Borderline Masters for clarity here.

Every game I've played against a Hazard, this man is just invincible.

Fairly short CD on high mobility, wall climb with no CD, block that also does damage that can heal with the perk, burst potential to just delete most squishies, fairly powerful ultimate that goes through walls with a wide range, wall on CD to cut off heals/save himself/block ults/do damage, boop on leap for disruption/clearing high ground, fairly strong neutral with just his primary.

People usually say "just stun him" but then he can block all the follow up damage so this often doesn't work. I've had success with Rein charging him but this doesn't work on maps with verticality as he'll just play up and away from me. Hog is often banned still but he seems like one of the few reliable counters.

I had a Route 66 game that was especially egregious as he was able to just hold the high ground by the arch all game. If we try to move up to take it he can just boop us off. If we get him off he just climbs back up. If we try ignoring him and taking the gas station he'd just dive our less mobile supports and the team collapses. He died once with 30+ kills.

Anyway, what's the best strategy into him? He seems to have an answer for almost anything and very few weaknesses when the map is right for him. I imagine he isn't great on long poke maps like Circuit so let's assume it's a more favorable map for him instead.

E: I just saw he has a 55% winrate from Gold all the way to Champion, so he may very well just be that strong.

as the title suggests, i am curious which hero is the strongest when mastered. not accounting for meta but based on their kit and potential of it. which is the best for all 3 roles. my guesses would be tracer, doomfist and anna but i am curious to find out what you guys think. if you have any games that you remember where you encountered a great player at a certain hero tell me.

She feels extremely oppressive to play against for me, on all roles. Her damage is just absurd and she can play at basically sniper range so she's always safe. I try to dive on Tracer and one body shot forces my recall. Same with Dva, either I spend all my DM trying to get to her or I lose all my hp on the approach. Really, really frustrating hero to play against and I'd appreciate any tips on how to deal with her.

Hello! I recently started playing this wonderful game and things have started to click a bit. Hit a strong win trend and quickly started climbing from bronze 4 to bronze 1 in dps and support with double digit rank adjustments each game. Not feeling stuck and actually pretty optimistic about my progress.

Then i got put into a low gold high silver lobby as a bronze 1. I was so confused I forgot to prefer my main hero and the team banned bastion. I went emre, who’s my second best dps at around 51% win rate (I’m at around 70% with bastion and around 63% winrate with Illari, my support main). I played pretty well at first and was keeping up during the first team fight with an early pick, then the deaths started coming. I felt like I was in the robocop hallway every time i peeked a corner, and people quickly started pointing out the diff. Everyone’s reaction time was way better than mine and I lost any duel i got in. I ulted once and immediately got headshot by their cassidy. I apologized to the group, pointed out that I was several ranks lower than all of them, and said that I really can’t control the matchmaking.

By the end of the fight I was getting multiple messages asking what I was even doing and saying I needed to go back to quick play and learn heroes before doing comp. I’d agree if this was happening in bronze, but my current competitive win rate with my main (bastion) is around 70%, so I know I’m doing well enough to keep playing bronze at least.

How do you deal with matches like this when you’re the obvious worst player? Should I have just left the game, eaten the penalty, and avoided losing rank for myself and other people? I feel bad ruining a game for people who are way better/more serious players than I am.

Maybe returning to quickplay and at least learning more heroes comfortably could help, and better map knowledge so I don’t run into chokes and get killed by better aimers. I would be happy to post a replay code for a loss where I actually felt like I was at least playing my best mentally, but this game was just an absolute shitshow and I basically gave up by halfway through second round.