ive yet to come across anything to play pickup games for OW. does such a thing exist? how does one get into scrimming overwatch without immediately joining a team?
Not yet, You should try play as ringer for teams if you dont wanna join one yet. (Discords help you pretty much)
There is no FACEIT or etc yet becouse Battlenet gives so low data towards 3rd party. FACEIT has been rumouring Pugsystem for a while but making it is hard bc you cant join directly into party :P
There is few Discord channels where people are looking for ringers / new players into teams and so on.
Competitive OW reddit Discord joinlink = https://discord.gg/EVZ2sKC
Prob best place to start, depends about your current SR ofc
Discord