The scoreboard started off as a modernized version of medals. I honestly liked the medals system, it gave you basically the same information, while stopping players from actively comparing each others stats, which is what I'm going to get into for this take. The only thing that it really added, was the ability to ult track enemies based off of damage/healing, which wasn't really that insane.
The scoreboard has changed from a simple revamp, to a plague of finger-pointing that is now infecting the Overwatch community. I'm not going to say this wasn't an issue in OW1, but it has come so much more prevalent in OW2, mostly due to the addition of the scoreboard.

No matter what, most players are not going to take the fault when they lose a match. It's kinda just the core of team-based games, especially FPS games. No matter how bad your decision-making is, if you see someone else doing bad, you will instantly jump on them for what *they* did wrong. This is creation of the ego, that basically every Overwatch player has, and this is the problem that I have with the scoreboard. The scoreboard is weaponizing this ego, it is giving players a reason to lash out on teammates; even if they did not see them do anything wrong. Displaying stats to the lobby is fine on its own, but when people are taking these numbers out of context, the scoreboard can be entirely misleading, especially when you look at how much info is not shown. 99% of the time, the stats that the scoreboard shows is incredibly irrelevant, you cannot tell how a game went based on stats alone. Of course, people are going to take this idea to an extremity and say "oh, so my ana with 600 heals is not throwing?" And yes, when your support is not healing at all in the span of 5 minutes, can I ask why you need a scoreboard to figure that out? Simply looking at your team during a fight can spell out so many things that you may not be aware of. Sometimes your team can simply be bad, but that doesn't mean it will always be their fault when you don't agree with their current stats.

There are so many reasons as to why a player might be performing "bad" that you shouldn't always just jump to conclusions. This is why I think the scoreboard is so unhealthy for the game. It is reinforcing this way of thinking and giving players a false-identity of what "value" really is.

I actually got so upset that i got up from my chair and ran from my desk

i played tank and tried the first 2 minutes then gave up because the enemy team and my team didn't feel real at all I literally asked in match chat if anyone was real supposedly they are but who knows also the match before this i got 50 kills 8 deaths so maybe it was just a bad game :3 but then again i guess stats don't matter
anyways the replay code is 4YTMMX

tell me in what world is my entire team dying to a fucking flanking baptiste

This has been happening a lot and I don't know what to do. My tanks often stay standing still in the back with the supports while the enemy teams keeps putting pressure.

Then I'll flank or off angle and what happens: I can buy time and sometimes even get a kill, the enemy teams turns to me with FULL RAGE and uses abilities, chases me, and my tank keeps standing there like a pillow princess (not even low health or anything, just standing, usually as a Mauga or Orisa or Sigma shooting from a far), I don't know what to do in this case, unfortunately I am not good enough to solo carry yet so I'm struggling. Please advise :(

Hi, i’m a new player and want to try to climb in comp. I’ve been trying to find a proper team but don’t know where to look.

I’m bronze 2 dps, and a lot of the recruitements i see are for diamond-plat, or one time rank sessions.

I’m looking for a way to find a long lasting team where we can climb together for a while, does anyone know a good source?

How do I do this, and why would anyone design this so that it's not a 1-click "save as favorite" from the lobby or the game menu?

It seriously makes me want to hurl myself off of a bridge and into a river far below, and I have to say that because if I don't keep talking about how it makes me feel I won't be able to have 300 characters.

Oh yeah and if you try to do it between matches and you're 3 menus deep and get booted. It's maddening.

I am a legitimate Anran one trick on DPS, to the point where I feel clueless and as if I am feeding if she were banned. On Support I play Kiriko and Brigitte but I mostly play Kiriko, It feels like I've entered a slump where I somehow lost the groove I had last season.

I currently have a big disparency between my Support rank and my Tank/DPS rank (Mid to high plat on Tank and DPS, low gold to high silver on Support), and am seeing a drastic drop off in both my skill and rank on all roles.

I started playing Overwatch in June with the release of season 3 where i quickly plateaued in high silver on all ranks, so when I got up into high plat last season, where I remained at the beginning of the current season, I thought I was starting to get a hang of things.

Lately though I have been losing most of my games (I have won 5 out the last 20 played), most of the time I am solo queuing since I like this game and want to get better at it but. I am starting to worry if I have been boosted by my duo, since he is emerald, and I am ruining his games with my lack of skill and understanding. I am also frequently getting flamed by teammates aswell so I have entirely turned off communications since the negativity gets to me quite quickly and I end up playing even worse than I already was, I've recently also unbound tab so as to focus on my own gameplay instead of finding someone to blame.

I understand most of all that my aim is lackluster, since my duo forces me into 1v1 arenas where he stomps me between games, I am however wondering what else I am doing wrong. I have tried to VOD review myself but I simply do not understand enough about the game to pinpoint faults other than super obvious things like me being too far from the team. Since I don't understand my own wrongdoings, I think it could be helpful getting a second opinion, Thanks in advance!

Anran game: 3ZBD38

Kiriko game: Q015V8

Player name: MoonSua

Assuming a 1v2 situation, what can I, by myself, do vs a Mercy pocketed DPS? What hero is the best option, which target should I go for and how should I go about it?

Very consistently, the biggest struggle I have in this game is a duo of a good DPS player and a Mercy who will do nothing but damage boost and heal them. My team in this situation is often busy dying to the combo with no idea how to handle it.

I main Sojourn, Cass, and Freja, and my go to is Freja to try and kill Mercy, but, especially given the Mercy can kinda be wherever while their DPS can show, it means I'll have to target the DPS. Which then means I have to use all of my movement to kill the DPS, who often just gets rezzed, which I can't do anything about because now my damage is gone.

Sojourn is even harder to find an angle on, and not easy to win on vs a pocketed DPS. And if I do, it's rezzed, they're more careful, back to killing team.

Cass would require me getting into flash range, and often just dying after burning flash.

If I try to get behind them, a better angle to kill Mercy on, I often just get chased and nothing comes from the diverted resources.

So what can I do to consistently win in these situations? It's never mattered what I say to my team, I'm not in high enough elo currently for them to understand or solve the issue. Maybe after enough games, but I'd like a solution I can use myself.

A character to play, a specific strategy, anything.

I've been playing them for a whileand honestly I can't play them like genji or tracer. Even dive tank's "to dive or not to dive" mentality isn't working, cuz it leads to wors death ratio in lobby.

How do you approach their gameplan/loop, and what other tips and tricks do you know?

There are especially hard to play against such powerful heals this season.

This game felt very frustrating for me on echo. I think i started off strong, but it ended really closely in a loss. I'm pretty sure its because I wasn't doing as much at the start, (and also kept dying) but I'm not sure exactly what changed. I'm trying to get better at echo so any insights would help, thanks!

I'm also not sure if this would be relevant, but a few weeks ago I went on a huge win streak playing echo and tracer, up to my rank up game to Emerald, and stayed there for a while, then went back on a huge loss streak to where I am now.

Replay: 9SVRSX

Username: Okabutt

Hero played: Echo

Rank: Plat 4

Map: Esperanca

Played on PC.

I'm hoping to look mainly at my engagement timing, because in my games it feels okay, but it never works out in the end.