When is a good time to play open queue?

Competitive Discussion
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I’m currently silver one and from Melbourne, Australia. I’m having trouble getting good queues and was wondering if I need to play at a certain time in order to get better ones. I also like to know, if possible, the rank population of open queue comp (which rank has the most players).

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The best time to play open queue is when you go back and queue role queue instead.

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Come on man. :frowning: I play both.

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There isn’t any good time in Australia, we simply lack players. I suggest using VPN if you wanna play anything else besides unranked or competitive game mode. Every other game mode will take >20 mins to find usually in AU even during peak hours.

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I gave open queue a try for the first time since role queue was released. I kept hearing how it is a joke mode but after at least 15-20 hours playing I am still stuck in gold. But I am at least high plat or diamond in every role in role queue.

So it seems to be quite competitive at least in the NA server currently. It also made me nostalgic for Rein/Zarya comps again. Also I’ve had 0 meme games so far with all dps or something like that.

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I decided to play on the Asia servers, I found out I get better queues there. I manage to climb into gold 5 this week and to my surprise the players in that elo are actually better than I thought they would be.

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I only queue open queue when I need to complete more ranked games to earn season rewards and I don’t want to risk dropping a division on the proper mode

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The problem with ope queue is everyone is going to wisely play 2 tanks. It’s a busted mode which would require all 3 roles to be reworked to operate properly.

I would fully open for arcade competitive 6v6 with 2 tank maximum.

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It kind of is already.

Tanks have lower HP in open que.

Hanzos can 1v1 some tanks if they land shots. So going one tank is a soft throw.

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DPS are still the weakest role in open queue. Tank synergy is still very powerful. I am not sure of the current meta since I’m gold in that mode but I suspect it’s probably either 2/3 or 3/2 tanks and supports. Most games you still get 1 or 2 dps but it’s still not as bad as it used to be in ow1 pre role q where you often had 4+ dps on your team.

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Finding a group for OQ makes it a lot easier to grind tbh it’s such a mixed bag with solo q