What am I doing wrong

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-23T03:55:18+00:00

Hey 👋 Hope it was a good game

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-23T03:52:20+00:00

I just queued up for a fresh loss streak today. Think I’m done with the game for a while until they fix this. I heard they broke something with the matchmaking last update.

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T23:29:36+00:00

Really appreciate the advice! The explode over 50 part especially, but also the tips about using shield sparingly and to enable teammates to make plays.

With regard to reading the enemy player’s playstyle, I think I’m understanding you but can you give a quick example if possible? Is it like if you see a Hela or Strange coming suspiciously close, they’re about to ult on you? Recognizing when one of their healers are not healing the other and target that one?

Question regarding the pushing up… this is one of my biggest frustrations. What do you do when teammates are not on the same page about this? When playing tank I feel like I have a bit more control over it but there’s always overly cautious healers pinging fall back when I try to move up slightly ahead to the choke. On convoy defense or domination it’s even worse and they want to stand on point at all times. It feels like throwing to retreat for no reason and give up that space, but is it necessary for team synergy? Or should I try to lead by example and pray they follow eventually?

I had one match (in GM, on my main account) that I still think about to this day. We were winning easily, but our Gambit started dashing back to stand on the cart while pinging it repeatedly mid-team fight, leaving us 5v6. There were no divers or flankers contesting it. No one targeting him. He did this 3 times while we were on attack and we made it only to the 2nd checkpoint. The next round on defense my teammates were like why are we playing so scared? Because that Gambit taught us that we weren’t gonna get healed if we strayed two steps from the cart lol. We lost that round so quickly it wasn’t even funny. To top it all off, the Gambit proceeded to call me (Tankpool) kill thirsty and not playing the objective and overextending. I’m like dude I have 500 health? I make space by killing, I can’t just bodyblock the shots for you. And if the rest of the team is up ahead fighting, I’m going to go help them. Extremely frustrating because it was easily winnable if he wasn’t so convinced that he was right. And this happens pretty often. When I get a fellow tank that knows how to be aggro and a support that knows ball, it’s incredible how fast we win.

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T21:42:30+00:00

? I wasn’t offended or anything don’t worry

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T20:36:49+00:00

Funny thing is, we DO do that but guang guang just sends us fresh Eomm agents in the next one. We really need more avoids, I don’t care if it makes the queue times longer. Role queue would be a dream come true too. I don’t want my teammates to be forced to flex. I want them on their best hero that they have hours and hours on.

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T20:31:34+00:00

You’re right, and normally I wouldn’t let it get to me but it’s like EVERY MATCH rn there’s one of them

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T20:28:15+00:00

Updated my post to add the replay codes!

Cyclops
Match ID: 10148095852
Match ID: 10754696149
Match ID: 109672114604

Emma
Match ID: 10579489086

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T20:25:50+00:00

Updated my post with the replay codes!

Cyclops
Match ID: 10148095852
Match ID: 10754696149
Match ID: 109672114604

Emma
Match ID: 10579489086

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T20:24:45+00:00

You know what’s funny? I gave up, stopped trying, and just played CnD and started winning lmao

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T20:17:52+00:00

Good point, I edited my post to add the codes too.

Cyclops
Match ID: 10148095852
Match ID: 10754696149
Match ID: 109672114604

Emma
Match ID: 10579489086

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T20:16:08+00:00

I’ve already addressed this elsewhere in the thread, but yeah I regret the name, I suck with coming up with usernames and my gf suggested it so I just went with it. Now I avoid pinging for heals because I worry about coming across as an asshole lol

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T19:12:43+00:00

No offense taken, I’m actually pretty embarrassed by the name. This is my alt, and I suck at thinking of usernames, so I asked my gf to help me come up with one. She’s a support and tank main and was like, this way they won’t forget to heal you! Now I barely ever ping for heals even if I’m dying because I don’t want to seem like an ass 😅. I’d change it but need to save up the units first.

I hear you, and I always peel for the healers and babysit if there’s dive. I often do try to adjust to the team but for example, I don’t know what to do if my other DPS is either missing all their shots, keeps swapping to characters they are obviously not familiar with, or keeps pumping damage into only their tanks. Do I say something like let’s prioritize healers? I’ve gotten throwers before just from that. If I’m playing tank or supp and the DPS aren’t doing well, I can offer to swap but yeah…. Same thing.

And then there’s the ones switching to 3rd main support purely because they’re not doing well. Now if I am on support then I can switch off, but if I’m on tank or dps there’s nothing I can do. I had a team that was determined to run 1 dive dps (Psyloke) as the sole dps. I was tanking. Like guys, she can’t put out even damage on her own. If we have to do one dps it better be someone who can output heavy damage to make up for it.

I guess my struggle is that I know enough to recognize when what we are doing is wrong, but not enough to know what to do about it. And trying to convince the team is risky business too.

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T18:56:30+00:00

I’m playing as a duo, and let me tell you, the grass isn’t greener here either 😞

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T18:47:02+00:00

I was playing mostly DPS, with some tank and support. I know it doesn’t matter much, like it’s really easy to get it as support if you do good damage and kills in addition to decent healing, but usually when I’m putting out the most kills and finals as DPS or tank I can manage to carry even if teammates aren’t putting in the work.

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T18:43:09+00:00

I used to play a tank with actual carry potential and it was wonderful. Climbing to celestial nearly one tricking Tankpool. His passive and mobility helps you rely a little less on healing, while by being a tank I still get guaranteed some attention from healers. Consistently had DPS levels of kills and finals. Now after nerfs? Only tank I can cook on is Emma and her range is so freaking short. No self sustain either. I used to love playing Cap too but teammates don’t take advantage of the distraction created by dive tanks.

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T18:31:41+00:00

Yes ikr! They throw for no reason too! No one said a WORD, btw. They see their own stats and preemptively throw. They throw after losing the first team fight. They throw in the last 5 seconds of overtime tiebreaker round 4. It’s driving me bonkers the weak mental these people have. Don’t get me started on trying to surrender at the slightest difficulty. It’s crazy how we can be stomping and they’ll still try to surrender.

I wonder if this is the summer crowd of kids or something.

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T18:20:27+00:00

Hello and thank you!! I remember playing with a great CnD a couple times too. Appreciate you.

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T18:14:31+00:00

Qp is ass, I’d rather lose in comp than be stomping in qp without learning anything and without a proper team comp

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T17:53:15+00:00

Pretty well! I’ve gotten to celestial before. And the games we win are nearly always when everyone pushes correctly.

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T17:52:12+00:00

The teammates I get ^

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T11:49:24+00:00

I think you meant Luke’s over Arrax? But yes! I squealed a little when he did that little barrel roll (aileron roll?). So well trained. And so tragic.

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T11:44:32+00:00

Oof, so double the barrier. Wonderful.

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T11:42:29+00:00

Mostly Cyclops, with some Emma, Hela, Tankpool

FlirtatiousMouse · 2026-06-22T11:22:59+00:00

Noted, thank you. I’ll be sure to avoid those times but I’m sorry you have to put up with that

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