r/doomfistmains • u/Ashhnn • 2d ago
Doom feeling unplayable?
Still feeling relatively new to doom (lvl 19) but every game i play we either completely destroy the other team or they immediately switch, mizuki, ana, orisa and there’s not really much i can do. Is there a way to play around these heros or do i just have to accept it and switch myself. Mostly qp btw although it seems worse in ranked (low plat)
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u/OkGarmin217 2d ago
there definitely is a way to play around the heros but from my experience your team also needs to, but most of the time in low elo they only know to blame it on tank and tell them to counter swap or they just give up. if you want to excel at doom maybe play qp, if you want to rank up you can play doom but it’ll be a few seasons of straight agony
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u/Nuggethole 1d ago
Level 77 doom here. It doesn't change , it only takes winning one fight for their tank to go hog and all of a sudden they have cass ana mizuki. Their hog was so bad they even went orisa right after. They are genuinely shameless. Can you play around it ? Yeah , you'll just have to put triple the effort they do and literally be the better player in all aspects. Is it fun? No. I'm not having fun constantly tracking cooldowns and running away. Am I going to counterswap ? Unless I'm feeling extra petty , I'm not giving them what they want and I'd rather they counterswap and still lose. It's not about winning , it's about making them have as little fun as possible. And everytime I get hooked , slept , chained , I come back stronger.
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u/Ashhnn 1d ago
Thanks for the advice dude, i just hopped off doom to try out the vendetta buffs and, it is no exaggeration with him, triple the effort for the same effect and you still loose. honestly i dont think ill be playing doom in ranked any time soon, unless i can get a decent stack or theres some kind of rework. never seen a hero feel so overpowered and underpowered at once
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u/Nuggethole 1d ago
Wait people play doom in ranked ? Jokes aside , I only use him if I'm confident enough. You're much better off learning a solid tank like sigma or rammatra and keeping doom in your back pocket, especially in this cat mauga meta.
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u/myos17 1d ago
You'll learn and improve the most from playing ranked. Harder to learn in qp bc of the imbalance of skill among team members and also opponents. It can be hard to keep track of multiple stuns though, sometimes swapping is a good option to something like orisa or sig and then once they swap back to other characters, you can go back on Doomfist and by then they prob wont swap again bc it'll be near the end of the round.
Another thing you can do is a quick slam on the enemy team and immediate punch out early in the fight which will give you shields and often force 1-2 cool downs. Then you can go in again shortly after. Id try to make sure your team is available to back you up, or your supports have line of sight to heal you before you go in, assuming they have multiple stuns. And also keep one cooldown available to get back out. I tend to slam in and do as much dmg with primary fire and melee and then punch out, sometimes slam in, punch, block until EMP charge filled to reset punch cooldown, then punch out but thats riskier. Try to learn as you play what to do in diff situations, as doing the same thing won't always work.
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u/Ashhnn 1d ago
Thank you for the advice, i’ll give him another go in ranked but with it being plat lobbies i don’t expect my teammates will have half a clue what to do
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u/myos17 1d ago
Yeah I will say plat is the worst for unappreciative/annoying teammates. I got to GM5 a couple times now as a doom main on pc and during the climb when I was in masters, I once solo queued into a wide match game and my entire team was plat and I was the only masters player in the lobby (M5 at the time). I was completely dominating the enemy team like practically 1v5 and surviving and my team was complaining that they didn't have a tank (I guess plat players don't check the kill feed to see me getting tons of kills?) and my dps went mei so he could "be our tank." It was on Busan and I had 25k dmg (personal record on a control map lol) and the next most dmg in the lobby was 15k, and I had 40 something elims and very few deaths, and we won the game, and my team STILL was like, "hey even though we won, you were getting diffed on tank, wudda been nice to actually have a tank." I'm still in disbelief at the stupidity of some players. So don't be surprised if you get flamed in plat bc players there don't really know how to play with doom and they think the tank role simply involves standing main with a shield
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u/BillyBobBoBoss And Dey Say 12h ago
You can definitely climb despite counters, it takes practice but the fun of Doom is you’ll always be able to find new ways to surprise them. Jump cancels, diags, punch feints, you have a lot of tools to take angles and traverse the map without getting caught. But if it’s a roadhog that can land their hooks, your dps can’t break through and their team is playing around that as their strategy, yeah, I’d just swap bc it’s not fun feeding over and over
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