my good friend, what you need is to GIT GUD
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Except when youâre support and you have garbage tier teammates, they can affect you exponentially more than they can a dps or tank. You can be the best healer ever but if you have idiots as teammates that donât listen you will never rank up as Supports are hit so much harder. Thatâs why people who say âgit gudâ like clown above me or âyouâre a the rank you belongâ are complete imbeciles.
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Well ironically, the last thing you need is some numbers for heal. You heal your team is already a given but you gotta use your utilities to support your team whether it be securing kills or sleeping that nano Rein.
Itâs hard to give advice without knowing more, like your strengths as a player. Are you good mechanically? Like movement or aim? If so then youâll get far with Ana, Zen, Lucio and Bap. If not you need to play a support that allows you to impact the team fights as much as possible. I donât think youâll be able to do it as Moira, because sheâs essentially a healbot. Try something like Ana or Baptiste maybe. They have decent healing output, damage and incredibly strong cooldowns that can directly impact team fights.
I donât get whatâs so hard to get about the competitive ladder. Itâs a point scoring game - first and foremost. You win by getting the most points. So on an average - you should win more than you lose - duh - but you need to be more methodical in how you play than the average player. Donât just go for objective times or flat out k/d ratio or damage numbers - though both of those may help you win the current match - they wont necessarily help you rank up in the matchmaking system.
Most people go in - get somewhere between 1 and 4 kills per life and donât put much strategy rather than âget angle - take picksâ or âposition good - donât die.â - but the real value comes from Ults and multi-kills. How many 3 kâs or more do you average? Do you get one every match? Does your team usually just win the game by getting more objective time? Or do you stomp out team fights with Team Kills EVERY FIGHT like how the SF Shock did during most games this last season?
Hope for the best. Thatâs all there is to it.
The problem with Support comp is that, generally, all youâre doing is healing the team. You can heal all you want; doesnât make the team any better if they suck. Your competence has less effect on the game overall than any of theirs. That may sound controversial, but itâs simply true.
I started queuing religiously with a DPS main while I was in Diamond because that way you know at least one person is competent.
Then he started using comp games as a âchill practice seshâ after he couldnât get past the 3400 mark for about two weeks, and thanks to his fine choices Iâve lost all my placements and am back in Plat (2900 thank God, could have been far worseâŚJust give me a win streak please and weâre goodâŚ), so itâs safe to say I will not be queuing with that one ever againâŚI will find one of my old buddies. Even with that bad experience now behind me, I still do believe the best way to have some decent games and climb as a Support - whether itâs Mercy or Zenyatta - is to find a reliable Tank or DPS main to queue with. In fact, Iâd recommend that for all roles. DPS? Get a healer. Tank? Get a DPS or another Tank. Healer? Get one or the other, doesnât really matter.
Excuse the little rant, but Iâve only just been placed and that last game ended too painfully for words, so Iâm not in the mood to be particularly eloquent.
Iâm in such an awful mood right now that reading this satisfied me beyond words. Iâve been trying to say this (only far less eloquently) for ages now and somehow so many people try to tell me how Iâm wrong - usually other Support mains who are insecure about the role they choose to play. But let me put it this way:
- As a Support, I am not the one making the kills unless Iâm playing Moira, and frankly I focus far more on healing than DPS anyway. Iâm a healer, that is my job first and foremost.
- As a Support, I am not the one who decides when we push. I can never make the first move or I will die
Those two factors are so important for winning games - they are what wins games at the end of the day, so Support players are at the mercy of their teamâs competence most of the time. You need to be good yourself to help them, yes, but ultimately your healing competency is nothing on Hanzoâs competency to hit consistent headshots. Only one of those things pushes the payload faster, so to speak.
I genuinely despise those people. Theyâre in the same ilk as those âif you canât solo-carry a game then you shouldnât be climbingâ mouthbreathers who presume playing Mercy is just like playing Widowmaker. Overwatch is a team game and it takes an entire team to win it.
Play Moira and kill everything. Thatâs what I do. Albeit Moira was my favorite hero even before the current meta. She pumps out easily 15kheals/10min and can wreck most heroes. I thought itâd be less effective in Diamond but itâs not.
Well a 3200 told meâŚtrack enemy ults and communicate
If youâre tanking. Lead your team with words and actionsâŚwhere youâre going what youâre doingâŚyou are the captain and your team are the shipmatesâŚAvast me Maties and hoist the sails.
Basically, you climb if you communicate, you play with " I need to pee!" Urgency!!!. And actions per minute. Find something helpful to doâŚevery secondâŚif youâre doing nothingâŚyou fail.
None of these. You have to win games.
âŚwhich is harder to do as Support, which is the point of the topic. Itâs not that simple as stated. How is this so hard for people to understand, are some of yall really that dumb?
When Role Queue launched, I first placed as support in Gold. After a few weeks, I managed to get to Plat. I achieved this primarily by winning more games than I lost.
I mean, it kinda is that simple. It doesnât actually matter if you have a reduced ability to influence games as healer, you still have an ~50% chance of winning every game. If youâre an above average support for your rank, your win ratio should tilt to your favour. Because for every garbage team you get, you should also get a garbage opposition.
Im sorry how were there support players in top500 prior to 222 if they have so little opportunity to sway the outcome of a match?
My problem is tanks that just dive in alone over and over, feeding ult. I crie evry tiem.
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If youâre asking me that question, then you didnât read my post or Spoonâs for that matter. Iâm not about to have an argument over this, so just re-read them both. Supports arenât generally the ones initiating pushes or making the kills. Thatâs it. Not that deep.
Dude iâm in diamond on support too, and as much trash as we like to talk about our teammates, if i say weâre going to initiate on x ult, and start saying âgo go go focus xâ my team will atleast try 90% of the time.
Most supports have plenty of opportunities through a match to get kills while still providing your team utility that your dps just canât.
When you lose two games in a row stop playing. The match maker is broken and puts you with the worst players available after you go on a win streak.
Work on positioning, donât heal teammates who are out of position.
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Yeah, I mean physically though. As in, they arenât Tanking. A Mercy canât lead her team into battle, basically XD Thatâs all Iâm saying. Supports really need the team to be doing their jobs properly. I mean, every role does but Supports need it a little more because thereâs only so much they can do. Iâm not saying the role is bad or boosted in any way - Iâm a Support main, I would never say or think that, but itâs just different to Tank and DPS.
While they do, that isnât their primary role. A Support canât substitute for one DPS who isnât pulling their weight, essentially. A Supportâs primary role is to heal, thatâs all. Youâre making it seem like Iâve trashed every single Support player ever when Iâm simply outlining their differences to the other two rolesâŚThat doesnât mean itâs bad. Itâs just different.
you dont, ive been diamond since diamond was a thing and with 2 2 2 ive been in mid plat because either the dps or the tanks arent doing anything to help your team and you also have a mercy or zen main as your secondary healer and then the whole game falls apart because everyone blames eachother. It makes this game awful to play, you feel like you cant move anywhere bc of the retards playing with you not even trying to conform to a strat and playing F*****G genji into sigma orisa.
Thats not true, ive been diamond since diamond was a thing and now im plat because people dont play on meta against meta. Whenever I suggest a swap I get the âwow a silver border plat player what a loserâ even though ive been diamond since this 2 2 2 retardation started