Well, the numbers on your side were good so, you should win more games than you lose.
I’d rather lose to someone having to turn off their stove than play a whole game with a bot.
I’d rather someone manage their life accordingly. Don’t queue for what could be a 30-minute match when you’re cooking.
I had my fastest loss ever on Braxis recently. I committed the terrible, inhuman sin of being exactly 5 seconds late to leave spawn. Yes, exactly 5 seconds, I was in lane before the first minion waves clashed.
I know that I was so terribly wrong for that huge AFK, as I was ping spammed by our Chen player and Medivh. Due to my terrible sin, the Medivh refuses to leave Raven form because I was “afk”, and Chen likewise blames me and starts feeding to towers.
I wish I could say these were new accounts, but these two players both had accounts over 2k, and they behave like this. So we lost the game with the first Zerg wave. The Medivh left Raven form only once, and both Med and Chen “reported” me for AFK.
Fun!
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lol they deliberately threw the whole match and then reported you? It can be annoying when ppl afk at start but it usually isn’t detrimental, especially if it’s only 5 seconds.
What’s actually bad is when people afk late game, like during the last objective, because they forgot they’re not supposed to cook and play video games at the same time DIABLO.
Anyway deliberately feeding is much worse than afking and I hope you reported the two of them in return… though at this point I doubt reporting does a damn thing.
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I did report them, but as you say, except for abusive chat, I’m not sure if the AFK and INT reports work all that often. The other two players on my team called them out for being the real reason why we lost, but eh.
I could understand if I had been 2 minutes late, or even if one of them had died because of my absence, but nobody died and the minion waves hadn’t even met. I think I was more shocked that 2 veteran players would throw a match for such a nonissue.
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now right as I replied to you, our Diablo spent 1.5 minutes afk right at start, and that actually set us back a bit (4 deaths).
Yet, we still won somehow, and our AFK big D got MvP.
Maybe Chen and Medivh could learn something here.
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Your story sounds like the perfect cover story of an intentional throw match.
Uh oh, my match starting, let’s not be five seconds late. I hear the countdown!
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Sounds like they would get tilted anyway if 5 sec is too much to wait.
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I watched back the replay to see if something groundbreaking had happened in those five seconds, no. The chat before was interesting as the Medivh was complaining to Chen that he always has to vs Abathur’s and they both said our comp sucked.
So yeah, I think your intuition is correct, they wanted any reason to throw. It annoyed me, as in the thousands of games I’ve played, I’ve had about 3 disconnects, and been “late” about as often. I’m one of those “first out of the gates” kind of person.
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Thats proof enough that they would gone afk no matter what. Medivh should be assisting his team instead of go on a slug hunt as most do. And Chen was properly bad anyway.
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Thinking to myself I’ll go relax with some QM because I have not played for some time. Two minutes into the game despite kill advantage it becomes painfully obvious this is going nowhere. Disgusting levels of matchmaker manipulation. Bad waveclear, little to no damage against a team in which everyone heals themselves and attempting to change lanes makes you lose half of your health to mines.
Forgot to mention it was on Dragon Shire so were losing all three lanes at the same time, very exciting.
https://i.imgur.com/tvrMD6Y.jpeg
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Hey Salt Cathedral, this doesn’t have to do with a particular game story, but when I see other games getting Lunar events and skins around this time, it’s unfortunate. These were the best skins imo, and since blizzard still has a heartbeat they are able to make it for other games. That’s ok and all, I really don’t want to take away from OW, and I know we won’t get anything anytime, but I miss Lunar event stuff.
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GriM’s picture:
Picture thief.
It is only Friday and I am already broken so I won’t be playing over the weekend.
Another game lost in amazing fashion because one guy doesn’t understand late game scaling.
https://i.imgur.com/MM4FfDI.png Autoattack Zagara (real)
https://i.imgur.com/jKBkIm4.png Perfectly healthy young boy
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I don’t mind if I do, and I get to post this before Troubled who always beats me to Irony’s tournament thread.
Grim’s Piccy’s
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In Overwatch, Genji’s diving and pick potential is kept in check by a very all-or-nothing kit - if he chooses to engage with Swift Strike, he needs to secure the kill in order to get the cooldown refund, or he will have very limited means of escape if things go south.
All of this goes out the window when you give him the ability to jump the length of two screens to reach you, dash at you under tower, attack you while sticking to you like glue, dash back out once he gets the kill, and use his ult to teleport another half-screen away for good measure.
Yes, I did just get rolled by a Genji. No, I am not ashamed to admit it.
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damn what was your Mephisto doing? nothing?
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Last night I got called a f****** n***** by a guy named IH8n****** for not finishing my Trash Lightning Thrall quest 
so different than how it used to be
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The fact that Blizzard allows this alone should be enough to shut down this whole company for good.
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