Why are people so against the idea of playing competitive solo? Why are you told not to do it? Why is it considered a disadvantage? I'd understand if the matchmaking made it so a group of solos can be matched against a 6 stack but generally speaking if there's a premade on one team there's an equal or similar premade on the others. Yes you're kind of dependant on who got the better premades but the same could be said if everyone was solo, you'd still be playing with 5 random teammates who might be good or bad. Not to use the cliche but you're still the constant and still should win more than you lose if you're better than your rank.
Brody Cook
Best kit
Jaxon King
Because if you stack with a person you've played with before, you know how he's going to play and expect better co-operation. If you go solo then you got 5 random people and you've no clue how they're going to play or what their main class is.
Henry Williams
Oh, another hero kit rework only six~ months into the game. I guess Blizzard can't actually buff anything considered weak without feeling the need to rework one them. Sad really. First Symmetra, who was fine, just needed some number buffs and a change to her ultimate. Now Mercy, who realistically only needs charges to her ultimate, and a change to her shift.
Ryan Garcia
i kinda want to buy a golden gun for ana but im afraid that blizzard will do the classic thing and nerf her to oblivion soon
Jackson Martin
>I don't think the damage beam is working out
Jeff pls, everyone realized this two months after release
Adam Cruz
Reposting for new thread
Isaac Lewis
I don't know, I ranked from plat to masters purely playing soloQ. Even at a 50% win rate I climb because I get more SR than I lose since this is how the system is designed - if you are performing better than people at your rank should, you gain more for a win/lose less for a loss. I gained 50 lost 20 for all of my play and 70% of my diamond games.
Carson White
Hana Song!
Carson Thomas
Yeah I'd like to think it was just that but I honestly rarely find myself missing healing targets unless it's a Genji or Tracer jumping and dashing all over the place. I don't DPS much but to be fair you may be right as I usually only find myself shooting at flanking enemy Genji and Tracer's and missing a lot against them, I should probably position myself closer to my team if they have flankers to avoid being in that situation, right?
Cameron Johnson
Symmetra rework was great though, just some small teaks to her promary beam and she will be perfect
Liam Miller
That wasn't very nice.
Jacob Long
You get more SR at the start of the season.
Personal performance barely affects it, nor does discrepancy in average team rank. Single digit effects on SR change even for absolute extremes.
Owen Sanders
I dont think reworking characters is neccesary a bad thing
In TF2 Valve just keep adding more and more new guns to Heavy and Pyro over the years to makeup for their shortcomings when an entire rework would have been more beneficial for both of them
David Murphy
consider this: heroes with situational, non damaging ultimates, like Mercy, Widowmaker and Symmetra, can get multiple charges. In Mercy's case, she gets her charges faster and only uses 1 per resurrect. (at the speed she gets 100% now, it would give her 3x charges)
Michael Long
How would you guys fix best boi Junkrat? >increase damage on mine and grenades by 5, so Reaper and Mei are 2-shots and not impossible to deal with >remove the fixed angle knockback on the mine and increase the knockback, so that mine jumps get a new layer of skill and it's actually possible to area-kill like Pharah/Lucio can >increase his ROF to 2 per second so the difference in DPS between him and Pharah becomes significant enough to pick him instead
Nicholas Powell
>I need healing!
Liam Reed
objectively and factually wrong
holding six sentries is stupid, and stops her from being a smart hero capitalising on smart tactical plays to yet another reactionary one putting sentries wherever because she gets all 6 within another minute anyway.
and her new flying shield was obviously implemented without considering the effect on any other heroes, having to deal with constant, strong barriers from her AND reinhardt
Ryder Taylor
BEST SHIP
Nicholas Morgan
I play on console, so I know it's not like this for PC, but solo queue competitive on console is basically SR suicide. No one uses the team chat, so coordination is limited to whatever phrases are in the game (group up on me/ult status). If you're 2000 SR or lower, you might as well not even bother because, most of the time, your teammates are more concerned with getting POTG or playing like it's a team deathmatch rather than playing the objective. If you find a team that's courteous/aware enough to keep you informed of their ult status or tells you to group up for a push, you're fortunate.
At least when you group up with friends, you know you can communicate with them.
Austin Ward
Is where we are now supposed to be the start of season? Because I gain 60 lose 20-30 atm. Not even on a big streak, just 3 games in a row. Last game gave me 80 SR.
Evan Howard
NEVER EVER E V E R
E V E R
Connor Hughes
it's just embarrassing that it is becoming their go-to when a kit "doesn't work" instead of changing a few numbers to see if it would work with changes. especially so soon.
Samuel Long
I hope we get a threeway relationship between those three with a reveal Amelie is bi. Tracer and Emily's warm love for each-other will remind her of the good times and help her snap of Talon's control.
Blizzard have a golden opportunity to do something brave and different here, I hope they don't miss it out of fear that homophobic halfwits will go after them. The official forums were a shitfest after the Tracer reveal, but they received huge praise pretty much everywhere else.
Brayden Morgan
Nth for rich Japanese sluts.
Noah Hughes
Blue post
Josiah Johnson
Symmetra needed at the very least a heavy rework on her ultimate since the teleporter will always be useless on anything but the first Point
And Overwatch doesn't have a complex map design which means absolutely everyone knows how to quickly search for the teleporter
Isaiah Mitchell
Hey guys, how's it feel knowing you got ripped off by Blizzard for an inferior copy of a f2p game that even has better character designs to boot?
Must make you feel pretty damned dumb. Or at least it should.
Asher Diaz
Yes Symmetra needed an alternative ultimate. Not the ability to carry all 6 of her sentries which eliminated the need to play smart to succeed. That and the range increase just babied her. The shield is an ok addition but I don't think it's sensible given the kits of other other heroes.
Lincoln Stewart
But that would require some actual thought and gamedesign, something Valve hasn't been familiar with for a long time! It's all about the Steam shekels now!
It's better idea to simply nab some community-made workshop skins and slap some random attributes to it. Oh! And remove randomcrits from it for balance's sake!
Thanks again Valve for ruining something that used to be great!
Dylan Lewis
Yeah, it's almost like Blizz designed the game to be one thing, and one thing only.
A waifucollector sim disguising itself as team shooter
The best part is, you were dumb enough to fall for it!
Nathaniel Nguyen
All Symmetra needed was to be able to build a "dispenser" type thing where standing near it healed allies
Colton Torres
Exactly what the shield generator is.
Colton Wilson
Metzen/Numale Hanzo skin when?
Ethan Evans
you dense piece of shit IS IT CALLED A HEALTH GENERATOR IS IT?????
Josiah Reed
>Blizzard have a golden opportunity to do something brave and different here Emily is trans
>Tranny Chaser >TRanny chASER >TR ASER >TRASER >Tracer makes you think
Oliver Butler
>Blizzard KNOWS absolutely NO ONE would play 2CP and KOTH if they allowed specific map queuing
Charles Lewis
But it isn't
Asher Kelly
I love koth
Fuck 2cp though
Ayden Diaz
I wonder how many "no 2cp" custom servers will pop up when the browser is released.
Jace Perry
So satisfying.
Leo Baker
I doubt it, Chu said Tracer identifies as Lesbian, which likely means she is not Pansexual. I believe Emily is female.
Who knows about Amelie, though, she never had kids with Gerard as far as we know.
Jayden Diaz
24/7 insta-respawn Hanamura with Quake sounds when
Hudson Murphy
>get to high master >first game >2 people fight over who picks widow on attack >one of them does nothing, switches to a proper pick >the second switches from rein to widow, then tracer and proceeds to do less dps than fucking lucio >we lose >second game >5 people picked, NO ONE picked a healer, instead we get a genji on defense >i'm forced to solo heal as ana >genji does nothing >we lose >third game >again, 5 people picked and no heals >again forced to solo heal as ana with shitty hanzo on defense >reinhardt is forced to switch to a second healer because hanzo just wont listen >everyone swaps picks just to build themselves around the hanzo >we still lose literally platinum and diamond players had more brainpower than master players how is that possible FUCK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Leo Miller
Pfffft hahahahahaha both games are bad
Ryder Kelly
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Jace Gonzalez
>liking lucio: the mode >liking environmental kills on 3/4 of maps >liking 80% of the map being unused
lol
Robert Bennett
IT'S BETTER THAN A HEALTH GENERATOR
It'd just be a shittier stationary Lucio, basically a soldier grenade with a permanent duration. If it healed through walls, teamfights will get longer because now you have shit like a Symmetra on the front lines while a Bastion is camped next to the dispenser with ambient Lucio healing. If it healed any decent amount, it would basically make any other healer worthless and secondary compared to having a mandatory Symmetra. If Symmetra becomes a double-role that is mandatory because of how useful her healing is, then the 3-tank meta becomes just that more fucking insufferable when we are bitching enough about Ana already.
A decent static EHP boost that regenerates out of combat is better than any stupid TF2 Dispenser concept.
Now we could talk about whether the shield generator is too good or busted but a health dispenser is just flat out retarded.
Ethan Watson
Trans women are women. Fine for a lesbian
Hudson Gomez
Which Overwatch character is this?
Lucas Campbell
>your main >your best/worst hero >favorite map >favorite sports team
Junkrat Any Offensive or Junkrat, worst is Winston Anubis The Oakland Raiders
Leo Campbell
the cutest one!
Justin Morgan
Mei's more attractive, skinnier sister.
Christian Morales
>I put on womens' clothes so now I am a girl (male)
David Morris
McCree McCree/Ana Lijiang Chelsea
Michael Ward
Doesnt exist. Shes not fat enough
Dylan Barnes
>Zenyatta >I always seem to do good on Rein & Soldier / worst are Tracer & Widow >Nepal, Hollywood, King's Row >Heracles Almelo (although idgaf about sports)
Charles Williams
Tracer and Emily make love while Widow masturbates furiously in a hiding spot WHEN.
David Williams
Zarya Zarya/Tracer Nepal Juventus
Hunter Reed
>do extremely well as healer, keep everyone up through the most intense parts of the game >no one votes for me at post-game screen because i told people to turn around and told them to pay attention when i died because of a flank
Angel Reyes
>giving a shit about upboats Hello, reddit.
Brayden Carter
boy I'm loving this new instalock widow/hanzo/ana Qp meta golly goo what a fun time.
Nicholas Brown
24/7 Hollywood, insta respawn, 32 players, with donator perks
Aiden Kelly
McCree Roadhog/Genji Numbani Bayer Leverkusen
Carter Davis
Hanzo is my QP guilty pleasure
Ryder Edwards
just be a good healslut and accept your death.
Alexander Walker
Junkrat Junkrat/D.va/Lucio, worst is pretty much everything else They're all shit Fuck sports
Ryder Ward
>people complaining about Mercy being unviable
Did you forget how fucking infuriating resurrect is or something?
Ryan Allen
>mfw i dont have a main-main >tracer, soldier, mercy/hanzo, widow >li-jang >Nashville Predators
Jonathan Roberts
Forgot it was eurofag time
Mason Watson
genji genji/widow lijang cloud 9
Robert Cox
If you're going to be a healer, do not criticize your team. They will not turn around if you tell them to unless they already know to turn around. The game literally has voice callouts when most healers get attacked, especially mercy. And a healing prompt on their screen for mercy.
If they can't figure out to turn around when you're being raped, just accept it. Their punishment is a loss.
Brayden Howard
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Tyler Lewis
this 3 tank meta is no fucking fun at all
Owen Martin
>play lucio >speed when you need to move >healing when you don't >press ultimate when you hear other ultimates >do whatever the fuck you want and still support the team
why is lucio so great for casual matches
Robert Barnes
>Mercy gets all the votes regardless >other healer gets nothing
Gavin Howard
I think Mercy's currently the only hero that's on the roster that /needs/ to be countered by a similar hero. Ana's boost is whatever, Zeny can be sat out, Lucio is meh
>symettra
hahahahhahahahahhahah
Oliver Wood
because quick play shows the level of retardation you could have stacked against you. There is always that one guy that must play widowmaker on attack while contributing nothing to the team, the team loses, but the widowmaker got a card or boring POTG so feels they held up their end and keeps doing it. Meanwhile the actual control point remains a shitfest because they have 6 plus turret spam and the five actual attackers can't break it. With a team all chatting, that level of self important retardation gets removed and doesn't hurt everyone's stats.
Daniel Green
Did you forget that people have developed 2 centimeters of awareness and know when a Mercy is hiding and to kill her first in a teamfight?
Hiding for rezes is pretty unviable now. It will still happen, but you still have to gimp your team by 1 player if you decide to play it safe and hide somewhere to wait for a rez. You're expecting people to live through two 5v6 fights, in a meta concentrated around tanks and survivability/builders.
Please learn how to play the game before talking.
Henry Jackson
fuck off you fucker just lost me last three games in fucking master bracket how the fuck do those people even get there
Asher Adams
> If you go solo then you got 5 random people and you've no clue how they're going to play or what their main class is.
That's easy, user! They're all dps mains!
Andrew Edwards
>Nigger beating a woman who was trying to be nice to you
Leave rest of space apes to rot on the moon.
Lucas Ross
"Blizzard are super progressive but they are going to agree with me on this one specific bigotry"
Robert Murphy
What game is that from? Korean MMO #389120741980739085731?
Robert Gomez
>playing mercy solo >enemy has a winston or tracer >literally no assistance from team
90% of games
Justin Wood
>bigotry >doesn't even greentext 8/10 bait, not bad at all.
Thomas Thompson
>progressive regressive
Hunter Peterson
Oh you mean the dead game noone cares for anymore? Pretty rad, can't wait until Valve fucks up CS:GO as well (pro-tip: it's soon+look at doto 2 :^) )
Jackson Foster
D.va D.va/Reinhardt C9, iddqd is my husbando though
Josiah Mitchell
>mccree >mccree when im high/mccree when im sober >route 66 >i dont watch this gay shit
Nicholas Foster
i like my team to recognise when they would lose were it not for a support or tank hero doing their job properly
nigga i have healed as a go-to role in all games i know how it works
always the shit healers who get the abundance of votes when i play a damage hero
Luis Walker
>have to be online for practice mode >can't play practice mode for too long because server time runs out what the fuck
Ian Collins
>playing Jew-Rez games after what they did to Tribes
[VGS]
John Wilson
Only 76 and D.VA ship I support is daughteru.
Noah Stewart
>fap bait character for horny teenage boys
nice
Blake Johnson
>Waiting to get inevitably butt-fucked by Hi-Rez >Even more blatant waifubait than OW Neck yourself. You people never fucking learn.
Dylan Ortiz
healers get the votes because they supported the team, got targeted most by the other team, and didn't get to murder everything in sight themselves. Same reason Torb and bastion should never get any votes unless they just did something completely amazing.
Gabriel Hughes
golem get ye gone
David Ross
alternative universe Mei, where she is a proffesional ping pong player instead of a landwhale cannibal scientist