I'm Tired of Flexing

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I’m tired of going tank and having gold kills and damage because our DPS do nothing all game. Maybe, I could go DPS and do a better job but of course, those bastards will not change to fill the Tank or Healer slot, will they?

Am I not supposed to get people from the same skill level?
I was ranked Masters when I stopped playing Competitive, and I get queued with plat and diamond players. But tbh, I don’t think that would make much difference. Even In masters, I saw bad players.
But having gold kills and damage playing Winston and Reinhardt so often is clearly a sign something is not right.

Is it that hard to force everyone to flex half of their games for example? So that we can have good comps and everyone has the chance to play what they like?
Why do I have to stress myself at the beginning of every game deciding if I’m gonna flex or not care like many others? It’s stupid. I open this game to have fun, not to tank or heal for one trick dps that are not only not grateful but also just bad. The only mode I actually truly enjoy in this game and I have no problems with is Lucio ball. How stupid is that?
Deathmatch is good too but it still has some problems that need to be fixed.

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1st of there is not much team work in QP .
2nd off healers mostly heal the tanks in QP and ignore the rest of the dps ( and because of this you die less and you are able to do more dmg and get more kills)
3rd depends a lot of your play style, if you are too aggressive and you don’t protect your dps too that is what is happening.
4th people trying different heroes/things resulting in bad dps , not optimal team composition.

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Honestly the solution is to just play what you want. I typically flex too and it leaves you dissatisfied when you know you could have potentially won a game had the team been more cooperative. The great thing about overwatch, contrary to popular belief, is that you can actually win with any combination of heroes.

You could try LFG to find like minded players. Or join a discord to find people who are serious about the game and also willing to flex.

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I think a lot of that comes down to survivability.
I can pick Fat little Hammond and get gold dps, even though there’s 5 dps hereos on my team, same if I pick Lucio, I can get gold or silver dps at the end of a match because I can regen a portion of the damage I have taken.

A Hanztard, Widodo, will just run away on 10hp and get gunned down, I’m not defending these kinds of dps players, they are not fun to play with but I don’t think it’s all down them to be terrible at their class, just their risk assement skills are lacking.

They always switch to something more useful or suited to their play style when the timer has 10 seconds left.

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Then stop

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what make you thing there’s teamplay in comp?

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you dont need to flex. You can be as selfish as everyone else out there and lose matches, or you flex and improve your winning chance a little. Thats it.

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When I’ve tried to practive playing tank in quick play I find it a difficult task as there is rarely any support players and lots of dps. I usually play support and find quick play a lot more fun and win a decent amount of the time when playing this role.

Play something that you can play well, flexing to something your not as confident with can make a bad team worse not better.

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Welcome to my life. As a Zarya main, ending games with 2-3 golds (inc. elims) has just become the norm for me. Complaining about why DPS aren’t doing more is a fruitless endeavour. Long story short, I just don’t care enough to complain about it.

Complaining to Blizzard about this is also pointless since this is a player problem.

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i allway fill support/tank

i think in 100 games there’s 1 i can play DPS

not that i realy want too… sometimes i see a gap and think “if i could play reaper for a few minuits i can take that out” but people are so deadset playing their spamzo and won’t switch for anybody…

i’m glad junkrat isn’t so popular anymore (though i rather have him then spamzo)

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Just excuse the DPS. They probably aren’t aware that they suck that bad. :wink:
Also just play whoever you want, you can even win a game with 6 supports.

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And with 6 dps too in omp

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Another suggestion: Be the selfish one for once. You don’t have to be selfless to win every game. If you are good at DPS, then play as one and kill people yourself. Or as the DPS mains say, ‘‘carry your team’’.

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I really hate it when I show that I can play either tank or healer, and no one pics the opposite… so we end up with 5 dps and me to flex either healer or tank… In these case I normally go dps too, because why would I care when the rest dont?..
And ofc we lose those games, big time!..

When people then start crying for a healer I say to them that if they go tank I go healer…

I am the worst dps btw… :joy: