It is tough. The roles are so different. I decided to stop cheesing and leave off the spam heroes that I can make work like Torb, Sym, Junkrat and concentrate on the other DPS. I’m a Lucio main but all of the “skills” (I use that term extremely loosely) I’ve acquired don’t translate to any DPS. With Lucio everything is so unique and his speed and wallriding can rescue bad situations. Also you passively heal and speed up team mates so it feels impactful. But with the DPS if you’re out of position, that’s it, no speeding across a wall, you’re usually dead.
I’ve lost a ton of games but think I will stick with Echo because at least I understand the basics and she has great burst damage. How people consistently get eliminations with hitscan heroes when the enemy is being protected and healed I don’t kno. I hit people with Ash but they don’t die. A shield pops up and their buddy heals them. That’s why I’m sticking with Echo cus at least you can re-position faster and burn the shields down. But yeah, it is a big learning curve. The game feels totally different when you’re just doing damage (or in my case trying to).
I don’t think I can really speak for much since I’ve played DPS and support since day 1 but I started out with DPS and going from DPS to support wasn’t that hard It just took me a while to prioritize healing over DPSing but that was my only real issue going from DPS to Support .
If you’re a support, consider tanking first. I have no problem going Reinhardt, but I found it extremely hard to play as a pure DPS.
It wasn’t so much the heroes themselves (played as Ashe and did ok), but more that I really dislike making people’s health bars go down. Sure, I can get some kills as support or tank if it helps, but making it my primary function? Not for me.
Basically, if you are a Support at heart, you will be more at ease defending your team than outright attacking the enemy.
In alternative, you need to completely change your mindset from protection to destruction
I had zero problems going from support to DPS but I also played support in games where that meant utility and cover fire instead of heals. Picking up tanks was infinitely harder, and I still can’t play offtank.
Sounds more like moving from Lucio to anything not Lucio is tough, which it is.
I played Tracer in open beta, then Genji up to mid season 1 then transitioned to support, starting with Mercy. I found support easier. I mean back then it’s easier for support(Mercy) to position safely and heal your team than for dps to position aggressively and try to damage enemy team.
Then I started maining Ana/Zen and, not exactly transition back to dps but just practice a lot of dps in QP, and found dps to be easier than when I just started. I think there are definitely transferrable skills with Ana/Zen that helped me play dps better.
I think for a Lucio main, you should play a mobility dps. I would recommend Genji. Similar “gun”. Similar no CD mobility in wall climb/double jump. Different game sense but that’s bound to exist between different roles.
I went from Damage to Tank to Support and nowadays I tend to flex. It got progressively easier. Neither Tanking nor Support require much in terms of mechanical skill and you definitely start seeing a lot more of a power curve when it comes to moving through the roles. Particularly when it comes to comparing yourself to other players playing similar roles.
As the replies have stated, you’ll definitely need a different mindset when playing different roles. With Damage, it’s usually leading in or diving in against the enemy team and praying your team follows or pays enough attention to cover and support you. When playing Support, you’re not focused on what the enemy is doing, but what your team is doing and doing your best to support and keep them alive. As a Tank, it’s about making space and being the leader, and yeah, going from Damage to Tank means that aggression mindset you can apply through Damage will carry over to Tank in controlled bursts.
You are not going to proform as well as you would proform on your main heroes
And my differents is only 100-300 Sr while dps is the highest at 3100~
Ofc you will lose more if you don’t know how to play a hero at all
And if I’ve put more time to playing 3 specific dps heroes and do well on them it would make sense if I would play another hero that im not that good on him I’ll bring less value to the team and ultimately lose the game because the enemy did better because they put time into their heroes
I do believe that if you what to get higher ranks on healer or tank as a dps main you just have to learn the hero
I for example was a bad healer player and ended up playing mercy and didn’t even play her well and then I picked up ana and got good at her (while not leaving the dps role)
And back then you had to know how to play tank and support so you could fill
Now you don’t even need to know the heroes and you also wont get 4 dps and will need to switch
All you need now is to know a couple of dps heroes that are good for different situations
This is very true. If you find working closely with your team and healing hard to reach teammates part of the challenge, this side of the game is lost entirely when you switch to DPS. With Lucio you can be aggressive but it is situational whereas with DPS the aggression must be constant and that mindset isn’t what I enjoy. For instance with Echo when I ult, I try and grab one of the enemy healers.
100% tanking is the toughest role overall because you’re at the mercy of your team. That said, a good tank can really shine and you definitely notice it if you have one on your team.
yes, that’s because most supports don’t require much aim or technical skill, and the only one that does (ana) isn’t really that hard, hitting your teammates to heal them is much easier because of the amplified hitboxes.
If I should believe your profile, you’re silver/gold (not judging, just an observation because it’s important for context). At those ranks, the skill floor of a hero is most determining for how easy or hard a hero is. Now support heroes happen to have lower skill floors than dps heroes on average, so it’ll naturally be harder to play dps than support at those levels of play.
I think that mainly aim is the biggest hurdle, since you don’t really need to aim to make supports work at those ranks, while you do for dps. Another factor is probably awareness. Most supports have some form of escape or self-healing for when they’re in a pickle, while a lot of dps don’t.
Ana or zen to dps works fine lucio is certainly too unique closest would be genji but lucio has a ton of survivability and mobility that no other character has and you get into a habbit of going into situations and out that no other hero can.
I mained tanks, then picked up supports (with lucio as my main), and now have started practicing a bit more dps lately. Gotta say, Lucio transfers much better to and from tanks (especially rein) than dps. He plays with the tanks more (at least the way I play him) so he is more used to them and you pick up more of their skills from seeing it. If you played Mercy, you may pick up some more dps tips as you spend a lot of time with them.
As for dps players struggling with support, I think it is probably similar. Dps might have less trouble on Mercy (who plays with them) or Ana (who plays like them kind of), compared with Lucio or Moira who tend to more work with the tanks
Yeah my aim is bad. I’m on console but never played FPS games much. I’ve tried practising it but it doesn’t seem to improve much and shooting bots doesn’t help. I find movement easier to improve at.
I’m sure if my aim was better I’d make more progress with Lucio which is partly why I’m trying to learn DPS.
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