I don’t jump to blame. I assess, ask the person having difficulty how we can adjust to help, seldom get an answer, suggest trying something new, switch or flank or get height advantage.
I always explain my plan as tank to the group so they know where I’m going to be and what I expect from myself. Constantly warn against over extending, try to get support to use cover and let them know when my mitigation is going down.
I try to politely suggest practicing certain skills in quick play and with a few exceptions, I try not to participate in toxic behaviors.
I’ve had people thank me, I often get endorsed even when we lose. I also get told to use my a*** in various ways that world make a sex worker blush. That’s the internet for you.
All said and done, I try not to blame others but I do call out players when they’re lacking and I have suggested that other players are dragging the team down.
Most often it’s a Sombra that doesn’t understand how her kit works, most recently it was a Hanzo/Soldier pair that couldn’t get past the enemy Reinhardt shield and ended with less combined kills than everyone except Mercy.
We won the game because I when Moira and disrupted their back line. By which I mean I gave up my 2k healing lead on the Mercy to destroy the enemy team. I ended with 41 kills, 17,000 damage and 12,000 healing, 4k less than Mercy.
I got blamed for not healing, I pointed out we got the point capture in overtime because we were stuck at the choke point for all but the last 30 seconds when I switched, after asking either of them to go flanker. I ended by saying I shouldn’t have to work that hard and got told to “shut the f*** up.”
My point is, sometimes it is someone else and they do not care because they can get carried. I’m stuck in Silver right now because every game is pretty much the same. I had been tracking it on paper because I still don’t have a role queue career profile on console. Most of my losses are quitters and people playing noticeably poorly and refusing any change. 1 in 10 or so is a close match. That said, A third of my wins are from enemy quitters and I’m sure enemies playing terrible. Which you would think evens out. Low rank feels terrible though. It’s easy to rank up on pure luck until you can’t anymore and then you find out you don’t play well so you blame everyone else and think you don’t need to change. But every tank plays slightly different and you do have to change and improve.
So I both agree and disagree. Sometimes assessing faults and pointing them out is better assuming anyone is willing to put in the work to improve in that area.
