Support is the Easiest Role (HERE'S WHY)

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Support is the easiest and most broken role, just made this post because people were discussing it.

Support has the easiest heroes Moira and Mercy (No skillful aspects, no hard mechanics,
low gamesense or aim requirement)
If we compare it to an easier hero in Tank (For example, let’s say Winston he has a super high gamesense requirements, and his ultimate is one of the hardest in the game to use actually a decently difficult hero especially in the current metas.)

But lets compare hardest heroes
Aim : Widowmaker/Tracer (DPS)
Mechanics : Wreckingball / Doomfist (Tank)
Gamesense : Probably give this to Tracer (DPS)

What is supports hardest hero? I’d say Ana

Ana Analysis
Increased hitbox on primary for allies
Large projectile on sleepdart
AOE Nade
Locked on Ultimate easy to use
Difficult aspects for Ana ---------------------------------------------
Gamesense she has no mobility so has to position well
Landing primaries on enemies can be hard.

Tracer analysis
Hard tracking
Hard movement
Hard ultimate
High gamesense requirement
No easy aspects to her kit.

Mercy Analysis
Easy movement
Easy aim (Lock on)
Easy ultimate (Lock on)
Ressurect easy (Lock on)

One HUGE takeaway that makes support even easier is that OP heroes tend to be easier heroes.

For example Lucio is much harder than Baptise because Lucio isn’t good so you have to play him perfectly to get the same value as Baptise.

So the last point is since most supports are broken most supports are easy.

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Lucio is a pain to play both mechanically and game sense wise probably beats out Wreckingball and maybe doom. Though doom is crazy also.

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Lucios definetly hard I’d say his harder than most DPS and Tanks (Not all) but I would say wreckingball beats him out in terms of movement mechanics requirements.

Doom definetly doesn’t imo require more mechanics than wreckingball I know because I play doom and am pretty good at him but ahve never been able to get a grasp on wrecking ball.

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I have always found wreckingball easy mechanics wise but that is just because I came from way back cs1.6 mods that hookshotted you around the map even faster than ball. (not doom though doom is hard)

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Are you including the techs?

For example I think diaging on doom is alot easier than the wrecking ball flat wall piledrive or 180 heat. (Where you smash into a wall and then redirect off it backwards)

I think wrecking balls techs are alot harder which makes him harder at the skill ceiling I think just my opinion though.

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If you are including tech mercy is more insane than them all lol

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Definitely not all of mercies techs have gotten easier since OW1 and even in OW1 her superjump and other techs was was easier than wrecking balls techs or dooms diags.

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There is atleast 20 diffrent techs do you know even half of them lol

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No a lot of them are very niche and not very useful no point in learning them, prop jumping I know and reverse GA tech used to be useful in OW1 before they made it part of the game.

Only techs I bothered learnin in OW1 for mercy

Anything with bunnyhop I don’t consider a tech because almost every hero can use bunny hop e.g wrecking ball doomfist mercy lucio etc

Most of them are a lot easier than wrecking ball and doomfists main techs if you want to talk about niche techs doom can do an upward into downward diag tech which is incredibly niche and useless and wreckingball has some insanely hard niche techs.

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Mercy is harder the she gets credit for. Lots of bad Mercys. More importantly she enables higher skill metas.

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Kind of true she enables skillful poke dps but its poke metas and I think dive metas/brawl metas are even more skillful statergy and teamwork wise.

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Honestly, I disagree, because there’s really only 2 support characters that are beginner-friendly. That would be Mercy and Moira, but even then, trying to survive with Mercy can be difficult and knowing how to move with her well.

  • Lucio
  • Baptiste
  • Ana
  • Lifeweaver
  • Illari
  • Brigitte
  • Zenyatta
  • Kiriko

Aren’t very easy to play or their abilities you have to really understand to work out well.

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I’m not saying they’re all easy.

But the hardest support heroes are easier than the hardest tank/dps characters.
But the easiest support heroes are also easier than the easiest dps/tank heroes.

For example Lucio is definetly more skillful than 90% of DPS but the point is that Support sa a whole is easier than the other roles.

I would count these heroes as easy though the rest of the ones you mentioned yeah they’re harder than alot of DPS like Torb/Bastion.

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For support only. Hardest heroes I would put as this
Illari/Bapt for aim (that Illari nerf really hurt)
Lucio/Mercy for Mechanics
Lifeweaver for gamesense (more specific due to ability use rather than timing which you are right Tracer by far need the best timing sense)

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I’d agree with this.

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If all you play is support and can’t climb out of metal ranks…

YOu are the problem lol.

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what ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

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Shhhh everyone he doesn’t know all the tech. There is a reason a really good Mercy is near unkillable lol

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Mercys almost unkillable even if you don’t know all the techs most of them are very niche and useless.

I’ve defined mechanics as non aim oriented mechanical skills such as movement for this post so that might be throwing you off.

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In one sense I get it, but to be honest, if you’re playing DPS, your main concern is really just killing the other team by chain of priority or helping your supports / tank as needed.

But on the support end, you have that worry about your character’s abilities and making sure the team stays alive. So I get saying the characters might be easier, but I don’t know about the role as a whole. Because there’s just so much that can go wrong no matter which support you’re playing.

But I guess compared to tank, anything else might seem easier, because that role is just very hard in general.