I’ve started playing support and the number of times the game starts, a doom swoops in and kills 1 or both of us and the other support leaves. Same with Widow. Walk out of spawn, support gets 1-tapped, leaves.
Blizz must have stats on this. It’s just not healthy for the game at all having heroes so oppressive that people just leave. I normally leave against Widow anyway but will have a go against Doom as support (still often leaving by the 2nd fight) but I had never noticed how many supports leave because of these 2 heroes.
It’s not Doom/Widow as much as it is the people playing them.
When the match starts and you see a brand new account playing Widow that gets 2 kills in the first 10 seconds you might as well just stop playing.
I just came back from a break and the number of people smurfing has definitely gone up (or the number of non-smurfs has gone down) since the last time I played.
If half my team dies in the first 10 seconds to a sub lv 25 Doom, Widow or pocketed Pharah, after 5 years, I’ve finally started leaving. I literally don’t care anymore, I don’t care about endorsements going down and I don’t care about the morality of making other people backfill.
In this situations I literally can’t care anymore. I just want to not be in those matches. It’s a big fat waste of my time and I’m so done with putting up with it and trying, even if you sometimes win. Every session it’s like…
Backfill into loss > priority requeue, smurfs roll one way or the other > backfill into Smurf lobby > priority, yet another roll
Infinitely repeating. Like man I just want to play Junkrat in quick play with my friends and we’re getting rolled by 3 smurfs working together in comms because they HAVE to win they just HAVE to because their ego depends on it
I don’t know why people don’t look more at themselves rather than the opponents. Guess what, even if somehow Doom and Widow got removed from the game, the people playing them will still come for you with a different character. Look at yourselves and learn to improve. Or else, why are you even playing a game against other people for? For them to just stand still for you to kill them and get wins? Try and challenge yourself for once - win or lose you’ll be a better player for the next match.
Am I the only one who literally does not care about the level of the person killing me? It doesn’t feel any less bad to be insta-deleted out the door by a diamond border than it does by a level 4. Like, dead is dead. It’s QP. Why does it matter what colour border they have?
To the OP’s point, I generally don’t see people leave if they’ve gotten picked out the door, there’s usually a second attempt now that they know what’s out there, I don’t leave games ever either and for me personally, you just reset and try a different approach. Stick closer to tanks, hug walls, different path, different hero etc.
However, I do see a lot of people leave if we lose the first or second team fight or even the first round. It’s like they insta-tilt and leave. I guess they never heard of a comeback? Idk. It’s just interesting to me the defeatist attitude so many people in this game have. Or how soft and weak their minds are that the idea of having to actually work for a win is more than they can handle. “Oh no, this match looks like it’s gonna actually be a challenge. I wanted to stomp the enemy, not actually work for a win, F-this, I’m out.”
Doesn’t matter what heroes are played, playerbase is full of ppl who quit soon as they die or team loses the first fight. And with no leaver penalties outside of ranked, there is nothing to stop their poor behaviour.
i figured. yeah no, doom is not oppressive, far from it. sounds like an awareness issue for the entire team if he just swoops in and kills the both of you consistently. an annoying character? yeah i understand. but he’s really easy to deal with even when you get a character with cc paying attention to him.
with widow? maybe? she is a strong character and its much harder to deal with her from a far as a support. sometimes spamming crouch and having unpredictable movement by moving side to side while simultaneously spamming crouch when in sight of the widow can mess her up. id normally try to communicate with my team at this point to go dive characters if they can to pressure her