Yeah GOATS was super fun to play tbh because of how consistent it was and how much skill mattered while playing it. Playing the even better version of GOATS when Sigma was released felt really filthy though
Lol there was skill involved … Just not SKILL SHOT dopamine. There was also counterplay. You just needed to wait for it.
The reason noone liked GOATs was because of ADHD
This is not true.
There was no direct counter to goats. It was such a forgiving and enduring comp that you had to mirror goats to have a chance.
Yes there was a counter… People just didnt want to work to find it …
Now if you are talking Master/Diamond/GM Thats like 1% of the people that play overwatch.
NOW is all about the SKILL SHOT, and dopamine.
Screw all dominant metas, that is when the game went downhill. Used to be comps were mainly map and mode dependent, like 3 tank soldier only really worked on payload maps.
If the best players in the world couldn’t find a counter, then there wasn’t one.
Diamond is around 10%, Master around 4% and GM less than 1%. OWL players couldn’t counter goats.
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Well it would have been fun to be in a match where it took people a LONG time to die. This current meta is just ADHD repawn simulator.
I feel like you never played during the goats meta and are just fantasizing about it here.
I miss it to… But it’s too late to play it again
Just gotta go with the flow
Yes.
I think the Overwatch 1 devs copied the winrate math from games without character switching, and assumed it worked on a game with character switching.
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You sir are sick in the head and should seek professional help. I am genuinely worried for your mental health.
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what if youre a dps player? 
honestly goats felt like a raid in MMO:
"Move…bubble…shield going down…down…move back…watch the nade, goood matrix…bubble…im low retreat… heal i shield…REINS LOW GOGOGO… ok we got 1 kill after 20-60seconds and it only took 3x cooldown rotations
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I would have loved to been there for that. That sounds fun!
It was tedious and boring. Overwatch is a first person shooter, not an MMO. An MMO raid has complex and intricate mechanics with players running large groups that need to carefully coordinate through various phases. That is fun and interesting.
Brainlessly shooting shields/tanks for long periods of time DESPERATELY hoping the other team makes a mistake SUCKS! 
(but not really)
then go play a MMO.
wow, final fintasy or my personal jam - gw2.
That was a great video!!! Loved it!
That made my day, and perfectly reminded me why that meta was absolutely cancer.
But why did they keep the system of the three known compositions: Poke > Rush > Dive > Poke and did not adopt the Goat composition?
they should have been proud of their community of players for having found an unthought-out recipe…
But rather than challenging yourself to find a new balance in the circle of three compositions or even find a 5th new composition to counter the Goat.
No ! they preferred to twist the game mechanics and make the Goat impossible to play. and there’s no more problem.
I was playing at time goats was a “thing”
I was forced to play dive then most of the time, people are cruel.