No you can’t say Symmetra or Torbjorn. What’s the meaning?
I only play one hero and this hero only
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People go by playtime. If you typically have 75% or more of your playtime on a single character, you get labelled as a one trick.
Of course, that is used as a slur, so if you play an important character, no one complains.
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playing one hero in every possible situation…even when you getting hard countered and all you do is walk from spawn entire match until you lose and annoy your team.
True one-tricks play only one hero, and are useless on everything else, and never switch, even when hard countered.
It means they either exclusively play one hero, or if you’re less pedantic, they almost exclusively play one hero.
How much someone has to play a hero before they’re a OTP is open for interpretation. Some people will say a majority of their hours, some would argue that almost all their hours would have to be that hero to justify it as a OTP.
Sees Platinum border
Opens profile
Sees 1000 hours of Mercy and nothing else
Me: Holy Jesus. What is that?! What the F is that?!!!
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Yeah I get the time played part, but sometimes in a match some who aren’t one tricks just stay on the hero.
Now the next question is.
Why do one trick players call out other one trick players when they know themselves they’re one trick players?
Like I said earlier, it is used as a slur. An insult. I could bring real life examples, but I don’t want to take this thread in that direction.
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Do you go into a match with no intention of switching for any reason?
Anyone with a private profile
And yet, you are a one-trick yourself and your profile is public.
A person who only plays one hero and refuses to play anything else.
Sorry, I’ll fix that
I’m just poking fun, tbh I don’t even mind players picking their favorite/best heroes. I rarely look at my team’s profiles, only the enemy teams’ before a match (to gauge what I might be up against).
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Hosting a magic show and only doing one card trick 30 times.
The accepted forum definition seems to be a person who exclusively plays one hero. Note that this hero must not be from the proscribed DPS classes – a Genji one-trick, for example, is called a specialist and is not subject to the disdain that, say, a Mercy one-trick is.
I’m not sure about that. There were several seasons in competitive that nearly every Mercy was accused of being boosted by “real” players, and reached much higher elos because they were “one tricking”
Lets be careful not to conflate the community’s disdain for Mercys that perform well to their disdain for people who play Mercy in general. They are separate and distinct hatreds, and like a bleed effect and a poison effect in rpgs, they stack.
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being a horrible teammate