Up to ~3200. The higher and higher I go the younger and younger the people I'm playing with seem to be. Like having someone who is clearly a 13 year old kid is pretty common (and they're always genji.)
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Back down to low 3000's reality. It is shocking how people who clearly have many hours of Overwatch under their belt still have no freaking clue how to play around a Roadhog or respect the space he creates. "Hurr durr I'm the soldier time to poke at this team while in hook distance hurr durr this'll go well."
ToeMissile
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Valderen
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I'm curious to see how competitive will be today now that Orisa is available for competitive play.
Probably will be a few crappy games where people select her with no clue how to play her, or which map to play her on, or on which team comp she works well.
I expect to lose ranking.
Probably will be a few crappy games where people select her with no clue how to play her, or which map to play her on, or on which team comp she works well.
I expect to lose ranking.
That feeling when you lose three consecutive games because of the same asshat on your team who rage-picks hanzo and jumps off the map when you ask a different player to maybe pick Ana/Mercy instead of zen so we can have a primary healer. Wtf...
ex-genj
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Did you have zen/lucio? I wouldn't bother until they've shown its not working. or just say "not sure if this is going to be enough heals guys, ana or mercy might work better" not call out people. I've had people ask me to play mercy while I'm playing my gold-gun ana, screw you.
Kharzette
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These guys are entertaining, they keep coming up with the weirdest strategies and team comp. They did a similar move on Eichenwald first point with Mei wall again. They had a 3 sniper team comp to take point A on King's Row offense.
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So played a few hours last night on my alt account, didn't want to have to deal with deranking while people figure out how to play Orisa.
She was in a lot of games, either on my side, or the other team's side or both. I didn't play her personally.
Initial impression is that she's not very impactful like no game were really won or lost because of her presence, although I would say she is probably on the weak side, that might be due to people not knowing how to play her properly yet.
She's very easy to kill when not behind her barrier, she's very slow and doesn't do much damage. I think she might end up being one of the worse 1v1 in the game...not just tanks, but of any heroes.
Her ultimate is extremely powerful though...If used properly on either defense or offense it almost guarantees a win. The thing is that it doesn't really require much coordination, just put it down...and everyone does so much damage that it will overwhelm the other team very fast...no need to combo it with anything. I'm pretty sure it will be nerfed hard at some point.
It's a small sample, and not me playing her either...but if she's not viable...she's close and will require minor tweaks...her kit seems solid.
On a different note, I was on Mei, and killed 5 people during my Ultimate while essentially not missing a single headshot. Got play of the game, and was told nice aimbotting which I will take as a compliment.
In a different game, a player said "Whoever was playing Mei...fuck you.", to which a second player agreed with. I also took that as a compliment.
Mei is now by far my favorite character to play, and probably my best. She is just so much fun to play, so many ways to impact the game...her ultimate, or just good wall placement to break/split a push...or stop ultimates with a wall. That's not even counting just freezing someone and shooting them in the face point blank and going "Sorry, sorry, sorry".
She was in a lot of games, either on my side, or the other team's side or both. I didn't play her personally.
Initial impression is that she's not very impactful like no game were really won or lost because of her presence, although I would say she is probably on the weak side, that might be due to people not knowing how to play her properly yet.
She's very easy to kill when not behind her barrier, she's very slow and doesn't do much damage. I think she might end up being one of the worse 1v1 in the game...not just tanks, but of any heroes.
Her ultimate is extremely powerful though...If used properly on either defense or offense it almost guarantees a win. The thing is that it doesn't really require much coordination, just put it down...and everyone does so much damage that it will overwhelm the other team very fast...no need to combo it with anything. I'm pretty sure it will be nerfed hard at some point.
It's a small sample, and not me playing her either...but if she's not viable...she's close and will require minor tweaks...her kit seems solid.
On a different note, I was on Mei, and killed 5 people during my Ultimate while essentially not missing a single headshot. Got play of the game, and was told nice aimbotting which I will take as a compliment.
In a different game, a player said "Whoever was playing Mei...fuck you.", to which a second player agreed with. I also took that as a compliment.
Mei is now by far my favorite character to play, and probably my best. She is just so much fun to play, so many ways to impact the game...her ultimate, or just good wall placement to break/split a push...or stop ultimates with a wall. That's not even counting just freezing someone and shooting them in the face point blank and going "Sorry, sorry, sorry".
ex-genj
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Orisa only seems good on boop maps at least so far. Maybe comboed with rein on defense? Offense she seems pretty bad. Don't think her ult is really that good as any competent dps can destroy it right when it comes out as its stationary and 200 life. Maybe if she barriers it/stands on top of it. She seems pretty fragile and there were lots of times that we'd start an engagement and she's immediately turn critical (with me on ana) and would need attention. We'll see I guess.. at least she's not Sombra. Do agree that Mei is underrated in general though.
I think we're going to see some awesome situational Halt combos from the pros. It's going to take a high level of coordination to make it worthwhile, though, and Orisa will probably continue to suck in any other forum.
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Fun times in Overwatch.
We start on defense on Numbani, we manage to hold point A.
We go on offense, me playing Zenyetta...team ends up being 5 DPS, no one wants to change...it worked...probably the fastest most brutal streamroll of point A I've ever seen on Numbani.
I had like 3-4 PotG as Mei again, I so love playing her. I walled a McCree like 3 times during High Noon. I can only imagine the rage he must have felt.
I understand why she's considered cancer though. She can stall games, and just be a total annoyance. It's also the part that is so much executing while playing her though. Volskaya point B, we're about to lose it...manage to run in a corner and ice block, then wall myself in the corner to buy the time for my team to get and turn things around...in a way it's such bullshit that 1 person can stall a team of 6 by herself, and there's nothing you can do about it, and it's not like a skilled Lucio that's wall riding and can't be hit, as annoying as that can be you can appreciate the skilled required to pull it off. There's very little skill involve in what I described doing with Mei.
We start on defense on Numbani, we manage to hold point A.
We go on offense, me playing Zenyetta...team ends up being 5 DPS, no one wants to change...it worked...probably the fastest most brutal streamroll of point A I've ever seen on Numbani.
I had like 3-4 PotG as Mei again, I so love playing her. I walled a McCree like 3 times during High Noon. I can only imagine the rage he must have felt.
I understand why she's considered cancer though. She can stall games, and just be a total annoyance. It's also the part that is so much executing while playing her though. Volskaya point B, we're about to lose it...manage to run in a corner and ice block, then wall myself in the corner to buy the time for my team to get and turn things around...in a way it's such bullshit that 1 person can stall a team of 6 by herself, and there's nothing you can do about it, and it's not like a skilled Lucio that's wall riding and can't be hit, as annoying as that can be you can appreciate the skilled required to pull it off. There's very little skill involve in what I described doing with Mei.
gauze
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^I had a game where we were going to lose point b, like hairs from the loss. Mei ran in, threw her ult, iceblocked and then a tracer came in to clean up the remaining 4 people w/ mei. It was pretty admirable but just watching it, we were looking at a potential loss to getting win.
I think its good to have characters like that, because she might be able to stall.. she definitely won't be able to execute multiple targets.
I think its good to have characters like that, because she might be able to stall.. she definitely won't be able to execute multiple targets.