They aren't touching his speed boost. Thinking that is crazy.
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They aren't touching his speed boost. Thinking that is crazy.
Honestly, Ramirez is the only one in this thread who has truly been wrong by Blizzard.
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We've also had Kings Row games where Mei has been ran instead of Genji. by Envy. The team that just won. The best team in the world. Where they had arguably the best DPS in the world on Mei. They invented the strats on that map with her.
You can't do it every single game, but I'm telling you that character has some shit with the wall that actually fucks up a lot of the normal strats you see. It's being experimented with at the highest level and there have been more than a few pro players speculate that the more time goes on the better she'll get.
And saying the meta revolves around Lucio is only kind of right. This isn't TF3, Lucio speedboost could get toned down and the meta still be stable and not some total shit fest that people would hate.
It lasts 2 seconds. Asking for a shutdown is kinda ridiculous, it'd be half depleted before someone even reacts. You can tear it down already if it's damaged enough, and there are various stuns that prevent her from putting it up, it's really a no-issue.
As for D.Va, you're gonna run into this kind of problems when hero stacking is allowed only partially, they can't really balance it for both modes.
Gimmick characters dont usually last.
Obviously, the meta still has too move forward a whole lot, and like i said she has her uses
also, mei was kind of picked mei as a joke because they rolled through that tourney so hard. She might have her uses, but once again, she's a gimmick pick and gimmick picks dont last
Then why have other teams started using Mei in the same strat? I can't remember who it was but a team ran the Kings Row Mei strat against LG/NRG in the ESL playoffs and full held on the first cap.
It's not a troll pick. It's a real thing that they were testing in scrims before they even used it.
The main reason Mei didn't get used before is because developing strats for her is a lot harder than say just having McCree murder everything behind a speedboost. She's not some top tier but she's edging around the meta on certain maps already.
The buff is his new medal victory pose. A walking auto-aiming machine.
It was team Envyus, who had basically steamrolled the entire tournament, having barely lost any rounds whatsoever for the past half month before it (2 I think? They hadn't dropped a game in a long time), so they didn't have a care in the world in that tournament. I was in chats with people who were laughing over how disrespectful picking Mei was.
Nope, this was a different set of teams after Envy had already gone in their bracket, I just can't remember which besides NRG. The strat has been used by other teams, and she's been adopted in other strats for Hanamura and such in tournament too. Envy were just the first ones to do it.
There we go, that's the match.
Nah, this was Team Liquid playing Mei against NRG, a different game. NRG lost badly on that although it seemed like they mostly got very tilted.
NRG themselves also picked Mei against Splyce on Anubis, but got completely rolled. So pro teams are definitely experimenting with her in scrims and official games.
MadLaughter
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Hey Overwatch-GAF!
I'm an Overwatch player who has been going for a lootbox a day since the game came out. I'm decent on PC, usually can hold my own. But this week I've been struggling a bunch, feeling like I lose 60-70% of my games. Last night in particular I lost like 5 in a row. Maybe luck of the draw, but either way, I want to get better.
Which leads me to my question: Who makes the best character guides on YouTube? (Or anywhere else). I'm not trying to go pro,I just want to hit whatever my skill ceiling is.
Any recommendation?
I'm an Overwatch player who has been going for a lootbox a day since the game came out. I'm decent on PC, usually can hold my own. But this week I've been struggling a bunch, feeling like I lose 60-70% of my games. Last night in particular I lost like 5 in a row. Maybe luck of the draw, but either way, I want to get better.
Which leads me to my question: Who makes the best character guides on YouTube? (Or anywhere else). I'm not trying to go pro,I just want to hit whatever my skill ceiling is.
Any recommendation?
You just gotta push those sweat glands to the limit bro. Try as hard as possible
What characterrs do you run. i'd suggest finding a character you are really good with and sticking ith them until you get bored. Always have a tank, a healer, and another DPS on hand in your rotation in case someone picks your chartacter
https://www.twitch.tv/beyondthesummit
or be me and get super lucky with no one taking my main 95% of matches :>
optimus8936
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So did they confirm that the amount of comp points you get based on your rank is based on our season high or just current rank?
what's your psn name? Also there's no telling where my head is, but i try to keep it out of places. Like i knew two bastion defense right outside their spawn in of El Dorado outside the left and right side of their door corners was a horrible idea but no one listens to the "group up here" away from it.
Antiwhippy
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Got any vods?
Hah, perfect. Thanks!
I'd rather watch professioanl Torbjorn over professional Lucio.
LumpOfCole
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Rank 62 seems really close to rank 65 for 100 extra credit points. Got to push it. Need 25 or so more wins anyway.
Antiwhippy
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Am I the only one thinking some of the pro players play DVa somewhat... sub-optimally?
Like I still see a lot of them DM random potshots, ulting really predictably, etc. etc.
TBF they lost to the first reason that phased mei out: pharmercy.
Like I still see a lot of them DM random potshots, ulting really predictably, etc. etc.
TBF they lost to the first reason that phased mei out: pharmercy.
If only. The point is people are willing to try it like that in situations like this, which also means it's probably been tested somewhere. I like that outlook over "lol Mei sucks pick Genji he's broke."
Yes some pros play most peoples mains suboptimally if only because the scene is so small still on a pro level. I still see many reapers do stupid stuff, mentally think "why didn't he do X?!" and see him die a hilarious death for it right after.
Game 1: Do well for 90% of the match until the last stretch where we get stuck for all 5 minutes and lose because no one is interested in killing the Mercy that keeps reviving the team. Okay. I kept expecting the D.Va on my team to wipe them out with her ult, because that's supposed to be what she does, but nope.
Game 2: Competitive, where I get to try out my new super duper 53 rank and I get steamrolled by an annoyingly good team. Okay.
Game 3: Anubis, because that's the bestest map in the game, amiright...where we get steamrolled by the enemy team. Kills my rank down to 51.
I am so sick....so fucking sick of this stupid fucking ping pong bullshit. I rise, I fall, I rise, I fall, again and again. I fucking hate it so much.
Game 2: Competitive, where I get to try out my new super duper 53 rank and I get steamrolled by an annoyingly good team. Okay.
Game 3: Anubis, because that's the bestest map in the game, amiright...where we get steamrolled by the enemy team. Kills my rank down to 51.
I am so sick....so fucking sick of this stupid fucking ping pong bullshit. I rise, I fall, I rise, I fall, again and again. I fucking hate it so much.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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On PS4 they nerfed torbjörn nearly out of existence. Widowmaker is 9 times out of 10 dead weight. The others are kind of alright, but yeah you're pretty much better off not using the defense guys. Mei was my favorite, but seems everyone has gotten wise to her game and I generally get much better results with whatever attack/tank/support hero I use.
Antiwhippy
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Man, they really should have a summer games skin for winston.
ROFL
idk why you'd worry about it so much, it happens, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. It's the inherent nature of competitive games that unless you literally have the best team you arent going to win 100% of the time.
Antiwhippy
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Honestly other than zen and lucio, and defense heroes, I kinda like where everyone is atm. Plus with zen and lucio toned down other character will be brought up too.
that's a lot of other thans
Antiwhippy
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Like I've said, it'll always be a work in progress. 
It'd be fine with that. But I don't. I go on streaks. I win a bunch, then I lose a bunch. Otherwise, my rank wouldn't jump around like this. And it's seriously not pleasant at all. I would rather not have the rank at all, but then I have to deal with hero stacking, which is even worse.
Completely unrelated, but around what Skill rank were you when you got to top 500? I'm hoping I can get there by the end of the season.
It's not a hard rank. I generally regrab it in the high 73s, and I'm top 100 by 76. I lose it if I fall low 73. Rank fluctuates, so yeah. Then again, this is ps4, not PC.
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