Overwatch feels

>tfw you out-damage the 4 DPS' on your team in comp
>with Zenyatta

>every game comes down to coinflip
>loose every coinflip

Just such a mind mindbogglingly stupid system. The game is great this ranked system is just so fucking retarded. Why am I getting fucking rank 40s on my team? IM SEVENTY FUCKING FIVE.

If you're above the mid-60's and you're still soloq you're doing it wrong.

>Win competitive
>Go up 1/4 of a level
>Lose competitive
>Go down 3/4 of a level
>50℅ winrate
>the being slowly but surely pulled into the 35-45 shitter zone

SR gain/loss is modified by streaks and personal performance (as compared to the average at that SR with that hero).

The way out of soloq ELO hell besides grouping is to go DPS and carry.

I got to rank 64 by my 10 placement matches. Is that good?

>Go DPS and carry
Is Zarya good at that? Ive been playing her lately.
Genji is the obvious carry DPS choice but I fucking hate playing Genji

Yeah zarya can carry an entire shit team, granted they at the very least know to fucking dps the black hole

nearly everyone can carry/dps
granted, carry in this game is quite limited due to how much of an impact you can have in general

it's mediocre
even twitch streamer faggots who play mmos for a living are getting 70+

my friends are shit, and i went from 69 to 66 in 4 games, only way i get back is with soloQ

Who the fuck has five friends though?

You don't need all 5
You just need at least 3 others to have a substantial influence on the game.

You + & 2 good friends > You & 5 mediocre friends
Be picky who you play ranked with

...

Zarya isn't DPS

At 30/40 you can probably carry with Zarya since people will feed you charge like crazy, but in 45-55 to get through you'll want to go an offense class. Reaper, McCree, Tracer, Pharah if you're godlike with her.

overwatchlf.com

>Keep losing games
>keep getting 3+ golds
>mfw I will never break 50 because my teams are all afraid of the obj

I have the same problem, I calibrated at 51 (made the mistake of playing with friends) and the highest person I've ever seen was 46. I've since dropped to 45. And of course when I lose I get penalized a level and a half because LOL THESE GUYS ARE ALL LOWER THAN YOU YOU SHOULD HAVE WON

I'm convinced the average player level is like 42, because it's all I fucking see.

The only ones out of your list that I really enjoy are Pharah aka Sky Target and McCree aka Reworked Every Other Week.

I guess I'll try to learn Reaper but he feels so limited by his range.

Average player level is 50, there are just enough low-rank players to match you appropriately

>tfw you make the game winner

Sorry, I meant that the median is 42. I know there's outliers but I feel like the vast majority are in the 30s-40s.

>Zarya in every fucking game

When is this fun killing bitch getting nerfed?

You know, I used to enjoy Overwatch when playing quickplay, but competitive is awful. I got placed 50, and have already gone down to 47 because of trolls, people leaving games, coinflip losses etc.

I'm going back to CS:GO until Days of War comes out. I've never seen a worse game for solo players in my life.

Why would she need a nerf? Even with her bubble she only has 600 health, just focus her down and her charge means nothing.

Fun fact: Comp used to disallow playing as anything but a 6-stack but beta players complained so Blizzard added a soloQ

Never, get Reaper

>only 600
>every 10 seconds
>teamkill ult
>regenerates 50% of her life
>hard gun

>only 600
Even if she has bubble off cooldown she only has as much health as Roadhog.
>every 10 seconds
She gets a 200 hp bubble. TTK in this game is maybe 2 seconds tops if you blow ass. Kill her.
>teamkill ult
Yeah, she's got a good ult, kill her before she uses it.
>regenerates life
So kill her instead of backing off when she bubbles.
>hard gun
Which goes back to 0 charge and 0 damage when she dies.

The answer to Zarya is not backing off when she bubbles. The answer to Zarya is focusing her to death right through that shit.

And where are you gonna find two good friends?

All my friends are utterly atrocious at videogames.

>lol just kill her argument

I wish Blizzard would release actual information on what percentages the ranks are.

You'd think that 50 would be the dead median, but that is seemingly not the same. At least with a league system you can see in what percentage of players you are.

>Guise Zarya is OP as fuck wtf do I do
>just kill her dipshit
>LE EPIC GREENTEXT

You have no arguments. All you say is "lol kill her"

Here you go. Pulled directly from Blizzard's API.

>he doesn't pug in competitive
how are you ever going to get gold status

You have no arguments. All you say is "I can't kill her"

You're bad at the video game

we still lost

This happens literally most every game I play

By which he means "Just focus fire her instead of getting scared and backing off when she bubbles". Yeah, she's going to get a damage boost from you bursting through the bubble, but your options are;

1. Don't shoot while the bubble is up and get gobsmacked
2. Tell your team to just focus her and remove her from the game in about 2 seconds of fire, resetting her charge back to 0.

I never said that.

>tfw no Pharah gf

>win 7/10 placement matches
>get 48
alright
>make way back up to 51
>lose multiple games in a row due to leavers
>drop 4 ranks
thanks blizz

>Travelling to Watchpoint Gibraltar
>Prepare to attack

What a pleb

>don't take the last point in one push
>straight up only a 1/100 chance of breaking an organized defense there now

>go Winston and Mercy combo
>let her pop her bubble, tank and heal Harambe back to full HP for the armor
>Damage Boost and shock that little bitches Shields and Health down
>keep targetting until she switches/quits

Useful for even when Zarya has a pocket Medic.

>Playing best girl Pharah yesterday
>Get MVP, with 84% of the match on fire
>get outvoted by a Lucio fag who got 4k healing by simply existing

Fuck this community

>can only play dv.a

>tfw four gold medals as zarya

>Get someone below level 50 on the team
>They -always- go Widow or Hanzo and refuse to switch ever
>Every
>fucking
>Time

Are you me

Maybe your friends have friends

She's not real, user.

I thought she had 400 health 200 of it being a shield

Soldier 76 is the king of padding numbers so don't act like you were useful.

>Luciofags
>Do nothing but jump around walls like headless chicken
>Do nothing to try to keep their teammates alive
>Never die because no one plays any of his hard counters because they can't get kills with them.
>Do the most healing simply because the can insta heal small damage when it's completely irrelevant instead of healing players when they are near death

Lucio is the faggiest class in the game honestly, if you were a real support, you would suck it up and play Mercy or Symmetra
He's still essential in KotH

She has 200 health, 200 shield, and her bubble has 200 health.

>no one plays any of his hard counters

I beg to differ.

NERF ZARYA NOW.

NO HERO SHOULD BE REWARDED FOR ME SHOOTING AT THEM!

I AM SICK TO DEATH OF BEING OUT DPSD BY ZARYA AS A PURE OFFENSE CHARACTER LIKE HANZO OR GENJI (MY TWO FAVOURITES).

RIOT WOULD NEVER ALLOW SUCH AN UNFUN AND UNBALANCED HERO TO MAKE IT INTO LEAGUE.

I was thinking more in the lines of Winston and mei but McREEE works just as well
Stop shooting then, retard

How do I kill pink hair dyke as D.va? I can't even block her stupid dildo laser and when I try distancing myself I do shit damage

>TWENTY TICK RATE
TWENTY TICK RATE
>TWENTY TICK RATE
TWENTY TICK RATE
I'M SO FUCKING SICK OF THIS DUMB SHIT BLIZZARD DECIDED TO INCORPORATE I'M SO FUCKING TIRED OF AVOIDING SHIT ONLY TO DIE AND SEE MY BODY IN THE LOCATION IT USED TO BE ON THE OFFENDER'S SCREEN. FUCKING "SHOOTER'S ADVANTAGE" IS ABSOLUTELY RETARDED EVEN IF YOU HAVE THE REFLEXES TO AVOID SOMETHING, IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER
>TWENTY TICK RATE
TWENTY TICK RATE
>TWENTY TICK RATE
TWENTY TICK RATE

You don't, Zarya shits all over D.Va.

Not him but even at rank 68 my teammates wouldn't stop shooting at Zarya and she'd destroy us all.

>hurr I don't know what this means but I'm gonna post it anyways
Servers are 60Hz tick rate. Clients update the server at 60Hz. The only thing that is 20Hz is the server updates to the client, which is completely ameliorated by basic interpolation algorithms.

No, hit detection is not client-side.

>spamming shots as lucio
>hit zarya's shield
>die inside

>playing Bastion
>Genji uses deflect and aims at me
>Immediately stop shooting and wait patiently
>teammates keep shooting and I die

>stop shooting
No. Wrong.

You don't beat Zarya by not shooting her bubbles, any half-decent Zarya is going to use their bubbles on-reaction to get charge anywa.

You beat Zarya by focusing her right through the bubble. She has zero charge when she's fucking dead.

>charging around with reinhardt
>put up a shield to avoid dying
>die
>on the killcam it is revealed to me that I infact never put up my shield, even though I clearly remember having a blue rectangle up before I died
wew lad

Or you can just kill her like you would kill a roadhog. If everyone focuses her her 200 shield bubble doesn't mean shit.

Why are there no great Reaper players anywhere?

He is fucking great for taking out key enemies like Mercy and Zarya, but nobody who ever plays him does spectacular.

Is it because all the competent people avoid him because he will be picked by the team's shitter, or is it something else?

It's not easy when she has two healers and a Reinhardt covering her ass at all times.

>wahhh why can't Blizzard magically make the time for data to reach their servers 0ms! Blizzard owns my ISP right guise?

>our mccree never kills the tracer/genji/reaper/mei
>our reaper never kills the winston
>our zenyatta never discords the roadhog
>everyone charges zarya's shields constantly
>our reinhardt charges into the enemy group, gets killed and his supports are left alone to be raped afterwards

Fug, then who beats her?

>Why are there no great Reaper players anywhere?
I'm right here, bro.

But seriously, it's because he's less useful than other DPS on attack/defense and on KOTH shitter soloQ players instalock him.

I cannot count the number of soloQ matches where terrible players locked tracer and reaper, we go down 2, they switch to someone else, then I carry to victory 3 games in a row as tracer/reaper

To sum it up, I've noticed that people are generally terrible at prioritizing their targets according to who they actually counter

If you can bait the bubble, Roadhog.

In general you're going to need DPS to beat a tank.

Then she's not going to be killing your team from behind Rein's shield. It sounds like you have a shit team.

Zarya is good but she's not some unstoppable juggernaut. She's the easiest tank to kill by far if you just focus her. Don't let her get low and then regen all of her shield back up.

A McCree that can headshot, and like any other tank, a team that know how to focus fire

Thanks to Blizzard's retarded policy on match leavers I've been places in 42 rank. I tried couple matches and it's a shitshow, so I just went back to playing quick play, there's much less pressure, players left just get replaced without throwing entire match and there are always some decent people playing on both sides.

Fuck that's nice

But i disagree, reaper is fucking great for Attacking, he can flank hard and kill all support and his Death Blossom can clear a point by itself, and if he misses one or two, the team can help him clean up shop.

He is rather meh at escort, but that's because defenders can also flank and aren't restricted to a single location.

A good Pharah can shit on her pretty well, asuming that Zarya isn't fully charged and can aim worth anything.

It seems like nobody plays Pharah so I can never practice hitting her with projectiles.


Does Zarya's left click get a longer range when it's fully charged or does it stay the same? Her right click gets a bigger aoe right?

>when you have gold objective time
>as Trashmouse

>Playing ScrapRodent in KotH or Attack

In attack he's useless, in KotH he's just annoying as all fuck, usually switch to Genji to go in and rape him.

I'm currently 73 though.

>Being anywhere under 60.
Jesus fuck.

Roadhog is perfectly acceptable if they have a solid Reinhardt and a McCree to shut down pharah.

Someone's gotta be applying pressure to that shield and discouraging his teammates from getting behind it.

Wow, 99th percentile, that's pretty fucking impr-
>EU

>2 minutes into a KotH map
>I have Gold in Eliminations
>only 3 Elims

This is how I know the match is lost

Sorry, meant to say Junkrat.

Junkrat is perfectly acceptable on KotH/Attack if the other team is running a Rein/McCree combo.

During the beta her shields lasted 4 seconds instead of 2 seconds

That's only players who use MasterOverwatch though

We were talking about WasteRodent you doofus

Do the skill levels even matter in this game?

When comp first started I went down to rank 45 while getting 3+ golds every game and then came back after a few weeks and haven't lost a single game up to rank 60.

It seems really arbitrary since it's not like I became a better player while I wasn't playing

Guys I have only played three comp games.

I'm level 74

I just think this game is too fucking stressful and I have no friends to play with anyway

Most of that time is spent on Mercy or Phara

>play soloq KOTH
>last one to die in first teamfight
>spawn to see two teammates on the point, two halfway between spawn and the point, one teammate spawned just before me
>"Group up!" "Group up with me!" "Group up!" "Group up with me!"
>sit outside spawn spamming group up for 3 minutes as I watch my teammates march 2 by 2 right by me and into the entire enemy team

Skill is a fucking joke

You will always lose the game because you are playing with brainded fish for teammates

It' doesn't matter how good you are, you will lose no matter what. The faster you accept that the more fun you will have.

Same advice applies to you

I bet you're real hot shit and anywhere near that ranking :^)

ELO systems take time to equalize and placement was terribly done. When comp first started there were a lot of skilled players in the 40's and 50's who have since moved up.