Moira is still the junk food of supports

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She’s bad in this game just like junk food is bad for you and she’s the character you play when you’re just too lazy to try.

I still remember during Moira/Lucio double shield meta where alot of the time you got Bap/Mercy comps because both supports really didn’t want to play Moira

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I play her so little that I still don’t really get how to play her and manage her cds and resources. Everyone says she’s braindead but you still need to put in a little effort to make her work. Or maybe I’m just really bad with the hero, that’s a possibility as well.

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Did someone call a doctor?

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Ok so basically:

  • Hold left click whenever your team is engaging
  • Damage orb + hold right click when a flanker is trying to get you
  • Spam left click on enemies to super-refill your healing gauge
  • Use coalescence when your tanks are low HP in the middle of a fight
  • Don’t even think about ult management because it’s up every teamfight
  • Use Fade every 6 seconds because it’s funny and broken

That’s it, now you know how to Moira

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She needs a rework for OW 2

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Can’t do this forever and it is never advised.

This is less effective than healing orb plus right click.

Just need to hold it down.

Better to use it on coordinated pushes.

Still want to be smart about it.

Better to use it defensively and when you need to get to an ally to heal them.

Poorly.

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Eh you dont really want to hold heal, unless your going out of your break damage thresholds Mid fight.

The tap heal for that 30hps over time till the fight get in your face.

Especially if its post fight clean up.

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i could go for a large box of lemon chicken and egg fried rice rn. or a triple cheeseburger with extra mustard and lettuce. or some fish tacos :drooling_face:

i mean uh, moira does have pretty thicc healing maybe we should swap some of it for utility? i’m starving

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I wish they kept her infinite heal via self-damage from the one experimental card.

It’d punish afk play, and offer Moria a risk-reward tool.

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classic “i play the easy character differently therefore you are wrong”
what drakko said was correct but also satirical, but you can really play moira like that effectively without being punished for it, shes just a weaker option than other supports

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as I typed this my damage orb just got me a decuple :sunglasses: and then it bounced back and got me a quintuple

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me picking moira to flank enemy supports because my dps are doing jack all pressure: :gun: :flushed: :nail_care:

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There’s two subtle things to keep in mind that aren’t obvious but make Moira a looooooooooot easier: one is that her primary is a heal over time and can be bursted for efficiency, and the other is that the orb lets you build ult in two places at once.

The rest is just knowing distances, cooldowns, estimating your remaining value correctly, and not falling asleep on your keyboard.

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aka “The Mediocre Moira Manual”

Soldier:

  • Hold/spam left click to engage
  • Shoot Helix rockets for extra 100 damage
  • Use Run To Move Faster
  • Hold Left Click when ulting

Widow:

  • Find perch
  • Use hook to get to perch or retreat
  • Snipe
  • Use poison mine to watch your back
  • Find other perch, and snipe

Tracer

  • Find enemy and hold left click
  • Periodically blink
  • Rewind when health is low
  • Throw Ult on enemy and blink/rewind away

Pharah

  • Take flight
  • Spam Rocket fire
  • Use concussion to boop enemy off map
  • Descend to find health packs when health low
  • Descend upon enemy to Ult and spam more rocket fire.

Basically you can make any character look brain dead. The game is not all that hard to play. Most of the skill is the strategy upon engagement and for Moira who is a short-range character and it was not supposed to die being able to get pics with her while not getting killed and being sneaky about it can get a lot of value also knowing when to stop going DPS and heal your teammates.

I like to think of her as a Leech Ninja + healz

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One of the worst support even before the nerf, cause 99 of 100, if not 100, Moira I had met were hardcore flankers practically at that time.

Idk, there should be other better flanker options, but they stubbornly pick Moira and flank all the time.

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Sure, at the lower ranks.

Healing-wise there’s nothing wrong with Moira. But at the top-end and the upper-ranks where healing isn’t really an issue. You’re going to want more than just healing to provide some worth.

That in turn means to other players that she’s “weak”. With such binary thinking, it’s hard to get across the idea that there’s nothing wrong here.

And sure, you can play as poorly as you want and get away with it, especially if no one is going to punish you for it.

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Yep, exactly…

I think the op should be reworded, “I one-trick genji and thought I’d have free rein over the enemy backline, but now I"m mad Moira showed me up and countered.”

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He’s talking about refilling your fuel? Spamming gives way more fuel than holding it down

OP is literally a known brig/mercy player
Stop with the cringy stereotypes

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I thought it was pretty obvious that this was a joke…

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You mean like… the stereotype about Moira players that the entire post is literally based on??? LOL

“How embarrassing!”

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