Learn aggro Lucio. I’ve fought Lucios that kill faster than DPS. It’s scary.
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Yeah, pick Lucio. He’s chill and is never a bad option.
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Good supports do more than just heal. The supports that only heal from a safe space are commonly refereed to as “useless heal bots”
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Support is the only role where each hero can and should be both healing your team and damaging the enemy. No other role requires that level of situational awareness or degree of multitasking. Boring? Not a chance.
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I think you’re the one confused about it. exactly what do you want healing to be like. You put cursor on somebody, press m1 and you damage. you put cursor on somebody press m1 and heal. What else are you looking for exactly.
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Yeah, people seriously underestimate the kind of damage frog man can dish out.
And the best part is, you’re still fulfilling your role correctly as long as you’re playing aggressively with your team.
Laughs in reddit Zen
Your just soft throwing and healbotting you have to get actual value in picks , damage , assists , nades , sleeps , rezzes , boops , speed , discord , bash , and nano. Just healing won’t get you anywhere above low masters
to me support is weird.
Winning? I am bored
Losing. I am tense as heck
a hard win? my cheeks are tense as a rock from how hard they clammed together from how tense a game was.
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This just in, different people like different play styles.
IMO, Zen is the most boring support. I would play Mercy any day over Zen. I play Ana a lot but she even gets boring quickly. You’re just hanging out in the back lines pew pew at people.
I get it. The most fun thing about most of the supports isn’t their healing mechanic. Mercy’s movement and judgement is fun. Lucio’s movement and boops are fun. Brig’s whipshot and bash are fun. The only healing mechanic that is really engaging is Ana’s. Doesn’t mean supports aren’t fun or challenging, it’s just ironic that the purpose they’re there for is the least fun part of their kit.
I’m not sure there’s a solution for that anybody would be happy with.
You just DPS…and DPS…and DPS
and since DPS is so easy it makes it even more boring.
Can DPS have some more interesting abilities? Ty -Mercy main.
Mercy is a lot of fun. The challenge is to stay alive, and you have to constantly be watching where your next GA target is going to be. And since you’re always looking around you, you are in a good position to tell your team of things that are happening that they may not realize. Escaping is fun. Being slippery as f is fun.
You have to judge how much risk you can take with rez. You have to be able to tell how much value you are getting out of damage boost and be willing to switch to another target, or even pull out your pistol. Depends on how well your other healer has things under control. For that matter, does your other healer need healing, or defense?
Lucio is also a lot of fun. Probably my favorite hero to play, and my most recent main. Booping people off the map is fun. Booping people back from the choke is fun. You are often the one who decides whether to push or withdraw, because you control the speed. Being fast is fun. Being hard to hit is fun. Creating distraction is fun. Delaying is fun. Touching the point is fun, even when it’s suicide.
Its all about personality i think.
People who are more passive tend to play support or tank, aggressive people tend to play DPS.
It’s REALLY ignorant to call a role boring if you dont enjoy it
Just because you don’t understand the role doesn’t mean others don’t either.
I love playing support.
BOOP
If you think it’s the act of applying healing on an ally that is boring, that is done by design for balance purposes.
Correct for some of the support heroes like Mercy.
but a lot of them bring another utility and can contribute much more then healing to the fight…
Brig is a mini tank that can help duel
lucio’s speed boost is an amazing utility in the right situation and so fun to run in maps like illios well.
Both zen and Ana, are amazing +damage contribute to the team.
1 correct bio nade can win a team fight before it even started, sleep dart is an amazing deffensive utility, discord +zen orbs are a devastating combo you should not ignore.
Even the boring support heroes like Moira & Mercy can be fun but it really deppends on the tanks and 2nd support.
if you only heal it becomes boring, but if you have enough protection you can contribute a lot of damage from behind the shields.
with moira, her ultimate is basicly a prize for playing well. you recieve both damage and healing in one giant beam that can not be blocked by almsoy anytihng other than bubble and ice wall…
I do agree it will be nice getting more heroes like Lucio and Brig that can both fight and heal at the same time, but in the mean while the ones we have so far are not bad if your team play well.
I think the problem is there is literally 7 of them its not much to choose from, i think the most interesting ones are Ana and Zen
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I’ve slept on Brig for too long.
I play mainly Lucio and Moira for support and if you’re doing this all game you’re doing it wrong.