Wyndstryker
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Idiots on my team - 1
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Good game lose - 2
Average game - 2
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Overwatch |OT4| You Want A Good Genji, But You Need The Bad Hanzo
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Easy win - 2
Good game win - 3
Bad game lose - 1
Idiots on my team - 1
Idiots on enemy team - 3
Good game lose - 2
Average game - 2
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See lol POTG - 3
Join when match about to end - 1
User 85168
Banned
slowly solo queue climbing:
43 -> 52
43 -> 52
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
My buddy almost got 4 kills. Only 3 tho. Damn Reaper got away.
TalesFromHoth
Neo Member
Not sure how you guys are getting so much luck with randoms. I'm 30-44 now in competitive. I always try and pick the best class that fits, I will change if needed, I consider myself a pretty decent player. I'm currently ranked 49 and I'm sure I will just continue to fall.
I'm about to just give up on the game. It went from uber fun in the beginning to super frustrating now. Perhaps I just need a break, or just go back to quick play where my record is much better.
I'm about to just give up on the game. It went from uber fun in the beginning to super frustrating now. Perhaps I just need a break, or just go back to quick play where my record is much better.
I know which ones you're getting. Also, I bought Plague Doctor. Cannot wait for it anymore lol
A rank 56 Reinhardt decides to play extremely aggressive on Anubis defense, charging past the choke-point to smack the enemy team around. Of course he dies, and so did the Torbjorn who thought setting up his turret next to their spawn would be an ideal place to halt enemy advance.
Terrible games overall today. First time I ranked down consecutively in the last week.
Terrible games overall today. First time I ranked down consecutively in the last week.
Exploratory
Banned
Pharah and Tracer on console are...annoying as fuck to hit.
Roll a Symmetra with a Mercy by your side and that problem will disappear.
Ones? You think I need anything besides reaper? :3
Also RIP I'm creating a giant rank gap between me and all of GAF like with RL, where basically I was locked into matches with a few people I knew only so I don't have some huge lopsided player numbers in a match.
Then again, my friend was unranked and went 6-1 today, we're really hoping to place him straight into the 60s.
How is Symmetra supposed to do anything about a Pharah? Did you mean to say McCree lol.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I mean ult buildup is kinda like a kill streak. 
https://www.overbuff.com/players/psn/Gd4033?mode=competitive
I'm actually mildly proud of my reaper now. I still need to optimize more. I refuse to stop until I'm one of the best reapers out there.
I'm actually mildly proud of my reaper now. I still need to optimize more. I refuse to stop until I'm one of the best reapers out there.
OdysseusVA
Banned
Wow, Talespin on Mei was great. I've been about to declare that competitive Overwatch is pretty boring to watch because it's mostly just two very similar team comps bludgeoning into each other. Fights are way too fast for a spectator to appreciate in-combat tactics. Including a Mei is easy to understand and how she plays a role in changing fights makes instant sense. As was LGs double Hanzo strategy before the 1 hero limit was introduced to the ESL qualifiers, or the times an aggressive Bastion strategy is brought out.
If matches would always bring out strategies that you can easily understand the game would be in a fun place.
If matches would always bring out strategies that you can easily understand the game would be in a fun place.
Saucycarpdog
Member
No, Genji does. I've run into too many sweaty tryhard Genji's that just double jump on points for ages.
I'd rather fight a good Tracer player over a good Genji player any day.
Anyone on PS4/US/NYC down to party up? I'm over randoms.
I'll play anyone but Bastion. Leaning towards Ana on some maps and in some situations, but am totally ok if you're in the "she's not cut out for competitive" camp
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I'll play anyone but Bastion. Leaning towards Ana on some maps and in some situations, but am totally ok if you're in the "she's not cut out for competitive" camp
and I'm a bit baked right now if that's an issue.
If the enemy team has a Pharah and your team doesn't have a counter for her and you allow her to rain down on you, do you wish she was gone from the game, or do you switch for her but not think Tracer is worthy of being switch-for-a-counter worthy?
Forerunner
Member
Thats a good rating scale.
I generally try to do. If it was a blowout for either team, one star. If its a Sudden Death or a KOTH thats 2-2 and comes down to the last match, three stars. Everything inbetween, two stars.
MarioHead3
Banned
May I request an invite should a spot open?
MarioHead3
Banned
Sure.
Reaper would kill the Winston as he stepped out of spawn. McCree is the best Pharah counter now.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Looking at this my reaper seems pretty close, though definitely not as good. I don't play him enough though. One discrepancy is definitely solo kills. I tend to go after big melees where everyone touches everyone.
They had the point and were defending it, why were they all clustered in that corner like that? Lol.
Everyone touches everyone, you say? 8]
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Every. One.
FTFY
Also hoping I don't annoy this thread by literally all my things being from the perspective of a reaper, I just really only play him when I sit down and play this game...I would do something else, but it's kind of more efficient for me to keep using him since I'm doing well with him.
I've been working hard from a drawing board perspective to optimize my positioning and move usage. I gave a rough explanation of a few of the tools, but really, besides the ones I mentioned earlier, reaper should be going for when they're not looking at you, which is a lot easier said than done. Just because you walked up to them without dying does not mean you have flanked them well enough to do anything notable. A proper flank is when a squishy has died before they can reasonably react to you. Trading lives is a waste of time and effort.
Other random stuff of note-
-You don't have a fair matchup against roadhog. Stop listening to that sentence. His shotgun does more damage (7x20 vs 9x25 a shot, damage at point blank and pellets respectively) and he has more health- you can sometimes live being chained with a phase instantly, but if you're fighting a roadhog, you need to have seen him first or he needed to be injured.
-You also can't beat a D va anymore 1v1 head on, stop trying, rethink your flanking methods and how you can help your team, if shes looking at you you need to get out of there if you aren't certain you'll kill first.
- Reaper also should NEVER burn his die die die. My gimp list off the top of my head as I said earlier was -
zarya can shield it for herself+one other, reaper cant be hit by it, mccree can stun you, winston can barrier to neuter your entire thing AND kill you, roadhog can chain you, d va can matrix it, mei can ice shelter to live, junkrat can launch you, pharah can MAYBE launch you in time generally is in air and takes less damage (not really that safe vs others), lucio can launch you away, reinhardt can shield it, sleep dart from ana, and genji can reflect it. If you are using it early or in a non optimal situation, you are going to die and have wasted your ult needlessly.
Death blossom is to be saved for when you have FULLY flanked their team- so that by the time they actually can notice it, at least one or two are dead. The only exception to this is a necessity to save an objective in the moment. I probably sit on a full death blossom more than I have one ready, and it results in a lot more efficient kills and even more Death Blossom kills. Generally if you could get gimped, you could have killed one or two people anyways.
I'm debating making a comprehensive list on how to use him in a more optimal way just because I'm so sick of seeing bad reapers on ranked. Granted, I always take reaper so it's no issue for me personally, but it's cringey when the other teams reaper falls over dead.
Does anyone even want one?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Does recall get rid of the health blocking status of biotic grenade?
Does the biotic grenade debuff prevent rewind from restoring health?
Done for the night. Work in the morning. Then 24 hours of freedom. Mmm, Ana time.
I didn't hate this play/match:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFAejBinQ8A
MarioHead3
Banned
Yes it does.
Nope
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