Ryuuga Wagatekiwo Kurau - The Overwatch Thread

I am going to play me some Mei then.

 

Sibling informs me that Bastion now has a rockem sockem robot emote.

Sibling also informs me that there is a competitive strategy called "Power-Walking Cowboy" where you use Lucio's speed boost on an ulting McCree so he can move at a hilarious-looking high-speed shuffle to High Noon people from a direction they weren't expecting.

 

Can do something similar if an Ana wastes her ult on you. But then if you wander past some Symmetra turrets when it wears off you literally cannot move and will die confused and dissapointed. That fucking kill cam. Just, McCree coming powerwalking in only to spin in place, powerless to stop that beams.

 

Oh, and with Mei and tanks, if you have someone else running harrassment from affar or the tank is alone, don't bother with the icicle and just chain freeze them. Otherwise, just take care of the squishier heroes. If you can, save your wall when you're forced into popsicle mode, then you can pop it under yourself and jump away. Can buy you some time.

 

I wonder if my sneaky gorilla tactics are failing so often because I dressed Winston in a day glo orange spacesuit.

 

welp, i got my first "kill urself" dude in a match. good. nice. yep.
this is why i don't play pvp or coop games usually, i hope this is an exception rather than a trend.

 

I had one idiot yesterday doing the 'team is bad you should all uninstall and never play again' thing. My response was a bare LOL because it was pretty pathetic. And another idiot who left their mic on constantly while they were playing on speakers, so we got their game noise feeding back into the voice channel. Asshole.

 

So, after a really good round I decided that Reinhardt'll be my new waifu. And then the next round was me at half health chasing our Mercy around while she decided she was gonna solo their whole team. Conclusion; tanking is only fun with healers who actually wanna do their damn job. I don't even get why she was playing Mercy. If you wanna do damage, play Zenyatta or Lucio. Their heals are hands off and they deal decent hurts.

 

Had a couple rounds where I was tanking (to take a load off of s/o, who usually tanks) and had the least competent Zenyatta. Every. Single. Round. :|

I mean, if you don't want to play healer, don't. That's fine! I will adjust my tanking to deal with the fact. But if you are playing Zenyatta, I do expect to see at least one healing orb on the field. At some point. Any point. There were two D.Vas on the field, why didn't either of them ever get a fucking orb.

Thankless healing is awful. Getting dumped on by people in match/teamspeak as the tank because the healer never bothered to look at you is worse.

 

Had a match with two Mercy players yesterday, me and another. I was surprised to find out how useful having two healers is, especially since Mercy can't heal herself (though she has a passive regeneration). This was on a payload mission, and avoiding the really long run-back is valuable. I was in Imp and the other was in Valkyrie, so it was an interesting matchup.

 

Duel healers is great. I Mercyed with an Ana, and she fucking shreds if you damage buff her. Plus there's this lovely sense of camaraderie. She gets the healer stress, she gets how it feels to have a Tracer up your ass and a team determined to leave you to your own devices.

 

Moirail found screencaps of various reactions to the latest banwave and holy shit it is beautiful. My favorite is the dude pissed because he tried it once and was on a semi-pro team. Also "why wont you let me cheat in peace ;-;" dude.

ALSO DUAL HEALING IS FUCKING AMAZING WHEN YOU AND THE OTHER PERSON SYNC THE FUCK UP. Like when you get some fucking drift bullshit going. You can become an unstoppable hell force and it is beautiful. Also yes. Ulting up a Mercy is just lovely at times.

 

My fave heal pairs are Lucio/Ana and Mercy/Zenyatta (with a sideorder of Mercy/Sym, who ISN'T A HEALER and thank u Blizz for changing that message but ppl think a lot harder about killing your Mercy if a photon beam is shoved up their ass.)

Actually, Mercy/Symmetra can be summarized as "you thought we had a spawn room? haha. no. no, we spawn here now."

 

I like the Mercy+Ana combo a lot, but I hadn't seen a dual Mercy team before.

 

And yes Mercy + Symmetra is a powerful combo. Symmetra appears to not be that popular but she's damn lethal if played well. She makes it a lot easier to hold a point.

 

oh yeah, that Ana did goddamned Nano Boost me.

 

Dual Mercies can be pesky little shits with their fucking beam switches I've found. My fav is Ana/Mercy though. I love the nano boost so much.

 

I've seen some fun videos of nano-boosted Mercys going on rampages with the blaster.

 

I guess Mercy got lucky in mother-in-laws?

 

Symmetra's so fun Nano boosted, but people only ever give it to the tanks. Which is a shame, cause I saw a Nano boosted Tracer once and by god if that wasn't the single most terrifying thing.