Supports throwing their own games

Qft.

Our Widow constantly dying to Ball. Doesn’t get a single pick all round. Swaps with ten seconds left.

McCree has ult. He’s alone 1v6 on enemy point. Rather than wait 5 seconds for his team desperately running from spawn, he ults and dies immediately.

Enemy team has Brig, Moira, Zarya, Symmetra. Genji has died last two times he’s tried to dragon blade. But surely if he keeps on trying it’ll work eventually.

Yup. Thank goodness for big brain dps players, showing us other roles how inadequate we are…

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You summed up most my games when I was playing support trying to get back to gold, except number 6 is going pharah with a moira/brig and lucio, and number 8 is demand to changing to X hero to kill things for/pocket only them or else they throw.

Don’t you just love DPS players who know how to play you’re role better than you? Even to the point where they’re playing your role so much that they forget to kill or flank the enemy for the entire game?

Wait, you had a DPS switch in your game!? Gosh I wish that was me.

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That’s why I like to play Soldier. Yes, he’s in sad shape but he’s self-reliant.

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Yo, you’re wrong. I dare you to group up with me and go genji

If you are constantly getting such incompetent dps in your games every time, the enemy dps must be equally incompetent & ineffective, right?

So the incompetent dps all cancel each other out and all of your games are determined by which team has the better support/tanks :slight_smile:

If only! Most the time the enemy DPS are being allowed to run behind and eat the healers. Other times they are actually about the same as our DPS but still manage to beat ours out by some means like say being a junk and getting killed by one of our tanks making a push and our soldier runs right over the nades he drops on death.

Then there’s those one games where there’s a single DPS on the enemy team just outright stomping us. I don’t think it to be unfair to expect the same from our DPS. I understand if they can’t but its happend enough to where it should be standard not to expect much from the DPS. So we take the loss and have all of them blame supports and tanks, we have our faults and make mistakes like the DPS but at least most of us will admit to it rather than blaming the other 2 roles. From what I see in the forums, 2 of the 3 roles think the same 1 is causing problems.

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I think that you need to play around your dps.

Eg, I play Rein and our Reaper constantly feeds 1v6, running past my barrier. What an idiot.
Then I play Zarya. Reaper runs in 1v6. I bubble him. He survives. I run in as well, and body block for him while bubbled. I’m on 100% charge and melting people super fast as the two of us crush the enemy.

Dps are super flakey. A 1400 dps might get zero kills on Widow or Genji, or 40+ on Reaper, Bastion or Junkrat. Sr is no indicator of dps skill at that rank.
You just need to enable them as best you can, or play Zarya, Ball, Hog and do the frags yourself.

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#6 boyyyyy i HATE when they do that knowing DAMN well they’re gonna be a struggle to heal.

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If theyre the same rank as you, you can’t expect them to be better than you, supports require more general awareness as they don’t just have to look at enemies, they have to know where all of their teammates are too.

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If the support dont know where their teammates are, thats on them. If you only see 2 of your teammates as support (as any character, really, but ESPECIALLY supports), you should be thinking “where are my teammates” and look around. And expecting your teammates to step in front of you, because YOU are out of position is just absurd. Your teammates are low health and being fired at by the enemy and you think the solution is for them to walk TOWARDS the enemy fire? What?!

Reminds me of the time my support was complaining that “you keep running away when i try to heal you” because they were never in correct position and i kept having to run to a health pack while enemies were chasing me. Then they are like “come baaack” and spamming group up while im being chased by the enemy that is BETWEEN me and my support. Ya, that guy was a full elo lower than me, but I’m sure that was just a coincidence.

If your teammate is behind you, low health and being fired on by enemy, its YOUR obligation to get to them and heal them, not their obligation to run through enemy fire to get to you

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Because its a ranged dps standing in front of reins shield that is complaining about the lack of heals.

Or dps that can only look directly forward that don’t protect healers from Genji.

We need a ton of protection from him right now.

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Bruh my post is over half a month old who cares. When I play support I’m the furthest in the back as to keep from taking chip damage or getting headshot. If the dps is behind me instead of with my tanks I’m not going to see them. I’ll go out of my way to check if my teams sniper needs heals but that’s not main priority in a fire fight