when I play heals that’s what I focus on doing…I get 10-15 sometimes 20k heals a match…I see support barely doing 6k…I can’t seem to get a heal to save my life so I’m constantly getting meds instead.
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They are either going to carry getting picks as support or they are gonna throw the game and people will be saying “lel dps Moira” during potg
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There are more ways to support than killing your opponent or shoving your gun up your allies.
Having these high healing numbers doesn’t mean that you’re the only one playing the role correctly.
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Ikr imagine judging a character like Lucio by the quantity of healing they did over the match. Rookie mistakeif not just delulu
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Show some replays of you on Tank/DPS. That way we can see what’s happening throughout the match between all the players on your team and why you aren’t getting heals.
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Supplementary damage is also the role of Support. and sometimes (oftentimes even) an extra 6k of damage helped the team more than an extra 5k healing.
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I didn’t make this post lightly…
it’s not like I’m saying healbot me 24/7
I’m saying myself and my team mates just don’t get healed during critical moments. Sometimes even after the fight is over I’ll be standing right next to an Ana. I ask for a heal in comms, in game and emote and she ignores.
that’s not an isolated incident it happens way too much
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I can confirm that they do. Sometimes I’ll still see supports rack up huge amounts of healing done but barely do any damage.
It sucks. I’ll take the 6k damage, 10k healing support over the 0 damage, 20k healing support any day of the week.
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Make healing more usefull or reduce the DPS passive. Then we can talk about “more support” again, because that is what you mean right? Healing you.
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Think of it this way, EVERYONE makes mistakes. And a lot more than they’d care to admit & share with others. Sure there are plenty of times Supports aren’t doing what they are supposed to, but the same goes for all roles. Not only that, but there’s multiple reasons depending on context in each instance.
Which heroes are you primarily playing to rack up a ton of heals? side note: There is a large player base on Support that think heal botting in the majority of their matches is playing Support well. Heal botting when playing with more experienced players isn’t usually the way to go. Supports that can assist in kills and secure elims along with heals and utility have been the better option for quite some time.
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DPSupports and noTanks are the price paid for coercing players into RQ.
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There’s more ways to support your team than just instantly healing them every time they take even a single point of damage. Sometimes, a bit of damage will be more impactful than an equal or even a greater amount of healing.
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My Lucio this season averages like 6.7k heals per 10. My Brig is around 9.7k. I’d start looking at heals as a per 10 rather than per match.
Heal bottling won’t get you past diamond. You need to do both
It’s a matter of knowing when to do each
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When I have those kind of support in my team I already know were going to lose but I can’t leave and have to sit through whole match being fodder for the enemy team. There’s a difference between doing abit damage to help the team on the side then having 1/4 heals of your enemy team with more damage while your whole team suffers.
But just shooting people will always be more valuable to most people.
And they are in the same bracket as you are.
I know you’re not saying they suck or anything, my point is that since S9 the value of healing is just below the value of damage. Sucks if you’re a support player who likes to actually support your team (like me), but that’s what support is now 
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I’m not quite sure I understand…are you saying as a support it’s better to just do damage than heal? Even if your entire team is low and about to die? Sorry I really don’t get what this means here can you explain.
I would argue notanks was what caused role que.
And dps supports was waaaaaaaay more prevalent as the third dps would always choose zen or ana and exclusively dps as support.
This is what happens when you do a global healing nerf and damage buff all in one patch.
Now obvious every support is different, some will heal more like LW, and some with damage more like zen.
Ideal people should be doing a mix of both, but the last few season have shifted the ratios of damage and healing, causing heal bots and damage bots to appear more often.
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