QP becomes "which team has the new account which can't play"

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Games with DPS that struggle to break 4 digits in damage. What’s the point?

Edit: I don’t want to make friends. I’ve tried playing with friends, I find it stressful to organise everything.

If you read my title thoroughly, you’ll see I’m proposing that only one team has the new player who doesn’t do anything when we lose. Sometimes, one team is balanced with a ‘new’ player who is frighteningly good. I won with a ridiculous new account Genji who got double the elims of the whole enemy dps pair combined this evening.

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You can still have fun and win in those games. Especially in quickplay. It’s not as if their team is magically stacked if you have the lowest MMR player on your team.

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Develop these things called friendships, play in a 5 stack of friends. Problem solved. Otherwise. Yes, sometimes people new to OW or fps as a whole will be on your team sometimes. Its QP. You’ll live.

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It doesn’t even have to be a new account. I have one friend who routinely plays comp and has almost every gold weapon available, yet that person is stuck in Bronze-5. When I group with them, it is not uncommon to see said player go 5-12 as a DPS. I make it a sport to try to carry that player whenever possible, and most of the time we actually win :slight_smile:

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You getting those? Mine goes more like which team has the new account smurf player that destroys the lobby with poor MMR balancing. Many of them aren’t even smurf accounts, they’re just players who got banned and didn’t stay out like they should and instead just made a new account

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Oh yeah, befriend four randos just to drag them down to this nightmare of a game with you just so you could maybe have a better game. Maybe if it was still 2016, now I can’t recommend a Blizzard game that’s not in “maintenance mode”.

Right, because that totally doesn’t happen in comp…

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Damage doesn’t mean much. It’s a useless stat.

The point is that if you’re using damage numbers to tell you who’s doing good or bad, you’re doing it wrong.

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Friends arent randos.

This post in title alone is about qp. Read more before you decide to reply to me. Please and ty.

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Can’t leave the match, so just hang out until it’s over and hope you get a better team next time.

That’s about all you can do, unless you really like sweating to force wins…

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Its okay dudebro you can carry them i believe in you

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Hey, I’ll just play a single player game instead.

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Is it fun to play a 4v5 as well as you can and still get wiped out? Nope.

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It’s nice to see legitimate new players, but I feel your pain. The cynic in me says that many of those are just account-sellers throwing to bronze, which adds insult to injury.

This is the flipside, and what happens when a bronze account is sold to a masters player.

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Try COMP, its even worse.
Some think its fine to go into COMP to practice new heroes.
I report them for griefing and feeding.

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I just won a comp game because they had a new account Mei who was deranking. Used every cooldown to stop them reaching point.

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You forget about “which team has the new account which is actually someone with 600+ hours on the game”.

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Nope! See last sentence of post.