Stop abusing support

I mean stop using support if your gonna do purely damage. For the love of god, just play dps. I get you got 22 kills as sup doing 2k healing. GET OFF OF SUPPORT. there is no reason why you cannot do both.

Funny? That is the challenge with support. Balancing when damage is needed vs healing. If everyone is doing amazing damage, maybe we need healing? This is oversaturated and we need role queue for 6v6

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Stop trying to tell players how to play the character they are playing.

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This means you have no idea what you’re talking about. They’re SUPPORT not HEALERS. Supports have some of the best ways to deal damage, if for example you’re playing Wuyang, Cat, Ana, Juno and just healbotting then you’re playing the characters wrong.

Mercy also fits this, if you’re not damage boosting you’re playing her wrong.

They should be roughly even.

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But that 5k Juno dps can change the tide of the match!

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People should learn the absolute basic mechanics of the character then, instead of playing them vastly incorrectly.

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Ok, im gonna start playing tanks like widow.

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Go for it a lot of tanks already play that way :joy:

If someone wants to play a support and dps most of the time which is apart of their basic mechanics not just healing.

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whatever bro. i love doing 10k dmg and 7k healing on moira. it usually wins the game. Besides, it makes the other teams support have to focus on healing instead of dps, therefor, i dont have to heal as much anyways.

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Sorry, Disregard the others… Healing is in the trash since people can get away with DPSing only these days with no punishment for less than 2K healing. They can pretty much go into the mode, go for kills only and just use their kits to save themselves only… I can understand on Zenyatta and Brig, But on an Ana…? Yiiiiikes.

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Not that i want healbotting… Just an actual focus on doing the one thing only they can do and thats healing every once in awhile so teammates aren’t running after health packs or Self Regen being the GOAT, Disregard Soldier 76 / Roadhog in that!

Still… Imagine needing Self Regen to kick in… If it kicks in before you are healed AND you aren’t flanking or with a Brig who used her packs on someone else than thats just shameful TBH and should be called out.

From a Support Main Myself!

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You er gonna just conveniently leave out the part where op was talking about his support only doing 2k heals? Unless its a complete 1 sided quick stomp no support should be having that low heal values by the end of the match, not even zen.

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I’m often the reason why the enemy stays in a controlled state. I may be doing 7k damage and 3k healing but the enemy can’t advance and that’s what counts. Supports do more than healbot.

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Everyone knows that, but going pure DPS and not healing at all is playing them wrong, and throwing pretty much.

Look, you can be all adamant that people can play how they want, but when they end up mass reported and suspended/banned for sabotage, it’s on them.

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As a support main, I’m of the mind that keeping my teammates’ health as close to topped off is priority #1. If they’re all pretty close to full, or at least ~75%, then I’m using my time to try to help secure kills through damage and disruption. True, we are not called “Healers,” but healing is a very important part of every support’s kit (some less than others, of course, like Zen, but let’s not miss the forest for the trees here.) If you queue for support, you need to accept that your primary focus should be keeping your other teammates (and yourself) alive and getting those frags the rest of the time. (It goes without saying, no one should be wasting time spamming heals on people that don’t need healing.)

That said, if a team is not being mindful of their supports getting dived on, or aren’t protecting their supports adequately, then you can’t blame the support if they ignore you as they fight for their life.

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Then remove that stupid healing debuff.

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Pfft, even Blizzard tells us to do damage and kills, because only those who do 2+ kills appear in the POTG, and the POTG where you powerfully cured your teammates is never shown.

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Lmao imagine having a zen or an illari or a bap on your team with no damage you’d be crying “Why aren’t they doing any damage”

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But do we know if they are actually doing this? Are we taking OPs word? I’m not. Most of the people say this is because they werent getting healed enough to their liking in the game.

Its not sabotage. Supports aren’t there to heal you when you face tank every assault. People should know where their health packs are. You can’t expect supports to heal everything.

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It happens a lot more than you think.

Enemy team finishing with 10k+ heals each, and yours finishing at 2-4k is a problem, really when their damage is 2-3x that.

Spoken like a true DPS support. I get it it’s your play style, but once the reports add up, you will be suspended as it’s automated, and trust me, people are probably reporting you for this.

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Actually mine is more DPS are lacking in damage and kills because they are playing to scared and behind me. So I make up for the lack of crap.

Little boy you no nothing about me. I am not a dps support. I will dps when the crappy dps are being crappy and not doing anything. But Im actually quite balanced as a support player.

Nope my team don’t report me they actually like me cuz I can do both jobs. While protecting my other support and keeping my Tank up all at the same time. Sorry some of you do know how to multi task while others clearly dont

Sit back down

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What rank is that?

Okay, we’re not doing this.

1.) I am being civil.

2.) You are being quite the loud mouth

3.) I do not give a flying f what you think.

4.) You can f right off with that attitude that was not given to you.

5.) If you were a balanced support, you wouldn’t of got so mad about being called a DPS support.

Now you can politely go take a hike, because it’s too early to deal with a manchild.