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[Aaronology]

Sentries are useless, they said.
Symmetra is a horrible character, they said.

Ranked 50th on MasterOverwatch w/Symmetra. 75% winrate with her so far. She is a beast on defense, amigos. And tonight I got a POTG that made me realize her beam does not lose its damage multiplier when transferring to new targets! I never knew this! My game with her is about to level up, for sure. #TeamSatya

Edit:

Who else running Symmetra on defense here? She's the queen of defense. Teleporter + Sentries + Offensive play wrecks offense teams.

I've got a 75% winrate on her playing 40+ games on defense.

Here's a POTG I got.

Yessss! Everyone sleeping on Sym will wake up soon enough, Sephi. Nice POTG. We've got identical WRs, too.


Edit #2:

Yes me, she's almost too good but that's what makes her fun.

Hanamura especially can be fucking savage for people who don't know how deal with turrets, and even if they do you keep on your toes and you can still be a fucking wrecking ball.

Pretty sure they never intended her to lead in eliminations but hey.

Preach! And with good sentry placement her teleporter can be up so fast. She's so good on that map.

 

[Maximo]

Healing is so satisfying lol.

As Mercy, should I be worried about damage at all? Feels like a never pull out my gun. Been working great so far.

I defiantly pull out my gun alot, either to secure a kill if people are distracted when healing is not needed or simply from time to time someone thinks a Mercy is a free kill till I murder them haha.

 

[Bittercup]

Healing is so satisfying lol.

As Mercy, should I be worried about damage at all? Feels like a never pull out my gun. Been working great so far.

I killed a Reaper (with full health) once as Mercy. That was fun.
But usually there's enough to do with healing/buffing your team mates. The gun seems more like for emergency cases or if you see someone almost dead and finish them.
Besides that I don't worry much about damage either.

 

[strikeselect]

Matchmaking times have been absolutely awful since I reached level 30

 

[Maximo]

Sentries are useless, they said.
Symmetra is a horrible character, they said.

Ranked 50th on MasterOverwatch w/Symmetra. 75% winrate with her so far. She is a beast on defense, amigos. And tonight I got a POTG that made me realize her beam does not lose its damage multiplier when transferring to new targets! I never knew this! My game with her is about to level up, for sure. #TeamSatya

Edit:

Yessss! Everyone sleeping on Sym will wake up soon enough, Sephi. Nice POTG. We've got identical WRs, too.


Edit #2:
Preach! And with good sentry placement her teleporter can be up so fast. She's so good on that map.

My mains a mercy but have been playing her some more and totally agree shes defiantly a sleeper hit really good in the right hands.

 

[Miggy]

Pretty much the case with me

Fake edit: I'm having problems with matchmaking on PS4. Keep on getting into skirmishes. So either everyone has left or I have really bad luck.

Yeah, I'm having problems getting into matches as well. Skirmish for the past 15 minutes.

 

[Gr1mLock]

3 duplicates in one box? C'mon son.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Also mei is pretty good pushing the payload.

Think you can camp with turrets and bastion? Fuck you!

I kinda like her better than rein for that.

 

[SolicitorPirate]

Healing is so satisfying lol.

As Mercy, should I be worried about damage at all? Feels like a never pull out my gun. Been working great so far.

Mercy's gun is a tool that shouldn't be entirely ignored, but shouldn't see too much use either. Personally, these are the only two situations I use it in:

- To finish off a weakened opponent who isn't being targeted by a teammate
- To distract someone to buy an opportunity for the team. For instance, if I've managed to flank a Reinhardt with his shield up, I'll pop some shots at him until he's forced to re-position, which may allow my team to push up some ground.

 

[Rize_21]

If Tracer is around as Mercy, take the gun and kill her yourself, it's so satisfying how most hesitate to blink/recall when you start firing, then here she is a second and a half later, biting the dust.

 

[Zaventem]

Sentries are useless, they said.
Symmetra is a horrible character, they said.

Ranked 50th on MasterOverwatch w/Symmetra. 75% winrate with her so far. She is a beast on defense, amigos. And tonight I got a POTG that made me realize her beam does not lose its damage multiplier when transferring to new targets! I never knew this! My game with her is about to level up, for sure. #TeamSatya

Edit:

Yessss! Everyone sleeping on Sym will wake up soon enough, Sephi. Nice POTG. We've got identical WRs, too.


Edit #2:
Preach! And with good sentry placement her teleporter can be up so fast. She's so good on that map.

I really want to get good with her, always over estimating beam distance etc.

 

[Acidote]

Be only level 21. Get box full of duplicates.

Exit the game.

 

[Antiwhippy]

I really want to get good with her, always over estimating beam distance etc.

I feel like for her playstyle you should always be in close quarters near the objective so beam distance isn't a factor. If you need long range just use the orb.

 

[LiK]

I totally get how to play Tracer now. Hah

 

[Antiwhippy]

I totally get how to play Tracer now. Hah

I don't find it too hard to figure her out. I don't play her much because everyone fucking goes for tracer, but when I do play her when the team needs it we always won.

Then again I play her like a speedier d.va.

 

[Norwegian_Imposter]

I don't find it too hard to figure her out. I don't play her much because everyone fucking goes for tracer, but when I do play her when the team needs it we always won.

Then again I play her like a speedier d.va.

How do you play as her?

 

[Antiwhippy]

How do you play as her?

Just run around and harass the shit out of everyone. Just run around the margins and distract them away from the objective.

That's a nice turret you have there. Have you heard of my ultimate?

Which is nice to have one in a team, not 3. That are all running head on for some reason.

 

[SparksterMeta0]

Calling it a night.
Had a terrible losing streak, but got a nice haul from this Loot Box after leveling up:

Switched Watermelon Skin with this shinier Lemon-Lime one for D.Va.
Legendary Highlight Intro for Mercy.

And saved enough currency from LBs and dupes for this cool new skin for Pharah.

 

[LiK]

How do you play as her?

Be an asshole. It's great for asshole players, tbh

 

[liezryou]

Be an asshole. It's great for asshole players, tbh

Can confirm, am asshole player.

 

[ElyrionX]

I (level 20) got dropped into a game with my teammates at levels 6 - 10. Opposing team has two level 30+, three 10+, one 7. We got steamrolled on defense in like a minute. WTF.

 

[liezryou]

I (level 20) got dropped into a game with my teammates at levels 6 - 10. Opposing team has two level 30+, three 10+, one 7. We got steamrolled on defense in like a minute. WTF.

Yeah i've noticed shitty MMing now as well. At the start it was good when everyone was low level. Now i'm seeing a bunch of 30s, 20s, and like 3 level 4-8s. Suffice it to say the low levels get stomped.

 

[Gr1mLock]

God I can't wait for ranked.

 

[bee]

some quake players (rapha, zero4, clock) are in a team playing at a lan this weekend, seem to be doing pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wbz5tMGYPc

nice move by rapha at 12mins, definitely stealing some of these moves, these guys have been playing for like 6 months already

 

[Herbspiceguy]

Sentries are useless, they said.
Symmetra is a horrible character, they said.

Ranked 50th on MasterOverwatch w/Symmetra. 75% winrate with her so far. She is a beast on defense, amigos. And tonight I got a POTG that made me realize her beam does not lose its damage multiplier when transferring to new targets! I never knew this! My game with her is about to level up, for sure. #TeamSatya

Edit:

Yessss! Everyone sleeping on Sym will wake up soon enough, Sephi. Nice POTG. We've got identical WRs, too.


Edit #2:
Preach! And with good sentry placement her teleporter can be up so fast. She's so good on that map.

Any tips? Sentry placements? Do you play her on all maps?
My sentries always get taken out so fast.

 

[PaleFolklore]

I absolutely love this game. It's the first game I've played this generation that feels like a masterpiece. It feels like a spiritual sequel and the logical progression to TF2 in a post MOBA world. That feeling when you play a new character and it finally clicks with you and you start wrecking just feels so good. All the maps(well maybe not Volskaya) feel very well designed and balanced. I love that each takes place in a different unique part of the world so each has its own specific look and feel. It makes me really excited to see where they'll go with new maps in the future. At this point I've played about 27 hours total and I've put a solid amount of time into about 16 of the heroes. I love how each character feels like playing a new game inside of this game. Right now my favorites are Zenyatta, Lucio, Hanzo, and Reaper. I don't know how Blizzard keeps doing it. They must shit gold.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Any tips? Sentry placements?
My sentries always get taken out so fast.

Corners where they will most likely pass through, entry ways to the objective, and disperse them in different directions instead of a single cluster. Ceilings to floor so they have to face up and down to destroy them. Don't be afraid to constantly place new ones.

 

[Sokka]

Any tips? Sentry placements? Do you play her on all maps?
My sentries always get taken out so fast.

Try and place the sentries near chokepoints, in spots where the enemies can't easily get line of sight of them.

 

[idonteven]

can't wait for the turret nerf

 

[ViviOggi]

can't wait for the turret nerf

That's a problem because you'd have to wait at least forever

 

[HowZatOZ]

That Egypt map is pretty bullshit as attacking. One entry into an attacking zone is bad design, and I know you can circumvent it by using the right character setup but in a pub that's impossible.

 

[idonteven]

3 games in a row were the game puts me in a team thats 10 sec away from losing !

gg matchmaking

 

[Maximo]

can't wait for the turret nerf

Your going to die before they ever nerf him.

 

[ExtremePopcorn]

I'm rather annoyed about how many duplicates I'm getting in my loot boxes. For 15,16 & 17 I got 4 skins and they were all duplicates.

Is it too much to ask to get all skins before I start getting duplicates

 

[Angel_DvA]

That's a problem because you'd have to wait at least forever

they should decrease the accuracy of the turret though, the damage are fine.

 

[Fjordson]

Thanks for the Mercy tips brehs.

 

[Antiwhippy]

can't wait for the turret nerf

Oh thought you were saying symmetra's turret. Which I nearly agree with even though I play her.

Torb's is easy to deal with if you have a team that focuses on it. Good luck though in pubs.

 

[GwyndolinCinder]

That Egypt map is pretty bullshit as attacking. One entry into an attacking zone is bad design, and I know you can circumvent it by using the right character setup but in a pub that's impossible.

lol you sure about that

 

[blackdevil]

God I can't wait for ranked.

i wrote this earlier but nobody answered:

i dont see how this will change anything.People will play the way they play now. Singleplayer people will join a match and hope others go for the objective without voice communication or some just play team deathmatch and teams will join a match and communicate. Same as we have now. It`s not like teams do stupid stuff now and will play hardcore team mode later. They do already to win a match.

So i dont see why people are so excited for ranked mode. Other games show perfectly how ranked doesnt change anything. In battlefield you have people who play deathmatch even in capture the flag mode. Same for Battlefront. You get People not playing the objective in every mode. Ranked or unranked. Singleplayers will outnumber people who join up with friends to play all the time.

So can somebody explain why Overwatch Ranked will be different?

 

[KZXcellent]

I'm Level 43 and I can't stop playing. Oh noooooo

 

[idonteven]

matchmaking is broken...on my most insane lose streak since the game came out

must be at 15 straight loses

 

[RandomExpletive]

Had a good night, good matches, and finally a good loot box, Sym Devi skin and WINSTON SAFARI SKIN GET HYYYYYYPE!

 

[Lelcar]

Matchmaking times have been absolutely awful since I reached level 30

Yup. And after waiting for 4 minutes it'll match you with level 7 players who are still figuring out the game instead of other 30s, which isn't fair for the lower level players either.

 

[sephi22]

Any tips? Sentry placements? Do you play her on all maps?
My sentries always get taken out so fast.

Not the person who you asked but I can answer. I only play her on defense on every map. I don't pick her in KOTH but I've seen other players pick her.

On defense, I use my first 3 sentries pretty greedily, to get a nice burst of dmg to build super meter ASAP, not caring if they get destroyed. The other 3 are placed near the objective or along the path as the enemy pushes, since sentries #4-#6 take a while to come online due to CDs.

Don't be afraid to spam her right click orb at enemy spawn to get that meter up. Also shielded reinhardts are free source for super meter. As soon as you get 100% on that teleported, place it somewhere secure, and transition your sentries to a better position near the objective.

A big mistake new Symmetra players tend to do is underestimate her primary damage and leave enemies alive. If an enemy steps out of position and even takes 50 damage from a sentry, you should definitely rush them and kill them with your primary. Your beam can really melt people at full charge. Last night I took a Roadhog from 100% to 0% even during his heal. Here's a POTG using primarily her beam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xScIIu7Nbto

Most symmetras should protect their tele with a few sentries, since a teleporter is vital at high level play and the enemy team would be looking for it if they're good. But I generally don't do that since it doesn't really matter in the level of pubs right now.

Unfortunately, unless she gets balance fixes I don't see Symmetra rising in popularity as the playerbase gets better. She's too much of a one trick pony and when people get better her weaknesses will stand out more. Really fun though

 

[ZServ]

i wrote this earlier but nobody answered:

So, the big thing is that most people will only do ranked with their friends, in teams. Which means that the teams actually playing the objective will likely face-roll anyone trying to play TDM. Their MMR goes up, and eventually, end up playing other teams that aren't stupid.

In an ideal world, anyway. We'll see.

 

[Ken]

That Egypt map is pretty bullshit as attacking. One entry into an attacking zone is bad design, and I know you can circumvent it by using the right character setup but in a pub that's impossible.

in the first attack point?

 

[DrArchon]

OK, I'm having a HUGE issue with the game right now and I would appreciate any help that I can get before I contact Blizzard about this.

The game is refusing to put me into matches for some reason. I keep searching for them, it keeps finding them quickly, and then I get stuck on the loading screen until the game boots me for being inactive. This has happened 5 times in a row this morning alone. I don't know what to try in order to fix this. The only thing I can do right now is play training modes because the game doesn't boot you for taking too long, but I want to get back and start playing Overwatch for real.

Does anyone have any idea what to do? Can anyone help me?

 

[Newtype-001]

Im pretty much decent to real good with all characters now apart from Pharah and Reinhardt

 

[Hasney]

Ugh, got put into a game that had 3 Torbjorns already, so quit before setup and it put me back in once I quick gamed. Thought fuck it, if it's going to be garbage, I'll make it ultra garbage and made it 4.

We won, but man I wish I could filter out shitty teams like that.

 

[MarcoZombieCannon]

Eh, your player level doesn't really factor into how good you'll be. I've been steamrolled by teams in the high teens to early 20s when my team is anywhere from 30 to 40-ish (sitting at 46 right now).