She made a choice, and it didn’t work out. Making hard choices is what overwatch is all about. When nobody is willing to make those choices, you end up with a boring poke battle that almost always favors the defenders. I’d rather have a confident ana that goes for clutch plays, than a shy ana that only ever follows the flow of the team.
Yeah, sometimes this ends in disaster. Completely ruining ult economy and creating a snowball. But I find that to be the exception. Considering how easy nano is to charge, and how easily the tank can get a pick or charge their own ult.
YES DUDE! We both have that same mentality. Nano rein is HUGE for morale, and morale is hugely important as most people have discovered. People too easily give up on winnable team fights Because they get lazy. Especially reins. they will suicide charge if they suspect a fights gone sour, even if there is still plenty of time to hold the line and re-up on cooldowns/resources. But when you save their behind with a bionade/nano, I find they play with much more patience and confidence in the future, which wins games.
That’s why I love playing ana. You can inspire so much confidence in your team. I get shotcaller on a regular basis, and I haven’t even touched a mic since the endorsement systems inception.
If we compare your definition to the actual distribution of players, you’re saying mid elo is the top 3-45% of players. And high elo is the top 0.5-3%. and very high is top 0.5%. Roughly.
FYI As of the last known Dev announcement:
Bronze is bottom 1%-8%
Silver is the bottom 8%-29%
Gold is from 29%-61% making it the largest rank with below average, average, and above average players all in the same rank
Platinum is 61%-86% (from top 39% to top 15%)
Diamond is 86%-96% (from top 14% to top 4%)
Masters is 96%-99% (from top 4% to top 1%)
Grand Master is 100% (top 1%)
Per Jeff Kaplan himself on Feb 20. This probably has changed slightly, but not much, as this list had not changed all that much from the previous one.
Here’s something to consider: if you nano and grenade a tank and spam heals, they can survive 300+ dps no problem. That’s like a personal Transcendence.
Bronze is bottom 1%-8%
Silver is the bottom 8%-29%
Gold is from 29%-61% making it the largest rank with below average, average, and above average players all in the same rank
Platinum is 61%-86% (from top 39% to top 15%)
Diamond is 86%-96% (from top 14% to top 4%)
Masters is 96%-99% (from top 4% to top 1%)
Grand Master is 100% (top 1%)
Blizzard needs to redistribute the ladder badly. It really is stupd that 6 out of 10 players in within a 1000 SR range. It is really absurd that Gold is a third in itself…
these numbers reflect the percentages of players/accounts in the respective ranks. it does NOT reflect the amount of… how do i call it… “possessed skill/intelligence” of them.
the skill curve of players might be totally different than the player distribution curve. but i dont think theres an objective scientific method to measure it.
Any good Ana did this even before the 300 health heal that Nano had. Tanks would get Nano’d so they could take enough hits for us to outheal the damage they were taking (with the 50% damage reduction). The 300 heal just makes it even better. I understand the frustration of wasting Nano, I’ve done it plenty of times, but Nanoing a tank that is slow is far far from a waste.
Ironically, these days I find much more value from using Nano on a tank instead of a dps. Now one problem is the feeling of tanks needing to ultimate when they get Nano’d, but that’s not really your fault. However, in regards to a response you made earlier (@OP), yes a Nano can be wasted if everyone else is dead.
However with that saying, I’ve won a few 3v5’s with Nano Zarya when the other team ignores me and I can just sit and heal her.
you are equating “high” and “low” ranks with you appraisal of skill. That’s dumb.
“Oh look at this skyscraper, it has 100 floors, 1-98 are the low floors and 99-00 are the high ones”. That’s doesn’t seem like a very smart assessment, does it?
Let’s say theres low, average, and high ranks.
So low would be below gold
Average is gold-plat
High is diamond +
You can add very high very low ranks as you wish, but there’s a gaussian distribution to ranks , and everything past +/- 1 SD is “high” or “low”, at least in plain English.
I understand its a bell curve but again why are 6 out of 10 players stuck within 1000 SR when the whole ladder goes about 500-4500. So the whole ladder is represented by about a range of 4000 roughly but 1000 has a traffic jam of 60 percent of the playerbase? Spread that out a little bit. As it is the skill variance around 2000 is really ridiculous.
You also gotta figure that the SR spread allowed for a group is 1000. So a to 35 percent player can play with someone on the bottom what 10 percent? That is insanity if you ask me.
It’s been a bit but I know Evermore hit 5,000 and Effect hit 4985. This is season 3-5ish though I think. T500 seems to top out around 4700 these days so yeah maybe.
But in reality, MOST people are average. That’s what makes it average.