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I really wish Blizzard would ditch leaver penalty. The game is such a clusterfuck of CC and try hards that refuse to switch to help team. I shouldn't be punished because I left 4 games in a row because I don't want to constantly be forced to fill 5 dps instalocks as they refuse to punish bad behavior. At least have an unranked mode for us wanting to actually try. Instead of being faced with "JUST QP BRO."
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.
It sounds as if there may be changes to comp in the future. So maybe you should take a break for a bit, or find a que partner that may be able to at least off a main tank for your support play ‘^’.
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I chose to go Ana in a very divey(?) comp but since it was working well i stayed. Also wasnt in voice chat but apparently this happened and glad i didnt hear it cause i was drunk and mightve gotten spiteful. Elsewise team was doing well against the well oiled machine that was the enemy. Baptiste often staying in line of sight of me for whenever i was flanked. And tanks having an attack rotation going on so we didnt have more than 1 on critical at a time usually.
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.
My friend was having a laugh for the awkward silence that followed and not one person noticed i slept the torb and ran like hell lol I was def NOT gonna tell em and risk him waking up cause i was one graze shot away from dying. We lost but it was still fun imo
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So…I went harmacist when I shouldn’t have
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.
My team was mad at first of course but once I said why I got a chorus of “understood” voicelines. I’m think they forgave me. :3
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I can't wait for Mei to get nerfed you can't counter her when she freezes you nearly instantaneous. What the hell was the Dev team even thinking on that?? "Hey guys we know you hate CC so we BUFFED CC =DDDDDDD"
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.
While I will admit Mei’s are hard to deal with, due to their lack of mobility. Reliance on their abilities to survive. They still are a hero that with the right quardination and cool down tracking, can be dealt with with a bit less of a headache,
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Whoever on the team decided knockbacks 'need to be consistent' I hope falls in a pit of legos. They know how much the playerbase despises CC usage that they insist on adding (Hello unneeded DF and Mei buffs) But this? Hello dev team yes, no one liked it when Brig could knock us tank and support players again and again. Applying this to EVERY knockback ever doesn't inspire confidence in your abilities to balance whatsoever. Enough with the damn CC already. There's a reason TF2 removed it ffs
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.
In short, this is a change that hasn’t changed anything really for the top teir meta. Accept for maybe the tank’s played. And has added a few more heroes that are demons at lower ranks to the list of, pick and win. Much like with Reaper after his buffs.
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reading about that anon who gets aiming practice with their sniper friend reminded me how awesome it feels when youre a support and yet have headshot like 3 people already bc no one kills my teammates on my watch! i usually only practice aiming with widow bc her guns weird, other times im just naturally good at aiming somehow but i love playing support and seeing a sniper retreat bc they keep missing me but ive landed at least 3 shots on them, its a fucking power trip i swear
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.
I personally like killing the targeted sniper (normally a widow) on Mercy, and then rezzing whoever died. It’s like yes. Their pocket has a gun too :D.
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I once was in a team death match with my friend and a pharah who was teamed up with a road hog and because I was playing Moira I couldn’t heal the pharah very easily because she was flying out of my range and kept dying (even though I said group up more than once) so we ended up losing and I quote “you are the worst Moira I have ever seen in all my thousand levels.” Like 1 I said group up 2 moira wasn’t even out that long for you to have seen Moira mains from level 1 to 1000 3 it made me have to quite playing for awhile
(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. 
I’m sorry you had such an experiance, and I hope in future you’re able to have more tolerant and team working players!
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*Sends Nano Boost of love and hugs to Nonny* <3 Such a sad thing to hear.
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Hello! I just wanted to respond to the person who got kicked from a group on Overwatch for seemingly no reason in a place they're more likely to see it. That's really awful that it happened, and I'm so sorry. People can be pretty mean, often without reason. And being upset by that is perfectly reasonable; I know I would've reacted the same way. That said, I wanna offer my company to you and anyone else who's nervous about playing with new people. Feel free to send me a message if you want!!💙💙
It’s wonderful to see so much support for this player. I hope they’re day is brightened by all of your support!
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We now have a server
Heya support mains we now have a server! Well at least with discord, so if you’re interested in meeting any of the mods debating things about support mains or just are curious about what madness can come about, simply just drop by!
https://discord.gg/nxTfYsV
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hello fellow supports, today i’m feeling a little sad.. a bit ago playing ctf on pc i met some people that seemed nice and one sent me a friend request and asked if i was a girl (i am), saying they were a group of girls looking for other pleasant people to play with. i play on both xbox and pc, and have no friends on pc to play with so this sounded very nice!! a friendly hopefully nontoxic environment with other girls. i was asked about mic and even though i have anxiety, wanted to give it a try. i joined, they all said hi, i tried to say back but it was my first time trying voice in game so i’m not even sure if it worked. i was removed from the group seconds later and the one person who added me disappeared from my friend’s list without a word. not having a lot of friends period, i had gotten really excited and my mood crashed completely after that. wondering if there was a mistake, i tried to hop trough a few games seeing if we could run into each other. just gave up and logged off feeling stupid. ngl i’ve been told i sound kinda like a young boy so i’m wondering if they did hear me, thought i lied, and just booted me cause of that? really the worst thing is that i don’t know whether it was a misunderstanding or they just felt like being cruel.
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.
I just hope it turns out well for you mate.
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welcome back!!! i was so happy to see this blog in notifications i was reading it while helping my husband thru a low level dungeon. It took longer to clear since i wasn't using my full kit but no one died lol (yeah I'm a support main in other games too)
Heh. Once a support always one it seems!
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I play mainly support, and my best friend is a sniper. Every time we play, we go into the practice range and have Widow or Hanzo 1v1s to help keep his skills sharp and help me learn to aim better. It's paid off, because I tend to outsnipe enemy snipers or sneak in a couple good headshots on the enemy tanks ✌️ friendship solidarity
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!
“One shot one kill” ~Ana Amari (in joking sass)
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220 hours on mercy for ps4 and counting... never giving up on her, even if it gets boring sometimes. ✌💛
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
“Heroes never die! For a price.” ~Angela Ziegler
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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. 
I’ve gotten through the ask box, and hopefully will be on a few times a week to answers asks and see the amazing stories/plays you all are up to! 
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It breaks my heart seeing all these "Mercy isn't fun anymore" when I still have an absolute blast playing her. I've been maining her way before the rework and she's still just as fun now as she was then. I love the high mobility, pocketing tanks, keeping my team alive, I just hope more people will grow to love her again
We’ll see. I’m still on her almost everyday, so one more in the “never gonna leave” books.
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All my time shooting people with my Mercy pea shooter has gotten me used to projectiles, and I managed to get 30 elims as Hanzo in a single match last night! Being a support helped my aim
That’s amazing mate!!!
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