Supports with bad team be like

Jokes on her! She's getting cremated so we can keep on flaming her.

joke stolen, from the old tribunal.

we've not yet forgotten.

Every support from every game should know that saying. It's just perf, too perf.

This goes for as well

Oh friend. None of those questions are relevant to overwatch. There is no money, exp etc.

Might I recomend checking out some streams/ youtube videos? Overwatch is in a similar vein to heroes of the storm. Its a team game and everyone contributes equally, regardless of role.

That being said personally I dislike playing support in a shooting game. I think its all about damage, and I didnt really find any supports I enjoyed, since they dont do dmg. I love supporting/ healing in league/ mmos, but I disliked it in overwatch. As a FPS, I think its way more fun to just go in and shoot things rather than healing up players.

Just my 2 cents.

As Redfeenix said Overwatch is not a game with levels and gold, it's closer to Team Fortress 2 in that you can change heroes in the spawn room and your capabilities don't change during the match.

Personally I really enjoy healing in Overwatch. The current healers are Mercy, a single-target healer that can float around and glide to allies; Lucio, a mobile group healer who can choose between a healing aura and movement-speed aura and wall-ride around (which allows for some fun flanking and escaping); Zenyatta, a support-healer hybrid who launches orbs to boost damage to enemies and heal allies; and Ana (just added) who is a sniper capable of healing her allies from far away as well as incapacitate enemies.

There are a lot of Mercy memes because people tend to forget to protect their healer, though Mercy's mobility somewhat makes up for that (you still need your team though).

Oh, and you absolutely need a support hero on your team if you plan on winning any games.

If your exp is always the lowest and you have the least money and you always buy the same items and are completely dependent on your ADC.... you aren't supporting right.

Get ancient coin, stay nearby minions for exp, remember that your ADC takes the lead but you are a TEAM and need to WORK TOGETHER. Also, if you always buy the same items - in any role - then you are playing terribly. There's a ton of items that give a large range of bonuses and you don't always need the same ones; sometimes you need defense, sometimes offense, sometimes healing and sometimes vision. Always always always buy items based off the needs of the game at that time. Have an 'essential' set of items but focus on only one or two of them for certain, make the last one (not sure about others but I do 3 base items to build normally) something that you NORMALLY need but can do without. And don't be afraid to buy things out of order, go based off what you need at that time.

Overwatch doesn't have gold or exp. the Support supports the entire team not one person, there is no ADC. You might want to watch some videos

I dont play support much in support overwatch but at least what your doing in the game can turn the tide of battle easily when your "supporting" top tier is lucio and mercy hands down

I play support in league, but in Overwatch I do better at tanking. Support in overwatch is different than in league. In league it's more like babysitting, in overwatch it's the supports that need babysitting.

There is a bit of confusion as to what a support is in Overwatch. A lot of people think support = healer. As a healer, they are the focus of the enemy team. Sometimes you need two supports on your team, sometimes two healers even. But the support is 99% of what makes a team successful and until the healing support goes down, it's difficult to kill the other team. A dedicated support has no trouble finding teams that want them to play with them and if you use a mic you can get help if you ask for it. Tanks will hug a good healer and the dps will stay near because the enemy will focus the healer first and it brings the targets to them. Plus they tend to be squishy and need the heals themselves. The non-healer support is pretty good at taking care of themselves and serves mostly as anti-flanker and chokepoint specialist.

There are no items in the game. There is no adc. There are 3 types of health though. Standard, Armor, Shield. Armor reduces damage a little, shield regens on its own. Healing starts with standard, then does armor, then does shields. The 4 roles are offense, defense, tank, support. Offense is a mixed bag of flankers, high mobility, and extreme range. Defense is people that can hold an area well and snipers. Tank is probably the worst named group in the game, but they boast large hit boxes and have some form of immunity/barrier to block damage, except for Roadhog who has a self heal and a super annoying blitzhook. Support are people that offer utility and/or heals. There are melee heroes and ranged heroes. Then there is this weird group called builders. There's a support builder and two defensive builders, though you could debate if bastion is a builder or not.

Each support has a strength and a huge glaring weakness, and they have low health pools. There's a dps support, a mobility area healer, an angel that if the team protects they don't die much and if they do she can bring them back from death. There is a shield/teleporting turret building goddess of annoying (pro tip: put your teleporter pad facing a cliff so your team falls to their death when they use it. Tracer makes the best falling death yell) There's this new sniper healer that's kind of weird.

So support is a mixed bag. The teams that do the best from what I've seen are the ones that have two supports. The 2nd support can switch to something else that's needed if necessary.

It's not bad but the cancer ex-league of legends players that moved on to overwatch tried to bring their shitty "support is discriminated" mindset to the game

It really isn't that bad but don't believe in the memes

Played a healer in WoW for eight years.

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This is incredibly true. I'm an Astrologian in Final Fantasy 14, and the tanks constantly think they can rush this strip of map and collect every mob and expect that I can out heal 20+ mobs without going OOM from having to blast my expensive heals so he doesn't instantly keel over. I warn him or let him die, whichever comes first.

this is one of my favorite memes describing healing in any MMO. Like, myexperienceplayingragnarokonline.jpg

Classic Reaper players. Think they can get POTG just by pressing Q and saying, "Die, die, die". Misogynistic bitch is what he should be called.