I play on console, I don't know if PC is different, but every ranked game Zarya gets banned. Why? Every time I've fought Zarya she dies so fast. Is it her shield? Cause she does more damage when it takes damage? Just don't shoot it? I do that and I and my team don't struggle against her? I'm not trying to be like "skill diff" I'm genuinely curious because I can't understand why she gets banned every game.

I experienced something rather unpleasant for the first time today. after losing a game pretty hard I re-queued and ended up with a player from the winning team on my team. They recognized me and told me to get on VC then they flamed me for losing the last game and asked me if I’ve ever been “life gripped off cool down the entire game before?” Based on the voice they were an adult, like me. Not that it matters, but you expect a teenager or with behavior like this.

I was playing sigma

I assumed they were joking and said that sounds pretty awful. I don’t know what I would do about that. They said the only thing I could do would be get somebody else from our team to join VC so he could put the curse on them instead. He then proceeded to throw a petal under me any time I tried to leave spawn

They did less than 1000 healing the whole game and Lyfe gripped me every time I tried to use my ult or kinetic grasp.

I asked them why they were doing this, and they made fun of my voice and told me they “gave me a clear ultimatum, it’s up to me to get somebody else on VC so he could troll them instead.” I said I didn’t want that either, obviously, and he kept speaking the whole game after I took my headphones off, and kept using his abilities to interrupt me.

Eventually, I just switched to Winston and started jumping around for the rest of the game because I did not know what to do. I felt like a helpless dummy. I reported him, but what would you do in this situation?

I know the correct answer is report and move on, but I’m curious if anybody would have had a different reaction in-game or would have had a way to get past this and win idk

I am a pc player who usually plays tank in comp but has recently started playing more support bcs I realised how much less stress it is. Went back to tank after a few days of not playing it and basically went on an 8 game losing streak. I have two replay codes. The first (VMCR2A) was the first game I won after 8 straight losses. I had some awful ults in this game. The second (CVXM1T) was the game after, where I played rlly quite badly and I know I didnt deserve to win.

I usually hover around mid plat on this account, and diamond on my other (i dont get the chance to play the game much). My battletag is Aikenoak. thank you so much if you wanna take a look it would be very very much appreciated!

Hi, I’ve asked this in another subreddit, but i’m not sure if anyone will reply there so, I’m posting it here for help.

So I’ve started playing overwatch sometime in April of this year after getting a better gaming laptop. Beforehand, I’ve always wanted to play, but never had the chance due to not being able to afford it back when it was pay to play or my older gaming laptop not having the storage.

I was already aware of the horror stories of how toxic it can get in vc, so 9/10 I avoid vc like the plague unless if I’m with friends. I mainly play dps, but I don’t mind touch tank and support. Rank wise, I’m bronze 3, but I haven’t touched open queue for 6v6 in competitive (which I expected since I’m relatively still new). I’m still in a phase of trying to learn better ways to play, not be on auto-pilot and panic, so the most I’ve done was practice and look up guides online.

I feel like I sometimes I do good in some games. However, in other games I’m struggling or don’t feel like I’m really hitting anything or barely doing anything, especially whenever I get put in tank and sometimes support. The last couple of games I’ve either experienced doing alright, struggle or get dogged on by people that crash out and get toxic in text chat. One of the worst being a duo crashing out at me for not knowing how to play certain tank heroes, saying I’m selling, and they lost x number of games cause of me, etc.

I feel terrible at times because I don't wanna let down the teams I end up joining in matches. I understand that toxicity is just kind of a thing that just happens, but it kind of discourages me to play sometimes on certain stuff and kind of just feel defeated. For the toxicity, I’m trying to not let it get to me, but at this point I just want help on getting better at the game and not have a repeat of getting dogged on for it.

If there are any suggestions, tips, etc on improving and kind of just handling toxicity encounters please let me know💗

These are the some of the heroes I’ve played the most for each category, in case there’s any much needed tips for them:

Dps: Sombra, Anran, Sierra

Tank: Dva, Domina, Ramattra

Support: Juno, Baptiste, and Zenyatta

Others that I’ve tried, but not enough compared to the top 3s: Kiriko, Sigma, Zarya, Echo, Illari, roadhog, oris, vendetta, Symmetra, soldier 76, sojourn, Moira and Reinhardt