Ever since the DPS passive was introduced and especially, when they buffed it back to 20%, most of the supports cant keep you alive anymore and HAVE to DPS to kill the enemy faster, than they can kill you.
Not only that, but its hard as hell to survive currently as support. Dive is meta and heroes like Sombra, will force the supports to duel halve the game and ignore the frontline, because they would otherwise die.
If a fight is breaking out yes get some cheeky damage in, but as soon as someone gets hurt you sustain them.
This is all pre-healing or known as preventative healing. As the support is expecting a large burst to come out at the same rate as your sustain is on a pocket.
Plus…testing has already ruled sustaining a dps over dealing your own is always better in every scenario outside of dueling.
Constant sustain in a fight even beats out damage boost.
If my suppoty is honestly trying to kill to prevent damage, then you’re failing already.
You need the tank alive to contest the obj. You need dps to survive to apply more of their passive.
As a support getting any other kill thay isn’y free, a clean up, or just takes way tpp long is more of a burden against your team.
Yes do damage. But Jesus dude…supports are the only ones who can sustain a team.
Priorities. Prioritize. Learm to juggle back and forth that is how high rank players do it.
More often then not the supports that actually heal more win more.
No I don’t want a healbot. But I would love an actual support who undetstand tyat NUMBERS win the match.
You keep three out of four of your teammates alive and guess what they can do work.
You need to force that numbers advantage.
You almost literally don’t even count in this conversation. That top 500 sticker is sort of a giveaway that you have supports that already know what they’re doing.
You’re so far away from average players that you can’t fathom the struggles because its in your past on another world entirely.
I aboslutely agree that experiences can differ. The part of your post that I was responding to felt very absolutist though, so I wanted to share my (differing) experience. I genuinely believe most support players I get are trying their best and want to keep me alive.
What? It’s not as though you put rank disclosure in your OP either. And I don’t understand your complaint if you’re saying we do get actual supports in Diamond, but the OP is about not having good supports?
Between this season and the last? Not really.
I explained it clearly. When I play, my supports generally pay attention to me. This is true even in QP outside of rank, uh, reverse shaming? Lol.
