If you want to beat me you only have to do one thing.
Don’t get tilted.
Teams lose to my team because I 4chan your backline till 1 to 3 people get so mad all they do are focusing me and not the objective.
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Yeah Ball is the ultimate distraction that you probably won’t kill. And he wins games by utilizing that fact
A lot of people pay too much attention to the ball. I played ball all the way to GM before the buffs, you can get so much value by just keeping the supports distracted and disrupted and their tank gets no heals due to that
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I am going to level with you… Trying to kill Ball is more fun than the actual game. I am not “distracted.” I would just rather make life for him annoying than play the actual game.
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To be honest, out of ALL the tanks, I’ve never gotten tilted towards Hammond or Winston. They’re giant and fun to shoot at
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So, do I have to let you kill my supports? I cannot focus on the objective if I have no heals 
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well, with cc once you all had a counter, now you don’t anymore. beside ana sleep that is the only one left.
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Yea I am a ball main as well and people don’t know the secret. They all look for a specific character to counter ball when the actual counter is just playing as a team and focusing him. Yea some characters help take him down but just shoot him as a team lol
dude you can focus him ‘‘as team’’ all you want but if he keep darting trough the team and go away at speed of light because no more cc left beside sleep and prob hog hook, that anyway don’t keep him really in check you will never burst him down.
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Me as junkerqueen, i just killed both their healers so i turn around and my team have chased ball to our spawn. so i’m dead i guess.
teams don’t understand a flanker’s job is kill and disrupt. if a flanker distracts you and gets you to walk to spawn instead of healing your tank:
- you are now too far away for the tank to peel for you and save you if you’re alone
- you have given him even more value if you are not alone, as multiple people are not in the fight
- you have given him the effect of killing you without the work needed to kill you: you took yourself out of the fight
a flanker does not need to kill you. he just needs you to be distracted long enough for his team to kill your tank.
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Just pick junkrat. Or sombra. Or Mei. Doomfist, etc. He has several counters and his escapes shouldn’t be free every time he rolls through or piledrives.
You know people are going to complain since he is a tank that is extremely mobile and has CC, I am predicting like any other heroes who were nerfed for being oppressive, that by season 4, he will receive some nerfs.
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This was the biggest part of WB before his buffs.
Now he offers far too much with too little in the way of drawbacks. He’s got too much uptime, too much damage, too low CDs, too much survivability, too much disruption, and a good, fast charging, ultimate.
Ball was good before his buffs. They gave him enormous buffs for almost no reason, directly after nerfing the tank most capable of dealing with him (which, granted, was warranted). I’m anticipating WB is going to get the DF treatment within a week or two and catch some hard nerfs quickly but…they should have just left him alone to begin with, lol. He was fine.
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And pray the ball’s team just shoots around you like Stormtroopers because it takes so long to kill him. They need to halve his shield buff.
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People pay way to much attention to tanks in general, killing a squishy is the fastest way to get into an advantaged state. And the tank can only really focus on target at a time.
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u can actually kill him pretty easily, you just have to build for it. (Zen+bastion is hilariously effective)
but you only do that if it hes actually a threat, otherwise you only really need 1 person to mark him so he runs away.
Ball is the type of character whos counter is to simply ignore him. Alternatively try to tilt them back by CC or any disorienting/focusing abilities
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Tilting the enemy team by playing ball is easy. Tilting your own team by playing ball is even easier.
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what do i do if i’m the backline and just want to leave spawn :’)
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yes thank you, finally someone thinks of us in this dark, dark ball meta