Decided to creat a section here for Overwatch players to discuss ideas, tips, tricks, and general commentary!
Feel free to post anything here you think might be constructive. I do not take credit for any tips I post, as a lot of them I've found through research online.
I'm a Mercy main mostly, but I also enjoy playing D.Va, Pharah, Reaper, Lucio, and Torbjorn.
Here's a few tips just to get started:
One of the biggest things I learned was the difference in Resource Bars (Health, Armor, and Shields):
Health is your general hit points, when you lose them all, you die. Pretty basic stuff. Displayed as white bars in the UI.
Armor is the one I learned about that made a difference in gameplay. Armor displays as yellow bars in the UI, and always decreases before your health does. Here's the cool part: Armor actually supplies you with damage reduction, the exact amount being 50% damage reduction per hit, up to 5 points of damage. This means heroes like Tracer and Reaper and D.Va with spread or pellet weapons will have a much harder time killing a D.Va or Reinhardt when just using their primary fire, because each hit is doing a smaller amount of damage. However, because of the 5 point damage reduction cap, heroes like Pharah and Mcree that hit really hard in one shot will have an easier time taking down Armored targets with their primary fire.
Shields are the final resource, displayed as blue on the UI. These are destroyed before Health AND Armor, but they also regenerate when out of combat at a rate of 25/second.
I'll post some more tips and play-styles if this catches on. :)