I was playing the PTR all last night and for shits and giggles I decided to see what rank i would get if I played only Widow. My widow isn't bad, it is pretty good honestly but she is really not a hero you can play all the time.It isn't really a perfect metric either since the PTR comp mode is a complete shit show with everyone picking Sombra (she's kind of good against Widow), people picking Winston to counter Widow (Also good against Widow), and generally playing with gold and plat players who all see a Widow and assume I'm awful so they don't pick normal heroes and start griefing.

I went 5 - 5 and got ranked at 2,300 though I have no idea how much the fact that PTR says my season 2 rank is 2,400 affects that. I got accused of hacking only 3 times!

 

Probably had my best game ever. Was 2-2, 99%-99% on Lijiang Tower and had a player disconnect in the last five minutes. Ended up winning with 89 eliminations in total on Tracer and Reaper.

 

Ill never understand the whiners that want to complain about who is playing who. Sure there is the Meta, but playing the meta doesn't mean auto-win and going off meta doesn't mean auto-lose. That person who just picked Symmetra could be an amazing one, (aggressive Symmetra) that attack Hanzo that everyone is bitching about gets four head shots in a row and then wipes the last two players with a dragon arrow.

 

It's not the off meta picks that irritate me. It's the people who insta-lock Genji at the beginning and then refuse to switch while everything is going to hell in a handbasket and they're sucking ass. And if you're not willing to change (unless you're on an essential role) then you shouldn't be asking others to either.

 

In all honesty, the 'meta' is the easiest way to win. Quite often, I would agree that blindly following the meta is a pretty poor idea but genuinely following the meta will help a lot if you are plat or above. A lot of games 100% come down to someone picked a Mercy instead of Lucio, or decided that DVa was the pick etc.

Meta in Overwatch is actually very simple and the only real areas where you can switch off meta is on the heroes that are difficult to play which in all honesty are just McCree, Genji and Ana in this meta. And honestly, as long as you nanoboost Reaper, you could still play Ana missing most of your shots.

 

The issue with picking outside of the meta means there might be a reason for the meta in the first place.

In my game yesterday we lost a KOTH 1-3. Every single time we lost a match it was 99 to 100. This was all because we had a D.Va against a Zayra and Roadhog. The D.Va was useless and not just due to player skill.

 

I think thats overly harsh. Sure the metas for a reason, but usually that doesnt come into play unless youre either choosing a really poor choice (symmetra comes into mind) or if youre at a really high skill level where minute differences matter. Besides dva can be pretty useful as a flanker and to shut down ults like roadhogs and reapers.

 

No Zarya and Roadhog are really shitty people to try take a D.Va against. Unless the Hog just lets the D.Va chew him up, it's a bad matchup.

 

How are you guys feeling about the 1 v 1 matches? I really enjoy them, although I feel the Symmetra, Torbjörn and Bastion matches can be extremely frustrating.

D.Va is weird, as losing your mech first actually seems to be the better strategy.

Still, a lot of fun. Wish Mercy was in there though. Unlikely to take longer than Symmetra or Torb fights.

 

That's a Genji-main problem. A bigger issue than any metagame concerns, imo.

 

Eh. You can play around insta-locking Genji/Hanzo scrubs by picking a hero and giving them killer assists (Ana/Zarya).

No fucking chance of that if they lock Widow. You may as well go take a shit.

 

I really loathe the fact that, in competitive, you always lose more points than you win. So, if you win two games and lose two games, you are not where you started but rather way lower in terms of points.

That's really frustrating.

 

They talked about that at the Blizzcon QnA i think Nemrut.
Basically Blizz programmed the placement code wrong after making adjustments towards S2 and a lot of people got calibrated too high. Now the matchmaker is trying to compensate in getting people to lower rankings but it's overcompensating.
In S3 people will generally calibrate lower in their placements and the point gain/loss will be more balanced too.

 

Man, I suck at 1v1. Never a skill I've honed.

That being said, I've yet to get 'my' heroes.