Often I do those steps due not always I’m confident about my ability on the other against the opponent. While sometimes folks just are targeting the wrong foes. That can enable them to see the game more “cleary”
I don’t say that you shouldn’t talk with folks you know about changing stuff etc. But with folks who doesn’t exactly know you, you should rely on their decision making expecting you to make the first compromise, but not always jump without a bit of time due that can be way worse than before. Let somenthing like 1-2 teamfights or regroups or 20-30 sec to sink in.
By example, I was ana and a friend of mine were brig. The combination wasn’t working with our winston and mei.
I saw he becoming annoyed and wanting to swap due folks pressuring him. Instead I said: let’s swap, you’re better ana than me and before I said anything about my brig skills. He said: yeah, you’re better brig than me and the way you play with her I think we can pull it off.
The PoG was hilariously one nano brig killing reaper and moira on the point with both doing their ults, while knocking back rein to be isolated behind mei’s wall nullifying rein’s ult. Winston annoying their other support and the other dps going to save that support, while being chased by our soujourn.
Both winston and mei controlling zones, while I could rely on the space to keep going. Sojourn going to help winston and rein ended being solo falling in the end. Making we win the game.
The issue is not your motive, sometimes folks don’t get the message with a good lenses, due being in a stressful situation. Which is why I mentioned the “brief” time, which can be situations were the team regroup etc.
Is sad to hear this. Due being a team game, at same time considering that most folks use games seeking escapism, those folks often can’t express themselves well even less under some pressure/stress. Which is why I mentioned why I gave that advice.
With friends is definely easier to talk and sort things out. Even with friends talking about swap can generate some attrition, but at least can be sorted out in the end.
With random folks, becomes complicated due they don’t know you, you don’t know them and both are under pressure. Often looking by what hurts more or the most obvious problem, instead of looking their own. When problems are showed in a way that nobody is being targeted, folks are more open to look in to it. Meaning more team based approach would emerge most of the time.
I remembered a day that one random ana said: winston keeps targeting me, I need help.
I was rein, each time winston dived her I charged him and made him die. We hold a defense of something like 7 minutes in nubani map with the payload having like 0.1m to be delivered to the final part of the map. Winston after dying 8 times, swapped and his team stopped “flattering him” to actually “blame him” for their loss.
They lost a game that they had stomped us since beginning. I got several praises from my supports and him who were way more skilled than me, lost his team support and ended up losing. I negated the space he created, their team couldn’t kill me easily as before and we held the point as if we were Gandalf.
Someone in the end even said: “You shall not pass!” Everybody in the team laughed.
Small gestures can make a difference if someone is willing to ask for help or willing to compromise for the team. The morale can increase a ton as reaction of that action.
That’s just my point, based on my past experience. Isn’t about winning is about making the effort to improve the morale and make folks work more as teammates instead of random players not noticing they’re in a team. Most of the time swap isn’t necessary, just a change of targets or some adaptation on the timming/formation. Will sure have situations that becomes inviable certain heroes, but if in those situations the person seeing folks compromising for him and don’t do anything about, that player would feel bad enough by dragging the team down due their own lack of skill either in another hero to pick or just because kept playing a thing without value.
At best, he would apologize or say it can’t play anything else. At worse you simple avoid him as teammate and move on.
We can’t win all the battles but at least we can try battle them in a way that at least we did what we could to improve the team. Not talking about sweating or anything like that, simply doing what I could with my ability in that moment.