So there’s a new stat called support saves that displays pretty prominently in the individual stat section for support players. With the lack of stat accumulation websites, not really sure what’s a good amount of saves.
Of course, it varies wildly by support. For Moira I’ll only have a handful, but for Baptiste I regularly reach double digits (had 17 on Circuit last night).
So mty question is: how many saves are y’all seeing on different supports?
It varies in every game. Some games you only get 1 save and others you can get 10 or up. It depends what heroes your team plays - whether they require sustain or more burst healing, what heroes the enemy plays - are they playing widow/hanzo where you can’t save anyone (from a one-shot) unless you’re on baptiste?
I would instead focus on counting how many people you could have saved but didn’t. The real answer to ‘what’s a good amount of saves?’ is really ‘enough to win the game’. It’s too wildly varying. You can also get a ‘save’ and have the teammate die a second later, so it’s not too accurate either.
It really depends on the game. Saves only seem to come when someone is actively taking damage and you heal them enough in that moment that they don’t die, or otherwise use your utility to save them, like I got a save on Ana when I slept a charging Reinhardt that would have killed my other healer. You can also get saves with tanks like Zarya can with a well-timed bubble, but she doesn’t have a stat to show how many.
So if the game is full of oneshots or light poke damage, I get less saves than if there’s a lot of active teamfighting. Baptiste also gets double saves with immo field AND heals and can get multiple saves at once.
I wish that the sound cue for a save was a little bit louder though, it’s so cheerful lol.
Saves are entirely game dependant really.
If your opponent puts out plenty of pressure you can really reel in the saves, or if your team is especially good at getting out of dodge when they start melting.
Other times your team gets Widowed AF and you can’t save them from becoming a smear on the wall.
Well, just trying to get a baseline for different characters by getting a feel for what other people are seeing. Hadn’t considered how enemy team make up impacted the potential save number. Would explain the wild variations I’m seeing when using the same character.
I don’t even trust it. Last night it told my friend playing Lucio that he saved me during a Genji blade, but on my end he did nothing to save me at all, in fact I saved myself with Suzu and a headshot to kill the Genji. 