It seems that in open q, goats still reigns supreme. In particular, the Rein/Zarya synergy seems even more exploitable than it was in ow1.
If you play Zarya, focus on bubbling the Rein and calling out when you have it and telling him to be aggressive, he basically becomes an indestructible monster while you easily get max charge. Try to only use it on yourself or another teammate if they are 1hp.
I would recommend Rein, Zarya, any dive tank (Ball, D.Va, Winston, Doom) + any 2 supports. All the supports are good so it doesn’t really matter which ones imo unless they have a Hog then I highly recommend an Ana.
The times I have played this comp we basically steamrolled every game. I recently ranked up to diamond 4 on a 5-0 so I am curious if there will be more goats being played here than there was in plat.
Anyone who still plays this mode care to weigh in?
Even in top 500, it is mostly 3 tank 2 support. It isn’t that fun and more restrictive than role queue.
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They ruined open queue when they buffed all the tanks for their 5v5 mode, which doesn’t work because most of the heroes, maps and modes aren’t designed for 5v5. So now neither competitive mode is very good. Sometimes I think they set out to deliberately kill this game off.
To answer your original question. I’ve been between plat and #43 in open queue and it’s much the same. Nothing will change between plat and diamond as the spread of ranks in a match is too wide. The games will be the same.
Actually it’s less restrictive since each player can choose any of the full roster of heroes…
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That is being disingenuous, but yes, you can pick more freely. But what works is more restrictive.
Didn’t you say before that you just play for fun and don’t care about winning or losing?
Indeed. I don’t care, I just play what I like. But doesn’t stop it being more restrictive in terms of what’s effective.
But if I can get T500 in open queue, the mode has problems.
We mostly play open queue in Asia anyway. It’s just that the meta suggested by Blizzard (1-2-2) is far too suboptimal and many players enjoy it when the game has more than a single tank per team. Perhaps 2-1-2 is the best, but even 3-0-2 and 2-0-3 can work a lot better than 1-2-2.
I just don’t see how 150 extra health is supposed to compensate for the lack of a second tank.
That’s the composition used in RQ but I haven’t seen any indication that they’ve actively suggested players adhere to that as a meta in Open Q?
At my rank there doesn’t seem to be a meta at all tbh… Apart from people switching to Bastion when they are losing -.-
I rarely see Rein/Zarya in my games (and I usually play tank) - in my experience there is no meta, round 1 everyone queues what they want to play, then one team realises the enemy has more than one tank, and the game switches until there is at least two tanks either side with one of them being Orisa haha
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