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Overwatch |OT8| Our love will last Pharah-ver
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Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I mean if they want to play with people close to their rank wouldn't it just be rank?
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
I've been wondering about how to properly play Winston. Obviously not about aim since it's mostly auto, but reading situations, knowing his limits, and choosing right engagements and positioning. Even so, I've had WAY more success in fights as Symmetra, even without sentries or shields, and she has way less HP. Doesn't make sense.
You're probably not making enough use of his jump or his melee.
Its the only special brawl where you can play whatever hero you want
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Gaf very rarely mirror wider opinion.
Also I liked it. I kinda wish they would make CTF modes for ranked with appropriate maps.
Last game I played I had a match of 5 platins + me as Gm vs a 6 man premade of Grandmasters to answer your question.
What I'm rather hoping for is anyone below a certain rank (in this case top 500) and any troll to get kicked by the admin/host/whatever to maintain a competitive environment.
Zarya Barrier Sensitivity? Does that mean I can adjust settings so that I can bubble the guy getting hooked by Roadhog 20m away instead of some random teammate when a few pixels of their shoulder crosses my line of sight for a second at pointblank range? I sure hope so.
My most played brawl so far (Played lots of 3v3 too)
TWrecks310
Banned
I like the Bastion buffs in that they help fix his poor design of ridiculous amounts of surprise damage and give him more versatility to compensate.
Reduced damage in sentry form doesn't thrill me in concept, but we will see.
Thrilled for the Eichenwalde, sensitivity, and Mercy changes, and the server browser should be pretty cool (I'm assuming this is coming to console too I don't remember if he mentioned it in the Developer Update video).
Reduced damage in sentry form doesn't thrill me in concept, but we will see.
Thrilled for the Eichenwalde, sensitivity, and Mercy changes, and the server browser should be pretty cool (I'm assuming this is coming to console too I don't remember if he mentioned it in the Developer Update video).
KanameYuuki
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Oh I see, thanks, so less mistakes while buffing allies.
The secret is that CTF kinda sorta sucks as a capture the flag game, but there's constant small skirmishes going on, which makes it the best mode to practice a class imo.
That's exactly what it is. Can't wait for the Nano Boost sensitivity adjustments.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Soooooo glad that pharah is back in the meta. I missed my rocket bae. Still rusty as fuck with her though.
I'm still going healer main but on the rare isntances that 2 people instalocks support before I do I'll go pharah.
I'm still going healer main but on the rare isntances that 2 people instalocks support before I do I'll go pharah.
Hellwarden
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The Mercy buff sounds nice, but it also means we'll probably see more Pharah Mercy combos.
And people who engage in that should be dragged out and exposed for the cowards they are.
And people who engage in that should be dragged out and exposed for the cowards they are.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Capture the Rooster has been garbage and I don't understand how it has been popular aside from it just visually being the most prominent selection in arcade which people are playing for the sweet ass lunar skins. However, the details for customization options on CTF makes it sound like you could make it into good/proper CTF.
I really don't like pocketing Pharahs as Mercy. I sigh when someone goes Pharah, because I'd rather just be with the rest of the team and damage boosting a Soldier or some shit. It's safer that way.
Pocketing Pharah also puts more pressure to get value out of your Rez's, since you won't have as many of them as you would when you're just staying with your team. It really only lets you get the risky big rez's in, but I prefer doing tempo rez's more often. I just don't like Pharmercy.
I'd rather play Zen and put a Harmony Orb on her.
Pocketing Pharah also puts more pressure to get value out of your Rez's, since you won't have as many of them as you would when you're just staying with your team. It really only lets you get the risky big rez's in, but I prefer doing tempo rez's more often. I just don't like Pharmercy.
I'd rather play Zen and put a Harmony Orb on her.
TheDrizzlerJ11
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If they make it real they gotta make it one flag with offensive and defensive rounds
Gotta get those achievements!
I would really like to know how the removal of the 'population bars' impacted the player count for each mode. Last time, the Mei Brawl ended up with one or two bars, IIRC.
killdatninja
Banned
Then don't, that combo is good for MAYBE two team fights, after that if the other team hasn't figured out how to counter it... they're gonna have some major issues.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I don't think it should be expected to exclusively stick to pharah's ass, but pharmercy is good because it's a high mobility/high damage/high sustain combo. Also a pharah in the air makes it easier for mercy to GA away.
LucidMomentum
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Pharah is great for quick escapes as Mercy though. When most people have trouble aiming up if you leave their FoV they'll forget about you lol.
^They once gave Mercy a 50% damage boost, but it ultimately got scrapped mid-PTR.
It's important for teammates to be aware of positioning when you have a Mercy. I always try to position myself on the high-ground whenever other teammates just standard-ly hold by the cart (like on Gibraltar for instance) so whoever is playing Mercy can fly to me. I'm usually Ana, Sym or Zen on that map too.
It's important for teammates to be aware of positioning when you have a Mercy. I always try to position myself on the high-ground whenever other teammates just standard-ly hold by the cart (like on Gibraltar for instance) so whoever is playing Mercy can fly to me. I'm usually Ana, Sym or Zen on that map too.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
50% mercy damage boost.
Back when Mcsniper was a thing.
You can imagine how fun that was.
50% boost sounds pretty awful lol.
50% Discord Orb was awful, so stands to reason.
I doubt she'll be favored over Ana (or even equally), given Ana's utility. I say this as a Mercy/Tracer main.
darkwing-buck
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lol
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
What the fuck?, why are you worrying about a Billion Dollar compant bottom line
We paid for the game, this isn't some Free to Play bullshit that we are taking advantage of
Let people earn boxes anyway they like
Its fucking cosmetic stuff, its not pay to win, right?
Unreal
I love you.
My best Mercy games/moments are invariably when my team is gently spread up and down and around (Hanamura B is amazing for this), and I'm flitting this way and that, heal heal here, buff buff there, never in one spot for more than a moment and essentialy unkillable to anything but a lucky snipe or a Soldier ult.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Also there will still be people dumb enough to buy lootboxes anyway.
Like me if I don't get pretty boy zen and LNY rein by the time the event ends. ((
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TWrecks310
Banned
He's good but he moreso than all of the other tanks benefits from whatever heroes the opponent pick. He struggles against tanks and is good against most squishies and supports.
I would also ask what your SR is, because Winston is a difficult hero to use and the skill level might enlighten us to the level of Winstons you are playing with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_GTOKR78bs
Winston needs really good supports backing him up. It helps that the player in that video has the best Ana in the world keeping him in the fights there.
TWrecks310
Banned
Not sure but one of the best pro players in the world is a Winston main. His name is Miro.
Apparently a video of him was just posted above, I would watch that for how effective he can be.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Lots of top tanks play winston.
Also miro is not good just because he has ryujehong on him. His positioning and management of cooldowns is insanely good.
Is Overwatch worth playing on console?
I could double dip down the line I guess.
My current PC setup is pretty old I think and I do have a PS4.
There is also that issue with me being unable to regain my Bnet account as my SC2 and WoW cdleys are in a box across the pacific at the moment.
I could double dip down the line I guess.
My current PC setup is pretty old I think and I do have a PS4.
There is also that issue with me being unable to regain my Bnet account as my SC2 and WoW cdleys are in a box across the pacific at the moment.
I have a lotta fun with it on PS4.
I am silver and I don't see many Winston on competitive. Even during quick games I don't really see him
This video tells me I am suppose to play him like a flanking character?
Same here. PS4 has a pretty solid community, I assume the same holds over on the Xbox.
Bumbletron
Member
Not really. He's about pressure and disruption, but you don't really flank with him. You just annoy the enemy team/cause them to turn around. You don't flank, you dive. If you go in with a good genji and work with them, things die quick. You can also work with your hitscan dps to hop on people who have taken 100+ dmg for easy kill confirms. Winston requires good communication and teamwork moreso than anything else. You also need to be able to hop on things and be able to either hop out, or take out the important targets before you go.
Edit: Knowing where your healers are/healthpack and map knowledge are very important as well when playing Winston. You have to make yourself survivable, since you are so easy to hit.
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