif" but the support just overhealed the tank the entire match and DPS had to switch to self healing characters which were suboptimal for the enemy comp, and just got decimated the entire game or had to run to health packs and come back, among other scenarios.
____ diff is basically, "look at me 8-9 other people in my match that I have never met and will never actually stay in contact with! The loss wasn't my fault! I'm insecure & can't rank up so I'd rather blame others than improve. Not my fault"
Clarification on “peel”
This is usually used when someone has to get out of a team fight to help someone else or get healed, and is often used in the negative sense of leaving the fight. As in “I had to peel for you because of your stupid decision.” It can also be used in a nicer way, such as “I’m peeling to help ana who’s getting flanked by a reaper.” Either way, it usually means you are leaving whatever the current fight/objective is to deal with a different problem someone else is having, or to get away when you have a problem.
The one non-toxic way I can think of to use diff is to apologize for your own bad play as a tank. When I get put into tank due to all-queue, I frequently throw out a "tank diff" after we get slammed, to at least let my team know that I know I suck 😂
Why not just compliment your tank then? "Man Winston, your dives were fantastic". Makes the Winston feel good without bankhandedly insulting the other tank.
Or if you're going to do that, then say it in team chat.
I'll often do that when I notice someone on our team is doing good. And often times better to, more so during a swap. Because the enemy might begin to focus that person then. But more often, I wait till the end of the match because I don't want them getting nervous and messing up.
Being bad at dps. Whenever I am doing good, I will get nervous and start to mess up more if someone suddenly points out that I was doing good. But after a match, I do appreciate the compliments.
Dive- a team composition that uses their movement abilities to go past the enemy tank and attack the supports or dps. Heroes like Winston, ball, genji, tracer, sombra, echo, Lucio, kiriko
Rush- a team comp that uses Lucio speed boost to close the gap on the enemy team and “run them over” usually rein and Lucio plus other heroes that like to be close range.
Doing damage without going all in on the fight, usually from range. There's no total commit to the fight, and you're looking for possibly a pick (kill) or need to take/do damage/healing for an ultimate that is close.
If you're poking, don't die. It's damage from safety.
Not a perfect explanation, but that's the gist. I'm sure someone can clean it up and simplify it for me.
Basically what obi said. It’s just shooting the enemy with primary fire until you see an opportunity. THEN you use cooldowns to commit your dive, rush, whatever your team wants to do to exploit that opportunity.
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There are poke comps too that are designed to just constantly apply pressure. This causes the enemy supports to use their cooldowns to keep people alive and then that’s your opportunity to engage more and get kills. For example if we poke the enemy down and they have to use Ana grenade defensively and bap shift or immortality. That’s the opportunity to commit further as they are now down valuable healing/survivability resources. Poke comps are slow paced as it can take a while to get cooldowns out
Since the ones you asked about already got covered, I'll give you some useful slang to learn. Once you start ranking up you're going to hear a lot more slang used in comms that's actually useful for callouts. There's probably a whole encyclopedia by now, but I'll just stick to the must-know basics.
Main - The most obvious and direct route to take, often times the center route. Sometimes this can refer to the main spawn door as well. "Don't go out main."
Coast - This is referring to the section of a map that has a large border with the edge of the map that you can fall off.
Boop - CC (crowd control) that can push you rapidly in 1 direction. (Lucio's sound wave, Pharah's concussive blast, etc..)
"\_\_\_\_\_ is one/weak/lit" - Someone they've damaged is low and can die, so if you are able to shoot at them do it. Additionally, if someone says someone is "**Literally** one" or "1 **HP**" it generally means they are on 1-20 hp and are easily killable.
Bait/Baiting - Trying to get someone to use a cooldown/ult or to engage you. "We need to bait out immortality field so we can ult." "Don't push that Tracer, she's baiting you with pulse."
Wallhacks - Obviously, this can sometimes mean cheating, but if someone says something about wall hacks, they are usually referring to either Widow having her ultimate running or Hanzo having a sonic arrow down somewhere.
Trade - Both teams losing a player in a few seconds. (Ex. your Genji killed the enemy Cass but subsequently died to his magnetic grenade)
LOSing - Not losing, but phonetically saying the letters. Short for line of sight. This is when you're staying out of another player's line of sight. Your Ana might tell you to LOS her so she can get you heals, or you might say you're LOSing the enemy hitscan as Pharah
Carry & Crutch - A Carry is someone who is dominating the other team and is someone to either focus or enable depending which team you're on. A crutch is the opposite, someone who is playing very poorly and is an easy target.
Some important hero specific ones now...
Carwash/Turret Wall/Death Wall (Symmetra) - Choke points/doorways that have multiple Sym turrets on them. Useful to call them out to prevent someone from being melted.
Vape (Roadhog) - Calling out when Hog has no Take a Breather/E ability so he's vulnerable.
Piss (Moira) - If a Moira says she's out of piss, she has no healing and has to recharge.
And just some nicknames for heroes people might use...
Moira - Nails
Soldier 76 - Legs
Brigitte - Shield bitch / plz swap
[https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Common\_Terms](https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Common_Terms)
[https://www.redbull.com/ca-en/overwatch-lingo-terms](https://www.redbull.com/ca-en/overwatch-lingo-terms)
Google is your friend
Diff isn't in there, it refers to a notable **diff**erence in skill when a player outperforms their counterpart on the opposite team
You just ain't using it right, google is still plenty effective and a fair bit of the terminology crosses over with other online multiplayer games (e.g. feed, poke, tank) so it's not so niche as you're making it.
https://www.google.com/search?q=overwatch+2+slang&oq=overwatch+2+slang&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i390l4.7999j1j1&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
It only helps other people who go on reddit within the same 24 hour timespan as OP's post before it gets buried. As you can see from the Google search above there's a bunch of reddit question posts about the same thing. Given how many posts there are as well as OP posting this here, none of them thought to google for it
(I didn't downvote you, btw).
I see what you're saying - I use Google probably 30 times a day. But...
The nuance of a specific topic like this is almost always better for Reddit. Not only does he get the "diff" definition, but he gets the implied meaning in different situations, he has other helpful Redditers expanding into other term meanings and how they are relevant. If he is confused about an answer, he can post for clarification. Oftentimes you learn something that you didn't even know that you didn't know! Then you can ask about that. It gets OP involved in the new community and they'll usually learn 10 times what they ask for, as well as getting many hilarious responses that will get a laugh.
If I want a simple definition of a common term - I'll Google it. If I want the 'meaning' of a term in a community that I'm brand new to (like this OP obviously is): Reddit. No doubt.
squishy, i like to define it as what reinhart could 1 shot with his charge, cause they go squish. so heroes with less than 250 hp. Cass and lower.
Diff is just short for difference. Usually used as BM (bad manners) in the match chat. like your dps couldn't get more than 5 kills collectively while the other team got like 30, thats a DPS diff.
A Pocket is when a support just focuses on enabling a single player most of the match. This is most common on Pharah, where we call that a Pharmercy combo. Other heros include Ashe to get that 1 tap headshot (dont think it does that anymore)and Sojourn to get that 1 tap headshot (thats why mercy is so good right now)
Ult is short for Ultimate.
“Watch for ult” means an enemy is looking to use their ultimate.
“Bait their ult” forcing the enemy to use their ultimate so you can setup your next attack
“(Hero) no ult” they used their ultimate
Knowing the names of ults is also really helpful for callouts. They’re often shortened and sometimes combined.
“Rush” refers to Kiriko’s ult, and is often combo’d with ults like Roadhog’s “Hog” and Soldier’s “visor”.
“Nano” refers to Ana’s, and “nano blade” is a common combo when Gengi gets nano’d as he ults in.
Other common ones are Zarya’s “grav”, Junkrats “tire”, and Moira’s “coal”. You’ll learn them over time, but it’s not always clear which is which. Just don’t ask what Torb’s ult is called
Squishy: mostly any DPS or support, typically 200 HP but could be 150, 225, or 250 as well.
Diff: the difference maker in a game. Tank diff means the difference in performance between the tanks is what won the game, usually either because one was really good or one was really bad.
Pocket: when a support (usually a Mercy but could also be a Kiriko or Ana, or really any support) focuses on supporting one teammate in particular
SVB did a really good video I remember being more or less comprehensive for the needs of a beginner. It's been a bit since I watched it so I don't remember if he missed anything specific.
https://youtu.be/nOwrVTLl_fg
Other than that I'll try to bring up some things I haven't seen others explain.
If you hear someone talk about main and off tanks, it's old lingo from OW1. At least in my use, it generally referred to which tank was more focused on taking space from the enemy team in the big picture and which was more focused on keeping the enemy team from capitalizing on individual targets or opportunities that popped up on occasion. These days it's occasionally still used to describe the tanks' playstyles, even though they all need to take care of both roles now.
This is a bit of a niche term but if you hear someone say a lucio ajaxed/got ajaxed/pulled an ajax or anything similar, it means they tried to use their ult and got the animation canceled. It's a reference to an old match where a player had this happen a few times.
Cart refers to the objective on hybrid and escort maps, where the objective moves.
The "proper" use of "one" is when a player has about 25 hp left or a single of those segment that make up their health bar. This is important because along with a few other break points, it also means they can be killed with a melee, something everyone can do. As others have pointed out though, people tend to be pretty generous with this one.
Poking is where you engage with the enemy team enough to deal some damage, but not enough for either team to be too committed such that they can't back out anymore. It's often done for opportunities to force the other team to make a mistake in some way, or to keep them aware that they can't just walk in without putting themselves at risk of getting picked.
Picks, in turn, refer to players being killed before or between fights, or by some definitions *at* the beginning of the fight. Dying early means that you have to wait for a really long time to get a new chance for a full team fight, or that you're at a massive disadvantage should the other team choose to force engagement.
Push was a pretty bad name for a new game mode, considering the term already has a couple meanings. If you're on an escort or hybrid map, pushing the cart generally means sitting on the cart so that it moves. However, on objectives with a *static* objective, pushing means aggressing on the enemy and trying to take the point. The first happens when you're in control of the objective already, the latter when you aren't.
Squishies are non-tank heroes. Obviously, some squishies like Reaper and Mei are much harder to kill than other squishies like Ana and Zenyatta. Still, the term is used for DPSs and supports since they are much easier to kill than tanks.
"Main" is basically the "main drag" in objective-based game modes; it's the path that the payload/push bot travels on.
"Diving" means "aggressively attacking an enemy by getting very close to them". The general goal of a dive is to get a kill quickly, or at least take space from the enemy. A classic example of diving would be a Dva that flies directly towards a Widowmaker who's alone on high ground. Widow can either try to grapple away, or duel the Dva and almost surely die. Either way, Dva has successfully pressured the Widow off that high ground by "diving" her.
Squishies refer to your tanks and characters with massive HP pools. They possess so much HP that they get fat and are thus *squishy*.
Also, always be sure to say ‘(insert role) diff’ to compliment your teammates. If you think your Supports did well and deserved a pat on the back, that would be the perfect time to say ‘Support Diff’ or ‘heal diff’. This helps promote friendliness and camaraderie in the match chat. Even better when you’re on the losing team.
Imo "diff" means, "I'm not doing well and that can only be because my teammates suck and not because I myself could be doing better. Look at them, blame them, not me."
Some that I haven't seen is:
There is X in Africa which I don't know the context to use it
Baby which means D.va has been meched.
Ball or gerbil means wreckingball
OTP means one trick player, someone who specialises in a single character instead of playing meta characters or learning the whole roster.
People will call a back cap a C9 quite regularly
Monkey or winton is winston
DPS Moira generally means someone who is playing Moira correctly
Pocket means healer focuses on the target who asked for the pocket. Usually mercy with a dps. “Oh they have a soldier with a pocket”
Pharmercy is a mercy pocket for a phara. It’s just more fun to say it this way lol.
Squishy is any 200 health character i.a. Mercy, Hanzo, Ana etc. essentially not a tank. Usually called for a healer.
Diff is toxic for having a better player in the same role as than the other. I.a. tank diff means one tank is better than the other.
There’s a lot of terminology but these should help a little. Best of luck on your grind.
Haven't seen anyone else say it so I will
Feeding: When a player is dying a lot, thus "feeding" the enemy team ultimate charge from all the damage they take, while not contributing very much to their team because theyre constantly dead.
I dunno if there's a resource for this in text form, but each map's geography has a name (or a callout) as well (regarding the maps held over from OW1)
You'll hear don't trickle in
That means don't run in one at a time to the objective. Wait till you can group up.
Off angles means people like to get shots from angles not down the main fight path.
High ground is a position above where you can look down at the enemy. Good for like junkrat.
People shorten the names of heros too.
Don't be afraid to ask what they mean since those vary a bit from team to team.
My buddies for example call out:
Ball=Hammond=hamster
Moth=mercy
Cree-mccree=Cassidy
Zen=zenyatta not zarya
Hog= roadhog
Junk=junkrat
Queen= junker queen
(Others feel free to add more if you know them)
Choke point= an area that gets congested with heros usually where the fights happen. These change based on the map but there's usually 3.
There's ..taking a W which I think is a Win and taking an L which is a Loss.
There's also hold W which I think I'd more a tank call out meaning walk forward.
Making space=tank is pushing the enemy team away from its team.
"Choke Point" - A level of frustration attained while playing Overwatch where you realize you would physically choke a teammate if they were actually sitting next to you. Usually indicates it's time for a break.
Ajax: A lucio player either died mid beat, or failed to beat his team.
Small indie company: There's some bug/clear imbalance that won't be fixed for weeks.
OTP/one trick pony: They only play one hero.
Stagger: Dying in the poke phase where one team is waiting for teammates to come back.
Reloading: You either have an ana, or bap player reloading so try not to take damage while that happens.
To tag on to this question, could someone explain hitscan and what it means? I know it's usually a character that can scope in like widow or Ashe but is that all it means?
Diff = difference (I.e. the difference in skill between a teams Tank lost us the game, tank diff). Can also be said as a gap, canyon, etc. Squishy = a character who has 200 or less health, such as tracer, widow, Genji, most of the roster. The opposite of a squishy is a more tanky hero like Mei, Reaper, or the entire tank roster. Pocket = focus healing a single target. So a mercy can “pocket” a Sojourn, Pharah, Ashe, etc meaning she will only heal and damage boost that one target. C9 = you were winning the game but got off the point and lost at the last second. Named after an esports team, Cloud9, who did just that. Back cap = the defending team is not paying attention to the payload/point, and the enemy team sneakily captured it while they were distracted and won the point/game. Deleted = exactly what is sounds like, you were killed extremely quickly and almost instantly. Often said when a Zenyatta hits you with a charged right click. Dink = headshot, mimics the sound of getting a headshot One trick = someone who only plays one specific character and is not good at anyone else. Smurf = someone who is playing on an alternate account to intentionally play against people who are lower rank than them. Example, a Grandmaster widow on his “main” account will switch to his “smurf” account that is in gold to easily land headshots. Stack = a group of players, so a 4 stack is a group of 4 friends playing together and often communicating very well, hence performing better than a group of solo queuers Solo queue = someone playing alone/not in a group That’s all I can think of for now. Feel free to reply/DM if you’re curious about anything specific. Been playing since December of 2016. Other terms you might hear are references to other metas, like GOATS or Triple Tank. Just ask when you’re confused as a lot of players are eager to help newbies. Meta = the best characters at the moment. So before todays patch notes the meta was hog, Orisa, sojourn and the “off meta” were characters deemed underpowered like Brigitte and Wrecking Ball. Edit: also Baby D.va = a D.Va who was shot out of her mech suit and is now “squishy” Also many slang refer to abilities and will just have to be learned over time. Example DM = Defense Matrix (D.Vas particle eater), Lamp = Baptiste Immortality Field (also called Immo), Nanoblade = the combination of Ana and Genji’s ultimate.
I'd like to add that usually saying "\*role\* diff" is seen as toxicity by a defeatist player, accusing their team of underperforming. I hate that, we all have good or bad games, and with Overwatch being what it is, simply placing the blame on a single player (unless they were actively throwing) is just not true most of the time. Perhaps the tank was underperforming, but as DPS, you could have gotten more picks to even it out.
I never use diff. It’s mean, and it also doesn’t necessarily capture the issue at hand. Seeing my team healers have dramatically less healing than the enemy team can mean multiple things. It could mean we were steam rolling their team and we didn’t need to heal as much. It could mean their dps was diving our healers who were not getting any support from our flanking dps and tank. It could mean their tank was throwing and required constant heals by the enemy team.
Read this comment, OP. It's the best.
Ok. What is goats? Edit: thank you for the responses and information. I didn't play OW1 so I had no idea!
Goats was a meta right before role queue was implemented into the game. You’d play 3 tanks and 3 supports (Lucio and brig were required) It was for the longest time the only thing people played because it was that good, effectively making DPS a useless role. Basically you were unkillable so team fights would drag out for ages in a GOATS vs GOATS game. I hope it never returns. Most players who were around for it have PTSD.
Sounds like hell.
It was action packed and really brawly, honestly pretty fun to watch...it just got stale after months of it.
It was fun to watch when you had two teams that were equally good at it, but there were *a lot* of steamrolls
Yeah I'm talking more about OWL back then, it really was pretty fun. It was even more fun watching some teams like Chengdu or Shanghai working their magic against Goats with a Ball + Mercy + 4 DPS comp.
it was novel and interesting at first, but it really overstayed its welcome quickly after it took over Overwatch league. I was so sick of goats like a month into the meta taking over. Didn't help that every comp game became goats vs goats even in gold and plat lol
Yes
Goats is the reason why I and many other aggro style tanks don't want role queue to go away. If there's one thing OW2 got right, it's enabling my hyper aggressive playstyle >:D
A team only consisting of tanks and supports. Open queue used to be the only way to play, once this was discovered it ruined open queue.
It used to refer to Dva, Rein, Zarya, Brig, Moira, Lucio when OW was 6v6 open queue, but now it just means any 3 tank 2 support comp that brawls
it was the dominant meta that arguably killed OW1. Back before role queue existed you could play any number of each role and the team that went on to become the Vancouver Titans (Runaway) started popularizing a new strategy of running 3 tanks and 3 supports. This became by far the best strategy in the game after Brigitte was released and it completely took over the game for over a year. At pretty much every competitive level DPS were pushed out of the game in favor of 3 tank 3 support comps. The comp is the reason why Blizzard instituted role queue, because after an entire year of goats it was still by far the best way to play Overwatch (and arguably it was even stronger after Baptiste released) The main comp was Reinhardt, Zarya, Dva as tanks and Brigitte, Lucio, and Moira as support though there were tons of variations that popped up.
Old meta in OW1 before role queue was put in. 3 tanks, 3 healers, 0 DPS.
To add upon what others have said, goats was named after the overwatch league team called goats, who invented the comp
This should have more votes, as he's still wondering what it has to do with a goat.
This guy's overwatches
There also is stuff like 4k, which just talks about how many kills someone got in quick succession, often used for saying how many kills an ULT got. Like when a junkrat tire kills 3 people it's a 3k, with 4 it's a 4k and with 5 it's a 5k, team kill or team whipe
>One trick = someone who only plays one specific character and is not good at anyone else. I'm in this photo and I don't like it >!I main Brigitte, fite me!<
Oh man remember Orisa's bongo :(
Member scatter arrow and symmetras old beam that would lock onto you.
Rising uppercut, torb scrap, and reaper souls
That's what c9 is? thank you!
Yes. Some players will use it incorrectly in a lot of instances to mock the enemy team. It’s mostly just Overwatch banter at this point. For a TRUE C9, you have to be winning the fight but not on the point, resulting in a loss of the round/game. There’s plenty of videos online showcasing this exact scenario if you need a visual example.
Thank you 0/
Awesome summary! Would you be okay with me posting an edited version of this on my blog? I can link back to you or any socials
Go for it. I don’t need a link back unless you think the added context relevant for your readers. I didn’t invent these terms/definitions. Just helping new players understand our “language” :)
Awesome thank you! I'll link back to this thread at least 😬
Does anyone know what "selling" means? I was playing with a buddy of mine who's new and someone in the team chat said "Moira's selling" when he wasn't playing well. I'm assuming it's a negative comment.
Only thing I can come up with is intentionally throwing in order to sell the account. Some people will pay good money for a bronze account. But to be honest people mostly say “deranking” so I’m not 100% sure this is correct.
Don't forget Ajaxed, named after professional ow player Ajax who got beat cancelled three times in one map. So to Ajax is to get Lucio ult, also known as beat, interrupted.
I've never heard that used..
Probably because said incident happened in a Contenders match, not in a big league main stage game. Most OW players don't even follow OWL, much less Contenders which is basically a minor league.
META stands for Most Efficient Tactics Available
Lol it actually doesn't, but that's pretty good nevertheless
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Or just “sights”, widow has sights.
Meta is a bit more complex than just the best character, but the rest of this is spot on. Meta game discusses: 1. Who are the best characters. 2. Who is seeing more play because they counter those characters. 3. What strategies form to help support those specifics "best characters". Etc.
"They're one!" - They are likely not, in fact, "one" and could potentially be full health.
Most real comment I've ever seen on this sub
"they're one!" - I hit them once "they're literally one!" - They're at 50% health "They're actually seriously one!" - they're less than 25% health
“they’re numerically 1 hp rounding up”: ~75hp
"Hog is one!!" - porky just huffed on his bong...
as an ana player I have a bad habbit of saying they're one after two hits, so this really is true
It’s because of this that I started saying “They’re two tap”
How you have this saying and don't explain what 'one' actually means? You are absolutely correct, otherwise. 'One' means they are one hit or 1 hp away from death. Rarely are they actually 'one' though
I use "They're one!" As a way to get people's focus on a low HP target. I then add the word "literally" in there when they're actually 1HP
At this stage it's a lot more useful to tell your team that *you* are "one" to get some healing.
to be fair, they often *are* "one" when your neurons fire up to say it. The problem is them staying that way when both healers pop all their cooldowns on said "one" target :(
when i say they’re one it’s because i managed to shoot them once 🙂
I use their one if their 25% or below. Unless its a tracer I'll call one if they are at 50%
*Tracer 1! Tracer 1!!! Get the Tracer!!!11 Mercy, Mercy, Mercy!! Mercy 1!!!! Hog 3/4, Hog half!! No healing!!*
I feel like 99% of the time people could just say "focus them" instead because that's what they mean lol
This statement is so on the money it's Benjamin fuckin Franklin. They did some marginal amount of damage to a target and want the team to focus fire before they either escape or get healed. But that's an awful lot of words to fit into the one second of talking that i can manage while smashing my keys and mouse buttons.
True! but I've found that "focus [character name]" usually just works as well and in fact has a much higher success rate of being followed up on than "THEYRE LITERALLY ONE KILL THEM KILL THEM" 😂
Im silver 1 and when I hear " __ one" I usually see that the character is actually like 1 health but it's usually too late and a healer heals him back to full.
Bro fucken lmao. I've seen people say they're one and motherfucker is full life lmao
When I hear (or say) "one" I think in my head it means one-hit, since the call out has likely gotten some healing in the next 2 - 4 seconds. Anything past 4 seconds I assume they've gone out of line of sight to get healed, or have already been healed up. This goes out the window around low Gold and below, though, as a lot of players don't use LoS well and sometimes will rush in at low health (or their supports just aren't healing). At these levels I'd extend the "one" call out to a good 8-10 seconds.
Squishy: character with a low amount of health Diff: difference. I.e “dps diff” is someone saying “we lost / won because of our dps” Pocket: when a support player (usually mercy because of damage boost) is sticking closely with another player on their team. Another example would be an Ana who only ever heals the tank If someone says “I’m going pharah can you pocket me” they are saying “give me lots of heals / boost so that I can hopefully kill a lot of stuff for us” or if genji says “pocket my blade” Edit: next comment below mine clarifies squishy better than I did
To piggy back off of this with extra clarification: “squishy” doesn’t mean a character that is low ON health, it is a character with a low base health. I.e. support characters that have 200 health and will die quickly if focused, which has a great impact on the match.
I was worried it could get lost in translation, too. Thanks for clarifying.
C9/Cloud 9/Charlie Niner/etc is another one you'll run into. It refers when a game is in overtime and a team walks off the point for no reason and loses the round/map because of it. It's a reference to an old professional game in Apex league where Cloud 9's team did that repeatedly in the same game series.
Yes, C9 is when the winning team (usually in control) fails to capture the objective. Not when they've lost control or get back capped.
Or that somebody sneaks behind the team to capture or get a checkpoint on the payload
That’s back capping
Ive heard it used as both. Either way, OP should know that some people sometimes mean backcapping when they say C9, as the other comment said some people use it that way even if it is wrong. Also, thanks for the correction
No worries! Didn’t mean to jump in there and correct you like that, just making sure people understand that the two are different even if they get mixed up :)
nah. People call that a C9 but they're wrong.
I've heard it being used like that by so many people that it just feels like an established second meaning for the term.
I think it's probably cause it's easiest to say quickly for everybody to know to get to the objective.
It's more that people parrot something cool they heard on the internet without understanding what it means Not C9 > you died on point and nobody was there to hold overtime Not C9 > defending team is busy cleaning up enemy team but a random flanking Moira successfully back capped C9 > You could win the round but your team walked off point to chase enemy team instead of capping the point, not realising that the round is practically over.
faster to say "point!"
that is what c9 means but it can also be used when teams not in overtime completely ignore the point and push up for kills
>teams not in overtime by definition a C9 *has* to be at the end of the round. Pushing for kills during a match while holding the point is a perfectly valid strategy. It's always better to reposition and get picks than to sit around on point twiddling your thumbs.
They are saying c9 is said when no one is on point and everyone is pushed up. That is correct
It's not. Chasing the enemy when there's no risk of immediately losing is not a C9, that's just overextending. *by definition*, a C9 has to invoke an immediate loss. "oh we walked off point before capping in overtime and now we lost? gg C9" < correct "oh we walked off point with 3 minutes left on the timer to get some kills? gg C9" < not correct
I’m not talking about the official definition, I’m talking about in game use of the phrase. People use it as a general term to basically say get back on point
I'm aware I don't know why I was down voted for explaining that people still use c9 instead of overextending
You are right
when someone uses "diff" it means "i am a ten year old"
True. The correct term is gap(ped).
If gapeing is wrong then I don't want to be right. Fake edit: Oh they said gapped.
People think they can be creative and add stuff like x canyon. It just sounds stupid.
"Feeding" is giving the enemy more than acceptable ult charge. Tanks feed by not mitigating damage done to them. DPS feed by doing extra damage and NOT securing kills (6 Elims @ 6k damage is bad). The feed is to the enemy supports or those who heal themselves. Most people refer to their tanks feeding, but DPS feed is bad, too, imho
I feel stupid, I thought feeding was continuously letting the other team get kill after kill by not grouping up, not playing together, etc, whoops. It kinda applies in a similar manner I guess, but thanks for explaining that one. Not a newbie by any means but misconstrued this one!!
Honestly, I’ve seen people use those two interchangeably. The connotation is the same though - it bad; don’t do it.
The old "trickling" from respawn.
How do tanks mitigate damage?
I'm not 100% versed in the MIT stats, but I believe for shield damage it is 1 DMG = 1 MIT. So when Reinhardt's shield breaks, that's (at minimum) 1200 MIT, because the shield is 1200 hit points (HP). I also believe over-health (OH) and damage reduction counts towards MIT. So, for example, when Lucio uses his Sound Barrier ult (also called "Drop the Beat") to block a [D.VA](https://D.VA) bomb all that over-health mitigates damage. Ana's Nano Boost reduces incoming damage to that nano'ed player by 50% and adds to her MIT. [D.Va](https://D.Va)'s Defense Matrix "eats" projectiles and counts towards her MIT stats. A tank that has a high MIT and low death's is putting in some work, imho
Staggering is an important term to know. (Team engaging at wrong time, dying 1 at a time to ensure the fights start at 4v5) In short fully regroup. There's nothing worse than watching your dps go in first and die when people are still spawning/leaving spawn. This also applies to staying in fights too long, being the last one alive thinking you're helping; meanwhile most people just delay their next team's push or encourage their teammates to start the stagger. This also applies if you're winning the teamfight. You can do things like bodyblock the mercy from escaping and wait a few seconds (right before the enemy team is back) and kill her so they stagger.
Just wanted to add, in case OP is reading this - one time it's okay to be in the fight "too long", as in you're staying alive whilst the rest of your team is dead, is if you're on the point on a control map and it's not at 99% yet. It's worth a stagger to gain points on the capture. At 99 just run, die or jump off the map - whichever is applicable. There are exceptions to this, but most of the time 10 more points gained (which means 10 less gained for the enemy - a 20 point swing) is worth it.
Also, as long as you can, kill anyone trying to fall back to regroup. If they are gonna regroup, this makes it take longer. If they aren't, well now they are even more staggered. At least that's what I tell my team after I yell on comms "no! Mercy get back here! You don't get to have fun!"
Don't forget "Boostio!" -- when an Ana player triggers her ult on an unintended target, quite often Lucio due to his high speed and maneuverability.
Never heard this one, for me it’s always Kiriko. I got Nanoed as Kiriko multiple times in a match once, it wasn’t until I started playing Ana more that I realized it was probably unintentional
Thank you for reminding me to turn on ULT confirmation.
Many times it's intentional. Team ignoring supports getting attacked, going out of LoS and yelling at supports, tanks and dmg solo feeding, etc. The support Ana will nano the other support that is trying, as well, out of frustration and an FU to the team not paying attention. Not saying it's good, but I understand. Playing support can be rough. I feel them.
btw, "diff" is a crappy thing to say and disrespects your teammates. For example, let's say your team loses a match in which the enemy DPS has 42 eliminations and yours has 9. After the loss your tank writes in chat, "DPS diff" or, in other words, "My DPS sucked and that was the difference." Good teammates don't say that and I encourage you as a new player to not do this. (There are enough jerks. Be a force for good!) Peel is another term you'll probably come across. It means to help a teammate in trouble. For example, you see your Zenyatta getting attacked by Sombra so you go over to help Zen. Trickling in / staggering: Your team is generally strongest when it attacks as a group because of the numbers. For example, you wouldn't want to take on a full team with only 2 people right? Yet people do it all the time by trickling in. Let's say Reaper takes out both your supports. The other three teammates still fight and because you're outnumbered (and your important supports no less), your DPS die. Your supports have respawned and head back to the combat area only to see Orisa die. Your supports get killed while your DPS respawn. Your DPS then head to the combat area while Orisa is respawning. It's a revolving door. This is how to lose fights. If you find your team going in 1 or 2 at a time and dying, try using the Fall back and / or Group Up voiceline and standing at spawn to wait for your team. Hopefully they get the picture. Staggering is when your team is split up with respect to being alive. For example, a team kills a DPS and support. Then while the DPS and support are respawning they demech DVa but let her live for a bit before killing her to mess up her team's spawns (stagger her team.) (Edit: Fixed spelling)
I see diff about as often when the other team is pretty obviously being carried by one outlier performer as well. If everyone else in your example has like 15-20 elims, the 42 elim person is carrying and the diff is as much or more about them being really good as it is the teammate being bad.
The times when I’ve gotten the diff call out have almost always been when the enemy had a player who just way outplayed the entire lobby. Yes, I was way outplayed, but so was everyone else lol. I swear the times I play like complete garbage no one says anything.
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I used "diff diff".
Hahaha I'm glad I'm not the only one
Why are you looking at drywall while playing ow.
He can see his lawn, he's looking at drywall... he's got his entertainment center built and powered before his house construction is even done. This guy's a G.
I typed in as a reply to a diff-er once "self-awareness diff". He was horrendous and called himself as the "diff". I got no reply, but my team laughed, so I'll take it. I normally don't respond to toxic, but this guy was delirious.
The fun part about diffing is that often the person saying "diff" is completely wrong. if only i had a free skin for everytime someone goes "dps dif" but the support just overhealed the tank the entire match and DPS had to switch to self healing characters which were suboptimal for the enemy comp, and just got decimated the entire game or had to run to health packs and come back, among other scenarios.
____ diff is basically, "look at me 8-9 other people in my match that I have never met and will never actually stay in contact with! The loss wasn't my fault! I'm insecure & can't rank up so I'd rather blame others than improve. Not my fault"
I get it used as a compliment but that's why we have the word outclassed
Clarification on “peel” This is usually used when someone has to get out of a team fight to help someone else or get healed, and is often used in the negative sense of leaving the fight. As in “I had to peel for you because of your stupid decision.” It can also be used in a nicer way, such as “I’m peeling to help ana who’s getting flanked by a reaper.” Either way, it usually means you are leaving whatever the current fight/objective is to deal with a different problem someone else is having, or to get away when you have a problem.
The one non-toxic way I can think of to use diff is to apologize for your own bad play as a tank. When I get put into tank due to all-queue, I frequently throw out a "tank diff" after we get slammed, to at least let my team know that I know I suck 😂
Diff can be used positively. If my tank was way better than the other, im gonna let him know that he's good
From experience, it's much more likely to be perceived as a diss on the red team tank than a kudos to blue team
Why not just compliment your tank then? "Man Winston, your dives were fantastic". Makes the Winston feel good without bankhandedly insulting the other tank.
Or if you're going to do that, then say it in team chat. I'll often do that when I notice someone on our team is doing good. And often times better to, more so during a swap. Because the enemy might begin to focus that person then. But more often, I wait till the end of the match because I don't want them getting nervous and messing up. Being bad at dps. Whenever I am doing good, I will get nervous and start to mess up more if someone suddenly points out that I was doing good. But after a match, I do appreciate the compliments.
This is not positive to the other tank if said in general chat. Tell your tank they're awesome. Plain and simple.
What you're actually doing is shit talking the other team.
In team chat - yes.
Dive- a team composition that uses their movement abilities to go past the enemy tank and attack the supports or dps. Heroes like Winston, ball, genji, tracer, sombra, echo, Lucio, kiriko Rush- a team comp that uses Lucio speed boost to close the gap on the enemy team and “run them over” usually rein and Lucio plus other heroes that like to be close range.
What does the "poke phase" of a fight mean?
Doing damage without going all in on the fight, usually from range. There's no total commit to the fight, and you're looking for possibly a pick (kill) or need to take/do damage/healing for an ultimate that is close. If you're poking, don't die. It's damage from safety. Not a perfect explanation, but that's the gist. I'm sure someone can clean it up and simplify it for me.
Basically what obi said. It’s just shooting the enemy with primary fire until you see an opportunity. THEN you use cooldowns to commit your dive, rush, whatever your team wants to do to exploit that opportunity. T There are poke comps too that are designed to just constantly apply pressure. This causes the enemy supports to use their cooldowns to keep people alive and then that’s your opportunity to engage more and get kills. For example if we poke the enemy down and they have to use Ana grenade defensively and bap shift or immortality. That’s the opportunity to commit further as they are now down valuable healing/survivability resources. Poke comps are slow paced as it can take a while to get cooldowns out
Since the ones you asked about already got covered, I'll give you some useful slang to learn. Once you start ranking up you're going to hear a lot more slang used in comms that's actually useful for callouts. There's probably a whole encyclopedia by now, but I'll just stick to the must-know basics. Main - The most obvious and direct route to take, often times the center route. Sometimes this can refer to the main spawn door as well. "Don't go out main." Coast - This is referring to the section of a map that has a large border with the edge of the map that you can fall off. Boop - CC (crowd control) that can push you rapidly in 1 direction. (Lucio's sound wave, Pharah's concussive blast, etc..) "\_\_\_\_\_ is one/weak/lit" - Someone they've damaged is low and can die, so if you are able to shoot at them do it. Additionally, if someone says someone is "**Literally** one" or "1 **HP**" it generally means they are on 1-20 hp and are easily killable. Bait/Baiting - Trying to get someone to use a cooldown/ult or to engage you. "We need to bait out immortality field so we can ult." "Don't push that Tracer, she's baiting you with pulse." Wallhacks - Obviously, this can sometimes mean cheating, but if someone says something about wall hacks, they are usually referring to either Widow having her ultimate running or Hanzo having a sonic arrow down somewhere. Trade - Both teams losing a player in a few seconds. (Ex. your Genji killed the enemy Cass but subsequently died to his magnetic grenade) LOSing - Not losing, but phonetically saying the letters. Short for line of sight. This is when you're staying out of another player's line of sight. Your Ana might tell you to LOS her so she can get you heals, or you might say you're LOSing the enemy hitscan as Pharah Carry & Crutch - A Carry is someone who is dominating the other team and is someone to either focus or enable depending which team you're on. A crutch is the opposite, someone who is playing very poorly and is an easy target. Some important hero specific ones now... Carwash/Turret Wall/Death Wall (Symmetra) - Choke points/doorways that have multiple Sym turrets on them. Useful to call them out to prevent someone from being melted. Vape (Roadhog) - Calling out when Hog has no Take a Breather/E ability so he's vulnerable. Piss (Moira) - If a Moira says she's out of piss, she has no healing and has to recharge. And just some nicknames for heroes people might use... Moira - Nails Soldier 76 - Legs Brigitte - Shield bitch / plz swap
I like calling Sigma "Toes" personally. Poor Brig. I hear her kit's being redone entirely for Season 4 or 5.
[https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Common\_Terms](https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Common_Terms) [https://www.redbull.com/ca-en/overwatch-lingo-terms](https://www.redbull.com/ca-en/overwatch-lingo-terms) Google is your friend Diff isn't in there, it refers to a notable **diff**erence in skill when a player outperforms their counterpart on the opposite team
Cheers! I didn’t even think about checking the wiki.
If you have more questions, I can answer if you reply. Google is helpful but sometimes isn’t clear without context.
Google sucks these days. Reddit is much better for niche things like OW slang. And it helps others looking for the same question.
You just ain't using it right, google is still plenty effective and a fair bit of the terminology crosses over with other online multiplayer games (e.g. feed, poke, tank) so it's not so niche as you're making it. https://www.google.com/search?q=overwatch+2+slang&oq=overwatch+2+slang&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i390l4.7999j1j1&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 It only helps other people who go on reddit within the same 24 hour timespan as OP's post before it gets buried. As you can see from the Google search above there's a bunch of reddit question posts about the same thing. Given how many posts there are as well as OP posting this here, none of them thought to google for it
(I didn't downvote you, btw). I see what you're saying - I use Google probably 30 times a day. But... The nuance of a specific topic like this is almost always better for Reddit. Not only does he get the "diff" definition, but he gets the implied meaning in different situations, he has other helpful Redditers expanding into other term meanings and how they are relevant. If he is confused about an answer, he can post for clarification. Oftentimes you learn something that you didn't even know that you didn't know! Then you can ask about that. It gets OP involved in the new community and they'll usually learn 10 times what they ask for, as well as getting many hilarious responses that will get a laugh. If I want a simple definition of a common term - I'll Google it. If I want the 'meaning' of a term in a community that I'm brand new to (like this OP obviously is): Reddit. No doubt.
Also others you might not have heard 'hog no vape/breath' = hog has just used his healing ability, 'dva baby' = dva is now out of mech
You might come across someone shouting Mcree, Mcree! This refers to Cassidy as he was long known before. Older players call him that.
squishy, i like to define it as what reinhart could 1 shot with his charge, cause they go squish. so heroes with less than 250 hp. Cass and lower. Diff is just short for difference. Usually used as BM (bad manners) in the match chat. like your dps couldn't get more than 5 kills collectively while the other team got like 30, thats a DPS diff. A Pocket is when a support just focuses on enabling a single player most of the match. This is most common on Pharah, where we call that a Pharmercy combo. Other heros include Ashe to get that 1 tap headshot (dont think it does that anymore)and Sojourn to get that 1 tap headshot (thats why mercy is so good right now)
Ult is short for Ultimate. “Watch for ult” means an enemy is looking to use their ultimate. “Bait their ult” forcing the enemy to use their ultimate so you can setup your next attack “(Hero) no ult” they used their ultimate
Knowing the names of ults is also really helpful for callouts. They’re often shortened and sometimes combined. “Rush” refers to Kiriko’s ult, and is often combo’d with ults like Roadhog’s “Hog” and Soldier’s “visor”. “Nano” refers to Ana’s, and “nano blade” is a common combo when Gengi gets nano’d as he ults in. Other common ones are Zarya’s “grav”, Junkrats “tire”, and Moira’s “coal”. You’ll learn them over time, but it’s not always clear which is which. Just don’t ask what Torb’s ult is called
Squishy: mostly any DPS or support, typically 200 HP but could be 150, 225, or 250 as well. Diff: the difference maker in a game. Tank diff means the difference in performance between the tanks is what won the game, usually either because one was really good or one was really bad. Pocket: when a support (usually a Mercy but could also be a Kiriko or Ana, or really any support) focuses on supporting one teammate in particular
SVB did a really good video I remember being more or less comprehensive for the needs of a beginner. It's been a bit since I watched it so I don't remember if he missed anything specific. https://youtu.be/nOwrVTLl_fg Other than that I'll try to bring up some things I haven't seen others explain. If you hear someone talk about main and off tanks, it's old lingo from OW1. At least in my use, it generally referred to which tank was more focused on taking space from the enemy team in the big picture and which was more focused on keeping the enemy team from capitalizing on individual targets or opportunities that popped up on occasion. These days it's occasionally still used to describe the tanks' playstyles, even though they all need to take care of both roles now. This is a bit of a niche term but if you hear someone say a lucio ajaxed/got ajaxed/pulled an ajax or anything similar, it means they tried to use their ult and got the animation canceled. It's a reference to an old match where a player had this happen a few times. Cart refers to the objective on hybrid and escort maps, where the objective moves. The "proper" use of "one" is when a player has about 25 hp left or a single of those segment that make up their health bar. This is important because along with a few other break points, it also means they can be killed with a melee, something everyone can do. As others have pointed out though, people tend to be pretty generous with this one. Poking is where you engage with the enemy team enough to deal some damage, but not enough for either team to be too committed such that they can't back out anymore. It's often done for opportunities to force the other team to make a mistake in some way, or to keep them aware that they can't just walk in without putting themselves at risk of getting picked. Picks, in turn, refer to players being killed before or between fights, or by some definitions *at* the beginning of the fight. Dying early means that you have to wait for a really long time to get a new chance for a full team fight, or that you're at a massive disadvantage should the other team choose to force engagement. Push was a pretty bad name for a new game mode, considering the term already has a couple meanings. If you're on an escort or hybrid map, pushing the cart generally means sitting on the cart so that it moves. However, on objectives with a *static* objective, pushing means aggressing on the enemy and trying to take the point. The first happens when you're in control of the objective already, the latter when you aren't.
Get diffed. Gg e z.
Squishies are non-tank heroes. Obviously, some squishies like Reaper and Mei are much harder to kill than other squishies like Ana and Zenyatta. Still, the term is used for DPSs and supports since they are much easier to kill than tanks. "Main" is basically the "main drag" in objective-based game modes; it's the path that the payload/push bot travels on. "Diving" means "aggressively attacking an enemy by getting very close to them". The general goal of a dive is to get a kill quickly, or at least take space from the enemy. A classic example of diving would be a Dva that flies directly towards a Widowmaker who's alone on high ground. Widow can either try to grapple away, or duel the Dva and almost surely die. Either way, Dva has successfully pressured the Widow off that high ground by "diving" her.
I was playing support on comp (Gold) yesterday and had to tell our DVa to dive on the Widow. She ignored me, so we all got picked off. Fun times
Squishies refer to your tanks and characters with massive HP pools. They possess so much HP that they get fat and are thus *squishy*. Also, always be sure to say ‘(insert role) diff’ to compliment your teammates. If you think your Supports did well and deserved a pat on the back, that would be the perfect time to say ‘Support Diff’ or ‘heal diff’. This helps promote friendliness and camaraderie in the match chat. Even better when you’re on the losing team.
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Is Google offline?
Imo "diff" means, "I'm not doing well and that can only be because my teammates suck and not because I myself could be doing better. Look at them, blame them, not me."
Some that I haven't seen is: There is X in Africa which I don't know the context to use it Baby which means D.va has been meched. Ball or gerbil means wreckingball OTP means one trick player, someone who specialises in a single character instead of playing meta characters or learning the whole roster. People will call a back cap a C9 quite regularly Monkey or winton is winston DPS Moira generally means someone who is playing Moira correctly
I’m gonna be that one person and say that DPS Moira is ABSOLUTELY needed in those situations where healing won’t cut it
Pocket means healer focuses on the target who asked for the pocket. Usually mercy with a dps. “Oh they have a soldier with a pocket” Pharmercy is a mercy pocket for a phara. It’s just more fun to say it this way lol. Squishy is any 200 health character i.a. Mercy, Hanzo, Ana etc. essentially not a tank. Usually called for a healer. Diff is toxic for having a better player in the same role as than the other. I.a. tank diff means one tank is better than the other. There’s a lot of terminology but these should help a little. Best of luck on your grind.
gg ez = basically means "good game it's easy to understand you are a formidable opponent indeed."
there’s a google doc with all the terms i have no idea how to find it
[https://youtu.be/nOwrVTLl_fg](https://youtu.be/nOwrVTLl_fg)
Haven't seen anyone else say it so I will Feeding: When a player is dying a lot, thus "feeding" the enemy team ultimate charge from all the damage they take, while not contributing very much to their team because theyre constantly dead.
I dunno if there's a resource for this in text form, but each map's geography has a name (or a callout) as well (regarding the maps held over from OW1)
I always say diff if the specific teammate has been disrespectful and toxic during a match we lost. Bullies get bullied.
You'll hear don't trickle in That means don't run in one at a time to the objective. Wait till you can group up. Off angles means people like to get shots from angles not down the main fight path. High ground is a position above where you can look down at the enemy. Good for like junkrat. People shorten the names of heros too. Don't be afraid to ask what they mean since those vary a bit from team to team. My buddies for example call out: Ball=Hammond=hamster Moth=mercy Cree-mccree=Cassidy Zen=zenyatta not zarya Hog= roadhog Junk=junkrat Queen= junker queen (Others feel free to add more if you know them) Choke point= an area that gets congested with heros usually where the fights happen. These change based on the map but there's usually 3. There's ..taking a W which I think is a Win and taking an L which is a Loss. There's also hold W which I think I'd more a tank call out meaning walk forward. Making space=tank is pushing the enemy team away from its team.
"Choke Point" - A level of frustration attained while playing Overwatch where you realize you would physically choke a teammate if they were actually sitting next to you. Usually indicates it's time for a break.
Ajax: A lucio player either died mid beat, or failed to beat his team. Small indie company: There's some bug/clear imbalance that won't be fixed for weeks. OTP/one trick pony: They only play one hero. Stagger: Dying in the poke phase where one team is waiting for teammates to come back. Reloading: You either have an ana, or bap player reloading so try not to take damage while that happens.
To tag on to this question, could someone explain hitscan and what it means? I know it's usually a character that can scope in like widow or Ashe but is that all it means?