Iâm not saying that one tricks are bad at their heroes or throwing their games. But if I get a Pharah one trick whoâs getting annihilated by the enemy Widow and refuses to switch, youâd have to be pretty dull to think that Pharah is playing Overwatch the way it was meant to be played; not just for them, but for the 5 other people on their team as well.
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Lying is not an answer. As not answering my points.
Ranked is nothing more than QP with a number value assigned. There are no special rules for ranked, other than not to deliberately destroy the match in an obvious way. Picking the hero you like to play is NOT among these ways.
Sure, you may disapprove, but you are not the judge of how others will play the game. It is not in your jurisdiction, so to speak. I donât care if you find it right or wrong, those people have the same right to decide what to play that you do. If they feel they donât need to change their hero, then they should NOT. If that leads to a loss, well fine, their MMR will drop and since you apparently are a better player than them, you will win the next match and rise in MMR above them. But if you keep getting them at your MMR, then that means you are not really that great yourself and you are just looking for excuses for your own lack of ability.
Also, being selfish is more than fine. Selfish teamates exist in all teamgames and sports, even professional ones. Some selfish soccer players have been legendary in the pastâŚ
The thing with teamgames is that everyone is playing to have fun. But the definition of fun varies from person to person. If you donât like what random strangers pick, then find a group to play.
Yeah, that is almost always the case. The hillarious part is they donât see the contradiction themselves. They are extremely selfish, far more than the one tricks, because unlike the one trick people they do false report and attempt to BAN paying customers from a video game in order to have their wayâŚ
One tricking when youâre getting hard countered is feeding in my book.
provide an example of what you mean by âhard counteredâ
Symmetra is the âworst hero in the game,â huh? Is that so? I guess having a 60% wr with the âworst hero in the gameâ makes me a somewhat of an exception. Anyways, everyoneâs opinions about Symmetra combined still doesnât explain why I should be banned by an automated system that divvies out bans based on the multitude of reports coming in from a bunch of cry baby snitches.
Mate, youâre missing the point.
You are banned if you are reported a lot. You are reported a lot NOT for one tricking, but for playing some hero that donât seem to work (according to your team mates) given the circumstances.
Mercy is almost always gonna work as a healer therefore seldom will be reported.
Widow is less likely to work. For example it might not work much to have Hanzo + Widow (that are not switching) as DPS vs a shield heavy enemy team, therefore the likelyhood of Widow to be reported is higherâŚ
This is all there is to it, reallyâŚ
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Jeff has said repeatedly that One Tricking is not bannable
but if you are reported a lot, even falsely, you get banned without any evidence.
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Iâm back from my suspension D: Hi steevo 
Anyway one tricking is bad. End of the story.
Even blizzard employees think its bad as we saw with Griffin in the guy from the PlayOW Twitter.
Onetricking in a team based game is BAD.
All these people saying ont-tricking is against the âspirit of the gameâ weill be in for a nasty shock if they actually start enforcing arbitrary rules for which heroes youâre allowed to play.
winston auto shutting down your turrets.
Recently i had a symm who put teles in the same location, and the enemy team was literally farming anyone who came out of them, and they have so many ults because of it.
He was so convinced his one trick was the answer he refused to consider how much he fed the enemy
we stopped using his ult after it became useless. Thereâs thousands of people like him out there. most one tricks are more of a hamper on the team, than a help because One-Tricks force your team to play around them. they are selfish, cocky, and most of the time hard countered into irrelevance.
no not missing the point, anyone being banned if they are reported a lot is the issue, because people gasp false report
yea for some heros this is NO situation because people are biased against them, this is why a system that bans automatically with no recourse is the problem, there is always going to be a hated hero or some other reason for people to false report others and there needs to be recourse for when this happens, its not happening in overwatch
and people in this thread have said repeatedly that we know but that it doesnât matter because people are being falsely reported and banned anyway even if all the evidence reports to the contrary
The only people banned for one tricking are the people that are high up the ladder around GM/Top500 maybe masters because there niche heroes like symmetra and torb are easily exploitable in an environment where everybody knows each other > 1% of the ranked pop.
Having a hero like Torb in your team in t500 is more of a detriment than an advantage. Thus why the reports.
You canât dive.
You canât triple tank.
You canât use any meta that actually works with those heroes. Thus you cannot successfully play around them to gain an advantage.
So people report them. Pretty easy to understand in my book. Watch any one trick play and youll see it.
One tricks that streams niche heroes like symmetra, you see them DO NOTHING for a major part of their game. ( No shot call, no communication, feeding especially with torb turret means more ult charge for the enemy )
Ive been in a game last season in masters where our team litteraly didnât kill the symmetra turrets and were taking damage from them to charge our mercy ult since they already had shield gen.
We charged our mercy ultimate before they could push again from 20% to 100%.
The symmetra player in the enemy team was clearly a heavy player to carry for their team and they couldnât do it.
if he swapped, we wouldnât have valk every fight on defense, they would have maybe been able to cap a point with any other support ( more heals, more utility.)
One tricking is bad. Straight up. Also happens with more viable heroes but usually those heroes are more mechanically demanding and versatile in their role so they are more useful overall.
Good day Elminster,
I hope this post from one of my associateâs can provide you more clarity and insight on this subject. 
Hey, everyone.
I just wanted to chime in, because thereâs definitely some confusion around one-tricking, and we wanted to take a moment to clarify our philosophy as a development team.
We believe players can choose to play any available hero during any game at any time, and that their choice of hero alone is not a behavior that should be penalized by our customer service team under any of the player report categories (including griefing, inactivity, or poor teamwork).
We believe players should be evaluated based on their actions with whichever hero they choose. If a player disrupts their team by intentionally feeding with ANY hero, you should report that player for griefing. If a player is staying in the spawn area, refuses to attack the enemy, or refuses support those that are, you should report that player for inactivity. If a player actively refuses to play the mapâs objectives or communicates to the team in a negative fashion, you should report that player for poor teamwork. If a player communicates in a hateful or harassing manner with ANY hero, you should report that player for abusive chat. However, if a teammate is actively trying to perform well on their hero and help their team, they should NOT be reported under any category.
Players who inaccurately submit player reports in an attempt to punish someoneâs hero choice are considered to be harassing or griefing their fellow player, and inaccurate reports make it more difficult for us to appropriately action the players who DO disrupt the game. Weâre continuing to make improvements to our reporting system (which includes, but certainly isnât limited to making our false report detection more robust), and we will continue to pay close attention to players who are at high risk of being falsely reported and taking appropriate actions to prevent it.
Your teammates can respectfully provide their opinion and suggest using a different hero for the gameplay situation that your team is experiencing, but the final decision about which hero you want to play with is yours alone.
We built Overwatch around the concept of teamwork, and we believe the game is much more fun for everyone in a match when weâre picking heroes that contribute to the overall success of the team. At times, this means weâll be playing our mains; other times, we should be trying to help the team by choosing heroes that round out the teamâs composition. We wonât be actioning you if you only play your main, but we also donât believe this is the ideal way to play Overwatchâespecially in competitive settings.
If you believe your friends were suspended because of false reporting from teammates, I would recommend you advise them to submit an appeal request here. That will assist our CS team in investigating this issue that impacted their experiences. Our reporting system (including false report detection) isnât perfect, but weâre always working hard to improve it.
Thank you.
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But numerous people have appealed and they simply get told , âits justified because you should be communicating and switching after being asked by your team. Which shows bad/ignored teamworkâ.
That needs to be stopped by your customer support. These are not enforced rules, so the appeal process needs to actually âworkâ before you can tell us that.
All they do is pretend the suspension is justified and do not want to deal with looking into the false reporting of one tricking. Unless they are simply being passively biased which would be even worse.
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Iâll chime in here and mention that most of the âIâm banned for one trickingâ threads that show up now are purely attention seeking posts. I donât believe that your friends are suspended constantly and if they were suspended I donât beleive it was for one tricking.
Yes, there are cases of it happening but those are both in the past and infrequent. I highly doubt that you happen to have two one trick friends who have both been suspended âunjustly.â
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You don t know what you are talking about. Try going and one tricking a dps and see how many reports you get. When your team tells you to switch, ignore them.
Now you are really in for a treat.
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The report system only takes the numbers of reports in account. You can do nothing and if several people report you, youâll get banned just like that. I have experienced that several times as a Sym main, especially on EU servers where people report you the moment you pick a non-meta hero. I also got the same answer from the support team which was. âI suggest you to communicate better with your team, your ban is justified.â So Iâm basically getting banned for playing a character I love. Please, please, either improve this report system somehow or make some kind of a penalty happen for false reporting so people would stop (ab)using the system as long as itâs not truly neccessary.
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Sir,
While I understand the prominent problem of false positives, we are in the Era of Data Science and Cloud. Have you considered to publish dump data - which do not violate privacy - and organise competitions on developing ban system and competitive convolution algorithms? Itâs a really interesting topic scientifically, if you like video games; competitions could take place in Kaggle or a network like this.
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