My unsurprisingly normal OQ placements...round 9

Another season, another round of placements in the “awful/dps only” Open Queue…except this is the 9th time now ive done this (every season) and its also the 9th time theyve been basically normal matches that make me question just what the heck everyone is talking about…almost always 222 or 132…yet no queue times and never repetitive (a little bit of everything)

Caveat this time around…i ended up doing 1 placement early in the season and one of the patches got rid of the replay…so i could only put 9 up…however someone knocked over a telephone pole last night or something cause i lost internet for like 7 hours (mid match)…and well i see 10 on list even though there shouldnt be…so i guess it didnt count??? regardless i put the 1 round of it that i managed to play on here

As usual, my team on the left…

Kings Row - BG6ME2 - [222 v 222] [222 v 222]- Zarya Hog first round…baptiste the second round but it was no contest - LOSS

Hanamura - JT5RKR - [222 v 132] [312->222 v 132] [312 v 132] - support on this one…played lucio bap brig - this was the epitome of why i dont usually play comp…one of the most toxic comms ive ever heard playing this game…doom and genji arguing the ENTIRE time…right from the get go and im sure it went all the way to finish (i left comms after first round)…LOSS

Blizz World - 6YQXM3 - [222 v 132] [222 v 132] [222 v 132->042] [222 v 042] - played support in this one, Zen Ana Lucio and Baptiste…enemy team held up well with the solo tank…but think they got desperate in OT :man_shrugging: - WIN

Anubis - 3V8JRV - [222 v 222] [222 v 222] [222 v 222] Ashe, mei to stall, pharah, sym for 2nd point after stall (difference maker) and finished off with soldier visor - WIN

Route 66 - GH87NY - [132 v 132] [141->041 v 042->132] - this is the aforementioned DC but ill throw it in anyway…played Ana and i was going to solo tank the 2nd round but never got to happen…DC right as round 2 started…as it turns out they ended up winning without me…lol…but it doesnt look like this one counted at all - INCOMPLETE

Dorado - F30MXY - [222 v 222] [222 v 222] - tanked here…dva and orisa but we got rolled on defense - LOSS

Junkertown - JRZS26 - [132 v 222->312->222] [132 v 222] - played zen and brig - WIN

Ilios - 2RBR3J - [132 v 213] [222 v 213->123] [222 v 222] zen->brig->ana - close one, rolled them, got rolled…a little bit of everything in this one…but ended in a LOSS

Junkertown - S4QP4N - [132->042 v 222] [141 v 222] - ana and then switched sigma for round 2 - the dont judge a book by its cover match - ez WIN

Kings Row - 13366V - [222 v 132->231->141->231->222][132->222 v 222][312 v 222->231][222 v 222] - follow all that? this one was crazy…maybe craziest ive ever had (in terms of comps)…but close…ball, sigma, rein over first 2 rounds…then asked to dps instead (OK!!)…soldier torb rest of way - ended up being a LOSS


Overall - i went 5 and 5 (so i guess that one from early in season was a win) - prob the least amount of dps ive played in any of these posts that ive done…SR difference from previous season?

+12 (woohoo! :sweat_smile:)

Also doubt these replay codes last cause i do plan on playing later and blizz has seen fit to not fix the replay pin bug…i can only pin 3 atm…

same, almost all of my open queue games this season have been normal 2/2/2 games for the entire length of the match

Match quality still a bit weird cuz it feels like there really is no high end, but it’s definitely not the all dps fest. Also didn’t see anyone try to force goats/3+ tanks a single time, except for one game where I told my team to pick heroes they actually play and they swapped to 3 tanks and we rolled :laughing:

I’d have to go back but I honestly can’t remember last time I saw goats

I’ve had 2 5 dps games I believe….in 90 maps (I remember pointing that out last time)

Honestly 4-5 dps games during the old days of OQ were rare
3 dps was pretty common but I never found there to be a distinct advantage for 2/2/2 over 1/3/2 as most people don’t know how to tank properly that they struggle to get value over three competent DPS, it was only in role queue did I realise how bad people were at tanking

Also leaving during placement is weird, sometimes you just don’t get any punishment at all or it straight up doesn’t count

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Brings back memories…

I would’ve gone tank…but didn’t need to….easiest win of the day…against 222 even :wink:

The importance of “tanks” is very over-exaggerated

Waiting for a comment where people will call OQ " bad " because they had 4+ DPS in their bronze game :yawning_face:

Not really… Tank diffs are pretty common after all…