QP is the catch-all game mode. Everyone from children to the elderly, people who play very seriously and very casually, onetricks, people practicing for comp, people playing QP because they will never touch comp (perhaps because they think comp is toxic, perhaps because they know they aren’t good at Overwatch), ultra tryhards, ultra casuals, etc. etc. etc.
It is beyond futile to expect to enforce any kind of coherent, player-base-wide “This is how QP should be played” mentality on solo queue.
If you have strong feelings about what your team comp should be like, and what the proper mindset for QP is, then it is on you to use LFG and/or start collecting friends to group with.
Of course people should not throw or troll in QP, but that is very different from running strange comps or running heroes they’re not very good at yet.
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but that is the thing communicating is as much a skill as clicking heads and so many people go to qp to learn a hero and not learn how to play as a team or to learn how the hero’s work together.
so you are right you can have 6 dps and win if the team uses comms.
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QP is the only way to practice in an environment similar to comp. Arcade is fine for dueling, but it doesn’t work for practicing game sense. QP is pretty crap for this too, but at least there’s an objective. As long as people are trying to win team comp is whatever it is. That’s my view, anyway.
Anyone who thinks Attack Sym And Attack Mei is a dumb idea, has no idea how those heros work.
Mei is a queen for making space for your team if your tank is dumb enough to be a gold rank Flankin’ Rein.
Sym can out right mover her whole team past a choke while melting their back line, if you place all 3 turrets down, put your teleporter on top of them and have your team rush through the portal.
I’m going to blow your mind… every time you play any mode you are practicing.
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“QP sucks because no one is serious”
“Comp sucks because people are too serious”
I personally play comp for practice. Who cares if you win or lose. You will get to the rank you should be right?
QP is how you are supposed to play the game.
You can practice in arcade: FFA or No Limits are good options.
If you want to play silly, choose whatever hero you want without caring for your team comp and countering the other team, and not care about winning, you are ruining the game for the other 5 poor souls that got matched with you.