Indeed. The role is irrelevant. From birth, it is predetermined that either you will suck at Overwatch, or you will be competent relative to your rank. At that point, no cosmic voodoo magic can change your Destiny 2, you will either do your role properly, or you will not. The only choice you have is what role you choose. It is like choosing a starter Pokemon. DPS is Charizard because we are cooler than everyone else. Support is Blastoise because they are second best. And nobody likes tank in the same way that nobody likes Venasaur. As you can see, this analogy is airtight.
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Ultimately when you queue into a game in anything but a 6 stack, you’re going to have variables.
You might get the Bastion/Soldier:76 mains for Illios, the Reaper/Mei mains on King’s Row, Widowmaker/Hanzo mains on Junkertown, etc. Everything’s relative.
In my time playing I’ve come to notice it’s best for people to be playing their strengths for the most part, than to constantly swap to hard counter the enemy, because not everyone is as adept with the hero that’s right for the situation as you would like for them to be.
love when i have 3 dps on my team, the enemy runs a pharah, and all 3 dps main refuse to switch to anything that will counter her…
To be fair, there are only 3 realistic options and they are all hit-scan. In fact, some of the niche picks that would work (Sombra and Bastion) are also hit-scan. If you get on a team without a hit-scan specialist, that is just bound to happen. It is part of why Pharah is such a poorly designed character. Even in OWL, most of the teams just opt to run the mirror.
Oh boy, another “REEEEEE DPS MAINS” post…
I thought we were past this…
I literally already posted it was intended as satire.
You only need to do 1 HP worth of damage to actually secure an “elim”
fair
Because DPS are the harder roles to play out of any other role in the game. They are the one’s who have to have the learn to gain the discipline to practice mechanics and good positioning in order to actually have an effect on the game. Although I don’t encourage one tricking, I also don’t encourage people to play more than they can handle.
This is a team game. EVERY TEAM MEMBER plays a part in selecting a particular hero in a particular scenario that will potentially synergize well with eachother. You as a tank or a healer play just as much of a part in countering the enemy team than the DPS.
Well that’s a different discussion in and of itself (one-tricking).
He does have eye balls in the back of his head. While holding up your shield, hold M1 and you can look behind you while you are holding your shield still in the direction of the enemy team.
How is that different than instalocking healer or tank? Maybe we get three people who instalock tank when maybe we dont need it. Also, 3 DPS is not inherently a bad comp.
If you don’t get gold kills when you play Winston, you probably shouldn’t play Winston.
Everyone has good and bad games. That’s just a fact. That’s no reason to get tilted at your team, because you’ll likely lose if you do. Just yesterday, I won a comp game on my main playing Lucio on Kings Row. I had 5 golds. I had gold damage nearly the entire game, and I outhealed our Moira the entire game too. This is with speed boost on the majority of the time btw. Technically, I could have gotten mad at both the other support and the dps, but I didn’t. Why? Because it didn’t matter. We won the game. It wasn’t an easy steamroll like it maybe could have been if just one other person on my team had played better, but it was still a win, and that’s all that mattered. If I had tilted, I guarantee it would’ve been a loss. Sometimes you have to carry the slack, because your teammates are having a bad game. Other times your teammates will carry yours, because youre having a bad game. It happens. Get over it.
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Nope, i don’t watch other people playing games …. it’s like watching someone eat 
Watched a handfull of coaching video tho. And i am not talking about how heroes were ages ago.
Im not a super pro with winston I dont even have 10 hours on him. Which is what makes it all the more ridiculous that I can out perform the other DPS on team.
Your displeasure in a large swath of the community only fuels me.
Honestly… this is actually an issue… most of the Roster is Damage, this also means they’ll have the most different “Jobs” per Role. This makes having a small hero roster a lot more problematic than someone who only plays tanks or supports.
Generally… Supports all provide the support value of being healers since Sym joined the Damage Roster.
Tanks are there to create space and soak up damage for their team… except for Roadhog and Hammond right now all tanks have some way of blocking damage to someone… either by shield, bubble or DM.
Damage on the other hand has multible different functions and jobs that can come up and need to be dealt with… Esspecially when looking at a standard 2/2/2 roster, the 2 DPS are pretty much the easiest to screw up because most of the countering or being countered might depend on their choices.
If the enemy team runs Pharmercy, you’ll likely not get to much done with a Junkrat and a Mei for the DPS. Same goes for Genji, Widow against something like a shield stacked Pirate Ship.
Tanks and Supports have variity as well but sometimes them having to counter what the DPS can’t will hinder them at doing their job (example: Ana shooting Phara out of the sky instead of healing), which further removes value.
The point is… One-tricking… like it or not actually has the highest negative impact on the game when the one-tricked hero is a DPS.
Oh look, condescending ridicule towards Mercy mains.
Yeah right. Next you’ll be telling me you got gold medals for elims and damage on a support class like Moira. Hah.
When I fill, no matter how good I do, we lose.
I learned my lesson!
I feel you friend, I really do. Right after placements, I went on a losing streak because my DPS just can’t seem to cut it (and I’m at a High Plat/Mid Diamond level depending on how well my team mates can work together and not flop. Also, I’m talking about Xbox, not PC.) So I said to heck with it and decided to play DPS instead of filling for Tanks and Supports (you can imagine how much crap I got for that.)
I get into a High Plat game where most of my team mates are just about to hit Diamond. I chose Sombra to try and cause some chaos.
I get called out for THROWING because my team thinks I’m not doing anything.
Here’s what my stats were:
26 Elims (Gold)
19 Objective kills (Silver, Gold was 22)
8k damage (Gold)
1:28 seconds objective time (Gold)
3 Deaths
And that was only at the end of Round 1.
Silver damage was 5k and it was being held by our Orisa while Bronze was being held by our Ana at 2.6k. Our second DPS was a McCree that we didn’t need but he refused to switch because McCree is his ‘best hero’ even though it’s clearly not getting too much done.
Now mind you, I’m a Support/Tank main, I very rarely step into DPS shoes. But I’m the kind of player who can beat my DPS in damage with Zarya so who knows, maybe I should play more DPS? But I know there’s too many DPS instalocks as it is, so someone’s gotta bite the bullet and take one for the team now and then.
Because I sure as heck know a lot of DPS mains won’t.
I have actually done that on more than one occasion. And I was healing more than damaging.
Bad DPS are very obvious when your Moira and/or Winston are beating you.
Oh look, someone who doesn’t get satire.
I also find it funny that you complain about my post even though its literally based on the OP.
That’s definitely not hypocritical.
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The joke was that like Winston, Moira has easy aoe and movement abilities that let them tag a bunch of players and get assists/elims. They’re both pretty easy to get gold elims with and it doesn’t really indicate you have bad DPS.