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Competitive Discussion
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we talking about a highly skilled player, who’s pretty much gonna dominate any team as long as his team doesn’t throw as much. If his entire team were to bale or he fought a competent 6stack even he is gonna have a crappy time getting past that. Skill plays a factor in qp+, but matchmaking plays a much more heavy role in who wins and who loses cuz its a bad matchmaker that can’t account for human behavior.

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I mean I have a somewhat new account at 3200. It’s been pretty cemented there for the last 20 games or so and I don’t feel I’m out of place there. Maybe I don’t “play enough” on this account but who wants to dump 100 hours of climbing to get better games when a new account can do the same thing?

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The bitter truth (chars)

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I can play lucio at around 2900 but I want to point out that if your rein is bad and plays like he has a main healer nothing will carry.

Sure lucio and zen can work but the main tank play has to also be great

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Can’t argue with that. Very true. Playing around medpacks helps too. Granted it doesn’t always work, but if playing on a healer you don’t play well it might be a loss anyway.

If the tanks get a bit feisty I do my best to mitigate damage with boops and will sometimes drop the beat to save two or three people instead of holding it for a blade or tyre, etc.

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I would most certainly LOVE to post here. all 800+ screen captures I have taken of players that DELIBERATELY threw games, left matches, caused some sort of issue in the game I was in during a competitive match. This includes

  • teammates standing in corners.
  • Hanzos RUNNING right into the enemy team when they are grouped up.
  • Players scattered across the map
  • The one player that spams chat text on his “god aim” and then dies, repeatedly.
  • myself flexing for any needed roll and then people trolling by all taking that roll…

Continuing.

  • The players that disconnect.
  • The moira that only dps’
  • The sombra that ONLY hacks and then runs away
  • The mercy that only damage boosts
  • The Reinhart that charges in and does not wait fot the team
  • The 3 dps players behind the enemy team getting shredded
  • The player that calls all OPPOSITE of what is going on in the game.
  • The alternate account player that just decides to “Try a new character” ONLY during competitive play.