Ball plays on its own format. For him it's not a 5v5 but instead a 1v9

As Chazm once said "When you play Ball the enemy team hates you, your teammates hate you, everybody's day is ruined and you're having a great time"

Sombra of all people not understanding perceived vs actual value is hilarious

I think when that person swapped to LW and keeps gripping ball it's about ego at that point. I can almost guarantee you they realized that the ball didn't play bad but they didn't want to be wrong and got blinded by his own rage

As soon as I saw the name carrypotter I knew he would be lucio/lifeweaver. That guy is a known thrower/troll and used to smurf in any rank ranging from diamond to silver on multiple accounts in eu. The guy has been doing that for literally years.

18:52 The problem is, to some, just losing the first point means the game is over, and if your team isn't stomping the enemy team into the spawn rooms, its GG. Thats something I learned from the OWL & watching streamers, is that the game is a lot longer then you realize. Just because you lost a point, lost a fight, doesn't mean the games over already. Wish more people pick up on that aspect.

I picked ball in quickplay once and our Moira immediately went "I'm not healing you, ball." He would go out of his way to not heal me. We didn't even leave spawn before he decided to throw because we had a ball... on a control map. I never asked for healing, I just started gobbling health packs since he said he wouldn't heal me. I stood in front of him with low health one time and he shook his Moira head "no" so I didn't try again. But he was also saying stuff like "Oh, I need healing! Well that's too fucking bad I'm not gonna heal you one time, watch." . He went on like that for so long without me saying anything or complaining, that someone else came into vc and went "is ball talking? I don't hear him." He was arguing with himself so much that anyone who could hear him was confused. He also informed me that "they made ball when there were two tanks, you fucking idiot" so I guess the only viable tanks are... Mauga, Junkerqueen, and Ramattra?

Ball died like 3 times total?
Potter died 3 times a minute.

The lucio died 3 times in a row then swapped. Just to flame the tank. That's the kind of players I got in my gold 2-1 lobbies.

I feel like sombra should be happy with wrecking ball since they can both aid each others engagements she can help him with hack he can help her with booping the enemy distracting them
But it seems supports and DPS hate adapting to help

I had a case in a quickplay match the other day where I was queued with a few friends and the other team had a really good wrecking ball that kept us on our toes the entire game. He was constantly diving the backline and getting cooldowns out of us. It seemed like I spent half the match peeling for my supports. We all agreed this ball was crazy and it was so shocking when the game was over on a tight victory on our part that three players on their team blamed the ball. The disconnect between the value your team and the enemy team sees in a good ball player can be substantial. All we noticed was how little the enemy would capitalize on the ball’s dives that left us vulnerable, but I guess all they saw was their tank rolling around the map. People gotta have more faith in their Wrecking Balls, they put in the work more often than not.

i play wrecking ball, and to hear that the sombra was mad because she had a wrecking ball just breaks my brain. the two characters have tons of synergy. hack health packs ball wants to use, hack targets he slams, distract the back line endlessly. i know i wouldn't complain if i was the sombra, either. it's a much more active comp.

of course, i just like playing with a wrecking ball in general. some of my favorite games have had me on brig and a wrecking ball. fights always have a very interesting flow.

Lucio, Sombra and Ball is a comp that I would cry if I went up against in Comp. They had the potential to be back line menaces but instead chose to harass the ball. Wild.

The Lucio fed 3 times in a row, got tilted, and started to throw.

The Lucio's name is "CarryPotter." I applaud that there isn't mention of him carrying the supports but there still must be a big ego for that.

Last week, a winston decided to throw because one support picked Illari. He rage hard and started screaming about how picking Illari is a throw play. They switched to Moira and the Winston kept raging because "we were on the losing side and it would be a huge struggle to win by this point." He threw the second round again because he wanted to punish the player for daring to pick Illari. We got stomped. If someone isnt playing a full team, one should try to adapt to the rest of the party on some level because if the team isnt on the same page, the tea is going to have a harder time winning.

that lucio/LW started to get pissed after they misplayed their ult i bet and then blames the easiest target (tank) as the reason for their bad play

As a plat player, that's genuinely among best ball gameplay I've seen here

Yeah I got that a few times too, even worse when it's directly at the beginning, I got an Ana that refused to heal me for the whole game for playing Ball and we lost.

Don't fireball if you don't need to, especially if engaging, so you'll still have grapple as an option

This ball did really well, honestly. There are a few minor things here and there (some missed opportunities for piledrive damage, grapple placement could be a little better sometimes) but they performed really well. I'm amazed they still managed to pull out a win despite the Weaver griefing. They should definitely be able to climb though.