My accuracy is around 43-50% on most characters but I still feel like its not good enough, but I can’t get any better, my aim has not been increasing it has been staying the same. This past year my accuracy has improved a lot but i feel like I have just hit a roof that i can’t get past.
EDIT: I found my problem everyone, I realized that I just haven’t been really paying attention to the game and zoning out while playing, I have now been constantly thinking about what I will do before doing it and that fixed my problem. I have also noticed that one of my major problems is reaction times, so i’m focusing on getting that better and it is really working. Thanks for the help guys :).
That might very well be the limitations of your neurons in your body. Just because you practise piano for instance your entire life, you might get a good career, but not everyone has the potential to be the next Chopin or Mozart. Same goes for the control over your aim. But 50% accuracy is normally good. The real deal is about do you hit headshots, and frequently? You might still be able to fine tune your aim from just hitting to also hitting heads! Hitting a barrier most of the time can give false stats, and you might be improving but you don’t know it because the barriers are hiding your true accuracy. It can be a lot of things 
But its not imposible that you have reached the limit of your talent either.
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First off, barriers don’t affect accuracy stats and haven’t in a long time.
The thing about aim is it’s really not that important. My accuracy genuinely hasn’t changed in 3 seasons, but I climbed from plat to masters in 1 season. I’m not a savant, I don’t do aim drills, I don’t even warm up before I play comp, the key thing in Overwatch is positioning and gamesense, even as widowmaker, your accuracy isn’t that important. Your positioning alone will carry games, I know that sounds crazy but just by taking a space, you’re creating a threat. You’re giving your teammates opportunity and distracting the enemy before you even start shooting.
Aim can obviously carry games too, but you can successfully play in Masters while still having the aim of a Plat.
There are a whole host of guides that go over positioning/ vod reviewing yourself/ timing/ disengaging / ult economy/ etc etc etc so I won’t go into any of that here but the bottom line is you can outplay people without being better at aiming, get creative. 
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Let me explain what i meant, because im completely aware of the change.
In double barrier meta there isn’t much to shoot at, which means the stats can reflect 50% accuracy but from a very low sample pool such as 2 shots 1 hit 1 miss. This is an indirect result of shooting only barriers, this does not mean that you cant have equally bad stats for the same reason, its just an observation.
I don’t really know if the rest of the post was for me or OP?
Ahh I think I know what you mean now, my accuracy overall has obviously improved since the change, but it’s not uncommon for a barrier to break/move as you take a shot which can result in a miss too, I guess in this meta it’s very common for players to stack together behind barriers too which can artificially inflate stats too as it’s hard to miss a clump of players. The rest of of my post was for OP 
I think accuracy stats are pretty irrelevant at this point simply because of all the barriers/turrets/bubbles/etc. I guess if I was going to track any accuracy stat it would be critical hits.
Bingo! that is a critical hit from you that is 
. Accuracy is more a pointer to yourself as to whether you perform at the level you usually do. But I really find the relation ship between K:D, Critical hits and Solo kills the imortant thing if you play mccree as a flank.
If you crit more than your elims, and die less than your elims, while also having more than 50% of the crits in solo kills it shows, you kill people on your flanks without feeding, and you do it efficiently.
I don’t understand the problem. 43-50% accuracy is pretty decent. From there you have a very good baseline to work on other things like gamesense, positioning, ult economy etc.
That roof is called the game. When you close the game, your accuracy will instantly reach 100%.
I generally go shoot people out in the open rather than going after people behind barriers. But during matches my damage usually isn’t good and i feel like i’m not contributing to the team. I’m stuck in silver and I have been stuck since season 4. My aim just feels like its sloppy, it feels like its really bad even though I hit a lot of shots.
If you dont do a lot of damage its because you dont click enough heads.
It is very likely that you are stuck in silver because you have very little game sense, and don’t pick your fights very well. You need to pick your fights but also predict the behaviour of your opponents, then utilize that to know when to use the flash bang, and when to save it, when to right click and when to left click, understanding to punish your opponents when they have no abilities because in silver i guarantee you they will waste them all the time. Mechanical aim is not enough to do well, you need plans. And lastly you need to not feed and get out before you waste your opportunity of a get away or get too brave and get killed because you overestimate your own ability!
Do you think that using looking for group could also help me? The one day I got in gold i had 3 teams in a row where at least 2 people left the game.
Elo Hell is a myth. Your Elo is as much an overwatch brain thing as it is an aim thing.
Looking for group will not help you. Reviewing your own games might though. Figure out what your mistakes are and learn from them so next match you don’t make those mistakes again.
I do that every single time I die. I always go over what I did wrong. A lot of the time the thing that goes wrong is I got nervous and got sloppy.
that is not the same as reviewing your games, because you might not be able see the full picture from a kill cam and what you know from your own perspective.
So should i start recording my matches to re watch them? Usually I can see what I do wrong and I correct it.
You missunderstand… the game does this for you! Go into your career profile and select the taba replays
Have you ever tried a pro gaming chair?
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Ok this happens to many people and unironically aim is not accuracy, accuracy is how precise you are WHEN you shoot.
Aim has a cap, and its called “aimbot”. There are a lot of dudes that are close to that cap for several seconds … mostly because no human can be an aimbot for 100% of the match.
If you “feel” like its not good enough, ask yourself why:
- You dont hit the targets fast enough?
- You dont get critical hits and its all body shots?
- You feel like you die before you can do significant damage?
- You feel like you are hitting the wrong target?
- You feel like you are not getting enough value due to shields/healing?
- You feel like you miss a lot or are afraid to shoot because of that?
Watching your replays is a great way of answering those questions. When you have those questions answered, you will know which area to focus on:
- Could be reflexes
- Could be precision
- Could be tracking or flicking
- Could be target acquire or preference
- Could be positioning
- Could be awareness or timing
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Aim is not the number one priority in getting better, game knowledge and positioning is.
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^ positioning/gamesense will carry you way further than aim ever will