Unlimited Avoids or Ban One-Tricking

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Liar!!!

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Yeah I don’t know how people are able to play so many heroes well. It takes time to get good at just one, let alone 5 or 10. This is made even worse if you play more than one role.

I feel flex players make up for a lack of hero skill with flexibility. And many get to a certain rank by playing the meta.

One tricks however have this self detrimental limitation and have to learn their hero so well that they can play them in even the worst situations. But lack skill in flexibility.

I think learning 2 of each role is good. But not just any 2 random heroes. Pick the hero that you would switch to when your main isn’t working that would work in that situation. Unfortunately the anti of your main probably isn’t fun for you because it’s the opposite of your ideal play style.

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I lucked out with fva and junkerqueen covering each other’s weaknesses so well. Jq is awesome against beams and reaper and genji. dva is awesome against widow and pharah.

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IDK if you have any connection with reality mate but what I said is 100% documented.
Literally zero known OTPs started like that. Unless we are talking about alt accounts etc.

Try to be a Heart Surgeon on the first 6 months of studying medicine and see what happens.
Thats how reality works my dude, first you get the general knowledge, then you specialize.

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so Hypothetical if the team has a zen onetrick and a lucio onetrick there is not gonna be any healing in the team.
Or i always play brig and if my dps complain about not enough healing i tell them “if you think brig is not healing enough maybe you should ask blizzard to buff her healing” LOL
I like the teamplay aspect of that. Really helpful not to get a toxic team.

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What are the two heroes that even you refuse to play?

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you know the game is more then 6 years old?! PLENTY of time to play all heroes

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This 100%.

I sometimes feel like we should be making detailed standalone counter threads promoting bans for “those” kinds of teammates that throw games for any reason, whether they know it or not, because they’re too weak minded to handle playing with one-trick teammates.

If only such a strategy worked to educate the kinds of people who make these “ban one-trick” topics about how asinine the idea that Blizzard can/should ban people for “one-tricking” by seeing their logic turned around, aimed back at them to see how stupid it sounds. Implementing “anti-one-trick filter” would be unfair and downright dangerous, as potentially everyone who plays could be banned due to slippery slope logic or for deeming they simply had too many hours played on a hero or even for playing the wrong hero into the wrong comp (e.g., “playing bad”). Not to mention how abusable such a system could be if someone malicious on the enemy team wanted to get a player banned by playing the sorts of heroes they know (or suspect) of a “near one-trick” of a certain type of hero would likely try switching to to trigger an automated account ban. (Done for the lulz, of course, why else?) Alas, I know the effort that would go into making such a topic would only be ignored by the people who really need to see it, and would end up stirring up the wrong people that don’t need to see it.

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One tricking NOW is more of a time thing, but if I had a dollar for every 5 star silver border hardstuck insert hero here main in OW1 I’d have enough money to buy a single skin

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No my main is the most fun >:c

For real though I have tried to flex before. I tried playing Zarya for several seasons back in 2020 and just got screamed at by gold players. I got tired of being gold so I went back to playing dva and ranked up to diamond.

I think a large part of my poor performance was anxiety from making stupid mistakes and getting yelled at (which caused more stupid mistakes). I plan to attempt it again with chat off. I’m going to try again by one tricking heroes other than my mains but on my alt account this time so I can’t be upset that I’m gold on my main.

But for now I am one tricking mercy while she is meta :wink:

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Playing only one hero is not the same as having a lack of versatility

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Nah, it’s just skill transfer. You already have a foundation when picking up a new character because of your familiarity with XYZ who has a just similar enough design philosophy that you can pretty easily learn the ins and outs in a week of playing them. Add in previously accumulated game knowledge and bam: You’re set.

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I don’t know why, but that doesn’t apply to me. When I touch a new hero I pretty much start at a silver level because I will forget abilities exist. Like when playing Kiriko I would forget I can cleanse the anti.

Maybe I just try to play heroes who’s skills aren’t transferable to my mains??

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Don’t worry, they’re starting at silver level on new heroes too, they’ve just deluded themselves with the myth that playing lots of heroes automatically makes you good at any hero.

Nah, most players in most games with hero select screens throughout time have onetricked. Blizzard themselves confirmed most overwatch players are one or twotricks. The “flex players” deluded themselves that their way is the only way to play the game, and that they are the logical majority. They aren’t even the majority lol.

Being a lifetime expert in something requires tens of thousands of hours. In overwatch, we’re talking hundreds to a thousand hours to hit the “specialist” level of expertise on a hero we’re discussing. It is simply mathematically undeniable that the more heroes you try to learn at the same time, the less time you are spending perfecting any single one of them.

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unless that hero is ball :confused: so many ball one tricks…

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Okay that cracked me up :slight_smile: How about us “one-tricks” who prefer to only play Support. Do we get a pass? I don’t enjoy dps (truly) and they made tanking play too much like DPS now…so I pretty much have just been trying to master the supports.

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…if everyone can avoid everyone, no-one will have anyone to play…? :thinking:

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Or, and hear me out, play with people who you know you synergize well with to avoid the inherent disadvantage of solo queue.

Why does the game need to cater to the way you think things should be done when a solution is literally just a few mouse clicks away?

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Because ranks don’t matter.

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You can repeat that a thousand times, most of the times, it is :man_shrugging:

Checking T500 profiles proves that wrong really quick mate.

Congratulations on throwing a sentence that refutes nothing and proves nothing.
I can say that the more time you spend speaking a 2nd language, the less time you are spending learning a 3rd, means nothing.

Reality on the other hand has a well documented experience/time invested/performance ratios and again, learning curves are logarithmic so it is what it is. Theres no delusion here, Flex players never said thats the only way to play the game at all, you made that up 100%.

Specialists are not born “from God”. They get ingame knowledge, general knowledge, check what type of hero or heroes are best for them and then they specialize. That is reality. :man_shrugging: