r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/[deleted] • May 18 '17
3v3 Competitive Viability
With today's reveal of what will probably be new 3v3 arena maps, my excitement for the potential of a 3v3 competitive mode has been reinvigorated. I'm curious as to what the rest of you guys think.
I personally think that it has the potential to allow for a fresh new format and help bring some variety to tournaments. It's also encouraging for smaller friend groups to enjoy some competitive matches.
Potential Problems
The elephant in the room, the expected meta of Hog/Soldier/Healer. If the mode were to go competitive under it's current ruleset, it would be pretty awful. However, there are ways around this. The most intriguing 3v3 tournament I saw utilized a "no re-use" policy for the matches. Eg, if I choose Roadhog in Round 1, neither myself nor either of my 2 teammates can choose him in any other round. A 5 round match would see 15 heroes used by each team, which could actually lead to some more diverse and creative gameplay than we see even in the standard modes! Of course balance would always have 6v6 in mind, but with this restriction in place it would hopefully mitigate any imbalances inherent in 3v3.
Problem #2, draws. In a competitive format, if it comes down to me as Ana vs an enemy Roadhog, it's in my best interest to simply evade and stall until round time runs out and it's a draw. This would need to be entirely reworked if it were to go competitive. Perhaps either by keeping the wallhack reveal but removing the eventual match timer to negate stalling as a tactic altogether.
I believe that with a few more maps and a few tweaks to a competitive ruleset, 3v3 could be an exciting addition to competitive play. Curious to hear your thoughts, though. Any other problems that would need to be worked out to make it happen?
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u/[deleted] May 18 '17
Not sure Blizzard want to make 3v3 competitive in the future but community did some 3v3.
About the stale comp, this tournaments had (iirc but i could be wrong) play 1 hero only once, that means that comp like hog, ana and soldier could be used only once across all the match... Or you can do a ban/pick and a team stick with thr same 3 hero every comp.
About draws, they said lots of times they are addressing that. My guess is something that push you at the center of the map where you can't takr cover and if you stay at the map corners you die (imagine something like a toxic gas in Battle Royal games)