Overwatch

Bob isn't as bad anymore, everyone knows just to block him off/sleep him/avoid him. He does do a bit too much damage or last too long. Overall, I think Ashe's aimed damage should be reduced as well or her fire rate reduced when scoped.
 
Last night was a great example of why I still enjoy this game so much and also why I can't understand people that think you don't have much influence over the result.

Using LFG I got in what turned out to be a really good team. We all communicated, one guy didn't have a mic, but was listening and happy to change if requested. We had one guy with lots of ideas of how the team comp should be, but he was polite and often spoke a lot of sense, so we generally adjusted as we went through games. After each game, I think at least one person left each time, but the replacement slotted right in and we carried on. We won 5 and lost 1 game.

One game, I'm getting owned as Soldier by their Reaper. He was quite aggressive, wraithing in and taking out people in back lines, or taking me out flanking. One on one, he beat me each time I think. We went 0-1 down and I think I have 2 elims... embarrassing. I switched to Mei, who I haven't played in comp in possibly years. It worked great, we won 2-1 and I think I finished with silver elims. Their Reaper didn't change off, silly boy.

Another game I was Soldier and other DPS was a pretty good McCree. They had a Phara. Their Phara was owned. Their Phara didn't switch off. They lost quite badly.

For me the most amusing one was Kings Row. We pushed, we did okay. They pushed with Goats and walked right through us. I swapped from DPS to Zarya (When I make a team I go 2 tanks, 2 support and 2 anything slots). I don't think I've ever played Zarya in comp... massive risk and I expect if any of my team checked my comp time on Zarya they would have told me to switch out, but it worked amazing. I even ended up with POTG as I cut through 3 of them as we pushed the cart to victory.

I make out like my changes won the games, I'm fairly sure everyone was making changes to adapt and that's why we were so successful. I still have a pretty good win rate this season, 59.5% after 89 games.
 
AndyCr15 said:
Last night was a great example of why I still enjoy this game so much and also why I can't understand people that think you don't have much influence over the result.

Using LFG I got in what turned out to be a really good team. We all communicated, one guy didn't have a mic, but was listening and happy to change if requested. We had one guy with lots of ideas of how the team comp should be, but he was polite and often spoke a lot of sense, so we generally adjusted as we went through games. After each game, I think at least one person left each time, but the replacement slotted right in and we carried on. We won 5 and lost 1 game.

One game, I'm getting owned as Soldier by their Reaper. He was quite aggressive, wraithing in and taking out people in back lines, or taking me out flanking. One on one, he beat me each time I think. We went 0-1 down and I think I have 2 elims... embarrassing. I switched to Mei, who I haven't played in comp in possibly years. It worked great, we won 2-1 and I think I finished with silver elims. Their Reaper didn't change off, silly boy.

Another game I was Soldier and other DPS was a pretty good McCree. They had a Phara. Their Phara was owned. Their Phara didn't switch off. They lost quite badly.

For me the most amusing one was Kings Row. We pushed, we did okay. They pushed with Goats and walked right through us. I swapped from DPS to Zarya (When I make a team I go 2 tanks, 2 support and 2 anything slots). I don't think I've ever played Zarya in comp... massive risk and I expect if any of my team checked my comp time on Zarya they would have told me to switch out, but it worked amazing. I even ended up with POTG as I cut through 3 of them as we pushed the cart to victory.

I make out like my changes won the games, I'm fairly sure everyone was making changes to adapt and that's why we were so successful. I still have a pretty good win rate this season, 59.5% after 89 games.
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I had this last week, one guy basically took control and like you polite. Everyone spoke, had a great laugh too. Won about 4-5 in a row.

The games I hate, is when someone comes on and is giving other players grief "why the **** are you xxxxxxx". Alright calm down and make suggestions then, all this shouting and screaming does my head in and ruins the game.
 
AndyCr15 said:
Last night was a great example of why I still enjoy this game so much and also why I can't understand people that think you don't have much influence over the result
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I have great nights like that too sometimes, it's usually when the game gives me a bunch of matchmaker gimme games where I can just dominate - makes me feel like I'm really skilled and securing the win for the team... Telltale signs are when they technically have your counter but still can't deal with you e.g. hitscans vs pharah, reaper vs mei (like in your example)

AndyCr15 said:
I make out like my changes won the games, I'm fairly sure everyone was making changes to adapt and that's why we were so successful. I still have a pretty good win rate this season, 59.5% after 89 games.
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So still just a little above 50%... LFG (and grouping in general) is quite a good tool to mess with the matchmaker tbh as it has to try and force 6 players towards 50% in the most optimal way... Maybe the other 5 players you teamed up with were all sat at 45% WR? Maybe the other team were on average at 55%? Maybe you did make the difference, maybe you were just a passenger in games that would have gone how they went regardless?

(don't worry I know you said you're not going to respond to me so I don't expect a reply, but perhaps you'll just make a post clearly addressing me but without doing it directly again instead, who knows :p)
 
I have just been messing round a lot of this season trying out torb and rein for a change and not taking it too seriously, my rank dropped to like 2450.

But I am playing properly again now, no more looking at my phone in between rounds, no more just picking any character, im making sure team comp works, Im picking characters im good with (healers), Im avoiding bad dps players at end of game(even if they on other team), im making sure I invite any good dps players I meet to my party and going duo.

Back to 2900 already hopefully I can keep it going. I will post again if a few days let you know how I get on.
 
So is any one up for making a team? Seems there is enough of us playing to do so.

I've been using the lgf and mainly been playing tanks as the DPS fills quickly. I'm DPS main but I've been enjoying playing off tanks.

Able to play most evening once my daughter is asleep.

Playing a lot of Ashe in death match, she really needs her patch pushing forward to make her aiming more consistent but I think she is a great hero.
 
I have had a few games with boyaaka and scott, always is fun.

I think a few people on here do get together and have whole team. I played some matches with Andy and the others long time ago, lively bunch from what I remember.

What sr are you at famas?

Anyone feel free to add me for some games Ginnnny#2449
 
Yeah I've played a lot with Andy and booyaka, just never seen to be on at the same time at the moment.

Hovering around mid gold at the moment. Would be good to get a whole team together for a crack.

Win rate is all over the place for me at the moment. Was on a team with all low gold players but two of them had been low plat at some point this season but where low gold now. Got placed against a team with two plat players and we got stuffed.

Do seem to have better games using the lgf as far as Comms go but decision making and strats are still pretty much non existent at gold.
 
I'm up for teaming up, but haven't had much time to play lately with lots of IRL stuff going on, and tend to play very late at night, so haven't seen you guys on at the same time as me. However, off work for three weeks over Christmas starting Thursday evening :)

@AndyCr15 Didn't realise Mei was a good counter to Reaper, so thanks for that tip... never am sure what to use against a good Reaper, typically change to Dva or Sombra.

I've traditionally been a DPS main, but I think I've hit my ceiling there at Gold... though having lots of fun with Ash in qp; but tend to get either loads of kills or not so many... not consistent enough for comp. For comp I'm mainly playing Rein, Dva and Moira now. Not too bad with Reaper, but there is rarely a shortage of DPS players, so playing tank or healer generally works better.
 
Ill be up for a team up - Not played at all this season but can hold my own as a support relatively well in gold with Randoms.

Played with Andy and Stu a little in the past - always had fun.
 
Stu said:
@AndyCr15 Didn't realise Mei was a good counter to Reaper, so thanks for that tip... never am sure what to use against a good Reaper, typically change to Dva or Sombra.
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Obviously in the right hands anything can beat anything, and I'm not just saying this to go against everything Andy says (honest :p) but in my experience (I can play both Mei and Reaper fairly well and good enough to consider picking either of them in comp) I feel like Reaper counters Mei more than the other way around... Reasons being that he has wraith form which if used correctly is a very good method to avoid getting fully frozen, and can mitigate damage if you get walled off as well (either to get away around the wall or simply stall whilst the wall runs out)... then he also has massive burst damage, which is what you need to focus her down... Probably the one thing he has that she can counter really hard is his Ult - a well placed wall can completely block it; but it's situational - if the Reaper is right in the middle of a bunch of your squishies one wall isn't going to save them all...

I'd say the better things against Reaper (in roughly descending order) are Dva - but only if you can count on your team to kill him - with good defense-matrix play you can nullify a lot of what he tries to do and your team can hopefully pick him off... Pharah is untouchable to Reaper himself (if it's an option, but sometimes their team will have other things that will stop you being effective)... Sombra for the hack (again you need followup from your team)... Roadhog if you can hit your hooks and shots can mess him up fairly quickly... Ana to anti-nade him... Lucio to keep him out of his effective range with boops... All of the mid-long range heroes as well if you can play them and keep out of his effective range...
 
@uncle_rufus thanks for the input. I'm trash with Pharah, so that's out. I forgot about Roadhog... another good choice, as he also does big damage at close range and his high HP plus take a breather makes him a real tank.

Of course mid-range works, if you can maintain range... I also play a lot of Soldier, like Andy, and generally speaking Reaper isn't an issue, but sometimes you come up against better players that seem to keep getting the drop on you (the map is also a factor here).
 
Stu said:
@AndyCr15 Didn't realise Mei was a good counter to Reaper, so thanks for that tip... never am sure what to use against a good Reaper, typically change to Dva or Sombra.
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Tbf, she might not always be as Reaper can wraith out of her freeze. This one kept wraithing into the back lines, which meant he couldn't escape me :)

At a season high, off the back of three nights of wins, of 2357. Expecting some losses at some point though as I think I'm more a 2050-2200 player.

If I'm not working late, most nights I'm on with 1 or 2 others I play with. Give me a shout if you want to join. We tend to use Discord more than the in game chat, which can be a little confusing at times. Announce something in Discord and forget to tell others in game! :(
 
AndyCr15 said:
Tbf, she might not always be as Reaper can wraith out of her freeze. This one kept wraithing into the back lines, which meant he couldn't escape me :)

At a season high, off the back of three nights of wins, of 2357. Expecting some losses at some point though as I think I'm more a 2050-2200 player.

If I'm not working late, most nights I'm on with 1 or 2 others I play with. Give me a shout if you want to join. We tend to use Discord more than the in game chat, which can be a little confusing at times. Announce something in Discord and forget to tell others in game! :(
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Yeah, let's team up, and I'll help you get back down to 2050! :p

I'm normally signed into Discord, but I think the built in chat works well, and I still think it is best to have all six on the comms channel, even if a couple are only listening.
 
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