Although I have historically tanked a lot,  predominant chunk of said tanking being very early on in my early days of rivals, I have also never found any remote success tanking in competitive, and basically have no tanking experience in ranked whatsoever.

I have always been a support main who also knew how to be pretty good at dps, I could always NOT tank.

With s9 shuffling around the meta, I decided to try out tanking again, learning magneto, which was the first tank I ever played and one of the first characters I ever really liked early on in my early days, but I ultimately never used him in comp due to me just getting FRIED on other tanks in comp.

I really enjoyed how chill mag's gameplay is, the slow pace being rather soothing in the game's rather stressful environment, I liked how his aoe primary meant aiming was mostly optional, and I like how you never have to make any decisions on when to ult since you can functionally ult whenever a support ults and dunk on them.

I've also gone absolutely ballistic with him in ranked, a 70% winrate, winning 8 out of 11 games played with him.

But I have a few questions since my games with him have been puzzling.

1, Why am I winning?

This sounds like a stupid question, I'm playing well, that's why I'm winning.

But it doesn't make sense HOW I'm winning.

I look at the statsheet after every match and I'm GENUINELY a bum!

Except for some triple kills here and there and sometimes either having most damage blocked or most damage, I usually do not get any badges by the end of the match, although I did get MVP twice and SVP once.

I usually have the least elims of any non healer on my team, however, the gap closes in terms of final hits, sometimes me even having more final hits than my DPS.

Whatever it is, many of my wins, I am consistently the worst or 2nd worst player on my team's statsheet.

The answer would be obvious, I must be being boosted by my teammates!

But..that can't be.

I have TERRIBLE luck with teammates most of the time, I probably haven't gotten boosted more than twice this season, and for reference, ive played 98 games.

There is no way, all of a sudden because I switched to tank im being boosted 8 games in a row all of a sudden.

So im just left befuddled.

2, how to dunk ults.

Im beginning to get the hang of it as the games have gone on, but I still struggle to ult properly.

I genuinely CANNOT find gambit everything he ults.

And does the ult have an aoe damage ring? Because istg I've hit people with the edge of the ult and they don't take full damage.

And and does magneto ult counter rocket ult in one hit? If so, is it worth it to burn the ult on the rocket ult?

Oh and how does the timing work on countering puni and hawkeye ults cause my ults genuinely spontaneously combust when I try to do that.

And how do I prevent my ult from constantly breaking? I Always wait till full charge to make sure I can kill the support Im counter ulting but more often than not it literally explodes before I can launch the ult which literally burns all my ult charge.

3, bubbling teammates.

I generally like to position myself directly next or in front of my 2nd tank.

This allows us to share soaked up damage and gives us greater sustainability.

But how the genuine hell can I bubble my teammates like this?

Every time I try to bubble an overextended diver or a dived healer my tank just wobbles into my LOS and takes the bubble.

Not his fault, but how on earth can I bubble my squishy teammate, while taking the time to properly acquire them in my LOS in a timely manner when they are low and need the bubble NOW?

4, how to land shots.

I am not a good aimer, I play CND, SG, Wanda, aiming is my greatest enemy.

I generally do aim center mass or head for most enemies, but for some reason, the closer they get, the more I miss my primary on them, because I find the cadence in which the mag primary fires extremely awkward and clunky. 

It gets to a point where I genuinely aim at their feet and rely on the aoe explosion that comes off the ground to hit them, but I know this is suboptimal since I am missing out on a lot of damage this way.

So, requesting tips and tricks so I can tank better and become a better mag :DDD

New Magneto player, asking for tips!