Nice. I felt tingly in weird places watching that.
I actually like the black Anibus skin better than all the legendaries for Pharah.
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Overwatch |OT4| You Want A Good Genji, But You Need The Bad Hanzo
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I actually like the black Anibus skin better than all the legendaries for Pharah.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Jackal tho.
if i see/hear the words "protect your mercy" one more time i am going to SCREAM
we told him to just switch to lucio and then he ACTUALLY SAID "never criticise your healer, nothing is our fault" and i literally could not believe what i was reading
if they werent so waifu obsessed theyd know how to play something else but alas being a useless mercy is better than learning the more evasive support xD
u can even ask these monkeys if they would switch to a dps class so you can play lucio but they wont even do it cuz they only know how to play fucking mercy
these people are worse than hanzo pickers by a mile. the persecution complex is on par with the support whining in Dota2 and thats saying a LOT
we told him to just switch to lucio and then he ACTUALLY SAID "never criticise your healer, nothing is our fault" and i literally could not believe what i was reading
if they werent so waifu obsessed theyd know how to play something else but alas being a useless mercy is better than learning the more evasive support xD
u can even ask these monkeys if they would switch to a dps class so you can play lucio but they wont even do it cuz they only know how to play fucking mercy
these people are worse than hanzo pickers by a mile. the persecution complex is on par with the support whining in Dota2 and thats saying a LOT
Feel the Swift
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Jump on LB, Block on RB
why not just protect your mercy though
? serious question: do u not realize how hard tracer and genji are to killwhy not just protect your mercy though
theyre like mosquitos, eventually u get tired of swatting them away and you just let them suck your blood and infect you with swine flu
idk why mercy players are exempt from the age old adage of "if its not working out then SWITCH HEROES"
If you have lots of tanks on your team Mercy is a better healer. It takes 8 seconds to heal just 100 damage as Lucio. 4 more seconds of 50 HP healing, then they get to do 120 healing in 3 seconds with amp it up. So in 15 seconds they can do 270 healing. That means it takes well over 20 seconds to heal a Winston or Reinhardt. Mercy heals 50 HP per sec. So 10 seconds to go from 0 to max as Reinhardt.
optimus8936
Banned
Yeah, Lucio only really works best if you have a bunch of squishies and your tank is a Zarya because they don't have much health to heal(Zarya has shields, so it works for her). Mercy is better if you have two tanks, especially with the revive, which fits tanks perfectly, as you can't insta kill them off of it.
Both heroes have their pluses and minuses that make them better then each other in certain situations, you just have to hope that you have the right one for your team.
Although I do find it annoying how I always seem to run into these Mercys who will only revive 3 or 4 people instead of 1 or 2, and they end up only ever using one revive because of this when they could of gotten so many solo revives that can easily turn the tide of the battle.
Both heroes have their pluses and minuses that make them better then each other in certain situations, you just have to hope that you have the right one for your team.
Although I do find it annoying how I always seem to run into these Mercys who will only revive 3 or 4 people instead of 1 or 2, and they end up only ever using one revive because of this when they could of gotten so many solo revives that can easily turn the tide of the battle.
optimus8936
Banned
There is nothing more embarrassing than being revived by Mercy, but you weren't paying attention, so you just die again. It's even worse when you look at the screen after you die and instead of seeing a killcam, you see yourself standing in front of a mob of angry Genjis and Roadhogs ready to tear your shit up.
Torbjorn and Symmetra. A dash of Mei. I have literally switched from Mercy to Torb if a Tracer was too much of a pain for the team. Sure, no healer, but also not constant shots into the back of my team. Plus then we are always up 6vs5 until she switches.
optimus8936
Banned
What did Taimou do?
As someone with 50hrs on Mercy, the 'protect Mercy' rhetoric is bs. That's her job and nobody elses.
Too many Mercys see themselves as a passive spectator. They don't bother learning her pistol and lack awareness of their options. I once saw a Mercy who let herself and 4 teammates die in a Zarya ult instead of flying to a Hanzo and back to rez those 4. If there wasn't a Hanzo, she could at least shoot her pistol to kill an enemy; that's one less person capping the objective.
Her pistol can also alert teammates of a flanker. If I see someone creeping around, I spam the pistol in that location until a teammates takes care of them.
Every time I've checked a good Mercy's career profile, they've had average elims between 3 and 6.
observer is a huge problem imo. even when i'm focusing i find it hard to tell what's going on
Eh, only 10 of the top 100 mercy avg more than 3 elims in competitive (longer matches) on overbuff.
I also counter Tracers with Sym.
The best Tracers constantly rely on health packs, spawn turrets over them and they'll switch.
This is why I don't watch tournaments. Confusing af.
dryuriev7777
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So is everyone losing matches as much as I am? Today I did 6 games in a row and lost every single one. Nobody dropped in those 6 games, I switched between a variety of characters, and 4 games in it switched the teams up so that I was mixed with the previous winners and still lost the 2 games after. And, honestly, this feels like a good day. Sometimes I'll play and it's just a constant barrage of losses. It's nothing to quit the game over and I'm having fun while playing for the most part, but god I don't understand why it seems like the games are always stacked against my team. Hell, every now then when I do win it seems like ~60% of the time I only won because people on the other team kept dropping the game.
TMONSTER
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Probably referring to taimou dropping the n word on stream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaVy-QomMvo
yeah this is why i don't like the dude
just search on youtube for taimou cheating and you will find loads of suspious shit against that dude
like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRo0Csl8P2Y
zps keeps defending him too oddly enough
wasn't referring to this, but man what a guy
It's shit like this why people like Seagull, dude is actually nice. You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
Holy fucking SHIT guys
Genji is a frikken monster when you play him right. Again, I don't consider myself very good...but I managed to make use of his whole arsenal in the last few games, and it was just....
Just fucking Metal Gear Rising. I could hear TIME TO LEAVE THEM ALL BEHIIIIIIND in my head. If I manage to keep this up, I think I might ditch reaper for him as my main offensive dude. Reaper is really fun and all, but the speed, distance and ferocity Genji has is simply ridiculous.
I may have to create a bumper jumper control set for him though, since I'll need it to get the most out of his mobility.
Genji is a frikken monster when you play him right. Again, I don't consider myself very good...but I managed to make use of his whole arsenal in the last few games, and it was just....
Just fucking Metal Gear Rising. I could hear TIME TO LEAVE THEM ALL BEHIIIIIIND in my head. If I manage to keep this up, I think I might ditch reaper for him as my main offensive dude. Reaper is really fun and all, but the speed, distance and ferocity Genji has is simply ridiculous.
I may have to create a bumper jumper control set for him though, since I'll need it to get the most out of his mobility.
TheGoreMagala
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What're the chances of me getting the animated Ilios spray if I'm rank 62 (and climbing, I usually earn a level with every win), in the top 9%, and am ranked around #2,900 globally? Don't I need to be in the top 500 in my server to get it? How do I make sure that happens?
I may need to do that too. Changing the jump button could be very useful.
As a Mercy player, I try my best to open the healing beam on the person if I end up ressing them right in front of or around enemies. But sometimes more team mates get ressed at once, and I can't see them all. But honestly, dying right after ress is only embarrassing to the person who dies, if that helps!
yeehamuffins
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Finally decided to experiment with Tracer after having avoided her for a while, and had a pretty damn good game. Important things I had to realize as I was playing her: as much as it might seem wise to always keep a dash in reserve, it won't do you much good if you're dead. Use them all if you're in a crisis and you don't have faith in your rewind to get you out of danger. And her ult. is almost useless unless you stick it to someone, at least from my experience; I must have tossed it into the midst of enemies three times and never managed to hit anyone, but taking the extra risk to get closer and stick it directly on the enemy got much better results.
I wonder if we are getting any Sombra news tomorrow.
Congratulations!
Hoping for a release, instead!
Congratulations!
You have to finish the season in the Top 500. Right now the cutoff for that varies based on platform/region (for PC). MasterOverwatch is likely very, very accurate for consoles because most top players will have been searched.
Basically you need to rank up at least into the 70s to hit top 500 right now. Once Blizzard flips the switch to show the top 500 in game (this may happen tomorrow since Scott Mercer said their goal has been to turn it on two weeks into the season), you will be able to track whether you're in the top 500 or not in realtime.
I'm guessing PTR tomorrow, live next week.
Personally, I'm more excited for Top 500 to go live, but both tomorrow would be great.
The way I decide on when to revive is if it is 2 or more, or if it is one of the less mobile tanks. Nothing worse then using her ult too early.
So you're telling me that on top of being aware of who needs health, who doesn't, deciding one which player to heal, if you can/should switch to the buff, a general idea of where everyone from both teams are, trying to stay behind cover, when and how to zip away, looking for the best way/time to revive. THEN when an enemy (who is likely built for inflicting damage) goes after you,
you're expect to switch to your pistol (while they're attacking you) and quickly beat them in a gun fight then go back to healing like nothing even happened? And this isn't even for top level players, this is just expected of all people who play as Mercy?
You're example of dying instead of not flying over to Hanzo is just a mistake. It's not some gross misplay. Maybe they lost track of Hanzo or maybe they couldn't get their reticle on Hanzo in time. If that Mercy were were to have escaped then flew back to revive basically the whole team, that would've been at least a good play. Missing a good play is not the same as a bad play. Mercy using her pistol in OT instead of a revive is a bad play, not your example.
I'm not saying that Mercy should be able to walk freely anywhere around the map because everyone is protecting her. She still has to try to hide, stay back and wait when needed, use her abilities to get out of trouble and use her gun in emergency situations but that's it. If she's not healing then she should be buffing.
I asked about when the best time to revive was earlier today. After some discussion we basically came to the conclusion that it's best to just us it ASAP. Obviously, try to get multiple revives at once but it's not worth holding on to. If you're on a decent healing run you're getting a revive every 30-40 seconds. When you wait you end up getting less revives. I meant if you got Leeroy Jenkins busting through a choke point as Torb all alone, maybe you don't go warp in after him but for the most part I'd say to revive as soon as you can.
Dead Prince
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team so dumb. why you going to pick hanzo and genji on dorado attack and didn't do shit. couldn't even make it to the first checkpoint. got stuck at the underpass. like why. learn to switch please especially when there's a reinhardt blocking the path. at least go behind and attack them.
Orochinagis
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Sometimes even using the gun dont make my tanks aware I am dying against tracer or a random reaper I rather die saving my tanks
Where do you put his dash?
I really wish the PotG system can get expanded to be much smarter. Since this is a team game, they should teach the system to detect the players involved in the "play" and share credit accordingly. In this example, it would be awesome if they show the Pharah and Zarya giving each other a high five, before they show the play. Stuff like that would also encourage more teamwork and synergy between random players (maybe?) instead of players trying to chase their own PotG at the detriment of the overall team.
the thrill of victory... and the agony of defeat
i saved a clip today of one of the most hilarious POTGs by a random. he was Torbjorn and he literally did NOTHING in it. will upload it this week.
LucidMomentum
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Won two games, lost one. Won one, lost two. Feels... the same? I guess?
I apparently need to learn that 45 is just my MMR. I can be carrying a team and someone will leave, or I support and my team is a gaggle of ingrates.
Two of the games I lost were on KotH and came down to overtime at 99% and we just barely missed getting back to the point in time. So nerve wracking.
I apparently need to learn that 45 is just my MMR. I can be carrying a team and someone will leave, or I support and my team is a gaggle of ingrates.
Two of the games I lost were on KotH and came down to overtime at 99% and we just barely missed getting back to the point in time. So nerve wracking.
There are many situations where using Mercy's pistol feels better than buffing. Not saying it isn't important, but people seem to forget that she has a pistol, and that she can kill you.
I use it for last resort usually, or to help a teammate out by lining up a few headshots. Feels like we get the kill quicker sometimes than simply buffing. One of my favorite things to do is pick off the people Mei freezes.
I use it for last resort usually, or to help a teammate out by lining up a few headshots. Feels like we get the kill quicker sometimes than simply buffing. One of my favorite things to do is pick off the people Mei freezes.
When you know how and when to use it the pistol can be very viable.
Wow I'm so happy I did that, helped defend the point like hell. Don't know where the hell the other teammates were.
https://youtu.be/T5mAKBqCnBI
https://youtu.be/T5mAKBqCnBI
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