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Now that I'm in Europe, I tried playing on quickplay to see what it's like.

...It's very easy to see why the western world has a toxic community given how shit everyone is. I mean, I'm not a good player, but this is the next level in being terrible at video games.

Nice, competent, cooperative. Choose two.

Okay but it's really tragic that these people play worse than kids who can't speak English.

[PTTG??]

Blizzard cannot into spines.

The Zerg actually have quite a few spines.

[ZebioLizard2]

Blizzard cannot into spines.

The Zerg actually have quite a few spines.

Hydralisks are quite willing to share theirs with you from a distance!

[EnigmaticHat]

Playing Ana with randos in Temple of Anubis: Defense.

Our Reinhardt, after dying: "Wow, 18 killstreak"

Random enemy: "Dude, Ana is riding you like a horse."

[Man of Paper]

As a Reinhardt main, I will say Ana is the best thing to happen to me since I started maining Reinhardt (not by choice, see below). I don't think any other character becomes as lethal as Reinhardt with the Nano-Boost. Roadhog comes close, but only if his Ult is ready.


Anyone else have to deal with the frustration of being naturally gifted with a character that, while you don't mind it, you'd rather not play? All my life I've never played Tank. I've only ever picked things off from afar or got nice and close with a blade. I live by the infinitely wise words my boxing coach gave me back in the day: "Don't get hit." And yet I find myself better able to assist my team to victory as Reinhardt than, say, Tracer or Reaper (though admittedly I've only got 3 more hours on Rein than Reaper right now). It's to the point that when I play with my regular guys I say "I wonder what I'll be this round..." and everyone laughs thinking I'm making a joke about how I only ever play Reinhardt now, even though sometimes I'm actually trying to play someone else.

But then I get called things like "Best tank ever" and "a god" and I wonder if my preferred playstyle all my life is not the playstyle I'm best with.

Now that I think about it, in Soul Caliber 2 I was always Nightmare playing against people. That was because I learned his moveset and utilized it in such a way to maximize mobility (my god some of those stance-change combos...). It's kind of similar with Reinhardt, I don't play him vanilla. Unless I'm needed to shield a path (getting the team to rush into the left side of the first arch in Anubis for example), leading a charge (literally any B point), or standing on a payload, I'm using Reinhardt to sneak around my enemies and draw attention from my team doing what they're doing (usually sucking, unless I'm in a group). I'm dead for more victory screens than not, usually because a sneaky Reinhardt is a mean motherfucker. The Supports should know to fear me.

[EnigmaticHat]

Man of Paper, I think you should maybe reconsider stealthardt.  Reinhardt just isn't a stealthy dude, even ignoring the fact that he's huge he also has some of the loudest footsteps in the game, and his charge callout is audible from a good distance away.

More to the point, the shield is what makes Reinhardt good.  Going ham is the fun bit but the real meat of the character is in using the shield to protect his allies.  And I think you'll find that as you get matched with higher and higher level people, your charges start working less and less, enemy Reins will become absolutely brutal at using Earthshatter on your allies, and the CC characters will notice much more quickly when their medics are threatened.

Or I mean do what you want, it sounds like you're having fun.  Just be aware that vanilla Rein has its own joys, and ultimately the character is played that way for good reasons.

[MaximumZero]

EnigmaticHat (Tank) + MZ (Ana) = Lethal Combo.

[Man of Paper]

Oh no, don't get me wrong, I play the objective and act as vanilla reinhardt more than stealthmans, but, especially when I'm grouped with friends, doubly so when it's the start of the match, I love to take some time to, say, hide next to the attacker's spawn and charge the whole team into the icy waters below. And I often don't stealth unless there's a dedicated firefight going on to draw attention from my huge bootsteps. It's all situational, obviously, but I personally think most people even see Stealthardt as a feasable option, let alone an effective one.

[Flying Dice]

I mean, there's a reason for that. There are other heroes that do literally the exact same thing except that they have mobility to help them get into position and escape after, and don't rely on being in melee range to do steady damage. It's like how Hanzo is pretty much pointless to play now; Ana is a better sniper than either him or Widow, and his ult is about as useful as pre-buff D.Va's. Except worse, because a good Hanzo player can still get stuff done without that lurking voice saying, "Y'know, you'd probably be doing a lot more if you used his kit in the more effective style."

[TherosPherae]

I mean, there's a reason for that. There are other heroes that do literally the exact same thing except that they have mobility to help them get into position and escape after, and don't rely on being in melee range to do steady damage. It's like how Hanzo is pretty much pointless to play now; Ana is a better sniper than either him or Widow, and his ult is about as useful as pre-buff D.Va's. Except worse, because a good Hanzo player can still get stuff done without that lurking voice saying, "Y'know, you'd probably be doing a lot more if you used his kit in the more effective style."

I disagree about Ana being the best sniper. She's the best sniper if you can't land headshots; if you can, you're better off with Widow unless you desperately need supports on your team.

Hanzo is.... well, Hanzo's pretty much always been a dumpster fire of a character. Pre-patch, he was an annoyance because he could get a headshot if he hit you in the dick, whereas now he's really reliant on being able to either hit heads, or throw the ricochet arrow at someone's feet in order to get kills. Either way, he's less effective as a 'sniper' than Widow or Ana will ever be. But I don't think he needs a buff, I think he needs a straight-up rework in order to give him his own niche. (Maybe make him the defensive anti-flanker, since Mei isn't doing that job properly?)

[Flying Dice]

Which would explain why post-Ana buff her pick rate in Comp has been ~10-15%, while both Widow and Hanzo are flatlined at 0.n%. People are picking Torb more than Widowmaker right now, on PC, in competitive. That's how far in the dumpster she is. Her theoretical damage is higher, but it requires you to land nothing but headshots and for the enemy team to stand out in the open without shooting you. Ana can pump out her damage in shorter windows without needing to scope in (while retaining that option), and she can self-heal, debuff enemy healing, and heal her teammates from long range or in an AoE, and she has a strong ranged hard CC in a game nearly devoid of it.

Widow's a one trick pony and she's not very good at that trick right now. As it should be. There are enough FPSes out there dominated by people who can click heads with overpowered weapons, this doesn't need to be one of them.

I mean, you can probably get away playing her in low-MMR casuals with two team sof randoms, but you can do that with any hero, even Torb or Bastion.

[Levi]

Apparently season one of competitive is ending on August 17th.  You'll get your spray/icon rewards if you finished your placement matches, and you'll get CP points depending on your highest achieved ranking:

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SR 0-39: 10 CPs
SR 40-45: 20 CPs
SR 46-49: 40 CPs
SR 50-52: 60 CPs
SR 53-55: 80 CPs
SR 56-59: 120 CPs
SR 60-64: 200 CPs
SR 65+: 300 CPs
I only managed to get up to 55 as my highest, so I figure I don't have a lot of chance at getting 120 CP's, but 80 CP's is still nice.

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Also I think I'm actually getting worse at lucioball.  I did so well the first day, but now I always feel like 20% of the time my shots don't register, which is pretty embarrassing when you are the goalie.

[EnigmaticHat]

I personally think Ana didn't need to be buffed (aside from the sleep dart recovery time to reduce my anger towards randoms) but I'll take it since she's my main now.  Dueling a good Widow as Ana is suicide, because Ana is the kind of character that Widow specializes in killing.  If you're shooting at, say, a Winston... Widow is better in theory, if you have perfect aim, but the shooting is easier as Ana and Ana can start running and gunning as the ranges shorten.  And of course Ana has actual abilities, while Widow's feel like she was given shit abilities to compensate for her great gun.  I mean the grapple's solid, I guess.  It does something the other sniper has as a passive.

[Flying Dice]

The grapple lets you land those style MLG hookshots and everyone knows showboating gives the most points. 

[Skyrunner]

My secret theory is that all ranks from 1 to 100 are hell.