This also applies to people who only play one role, or only a select few hero’s. If you can’t play and/or understand other characters respective, your opinions on balancing will always be flawed. A support one trick complaining about a Genji means nothing. A dps one trick complaining about Ana’s dps ability means nothing.
If you are any of those kinds of people, I highly advise you expand your horizons and learn every character at least to the point you can have good games with them.
And that’s fine. Not everybody needs to be suggesting game design concepts.
There are very few actual one tricks but anyone with a hero preference gets called one.
Also let people play their game the way they want! If they’re having fun what’s the issue?
No. People who hate one-tricks and require people to have specific skill sets should get out and find their own groups to play with. You don’t get to tell me what to play. I highly advise you to get out with your intolerant mindset.
I don’t mind if they are just having fun, but a majority of them just complain about their counters. It’s annoying af
I work all day, i get home and i want to play and improve with the hero i like
I want to be so good with it that people start to recognize my efforts and i want to be able to adapt to every single composition in this game with my one trick
Being a flex player doesnt make you less biased, you still have your favorite hero/heroes and you will be biased anyway. The important thing is to know you have a bias and try to ignore it
I’m not going to tell you what to play, but also don’t ever complain about “balance issues” if you refuse to play other characters
always has been (limit moment)
I respect one-tricks for playing what they want
I one-tricked Lucio for 15 seasons until this last season. I played more Mercy in Season 2 comp than I had in the last 20 seasons combined. With a win rate 15% lower than Lucio lol. Back to Lucio.
Overwatch League Teams are literally formed around those two things. It has been proven over and over again that one tricking will get you ranked up higher and faster than flexing.
As well, no one truly “one tricks” they’re just nowhere near as good as their chosen main.
I vaguely agree, ish. I feel the people complaining about heroes should try playing the hero they complain about as usually their insight is… the opposite of insightful. I have no problem with one tricking, however. That would be hypocritical.
I go back and forth on this. Like yes, switching is an important part of the game but I feel also if the game was more based on one tricking a lot of frustrations would go away. We like all say we want all heroes to be viable but then say we dont want players to one trick. Its a weird contradiction because if all heroes are viable, one tricking shouldn’t be an issue. It’s also a lot to ask someone to get decent on 30 plus heroes and counting. One tricking being made to be good would be healthy for the game for the following reasons:
If OW could get to a place in OW where the meta feels more optional and heroes become more in line with viability, getting a one trick wouldn’t feel as bad. Right now one tricking feels bad because the game heavily incentives you to counter pick instead of learning how to out play or be given the tools to properly out play.
Playing a lot of heroes doesn’t mean you have any understanding of the game. I’ll take a high rank 1 tricks opinion over the typical forum gold “flex” player any day of the week.
If you think people will play characters that they don’t find fun to play, you aren’t being realistic here.
Change the game, not the players.
To add to Toasts point
One of the least biased players I can think of… is a one trick. Oh and what’s this? They’re a GM player
Same applies to the legions of DPS mains demanding some supports (Mercy, Kiriko) get nerfed yet those players only ever play Moira and DPS with her.
Or just main Echo.
it’s not my fault that d.va is so fun that I put 60 hours in her in a couple of days 
DPS players when you suggest they play any support:
I play dps, but I genuinely don’t see a reason to need Kiriko. She is definitely a strong character, but she’s manageable. I actually like the mercy nerf tbh, even as a mercy player. Her survivability was far too strong when compared to other supports. I’m my gm games, mercy would almost always end up with the most heals, as well as the least deaths. This from a hero who’s main component to her kit is the ability to revive a dead player. She needed her survivability nerfed tbh