Overwatch - Weekly Role Discussion Thread: Support - March 03, 2018


Weekly Role Discussion Thread: Support - March 03, 2018

Posted: 02 Mar 2018 09:07 PM PST

In this weekly thread you can discuss the Support roles of Overwatch to your heart's delight. What are the characteristics of those heroes?

The objective of support is to heal, buff and provide utility. Support heroes boost the overall performance of their team by increasing their survivability, speed, and damage output. They are generally the worst duelists and are best when surrounded by teammates.

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You can find a list of the current supportive heroes on the Overwatch Hero Overview.

Share guides and strategies that are valuable to a Support Overwatch Hero or other tips and tricks that helped you to get better. You can also propose ideas why a certain hero is bad in your eyes and how to make it better. Please do so in a constructive way!

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Overwatch League Season 1: Stage 2/Week 2/Day 4 Discussion Thread

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:25 PM PST

Information

Streams: Twitch | overwatchleague.com | MLG.tv

Schedules: Official | Liquipedia | Over.gg | GosuGamers

Changes from Stage 1.

Format

Group Play matches will be 4 Game Sets. The map order is as follows:

Order Type Maps
1st Assault Hanamura, Volskaya Industries
2nd Control Nepal, Lijiang Tower
3rd Hybrid Hollywood, King's Row
4th Escort Route 66, Watchpoint: Gibraltar
Tiebreaker Control Ilios

Playoff matches are best-of-five (Bo5).

Schedule

Stage 2 Week 1 will run Wednesday February 28th - Saturday March 3rd.

Stage 2 match start times will run as follows:

Day Start Time
Wednesdays 4 PM PDT
Thursdays 4 PM PDT
Fridays 4 PM PDT
Saturdays 1 PM PDT
Sundays (Stage Playoffs) 1 PM PDT

Broadcast Talent

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Host Chris "Puckett" Puckett
- Alex "Goldenboy" Mendez
Analysts & Desk Jonathan "Reinforce" Larsson
- Josh "Sideshow" Wilkinson
- Alberto "Crumbz" Rengifo
- Brennen "Bren" Hook
- Soe "Soe" Gschwind
- Malik "Malik" Forté
Casters Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles
- Erik "Doa" Lonnquist
- Mitch "Uber" Leslie
- Matthew "Mr X" Morello
- Auguste "Semmler" Massonnat
- Robert "Hexagrams" Kirkbride

Overwatch League Teams

Atlantic Division Pacific Division
Boston Uprising Dallas Fuel
Florida Mayhem Los Angeles Gladiators
Houston Outlaws Los Angeles Valiant
London Spitfire San Francisco Shock
New York Excelsior Seoul Dynasty
Philadelphia Fusion Shanghai Dragons

Matches & Results

DISCLAIMER: Times are approximate and are subject to change and/or delay.

Matchup Start Time Result
Fusion vs Spitfire 1 PM PDT 0 - 4
Outlaws vs Excelsior 3 PM PDT 0 - 4
Dragons vs Shock 5 PM PDT 0 - 4
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Hero 28 Details and Hanzo changes

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 11:32 AM PST

TIL: Gravity only takes effect on the banners if you look at them

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:58 AM PST

Faze Clan Hire Me

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 11:13 AM PST

When you miss the D.Va bomb just right

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:26 AM PST

Heartbreaking hook

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 03:29 PM PST

Brigitte's passive, "Inspire", is NOT an aura. Clearing up some confusion about how it works.

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:45 PM PST

TLDR: Inspire isn't like Lucio's healing aura, its more like a temporary buff that gives your allies the ability to regen their hp, if they were within LOS and less than 20m away at the exact moment when you hit an enemy.


I've seen a lot of confusion lately about how Inspire works. I've been talking about this over at /r/OverwatchUniversity, and right now, the best we can understand it is this [this may be incorrect, but its our best guess so far about how it works] -

Don't think of Inspire like a Lucio aura that stays active for 5 seconds. Coz that's not how it works. Instead, think of it like a status effect that you apply to yourself and your allies. I repeat, Inspire is not an aura. It's a status effect/buff you can apply to your allies to give them temporary hp regen. There is no stacking per hit or per damage done, so you can't increase the amount you heal - it'll always be 16hps.

Every time you land a hit [and if it has been 1.5 seconds or more since your last hit], a status effect gets applied to you and every ally within LOS within 20 metres. This effect gives you and your allies a 16hps health regen for 5 seconds, for a total effective heal of 80hp. This 5 second timer can be 'reset' by hitting enemies, since you are applying a new status effect before the previous one runs out.

This 'reset' has a 1.5 second cooldown. The 'cooldown' refers to how often you can reset the timer, as well as how often you can apply the status effect to new allies. So, for example, if you are constantly hitting someone, and your ally peaks in and out of your LOS for 1 second during that 1.5 second window, then they might not get your healing, coz your 'timer reset' was on cooldown.

This also means that unless you are about to kill someone, don't keep swinging your flail all the time. Hit once, then focus on repositioning/shielding/peeling for a few seconds, then hit again, and so on. [Btw, you can use your whipshot to also reset this time, incase there are no enemies nearby].

Lastly, this means that you cannot walk away from your allies, hit someone to 'activate' your Inspire, and then walk back to your allies to heal them. The healing sound keeps going for 5 seconds, but the 'heal' itself is only applied at the moment you hit someone. That is why her 'Inspire' Fx is shown as a shockwave that spreads out from her with each hit, instead of being a constant aura like lucio's. If that shockwave doesn't connect with an ally, they are not gonna get that 16hps regen.

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Best wallpaper there is?

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:29 AM PST

How to kill a perched widow with Reinhardt on Watchpoint Gibraltar.

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 10:54 AM PST

Take a relaxing trip to the temples of Nepal with another motion postcard!

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 09:53 AM PST

Shoutouts to Jeff for working so hard

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 11:47 AM PST

The fact that he personally watches every game to select the PotG is awesome. Keep up the awesome work, Jeff!

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Woo cant wait to play Sombra she's OP now...Oh

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 03:34 AM PST

We need more in-game information on Brigitte's passive healing ability : Inspire

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:53 AM PST

Just like most of you guys, I've been playing quite a lot of Brigitte since she got released, but one thing annoys/frustrate me a bit with her :

I think we should get more info on what's going on with our passive AOE heal : Inspire.

Right now it's hard to know how many people you're healing, and when the healing effect starts and end. If only we had some sort of indicator letting us know if the passive healing is in effect or not, we could know when we have to try to get a hit with the flail to cast it again.

My idea was to add some sort of indicator similar to Lucio, letting the Brigitte player know how many people he's healing passively, and the indicator could even include how many people are benefitting from her ultimate ability when activated.

It would greatly help with visibility and clarity of gameplay. Right know we're a bit in the dark when it comes down to who we're actually helping and when aside from using her Repair pack on someone.

Hoping Blizzard will read this :)

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PTR new patch notes [Brigitte changes]

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:43 PM PST

The ending round animation got a POTG

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 03:17 AM PST

I guess I'll main Lucio this season...

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 09:54 AM PST

ENEMY TEAM: Reinhardt won't die!! WTH?! (laughs in Moira)

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 05:01 AM PST

Zenyatta's ultimate should reload his orbs

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 10:17 AM PST

Just like Reaper's buff, I believe during Zen's invulnerability he should get a reload on his ammo. Since both abilities are set periods of invulnerability with no way to cancel them early I think they both warrant a reload during that time. If reaper can get a free reload every 8 seconds then Zen should be able to have one every few minutes with his ultimate.

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When you go Overwatch with your best mates

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 11:25 AM PST

900 IQ Graviton

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 09:51 AM PST

Guess I'm a Brigitte main now

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 05:01 PM PST

Blizzard, please. Release a line of collectible 'Miniwatch' toys based on this artist's work. I'd buy all of them twice.

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:44 PM PST

Suggestion: add a training bot to the practice range that has a Pharah flight path.

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 02:39 PM PST

Players in lower ELO need help/practice against Pharah. Setting up a bot that fly's in the same way could help players learn how to properly hit-scan. There could even be loads of them, at multiple ranges and paths. Wouldn't fix anything, but sure might help.

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This is how you save a game.

Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:31 PM PST

Reaper satisfies all the girl coming for him.

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:38 PM PST

New Hero Design - Vondila Laveau; Voodoo / Magic Abilities

Posted: 02 Mar 2018 09:54 PM PST

Hi Reddit people. I've been working weeks on a Character concept that adds a new sort of 'theme' and story concept to the universe that kinda pulls away from the main story of the timeline.

 

The character I made is Vondila, and you can see the full gallery here.

 

https://imgur.com/a/tSSHs

 

I've worked super hard on this so some feedback would be really appreciated. Thanks!

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HERO  

 

Reference - https://imgur.com/aRhTVdL  

Story - https://i.imgur.com/9ActyQe.png

High Detail blueprint - https://imgur.com/IW8HWrb  

All Skins - https://imgur.com/TmtLn2l  

Poster - https://imgur.com/zFDj3kM

 

ABILITIES  

 

In game Details https://imgur.com/n6KdP8R  

Restoration / Devistastion Pools- https://imgur.com/kWuDoBx  

Pins and Needles https://imgur.com/NBnDx8C  

Second Chance https://imgur.com/3EBefs3  

Levitate https://imgur.com/UGD9hiO  

ULTIMATE Restoration Gate - https://imgur.com/GA2F9ZU  

In-game concepts https://imgur.com/6moqPr7  

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The rest are higher detail cute sprays, some early concept art and stuff like that.


TL;DR Hi

 

The character I made is Vondila, and you can see the full gallery here.

 

https://imgur.com/a/tSSHs go here to see the gallery.  

 

EDIT----- 

I've taken into account the primary fire reload issue. Think I will switch some of the abilities around and update when I'm done!  

For those who keep referring to Princess and the Frog? https://i.imgur.com/QnQvV1B.jpg Dr F was indeed a part of some inspiration for modern voodoo :)

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE GOLD HOLY CRAP! No one has ever done that for me! I really, really appreciate it ❤🎉

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