Oh dang, the outrage would be hilarious.
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Oh dang, the outrage would be hilarious.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
https://youtu.be/avc074x-cRk
https://youtu.be/ykghf4tH0qs
https://youtu.be/Ai-7szfyde0
Note that reunited actually countered them with 4 tanks 2 supports.
The central pillars of the snowball remains the same though. Ana builds ult by the tanks eating poke, and then rein bullies everyone until he gets earthshatter, rinse repeat.
Also reunited ran 2/2/2 on numbani which showed the comp's weakness in mobility.
The fact the team doesn't die and almost always get high value out of the ults is the difference. Like yeah Genji gets more swords but like he's not killing the tanks easily with it and chaining. The supports have tanks with them as well as anti sword ults often enough to not worry about it too much.
We know a bit about this because there were similar strats happening back in beta. You aren't gonna win the first fight in time often enough to deal with Ana, then ult economy stuff starts happening. Back then it was centered around Lucio and Zen, but the idea is similar.
Right now this is getting strong very fast. It is broken outright in the sense that it creates a situation that is very far out of line for how the game is normally played. That can be fine, emergent gameplay and all that, but it is a bad look if we can't figure it out without some other crazy strat. I'm hoping some more "normal" strat ends up beating it. Maps are also an issue.
It is on the rise though and its very, very rough and oppressive when it happens. Some of the top teams are already worried or pissed off about it.
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Vault Dweller 111
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Thanks. I'll take a look.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I must admit though, i kinda love the comp, but yeah, hopefully pros find some counterplay to it soon.
Yea but we only had 1 healer, me on Zarya and another DPS. After the point fell they didn't switch.
I don't love it but it is interesting. It highlights a lot of what is kinda the center of high level play as well as some of the not so great ways the systems work together.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I think it just shows that there are too many characters that are just dps hybrids.
Nuno Pinto
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You have really good aim, I watched your game on QP in Lijiang and you were wrecking the other team with D.Va
without mech lol
Today was a nice day, I finally got a winning streak (5 games) playing mostly Soldier. I also win more SR (~30) when I play dps/tank instead of support (besides Zenyatta) and lose less SR (~20) if I don't win the game. I wonder if it's because of the medals.
The last match I played today on Hollywood was very funny, I had two mistakes that led my team to be wiped out twice lol. Thankfully we still won.
I think it shows the weaknesses of the ult system more than anything.
Vault Dweller 111
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Do they ever spectate Ana? I really want to watch high level Ana play.
Having those 3 initial picks do require at least Rein, maybe Zarya and strong solo healer like Mercy or Ana. Done that first choke defense few times with such somewhat wonky line up. Sucks it didn't work out for you and double shitty not to switch heroes to fit following up segments of map.
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Spectating supports make for dull viewer experience I guess
Not really, mostly focus on the DPS or tanks or Fraggie when he gets boosted.
Mainly Roadhog. Ana too, and in some variations a Hanzo will come into play.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Hmm, is it mostly through the ways and methods ult charge is built?
Prepare for a lot of bitching.
It's gotten to the point where I'll more often than not go "hey, at least let the guy have a go first before asking them to change"
optimus8936
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wh-How did I even make it on the listOT5 Wall o' Shame!
Tinfoilhatsron
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Is OW having an outage? I have a server error.
PS4.
PS4.
KINGofCRA5H
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"The server closed due to an unexpected error."
Oh. Thanks? Probably counted as a loss too.
edit: PC
Oh. Thanks? Probably counted as a loss too.
edit: PC
BlueLiquid
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Same on PC. Just got disconnected from Battle.net mid-game.
Berserking Guts
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Just got disconnected amidst a sweet Riptire kill 
PS4 here.
PS4 here.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Now THAT was a twist.
MarioHead3
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He was the closest to carrying the team.
Psychoward
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cross-posting from the gaming side thread about this template, OC y'all
ViewtifulJC
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ViewtifulJC
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match time: 2:56
dr.rocktopus
Banned
down on Xbox as well 😭
JB2448
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MarioHead3
Banned
Does this mean I can't play Diablo either now?
I have succeeded at life.OT5 Wall o' Shame!
Guys, I haven't played Overwatch for like a week.
I feel empty inside.
Usually all Blizz games bite it when BNet gets DDOS'd, so Diablo time is unlikely.
Dongs Macabre
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Tinfoilhatsron
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Well damn. Guess I'm playing R6 then...
Psychoward
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Stop playing him wrong then
Oh I still love to play as him and still do firestrike and charge but the large majority of playing him in my experience involves holding up the force barrier
a reckless rein usually gets killed very quickly and isn't as helpful to the rest of the team
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
The "hold right-click" rein mind games can get pretty intense though.
Welp, I wanted to play Diablo III & Overwatch with a friend. Thanks a bunch, group of very determined douchebags who make it their hobby to be incredibly pitiful.
yeehamuffins
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Okay, just had the weirdest damn thing happen in competitive play.
We absolutely stomp on Attack on Eichenwald, 3 to nothing. I had been playing Lucio on Attack, and switch to Mercy for defense. As I'm running to the point alongside our Zarya, something seems off. I look around and see a Zarya, a Reaper... and no one else. I check the stats screen, and everyone else has locked in their teams, but... none of the other players are there.
And as the match goes on, it's fairly obvious that the other team is having similar issues. I only counted three among their numbers, too. After the first respawn, the Reaper on our team just stops moving and doesn't budge again until the match is over. So it's just me and Zarya against three enemies, no idea what happened to the other players.
Despite both of us switching to Lucio and Tracer at the end, we can't manage to hold them off 2v3, and it goes 3 to 3. I had had chat turned off, so I have no idea how the other person was even reacting to this, but I guess at some point we decided to say "fuck it, this match is messed up anyway" and picked Torbjorn and Symmetra when we rolled to defense again. And amazingly, we actually held them off. But despite our best efforts, the enemy team picking Torbjorn, Bastion, and Reinhardt was enough to hold us off on Attack (I would have picked Pharah to try and hit the distant turret, but she was one of the characters that our departed teammates had picked, and was still locked up), and it ended as a 3-3 draw.
And on the end screen with our team, it just showed me and the other player, not even any spots for the other folks who vanished. Weirdest damn match I've ever had.
Hmm, wonder if that might have caused what I was seeing. Figured it had to be something on the network end, since if all of those folks had dropped it would have notified us. Still, weird that the match didn't stop once it was obvious that not everyone was there.
We absolutely stomp on Attack on Eichenwald, 3 to nothing. I had been playing Lucio on Attack, and switch to Mercy for defense. As I'm running to the point alongside our Zarya, something seems off. I look around and see a Zarya, a Reaper... and no one else. I check the stats screen, and everyone else has locked in their teams, but... none of the other players are there.
And as the match goes on, it's fairly obvious that the other team is having similar issues. I only counted three among their numbers, too. After the first respawn, the Reaper on our team just stops moving and doesn't budge again until the match is over. So it's just me and Zarya against three enemies, no idea what happened to the other players.
Despite both of us switching to Lucio and Tracer at the end, we can't manage to hold them off 2v3, and it goes 3 to 3. I had had chat turned off, so I have no idea how the other person was even reacting to this, but I guess at some point we decided to say "fuck it, this match is messed up anyway" and picked Torbjorn and Symmetra when we rolled to defense again. And amazingly, we actually held them off. But despite our best efforts, the enemy team picking Torbjorn, Bastion, and Reinhardt was enough to hold us off on Attack (I would have picked Pharah to try and hit the distant turret, but she was one of the characters that our departed teammates had picked, and was still locked up), and it ended as a 3-3 draw.
And on the end screen with our team, it just showed me and the other player, not even any spots for the other folks who vanished. Weirdest damn match I've ever had.
Hmm, wonder if that might have caused what I was seeing. Figured it had to be something on the network end, since if all of those folks had dropped it would have notified us. Still, weird that the match didn't stop once it was obvious that not everyone was there.
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Banjo Tango
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In solo-queue plat / gold comp, I've been on three teams that pull back to the second arch on Dorado defense and just cede the first half of the first CP... but the strategy never seems to pay off. It always seems like they push through us more easily than when we try to hold them at the first arch, and we've got a lot less time to get back from spawn if we get killed.
I've also never been fortunate(?) enough to have the other team do this to us when we're on attack, so I'm not quite sure how it would feel on the attack side. Has anyone had any luck with this strategy?
<sensible chuckle>
I've also never been fortunate(?) enough to have the other team do this to us when we're on attack, so I'm not quite sure how it would feel on the attack side. Has anyone had any luck with this strategy?
<sensible chuckle>
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