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One tip: When healing someone, dont look at him at all time, look around for weak mates and rocket’s spam.

I already do that, but thanks.

from my experience just watch demos and try to get mentored by someone with lots of experience, also playing lots of pcws helps.

Dny offered to do some sort of team mentoring, but I don’t know if the rest of us would be up for that (personally, I’m willing to try just about anything to improve).

I’d be up for this if it’s possible. I imagine the method would be to spectate a friendly scrim or play one against us and comment on the flaws and areas to improve in? I don’t care if we get dominated, that creates a drive to improve.

I was with a nice friendly american team playing against a mix that included skyride and also shintaz etc. As soon as young master shintaz got mouthy, so did skyride!

Tbh, they’d been mouthy with us for about 5 minutes before you joined, so really you only got half the story. :

Vlad’s point still stands, if as soon as Shintaz got mouthy (which doesn’t take long does it now?), you then followed his lead. Anyways, as soon as Vlad turns up he’d put them into shape :D.

Edit: My tips would be to watch demos of top medics and also get a more experienced medic to watch you playing. At the end of the day you might play as well as you can, but be held back by your team or make silly mistakes without realising it….its easy to do.

I watched a couple of the youtube videos for like 10 seconds.
You can’t improve individually, your team needs work.

Rubbish, you can improve individually. Don’t make silly mistakes, make better calls, position yourself better, gain better game sense and awareness etc etc….etc.

True, you may be limited by your team, but a good medic is key for any team to improve and get good results. Well, unless your playing low divs, but the fact remains, self-improvement is just as important as team improvement if you want to rise in TF2. If not more so, nothing wrong with leaving a team and joining another one as long as you don’t do it too often.

I watched a couple of the youtube videos for like 10 seconds.
You can’t improve individually, your team needs work.

Phwoar, must be pretty apparent.

I watched a couple of the youtube videos for like 10 seconds.
You can’t improve individually, your team needs work.

Rubbish, you can improve individually. Don’t make silly mistakes, make better calls, position yourself better, gain better game sense and awareness etc etc….etc.

True, you may be limited by your team, but a good medic is key for any team to improve and get good results. Well, unless your playing low divs, but the fact remains, self-improvement is just as important as team improvement if you want to rise in TF2. If not more so, nothing wrong with leaving a team and joining another one as long as you don’t do it too often.

Good boy oblivion :D

is that because we’re “naturally caring”

I watched a couple of the youtube videos for like 10 seconds.
You can’t improve individually, your team needs work.

You can tell that from less than a minute’s worth of YouTube videos? :)

Medic is by far the most difficult class to gauge in terms of ability because there’s many different attributes, positive and negative, that a medic can bring to a team. The reigning attribute has to be making as few mistakes as possible, which is why I view kyynel as by far the most talented medic in Europe.

Comms are also massively important for a good medic in my view, though maybe that’s a tad biased because I scream like a twat at every available opportunity.

The reigning attribute has to be making as few mistakes as possible

Yeah, agreed on that. I’ve been getting better at avoiding bad situations that come about through communications breakdown or a lack thereof, and generally just avoiding situations that go bad, and/or getting the hell out of there when they do. There was a time when I was too concerned about the target I was healing, but I’ve sort of worked past that now.

Comms are also massively important for a good medic in my view, though maybe that’s a tad biased because I scream like a twat at every available opportunity.

Never had a problem with my comms really, don’t think anyone else has. I’m often complimented in PUGs about the detail in my comms, so that seems alright.