Greetings!

In my opinion sometimes it’s better to experiment with what your team has brought to the table and try to figure out the pitfalls of what worked and what didn’t. Sure, having a shield tank is always nice, but sometimes people aren’t proficiant with those characters, it’s like asking Moira player to play Widow and expecting her to hit every shot. Or as a more on the point example, asking a Mercy main to play Winston. The skill sets of the two are drastically different, while both may be “no aim heroes”, the game sense, timing and general style of play is drastically different!

Yes. Certain comps won’t work because there’s a lot of CC in the game, but there’s also tanks to block it. Remember Brig’s shield bash doesn’t go through shields anymore. Yes there are players who will play a character that may be a throw pick, or something they’re not proficiant with. You can’t avoid them, might as well figure out how to live with them and help the other 4 players on your team who may actually want to win.

The penalty is there to disway from constantly leaving your team in the dust, making the match maker have to find another team of equal skill level. Which can vary in time depending on how high (or low) you are in rank.

team comp on eichenwald: dva, winston, hammond/widowmaker, genji/pharah, baptise, ana (me)

Ana: -sweating as i try to keep a team alive after frantic OT push while everyone is basically everywhere and torb is behind me cause he hid while everyone moved forward but I’m too busy to type-

Torb: -starts shooting at me-

Pharah: -dies and i was more concerned about low winston anyway- OMG guys our mercy sucks! I get no healing!

Dva: dude we dont even have a mercy…?

Baptiste: -thru gritted teeth- We never had a mercy If you’re that unaware it’s probably you.

There was a skilled Genji on the enemy team but he was such a jerk about it even his own team apologized for him! During a mid-fight I ultd to keep everyone up but then I see Genji on crit behind Orisa and I’m seeing red. I fly at them dodging a lot of shots and end up shield dancing with the Genji. Orisa stops shooting and moves her shield. xD Dead ninja. (and dead teammates >_<; ) I died soon after to her team but I think she was hopping and spamming the Halt voiceline.

The lesson here is if you’re mean enough (even to the other team) your own allies will not help you.

Hmm. Mei can be countered if you have a team who’s observant, and you yourself, aren’t running around alone, trying to 1 v 1 the mei.

Mei’s freeze isn’t instantanious, and slows you, meaning you have a bit of time for a teammate to save you from the Mei’s grips. That’s if the Mei hasn’t already pre planned this and tracks your slowed movements for a nice head shot.

The thing about her, is she’s more of a stall hero. Best used in def of maps and wasting everyone’s time. And she falls short when a team fall upon her. Since you can knock her around, block her spray with shield and so on.

Well there’s also the problem that it’s impacted the very meta that they wanted to change in a posative way. Don’t know if you all follow OWL, but Goats (3 3 as the announcers call it) had a powerful impact simply because. 

A. Brig has a knock back that could toss a flanker or an advancing player on the comp away from the team.

B. Brig still has a burst heal that is far more effect than Heals Over Time, since ya know, you save that one target from the brink of death. and now can engage more aggresivly and nothing just, ever dies.

The DF buffs and Mei buffs were probably in hopes to help kill goats, like many of the other buffs in this patch. And yet it seems to have only weakened one section of it (Zarya Rein goats) and buffed Winston goats, since he had a dramatic increase in his usefulness against armor.

Making all CC in the game consistant, while it was a move to that made some sense in the case of Baptiste’s addition (Knock people out of Immortality field) it’s just had a lot of other foreseen and unseen side effects.

Rez is harder to pull off.

Lucio is far more effective in maps known for boop potential. With Orisa definitally feeling the bad ends of this patch in it’s entirity.

Winston’s juggling has changed a bit.

D.va’s bomb can be punched away (I can’t recall if this was a bug)

and so on.

It truely is, and it’s honestly good to try and practice shooting against each hero Ana/Widow and Lucio are good bots if you don’t want to use an outside aim practice program, since their body’s are some of the more slim models.

Also learning animations and normal movements (such as the distance of tracer’s blink or Pharah’s Rocket jump) can be a huge tool to have under your belt. Particularly if you’re an Ana (Sleep dart) Zen (Predictive wind up right click) or even to some extent Brigitte (Shield bash or Rocket Flail knock off), but just aiming in general.

(Mod Owl Amari’s comments)

Hmm. That’s rather unfortunate. For the first part, Moira isn’t well equiped to heal Pharah. While, yes, you can use your ult and orbs to metephorically heal her; it’s just not very efficiant for the rest of the team if you do. She should have known this and relied more on heal packs, or even a secondary healer if you had one.

The fact that they blamed you for their mistakes in healer match ups and risk plays is rather short sighted of them. If they want to play Pharah, play her around the team. Meaning an Ana/Zen or a Mercy would be ideal, hell even a Brig can work (armor pack) But characters like Lucio (Less he’s 20 feet in the air) and Moira don’t work with her verticality, so they should have adjusted their play to such an event.

But as they say, don’t let the actions of one define the actions of many. I’ve played with Pharah’s who understand the Moira heals match up, and will fly to my range if they need fast heals. 

feeling so sensitive over something so small is embarrassing, and it’s funny cause right before i messaged a friend saying “don’t wunna speak too soon but maybe met some nice people”.

anyway, i guess let’s all just be kind to people and also be careful jumping to conclusions! it can really make someone’s experience turn to shit. i think i’ll be staying away from the game today.

(This is mod owl Amari. I didn’t want to write a responce in tags this time)

I feel that it would be rather notable if it made you feel like trash and had you quit the game for the rest of the day. Another tick that can add up into something more. 

I’m sorry that you went through something like this mate, it can be hard to make friends online, and being given only a second to prove everything about yourself is never a good showing of faith. Nor is it a good showing of wanting to really create a grouping that can click well in the game.

Best I can say is to either soldier on,or maybe even look outside of the game to see if there are others who’d want to team up with you. There are several discords I can think of (away from this blog’s own) that have a lot of friendly and out going players. I can link them if people as, but Elohell from the youtube/streamer Jayne, Animatic’s dicord from the youtuber/streamer Animatic, Dilloncord from the creator Dillongoo. These are places I’ve met people, that I play with, and enjoy every second.

At the end of the day, take these things in time. Just like irl, it can take a while to find a good friend, it can hurt when things do match up, or they leave without a seconds thought. Things that can hurt, and that can be looked at to be fixed or improved upon with a keen eye. But they will come down to the person who is ultimentally effected by it.

That’s amazing mate! Never not a good time to practice aiming, just adds that much more to your kits with support and to a fight itself!

Ouph, well I wish you well on that my friend. Her play style is still fun (least imo) just gotta be a lot more accepting that you may just not provide enough heals vs damage, and be more mindful on when you can switch off heals to damage

Alright. Sorry for the unnaounced hiatus fellow support mains. I hope your holidays have gone well, and those Brig/Mercy mains have been fairing through their character’s nerfs.