mechanics can apply to mercy moira and lucio as well.
My mercy can hard carry gold with just pistol kills…lucio i already climbed all of gold in 3-4 hrs with an 80% win rate. Moira I have never tried, but I saw some ridiculous moira orb bounces in 2800+ that I’m pretty sure would hard carry low ranks as well, though honestly decent tracking + pushing Q on cooldown ought to carry a moira out of gold anyway
also, healers carry by not dying almost as much as dps carry by getting kills. just not dying in a 2800 2cp game for an extra 3-4 minutes means that my team will hold defense until the enemy get massive ult advantage and eat through my defensive ult as well.
anyway, as I get better at the game, I’ve started questioning whether DPS really carry harder. I carry pretty damn hard on off tank and off healer, and lately I’ve been feeling like main healer seems to be the most relevant.
in the goats comp, the most important players are
rein
zarya
ana
at highest rank, the rein doesn’t make many mistakes so the zarya is probably the most crucial component, but at the lowest rank, the rein typically does dumb stuff that gets himself killed. If you don’t do that, then you are very likely to win team fights by being “not stupid”
as for ana…her sleep dart and heal ban hard punish bad reinhardts, so she shouldn’t have any trouble carrying either.
only mercy players should have any disadvantages climbing, and to be honest, the PBSR system drastically boosts mercy players with low game sense because they heal a lot and put out some rezzes. But even without that, if you have upper plat mechanics you should just help your dps in duels and win, even as mercy