So i saw in forums that One-tricking is not against EULA or code of conduct. So playing only Torbjorn won’t be a problem with the Gameplay sabotage? Since majority of players in competitive are just sore losers who think no one loses a game, and will report me instantly push comes to shove.
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Honestly, one-tricking should be reportable and bannable because it is gameplay sabotage.
So yeah if you gonna one-trick hero especially niche hero and your team will loose because you won’t switch (which will happen) then you willingly sabotaging your chances to win therefore gameplay sabotage. So yeah I would expect to be banned regularly if I were you.
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That’s not how that works.
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Why not? You willingly loosing a game because of your one-tricking…
Please, how would you call it?
I am calling it gameplay sabotage.
Again that’s not what happens.
I can’t explain to you why something doesn’t make sense when you argument for why it makes sense is wrong from the get go.
So correct me please.
‘Willingly losing because of one tricking’ doesn’t exist
What you most likely meant is
Losing as a consequence of someone one tricking
That in and of itself is already not game play sabotage because that would mean that one tricking is game play sabotage which the devs have already implied that it isn’t.
It is game play sabotage by definition, if you force your team to play around you, even when the circumstances are against not only your hero pick, but the rest of the comp, caused by it.
One tricking is not the problem. Is the attitude, basically.
Even OTPs should have a second choice when the whole team and yourself are aware that you are just being stubborn and not cooperating.
Small assumption… If you are one-tricking and you doing that willingly (instalocking) that means that you should be aware of your heros weaknesses. And if enemy team exploit this weaknesses and you don’t switch to prevent it you basically allow your opponents team to have advantage.
So it is one-tricker choice all the way. He/she chooses to instalock hero and refuse to switch which intentionally gives advantage to enemy team, which logically decrease your change of winning therefore he/she is intentionally sabotaging your game and I call this gameplay sabotage.
Btw I don’t care much of what devs thinks I personally care about quality level of my game and if someone is intentionally destroying it I will do the best in my powers (which are very limited) to prevent it.
One tricking itself isn’t reportable. However, one tricks do tend to be non-cooperative in terms of hero composiotion. The lack of cooperation could suggest that you jeopardize your teammates’ winchance for your selfish enjoyment, which is reportable.
For safety reasons, I advice you to one-trick only with friends or groups who are chill with you playing torb only. Going solo queue is risky because those random players might not like it if you one trick a hero.
This is a bunch of bulls*it , one tricking is fine , problem is people’s mentality. They just give up and start throwing games even if that 1 trick will do his/her best to win and they just blame /report the 1 trick for the loss .
I’m not a 1 trick but I was playing widow on junkertown once and my team kept telling me to switch of simply because they didnt like my hero pick. Obviously i won the game and got POTG and gold elims and dmg . They were still telling the other team to report me for gameplay sabotage when instead the healers in my team should’ve been the ones to be reported for that because they refused to heal me through the whole game .
So your perception about 1 tricks and switches and so on is totally wrong . Let people play their best hero and you’ll have more chances to win .
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That Widowmaker story was out of place and proves nothing but the existence of toxicity. It is not related to the topic in question.
It is a fact that instalocking a niche hero just to prove a point and even when is being countered and dead weight, keeping playing it just because you want to, is game play sabotage. Not all the time your team is toxic and is yelling at you: there have been loads of times in which somebody is just feeding and being destroyed first every single fight, and asking to switch IS NOT TOXIC.
Yea even with examples you don’t understand. Not gonna bother anymore with people like you.
There is a reason why people don’t get banned in league of legends for not picking the optimal picks, despite there being champions that clearly are superior than others in any comp.
The point of one tricking is to get to know a hero inside and out meaning that they learn to counter the counters. Even if they didn’t any hero/person would be susceptible to this either way.
People don’t get banned for not picking DF despite him clearly having the highest win rate in competitive. People don’t get banned for picking sub par heroes.
The problem with this is that any pick can force teammates to play in a certain way. Them being a one trick just means that the hero that they pick is at least going to be efficient at what it can do.
But sir, why are you assuming that winning games or having a “Utopian” game experience is the only experience i should have in my game? Why can’t i lose a few games to learn how was my hero weak, and what different should i do in that situation. Instead of Pressing H at Base? Don’t i deserve to have my own choice?
One tricking, developers say is not reportable, but people will report you for gameplay sabotage. And blizzard will upheld the suspension. No questions asked. I would suggest contact blizzard and ask them. Because, once your account is susepnded you can’t say, hey blizzard, the forums said i can One trick and people reported me, i wanna appeal.
Nothing will happen.
Or you can main Mercy. One Tricking Mercy, no matter how bad you play, Won’t get you banned.
that’s is why there are so many happy-go lucky boyz and galz maining mercy and preaching positivity when they never had to face the harsh wind of community harassment (and possibly permanent ban) for one tricking.
This is why Jeff Kaplan said that one-tricking itself shouldn’t be bannable. Those players are still trying to win and give their best playing only that hero.
Though what you say might be right, forcing teammates to play in a certain way is an aftermath of playing a one-trick. Jeff said that those who got banned for one-tricking actually did other things, too, that made their penalty justified. Forcing teammates to paly a certain way could be one of them because you basically ruin their gameplay experience by forcing them to adabt to you.
Everyone should have minimum 2 Heroes he/she can switch. I dont have anything agaisnt people who like to play their hero every game if they can do their part. But if they are being hardcountered or their pick is very bad choice and they cannot get any value from it, they must switch to try win a game. This is team game not solo play. If they dont its totaly fine to consider it as throwing and should be bannable.