They hold too much power. They decide who lives and who dies. And that’s unhealthy. Everyone should be able to manage their own health pool.
Support gets to decide whether you’re going to have fun or whether you’re going to wait for the same health pack to respawn the whole game!!
Of the 23 non-support heroes, only 3 don’t require support to be decent.
oh no, the healers have a job? a role to play? whatever will you do
Power of God is strong in here. Personally i like to play Ana, even im really bad at her.
Ever heard about ” Health Pack ” ?
Yeah, I know. That’s the best part of Overwatch, waiting for that health pack to respawn.
That’s even more fun when both DPS are waiting for the same health pack. And then a Moira orb will come out of nowhere to kill you both.
I do think healing should be nerfed and so should certain heroes damage.
On the flip side healers will need buffs in other areas.
so does a killing a tank wahts ur point here?
Tanks get to decide weather ur gonna play the game or sit at the back of the map looking at the point all game
That’s another topic. And that’s also an issue with support.
Most tanks learn pretty fast not to be aggressive because supports don’t necessarily put resources into keeping them alive.
You do, its called strategy and taking cover. You can survive quite a long time if done correctly. It also helps if you stay in line of sight and not play in front of the tanks, i cant tell you how many effin times i’ve desperately tried to heal my dps but they were out either out of line of sight or playing in front of the tanks making it close to impossible to heal them effectively. Whats worse is that a lot of the times trying to save out of position teammates gets support players killed and we don’t always make it in time, so sometimes its simply not worth it to try to heal you and jeopardize the entire team.
Also you need to be aware of the type of supports you have and what their strength and weaknesses are. You would do Better to play closer to your supports with Lucio, brig, & moira, and should try to stay in LOS
This just straight up isn’t even true.
You can do a match with decent to subpar supports.
A match with subpar tanks is over in 1 minute.
Every role has a huge impact IMO, but tanks edge out the supports and DPS. With tanks that are having an off-day, are tilted/aren’t doing well, you’ll notice in that they can’t create or get any space whatsoever. It doesn’t allow the DPS to move up and by extension, they can’t get any good picks, or if they do get one, it’s not impactful enough to affect a push.
When there’s a massive DPS diff, you can feel it because they are stomping all over your DPS and supports, and when that happens your tanks are starved and can’t push either. It’s a terrible feedback loop and IMO the worst kind of Overwatch match to have.
Conversely, when your supports aren’t doing too well, they can be supported by other team members looking out for them, peeling, and/or popping up shields/etc. With terrible support the tanks can pretty much just swap out and adjust to be more mobile and eat up health packs all game.
what is this health pack you speak of?
Heh, I play single (one character) support accounts for a reason. Anyone can faceroll the keyboard and not be in metal with a dps. Supports I find to be way more difficult to get effective impact with. Key word effective. Yes, I can open que soldier and own you till the days end, but role que locked single character account… that’s where the fun starts.
This is fake news.
Supports don’t decide who lives and dies.
It’s the enemy team. The decision to allow half of the player base to live or die, is in their hands.
Now we’re on to support? Before it was tnaks who were “too oppressive”, or had “too much damage”, or “shields were too strong” and so on. Now it’s supports who “dictate the meta”?
No, they don’t. Everyone can run around the map and pick up a healthpack. And hey, I’m gonna let you in on a secret - if you’re on attack, the payload heals you even withut any support.
I am the Angel of Death.
I decide who lives and who dies.
Play paladins. Then tell me what you think?