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Musty Pie said:
Limited healing from range?? Not sure if serious? His healing grenades travel some hell of a distance!

And he can throw his protective barrier thing some waystoo! He has a VERY all round kit. He can seemingly be played up close or at range and still pump out decent healing numbers.

His issues, at least early impressions are escapes. He has his jumpy boots for mobility yes, but that's probably more for keeping better/safer positions and line of sights to heal at range or throw his barriers out.

His self heal and AOE heal, IMO are more for using when pushing, or to make it to the front line to plonk down your ULT.



I might be very wrong, but thats what i take from him.
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When I say from distance, I'm thinking about highly mobile targets and comparing to other healers... for example, how will he heal a Pharah, or hitting a Tracer or Genji zipping around at distance, compared to Zen healing orb, Moira healing orb or Mercy mobility. Ana may or may not be easier to heal at range depending on your skill... she is hitscan when scoped, so can hit anyone at range if you're aim is good enough. Also, this is impacted by team comp and if there is another healer. I'm not saying healing at range is bad, I was just thinking how he compares to other healers in different situations.

I do agree that he can be good for healing at range to support a brawl, and his boots can quickly get him to a nice high point position to effectively lob in healing grenades from a safe place.

My personal experience is also that his boots are being used more for positioning than escape, but I think that will change from practise and experience; positioning where an escape route is close/planned, and simply remembering to use them when being pressured, which will come from experience (I have only played a few games with him).
 
Looking for a few people to play comp with. Currently around 2300 ish on PC (was 2800 on PS4). Mostly play Moira/Soldier/Mcree/Widow and a few others. My battletag is crispymorgan#2764.
 
crispeh said:
Looking for a few people to play comp with. Currently around 2300 ish on PC (was 2800 on PS4). Mostly play Moira/Soldier/Mcree/Widow and a few others. My battletag is crispymorgan#2764.
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Are you playing on control pad on pc?

My tag is on last page if you wanna add me.
 
Haha I am indeed dragging him down :( I'm mid/high gold on ps4 but ~1600 on PC. I'm just not used to kb/mouse as it's been about a decade since I played any sort of fps on PC.

I've joined the OCUK discord but my tag is Greboth#2365 if anyone wants to add me.
 
I switched over from console like 10 years ago but still play everything on pad. Im I bit reluctant to make the switch to keyboard and mouse because of wrist injury.

I got the xbox razer wolverine tournment pad, it's pretty good for overwatch as it has extra button on top to use for jump so you can keep both thumbs on at all times and still mash jump. Also it has button on back that you can use to slow down sensitivity for more accurate aiming and the sticks have a nice amount of sensitivity to them.

Anytime I'm playing above 3000sr I normally just play healer (lucio,brig,mercy) my aim is no where near the level needed to play dps above 3k, but I did have a match earlier at 3000sr where no one actually wanted to play dps so I played Mei. We did lose the round though so someone else took dps and I went monkey and we won.
I got potg here is the clip, as you can see my aim is far from perfect, I only got the one headshot and they were standing still. I did land a nice ult though freezing 4 people.

Here is a random lucio potg from earlier today. He plays surprisingly well on pad, I got to 3500 the other season just playing him.

My best character is Brig though and even though she had 35 nerfs since release and sucks as a character right now she is probably still my best. Even playing on pad there isn't much you can't do with her.
Here is a funny clip from earlier today.
 
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It is interesting to know that you've made it that high in the ranking using a controller imginy :) Obviously at a much lower rank but I think I should follow you and stick to playing tank / healer in comp until I've practiced my DPS aim in quick play more. I don't think I'll ever climb that high but I'd like to be roughly the same level across platforms.
 
I think as you climb out of gold it's more and more about games sense. Having a team know when to call it and back out rather than get staggered is huge. Ult timing, callouts, all the things that are just missing in lower level/quick play. That's probably where I can improve the most.
 
Musty Pie said:
That being boop!

Love that map for boopies
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All 3 of the above are pretty good for booops.

Hopefully more so with new patch!!

Speaking of new patch they have dialed back a couple of the changes on ptr, zarya isn't going to be nerfed quite as much, now it's only the fully charged splash damage affected and the overpowered junk rat that was on ptr is getting nerfed so its only a small damage increase over what we are used to and they also increased ult charge time so he won't get his ult any quicker than before.

The weird thing with this latest patch and it's many changes is overwatch devs are actually listening to the players and fans on the overwatch forum and using common sence. The stuff getting complaints is actually getting fixed and balanced properly. Looks like hopefully should bring an end to the goats dominance in OWL and under powered heroes all getting small buff and over powered heroes brought back under control.

Maybe they learned their lesson with last patch that I think messed the game up.

I'm really looking forward to new patch and glad the devs have started listening to people actually playing the game.
 
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