Ok seriously… you guys need to actually find a way to introduce hero bans or just do something about players who play a multi roster game and refuse to switch when their hero is hard countered.
This needs to be done and it needs to be discouraged from the entire playerbase that playing one hero is considered ‘ok’.
It is not ‘ok’ to just keep playing your favourite hero while throwing for your entire team. It needs to be stamped out and people need to be told that if you want to just play Mercy or just play Junkrat that you can go and do that in Quickplay… if you want to play in the Competitive mode (hints in the name of the mode!) then you are working for a team not a solo game mode.
I am so tired of getting Mercy one tricks who cannot play anything else. I’m so tired of getting Ball one tricks, that refuse to play anything else. Start actually putting into place quality of life changes that need to be done, we are tired of waiting in queues to then have our games ruined by selfish people.
In the past Blizzard made it pretty clear that they want a casual competitive environment, which is a contradiction and caused so much heat in the community
So they ban Mercy and now that player who only plays Mercy is forced onto Ana or Bap. And you somehow think this will improve your team’s chance of winning? Forcing them to play an unfamiliar hero? If they’re in your rank, it means they’re as good on their one hero as you are on your multiple heroes.
You should be able to play how YOU want it and have a separate hero ban mode. Wasn’t there a time did they removed certain heroes from comp in a PTR patch? What happened with that? I feel like that’s would be an interesting play.
Hard counters dont really exist in OW2. Stuns, hack, freeze, those were the things that hard countered certain heroes and made them borderline unplayable when a team stacks those on you. All those have been nerfed hard so hard countering is much less of a problem. The biggest hard counter I can think of in OW2 is zarya vs dva or Ana vs any tank without a shield unfortunately, but these are things I’m sure we’ll see significant changes to.
They made a half-tailed attempt at hero bans years ago because they didn’t actually want to implement it, so instead of reworking the concept they intentionally sabotaged it from the launch so that it wouldn’t be brought up again.
You have three options.
#1. Use LFG to find teammates who play the heroes you like.
#2. Accept that Blizzard will never “fix” this issue and play anyways.
#3. Quit.
I have finally reached step #3. I used #1 and #2 and in the end they didn’t really solve my longstanding issues, because frankly, only Blizzard can solve those and they refuse to properly balance this game. So my best option was to quit and I don’t miss it!
Wait till the Rein one tricks when they find out that a ban system means they will have to learn a new hero instead mercy one-tricks being forced to play ana.
Well, they tried a ban system before and it didn’t go well. They’d ban characters for a week, and people who one tricked that character simply didn’t play competitive for a week. Wasn’t bad if the characters weren’t popular, but when popular ones got banned, it was bad. It played havoc with queue times and the match maker, so they dropped it.
The fact is, they would not be the same rank as someone who can flex to other roles because when their hero gets banned for the match… they are able to play something else and still be able to work well with the team and play. Because they arent a sodding one trick
A person who only plays one character well, when it gets banned will just lose those matches and when people know that player… they will just ban it over and over until they get to their actual rank.
This game has rewarded one trick players far too much and it needs to be put to an end. If you cannot play anything apart from one hero… I don’t want you on my team as you are putting us at a completel disadvantage and forcing everyone in the team to play around your pick… because you cannot be bothered to learn anything else.
I never minded playing with one tricks. If they’re in a game with me, they’re roughly the same rank I am.
I do however, HATE playing with people who do nothing but whine about one tricks and throw games (we have a ONE TRICK, so why should I bother trying?) Those people cause teammates to lose games more than one tricks ever do.
They aren’t though, thats the point. A player who only plays one character to Gold doesnt mean if they get put onto another character in the same category. Even you can’t be dumb enough to think that someone who plays 3 characters to the SR standard of their rank is the same level of ability as someone who can only play one thing.
I wonder how many one tricks you’ve played with that aren’t actually one tricks but just disagreed with your assessment of the game, and didn’t want to switch just because some internet random was yelling at them to do so.
And before anyone can go “BuT THe WHoLe tEAm aGReEeD wITh ME!”, egos love to pile on and blame others, because it means they don’t have to reflect on anything they’re doing – it’s all that one-trick’s fault!
Also if you’re at the same rank as some one-trick despite them “throwing” and getting “hard countered,” with the implication that they’re doing this every game (you know, because this is all those one-tricks can do) what does that say about you as a flex player?
They’re actually a higher rank than you. One tricks are guaranteed to lose a certain percentage of games when they’re hard countered, and they’re STILL in the same game as you. If they flexed, they’d be ranked higher than you. They are the same rank as you even when intentionally handicapping themselves, which means a one trick in the same game with you is pretty much always a better player than you are.
I’m sorry but this just isn’t the argument for one tricks. When a player and their character are getting hard diffed by another person… you either swap or carry on and if you carry on because thats all you can play… then its called throwing.
If I carry on playing widow, get picked by theirs over and over again… and I say I’m a one trick widow… I’m throwing the game. Sounds like have one tricks on this forum trying to defends their selfishness to be honest.
It’s funny that you jumped right to the stupid assumption and scenario I opened up with. Because I disagree with your silly and rather inflammatory stance on one-tricking and hero selection, you assume I fall into the same boat as those you’re hating on. You seem like a real swell person to be around.
If you’re the god-tier flex player you think you are, and your Widow clearly has no intention on changing, maybe instead of stamping your little flexible feet, why don’t you use those flex skills to flex onto a hero that better enables your Widow to take the duel or otherwise better contribute to the team. After all, the whole point of flexing is so you can fill the gaps in the team makeup to maximize team synergy.
If you were half the flex player you’re implying yourself to be, you’d be leveraging your multi-hero knowledge to amplify the output of your teammates – one-tricks or otherwise. Instead you’re using it as some trash-tier badge of honor to try to look down on your peers. It’s pathetic, kinda cringe, and certainly not the flex you think it is.
If I main hanzo and get all this muscle memory down and they just introduce hero bans so I have to play a hero like Cass and get demolished by OW2 genji, I’ll just quit.
DPS have been butchered and my one tap is skillfully earned.
I know to switch if I can’t hit much, but hero bans sounds obnoxious. Especially for supports with the smallest number of heroes. They plan to make more heroes like Mercy anyways, Ana players will always be banned (or lamp, so genjiblade rolls harder).