Just can’t face it any more. Never liked to face it before but would go through the motions. But now I just can’t be bothered shooting 2 shields for 5+ minutes in QP. Especially when it’s Rein+Sig which is the most common at my level. OW2 showed how crappy those games are.
I doubt I can ever play a game against double shield again, ever.
I understand. But when you do go against it, play Sym 
Bullying Rein on Sym is one of my favorite past times
That would require queueing - I’d rather play a role without queueing so I can leave and get into a new double-shield-free game asap.
Sym, Torb, Sombra, and Tracer all thrive in the face of multiple barriers
And they all require waiting a very long time in queue. I can queue, get into a game, see it is double shield, leave, queue, get into another game, etc. long before I would even get into 1 game in the DPS queue.
Have you considered grouping up?
Solo Q as dps is foolish when you can cut down that time DRAMATICALLY by playing in a 4-6 stack
I get this. Even before ow2 i did this. Didnt matter what you do. Two shields block all your damage and you are made useless.
Your team doesnt understand focus fire and a low skill easy to run comp easily makes the game boring instantly.
My advice for OW2 then is to never step into open queue.
How is double shield possible in OW2? Are you talking about OQ?
I mean after playing OW2 I can’t face double shield in OW1 any more. Re-reading my OP and title I think that’s reasonably obvious.
The only way to find a match to enjoy in QP is to leave, and leave a lot. This is why I also think they should just remove the levels in the game, remove the XP and remove the XP penalty. It serves no purpose and since they can’t get a working MM system in QP, people will continue to leave.
I know what you mean & I felt it, too.
Luckily, I practice enough Tracer to get around & behind tanks, making them stop facing the barriers towards my team, but the sad realization that there are a bunch of heroes that can hard stun me in my tracks, across all 3 roles, made me realize the truth of the matter with OW1.
I never realized how annoying hard stuns were in OW1, until playing 5v5 in the OW2 PvP beta.
Experiencing being stunned by multiple targets & no follow ups from the team to take advantage of the fact that half of the enemy team is not focused on them any more but on me (with maybe 1 enemy dead) for over 10 seconds, made me also realize how useless individual plays are, currently in OW1.
Especially, when teamplay takes precedence in Win conditions in OW1, & the team doesn’t make any attempt to coordinate.
I was never really bothered by double shield. Maybe because my choice of dps seem to be good vs that comp.
Usually just go Mei against Double Shield. Always found her to very sleeper pick against it especially if Wall off one Tank.
yeah not like there is any characters that counter shield comps, echo hanzo pharah reaper soldier junkrat reaper zen bap
Sadly as a support your options for double shield are limited. Tank has a little more options though.
I played a QP game that had double shield, and I just couldn’t. I left the match.
After that I didn’t leave games again because of it, but that first game after the beta was gone was just… I don’t know, it ruined my motivation to play OW that day.
Do people not get mad at you for playing 76 into double shield anymore? My how the times have changed. That buff must have REALLY knocked some sense into them.
you get tanks that actually pick shields in qp games?
i feel like that if i don’t flex and don’t get tank my two tanks are apes that pick no shields
Because the worst thing one can do against Double Shield is spend the whole match shooting the shields. It’s literally what they want.
The best thing to do against Double Shield is play high mobility heroes that can play past it. Your suggestion makes me think metal rank, in which case Brig and Bap aren’t issues the way they are in Double Shield in +3.5k SR.
Stop spending your whole match shooting the shield or telling teammates to shoot the shield and just Dive. Players don’t even play Double Shield properly below Masters.