Overwatch - Weekly Role Discussion Thread: Support - August 18, 2018

Weekly Role Discussion Thread: Support - August 18, 2018
Overwatch World Cup: Incheon Qualifier Day 3 Discussion Thread
When you wanted the Dance Party Lúcio emote but you gotta compromise...
Magician McCree says, "Poof! Hammond disappears!"
TFW your 10 year old sister is better at Overwatch than you are
Lucio can speed boost Hammond to certain objectives in under 5 seconds
My battletag was banned because it is a Russian word and someone reported me.
I live, bitch!
Overwatch LEGO sets will potentially be revealed next week
Nothing feels quite as right as a high energy, nano’ed Zarya.
Just hit the dumbest pulse bomb of my life.
As a reaper main I love that everyone is playing Ana again
If Blizzard doesn't make a Sombra skin for Halloween called Zombra they will have missed a great opportunity
To Dead04_ (our Zarya): Your privacy settings stopped me from messaging you, but I wasn't gonna let that stop me. From your friendly Doomfist on Hollywood, thank you for this. Cratered unlocked.
I cried I was laughing so hard, it's the best time I ever had playing OW, and I lost every game I played.
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I meant to firestrike, but I guess that works too.
Drew the new Ana skin!
Why yes, that was my sleep target. Yes.
Always look out for your supports
Don’t leave the payload while there’s an enemy Sombra about
[BUG] Sombra can contest the payload by literally being inside of it
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Weekly Role Discussion Thread: Support - August 18, 2018

Posted: 17 Aug 2018 10:07 PM PDT

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.

— Overwatch Wikia

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 World Cup: Incheon Qualifier Day 3 Discussion Thread

Posted: 18 Aug 2018 07:29 PM PDT

Information

Overwatch World Cup Group Stage Preview: Incheon

Streams: English | Korean | See Group Stage Preview for other languages

Schedules: Official | Liquipedia | Over.gg | GosuGamers

Format

Each Match is a four map set (a fifth map will be played as a tiebreaker where necessary). Each team will play five matches, and the two teams with the best records will qualify for Blizzcon.

Order	Type
1st	Control
2nd	Hybrid
3rd	Assault
4th	Escort
Tiebreaker	Control

Each match will begin on a predetermined control map: Nepal, Lijiang Tower, Ilios, or Oasis. Starting with the second map, the loser of the previous map gets to pick the next map. The tiebreaker Control map must be different than the first Control map. All maps are available.

Schedule

Day	Date	Time
Day 1	August 17th	12:00 PM KST
Day 2	August 18th	12:00 PM KST
Day 3	August 19th	12:00 PM KST

Broadcast Talent

---	---
Host	Alex "Goldenboy" Mendez
-	Malik "Malik" Forté
Analysts & Casters	Jake "Jake" Lyon
-	Andrew "ZP" Rush
-	Seth "Achilios" King
-	Wolf "Wolf" Schroeder
-	Harry "LegDay" Pollitt
-	Jack "Jaws" Wright

Matches & Results

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

Matchup	Start Time	Result
Finland vs Japan	12:00 PM KST	-
Russia vs Chinese Taipei	1:45 PM KST	-
Japan vs Hong Kong	3:30 PM KST	-
Russia vs South Korea	5:15 PM KST	-
Chinese Taipei vs Finland	7:00 PM KST	-

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When you wanted the Dance Party Lúcio emote but you gotta compromise...

Posted: 18 Aug 2018 01:58 PM PDT

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Magician McCree says, "Poof! Hammond disappears!"

Posted: 18 Aug 2018 04:43 AM PDT

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TFW your 10 year old sister is better at Overwatch than you are

Posted: 18 Aug 2018 10:00 AM PDT

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Lucio can speed boost Hammond to certain objectives in under 5 seconds

Posted: 18 Aug 2018 10:21 AM PDT

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My battletag was banned because it is a Russian word and someone reported me.

Posted: 18 Aug 2018 10:15 AM PDT

Up to this day my battletag was "Козёл"

It is a Russian word that means "a goat". GMs decided this is offensive, on the basis that Russians like calling each other "a stinky kozel". And it is true, but the word itself has no offensive meaning. It is an animal that smells. You can attach offensive meaning to everything these days, but does it make every word offensive?

Anyway, I wrote an appeal, stating that

Word is not offensive per se. Its primary meaning is a goat. It can be used as an insult, but so are all other animals. Nobody would like being called a donkey or a cow, sure. But dictionary forms of those words are not insults.
There are a lot of other players with battletag "goat", in English, not Russian.
There are players with potentially offensive words as battletag even in top500, like "rascal", and everyone is fine with this as those words are not directed on anyone in this form.

The reply was this:

Если на упомянутые Вами таги поступят жалобы, то мы рассмотрим их на общих основаниях.

translation "If those tags are reported, we will investigate them".

So, basically, the only reason my battletag is banned is that because someone reported it, and it is a Russian word that means a stinky animal that some Russians like to compare other Russians with. So, next time a salty kid should not report people for cheating or abusive chat, but report an offensive battletag - it does not need to be actually offensive, being funny is enough to get into trouble.

I had a funny recognizable nickname, that I used for 15 years on Steam with no problem. A short, easily pronounsable battletag that conveys that I am not only a Russian, but an adult with healthy self-irony, is hard to invent. There are lots of people with nicknames that in some context can be used as offensive words, but those are not offensive words by themselves. For example, in Russia they would call inept player "a teapot". Is "Teapot" an offensive battletag now? In Russian only, or in English too?

But the real problem is that sort of Blizzard decision making: "No one reported them, so they are fine, but someone reported you, so you are an offender. How comes that offence is defined by whether it is reported or not????

P.S. All I want is an equal treatment. If having a word that can be used as insult is unacceptable, then make "rascal" from NRG Esports to change btag too. Otherwise, give me mine back. P.P.S. I bear no ill will towards "rascal" player, it is just an obvious example.

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I live, bitch!

Posted: 18 Aug 2018 09:48 AM PDT

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Overwatch LEGO sets will potentially be revealed next week

Posted: 18 Aug 2018 12:02 PM PDT

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Nothing feels quite as right as a high energy, nano’ed Zarya.

Posted: 18 Aug 2018 04:24 AM PDT

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Just hit the dumbest pulse bomb of my life.

Posted: 18 Aug 2018 11:32 AM PDT

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As a reaper main I love that everyone is playing Ana again

Posted: 18 Aug 2018 03:48 PM PDT

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If Blizzard doesn't make a Sombra skin for Halloween called Zombra they will have missed a great opportunity

Posted: 17 Aug 2018 09:54 PM PDT

Playing QP when my friend chose Sombra and I thought to myself, "Huh you know what, Zombra would be a pretty neat skin" and now here we are Blizzard please commission me.

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To Dead04_ (our Zarya): Your privacy settings stopped me from messaging you, but I wasn't gonna let that stop me. From your friendly Doomfist on Hollywood, thank you for this. Cratered unlocked.

Posted: 18 Aug 2018 08:42 AM PDT

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I cried I was laughing so hard, it's the best time I ever had playing OW, and I lost every game I played.

Posted: 18 Aug 2018 02:28 PM PDT

I came across these two guys in comp who didn't know each other, but quickly became what seemed like the best of friends, and just listening to them in chat made my entire week.

We had a torb and a symmetra on Hanamura defense and got rolled, so these guys were coming up with creative and light hearted ways to get them to switch, like "fun check who's having fun, symmetra? You look like you're not having much fun on that hero" to "torb please carry us on widow we need it we all suck" etc.

But then the unexpected happened, and our torb actually switched to widow on offense after picking torb at first, and then actually carried us, getting a 4 k right off the bat. BUT then he switched back and we lost. So I formed a group with these guys because I was laughing the whole game and wanted more, and plot twist, in the next game this torb showed up on the other team! Imagine "OOOOOOHHHH NO WAAY THAT'S HIM!" So we begged him to play widow because we wanted to laugh at how badly he would destroy us knowing he did nothing in our last game. He then proceeded to absolutely crush us, while we were laughing the whole time about how ridiculous the situation was. He switched back to torb after asking us "can I 'not try' again, I don't have anything left to prove" and we rolled them until he went back to widow at the end and stopped our push. We all had a good laugh about getting rocked by this torb/widow, and then the two hilarious guys traded fortnight gamertags which included "something about being drunk" saying that OW is such a ridiculous game and can't be taken seriously.

A short story among many from that night of 5 consecutive hilarious losses, but it was a good reminder to myself and maybe to you all of why we really play the game. Enjoy your play everyone:) Shout out to those guys who made the best OW experience I've had.

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Mr. Wilhelm's geometry class

Posted: 18 Aug 2018 07:05 AM PDT