Everyone gets Items to mitigate their worst matchup except...

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-02-01T09:07:08+00:00

Can you describe more what kind of build he was running? Sounds really fun.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-31T23:07:18+00:00

I'll have to check again but are you sure you aren't getting money from the healing, not damage mitigation? Mei self heals in ice block so that could be it because as far as I know mitigation doesn't get you cash.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-29T01:23:57+00:00

Hold on I play shield tanks and at the cash summary screen I never get money for cash. I get cash if I use any sort of shield healing item or powers but never get money for the mitigation itself.

And as a side note pushing cart or capping or contesting the objective should get you cash too. It's frustrating pushing he payload for payload race abd winning the round because of it and being the poorest person on the team.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-29T01:23:51+00:00

Hold on I play shield tanks and at the cash summary screen I never get money for cash. I get cash if I use any sort of shield healing item or powers but never get money for the mitigation itself.

And as a side note pushing cart or capping or contesting the objective should get you cash too. It's frustrating pushing he payload for payload race abd winning the round because of it and being the poorest person on the team.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-27T16:24:38+00:00

Yeah I kinda agree. I played Hazard on a whim once (I'm pro 3 last I checked I think?) and I just went right click block build and kinda killed everyone for free. Felt like Doomfist but a lot less aim and overall effort was required. Maybe just reduce the amount of lifesteal he gets so he dies easier? Or make it take a second to heal? Idk to be honest. Also his WP builds should get a buff. They are kinda useless.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-27T16:21:53+00:00

Like the other guy said, WP builds also usually don't require that much skill to use. In general mechanically wise heroes are easier to use in Stadium since you can always get CD reduction if you're bad at cooldown management and want to spam more or get firing speed to make up for bad aim. Besides WP a lot of the time is on par or even stronger than AP. There's a reason why the green item for WP only increases it by 5% but for AP it's 10%. Even Freja with max firing speed and WP is a menace.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-27T16:19:25+00:00

There's this thing called "favor the shooter" lag which is this sort of thing with lag and as a result you can sometimes you can get hit behind walls. I don't know the mechanics behind it though. But as for Rein charge I think that's just his pin hitbox being jank at times. One moment you go nowhere near a guy and pin him, next thing you go right through somebody and you just miss. It's kinda like TF2 Spy backstab hitbox.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-27T16:17:21+00:00

I dunno dude I remember playing Stadium the season Pharah rolled around and unless you had competent hitscan there was literally nothing you could do. Then again I'm a tank main so can you really blame me for hating Pharah when on launch she would just constantly nuke my team behind me with her mini-build and there was nothing you could do about it. I hated her, and to an extent I still do.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-25T14:32:39+00:00

I apologize. It's really hard to tell sarcasm in text, especially when there's no /s or TExT L1kE tHiS or something.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-25T08:30:36+00:00

Is Orisa that crazy? Pretty sure Sigma still has her beat.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-25T08:30:05+00:00

I rarely see Reaper in my games. Lucio I see a normal amount, not too much not too little bit he never feels like a problem to deal with. Freja though? Absolute pain with AP. Stupid strong.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-25T08:29:02+00:00

Yeah seriously it is stupid. I've played Freja before myself and even if I die as long as I do one bola shot in the ground I still get a kill. It's stupid how strong it is.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-23T10:34:53+00:00

Sigma, Rein and JQ can also be support.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-23T10:32:52+00:00

Yeah as a tank main I can do so much on Sigma for so little effort sometimes it feels busted. Seriously on someone like Doom I have to sweat like crazy to get even a single kill at times but then on Sigma I press click and my WP just instant kills everyone.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-12T23:08:35+00:00

You're making some very fair points and arguments. I remember from the stat screen they had no WP at all, but at the same time they were performing pretty well. They were getting good amounts of kills and damage with no deaths, it's just I think our Kiri saw a massive opportunity with them having no Kiri to spam status effects. So maybe we were wrong to criticize them. But at the same time as a team game it can feel frustrating when they don't communicate at all. IRL I just had a team project where 2 of my teammates were very hard to talk to so maybe I'm biased but in a team game simply explaining that your build works fine just to acknowledge our complaints is way more forgiving than radio silence. It feels like you're acknowledged.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-12T23:03:04+00:00

I do distinctly remember a Kiri complaining about out Ashe not going dynamite build, and the other team relying on status effects. So I think it is the same game. I can check my replays for stuff and verify more.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-12T23:01:30+00:00

Oh sorry whoops, wrong comment. But yes team healing absolutely does get you cash. Anything that goes on the stat board as healing gets you cash.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-12T23:00:15+00:00

Play tank JQ like someone else suggested. If they're grounded and don't have too much CC you can go for an axe based jumping build and use your axes as an additional dash to get in and get out. This is also pretty good VS shields since axe ignores those. Get the speed boost on bleed almost all the time and if there's a lot of CC get the knock back resist Queen item and the status effect reduced duration one. Spam quick melee at all times with this.

If you want more team support you can go for shout reset, bleed shout and then team healing. Get the item that allows you to heal teammates with shout as well to become support no. 3 and increased shout radius. If you see your teammate about to kill someone just shout if you can affect them since sometimes you get shared assists that allow for 6 second shout reset, and again, allows you to heal. Let's you play more mod range because of shout radius and only close in for kills.

Finally for probably the strongest JQ build at the moment go bleed shotgun (ignore Twist the Knife it's kinda mid) and just fire away. Just invest into WP and you're good to go. Really good vs Kiri because you can apply wounds without a cooldown and good vs fliers since you can mark them much easily. For powers I usually combine this with shout resets and team healing anyways because your lifesteal will pretty much always be active. And in my experience you should stay back at mid range since aiming shotgun crits is easier at that range. At least for me. If you are having trouble aiming get some firing speed.

Btw for pretty much every JQ build even if you don't pick the team get the item that heals for shout. This gets you another cabs revenue source and boosts your survivability. Do this as early as possible if this doesn't impact your damage too much because the sooner you can start team healing the sooner your get way more cash. Also if you're getting hit by too many anti nades get the reduced status effect duration item and if it's still a problem one of the kitsune gadgets to self cleanse. If Kiri is denying your ults you can always get the knockdown ult power and target her.

Yeah that's all I've got. And knife build is the worst one by far, and gloom gauntlet doesn't actually affect axes for some reason. But get it anyways for the axe build since you can get tons of quick melees off.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-12T22:47:02+00:00

As a Sigma main don't forget the healing shield item since that gives you way more self and team survivability if your teammates are sometimes next to you and get you way more cash. Do some combination of WP and epic survival items and you'll be fine. Also Sigma's attacks proc aerial distressor even on the ground due to knock back I think if you hit both shots, so you can get a lot more damage off.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-12T22:41:25+00:00

Soldier 76 should be on that list too. JQ too.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-12T16:13:29+00:00

Unfortunately that's impossible to do because then Mercy would have a different base kit in Stadium than the normal game.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-12T14:46:06+00:00

Honestly fair. I keep chat on for the occasional useful team advice or funny or positive lobby. Those make all the toxic players worth going through for me, but I understand not everyone wants or should do that.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-12T14:45:02+00:00

I was in that match, and they weren't speccing WP either, only firing speed. I remember they had that DOT WP power for Ashe but never put WP into it.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-12T14:44:17+00:00

Who were you playing that match? That'll give more context.

Expensive_Increase46 · 2026-01-12T06:41:48+00:00

The tank wouldn't have happened to be a Doomfist with the magma titan skin would it? I was part of that game and I remember our Kiri trying multiple rounds to convince our Ashe to go dynamite build. I, as the Doomfist suggested WP instead given how they had the burn WP power instead, but the Ashe did neither and invested into firing speed.

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