from time to time, if you look at the score board, and you notice your supports all have 8 deaths, and their supports have 0 deaths…that’s because THEIR dps are focusing your supports…please respond by focusing their supports as well.
thanks…
this has been a public service announcement.
But they are really hard to hit. I think I will just shoot at the big hammer man just standing there, menacingly. That definitely seems to be a bigger priority at the moment.
lol, so many times, i watch as my dps AND my tank will be pumping everything they can into an orisa, while their supports are just spamming heals on that orisa…meanwhile their dps are focused on our supports.
i just see so many times where our supports will be doing all they can just to survive because their dps are focused on them, meanwhile, their supports are free to do whatever they want, because they are under zero pressure.
I cant link it but the Penny Arcade comic of asking people to shoot the Medic instead the Heavy still rings true.
Then again, I am not guilt free. Sometimes I just cant reach the support but I can shoot the tanks.
If the supports are running in and dying constantly then it is also on them to get better positioning, swap, and use their abilities to stop the divers. You cannot just expect everyone to drop everything to protect you. You aren’t a lost lamb that needs to be safeguarded. Stop trying to healbot and protect yourself.
I never mentioned asking for protection. I simply said, it would be nice for people to put pressure on their supports, like they do ours
If you can’t reach their supports, kill their dps please. That way they’re off your supports.
I can see it too and it’s frustrating as all hell.
That hanzo or cass staying and taking pot shots at me from range while I need to go out of my way as kiri/bap to attack their supports.
Kinda bs.
Also, as a support, we win these! If they try to come after us. We kill them. Had a Cass that kept trying to flank me yesterday. He got me a couple of times, but I killed him more than he killed me.
I fully agree. This is a top 5 pet peeve in OW- however I’ll be very fair here. I’ve seen on many occasion where my DPS are actively focusing their supports but it’s an uphill battle because they’ve got any combination of Juno/Kiri/Bap/Ana and we’re rocking Moira/Mercy/LW.
They have all the util and pressure while we got Mercy/LW, albeit trying their best, but they getting hunted by 2 constantly- at the same time Moira is off fading into Antarctica doing trash dmg, chasing shadows & hearing voices.
If i could i would hit them. But having to hit kiriko’s extra slim hitbox doesn’t help
I do try. But usually the dps wins (my aim sucks because adrenaline makes my hands shake awfully and that throws off my tracking something fierce. Which is why i avoid normal comp modes, i know i can’t climb).
And usually even then, the dps is under 50 hp.
One or 2 bullets from a dps could save me in 90% of the duels where i don’t scrape the win off by myself.
But after i’ve duelled the tracer 15 times and won once on 5 hp, losing 14 times with tracer’s cooldowns used and her on less than 50 hp… a single shot from most dps could win those fights.
A bullet or 2 is all i ask. I don’t require a dps to bodyguard me, but when i’ve been pinging this same flanker for the past 5 minutes and they keep killing me, just spray somd bullets in my direction when i ping them…
who should I shoot the person in the backline with the tiny hitbox that is able to be offensive when nobody is taking damage, or the person close to midrange with a much larger hitbox who is solely focused on killing with their dps kit?
Going for supports first is bad unless they’re playing completely out of position. It enables them to deal damage or boost damage rather than focusing on healing the squishy dps targets that are much easier to hit and much more threatening.
Basic stuff really.
Don’t rely on your teammates to kill their supports. Do it yourself. Go dps Lucio or flankyatta
Or, and here’s a crazy idea, get their DPS off your supports? No, instead you go dive in alone behind the enemy team hoping to get a kill on some Mercy, whose team actually pays attention and helps her, which is the actual reason she doesn’t die.
Seriously. I am so tired of this “focus supports” thing. Focus what’s close to you, punish the thing overextending instead of overextending yourself. Bruh, I say that as a tank main, get their tank(s) and they’ll scatter away cause now there’s more of you and doesn’t matter how good supports heal. I’ve actually been having less of a fun time as Rein, cause all the bullets break the shield and I have to switch (BTW, when’s Rein getting his 2000 HP shield in 6v6 back?).
I’m a Mercy main, I had a game on Peru where I carried my team and was pocketing the Zarya really hard when necessary. I ended the game with over 16, 000 heals, kiriko had 4k, and I think their supports had a combined 8k
The enemy genji was getting flamed hard and my favorite response was, “I’m trying to get the Mercy who’s carrying theyre whole GD team!”
So far, its the only replay I’ve ever saved.
“Just shoot supports” is a very gross over simplication it’s like dps/tanks players saying “just heal me” as a solution to a match
You don’t understand war of attrition I’m overworking their supports to exhaustion that they give up on healing hammer dude and free win.
At least if your dps is actively focused on them, that is pressure being applied.