Overwatch

Moira isn't a flanker though, she's a healer first and foremost.

If you want to flank, then play a flanker and leave the 2 healer spot to people who will heal.

She is a flanker, I do it all the time and it works. Most people cant hear her right click or mercy cant get away fast enough. Soon as they turn just fade and run if it was a failed flank youd know soon enough, if it was successful probably no reason to run then as your team has pushed thru after you killed both healers. Also given her right click distance, flanking doesnt have to be right up their ass. I usually get mercy 9/10 times when I come to the side/behind throw orb and start right clicking, by the time she flies away she's dead before shes out of range.

You dont have to flank you can stay with the team but if your team is having problem pushing and no one is flanking it will help. I also focus tracers, genjis, symmetras, pharahs, those classes people dont counter fast enough.

I went from 1900 to 2840 on my smurf with moira as solo queue. I've dropped on my main account now cause I group with friends but probably going to start solo queueing again since my friends are gold

I had an interesting game last night on Lunar Colony.

This was my first time trying it, but we did the quad tank on attack. It didn't quite worked out, and made question if it would ever really work in comp. based on my sample on 1 game.

First we did it as well as you could expect from 6 random people. We had the right comp, we all went in the same direction together and made it with all 6 to the point...and this is where it fell apart for us.

The first time that went wrong is that unlike OWL where the defending team in up on the right side(looking from attackers point of view), they were defending mostly from the point itself, which is fairly common in gold games. So instead of getting to an empty point and forcing the defenders to take it back. We had to attack a point that was being defended.

The second thing that didn't work out for us is that they had a Bastion and Junkrat. So when we arrived on the point, the damage shredded our shield and was too much for Moira and Lucio to heal through, and we failed.

We made a few more attempts(bad idea) and they pretty much all ended the same way. We simply didn't have the DPS to kill them, once we did manage to grav, well the guy didn't get many in it...and more importantly missed the Mercy who just rez the one we did kill.

It was an interesting attempt, I don't think we executed badly to be honest, it's not a hard strategy to execute really. It's just the way the defending team starts on the point, and different hero(Bastion) selection in gold compared to OWL made it very hard to work.

I haven't changed my strat much. I don't just sit behind people all the time, it depends on my healer. Like I've said I prefer mercy otherwise I dont really flank cause I know zen/lucio won't provide enough healing and I rarely get a good ana. But with how mercy is and I guess valkyrie you can solo heal and sometimes I go dps instead of moira if I know and trust the mercy's healing.

So if I have a mercy I'll prod at their back line, even at high plat people dont defend their backlines. That's half the problem I get as a mercy or a zenyatta which forces me to go moira and kill the tracer/genji harassing us. Most of the time the mercy doesnt even realize it until they're half life and by the time they do fly out of range they're within a sliver of life and I'm already calling mercy low on comms and shes dead. Then killing lucio or zenyatta is easy as hell, ana can be a pita if I get too close she'll nade us both but it's not always death then.

Must be seeing some bad moira's though, usually fade is enough to get away/back to your team depending how far your team is, I try not to go too far away so I'll side flank instead of straight from behind if the team is good at reacting, there's always someone low health you can finish off. I don't get my elims from orbs, my orbs rarely kill more than maybe one straggler/low health runner. Also DVA and Genjis have caught on to matrix/reflecting my orbs so I don't send them straight into the group thats a waste. My right click is what kills for me, and if I see someone low I'm going to finish them off which I think is a good value to moira she is that finishing damage that the dps couldnt get in before the guy runs out of range which for me is still in range.

I do imagine higher diamond it'll be harder to flank and against 6 stacks and in scrims I've noticed this too they are good at protecting but high plat it's not really like that and teams are spread apart etc. It amazes me youll get a good team one game then another team that seems like they belong in bronze, so inconsistent. But you guys are partially right, I should be healing and when theres no mercy we do lack the healing if I'm flanking too much, so I'm going back to hit scan. Trying to practice some genji too but the fast movements are something else and some of these guys are like 7 ingame sens and 400 dpi when I'm having a hard time panning the camera fast with 800 dpi and 9 sens lol!