I don’t know if this problem has been adressed before on these forums but im bringing it up here because its getting worse.
Basically, more and more people queu into healer roles but don’t do any healing for their teammates all game. They only queu healer for reasons like shorter queus, self healz, more selfreliant gameplay (ie less teamwork involved), etc… But more and more people in my QP games consistently refuse to do heals for their teammates.
You see more and more Zens, Moiras, etc…
Another issue is also dominant premades (ie 4 or 5 person groups) who simply refuse to bother with healing people outside their group.
Doing damage is just as much a part of their role as healing is (apart from Mercy, where damage boosting should be job number 1).
Remember, they are supports not healers. They are there to support the team in all aspects of the objective.
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yeah but when they actively refuse to heal when they could have in a variety of situations like after a fight, or you know never healing a tank at all so the tank has to swap to roadhog or winston or wreckingball to either self heal or run to a health pack asap.
there’s a difference, zen doesn’t heal much but if he just never deploys a healing orb the entire game that’s kinda sus, an ana never heal anybody or a baptiste, that’s pretty much ignoring 70% of their kit.
Adjust your play to play round health packs and the other support more. And report them after if that’s the case.
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no point in reporting, they are quite frequent, just pick something that will work around it and move along, either they are just dpsing and nothing else or hard pocketing their friend that’s on a dps.
it is what it is, you’ll find people on other roles doing equally as ridiculous things, if i were to report every single one i’d have very little time actually playing 
Or that works too.
I will assume a typo there and that you meant infrequent, as it rarely happens.
well do you play quickplay?
because that’s what both me and the OP is talking about.
it’s quite common, and really it’s also a little bit of “it’s just QP” why should anyone care to the point of actually getting annoyed to the point of making a forum post about a mode where nobody cares.
I would never describe quick play as play OW. It’s why the OW2 lost the buzz fairly quickly.
If you select support in quick play, and decide to DPS… you’re not throwing. You’re just not playing how others expect you to.
just because it’s QP doesn’t change the objective of the game, if you’re throwing you’re throwing, it’s just more acceptable since you don’t really lose anything but just make the game actively worse for 11 other players while you’re doing it.
and really the difference between QP and ranked is just points to navigate skill brackets more efficiently so really if nobody cared about points should they also treat ranked like they do QP? obviously they should but they don’t because people act like ranked matter.
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Correct me if I am wrong but if you are a reaper, soldier, genji etc soloing it and going off on your own not only are you supposed to be self sufficient and reliant on getting health packs and map knowledge but also it is not lucios job to be running around chasing you to heal.
The game works with tanks soaking up the damage, keeping the cokes engaged and protecting the healers while the healers keep them alive and if you need heals you be with the group not on your own.
Healers chasing you get them and in turn the entire team killed.
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pretty much, don’t expect to get healed as often as dps, but if it’s downtime between fights you better get yourself to a healer so they can get every drop of ult charge off of you.
also reaper works better with your tank line than in some weird long roundabout flank maneuver.
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they are called support ,not healers for a reason in this game .
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It’s flex queue dps players, no idea and anyone who says supports aren’t supposed to heal have no idea what they are talking about, just go watch some T500 supports on Twitch !
No one has ever said that.
People will rightly say healing is PART of their job. They have many other things to do as well.
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