Toxicity while practicing hero's in quickplay

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I am currently working on improving or practicing several heroes during quickplay.

When i spawn in and select my hero i will tell my teammates that: ‘I am currently practicing the hero i have selected and thus its very possible i am bad or die often because im also not sure of the limit of what i am capable of surviving and/ or doing on the selected hero’.

Every hero i am practicing i know the way to play them or how to play them (semi) competent or what i am supposed to do on in order to get value.
I just don’t have allot of experience on them to either get that (complete) value or have the mechanics down or enough playtime or have the timings on them down yet.
I just played 10 games and 7 or 8 of them i got told to: delete the game, go practice vs ai, got told i was reported for feeding, (when i went 16-12), gtfo ( insert hero ) i was playing, that i was the worst player they have witnessed, gg thx for throw etc.

Now if this was in competitive i would understand the frustration of me being bad on a certain hero and practicing in competitive and (semi) throw the match.
However i made it very clear that there is a high chance i suck and i said this at the very start of the match inside the spawn room and because its quickplay, people can leave the game at any point.

I went negative during only 1 game 7-8 on tracer playing into heros with lots of mobility and several immortality abilities.
I won 4 or 5 of the 10 games.

I don’t understand, why what i am doing is causing so much hatred/toxicity.
Half the team will say thats fine, I also suck at (insert hero) and am practicing or they say its quickplay its fine.
The other half won’t respond and once the game finishes ill get flamed to no end by them.
I got complimented on my performance once during those 10 games by 1 player when i went 17-4 on doomfist. I don’t need compliments, but that basically just shows you how negative people are because honestly i did not do that porely during those games. Yes i didn’t win most of them, but I also wasn’t feeding my brains out.

To me its very disheartening to see the player base respond in such manners.

Edit: added the things below.

I am the kind of person that when someone says i am practicing this or that i will let them know thats fine, good luck and have fun.
I am the person that when i know i am competent enough on said role or hero they are practicing on i will say ‘if you need any tips or help or need me to play a certain hero let me know, glad to help you out if needed.’
I will play multiple games with them if they say yes please help would be appreciated.

So to me this whole negative thing about people practicing in quickplay just doesn’t add up.

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There is no quickplay. Only unranked now. And unranked is for challenges. And losses take longer.

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Really thats your whole take from this? That quickplay is called unranked?

For the challanges these people have all have 20+seconds to leave before that match starts. They have a new one in 1 minute max

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It’s unfortunately to be expected at this point.

I don’t talk to anyone, lock a dps (mainly Casserole and Mei), and try my best.

The community has gone down the toilet and I’m not sure why. It wasn’t always this way.

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I can understand practicing heroes in QP, but when things are going bad, do you refuse to switch based on the fact that you’re practicing that specific hero? Because if so, I can understand how that could be frustrating to other players on your team.

If the hero you’re practicing works decent in the game you’re in, then I think it’s fine. But if the enemy is hard countering you, or like, nobody is playing hitscan into a Pharah. Then I can understand some of the frustration.

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12 deaths. That is absolutely feeding level stat. just saying. When you “practice”, do you ever swap or do you just enjoy slamming headlong into a wall over and over? If you are getting THAT much negative feedback (7 put of 10 games!!) maybe swap once in a while. Your whole post makes you seem selfish and entitled.

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How dare you ruin the qp games of these other players. Dont you know how serious and high-stakes qp is supposed to be? Yet, you want to learn a new hero in a suitable environment and not just uselessly practice against bots in the practice range?

Shame on you! :rage:

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I think it’s dumb how people get so heated over qp, just let people learn how to play heroes lol that’s what its for

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From personal experience, QP is way more sweaty than comp is.

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Why? Lol. Isn’t it better to just keep quiet under those circumstances? Your team will give up before they even leave the spawn. You don’t owe random people an explanation, imo.

Debatable. I’ve had chats off since 2017 because I know exactly what to expect from random anonymous humans.

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Why even bother with chat in QP? Sweaty QP players are not worth listening to. Even if they’re not being toxic they’re probably wrong. Just switch it off.

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Why would i swap if things are going bad? If i immediately swap, how do i gain the knowledge/ideas or experience to overcome certain things im struggling with? Its the exact reason of why i need practice. To learn how to adapt, to learn how to tackle problems or obstacles that i don’t know how to beat.
Like yes if I get absolutely nothing done and i can’t figure out why/how to beat it or see my mistakes i will swap when im like 0-4 or whatever. If I know how to beat it and just mistimed things or messed up my ability usage i will try again. If that doesn’t work i will swap.

If the enemy is hardcountering me as doomfist with stuff like orisa +sombra and something like a reaper i will swap yes. For the simple reason of that I don’t have the experience or knowledge of how to overcome and be effective in these situations and will be playing spawn simulator instead of getting practice.

However if i am playing doomfist and they swap to orisa, i ain’t swapping when i don’t get fully hardcountered because you can still be effective as doomfist, it just requires knowledge, experience etc to know how to still be effective. I will try for instance to setup on a different angle away from said orisa’s sightline before the fight starts and slam the backline instead of being in her direct los. I also will not allow the orisa to just run through my team while im doing that.

In terms of heroes im practicing while playing dps, i don’t see the problem with me playing tracer or mei into a phara, i go onto the other support as tracer and force the mercy away from phara. There are also 2 dps instead of 1 tank. On mei i am still able to hit the phara or the mercy for example. There are so many ways to deal with a phara that i don’t see it as a me problem when im playing tracer or mei.
I will have already said how we can beat the phara if someone asks me to swap.

Like i said i know how to play the heroes and how to be semi competent on them. I just dont have the experience or mechanics etc to tackle every thrown problem at me.

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No such thing as practicing in a mode noone gives a crap about anything in. Its bad habit galore in QP.

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So if you get a new player, do you blame them for being bad and new and never have played a hero/can’t play it well?
Because thats essentially me except i have a decent knowledge of the heroes capabilities and have played a thousand+ of hours on the role im playing on. I know my job, my responsibilities, what the hero is capable of.
The only thing i don’t know is how to play said hero myself into composition, who to go for when they stand at what spot, how to beat every single matchup, when i absolutely shouldn’t use a certain ability, or the exact limitations of said hero, or what not to do because it will make my matchups harder or cause me to die.

How is that me being selfish when i said at the start of the game that i am practicing.
People can literally leave at any point during those games.
I don’t force them to stay at the start of the match and never leave and reque.

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I might cuss you out to my friend in discord, but i understand people arnt always trying their best or trying new heroes in QP so i never say anything in game.

Im still gonna think your terrible though

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no issues with people practising.

but if you barely do anything and they simply stomp on you, do you get any practice out of this?

as example, when i practice phara i do it whenever the enemy team is littleraly asking to face a phara.

i don’t try to force her against double hitscan with mercy pocket behind them. (just as am example)

i used the match against heavy dive comps to practise ana/zen positioning but swapped off after realizing i won’t really get practice out of this match if they keep ganking me hard.

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I will just play phara and see if I get shut down immediately by said hitscans, ill try max 3 times against 2 hitscans as phara to be effective by going from different angles for example and see if that made a difference because maybe if i timed it correctly it works because my winston is on both the hitscans as i peek.
Only because i know I have been absolutely trashed on by phara even with the team having 2 hitscans.
If its apparent i just lack the skill/am too easy to hit then yes ill swap after just 1 max 2 deaths

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thats perfect, you need to play into a challenge to really improve.

its just terrible for the rest when they don’t swap through the entire match and do absolutely nothing under the disguise that they are practising. :blush:

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Many people want to win games. Others don’t care and just want to shoot things. Both groups of players are in the same mode.

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Yeah and that’s the thing right? I’m not even absolutely terrible at the heroes, i have the knowledge of how to play them etc. I have played against those heroes, know what they are capable of etc.
I just simply dont know my own limitations, what i could improve upon, how to time everything correctly to get the most value etc. And yes sometimes i make absolutely braindead mistakes because of simply being inexperienced on the hero.

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