In Response to Samito.

Toxicity towards your own team is one of the biggest problems and one of the main reasons many players who blame their teammates "always lose with one tricks." People simply don't realize the chain reaction they cause. Calling someone an asshole for playing the game their own way and crying about how you cannot be toxic to them is a terrible mentality. One tricking is not a problem and if it was, I would only drop in rank by making the game even more rock-paper-scissors. But this doesn’t happen. Let’s do a thought experiment real quick:



By default the system should fix one tricking by itself. If you don't swap you will get countered every game and you should derank to a rank where you belong, right?



People think these players are worse than them and don't deserve their ranking because, in their minds, there is no way this person’s Torb can be as good as their flex and because of this, it will cause the team to lose. However, this must not be the case since I have been 4.2k to top 100 every single season, which is typically thought to be the “highest level of play.”



Let’s do another thought experiment: even if you wanted to ban one tricks... is it possible? Okay, all one tricks are banned… now what about two tricks? Three tricks? People who flex to characters you don’t like? Where do we draw the line? Bringing up banning one-tricks at this point in the game’s life is a joke. There are so many problems in the game you could complain about that actually matter and yet here we are again with the same old song-and-dance.



Let’s go over the facts: this game still lacks a role queue, a scoreboard, a solo/duo only queues, ubiquitous public profiles, and a matchmaker that doesn’t put players with 300+ SR difference in the same game. Even casual-content wise, the community is getting the short end of the stick. Junkenstein and Lucioball STILL haven’t changed and we haven’t gotten a new event gamemode in way too long. Rather than blaming a player for things that they do, you could blame the game for making it hard for people to have fun.



Though, you actually mentioned something that caught my attention… "You cannot one trick in OWL." Newsflash: competitive modes in this game are not OWL. They are not meant to be OWL. They are meant for you to gauge your personal performance in whatever it is you personally want to achieve against other players of a similar arbitrary ranking by playing Overwatch. If you truly want the perfect gaming experience go scrim, find friends and duo+, use the LFG system, or hell, go attempt to be a part of Blizzard’s “Path to Pro.” This game has players with many different goals.You may want to reach OWL one day, but that’s not my goal. I just want to play Torbjorn, get better at him, and sometimes play other heroes I find interesting before getting bored of them.



I used to play tanks and flex and it was one of the worst experiences I've ever had. I don't want to be told "Hey, play Rein." every game because I decided to be nice and now I'm forced into a main tank role that I don't want instead of playing my preferred DPS. Because of this, I never request my team to play around me. You should play characters that you’re good with and have played extensively, even if it makes the team 5 DPS. If you flex in this game, you get shafted. I’m not about that life.



You’re not “protecting the integrity of the game.” You’re just being toxic.



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