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I guess every team is poo poo~ I seriously don't know whats going on, I do well, play as a team, and lost almost every loving game.
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That poo poo happens. Try flipping a coin 100 times and see how many tails you can string together in one run. The difference in ability between 2500 and 2900 isn't enough change your win rate drastically, so you might be stuck down there until you string together a win streak.
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Bust Rodd posted:Hey I know this is maybe not super useful but you mentioned liking to play Winston and Winston is actually a great counter to Widow/Hanzo because one of your jobs as Winston in comp is to jump up to sniper perches and gently caress them up. Practice this in quick play and you'll always have a spot in comp. I actually find the opposite to be true. If I play Widow in QP, 100% of the time someone goes Winston and spends the entire game jumping on me instead of tanking. In competitive, a Winston is typically a pretty core character that spearheads a dive. The most important thing you can do as a Winston is place your bubble to lock out a Widow. Especially now that Widow has 8s hook, diving the Widow and tunnel visioning is generally a bad idea. (unless the Widow is a hard carry then just murder the heck out of them). I find Widow to actually be best against Winston comps, since a good Rein or a good Orisa will have much better barrier coverage. I'm generally much more worried about Genji or Pharah as Widow, since they can follow me anywhere, whereas Winston's jump is on a long enough cooldown that I can dodge him for a really long time. D.va is also bad news now since she has so much more burst damage. Pharah is an odd situation, since Widow counters Pharah if she shoots first, but if Pharah shoots first then Widow is generally in bad shape.
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Oct 9, 2017 19:58
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So I finally hit level 20- 5 more until I can badly play comp! Been mostly playing Mercy as porting over play style from Medic in TF2 and the fact that nobody seems to want play medic in QuickPlay. Would like to start learning a second character that will be fun, and useful to a good team. Any suggestions? bonus- fun story from last night- playing QuickPlay and as we are teaming up, Widowmaker is of course slampicked immediately by someone around their high 20's rank wise. An angry 14-16 year (best guess I had- sounded like the squeaky voiced teen in the Simpsons) immediately starts berating the Widowmaker to switch in voice, as he has a higher rank and is therefore better. Best part is he keeps calling the other player "kid" even though it seems like he himself is fighting a losing battle with puberty. Unsurprisingly, the Widowmaker doesn't switch leading to a match long bitching session over voice. Did he play Hanzo then- of course. Did we then get steamrollered- of course. Did I finally figure out how to mute and report someone- equally of course.
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Oct 9, 2017 20:41
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highmodulus posted:
Given your background and requirements: lucio! Junkrat and DVA are also pretty good and fun right now if you want to get away from support. The caveat with junkrat is it isn't a transferable skill, and his time in the spotlight is definitely going to dry up soon.
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Oct 9, 2017 20:51
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Junkrat is really fun and I think he's super good for learning maps and situational awareness. The big variation in maps, and in designs WITHIN the maps, really promote being good with a variety of characters. Strongly recommend you learn at least one solo tank like winston and a second support like lucio in addition to whatever other characters you want to pick up. Avoid (at first) supports that require game sense/knowledge like torb, sym, mei, etc. until you start learning what good places for turrets are, how not to wall off your teammates to their deaths, etc.
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Oct 9, 2017 21:29
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Can you pop Junkrat's concussion mines while he's throwing them? I think I just did this with Reinhardt's hammer.
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Ashcans posted:Can you pop Junkrat's concussion mines while he's throwing them? I think I just did this with Reinhardt's hammer. i dont think thats possible. he may have just thrown his second out while the first was still airborne and you coincidentally swung at it. you'd have gotten a notification that you killed it otherwise.
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Oct 9, 2017 21:59
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Does deathmatch have its own invisible SR or something? Because while I'm gold in comp, I had a week where I was just ripping DM apart with D.Va, and now I'm almost always matched up with diamond/master/grandmaster players. It's really making the game not fun to play when I am so out of my league.
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Oct 10, 2017 05:37
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So, my expectations are fairly coloured by my Orisa playing, but I've been trying to branch out and get more experience so I can play what's needed in a match. And so far I've learned that Winston is loving hard to control, I'm 'the least aggressive D.va' people 'have ever played with', and I feel so very defenseless as a Reinhardt. Or, well, offenseless. Any time the enemy is more than a few feet away, anyway. I don't really want to be one of those people that locks a single hero (or well two, I do like being Pharah) and refuses to be anything else but I've got slow reflexes and I'm bad at rapidly+accurately aiming for sniping and I'm not sure what else I would like playing if I got in the practice to get good at them (not just tanks, though I kinda prefer support-style play). I've seen a bunch of high-end play videos, but are there any 'here's a baby's guide to how to play this hero' videos/video creators? On another topic, I had something weird happen in a recent game. I was Rein and used his ult, went through the animation and slammed his hammer down and the cracks shot out across the ground, and then.. nobody in it got stunned and it didn't use up the ult gauge. I wasn't stunned or hacked and didn't die during the casting of it. I died shortly after though. And in another instance of disappointment, I used Lucio's Sound Barrier to save the team from a D.va nuke in another match (and got the achievement) and -didn't- get potg. 
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Oct 10, 2017 05:55
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Black Pants posted:So, my expectations are fairly coloured by my Orisa playing, but I've been trying to branch out and get more experience so I can play what's needed in a match. And so far I've learned that Winston is loving hard to control, I'm 'the least aggressive D.va' people 'have ever played with', and I feel so very defenseless as a Reinhardt. Or, well, offenseless. Any time the enemy is more than a few feet away, anyway. The tryhard thread would probably be able to steer you in the right direction, the OP has a list of streamers but also of various how-to guides. Winston is kind of hard to get the hang of at first but if you're interested in learning how to play him he's worth sticking it out with imo. He's a great hero for practicing positioning and gamesense, when to engage and when to bug out, without also having to worry a lot about aiming in the process. He's also a great quickplay slampick choice because the other team will probably have at least two of Genji, Widowmaker, Hanzo, or Symmetra, and you can make all of them pretty miserable. Black Pants posted:On another topic, I had something weird happen in a recent game. I was Rein and used his ult, went through the animation and slammed his hammer down and the cracks shot out across the ground, and then.. nobody in it got stunned and it didn't use up the ult gauge. I wasn't stunned or hacked and didn't die during the casting of it. I died shortly after though. If I recall correctly this is some sort of server issue, this sort of thing seems to happen to Reinhardt a lot.
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Oct 10, 2017 06:15
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The Slack Lagoon posted:I don't know whats happening but I went from 2900 down to 2380 and I have been playing the same. WTF is happening with SR? You're sucking more. Don't focus or blame losses on your team, or blame it on some SR phenomenon that might be only affecting you. Find areas where you can improve and try to apply those changes in your next match.
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Black Pants posted:So, my expectations are fairly coloured by my Orisa playing, but I've been trying to branch out and get more experience so I can play what's needed in a match. And so far I've learned that Winston is loving hard to control, I'm 'the least aggressive D.va' people 'have ever played with', and I feel so very defenseless as a Reinhardt. Or, well, offenseless. Any time the enemy is more than a few feet away, anyway. Winston and Zarya take a bit of getting used to but are very fun and powerful tanks with decent mobility/range respectively. You don't need precise aiming with any of them and can focus more on your gamesense and positioning instead, which is great when you're like me and can't headshot people who are standing still. With Winston your barrier is going to be very short lived compared to Orisa so you basically use it to initiate and make space for your DPSs rather than to protect yourself or your team, if you're in danger you jump back to your supports or towards a healthpack. Zarya doesn't have a barrier but timing her bubbles correctly lets people survive riptires, dva bombs and saves your supports when they're getting ganked. Also she is pretty good at 1v1ing other tanks and some DPS's if you're forced to carry your team, which is very handy. But yeah, come to the tryhard thread if you want guides and big effortposts to learn how you can suck less at this shooty moba for babies who can't aim.
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Oct 10, 2017 09:27
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GimmickMan posted:Winston and Zarya take a bit of getting used to but are very fun and powerful tanks with decent mobility/range respectively. You don't need precise aiming with any of them I'm gonna say that Zarya is actually somewhat aim intensive if you want to be good at her. It's not that she needs precision flickshot headshooting skills but her M1 beam greatly benefits from having good target tracking, especially against nimble opponents. The difference between a Zarya who can keep her beam trained on a double jumping Genji or airborne Junkrat and one who can't is pretty big, especially since dealing more damage is crucial for building her ult as quickly as possible. If you want to get good at carrying hard with Zarya then practicing your aim with the beam is a fundamental part of that, in addition to all the other things you need to learn.
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Fair enough, I want to ammend my statement to say that she needs tracking rather than flick headshots and that her tracking hitbox is quite generous. It is no tesla cannon but it is still easier to use than most guns in the game.
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Oct 10, 2017 11:23
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Yeah I can't aim for poo poo but here I am, GM zarya main. Bubble management and burning down D.va's generally gets me a grav every fight-ish, so whatever, i'll just grav the genji when he blades.
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Oct 10, 2017 11:26
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Reaper and Soldier are relatively easy DPS choices, I'd say. Soldier is pretty versatile, making him relatively self-sufficient, and Reaper has a lot of health for a DPS and only barely needs to aim.
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Oct 10, 2017 15:55
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Black Pants posted:I've got slow reflexes and I'm bad at rapidly+accurately aiming for sniping and I'm not sure what else I would like playing if I got in the practice to get good at them (not just tanks, though I kinda prefer support-style play). I've seen a bunch of high-end play videos, but are there any 'here's a baby's guide to how to play this hero' videos/video creators? Zenyatta might be a good hero to branch out toward. He's sort of a support healer rather than a main healer, so you don't have to do all of the heavy lifting in that category. He's about target prioritization, managing line of sight, and aiming with projectiles, so he probably trains good habits for other characters too. You'd have Pharah, Orisa, and Zen--a healer, a tank, and a dps character, so you could adapt to most teams.
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Oct 10, 2017 18:29
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halloween patch is live on all platforms fyi
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Oct 10, 2017 19:06
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RIP in peace, login servers.
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Oct 10, 2017 19:08
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Can someone link the skins since I'm stuck at work all day?
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Oct 10, 2017 19:41
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There's only one skin that matters
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Oct 10, 2017 19:45
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The Zarya and Ana skins own so hard. I only have gold to buy one, so I guess I just have to hope I get lucky.
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Oct 10, 2017 19:46
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Supercar Gautier posted:There's only one skin that matters I can't believe Zarya finally got a good skin.
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Oct 10, 2017 19:47
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Cabbit posted:I can't believe Zarya finally got a good skin.
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Oct 10, 2017 19:50
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Supercar Gautier posted:There's only one skin that matters Amazing Zarya and Ana skins out of nowhere best holiday
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Oct 10, 2017 20:19
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Endless Junkenstein gets insane, I love it. GET READY FOR A SHOCK! GET READY FOR A SHOCK! GET READY FOR A SHOCK!
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Oct 10, 2017 20:32
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Supercar Gautier posted:There's only one skin that matters I have the dance, now to go for the Ultimate Prize.
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Great, now I have to learn to play Zarya, something I was planning on doing anyway. Thanks a lot Jeff.
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Oct 10, 2017 20:43
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The Zenyatta skin has different letters pop up for meditating. Also the extra limbs he grows in his highlight intro, clap, and transcendence have been turned into tentacles. Bravo blizz.
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Oct 10, 2017 21:09
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Bumper Stickup posted:The Zenyatta skin has different letters pop up for meditating. Also the extra limbs he grows in his highlight intro, clap, and transcendence have been turned into tentacles. experience... nothingness 
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Oct 10, 2017 21:11
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Why did they get rid of Team Deathmatch to bring back 3v3 elimination... 
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Cabbit posted:I can't believe Zarya finally got a good skin. Maybe now people can stop using the incredibly ugly robot skin.
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Oct 10, 2017 21:29
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Hell yes, finally some good reasons to spend a fair bit of my 14k savings!
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Oct 10, 2017 22:02
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Minrad posted:Why did they get rid of Team Deathmatch to bring back 3v3 elimination... To encourage people to play Junkenstein's Revenge?
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Oct 10, 2017 22:08
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Everytime I play zeyatta on payload in OT my game crashes. It's so loving annoying.
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Oct 10, 2017 22:22
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The whole streak concept resulting in faster gains or losses is dumb. I get that people don't like losing a ton of points for a loss but W-L-W-W-L-W-W should get you exactly the same amount of points as L-L-W-W-W-W-W, specially in a game where winning or losing is 9 times out of 10 completely out of your hands.
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Oct 10, 2017 23:21
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Dietrich posted:The whole streak concept resulting in faster gains or losses is dumb. I get that people don't like losing a ton of points for a loss but W-L-W-W-L-W-W should get you exactly the same amount of points as L-L-W-W-W-W-W, specially in a game where winning or losing is 9 times out of 10 completely out of your hands. There hasn't been a streak system since season 4ish, I think? So going LLWWWW will generally get you the same amount as WLWWLWW now. What's dumb is that there's performance-based metrics, which highly rewards low-pickrate heroes and negatively impacts high-pickrate heroes, which is what can cause differences between SR gains and losses.
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Ages posted:experience... nothingness There's a hidden easter egg too! His "peace and blessings" voiceline becomes Curses and Madness if you use it with the skin.
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Minrad posted:There's a hidden easter egg too! His "peace and blessings" voiceline becomes Curses and Madness if you use it with the skin. "The Iris embraces you" also becomes "the Iris consumes you" and I think there are actually two new ult lines that play at random. berenzen posted:There hasn't been a streak system since season 4ish, I think? So going LLWWWW will generally get you the same amount as WLWWLWW now. There's a streak system, it's just much less aggressive.
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