Like it’s an insane concept to me that people, instead of going dive with your dive tank and just going PAST the sigma / orisa / hog etc etc. They’d rather refuse to play dive, and just face tank the sigma / orisa / hog all game and then blame the dive tank for actually making the intelligent decision of moving PAST the tank.
It should be common knowledge by now, especially after season 9, brotha the tank ISN’T dying if the supports are still alive. So why are people so allergic to play the support killing heroes?
It’s not even a new problem, this has been an issue for a while now it’s ridiculous. It just simply shouldn’t be the case that in over 15-20 games of playing doom, I get ONE game where people go dive and shocker! When they do, it’s literally the easiest win of my life lmfao.
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Presumably, they just don’t have the hero pool for it.
While everyone really should have some proficiency on a hero for every basic team comp, alas, all too many don’t. And all too many are just one or at best two tricks.
It’s not just this game. You either have entire teams that hunt the supports all game or the team just shoots at the tank and nothing else. It’s so bizarre.
And nobody seems to take the tank’s lead. You pick a dive tank and your supports end up being Mercy and Lifeweaver, maybe a Brig or something. And so you go for the dive and they can’t follow you. Or really even heal you at a distance.
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That’s basically been this season in a nutshell. Every game I’ve lost it’s straight up either:
- Supports running moira lifeweaver, mercy lifeweaver… basically any composition involving those 3.
or
- My dps are playing junk torb. Like???
And then they get mad at me when THEY’RE the ones just sitting in front of a sigma perma shooting him all game and then acting shocked nothing gets done. GOD I cannot wait for 6v6 man.
This format is just such dog. No matter what you do or how right you are as a tank, you will ALWAYS get the blame just because it’s only one of you. So you have no one to back you up.
Like atp it’s gotten to the point that I’m just going to repeatedly int on doom until people get the message to go dive otherwise, welp tough luck we just lose idk.
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Which Supports would you consider to be “Dive” Supports? Kiri, Ana, maybe Lúcio and Juno? Because I actually find LW is very good at keeping super-mobile heroes alive. He’s quite hardy and independent too, as long as he’s not getting swarmed by an angry mob. His mobility is also solid, but even if I can’t make it all the way in, I contribute a steady stream of thorns from wherever I am
Most people aren’t good with dive characters hence they don’t switch to support Winton, Ball or Fist.
I remember there was a massive disconnect in OW1: people below diamond thought Winton was a throw pick because no one knew how to play actual dive until you got to Diamond. I play Reaper, but if someone asked me to play Genji or Widowmaker I’d be throwing because I don’t play those characters. I don’t play dive supports either (I do Zen, Wifeleaver and Ana), so if I switch to Kiriko or Lucio you’re gonna get subpar gameplay from me.