I never cared. I play who I want. You'll do better and also have more fun. If they're mad, whatever. Come to my house and fight me in person or shut up.
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I never cared. I play who I want. You'll do better and also have more fun. If they're mad, whatever. Come to my house and fight me in person or shut up.
#RIP Duckroll
No waifu no laifu confirm'd
Oh and when i have to pick the player cards at the end of the match, you can bet your lunch money that i always upvote Mercy and Pharah players.
Kinda sounds like you main Reaper
Nuno Pinto
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A drop of 700 SR is a run of bad luck? Hope I don't go through that ever, 200SR was already bad enough.
Did you check his stats? Maybe he was placed way higher than he should have. Or maybe he just plays healer
My selection process is:
- Pick Reaper knowing I can carry DPS all by myself
- No one picks a tank so I switch to Zarya hoping that the one person who still hasn't picked will be sensible enough not to go for a 5th DPS character.
- Person chooses attack Bastion so I switch to Zenyatta and hope for the best.
- Lose game because team can't kill anyone.
- Kills self.
- Pick Reaper knowing I can carry DPS all by myself
- No one picks a tank so I switch to Zarya hoping that the one person who still hasn't picked will be sensible enough not to go for a 5th DPS character.
- Person chooses attack Bastion so I switch to Zenyatta and hope for the best.
- Lose game because team can't kill anyone.
- Kills self.
#RIP Duckroll
No waifu no laifu confirm'd
Oh and when i have to pick the player cards at the end of the match, you can bet your lunch money that i always upvote Mercy and Pharah players.
Kinda sounds like you main Reaper
He's actually one of my least played lol
PayOffWizard
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It should finish in two hours.
It just moved to .8703 over the past 2-3 minutes.
Doesnt look like its going to hit .9999 at the top of the hour at this rate.. but I imagine it isnt exactly a 1:1 ratio.
THe_DeiCiDe
Member
I fuck with this.
Charlie Sheen only plays Quick Play, confirmed!
Incendiary
Banned
Just had a white knuckle comp match where we attacked first on King's Row and didn't quite make it to the final point. On defense the enemy team got the first point with like 30 seconds left and then steamrolled us through the second point, so I switched from Lucio to Zen and fucking saved the day with two counter Transcendences, once against a Pharah ult in overtime which would have likely wiped our team.
Got 30 SR and am now sitting at 2498. FML.
Also on defense we had a guy auto lock Bastion, and the entire rest of the team proceeded to crowd around him and spam thanks over and over until the match started. Good times.
Got 30 SR and am now sitting at 2498. FML.
Also on defense we had a guy auto lock Bastion, and the entire rest of the team proceeded to crowd around him and spam thanks over and over until the match started. Good times.
FusedAtoms
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Oh man these placement matches are so frustrating I just had my career best game as D.va going 42-6 with gold medals for objective time and kills, which I also got career best on, but my team of randoms did so bad we lost...... ��������
He might have been lucky/carried and placed higher in his placements. The season high tier is like a "good job, you got there" pat in the back but it doesn't actually mean anything. While he kept going down he was playing against people of lower and lower SR, and he kept losing. 3000 to 2300 is 60 to 46 in the S1 rank.
win or lose doesn't matter much in placements. just play well.
Mr. Torbjorn himself already been posted?
http://masteroverwatch.com/profile/pc/us/Torbj%C3%B6rn-11130
I saw him in a match with Greggo from/former C9 last night, he streams on twitch as well.
http://masteroverwatch.com/profile/pc/us/Torbj%C3%B6rn-11130
I saw him in a match with Greggo from/former C9 last night, he streams on twitch as well.
xaosslug
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A drop of 700 SR is a run of bad luck? Hope I don't go through that ever, 200SR was already bad enough.
Did you check his stats? Maybe he was placed way higher than he should have. Or maybe he just plays healer
nah, I didn't check their stats.
it was a KotH match, diamond peep ran Genji and kept murdering my team, constantly popping dragon blade, and the gold peep (on my team) was a (ehhh...) D.Va main (I switched off to see if that would help any... it did not. T__T)
speaking from experience you can def. fall into pit, especially if you group up with peeps that are not very skilled but you don't want to hurt their feelings so you keep accepting their invites... LOL But even saying that I've had bouts of good and bad luck in SoloQ, and a lot of it depends on the time of day when I play. Like, I've decided from now on never to SoloQ in the afternoon, because it's a damn mess. >_<
FusedAtoms
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xaosslug
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so, basically what you are saying is Blizzard's system is fucked? Because if a guy that belongs in high gold can place diamond on accident, well shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. xD
THe_DeiCiDe
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People throwing games on purpose or waiting til after a minute to quit because someone else picked their main.
This has got to the absolute worst community I have ever seen. Ragers, bawl babies, trolls, quitters...the list goes on.
I've taken sooo many losses the last 2 weeks from quitters and people just sitting in spawn.
I'm now in the bowels of the 1800s...feels bad man.
This has got to the absolute worst community I have ever seen. Ragers, bawl babies, trolls, quitters...the list goes on.
I've taken sooo many losses the last 2 weeks from quitters and people just sitting in spawn.
I'm now in the bowels of the 1800s...feels bad man.
Vault Dweller 111
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99.9%
divisionbyzorro
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We're 99.9010% of the way to nothing!
Yeah this is what I have been saying as well, I placed in gold but people are saying that my current 1400s rank is where I should be. Blizzard needs to adjust their system so it doesn't place people higher than they should be, so they actually have a chance to advance from where they started instead of just going down all the time.
Now watch, as people become incredibly underwhelmed with Sombra's reveal. Instead of "Wow, she looks cool!", it's going to be more along the lines of "UGH! Fuckin' finally!"
optimus8936
Banned
I usually don't make my hero selection until I'm the last or second to last pick. But lately I just insta lock DPS.
-insta lock DPS
-wait for team picks
-Do we have 1 tank that is not Rein? Pick tank
-do we have one healer? Pick healer
That's usually how I go. I keep it simple. I also won't pick a hitscan DPS if we already have one, but I mostly play projectile DPS anyways. Genji, Hanzo, and Pharah are all that a man needs.
-insta lock DPS
-wait for team picks
-Do we have 1 tank that is not Rein? Pick tank
-do we have one healer? Pick healer
That's usually how I go. I keep it simple. I also won't pick a hitscan DPS if we already have one, but I mostly play projectile DPS anyways. Genji, Hanzo, and Pharah are all that a man needs.
TheLetdown
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I used to play Dota AND Dota 2.
There isn't one iota of toxicity that can phase me these days. I've seen it all.
The sad thing, is that all of my comp games have people almost instantly locking in characters they want to play. That is, with the sole exception of Support Heroes, so I feel obligated to play Lucio or Zenyatta. I want to play Reinhardt, Zarya, or Mei, god damn it!
MarioHead3
Banned
They should just keep adding 9s to it indefinitely.
optimus8936
Banned
I mean, like I said, I'll insta lock DPS, but I'll switch if it's needed. I ain't one of those people who stick with it the whole time no matter what.
Although I kinda switch between locking DPS or Ana.
In all fairness, what do you expect to happen if you have (as an example) a silver-level player just run Mercy for 10 placement matches while pocketing a master-level DPS player? That player is gonna get carried to diamond with no problems whatsoever, and there isn't really anything Blizzard can do about it. The player will, however, drop down to their true rank if they continue playing without getting carried. What you are seeing is the result of the rank system fixing itself after the player got placed too high based on lucky teammates or getting carried. I don't see the problem.
THe_DeiCiDe
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PatThePassive
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I'm between classes for the next few hours can I get a link to the Sombra percent countdown?
And I try to do the same, but unless if we have at least one healer, then I know our team won't go far in the match.
GotchaForce
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The worst is when they move just enough to not get kicked, but still do nothing. And sometimes they do it when we're winning! Unbelievable.
Vault Dweller 111
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Watching Surefour last night and Mendo the night before has me worried about Ana.
"Surefour do you think the Ana meta encourages teamwork more than invidual play?"
'Not really, whoever has the better Ana wins'
"If you could remove one character from the game who would it be"
'Ana'
Mendo already said she was fucking broken.And watching that high level PC play it's honestly hard to disagree. Surefour was constantly complaining about her hit box (which did seem awkward as fuck) and Mendo plays her like a DPS and still dominates.
From my safe space of mid diamond on console I think she's perfectly balanced and still a situational rather than a must pick. But god damn those games last night, the Ana's do not miss, normal shots or sleep darts. And just the way the games look you get the feeling that this character is having WAY to much of an impact.
I don't think our favorite granny is long for this world. Which really sucks because I think she's perfect on console right now. But I don't think the game will still look like this a month or two from now. She's too much of a difference maker.
"Surefour do you think the Ana meta encourages teamwork more than invidual play?"
'Not really, whoever has the better Ana wins'
"If you could remove one character from the game who would it be"
'Ana'
Mendo already said she was fucking broken.And watching that high level PC play it's honestly hard to disagree. Surefour was constantly complaining about her hit box (which did seem awkward as fuck) and Mendo plays her like a DPS and still dominates.
From my safe space of mid diamond on console I think she's perfectly balanced and still a situational rather than a must pick. But god damn those games last night, the Ana's do not miss, normal shots or sleep darts. And just the way the games look you get the feeling that this character is having WAY to much of an impact.
I don't think our favorite granny is long for this world. Which really sucks because I think she's perfect on console right now. But I don't think the game will still look like this a month or two from now. She's too much of a difference maker.
It's only 10 matches, it can't be that accurate. But no, maybe not gold but platinum.
Those two spikes are 2500 and 3000, so the system might be biased towards those SR in an attempt not to over/underestimate the placements score.
But anyway, let's say I'm bad at the game, but I play Mercy and I do my placements with highly skilled people so that we end up winning all the matches and I'm placed into Master. I, then, keep playing the game alone and I inevitably start falling down the ranks, it wouldn't be that fair that I keep getting matched with Masters if my SR is 1500, wouldn't it?
No, you're in a literal shithole, if you solo queue in that rank the outcome is mostly out of your hands. You're lv200+, I'm sure you don't belong there just by game knowledge alone.
I pretty much do as well, but then what happens is 4 DPS are insta locked, and a Roadhog as the only tank. I can already see how the match is going to play out at this point...we won't be able to push in (on Attack).
divisionbyzorro
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A minor nerf I would give to Ana would be to prevent heroes under the effect of the nano boost from building ultimate charge. So if you enter the nano boost at 77%, you cannot go above 77% until the nanoboost wears off. This would prevent a little bit of the snowball effect; right now, you can nanoboost a Reinhardt, and he'll almost certainly have ultimate during or at the end of the nanoboost, which just snowballs into greater and greater advantage.
It's not much, but I think it would help.
It's not much, but I think it would help.
PatThePassive
Member
I lock mercy and sit there praying someone picks a tank or defense hero, If no one picks an anchor for me I just switch. Its on them at that point.
optimus8936
Banned
Honestly I think Ana is fine on console because of aiming and shit, but she seems to be too much of an influence in tourneys, so she might need to be toned down there.
^^^ no
^^^ no
If no one picks tank(s) then team has a lot more serious issues than what healer you are playing :b
Vault Dweller 111
Member
I won't hold my breath on balancing platforms separately :/
Incendiary
Banned
But how do you quantify playing "great"? Last night on Eichenwalde I had a game where I went 9-1 across both attack and defend as Zenyatta and only got one medal for 6,000 healing. However I was discording like crazy, kept our Widowmaker and Reinhardt alive constantly so we could hold the first choke point, kept an enemy Reaper at bay by discording him and making him run away every time he tried to flank, and had a key Transcendence where I protected our Reinhardt so he could kill the Bastion that was the centerpiece of the enemy's defense, which led to our win. Barely any of that shows up as quantifiable stats, though - so would I gain or lose SR in that scenario? It was a clear victory on my team's part and if I hadn't performed how I did as the team's only healer, they probably would have at least lost the first capture point.
I can see still getting positive SR if you go like 50-5 on KOTH but still lose, but the team's win/loss should definitely still count towards what you get as well.
optimus8936
Banned
They did it for Torb and Symm.
lol if two pros are calling Ana the most broken, one of them saying Zarya is fine, then I don't think Zarya is the main issue, or an issue at all.
Red Arremer
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Today I was playing on Nepal against a team of 6 Genjis, and I and some other person were the only ones sensible enough to pick Winston/Zarya. The other people stuck with their double Junkrat and their Hanzo of course. After we (barely) took that round, the enemy team started to play more seriously, which is when we got stomped. I still had gold damage at the end of round 3, even though I wasn't playing DPS heroes. <_<
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