Never understood why people ever thought this to be an insult when winning and they’re losing. Especially when I can take down the entire roster with my main, but they have to swap, trying to find a strong counter and then swap again when that doesn’t work. Though those heroes may be a typical counter, through practice I’ve learned to deal, and they may have just made one or more of my teammates stronger against them.
I get there are many flex players and the devs have built this game around rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock type of play. But your flex makes you good situationally. While learning how to handle the entire roster with a single hero makes you good continuously throughout the entire match.
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The term one-trick was actually born because some folks only knew how to play one hero and one hero only regardless of the map or team composition.
Which forced flex players to pick up the pace and win the game for them.
Back in the day, if you had a team with 6 one-trick, that used to mean 6 DPS who would never ever switch.
And then gets hard countered because the team wasn’t even remotely balanced.
So yeah, one-tricks were annoying, because they would force you into one-tricking yourself (since it was always the same heroes).
With that said, in current Overwatch 2 and that idiotic skill system, I suppose one-tricking is now encouraged.
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Do not defy my skill you little pony
Mama said I’m awesome, and I will find and swap the character to prove it xD
Addendum: During the goats or double shield era, the one-trick heroes issue blew up spectacularly.
Because there were actually heroes like Symmetra who were reworked and designed to counter those specific composition.
But very few played her. And the one who were willing had to deal with a one-trick on their team, wandering aimlessly, thinking they were so much better than the rest while the Symmettra had to do the actual work without any backup.
Goats and double shield were never a problem with a team full of flexers.
But when you get Widowmaker+Hanzo against double shields, then yes. It is absolutely a problem.
But instead of the community asking for common sense, we let the very DPS that were part of the problem cried that the game wasn’t fair to them and badly designed.
I don’t know who are the favorite heroes for one-tricks nowadays, but that snipers only era will forever stay with me.
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The players that complain about one-tricks are middle rank players that think they are better than they actually are, and don’t want to play to the one-trick’s strengths.
In high ranks they will adjust, and in low ranks they should be one-tricking to improve their overall gameplay.
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It is an insult, it’s meant to be. If you can’t hang on any other hero, and you constantly try to shoehorn in your one trick into a team of counters, you’re going to get called out for being a one trick, and it’s not going to be pleasant.
Sounds like Plat tbh.
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One trick became an insult because back in the day, there were so many one tricks. Like hardcore one tricks, not just ‘haha, I play a lot more of hero X than hero Y!’ but straight up ‘I have sunk 3k into hero A and no one else’.
And because these people were hardcore one tricks, if you stole their one trick hero, they would literally throw a temper tantrum, even if you give the hero back. Throwing themselves off the map, sitting in spawn emoting, walking straight at the enemy to feed, things like that.
That’s why it became an insult.
Also, the logic is that this game is meant to have counter play, so I guess the logic is ‘I have mastered multiple heroes, but you’ve only learned one and that’s a handicap’?
One-tricking doesnt really made you good in any way unless you are onetricking a hero with no weaknesses (and thus overpowered or poorly designed).
In a balanced team hero game, there will be heroes you wont and should not be able to ‘‘deal with’’ while one tricking.
Of course, this is Overwatch, where some heroes (specifically flankers/hitscan dps) are allowed to one trick while the rest of the team doesnt.
This is not the epic game design win you think it is lol
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I’m not quite a onetrick.
I specialize in 1 hero per role, and I have a couple others in each that I can play in circumstances where those won’t work.
It’s much better than being middling with several.
It does take quite a bit of effort to force me off one of my specialty heroes because I can play them into anything. I don’t struggle with any single enemy counter-pick. It typically has to be an entire comp that my hero isn’t good against.
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Ppl dont start calling somebody a one trick until the said hero that one trick is using in that match clearly isnt working out. Because if it was working out nobody would have had an issue to begin with.
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I don’t think I have ever seen someone use “one trick” as an insult. Granted, I barely see inter-team insults in the first place, usually it’s intra-team. What kinda stupid ahh insult would that be anyway?
“Mercy main”, “Moira main”, maybe even “Mercy otp”? But the insult there is Mercy, not otp. And again, usually someone in my team insulting someone else in my team.
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I wanted to troll a counterswapping weirdo by picking Zarya into Dva. I thought I was making them mine and everything, but apparently that wasn’t good enough. I should have gone back to Reinhardt or stayed Mauga. 
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because you are inflexible and a poor teammate.
nah in all honesty I think its the ego that msot one tricks have. example:
you know you are doing poorly and either refuse to swap or are too deluded and think you’re doing well
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I mean it is an insult lol.
And if you add the archetype, typical behaviour OTPs exhibit, its even more of an insult.
Yeah no, couple of things bud:
1 - Those “situations” where being able to flex (because flex is not just pressing H at spawn and selecting the hero) yields good results, are pretty much the majority of cases. In fact, most of the times flexing is needed, are situations where others are unwilling to switch (aka stubborn/entitled OTP behavior).
2 - Being an OTP doesn’t make you “good continuously throughout the entire match”, it just makes you gain consistency at a faster rate than the rest, because the variables involved in your game play are smaller.
What OTPs won’t admit (or most would not want to see) is that it plateaus fast. Like really fast and experience + value curve is logarithmic so in reality, they are not like 30% better than someone else using that hero … after 50-60h on that hero, they are barely 5% better and only situationally.
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Literally, Kiriko and Ana most universal supports in the entire OW2. Even if Ana has a theoretical weakness like no mobility, kiriko hasn’t. You can onetrick of one these two and be fine/good teammate all the time. I saw many pictures and memes where people have a 900 lvl on kiriko, and around 100 lvl on the second hero. Now, seems like Wuyang also wants join to that universal heroes party. But honestly Wu at least need healbot support on his team
nobody is a one trick…
anyone can play moira 
and moiras csn hold Lmb on mercy too.
Yeah if you end up in a match with me it’s abundantly clear who I play the most.
So far, when I’ve been on that hero, no one has said anything presumably because I’m pulling my weight (but also likely because I’m playing tank and no one else wants to tank so they just deal with it even if I’m playing poorly that match 
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You dont insult a one-trick when it works and they win, but when it does not work, something else is needed, but they are stuck. I never seen the insult “one-trick” for a winning persons team besides, “oh the Mercy OT who got carried talks now!”
you absolutely do, mercies, pharas, sojourns, ill tell them all that they are cringe.
might not be in match chat but they do get called out for it.
with the exception of ana for some reason though. even as an ana main, we can get away with a lot and I do not know why
everything in this game is a compensatory statement to mollify the loneliness of the player…from skill issue, to diff, from gg to ez…and one-trick is one of the many many attempts to lower the social costs as a loner