I think theres issues with the potg system. If not they’re bugs maybe. There will be times where someone who didn’t do much gets POTG over someone else I think deserves it more. Say for example someone who killed more people or made a more game changing move. I didn’t think too much of it until just now. Before I wrote this I was playing a match and was doing really well as Rein. Nothing too serious you know just a casual solo 4k. Not even with Shatter or anything. Literally everyone in the match expected me to get POTG but guess what. I didn’t. So who got it then? Some stupid Junkrat throwing bombs at literally nothing and killing no one while I began wiping his team at the end of his POTG. Of course I was mad and curious why this is happening. I got a solo 4k as Rein and allowed my team to push in. Surely that’s more game changing than a Junk doing literally nothing and killing no one right? So what in the name of hell is going on?
Call me salty all you want but literally everyone except that Junk thought I deserved that POTG more
It should be in your highlights at least.
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It is but it’s disappointing to lose my POTG spot to some guy doing literally nothing
It could be salty or it good be a wrong decision, but the system seems to think the Junkrat player still did something worthy of potg. If you had a video of it that would have helped, I mean the potg system isn’t so broken that it hands it out for nothing.
It works fine except when it comes to Ana
In my 3 years on the game I’ve seen less than 10 Ana potg and most of them were her nading a grav.
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POTGs like damage that leads to elims within the span of the POTG. So if you got a widow that deals 99 damage to 6 different squishies, then you get a Rein that has one cleave removing the last 6 points of HP, it’d be Widows POTG.
The crucial aspect of this is: final blows don’t matter. The game is still in your highlights, I assume, so rewatch it - did you do a lot of damage? Or just the final bits of damage?
Note also that damage alone isn’t everything - like I said in the beginning, the damage has to be useful, i.e. leading to kills within the time frame of a highlight.
So yeah, the reason you often see Torb, Ashe, Junk in POTG is because they do a lot of damage while in many cases lacking the ability to confirm kills. The squishy that gets riddled with your turret or has dynamite on it or got a few mines and grenades for breakfast might retreat from the POTG character, only to be finished by someone else.
The saddest part about it all though is that the game can’t measure your skill. I had the most beautiful solo kill as Ana, for example: Paris, me standing at the back of point A, Mercy is ulting flying up at the wall just inside the arch, so about 50m away (edit: after believing it to be 30-40, I measured it with a Reinhardt charge - it’s pretty much 1 Rein-charge, meaning 50m). I hit her and the Genji she’s pocketing with a bionade (hitting the wall the little moth was flying along), she then flies through the air, I hit both shots on her and she’s dead. Still… 260 total damage and only denying a bit of her ultimate, so not even a personal highlight.
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It’s definitely broken since Mardi Gras patch, yeah stupid plays would get through from time to time, but since Mardi Gras patch, literal trash has been potg every single game except maybe once in a while a McCree gets a triple noon or better.
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I agree, totaly broken .
Moira gets the POTG 100 % time.
I played about 10 games , 5 or 6 of them were moira .
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Do not necro old threads…
not a fan of diablo?.. don’t you guys have phones? x-D
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exce[pt until those final blows connect those heros can still kill you 100%…thats why in football the guy that has 10 yrds bu 4 TDs is the mvp no the guy with 300 and no TDs. but W/E its just a fun end of match system not game breaking