Ibrahim Practices Overwatch for More Than Eight Hours With Tournament Five Days Away

NIJISANJI — Ibrahim of Nijisanji spent more than eight and a half hours practicing Overwatch on Oct. 20, working through hero tactics, positioning and team calls with a coach and teammates. He said the tournament was five days away.

The stream began with solo study. Ibrahim said he did not know when the team would assemble, so he opened replays of top players, focusing on a hero called Anran, a damage hero he had recently taken up. Around the ten-minute mark, Lauren Iroas joined, and the two went through his own replays for roughly two hours.

The advice centered on one rule: keep a charge of the dash ability in reserve so there is always a way back out, and use the remaining abilities to set as many enemies on fire as possible, since burning builds ultimate charge quickly. The coaching also covered fighting from close to walls rather than at mid-range, and why standing in the middle of a capture area is the weakest position. Praise for Ibrahim’s aim came up repeatedly, and the session also touched on tips for other damage heroes.

After Lauren left, Kuzuha, Ushimi Ichigo, Umise Yotsuha and Genzuki Tojiro assembled, and the group played custom matches against a mixed-rank lineup. A coach joined to review replays over screen share. The recurring problem was Winston, nicknamed “gorilla” by the community, whose jumps behind the lines cut off healing. The team worked on splitting into a main group and flankers, calling a pause to heal after the first kill, and pulling back in stages when a teammate fell.

The first win of the night came a little after the four-hour mark. The session ran past dawn, and the coach closed with one simple focus for each player. For Ibrahim, it was to choose a target before diving and make sure the dash lands. Participants said the team had grown more comfortable against Winston by the end.