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antitrop

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Soulflarz and I could not recreate the 7 game win streak from last night. We ended up 2-3 for the sesh and dropped from 2990 to 2950.
We just needed one more win. :(

Maybe I'll just cross my fingers and hit the soloqueue.
and report back at 2600
 
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Soulflarz

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and as a result, TIL- people still don't want to do the speedboost strat to teamwipe.
I know it's "scary" because you're running into their team with a lucio kinda getting into the fight, but, cmon, it's a free wipe if you do it right against most teams X_X

I guess I just find that its just annoying because speedboost is so ridiculously useful and people still think of lucio as the stand still and wait character who is an easy "wow I was useful", when that's not really why he's "broken", as his broken ability comes from the fact people still have no idea how to counter speedboost at most levels. Or rather: people spout bs about the meta without having any real idea what makes person x or y good in reality or how to get easy wins. It's easy to say Lucio is good, it's not so easy to say why he's good- most people still have no idea why he is and take advantage of it.
 
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Antiwhippy

the holder of the trombone
I speedboost solo Q all the time now.

I take a "You guys better know how to work with this because that's what I'm doing" approach and it works more than it doesn't.
 
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Soulflarz

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Antiwhippy said:
I speedboost solo Q all the time now.

I take a "You guys better know how to work with this because that's what I'm doing" approach and it works more than it doesn't.
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Yeah. I remember yesterday I told antitrop to just try speedboosting in and basically, yep. People follow, they have to. The issue is when they pick a super passive comp.

I really want to get a PC 6 man who outplay their ranks, but that's really easier said than done. It's one thing for someone to say "I'm not really 2500" and being freshly placed there vs being stuck at a rank forever :p
 
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Anne

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Terareflection said:
Can you elaborate on that?
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Stand outside of mine range and walk left and right sporadically. If you just keep him at that range he has to move in a predictable way or pray he lands a nade. He literally has zero options besides hitting you with a slow ass nade that you can actually reliably dodge :T he has to run or get close enough to blast you away with mine.
 
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The Wizard

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Confused as to whether or not I got top 500, main screen shows the icon and 566 but I don't see the icon on my career profile? I think I was in top 500 briefly in between a win and a loss. In any case 3400 is a great place to end the night, fantastic games earlier with Jorge and crew!
 
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Anne

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Whoever said "strafing is broke in this game" was right btw. Kind of funny.

I've been out of it lately so I can't really play much, but watchign stuff evolve has been kind of hilarious. Game is at such a weird place right now that I don't know what to make of it. Overwatch Open is tomorrow though. I wanna see some dumb shit.
 
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optimus8936

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Anne said:
Whoever said "strafing is broke in this game" was right btw. Kind of funny.

I've been out of it lately so I can't really play much, but watchign stuff evolve has been kind of hilarious. Game is at such a weird place right now that I don't know what to make of it. Overwatch Open is tomorrow though. I wanna see some dumb shit.
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What time is the Overwatch Open?

btw pretty sure it was Seagull that said that iirc
 
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Anne

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optimus8936 said:
What time is the Overwatch Open?

btw pretty sure it was Seagull that said that iirc
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I think it starts at 10 AM Eastern?

http://www.overwatchopen.com/schedule/

Antiwhippy said:
Do you mean just ADADing? What's broken about it?
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Yeah, I really don't have a good explanation for you other than I see people inexplicably drop kills to dumb movement like that, and I know I've done it too. Probably some weird animation and movement thing, I just notice that for some reason in this game in particular people get murdered by strafe sometimes.
 
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komaruR

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so the gm players (from twitch stream) are grouping together and once in game they leave the group. they said its so that they gain more sr points? any1 know if this is true?
 
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SgtWiggles

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Lol Bastion with Golden Guns on Nepal who refuses to swap. And our Mei went to Symmetra.....

This is why I can't ever get out of the 3ks. Win one match, lose 2 because of special ed teammates who are picking Symmetra and Bastion and shit on Capture. And Torbjorn and shit on Offense. I could understand if I was ranked in the 2500s or less, but at 2950 with team averages of 3000+ I'm not sure how I keep ending up getting matched with this people.

I'm totally cool with losing because I sucked or because the other team was better. But losing because my teammates don't even have a simple understanding of meta and usefulness is enraging.
 
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Vincent Alexander

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komaruR said:
did they push further than you? or did they reach the location your team got to with lower amount of time?
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optimus8936 said:
What mode? Are you sure it wasn't just a draw? It has the same color scheme as a loss when it shows up and makes the same losing sound effect, so did you mix it up with that? Kind of dumb that they don't have neutral sounds for draw instead of making it sound like you lost.
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It was the city where you have to capture the point, then escort it. Neither of us got the point captured. Would it maybe count it if they captured the point further along, but never got it...?

Either way, placements are over. I'm 2400ish. That any good?
 
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divisionbyzorro

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I decided to stop being flexible with my hero picks and start insta-locking healers. I'm up 200 points in the past couple of days now. My rationale is simple: I only get to play 2-3 matches each day (save for today - wife's gone, so it's Overwatch central over here). I'm never going to be able to master multiple characters, and my aim is generally the weakest part of my game. So I'm just going to insta-lock what I'm best at, and ride the wave. So far, it's working.

What's super weird is that the game seems to be agreeing with me. I'm losing ~20 pts per loss, but gaining ~30 pts for each win. Going 50/50 is making me climb the ladder, albeit very slowly. The game apparently thinks I'm doing better for the team this way, so...I guess I'll keep doing it!

Also, I got what I'm pretty sure is my first Zenyatta POTG ever. Then I got another one in the following match! Nothing terribly special, but proof that it is possible.

https://gfycat.com/ColdIllfatedFowl

https://gfycat.com/PiercingReliableFanworms
 
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MarioHead3

Banned
Anne said:
Yeah, I really don't have a good explanation for you other than I see people inexplicably drop kills to dumb movement like that, and I know I've done it too. Probably some weird animation and movement thing, I just notice that for some reason in this game in particular people get murdered by strafe sometimes.
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I can barely hit someone just walking slowly in one direction. I'd hate to see how much I fall apart when they start strafing like crazy.
 
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Wyndstryker

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Had a comp match where we lost the first two rounds. Then we all agreed to go 3/3.

It worked amazingly well. Sure not the best implementation of it but it went better than expected
 
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Antiwhippy

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Wyndstryker said:
Had a comp match where we lost the first two rounds. Then we all agreed to go 3/3.

It worked amazingly well. Sure not the best implementation of it but it went better than expected
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Went 3 Tanks yesterday. Only it was 3 tanks, 2 dps and me on ana.

...

Won anyway! Mostly because dat hanamura mei strat.
 
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NimbusD

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Antiwhippy said:
I speedboost solo Q all the time now.

I take a "You guys better know how to work with this because that's what I'm doing" approach and it works more than it doesn't.
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really? I cant play lucio at all in solo q anymore because no on ever stays grouped by me. Goes for most healers, but most healers have a way to heal teammates who are far from them.
 
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Antiwhippy

the holder of the trombone
NimbusD said:
really? I cant play lucio at all in solo q anymore because no on ever stays grouped by me. Goes for most healers, but most healers have a way to heal teammates who are far from them.
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He has a 30m range on heal/speed song dude. You just need LoS.
 
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Mr. X

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Soulflarz said:
Yeah. I remember yesterday I told antitrop to just try speedboosting in and basically, yep. People follow, they have to. The issue is when they pick a super passive comp.

I really want to get a PC 6 man who outplay their ranks, but that's really easier said than done. It's one thing for someone to say "I'm not really 2500" and being freshly placed there vs being stuck at a rank forever :p
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You guys on PC? I listen to directions well and I'm fiending to play against better comp. I end up in solo que as a healer in most games.

MisterX#12822
 
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xaosslug

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komaruR said:
so the gm players (from twitch stream) are grouping together and once in game they leave the group. they said its so that they gain more sr points? any1 know if this is true?
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aha, is that why sometimes peeps I see in groups leave the game and then come back? I always thought it was because they dc'd...
 
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ricelord

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just play a game where this zarya on my team went full retard like 3 times and wasted her ult on one person and getting killed while doing it.we still won but god that kind of shit piss me off.
 
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SgtWiggles

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I didnt know you could get points off a Draw? Every other time I have gotten one its just been neutral gain, but I just got like 35+ points from one. (And I was playing Support too, mostly Power Boosting our Roadhog who was melting people)
 
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Papercuts

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SgtWiggles said:
I didnt know you could get points off a Draw? Every other time I have gotten one its just been neutral gain, but I just got like 35+ points from one. (And I was playing Support too, mostly Power Boosting our Roadhog who was melting people)
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Have you been on a winstreak or something? Maybe that's part of it.

Also did you just get off? I was gonna see if you wanted to group up, lol.
 
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TheThinWhiteDuke

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SgtWiggles said:
I didnt know you could get points off a Draw? Every other time I have gotten one its just been neutral gain, but I just got like 35+ points from one. (And I was playing Support too, mostly Power Boosting our Roadhog who was melting people)
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I've lost and gained on draws before. Never more than 10 either way, though.
 
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MarioHead3

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optimus8936 said:
Best highlight intro in the game.
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I think you may be a bit biased.
 
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TheThinWhiteDuke

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Another argument for not thinking you're all that great (or god forbid, carrying your team) because you get Gold Medals:

I was Zen on Numbani. 4 Golds, 1 Silver. We got steamrolled and I spent most of my time dead- 8/7 k/d (Gold elims). Pitiful healing (under 1000- Gold), pitiful objective time (Silver), pitiful damage (1100-ish- Gold), not pitiful but not good objective kills (3- Gold). Truly one of the worst games I've had as Zen, and I was the lone card.

The medals do not change the fact that I played very poorly. That my team was (much, much) worse does not change the fact that I played very poorly.

My D.Va the game before had 26/4 k/d, big damage, and hung out around the objective messing fools up in an easy win. 3 Silver, 1 Gold.
 
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SgtWiggles

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TheThinWhiteDuke said:
Another argument for not thinking you're all that great (or god forbid, carrying your team) because you get Gold Medals:

I was Zen on Numbani. 4 Golds, 1 Silver. We got steamrolled and I spent most of my time dead- 8/7 k/d (Gold elims). Pitiful healing (under 1000- Gold), pitiful objective time (Silver), pitiful damage (1100-ish- Gold), not pitiful but not good objective kills (3- Gold). Truly one of the worst games I've had as Zen, and I was the lone card.

The medals do not change the fact that I played very poorly. That my team was (much, much) worse does not change the fact that I played very poorly.

My D.Va the game before had 26/4 k/d, big damage, and hung out around the objective messing fools up in an easy win. 3 Silver, 1 Gold.
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But theres a difference between that and going 30+K/-10D with Zen, with 3+ Golds and still losing because your teammates weren't fulfilling their roles as DPS/Tanks, especially if your team has a janky composition. (If we have 4 Offense/Defense, 1 Tank, and a solo healer, theres no damn reason why we shouldnt be lighting up the enemy in a firefight)

Had matches where I was insulted for not healing enough despite the fact I was not only solo healing but also with Silver/Gold in kills/objective kills.
 
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Rean

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Finally got most of my points back after losing 9 games in a row the other day. I really need to stop playing after a few losses, even when I'm not frustrated.
 
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