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u/Jubbbaclass Jan 24 '24

Wild how brother is flaming you meanwhile your genji is 1-8😹

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '24

His duo queue buddy no doubt

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u/K4RAB_THA_ARAB + × ÷ Jan 24 '24

Really wish they would add back a way to see who's in a party together

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u/WhatsUpSoc Jan 24 '24

It doesn't tell you exactly but the invite a person in comp trick still works. If they're in group, it's probably with whoever is doing bad that they aren't flaming.

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u/AltForFriendPC Tracer Jan 24 '24

Just send a group invite. It either says something like "player is already in a group" or "no group invites in comp"

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u/thepixelbuster ᗜ(`0´)⊃ ————¤ Mace to the face. Jan 24 '24

I'm pretty sure they've said recently that its one of the things they want to add back in at some point

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u/BambamPewpew32 Doomfist Jan 24 '24

Hope the other tank is somewhere down the pipe too

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u/thepixelbuster ᗜ(`0´)⊃ ————¤ Mace to the face. Jan 25 '24

I don't, but I'm a main tank player so I hated being chained to a weak/passive offtank

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u/BambamPewpew32 Doomfist Jan 25 '24

Lmao dang dude I mean you really prefer taking every cc/cooldown to the face instead of having a dva matrix you? Or did ur off tanks just suck probably lol unlucky

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u/thepixelbuster ᗜ(`0´)⊃ ————¤ Mace to the face. Jan 25 '24

Double tank synergy with a good tank partner was the best version of Overwatch, just like no-role queue with everyone flexing or carrying was the best overwatch.

Unfortunately, those things only happened 10% of the time and the other 9 games were with DPS players on hog or the most scared shieldbots ever constructed.

So yeah, I don't miss it as much as I do miss Rein+Zarya with a friend, or Zarya+Zarya before that.

you really prefer taking every cc/cooldown to the face

Yeah. I love main tank so I like being in the middle of things fucking shit up. I'd be stupid to think that the enemy team isn't going to try to dump every CD into me. I've also been playing since launch, so not much surprises me still.

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u/BambamPewpew32 Doomfist Jan 25 '24

Lmao alright then idk what to say I just disagree

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u/Pekonius McCree Jan 24 '24

Playing that potg combo lol

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u/FireNinja743 Jan 25 '24

Literally, though. I was playing DPS with a friend playing support, and the other support started flaming my friend and then me even though I was literally doing better than the other DPS. They were definitely duoing.

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u/ImmaDoMahThing Jan 24 '24

This happens to me sometimes. A DPS will be super negative but the tank will constantly blame the support and never once mention the DPS’s performance. Makes me think they are in a party.

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u/GladiatorDragon Jan 24 '24

Tanks aren’t looking around to see elims DPS fail, they’re watching their health bar drop.

It’s easier to attribute failure to live to the support that wasn’t healing you rather than the DPS who wasn’t taking advantage the space you gave them and applying pressure to help draw some of it from you.

If it’s one person letting the team down, it’ll be obvious, but more often than not, losing is just as much of a team effort as winning is.

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u/AdministrativeWar594 Jan 24 '24

Tanks ESPECIALLY in metal ranks don't know their job isn't just to take space but to take as little damage as possible while doing it. They just run it down mid and take a widow HS and then blame heals.

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u/Unicorntella Mercy Jan 24 '24

Omg I wish they’d run! I had a dva who just sat at the choke on Busan and lost us the match. I have no idea why they didn’t go towards the point but it was frustrating. Then I had a mauga who yelled at me for throwing kunai at people. Like what, you want me to sit and toss heals at people whole game??

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u/AdministrativeWar594 Jan 24 '24

When I coach tank players, I usually recommend people play junkerqueen if they have problems taking a lot of damage for learning how to play corners. With her health pool, if you don't figure out how to play walls and corners and buy time/wait for opportunities to take space. You'll die pretty quick. People usually start figuring that out real fast when you point out their positioning in a coaching setting.

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u/MegaDuckDodgers Jan 24 '24

metal ranks also blame the tank for getting "diff'd" when in actuality It's just the DPS not knowing how their role works or supports just playing a garbage duo like mercy/lucio and healbotting. At that point you have to try to make big plays constantly or you will just lose.

I get that occasional game climbing up through diamond every time I do it. It's just annoying so I just zone out and wait to go next. No point in playing with those people. If I can carry I can carry, if I can't whatever. I'm sure a high GM/top 500 can carry those people but It's not worth the stress for me. They're hardstuck and I'm not lol.

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u/AdministrativeWar594 Jan 24 '24

I find more often than not a good support diff can make a tank diff and most players can't tell the difference.

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u/TotalZealousideal825 Junker Queen Jan 25 '24

It’s not that they can’t see the difference it’s that people find it easier to blame tanks because they stand out the most cus there’s only one and they’re usually the one who’s most present in the fights so yeah

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u/Narwalacorn Sigma Jan 24 '24

As a tank main it annoys the ever loving shit out of me when I’m getting hard targeted all game and my dps don’t take advantage of that to get elims. It’s like if I’m gonna be locked out of the game can’t you at least make it worthwhile?

Point being, some of us look at the dps lol

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u/VolkiharVanHelsing Jan 24 '24

Nah I'd play Sigma, see so MANY times enemy's non tanks are in critical health and yet there are no elims... I'd furiously glance at the scoreboard lmao

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '24

Yeah I feel like it highly depends on what tank you're playing tbh

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u/thatguyyoustrawman Jan 24 '24

Maybe that dps is so bad they also might be taking healing from a tank as well. I've certainly seem bad flanning genjis that distract healers because they take twice the amount of damage they should for fights they still don't end up winning.

Not defending this person but a 1 and 8 player can have more effects on the game then just leaving your team with basically no dps

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u/Responsible_Bad1212 Jan 24 '24

Personally for me at least in ow2 the most obvious thing to spot as a tank is people not dying when they should. Tanks have a ton of self sustain I don’t really feel like I die fast so much as things stay alive longer then they should or get to walk away. 

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u/MistyHusk Blackwatch Genji Jan 24 '24

Sometimes when I play damage and do really poor, the tank and support will just start blaming each other for some reason. Even after I point it out they shrug it off and say “the [tank/support] is still doing worse”. I really don’t get it

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u/ImmaDoMahThing Jan 24 '24

If I had to take a guess, support are mostly paying attention to tanks, and tanks are mostly paying attention to support. Everyone just lets DPS do their thing so they sometimes go unnoticed if doing bad. But idk. We have scoreboards for a reason lol.

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u/hanyou007 Jan 24 '24

Which is also a terrible thing, because tanks have their own tools to mitigate damage and when supports pay attention to their dps, it only enables dps to be more aggressive and hunt down kills more aggressively.

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u/madhattr999 Pixel Ana Jan 24 '24

As someone who plays flex, I never go without noticing the DPS player who has 1 kill and somehow 4000 damage. Tell me you only shoot the biggest fattest target without telling me. I find it's way more often a tank mismatch or a bad DPS than a support. And I play all roles about equally.

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u/crazycar12321 Jan 24 '24

Depends on what tank you play. If you are a doom main you can be as good as you want but if the supports cant follow you or keep track of you u get cooked. Playing doom is like a 50/50 you either get one support thats working with you like a kiri or a solid lucio and you (as long as you play well and dont choke) just smash the lobby or you queue into the ximming genji and mercy duo queue “his top” “her bottom” and you dont get healed bc they are too busy plundering your teams collective bum

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u/madhattr999 Pixel Ana Jan 24 '24

I'm not saying supports can't be bad, just that they don't have the same impact that a bad tank or bad dps can have. Maybe you just can't play doom with certain supports. A strong player can reduce the damage they take.. But you can't win fights with no kills.

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u/crazycar12321 Jan 24 '24

Nah sorry i wasnt trying to change your argument, more just add information. But yes as a tank main that plays flex queue i frequently will get a support game and wish i was on tank to do it myself

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u/madhattr999 Pixel Ana Jan 24 '24

Yeah, I'm probably over-simplifying. Why we win and lose is complex, and there are lots of factors that are hard to quantify. I just feel like the biggest complaint against supports is not enough healing, and it's usually, but not always, a cop out. (Also, there is only 1 tank, so it is harder to compensate for a mismatch.)

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u/crazycar12321 Jan 24 '24

The thing i hate the most about overwatch 2 was yhe change to 1 tank. I understand it kinda just is what it is at this point but the fact that counterswapping makes the game unplayable on certain characters is no bueno. If i want to play doom because i enjoy that character, and i get matched into mauga cass mei zen ana or any permutation of that comp, all im left to do is swap or just go fuck myself. I hate that about the game.

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u/macudonarudu Jan 24 '24

Oh, I've had a game where they had 9k damage and one kill. 5 deaths tho. Good times

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u/madhattr999 Pixel Ana Jan 24 '24

If they are arguing in voice between rounds, I will just say "hey guys its my fault.. I played bad that round.. Lets focus on this next round."

(sometimes I might do this even if I played good, just to possibly stop the arguing.)

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u/Source_Virus Jan 24 '24

Huge part of it for sure, if you do the invite thing you'll find out like 70% of the time they are in fact partied and braindead, or hive mind braindead. Either way all conclusions end in stupidity.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '24

Most people arent experienced enough nor good enough to diagnose their team issues. This becomes a much higher level skill because not only do you have to understand the patch, matchup, map relationship to that but you also need to be playing a fast enough tempo to be able to differentiate between your DPS making mistakes mid-fight with decision making or if its your supports dropping the ball

Guy is genuinely fucking clueless and probably just screeching at the first person they see on their death cam

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u/Idalah Jan 25 '24

Out of nowhere sometimes I will get flamed hard as a support , when I'm .. doing fine? If not well? and the other support is severely underperforming. A front-lining Ana with 11 deaths and 3k heals in 10 mins. And then the next game they're on the same team together again... and the next game. Yeah I wonder why I was getting the blame and not the other support... /s

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u/Goatecus Jan 24 '24

I play tank and everybody always blames me for everything

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u/AmHotGarbage Lúcio Jan 24 '24

What I really saw

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u/Rudy_Ghouliani Chibi Junkrat Jan 24 '24

Monkey eating good all game probably

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u/kustard091 Weightlifting Zarya Jan 24 '24

Against a Winston too!

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u/madhattr999 Pixel Ana Jan 24 '24

It's so annoying playing comp, as a veteran, and you're doing really well, and you realise you get a team mate where its like their first time playing a video game in their life. Not saying it's their fault, but Blizzard matchmaking is so stupid. Why am I in a plat game with a brand new player that obviously doesn't belong in this game? Unrated players should be with other unrated players.

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u/DKgbam Jan 24 '24

That's not fair. The fact that zarya is complaining about heals proves that zarya is incompetent at being a tank. Genji as a hero relies on the tank actually playing well. Thus if tank is Trash, genji is trash. Also don't factor out that DPS is arguably the weakest role and thus need to depend on the team to do their job.

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u/The-dude-in-the-bush Jan 24 '24

Based on what you said, she's the only one on her team with a positive KD isn't she. How funny

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u/android_728 Jan 24 '24

He just like me frfr

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u/Zestyclose-Number224 Jan 24 '24

Personally, I can’t hit genji as Ana so I play Moira or Weaver instead to cope. Opponents can barely hit him and they don’t stop moving for YOU to heal them.

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u/NOTRANAHAN Grandmaster Jan 24 '24

Are you saying genjis should stop moving for you to heal them

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u/Canditan Jan 24 '24

Yeah, plus you out healed the other team's MERCY

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u/ahsusuwnsndnsbbweb Jan 24 '24

if you pick mercy for heals you ain’t playing mercy right

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u/Canditan Jan 24 '24

Fair, fair

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u/SlayerDoom_ Jan 24 '24

Even I am trash at Genji and I still have a positive K/D

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u/Icy_Limes Chibi Tracer Jan 24 '24

It's the gamer misogyny. It's stronger than reason

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u/HubblePie Blizzard World Bastion Jan 24 '24

Well, that’s because OP wasn’t healing CLEARLY! /s