A lot of you asked for it and itâs finally here! AVOID AS TEAMMATE.
What is avoid as teammate?
You can select a player and âblockâ them from being on your team for a period of 1 week.
Why?
Toxicity, not working together well, etc.
What are people REALLY going to use it for?
Sym & Torb, prepare to get ignoredâŚ
How many can I block?
Two. Only two.
In reality?
Geoff mentioned in the âdev updateâ video that if you get âavoidedâ enough youâll actually receive a âwarningâ upon logging in. If you see the warning, youâll likely have longer queue times!
You can only avoid 2 players at a timeâŚfor most players it wont change much i guess. On grandmaster youre gonna have a hard time as torb main perhaps.
People who intend to abuse the feature specifically to avoid One-Tricks amuse me. I say, let them avoid. Theyâll have used up their avoid slots and will then wonder why theyâre still getting matched up with more one-tricks, in addition to being unable to keep them avoided if an actually toxic player joins their team.
Then again, if someone avoids you simply for being a one-trick, even if youâve played well and contributed heavily to your team, itâs probably best that youâre not playing with those individuals to begin with.
~Sincerely Yours xoxo,
a Lover of True, Fair, and Fun Balance. #RevertMercy
You made a good point. This change is clearly not for the masses its for GMs who have a very limited player pool and they are clearly the only ones blizz cares about. Those two votes will start to add up fast if its only 1000 or so players.
False. Itâs meant to avoid anyone I donât want to play with. Period.
You act as if this isnât the âproperâ way to use it. You may have said it indirectly, but your desire to make your opinion the âcorrectâ way to use a function is baffling.
You just edited this, but I recall it saying âI donât think it will change much imo,â which reflects your hidden bias. You clearly donât like it being used against 1-tricks, but Iâm super glad players can take these matters into their own hands to an extent.
Anyone who refuses to play more than one niche hero no matter what should expect some sort of downside for being a detriment to their team. It wonât affect lower ranks much, but Iâm hopeful that it will help with how people deal with teammates they dislike.
Thatâs not how itâs going to play out at the higher levels of comp or in smaller server pop areas. People at a certain high or very low SR tend to bump into the same players over and over in a given night of playing.
So whatâs going to happen to say a one trick SYM main at low masters is they play one game, odds are get avoided by maybe 8 players in the server. As in their entire team and a few who notice the player on the other team. Even if you personally donât have a problem playing with a SYM one trick your team will so if you see one, avoid them, always. Put them on the other team, get that team to tilt and maybe get a easy win for yourself.
over the course of a given night that SYM maybe gets blocked by 12+ people after say 2-3 games. Now those 12+ spread out to 8+ different teams and games. It very quickly will make it tough for that SYM, at a high SR, off peak time etc to get a game.
Kind of harsh? maybe. Better than getting a ban off the avoid system? maybe⌠Just have to see how this plays out.
Yet if you are in comp and see toxic tilt the team sort of player, for any reason, you are a fool not to instantly avoid them and hope your next queue after that game puts them on the other team. Due to your avoid.
One tricks contributing to a team? Yes, at times. But they do not give a penny if they get hard countered. So please, stop encouraging such atrocious acts. And no, Mercyâs nerf is an opportunity for you to learn other healers.
Sure people can use it to avoid one-tricks, but anyone with sense will realize thatâs a poor use of their avoidanceâs, when they could be using it on people being a genuinely negative effect on your matches instead of the very first Sym/Torb you see that may not even be bad.
If I put someone on Avoid, I want to avoid them FOREVER. Not 7 days. Not a month. PERMANENTLY.
And only 2 at a time? Do you even know what goes on in Competitive on console, Jeff? There are throwers, smurfs, and toxic players in almost EVERY. SINGLE. MATCH.
2 at a time is nowhere NEAR enough.
As for match fairness, there can be no such thing so long as smurf accounts are allowed in game.
Regarding the warning if you get a high number of avoids, expect to see a lot of forum threads from Torb/Symm/etc mains who get this message, seeing as theyâre still getting banned and not having those bans overturned by Blizzard GMs.
Youâll hastily add them. And then get thrown by somebody whoâs just toxic anyways. 
