Leavers & Role Queue

Competitive Discussion
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So there’s a fatal flaw with the role queue. Since your team is locked in a 2/2/2 formation, if someone leaves you’re now down one of whatever role they were in with no way to adjust and make up for it.

Can a system be implemented so that if someone leaves in a comp match that the role select unlocks and you can pick whatever hero you need? This would allow teams to adjust accordingly to the leaver to try and balance the squad that’s left.

I know that in most situations if you end up down 5v6 you might as well leave as soon as the penalty goes away but if you’re in a close game and want to stick it out, there’s no reason you should have to do it with a locked-in disadvantage now.

If a healer leaves you shouldn’t be forced to try with just 1 healer moving forward. For all the flaws of the old matchmaking system where 5 support mains could end up matched together, you could at least adjust your team if someone left to try and make up the slack.

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I mean, I’ve won 5v6 games with a leaver mainly because the leaver was the person who was actually of such low value to the team they were equivalent to the enemy having a 7th player.

This is rare though, and while I respect scrapping it out to the bitter end, you likely will just lose (and waste 10 minutes) unless the enemy is totally incompetent.

A problem this could also bring up is that the game is now balanced around 2-2-2 (or WILL be soon hopefully) so a mechanic that could circumvent this team composition could be abused.

The only thing you absolutely needed in OW was main tank and one support. Bare minimum. Everything else was gravy.

Anyway, being down 1 is such a big disadvantage the outcome is bleak. This won’t make much of a difference.

Leavers suck, just wait out the timer, bounce, and get into another match.