DPS or Tanks spamming heal diff is still something that happens very often. I will detail why I think that is pretty much never the case, and why weirdly enough a support diff might happen more often:

Why it is never a heal diff: I'm a Masters Tank Main and I can't recall a single game I lost because of a lack of heals. Especially as a tank, you need to minimize the amount of ressources received, thus maximizing the amount of pressure your supports and dps can put out. Healing cooldowns and shots are normally much easier to hit mechanically than damage. (ana heal hitbox vs dmg hitbox/zen heal orb vs shots/lucio aura vs dmg/mizuki hat vs root/primary) The skill gap between a very good mechanical player and a worse player is thus higher in terms of damage output than healing output, simply because there is less skill expression with healing.

Why it is a Support Diff a lot of the time: Support is the most misunderstood role in the game and probably holds a good amount of less mechanical players. (i think the game miscommunicates what supports should do a lot of the time) The value gap an angling support duo has over a main stack support is huge. Same for a zen who hits their shots vs one who has slightly worse mechanics. The amount of pressure good supports can achieve is roughly the same as dps heroes, but the difference to the opposition support might be much larger due to positional and mechanical differences being larger between support players. One support player existing on the angle and pressuring the enemy team gets more value, because both dps or tanks might already be trading on an angle, while the enemy support very often is not.

I want to be very clear that this is not due to support heroes being generally easier or stronger, just because the differences inbetween players may be much larger. It is not a bad thing to get mechanically diffed in a game, that just happens, the difference in value might just be bigger for support players than for tanks and dps.

Hi, I am looking for the VOD of the season 1 preseason that was aired in december 2017, on the MLG website ( http://eve.majorleaguegaming.com/overwatchleague ) that is not accessible anymore. Does anyone know if there is an archive somewhere ?

I asked this a bit over a year ago but since 3 other supports have been added since then I figured it couldnt hurt to ask again

Bonus points: pick a combo thats not Lùcio Mercy, Moira Mercy or LW Mercy since those ones are probably gonna get lots of votes based on the last post I made about this

Just a funny thing I noticed. Mizuki seems to me like an objectively awful hero right now. That's reflected in his low winrate in high elos. I was surprised then that his winrate is high in metal ranks, in all regions. As high as 56% in bronze Europe and Americas. The reason I think is that you can't healbot on him. You have to spam shots in his neutral game. This proves how good it is to do damage as support to carry solo queue.

My friends and I have started playing over watch a few days ago and I’m looking for some advice. I don’t know a lot about this game but I am decent in fps games in general I’d say. My main game is CS and my rank in that game is 23k premier faceit lvl 9 (not that that entirely matters but I’m not a complete fps beginner)

So I’ve been playing support and I’ve been trying to learn kiriko. I think she’s really fun and when I play well it feels really good but I’ve been thinking about switching. My friends and I were placed in silver 3-1 so maybe this is a low rank issue but I feel like whenever we lose and randoms on our team instantly flame me for not doing enough healing. Just this last game the tank said I didn’t heal them at all and both dps were saying I played too much like a dps. I do feel like I could be not healing enough, the game says my average heals in 10 mins is 6.5k and my damage is pretty good I think, that game I was only like 1k below both dps. I very regularly have around 20 eliminations and 20 assists. I’ve gotten a few potgs with just kunais.

Basically what confuses me is that I feel like all the videos and resources I’ve been looking at online for kiriko is how I’ve been trying to play. But if the game is a loss I will 100% get flamed for it because my healing isn’t good enough. If the dps both have single digit eliminations and I have more, it’s my fault that they didn’t get enough healing. Is this just a low rank players making excuses or is it actually me doing something wrong? The few times I’ve had a kiriko on my team if I don’t play her their damage is extremely low, almost mercy low but their healing isn’t way higher. My Lucio has like 12k average healing in 10 mins but I feel like that’s because I’m always healing around me.

If I should just switch, what other characters would you recommend? I find Lucio extremely boring but I like playing support.