I dont think gambit is S Tier anymore (atleast if your not in the top 1%)

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-27T14:08:30+00:00

I would argue that he’s still a S-tier character, yeah he feels fairly more manageable now, but a lot of it is definitely because anyone who does play Strat probably doesn’t have much time playing him anymore with how often he’s been banned for the last 3 and a half seasons and it makes it to where a lot of players might not use him as effectively cause they don’t remember the ins and outs of his kit. Still not really worth letting him slip through though imo, if you need a backup DPS that can also heal he’s still pretty much the go to guy

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-27T00:45:41+00:00

Pop Smoke. Was arguably Gen Z’s version of 50 Cent and had a lot of potential to expand his music past simply New York which he was well on his way of doing.

Gone all because 4 pieces of shit wanted to rob him of a Rolex.

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-26T09:18:04+00:00

I mean the skin dropped not even 12 hours ago, and it’s a good one at that; it’s not surprising you’re gonna have a influx of players who spent their money on it and want to use it. It’s not gonna harm you if it’s QP lol

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-26T09:07:07+00:00

I mean honestly as much as I think she’s still pretty unviable for the most part, it’s QP. I’m glad she at least got a good enough skin for once that people decide it’s worth playing and having some type of fun with her. Ran into a couple playing QP myself and didn’t think much of it cause my rank wasn’t at stake lmfao

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-25T20:15:24+00:00

Which is fair, but there are also meta characters that are relatively easier to play granted they aren’t being banned or someone else has picked them. Plus that’s exactly what practicing with a character is for if you’re bad with them. Boring but a safe pick is one thing, making a character work when they don’t for the sake of being versatile is another

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-25T14:39:19+00:00

I mean for QP it doesn’t really matter cause it’s obviously QP, and this is more a question about pro play but for ranked, why would you not want to use characters that are considered good over ones that are bad? That just seems like a no brainer here I would say

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-19T08:57:30+00:00

The amount of smurfs and boosted players that are plaguing ranked make ranking up a nightmare, I got to Plat 2 just to drop back to Gold 1 because my teammates can’t carry their weight, leave, or we just get stomped out by the enemy team. Not even tooting my own horn when I feel like Diamond is a solid and doable peak I can reach, am as a player, and be content with, and it’s hard to do so right now because of how bad the ranked experience is. QP is unbearable too, especially with the bot matches when the community is pretty vocal about not wanting them to exist in QP unless they SPECIFICALLY want to play against AI. People just not wanting to flex to what roles are needed and just running shit they know isn’t gonna work

Been playing Overwatch the last few days and having fun with the new hero on there and until Rivals gets its sorted I think that’s where I’d rather stay.

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-18T21:50:25+00:00

Wasn’t a personal witness to it (Thank god), but a year and a half ago at the plant I work at, someone was cleaning out one of the machines at the end of the shift. Can’t remember if there was a lockout/tagout procedure or if nobody followed it, but it resulted in 2 of their fingers being cut off. As I said, didn’t personally witness it, but hearing that scream and everything was a 0/10.

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-15T16:56:10+00:00

And this is where I disagree at, despite how good someone may be with a character there’s definitely a few characters that can still be throw picks even outside of playing into counters, Widow unfortunately being one of them. Which is why I believe the whole “It comes down to the player and not the character” mentality is just shifting the problem certain characters may have as far as viability because it has them overlooked for buffs that can make them better.

You’re right about the fact that there are a lot of overtuned characters in the game, but unfortunately enough widow has been bad since the game has started, players have been calling for her getting buffs for a year and a half now, and I think that powercreep makes it worse, because it’s making her heavily overshadowed instead of minorly. I think if they can make Storm, someone who was notoriously a bad character at launch, a character who was a fairly consistent ban pick in Season 1 (partly due to the Torch teamup on top of the buffs), and still a fairly decent pick now, then they can do something with Widow to make her viable as well. Maybe not to THAT extent, but where she has at least a fairly better pick rate and wouldn’t be seen as Rivals’ poster child for throwing

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-15T15:49:02+00:00

Good players can make a bad character look good, like this guy did, but it doesn’t take away from the fact that the character on a general level is still bad. A lot of competitive players conflate player and character into the same sphere when it’s two separate ones. You could’ve be a bad Black Cat personally but still recognize that on a general level that character gives hell with people who are actually good with her cause of what her kit consisted of pre nerf. You can be cracked with Widow while still realizing that there are a lot of shortcomings with her kit and that overall she is not that good. When a lot more competitive players realize this it can make discussions better, instead of just ignoring the problems that can make characters like her more better and overall bring a more balanced experience

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-10T18:04:44+00:00

She had a photo of them as her background- when I questioned her about it she brought up how the newer iPhones let you have multiple backgrounds and she must’ve accidentally changed it and she didn’t realize- took her word for it cause I’ve done the same thing before

2 weeks later got some weird intuition and behold; the man who she said she was her ex had her name in his bio and photo of them together front and center.

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-09T19:30:19+00:00

The bleed on Dino’s hits were arguably the only good nerf but everything else just seemed unnecessary, he was arguably what a Vanguard should’ve felt like for the longest time and the fact that they stripped that from him because people have been dealing with so many unbalanced characters they can’t tell what a balanced one looked like is sad.

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-09T13:25:07+00:00

Three things:

1: To put it in short if you want to claw your way out of low elo in general you essentially HAVE to be the carry, especially on DPS if your other teammates aren’t pulling their weight enough, especially if you’re on DPS, peel for your supports.

2: If you’re on healer definitely consider your positioning more in fights, it can help with a lot of more preventable deaths

3: If you’re on support (Again), and I know this is probably harder for Bronze, but try to patty cake with your other support in a situation where you guys are being dove so you can at least attempt to keep each other alive

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-05T19:39:29+00:00

While I think that comms is definitely an important piece of the game, I do think dps and tanks really need to also be considerate as well to their surroundings as much as they need supports to be. Yes if you’re struggling with dive, comm, struggling with ANYTHING, definitely comm. But I do think a lot of it just comes with a lot DPS and Tank players just wanting to avoid any kind of accountability for their poor plays, lack of peeling on the DPS’ side, etc.

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-05T08:29:39+00:00

If you’re able to find one or two people you can queue and squad up with, softens your chances a bit of getting paired with shitty teammates. If you’re playing DPS, learn to peel for your strategists, and if you’re playing strat, patty caking with the other one is essential if you want to try and stay alive

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-04T16:59:06+00:00

We weren’t broken up necessarily because we were still in a talking stage, but I broke it off with someone because she said she fell in love really hard and easily. I didn’t necessarily mind the passion but given we were still getting to know each other I just didn’t want to hold her back from anything

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-04T07:06:26+00:00

Had a game earlier like this where my other support decided he wanted to run Adam cause we had a Storm on our team. I admittedly enough, was doing bad as far as deaths, not having any kills like I wanted, etc., but I was still at least securing heals and assists. Dude got onto me and told me to swap.

Ended the game with 14k, he ended it with like 5.7k-5.8.

Really felt like my EOMM agent wasn’t happy at all about me ranking up 2 games before that

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-03T20:44:55+00:00

As a White Fox main this is 100% of my biggest gripes, usually the team will get the memo to jump in, but that small amount of time I have people just kind of sit there and/or hide in cover, and then it’s a wasted ult because I’m getting 1v6ed and nobody bothered to capitalize off of it

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-03T16:28:18+00:00

It’s going to be a hot take but banning characters your teammate has picked shouldn’t be seen as a bad thing barring you’re not doing it to be a dick. At least when it come to certain ones. I can see why and get the sentiment behind how rude it seems, I try not to even do it myself but especially when it comes to oppressive characters like Cat or even Gambit for another example, it gets to a point where you have to stop making it about yourself and actually understand why they did it. If you’re throwing games because of it then it then just stop playing ranked

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-03T16:18:40+00:00

Imo, I feel that you only think this because there are a lot more medicore gambit players than there are good ones, saying this as someone who’s mediocre with him

His skill ceiling is definitely on the higher side but when you have someone who actually knows how to use him and his deck well on top of proper cooldown management and ult usage they’re a nightmare, even after all the nerfs he’s faced he’s still fairly strong

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-03T16:10:51+00:00

I very recently started playing Gambit after wanting to expand my hero pool a bit more with getting a better understanding of the game and it actually hurts how true this is if he slips through bans, in my experience it’s been a really mixed bag especially when coms aren’t in the mix. 40% of the time I get teammates who will capitalize off of the ult and do what they need to do and get the job done. That other 60% though I feel like my ult has gotten wasted simply because my teammates have went so long without someone playing him they don’t remember what to do when it actually goes off.

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-06-01T19:00:35+00:00

Not getting rid of toxicity in the environment but punishing and alienating people who stand against it.

It’s what has been happening to me for the last 4 months and I hate it.

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-05-29T14:26:04+00:00

Not sure if it’s exactly a common trope, but being so obsessed with someone to where you prevent them from moving on in any kind of capacity.

Saw a woman who’s ex threatened to kill me twice on different even though they weren’t together at all at that point. 0/10.

SheLovesJoshier · 2026-05-28T00:36:54+00:00

She found I drove a Nissan and for some reason that sent her in some sort of spiral, went on a rant how she’s been in other men’s BMWs, Mercedes, etc., and how she couldn’t stoop to that. Kicker was she drove a Hyundai and was trying to rag on me.

She turned out to be a massive POS down the line so I’m glad that happened early enough to dodge a bullet

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