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Widow should be able to grapple to flying characters, and if someone is boosting then Roadhog should get dragged along if he hooks them. I want to see D.Va zoom by with roadhog and widowmaker dangling off her, or Reinhardt launching Roadhog across the map.
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Wacky Delly posted:How many loot boxes is everyone planning to get? I'm gonna buy like 10 up front. All of them. I'm going to buy all of them, mark them up by a penny, then relist them. It's ingenious, I'm going to be rich!
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Are there odds on what will happen in an hour? - error 37 - laaaaaaag - wires crossed, logging in places you into battleborn and TF2 matches - game doesn't exist, was all viral marketing for new HOTS hero Tracer (oh she went live weeks ago? Ooops our bad) - peace on earth and golden age of mankind - stuck as 9 million people click to open their first chest at once but the servers can only handle one at a time - hardcore mode accidentally enabled, once a character dies in game no one can pick that character ever again (who wins?) - 2% chance of justice raining from above?
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May 23, 2016 23:01
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Ended up going mercy, Lucio or symmetra most of the time, but had a fun night with pubbies. Got my first play of the game as Pharah, killed a mercy wandering around the defense point, turned back to the objective and saw a reaper and roadhog walking by not looking at me. Justice from two feet to your left! Got a hockey Lucio skin and sharkhog. Yay?
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May 24, 2016 06:58
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Nearing the end of Anubis point B defense and I see no one is Bastion, so I swap to him. After a death I come up from the side and gun down 2 people on our point getting ult. I go tank mode, doot do do doooo, and blow up 2 more people right outside the point. Aww yeah play of the game here I come. Just reinhardt remaining, shielded up and around the corner to the left. I move up, sniping him with tank rounds between the pillars while still inching forward. He keels over dead, then I do... Wait, what? The death cam pops up and I watch as I lob cannonfire to the left of a pillar, 2 cannon shots between pillars, then as he dies I fire a final cannon shot into a pillar 1 inch from my face and die to my own splash damage. Time ends and we win. Please don't be play of the game, please don't be play of the game. PLAY OF THE GAME, a teammate's Pharah rockets four people from behind on Point A as they don't notice her. Whew.
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May 25, 2016 19:09
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I join a game and start thoughtfully musing about who to play this time. I click someone, think about it, check the team build (weird, everyone has a pick already, usually at least 2 hold out until the timer runs out). So I switch to another char, then decide to wait a bit before committing as I see people change again... then I notice the kill spam in the top right and realize it dumped me into an in progress game again. So I hit go and walk out the door just in time to see the enemy finish delivering the payload. DEFEAT and a tiny chunk of xp. Good times.
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May 25, 2016 21:41
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Raskolnikov posted:So Victory / Defeat is a good spot then? When I hit level 10 I noticed the achievement for it popped up during the VICTORY screen. It then went to the card voting, then finally to the xp count where I went from 9.x to 10.x.
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May 25, 2016 22:58
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Got to have some fun as Tracer last night, first time I've gotten her to click for me. One map the 6 pubbies (including myself) kept getting picked off by a widowmaker who was able to keep up near constant ult. I swapped to Tracer finally, zipped across the no mans land and came up behind her gunning her down as she killed another reaper charging down the center. Overwatch 101 but felt good. I need to bind her voice taunts, on a later map I got knocked off the edge three times by a really good Lucio. I'd hit my rewind and zip zip zip I'd be back face to face with him in the objective. Props to blizzard for the generous falling death timer, at one point I went over the edge and watched my timer tick down 3, 2, 1 as I spammed the button. Zwooop hey again Lucio we gotta stop meeting like this. Map randomness does seem quirky. I do Watchpoint and Anubis offense and defense more than 50% of the time I'd say, I know those maps inside and out now, whereas I've only seen Dorado once and don't know Volskaya or Lijang very well.
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May 26, 2016 18:53
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gandlethorpe posted:Does it completely ignore Reinhardt's rectangle? I read that trick in the open beta so it made for a strange moment on gibraltar defense on release night. I was running back from a death and a Reinhardt had snuck past the all out brawl near attacker spawn and was standing next to the cart around the corner with his shield out, waiting for his pubbies to join him. So I started chucking orbs at his center mass. It took 4 to kill him and he didn't sidestep or blink, just stood there with unerring faith in his shield. I wonder if he thought I was cheating.
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May 26, 2016 21:51
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Finished on an anticlimactic (for me) volskaya last night. We had roadhog and Reinhardt so I went Lucio. The enemy was right outside our doors for some reason and our rush overran them and took point a immediately. I tagged in most of the kills so had ult up already. We rushed point b and I followed roadhog in, ready to break it down and guarantee the win. While rounding a corner I keel over dead from full health.  Watching the replay, the roadhog yank and spanked a junkrat the split second before I turned the corner myself, and the death grenades got me. Speed boosted to get back to the fight but the victory popped before I was halfway back. Crazy.
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May 31, 2016 14:07
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After my group called it a night I had an interesting solo queue run where no one could win attack. One side would slaughter on defense then we'd swap and it would go the other way. Same players for kings row, dorado, and volskaya, was never even close. So many turrets.
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They should get more meta with the plays of the game. A mercy is all over the place healing everyone or a really good Reinhardt is carrying the group? Play of the game is them on the char selection screen picking that character. Show a player who had really bad aim clicking away from widowmaker to someone else. Game itself was boring and routine? Show someone making a basket in the start room or show the most used medkit. Show someone noticing one of the side paths instead of charging down the middle into a shielded bastion over and over. I got play of the game on D.Va yesterday and fully expected it because I lead the rush in to the point, helped gun down 2 guys, rounded the corner and killed a junkrat who was revving his tire, then charged a reaper over the edge. Play of the game showed a few seconds of me running back from respawn then coordinating with three other team mates to gun down the first two guys. Then it ended, before the junkrat tire or the environmental kill. Everyone was like wtf in the comments. My friend got one the night he got the game as junkrat. He had killed three guys on the point with a tire then finished off another with grenades, but his play of the game replay was in a side street where he spent a few seconds shooting at a Pharah and missing, then gave up and walked back to the rest of us, died to an ulting genji, but his death grenades killed the genji. So I guess that was for unintentionally saving the rest of us?
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Jun 2, 2016 19:07
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Solumin posted:If Torb's turrets count as living things, can you give them armor and shields? (Maybe not shields, since I don't think Symmetra can target them...) You definitely can't give them shields. I haven't tried armor. You can heal them as Mercy, or plant them on a health pack spot so they heal themselves when damaged if a pack is up.
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Jun 2, 2016 19:14
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:Is there a trick to getting your bnet battle tag to appear on Master Overwatch? Have I not played enough hours? Does it only rank the top amount and so I'm just no good enough to show up? Make sure you are including the full battletag, i.e. ReApEr#0666. Then wait a bit and it will pull your info.
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Jun 6, 2016 06:18
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I ran into a Mei on Ilos who was hopefully new to the character. I didn't see an ice wall the whole match and she kept charging my Pharah. I got caught indoors beating her to a health pack once and punched her to death out of surprise, the rest of the time I'd just boost up then rocket her. I also recorded a symmetra highlight where a soldier gets the drop on me in a hallway but I revved up the chainsaw and jumped over his head a few times while he tried to get a bead on me. Definitely makes me feel better about my own " did I just do" moments.
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Anyone with better memory than me that can place the name of the point with the description for the control maps? I'm trying to get better at learning which heros work better where, but matchmaking puts me into escort and hybrid 90% of the time. My friend and I do kings row 2-3x a night but he's only seen nepal once since starting last week. Lijang Tower (nighttime) - control center - most obvious, the indoor one with the banks of computers - the one with the building off to the side with the huge courtyard and balconies to either side to watch for flankers - tower in the center with walls and pits around it, reaper central (I die die die here more than anywhere else) Which is garden? Nepal (ruins & statues) - the point is a low valley in the ruins, junkrat grenades bouncing god drat everywhere - point is indoors on a balcony/ledge, lots of fun for lucio and winston to knock people into the pit - point is a small building on a ledge off to the side, great window for pharah to float into, easy to knock people off the back Ilos (bright buildings, the sea) - lighthouse - this one has the central well in the point to knock people into - point is an enclosed building with two open walls in a lower courtyard - point is a big open central stone gazebo thingy with a central pillar I guess I could load up custom games to see for myself, but I'm thinking about it while stuck at work today.
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Mithross posted:Me and a few friends ran into a 5 genji/1 Lucio party last night, got annoyed, and switched in some Winstons. I was pleasantly surprised when the enemy team stuck to their genji tactics, not because they were winning, but because they were dedicated to the bit. Next map they ran all hanzo. we ran into the same genji gimmick and as soon as we countered and they saw they were losing, they suddenly had shielded bastions. They barely won, we ribbed them a bit, and on attack they went 2 Winston 4 reaper. An air force of Pharahs held them at the last curve and this time they stuck to their guns and lost.
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Jun 7, 2016 02:39
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Has the weekly challenge mode updated from Shimada Bros yet?
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Random mode was weird tonight. Four times out of five it gave us our chosen starting characters. It gave my friend his least favorite character Zarya every other death. And at least twice on king of the hill our opponents got three tanks, a mercy and a lucio. The second time it happened, on ilios lighthouse, it gave us three widowmakers just before overtime. Fun.
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Jun 8, 2016 06:48
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Macaluso posted:Does getting a loss even... do anything? Especially if you come into the end of a match that's a defeat you get little or no XP anyway right? I dunno why people care if you still get counted at a loss, you aren't punished for it We faced that on hanamura. Got point a easily, but b was a slog until we had 2 reinhardts to cover soldier and pharah clearing the turrets. Got a few ults up and staggered their respawn then it was over.
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Had a weird pair of games on Hanamura last night. First we're on defense, they overrun us and take point A pretty quickly but we hold them off B for a good three minutes. Then they give up on concentrated pushing and just wander in bits at a time. The pharah is shooting rockets at my turrets so we flank and take her out. Reinhardt and mercy come in solo on the hallway side so I carve them up with Symmetra. They come right back but this time Mei is hiding behind them so I get killed but my team finishes them off. Tracer keeps zipping in to test the point. Our reaper, hanzo and d.va are out front and keep skirmishing and winning so we aren't seeing much action on the point. I chase the tracer into the medpack room on the side balcony and finish her off, then suddenly see the point countdown. I sprint for it but despite making it to the center of the roombefore the timer is up the game says we lost the point and the DEFEAT screen pops up. The pharah and mercy had just walked right in the front door missing all of us defenders while we were hunting down the others. Good old tunnel vision. So on offense against the same opponents we overrun A really quickly thanks to a great Reinhardt, and Lucio speed boosting casualties back to the front. Our second push at point B, the rein and I walk right onto the point and huddle behind his shield as a hanzo, torb + turret and tracer shoot at us from their back hallway. The capture winds up, they continue to shoot, his shield cracks a bit, and VICTORY. That was it. Not one of them thought to step on the point I guess. Maybe they were giving back to us after we handed them their last win?
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Someone who has gotten the escort the payload for a certain distance achievement, which map did you get it on? And any idea how long it actually is in geographical terms? I had a game last night where we walked the payload right in without stopping, on Hollywood. I didn't get the achievement but I had flown up briefly to heal a reaper on a balcony that the payload passed by so maybe that reset my progress.
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I'm going to miss these early days once people learn what to expect from Symmetra. I know how much fun I'm going to have in a game the first time I flank a Reinhardt and his clump. If they instantly splat me against the wall I know I'll have to swap to someone else soon but more than 2/3 the time I'll just be able to carve my way through the bunch of them. I then play the rest of the match like a berserker, shifting turret positions in between, and it is great  .
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RogueTM posted:Got it on Hollywood as a Zarya, standing on the payload behind a Reinhart from spawn to just short of the first checkpoint. Thanks, shorter than I thought so I just need to tighten up staying on the cart.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Was the brawl not supposed to rotate today? I know Hearthstone's is on Wednesday but I thought Overwatch did it on Mondays. Tomorrow, somewhere around late afternoon US time.
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Manatee Cannon posted:zarya's one of the hardest heroes to kill, keeps her teammates alive with temp shields, can do a ridiculous amount of damage once her gun is amped, has area denial with her alt fire, and to top it all off graviton surge is one of the best ults and combos with a bunch of other ults really well The enemy ran 3 zaryas, hanzo, reaper, mercy on route 66 attack last night, it was pretty brutal. We went 2 bastions to counter and held them off for a while. Then one of the zaryas went genji and got us in a few games of reflect chicken while their hanzo did corner sniping. So I went roadhog to bodyguard our defenders from reaper and genji. We fought off some intense pushes. In the end it came down to overtime with the payload on the end point. Their reaper walked up and did a die die die and they got it. In play of the game we see him walk up while under fire from our whole team. He wraith forms with freaking 13 hp left, sits there for a bit as their mercy flew in healing him a bit, then ults as soon as he comes out of it killing 4 of us. Their hanzo then caught me from long range as I moved back onto the point and they won before our 6th could get back into the mix.
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Counter to mass torbs is two Reinhardts with people behind the shield who can take down the turrets then catch the new ones going up at level 1. Soldier, pharah, zen, mercy, genji, etc. Comedy option, mass d.vas alternating their defense field to tank turrets while building up to point clearing ults.
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Bluedeanie posted:The other night I was on a 19-kill streak as Torbjorn and I had a Reaper dead in my crosshairs, not even paying attention to me because he was in a fight with a Symmetra, about to get that achievement — and then my internet connection died and I got booted. The salt was real. I got my achievement as reaper after I'd died, it was weird. Hanamura B, I just kept teleporting up to the ledge with the windows just inside the room. I'd drop down in a different spot each time, kill someone, ghost back inside to my team's cover and repeat. The last time I did it their whole crew was waiting for me but my team had charged out to see why it was so quiet and wiped them out. I think I died just before my 20th kill did, but the achievement popped up anyway. My friend got his on Torb on hanamura A, every so often you get matched up against a team that will just feed itself into the grinder (I've been on both sides of this).
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More fun with Battle Mercy last night. Tried the weekly brawl once, it led to 3 minutes of overtime on Volskaya 1, it looked like moths circling a lamp. All 12 of us decided that was enough of that game mode after the attackers finally stayed dead or high enough in the air to accidentally let the timer run out. With that warm up, I was ready to go for a Hanamura. Highlights include me killing the turreted bastion and torb turret so that we could take the first point, my shooting gallery with Roadhog and McCree alternating taking pot shots at me from the windows just to get scared off by my return fire, and several close duels with the Roadhog as my team ran in without me. And my personal highlight, beating McCree in a high noon shootout. I'm right inside the point B building to the right, healing a Zarya who is randomly shelling the point, when I hear the words behind me. I turn to see a glowing cowboy coming up the stairs. I know I can't get away so I pull my pistol and charge, shooting him in the face. As I jump over his head I can't believe I'm not dead yet and I hear him roll, so I spin and finish him off as he starts fanning the hammer. I don't know if my charge freaked him, or if he was greedily trying to get the Zarya behind me too, or what. The game ended in defeat since our only solid push on B was destroyed by a Junkrat killing us all with his primary fire (play of the game, he even had tire up but didn't use it). Then there was the Anubis defense against 2 Widowmakers, 2 Tracers, a Pharah and a D.Va. It ended in a loss with several minutes left on the clock with my Mercy having gold for eliminations (14), objective kills (7) and healing. We had 2 roadhogs, a torb, a mei and a reaper, so I was the only one shooting back at the Widows and Pharah... Everyone else kept chasing Tracers into the sniper fire, or huddling in the only safe corner.
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Xaris posted:I love Pharah but god drat this game loves embarrassing me when it decides the best end of game award to stick out is my 81 direct rockets with a "whopping" 23% direct-hit rate and not the four golds or whatever Things like that, Symmetra's turret kills, and Roadhog's hook percentage are overly weighted for cards at the end I think. They show up way too much.
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Any other alt-o-holics trying to collect plays of the game on every character? I know its not that exciting since most POTGs are lame, but it is something I try for while grouping with my quick play-only buddy. I've got 8 more to get - McCree and Widow will be tough as I can't aim for crap. Wish I'd gotten the cowboy pre-nerf and before everyone knew how easy it is to avoid high noon. Mei and Winston seem hardest otherwise, I very rarely see POTGs for them. My last four: Junkrat, Tracer, Reinhardt and Zarya, are just a matter of playing them enough. Junkrat is my least played since my friend plays him 90% of the time.
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Countblanc posted:Healing Done is a weird stat because in a lot of ways you're at the mercy of your teammates. If your team is just getting bursted down by being out of position then all the healing in the world won't save them, and if you get rolled (or roll the other team) it's really hard to keep people alive. Certain characters also just won't give you much healing to work with, and those characters tend to be very popular in quick play (Hanzo, Mei, Genji, Widow, Tracer) because they have low health and tend to not play near the group. Yeah I got praised by a group for amazing healing on Zenyatta one game with randos, and it baffled me because I just tossed my harmony orb around to triage while focusing on trying to headshot the bad guys. So if anything they all deserved the praise for staying together, covering each other, ducking out of fire at 10%, and not going back in until my healing balls tickled them back up to full.
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Grammaton posted:Six Bastions on offense sounds kinda fun. I wonder if anyone's tried it. Fps version of the age old RTS strategy where you build turrets closer and closer to the enemy base, I like it.
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whatspeakyou posted:As a fellow Roadhog main, I am thoroughly impressed by this man: https://gfycat.com/FrequentHalfBabirusa I got a Lifesaver POTG as Roadhog last night. It was me shooting a Reinhardt that was charging me. At the last second you see PINNED pop up as he takes my last shot and falls over, it was like he bounced off my belly.
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Broken Cog posted:I just wish they did some actual interesting brawls instead of "limited heroes, tweaked ult rates". Unstuck in Time, all Tracer, random forced jumps and rewinds. Bonus if they can change maps and game states on the fly. JUMP its a wide open field JUMP its the Nepal indoor map JUMP its a payload escort in overtime inches from the goal. They're Coming, all Bastion, one life only, hold a point as long as you can. In the distance you hear FIRE IN THE HOLE and the sounds of the tire. Then again. And again. Faster and faster as the tires come from every direction. Alternate option: same thing but infinite charging Reinhardts. Halls of Reflection, your group has to work together to get through a shifting maze of ice walls and blizzards as behind you an invulnerable Mei slowly stalks toward her prey. They need to make tools so people can create their own, would be interesting to see what comes of it like the DOTA genre from wc3.
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For teleporter noises, I'd ducked into the room to the right inside the arch on hanamura A attack and one of our team did the enemy teleporter placed callout. I could hear the hum clearly. Saw symmetra run back into the area so I waited until she passed then went looking. It was in that small pagoda room with the health pack in the courtyard between a and b. So that was a pretty good distance to hear it when it's not drowned out by gunfire.
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What do you do for the gas station defense on route 66? Just set up shop there to hold the corner and two tunnels? Saw people ask if we were doing it a few times but the team ignored it and ran up to the train cars.
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Enemy genjis can reflect unscoped shots but can't reflect scoped shots. Saw it on one of the mythbuster videos. Edit: he reflects the scoped shots but they don't do damage whereas the unscoped ones do. Misremembered. bagrada fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Jul 20, 2016 |
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I got an awesome "shutdown" POTG as pre-buff Zenyatta, no idea what happened in it to give me the credit. Gibraltar last point defense, my whole team is stacked up, a tracer is zooming around us. I shoot at her a few times, miss, then kill her with a kick to the face. Then we turn, an ice wall goes between us and the payload, and a near dead enemy mei is standing next to me so I shoot her once then kill her with a kick to the face too. (I weave in melees by instinct when in close range combat, whether or not it is good to do so). An enemy Zarya's ult then goes off grabbing all of us. I shoot the ice wall a few times then it drops and I blindly fire towards the Zarya I can't see through my clump of teammates and sfx. She dies to all of us then the POTG ends. Did I get shutdown credit for tagging a Zarya during her ult? Or did the Tracer have hers up and not get to use it? It did make for a badass video though with Zen straight kicking 2 opponents to death. That's my second favorite shutdown POTG. My first favorite is on hanamura defense. A pharah drops in on point A from behind and starts justicing all over us. My road hog turns and hooks, but the hook bounces off her, not connecting. So I alt fire but that somehow misses her too. I alt fire a second time and she finally dies. Her ult had already killed 2 of my teammates. That was the whole POTG. I've got it recorded with my teammates saying "WTF".
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