Man, that is hilarious. I need to try this out when I'm fighting a Soldier: 76 as Genji.
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Man, that is hilarious. I need to try this out when I'm fighting a Soldier: 76 as Genji.
Shake Appeal
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I do 5.5K/game with her on average in QP (which is the 99th percentile on Overbuff), which puts her a little behind my Genji but a lot behind Reaper/Soldier.
But she also has my sixth-highest Eliminations/game, and none of the supports are close.
So, eh. You won't get a lot of solo kills, but you can pour out quite a lot of damage, honestly. And the solo kills you get tend to be on supports early in fights, which is high-value.
Psychoward
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There's a spot in Volskaya where you can contest B by being above it on the ground, stupid as hell
There's an extremely tiny spot on Shrine in Nepal where you can contest the point by being outside the zone, on the sloped roof.
Antiwhippy
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Ghost is Bad
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how is that even a projectile lmao
I dont think I'm ever going to get out of gold. At this rank I might just derank to bronze.
Ghost is Bad
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gold isn't hard. just out aim the other guys really.
Ghost is Bad
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ayyy
check out overwatch mythbusters by Muselkm he checks a lot of myths or truths like these and you find out cool tidbits (obviously some stuff might be outdated from the earliest episodes but not all of it)
Psychoward
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played 2 games tonight
both draws
fuck 2cp maps
both draws
fuck 2cp maps
Ghost is Bad
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kind of wish map veto was in comp so i could ban all the cp maps.
Psychoward
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I wonder if they're gonna make anymore 2cp maps
The reaction when they unveil the next one is gonna be hilarious
Their soldier had more elims lol
I lost like 600 points in a streak last season, dipping into mid-Gold, and was easily able to climb out carrying hard as Zarya. Then I went back to playing Support after I gained the 600 points back.
Consistently awful positioning led to the easiest Gravitons I've ever shot off in my life. Getting maximum charge was too easy, people would consistently shoot bubbled targets that they had no chance of killing afterwards. I could just throw it on anyone and get charge. Even Platinum players were generally more judicious about shooting the bubbles, I noticed it as soon as I started getting closer to my original rank.
It was the type of match where you spam group up but everyone just runs in.
Just watched some of your Symmetra on stream and here's some things I saw in your game that you should try and improve:
- Don't try to 1v1 tanks or Mei. The tank has to be terrible to get beaten by Symmetra and Mei can just freeze you. You tried to do it multiple times. You have to go after healers/squishies.
- You tried to put up turrets literally in the middle of a fight lol. Like there was a fight going on, you're getting shot at and you decide to place a turret.
- You used your ults really slowly. Like when a fight finishes, straight away place the shield gen. You're putting your team at a massive disadvantage by not using your ult.
You did well with your shields though. Blocked ults/incoming fire pretty effectively.
Was you forced to pick Symmetra or could you have gone Soldier?
Mr Fahrenheit
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What even is the ranking system in this game. I did my placements matches last night (all with Zarya) and got 9 wins, 1 draw and got placed 2518? That like 10 points higher than I placed last season where I had something like 5W-1D-4L. I know there's the dps bias in placement, but I consistently had either silver or gold in damage, elims, objective elims, and objective time.
What does Blizzard want from me?
What does Blizzard want from me?
Thanks for watching and pointing out habits I don't usually notice.
I just like her for some KOTH maps and Anubis.
Yeah I gotta avoid VS Mei. I know she always wins but I always go for the challenge like a dumbass.
Most tanks in Gold don't even realize it's Symmetra when I attack. She can help drain a tank fast in combination with distraction but Solo its bad. I'll work more on picking and choosing my confrontations with her.
Third game was volk again, we managed to win with a rush take on b.
It cares more about your SR from last season than it does about your placement matches from this season. Placements in S3 (if you've already played in previous seasons) aren't entirely meaningless, but they kind of are.
It doesn't just forget your previous MMR and start you over again fresh for the new season.
Mr Fahrenheit
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They should just kick me off at Plat every season then and save me the trouble of doing the placement games if that's the case.
It's important to note that your first 30 games or so, there's like double xp basically for every win you get lol.
Yeah Symmetra can definitely do work as people struggle to aim at that rank. You just need to be a bit more careful as you die too quickly.
Can. You need to be lucky. I too played ridiculously easy games in gold this season, but I also played plenty where I was completely helpless. You can't carry 5 teammates that don't want to win.
Last season gold was different anyway, they pushed back a lot of people.
You can't. But enemy teams have people that don't give a shit, either. It really does kind of balance out, if you play enough games.
The troll games are gonna happen. The FREELO troll games are gonna happen on the other team, too. What matters is the games where both teams are trying, if you're winning those, you'll climb.
Well, you can't control that. Going in solo and playing 100 shitty games because eventually you'll run into a decent team isn't time well-spent.
There's nothing better than winning amazing matches only for those points to be lost in 10 minutes in the next 2 meme games.
It's gonna be different for everyone, and some may be particularly unlucky, but I think the amount of troll games I've ever played in Competitive is vastly outweighed by the number of serious games. The troll ones just stick in your memory more.
If that wasn't the case, I mean shit, I would have dropped this game like 6 months ago.
DevilDog
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Just wanted to ask, which 144Hz monitor did you buy? Would you recommend anything else in retrospect?
I was on a budget, so I went with a ASUS VG248QE. It's exactly what I wanted from it for the price I paid, so I'm happy with it. But if you want to spend twice as much, there are definitely better monitors out there.
I think this one is a pretty safe goto for a cheaper one, I've seen lots of streamers list it in their setups, too.
I wouldn't say they are all troll games but they are definitely games where the person on the team is not trying to make a community effort. How do you carry a Reinhardt that doesn't want to push up or be offensive? How do you carry when everyone spreads out yet asks for healing when you're not Lucio? How do you get past the reoccuring theme of everyone wanting to do their own thing, pushing too far, throwing? It's far far too common in these ranks which is why it isn't hard for someone to get a little demotivated when they play.
This season is particularly bad because they fucked up the placements system by taking the rank of a season that was, by their own admission, not working properly and transferring it to the next one.
I didn't play a lot this season, but the only way I can have fun (i.e. not miserable) games is queueing with people well above my SR so I can play in the 3k+ rank. I'm not even in gold anymore, but those early matches were so pathetic they almost made me stop playing the game. What's the point of having bad games in gold when my MMR in QP is putting me against diamond to gm players?
That's why I stopped playing Competitive, actually. It's more fun to play with/against Masters/GMs in QP than it is to play in Diamond for me.
Shake Appeal
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I think I just won five games in a row for the first time this season in comp.
Going as a duo instead of solo queue helped, I think!
Going as a duo instead of solo queue helped, I think!
Ghost is Bad
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im practicing reinhardt in QP
what should i do
what should i do
Hold up your shield and Firestrike things until you get your ultimate and then get Play of the Game.
Because there are a lot of negatives that can happen when Reinhardt charges. He can miss, he can die while charging, he can die after he charges because the enemy team focuses him. There are so many things that balances the hitbox of Rein's charge. There's nothing of that with Roadhog's hook. He's safe when he uses his hook, it has a short cooldown so he can throw it whenever he wants. The two are in no way comparable.
Shake Appeal
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Wait until you see a good charge target way, way off in the distance and then let her rip.
Shake Appeal
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7-0 when we quit.
If GMT hadn't ticked over into Jan. 18, this graph would have almost gone vertical.
why not hate ana then?
This is basically my experience as well. It's pretty fucked up.
The question is, do the Masters/GMs enjoy playing with YOU both as much as you enjoy playing with them.
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