My experince with 5v5 wasn’t all rose gold like it was with everyone elses.
I was a Baptiste main, I was dropping body after body saving life after life, “Oh well if you were that good you would climb” or “Maybe you weren’t as great as you think you were”
And Im just watching all these unranked to gms, Bronze to super champ rank 1 sr 54839302 I played my heart out in 5v5 I gave everything… and it wasn’t enough.
Maybe I wasn’t killing “The right way” maybe ai wasn’t ulting at the “Right times” like maybe times it was clear I should ult and got kills maybe I should of… I don’t know… I don’t F… I felt so useless.
And then there was Symmetra now people know I’m a console player.
When I first got my diamond, you wanna know what strategy I had developed a counter to?
“Syms tping to point” “syms tping to point” “whoop shes tping to ppint again” “whoops we should of tped to point” “whelp we didn’t defend on point”
Over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over
And over… and over… and over again… again… again… again… I despise this hero with every fiber of my being.
People think it’s a meme a joke console players hate symmetra so damn much that we can’t turn around that we can’t aim…
Oh I’ve killed her… I’ve killed her again… and again… and again… and again…
I know how tanks feel about 5v5 hell Im a Junker Queen main so you know I struggle.
Maybe no more 2cp maps and less stall and all that heck maybe I could of climbed in 6v6… because I got stalled out a lot… like a lot… and for a console player even tho I was great at kills like at the end of the day I’m still a console player if the heros over power what the controller lets me do I got nothing.
But everyone else around me was always soooo… successful always soooooo “Strong”
Im banging my head on the wall thinking what the hell am I doing wrong SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING WRONG Im holding high ground, I’m winning my duels, I’m sniping down Pharahs and echos and anyone else like hell Im auditioning for console OWL.
I also noticed people get realllly toxic for some strange reason if you have your own like personal experinces not sure if that’s just an internet thing buttt Ill try to ignore it.
Yeah I’m “Boosted by 5v5” I’ve been “Graced by the matchmaker” but for the first time in a long time I’m actually having fun, in ow1 the games were definitely much lomger and I’d always get to the end just for someone to bring out some cheese and push me further from my goal, does it happen in ow2? Yes Mauga exist but like welll… there’s only 5 of you and 1 tank in that line up.
In 5v5 it feels like the trauma is gone.
Me: is it… is it over…
Person: yes we won…
Me: are you sure ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE dvas not gonna come flying out of that spawn while ball grapples around the cart for 5hrs… I don’t have to keep looking for the tp anymore…
You look into my eyes you see this man is legitimately traumatized
I was never “Rewarded for my skill” more… I never had all these “Tank synergies” I never had all this “individual impact”
And because of the way the OW/online community works I felt humilated, ridiculed, belittled, or like all us console players just a joke…
Like it was never enough nothing was ever enough not for myself, not for this game, not for other players.
I spent hrs and hrs and hrs and hrs and time and time and settings and settings in the aim arena and in qp and everywhere else, there had to have been something wrong with me I had to have been doing something wrong, maybe the last guide after the 3rd one I watched from Ml7 gave me the wrong information maybe I’m executing it wrong.
Im on Baptiste I kill things I save lives (including my own) that’s what Im good at… what else does this god damn game want from me… what do these god damn players want, hell what do I even want.
Everyone online thinks everything is like an attack on them, Jesus this is such a hostile environment, yes yes I see how many upvotes and likes all the 6v6 love post get I’m not trying to “Bring down the masses” I’m not trying to write the ultimate mega ultra pro 5v5 love story. I’d prefer everyone treat each others experinces with some form of respect.
I’ve fallen to silver before in 6v6, but hell in 5v5 I could fall to Bronze 5 and still feel like Im having a better gaming experience.
Well you could say it was probably just like “Those heros” and those situations which were like higgghhhllyyy unfavorable towards the console environment and it’s limitations.
Understand because of the crap I had to put up with in 6v6 it’s stopped me from ever liking that format ever again, I’d still play the game if it came back but no I did not enjoy it.
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