Moira, Ana, Wrecking Ball, Orisa, Doomfist (or Winston)
Is there a way to counter this? I have not found anything that has so far.
Today and yesterday, most of the time when the enemy team is losing, they will pick this (sometimes substituting Doomfist for Winston) and there’s nothing we can do. We can keep our team alive, but we can’t kill a single one of them except maybe Ana occasionally, which doesn’t help at all. I’ve tried Kiriko to cleanse the antinade, but it doesn’t help at all because antinade is on a shorter cooldown.
I don’t even want to think about total mayhem.
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Yeah, not play it lol.
I joke.
TM is just a lazy af mode where the devs just went ‘uhhhhhhhh 2x everything?’ There no more than 2-3 minutes of thought put into it. It will always be broken.
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Only play Mayhem if you have 2 hours to spare.
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I really wish they would balance it at least a little. They’ve already removed things that made the game entirely unfun, but they seem totally unwilling to do it with others. They increased the cooldown on sleepdart and Zarya’s bubbles, but now we have unkillable Orisa and Wrecking Ball.
And then you have the group of people coming in to say that changing anything at all in TM would DESTROY it and then it’s not Mayhem anymore.
The fun part of the mayhem for me is the lowered cooldowns on stuff and being able to just spam some things, but I don’t find spamming escape/survive/fortify abilities fun whatsoever. They prolong the gamemode on way way way too long, sometimes getting up to 40 minutes long where nobody in the match is having any fun anymore and people start leaving.
I legit once had a match in OW1 where the enemy team went Moira, Winston, Mei, so we also went that to have a chance at winning. The game literally went on for 45 minutes. People started leaving and getting replaced by others. Eventually someone went “I can’t do this anymore, my eyes hurt” and went Sombra and ended it, but now Sombra can’t do that anymore. There’s no longer a counter to enemies that spam surviving abilities.
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They kinda did, tho.
They nerfed Zarya so she didn’t have bubble up 100% to like 90%. In their eyes if there’s a window to hit anyone then its fair game.
But with Fortify and Adaptive Shields, if they have even a tiny bit of healing they literally never die, and antinade doesn’t help whatsoever.
The game just becomes “stand on the point and pump damage into invincible enemy who also can’t kill you except maybe sometimes” simulator. Idk why anyone would find fighting Orisa or Wrecking Ball fun. It takes like 10 minutes to kill them ONCE, if ever.
Oh they die, trust me. I’ve played games where every hero has died at least once. Some people like that you can survive that long and others will never touch this mode ever again.
To some it’s their cup of tea and to other’s in their cup of expired milk that Brad has left out cause he said he was gonna bake last night but had to leave and pick up his mother from work cause her Prius wouldn’t start for the fourth time and refuses to get AAA service Brad has been hounding her to get for years!!!
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I’m sorry, what?
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I wouldn’t call it a counter but I just try to annoy them from afar to distract them from the point. Weirdly enough it works sometimes. If you’re annoying enough they’ll ignore the objective just to kill you.
I’ve tried that but the tanks (the biggest issue) don’t follow. At most Moira will come and destroy me.
People still play total Mayhem ?
I had to change to whatever normal kart mode there is in the arcade to do the coin challenge cause it’s a mess to play total mayhem against undying teams and even worse if you’re on attack. (Also, total mayhem doesn’t add to the challenges completion list, so…a big waste of time, or should I say, overtime…)
Thats the point, its not meant to be a balanced game mode…like seriously, you here thinking Total Mayhem is supposed to be this balance game mode?
Its supposed to be broken, its called Total Mayhem for a reason.
There are apparently people that exclusively play this mode, and any time someone asks for changes or criticizes it, they come in to get really mad saying that changing the mode would ruin it and it wouldn’t be mayhem anymore.
It’s there jammy jam, they like how it plays and don’t want it to go away. Kinda how many on here liked how flawed 6v6 was.
Oh damn did I just go there!?
Arcade in general is pretty well ruined with 5v5.
It’s flummoxing how Blizzard didn’t foresee the issue and take any measures, especially when they’re trying to force people to play a bunch of it for challenges. Or prehaps, more likely, they simply didn’t care.
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Torbjorn works pretty well in mayhem mode. Also if he can survive long enough, Hanzo can clear out tanks with his ult. It’s hard to live long in that mode without some kind of self heal cool down, though.
Sombra used to keep these types of comps in check, but she basically doesnt exist in OW2 anymore. So short answer is no. If this team is made of even remotely decent players, they can probably stall indefinitely.
If you’re lucky, your best bet might be to use Sigma to pull them off point. On defense it could secure you a win in overtime, but on attack, good luck. You might buy you a few inches every 10+ minutes lol.
Ahh, I never thought of using Sigma ult, but Moira can now escape it again and Orisa’s Fortify is still an issue
Yeah as someone who used to play TM pretty religiously, I think they completely ruined the mode with all the tank changes. In OW1 I and a group of friends used to play for hours every other night. Now none of us have played in weeks.
Tank stacking with no reliable counters makes the game a miserable nightmare.
Hows TM with Ram. His ult would probably go on forever.