02/19/2018 05:42 PMPosted by SinnirrBS reply...Let those "high rank" players solo queue through a whole season starting from the 10 match qualifiers and see where they end up.I can guarantee you they will not do that.... /s?You do realize most high rank players solo queue most of the time, right?

02/20/2018 06:49 AMPosted by substaticaSimply having someone pick apart a video, while helpful, is just going to be one player's opinion of what rank you should be at, and let's face it, the community seems to enjoy telling players they belong at lower ranks rather than higher ones.The point of having a higher rank player pick apart a video is to improve. Of course you want a higher skilled player doing the review; they're the ones who will spot the most mistakes and have the most solutions for the problems they notice.

But he's tons of fun, and aim is pretty important since his main contribution is damage. He's also interesting to position since he's both slow and vulnerable but also pretty deadly; on games where it all lines up and you get tons of peeling or stop flankers you feel like a god.

02/16/2018 10:02 AMPosted by CuthbertDo you find your wait times for matches generally increase when you win matches?I've never noticed any such thing. Even after large win streaks.

02/16/2018 07:29 PMPosted by LesstoxicTitle ^I had someone in a game literally vent about how OP it was due to the fact that it doesn't have an actual charge time on firing for you to effectively escape it like most ults.It does. I can tell you D.Va will spin around and eat it instantly if she's within a mile.

02/16/2018 10:08 AMPosted by ArcadiumThe problem is we don't know what "better" is.Remember onetricks who climbed with sub-50% winrates?I don't think I ever saw an actual example of a one-trick climbing particularly far with a sub-50% win rate; claims of that were pretty overblown in my experience. The primary advantage of one-tricking is that you get much better with the only hero you play than the other players at your rank, in exchange for no flexibility at all; people get pissed not because the person isn't appropriately effective with the hero at that rank, they're pissed that they're red…

02/15/2018 01:24 PMPosted by KrytonDoes anyone have stories they can share with competitive play? I would be interested to hear how other people feel about the general game to game experience others have had since the incarnation of this mode.Sure. I don't feel the competitive system is perfect, but I'm pretty happy with it overall. I'm Master rank, for reference.There's a lot of variety in how games go. Occasionally there is some toxicity in chat, but almost never before the team is demoralized or losing, and even then at my rank most people will try hard to win until the very end. Some games…

Instead of paranoia about the system, maybe just play to win and recognize that the algorithms do their best to reward that? You're so intent on gaming the system that you're hoping to do it without even knowing what the system is. By keeping it hidden, it makes it so the #1 recommendation for ranking up is to just play better because there is no known way to cheat things..

02/15/2018 04:08 PMPosted by S2302/12/2018 05:16 PMPosted by Kaawumba...It hasn't. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19qAqcIcKfIulz_YN960HgV65c2GfphYdndc6lZli2CA/edit?usp=sharingThis data is all solo queue. I have 7 blocks of career highs. Only one or two of these are followed by significant loss streaks.I want everyone to notice that Kaawumba has completely stopped playing Overwatch because he is wanting to avoid the loss streak that he is on. He knows at the end of the season it allows you to rank up (to prepare you to get excited for next season) and is waiting for that to happen, alt…

I'm not sure how I could every be frustrated by volley damage considering the alternative was an ability that applied the same amount of damage in a single instant that the volley could do if he landed every single shot. Scatter arrow was disgusting and dumb against tanks; Volley applies the damage in a more palatable period of time to big targets, while also being much more useful in situations where he needs to land just a bit more chip to finish someone, having a higher maximum damage output with headshots, and not being ruined as easily by tricky terrain.Sure he loses the insane close-rang…