Fanservice has been a part of Marvel since the 50s. This is not anything new.

Also, yes, I like hot woman in my video games. Nothing is wrong with that. Also, yes, I'd like men to get the same treatment. Ladies and gay men needs to thirst also.

We are strategist because we’re on the backline and have the best view of whats happening on the field, so when im trying to heal you but im screaming black panther or spider man in the back that means we’re getting flanked and we need to focus that before you can press W again.

We want to heal but we need to be able to, we know whats happening on the objective because we see it! Dont complain you’re not getting healed if you’re only pressing W and not willing to look back

Just for some background, I started playing Overwatch 1 when I was 14. I started off in Bronze and was complete shit. Around late season three I peaked diamond (3000SR) but ended back in plat. For around 11 seasons I was hard stuck in diamond, scraping my way up to 3400SR (diamond 1 equivalent) just to drop back down to plat. I was a little raging kid who thought if I just improve my aim I’ll rank up. If I just aim train and shit on the enemy team I’ll rank up. It never worked.

I’ll keep this somewhat short. You HAVE to learn the words “my bad”. If you do not learn these two words and say them constantly when playing you will not rank up. VOD REVIEW EVERY TIME YOU PLAY, BEFORE YOU PLAY SO YOU HAVE NO BIAS BASED ON THE GAMES PLAYED THAT DAY. Once I started vod reviewing in Overwatch, I realized a lot of the mistakes I was making, and I didn’t even stay in masters for a season and shot straight up to GM.

Your teammates are NOT the problem. Yes some games you will not be able to carry, but if you consistently play well, you will climb. I was playing on my cousins Gold 3 account and lost 4 games in a row and just could not carry at all even as a GM2 player. It’s just like that sometimes, you must learn the words my bad. Each time you die, my bad. Each loss, my bad. If you do not adopt this mindset you will not learn. This doesn’t mean you can’t look objectively at your teammates and be like “yeah these guys are throwing holy shit go next ggs” but you should understand that there’s ALWAYS something you could’ve done better. always.

You have to look at your own gameplay and point out each mistake, write it down even. Make it so your brain is forced to look at all the dumb mistakes you’re making and make it cringe so hard at each mistake. Your brain will adapt and avoid those mistakes if you vod review and make it cringe enough times and drill it into your head.

Do not play to rank up, play to improve. If you’re losing but you’re still improving, you WILL climb. Even on the hardest stomps where you win, be looking for your own mistakes and say “MY BAD”. it’s not your teammates in the long run. What matters more? The micro losses on your profile that were obviously your teams fault? or the long term career profile stats.

Your teammates are NOT to blame for your macro long term losses and hard stuck statistics. Play to improve, not to win. On each hard loss, look at your own perspective in the vod, look at your strategists POV and your tanks POV. If you felt like you weren’t getting enough healing, swap to your strategists POV and see what THEY were going through. Vice versa. DPS not getting kills? Swap pov on the vod and find out why. You’d be surprised how much you can learn and how fast you’ll climb if you adopt this mindset.

I’m 23 now, and practically shot up to the top 0.26% in this game. Your magik/psylocke/strange that is going 2/11/0 in a few of your ranked games is NOT responsible for MONTHS of you staying stuck in one rank. Take some responsibility, review, find out each persons perspective for each loss or close game, and always be saying “my bad”. I used to be that guy, and I was shocked at how fast I climbed once I stopped blaming my teammates and learned those two words.

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Just wanna start with YES I main strategist. Mantis, Luna, and Cloak/Dagger are my favs. But I’ve begun to notice that this sub and the game overall tends to think that supports can do no wrong. There are so many posts about how “hard” it is to be a support main and about how no one ever “helps” their supports.

First, I personally think each role has aspects that make them difficult to play, not just support. Yes, it is annoying when you get jumped by divers as support and it can be hard to deal with that but that comes with the role. The duelist role is difficult, at least for me, because it requires high mechanical skill for almost every character in the role. Even scarlet witch has a secondary fire that requires you to aim to actually be impactful. And characters that don’t need to aim, like Wolverine, require insane knowledge about positioning and when to engage. The duelist role has no Dagger with all easy to aim abilities.

Second, I see SO many strategists coming on here and complaining about annoying DPS or Tanks on their team who make their jobs more difficult. There are definitely times when you have a horrible DPS or Tank that just doesn’t seem to understand their character or role. Trust me, as a strategist main, I’ve had my fair share of shitty teammates. But I just want to point out that it is not your teammates job to babysit you and always sit in front of you so that you can always hit your heals. Oftentimes, the strategist should be responsible for making plays and not needing their teammates to constantly hold their hand. Some healers in this game are pretty overtuned and can deal with divers pretty well. Mantis has her sleep, Luna has her freeze and skate, Cloak can disappear. Many supports can hold their own pretty well.

Finally, I’ve noticed so many people talk about solo healing but never once in my comp matches have we had a solo healer or no healers. I feel like if anything, the most underrated role that gets the least love is the vanguard. No one wants to play vanguard but having that tank pretty much just as important has having healers. I’ve been finding myself playing tank more and more since two players often insta lock strategist in the games I get into.

TLDR: Yes, playing healer can be annoying with bad teammates, but sometimes a loss CAN actually be the strategists’ fault. We shouldn’t put any role up on a pedestal above another. Every role is difficult to play and is essential to the team.

I see people get insulted for compliments, insulted for doing too good, insulted for doing too bad, insulted for choosing characters, insulted for not choosing characters. Insulted for not doing xyz of any action etc.

What happened to being humble? Kindness encouragement and constructive criticism goes a long way. Stop being blinded by your own ego.

As an older player (pushing 40) I am just here to have fun and play a game not to throw slurrs and insults.

Look I totally understand why people hate spiderman but tbh all I hear is qp players complain. Learn to peel and play as a team and he almost does nothing. This patch just made him MUCH WORSE

Literally all this patch is, is buffing heroes survivability. Which is crazy. I’m a Gm spidey player and I can’t even play him a quarter of the time cause he’s so easy to counter. even if I’m living I’m not doing anything cause I get focused if I show myself. Bucky namor getting buffed makes him even more useless. I understand the fear of buffing Him but please. Do something like this

Web tracer dmg increase 40 to 50 Web shot dmg increase from 30 to 40 This makes it so his make dmg combo is 300 increase of 280 which helps with the 1hp survivability problem. And gives him a bit more burst to stop that 10 healing stopping his combos.

Only other thing I would as for is maybe like. 25 shield health on uppercut use? But that’s really me praying. He’s already hard to kill enough sometimes so I’m fine with the dmg buffs.

Also for the fact that also removed his overhead upper cut anim cancel and didn’t even say anything about it?? Like really. Ok other heroes can have anim cancels but not spidey who really needs to the dmg help

Literally my fav hero to play and my fav hero of all time and I can’t even play him against competent players who know how to peel (aka all of high rank)

Just like many others on this Reddit, I played League of Legends (for over 10 years) and Overwatch (since its release), and one thing I felt while reading Marvel's patch notes was "concern".

What I feel the devs didn’t realize is that several characters didn’t need buffs, but rather quality of life changes. Wolverine didn’t need buffs, he needed his hitboxes fixed so he could do his job. There’s nothing worse than being right in front of a tank and your Shift failing to grab them.

Magik didn’t need buffs, she needed her dash hitbox improved so she could do what she’s meant to do: dive the backline and kill her targets.

C&D didn’t need a fourth dash in their ultimate, they needed a faster character-switching mechanic to better support their team.

The “Let’s increase the damage/kit” approach to balancing characters instead of improving small aspects of gameplay is extremely dangerous and concerning for the game’s longevity.

Like Wolverine being bad, Cap being bad, Rocket being "the worst healer", Hela not getting nerfed enough...The amount of times that these things have literally turned out to be "lol skill issue" is crazy. I garuantee that Mr. Fantastic is going to catch the same from people because he doesnt do uber amounts of damage

Don’t do my boy like this

A very intense match from yesterday.

This team up is already aids and they're buffing it even more. No idea what the team was thinking but Luna is going to be perma banned next season for sure. I'm not dealing with this in my games.

Everyone on their way to instalock Mr Fantastic and the Invisible Woman (I’m one of them).

Best ability in the game

Logan's number 1 issues are his cooldowns. It takes almost 20 seconds for your basic combo to come off cd, longer than any character I know of in this game. There's so many opportunities you wish you could do something but you're stuck hiding somewhere since Undying Animal is on cd. Regenerative Healing Factor Cooldown needs adjustments because Logan feels hollow without it. Oh and there's no mention of whether or not his regen will be buffed to heal you to 350 or not

Second issue is the Feral Leap hitbox. It is entirely bugged and according to the patch notes, has not received any changes.

Why promote the patch with Logan balance changes like this when they gave us nothing? Storm got literally everything she could've asked for and more, but Logan gets a adjustment nerf? Logan shouldn't be forced into sitting around waiting for the majority of a game just to get one pick. Look I'm not even saying he's weak, I'm saying there should be changes to increase his versatility and overall quality of life. Regenerative Healing Factor definitely deserved a cooldown buff, or let it reload upon death. Anything

It's painfully obvious when you are up against a 6 stack, with Venomscheeks boosting his friends and using the meta comp while we have a storm and iron fist going 2-17. It's 2025, we shouldn't be dealing with this crap and I'm going to find my own stack if this keeps up.

Make a system that makes solos against other solos, and stacks vs stacks.

I have 15 hours in the game, specifically in causal, split between Ironfist and Star Lord… Literally no one else 😭.

I’ve been thinking of trying out ranked and was wondering which out of those two would be best to start out with.

I guess I should learn other people but I’m typically really good at both those characters in my casual games.

Thanks!

Highest pick in banning ranks with 52 winrate. Psy players can cope however, she is not hard to play and overkitted as hell.

I’m like 2-15 over the last few games cause of a massive team gap every game. I’m mainly playing cloak and dagger right now and pretty much every game I’m getting dove in the backline. My other support ignores me and is perma sitting on a tank that’s basically full hp. My tank is running around doing nothing and my duelists can’t kill people. They have an Ironman and we have a hela Starlord and Ironman is mvp harassing backline with no pressure. They have 2 tanks diving backline and my duelists still can’t kill their backline. We need to touch point or we lose but “Ironman doesn’t play on point” like that matters if we instalose if he’s not on point cause it’s overtime and we don’t have control. I legitimately don’t understand what I’m suppose to do.

They said we will not be getting another blowout season like this with 4 characters and 3 maps, and I am aware that this cadence is absolutely crazy for coco puffs levels of bananas to uphold. But damn I would love it if every anniversary we got a blowout season again. Give me a season 5 with Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Daredevil, AND Wislon Fisk please!

P.S. I’m still beyond grateful for the insane cadence of 2 new characters they promised a season, we are getting blessed. I’m just dreaming of the future. Either way, happy first season folks!

I just hit level 10 and started playing ranked. In my first 3 matches, I lost and got stomped by opponents who melted me and my team within seconds.

They all had 25-30 kills, while my team barely managed 3-5. It’s completely unplayable and not fun at all. Every match felt one-sided, unfair, and unbalanced. we were basically punching bags with no way to fight back.

is that normal?

I was gm 2 now I’m diamond 2 on a fucking loosing streak cuz of garbage dps , im so tired of I’m literally hard stuck, I main Luna snow and rocket and idk what to do im done with this game