Support queue is literally always 5x longer than the other roles queue time. I have a perfect solution. Incentivize playing other roles by offering COINS as a reward. To buy cosmetics. Trust. Not battlepass xp. Literally no one needs that.
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With supports actually expected to do good DPS and heal now it’s the most engaging role in the game imo.
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Maybe but I’d rather not play than not play support
Support is my favorite, too. OW handles that role in a totally unique way you can’t get from other games, so it’s not hard to believe its popularity. Most other FPS games are just several variations of Soldier. Their “classes” are usually still about guns, maybe they just also have more medkits or something, nothing that really makes the roles matter.
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In rq, i only play support.
In oq, i will fill whatever role is needed.
Support roster is just the only one i feel comfortable to be locked into for a whole match.
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The queue times are outrageous even in open queue. The clowns coping about Mahvel dying when it clearly has nearly 18 times the playerbase is W I L D. 
I mean MR isn’t dying. But it’s filled with gooners who love humping people/things in spawn and an extremely toxic co rent creator population constantly try trying the bash each other for clout. But other than that MR is good.
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Yeah i can’t play sup anymore, and next hero Aqua is a support it’s gonna be great, prepare for 20 min queue
- Do not play comp
- be a dedicated noob player thus play in the bronze silver mmr
- Success
Thank me later
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By handle do you mean just better making support way more impactful than DPS?
Like when support ults are like Nano and Rush and you can damage while healing and there’s abilities like antinade and drone and teleport and discord
Of course it’s going to be popular, it’s just better. It’s not smart handling. It’s just objectively better characters
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I had a moment recently where that really dawned on me. In the span of a single team fight as Kiri I was able to peel for my ana that was getting harassed by Genji. I then turn around to suzu my crit tank to save him. Then proceed to double dink their Ana and kill her. It was one of those moments where I’m like wow, this role is really busted. No wonder everyone plays it 
. No other hero in other roles could have this kind of impact.
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According to the Steam Charts, MR’s average player count each month has dropped each momth since Janurary. Id consider that “dying”.
Its weird that OW2 is having a Support shortage too. Or is it a Support surplus? I waa never good at statistics like that…
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Gooners are the reason for the sudden increase in tissue sales worldwide.
They may be weirdo’s but they’re making jobs bless them
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And on top of that very recently they’ve made very questionable decisions
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i do find that odd that support queues are longer than dps sometimes. i wonder if its because of the “playstyle” or if its because of hot avatar females and maybe the best top two $$ sellers that being kiriko and juno …
well maybe they have nothing on mercy
Because support heroes are simply better. Equal in damage output compared to most dps, better abilities and far superior ults.
Like kiri for example, she can duel any dps, wall climb, tp through walls, has self heal, can negate tons of big ults with suzu and to top it all off she has a big team fight winning ult.
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Thay’s the problem with some supports, they do too many things.
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It is an interesting point. Have the preferences really tipped toward Supports over DPS? Seems crazy considering how many DPS heroes there are…
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A big issue with DPS is that their only unique trait is largely damage and nothing else.
Tanks staying alive helps otehr allies because many effects are team wide.
Mauga team heal.
JQ shout.
Numerous CC effects and shield abilities.
Simply body blocking is viable.
Obviously, supports have dmg, heals, and team wide effects.
DPS literally do not try to do anything other than damage. Anytime anyone might suggest supportive effects for a DPS, its like, shove it in the support roster.
The DPS players are cannibalizing their own roster by trying to keep wanting to enjoy units like Freja who offer nothing except damage and mobility for themselves.
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Its sad too because the DPS roster has heroes like symmetra, torbjorn, soldier 76, and mei, who all do more than just dps. They just don’t make new unique DPS anymore that isn’t DPS+mobility, its far too safe and boring.
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