Banned at least 3 times for playing Torb

I have a friend who got banned twice for griefing/afk or something after playing Symmetra only. Even when they won the game they said something along the lines of “Yeah, well, we’re still going to report you Sym”.

What a nice community.

He is not toxic what so ever, he even stopped joining voice because of all the toxicity in this game. Both bans didn’t get lifted (No surprise there), the EU Blizz GM just said it’s legit and that’s that.

They even closed the chat on him while he was typing with them, haha, great support right there Blizzard.

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This is no longer the Blizzard I remember from a decade ago or a few years ago. Ever since this game came out the policy just went haywire.

All I gotta say is

@Blizzard, if your players are getting banned for playing a hero you created, then you have failed your game.

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While I haven’t faced full of what is to come I have already got a notification that I have been Avoided by mutliple people… after just 10 hours of 1 tricking bastion this season.
I expect to be banned here shortly for doing nothing wrong since people can’t accept that there are other people in the world who don’t agree w/ them and don’t share the sameviewpoints that they have.
Good luck Fellow off meta main!

have u ever considered that trolling your teammates is wrong?

Sorry wrong person buddy

Why do you assume trolling? What if that’s his best played hero? Every can swap to different roles, but there’s only a few you can be good with a master. Supposedly this game is fit for everyone to be perfect with all heroes which is why the community and the balancing of this game is totally toxic.

This in itself is a problem since you’re refusing to cooperate with your team. I mean, if you don’t want to say anything, that’s absolutely fine. Nobody can force you to talk. However, you’re unable to hear the team’s callouts, so if they’re saying “Go right! Go right!” and you go left, you just kind of screwed your team.

If someone is saying “Okay, I have Rally in a second, so we can push in on that!”, then you push in even before that point and get yourself killed, forcing the team into a 5v6, you might as well be considered a thrower at that point. Just keep the voice chat and team chat on. I know you’re afraid of toxicity, but you’re hurting more people than you’re actually helping yourself by doing this.

If you’re playing Torb in every single game, 24/7, you’re not playing to win. That’s all I’ll say on the matter.

Actually, you grief your team by playing Torb repeatedly. That’s just plain and simple. You can say “But I’m trying!”, but you’re really not. If your team is unable to push because of you and only you, you are the problem. If you’re unwilling to swap because your pick isn’t working, you are deliberately going against your team and sabotaging the game by throwing (whether you’re “intentionally” doing it or not).

Maybe because Torb actually works on defense, but isn’t a good pick on attack?

You seem like a bright individual here, so I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and let you piece this puzzle together. You don’t get banned when you play other heroes, but you only get banned when you play Torb, so… What should you be doing in order to avoid being banned?

Because you’ve been banned multiple times already for the same infraction. You should know why you were banned by now (judging from your post, you already do know why, so you didn’t even need the e-mail and/or explanation).

49% win rate doesn’t mean you’re winning more than you’re losing. That’s not how win rates work. If you’re 50%, you’re breaking even. Anything above that means you’re winning more than you’re losing. As for your KDR… That’s actually pretty easy to do when you take into account how many of those elims are being built on defense.

Meanwhile, I bet your KDR on attack though is closer to 1:3. You might be getting 1 elim for every 3 deaths you take, simply because it’s that much harder to push on attack with a Torb. You’re definitely not going to be getting as much value out of Torb on attack as you are on defense. Bragging about your KDR as a Torb is like bragging about your KDR as a Sym or Bastion.

Naturally, you’ll rack up a good amount of kills on defense and not many deaths because you’ll be protected better. On attack though? Not so much. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule (like running Bastion/Orisa on Junkertown attack with a pirate ship).

Well, if you’ve been banned once for playing Torb 24/7, then decide to go back into the game on a new account and try it again, only to be banned another time… Yeah, you kinda do deserve it to be honest. The worst part is, you’ve been doing this multiple times and you still don’t seem to understand the problem.

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Source? Not challenging you, I’m simply curious.

Can we start reporting Tracer and Genji one tricks that don’t swap off when they get countered now? They have been bashing off meta DPS one tricks for ages and now they’re not meta anymore and should get the same treatment they wanted against all other one tricks.

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To be fair, the burden of proof is on you as the poster, not us as the observers.

That being said, I don’t think it’s fair to ban someone for hero pick unless they’re throwing. We don’t know, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.

They just can’t handle Torb’s sexiness.
“Too hot for you?” - Torbjorn

Yeah, I’ve been banned for playing Torbjorn and the reason? Griefing and Inactivity. I never griefed with Torbjorn and was never Inactive. This is what happens when they have an automated system in place with no human interaction. Don’t bother messaging them about it either because they’ll just select their dropdown-box answer and throw that in your face.

I remember, with my last ban, I was also silenced. I appealed it and they actually gave me a response regarding my Silence and not my ban. I clearly stated that it was because of the ban and wrote them back. When they wrote back, it was a different copy and past still related to my Silence.

The report system is honestly a joke and abusable. Hope that machine learning works out for you guys though, maybe it’ll do what humans can’t do and what the automated system can’t filter out properly.

Oh, what happens to the false reporters though? Not a damn thing.

Tbh with you, I wouldn’t want you on my team at all, so you play a very niche hero and tou turn off voice chat snd text chat, and expecting people to be nice in a competitive nature? I don’t think so

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Don’t one trick torb lol

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there’s a difference between “off-meta” and one tricking torb.

You can view my profile. 49% win with an elim ration of 3.5. Further stats I have in-game (but not in my profile) is 5.3 deaths per 10 mins (which is extremely low as I try and not feed the opposition ultimate charge and easy deaths). 912 deaths and 1303 killing blows.

I’m not saying those stats are good or I am awesome, just that they show I wasn’t throwing. Plus if I was throwing for 140 games as Torb I think I would have been banned even earlier.

Why do you expect to be banned?
If you got the message you have been avoided by multiple people, you just won’t get matched with these. And to be honest that is great, they don’t enjoy playing with you because you don’t want to adapt, just as you are allowed to play the way you want (choosing Bastion), they can now choose how they want to play (not playing with someone who is known to insists on playing Bastion).

If off meta mains have longer queue times to get matches with people accepting them, no one gets hurt.

  • The ones who don’t want to get matched with the off meta mains won’t be.
  • The off meta mains won’t get as much backlash anymore.

I honestly think, the “avoid as teammate” is a great feature for competitive. And the limit of 2 avoids (and 7 days) is a bad decision, because it encourages to report unwanted playstyles instead of giving the option to just avoid those players.

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i wanted to take a brake from my mains zen/mercy/ana and decided to make an alt and play torb. After my first 2 games i had to turn voice and chat off because of the verbal abuse. Today i got a notification from blizzard being warned that to many players avoided me, didn’t got banned yet but it’s coming

I love you Torb mains.
Thanks for the carry yesterday on a competitive KotH, where everything was throwing s* to our poor Torbjörn, and he still managed to carry us to a brutal victory.

“WE DON’T NEED TORB! PLEASE STOP THROWING!” - The exact same player picks Genji Defending while we already got 4 dps.

Don’t let the haters consume you. This might happen automatically, but they’ll fix it asap, and keep playing the way you like. Just play to win, haters will hate anyway.

I’m a support main, I’m used to be blamed every single loss.