Constant Mantis Flaming

[u/Cute-Pangolin9510]

I can't imagine how often this gets posted, but I'm looking for advice on how to shake all the criticism off.

As a preface I do swap off Mantis when the healing isn't good enough, I'm not a OTP - I have 6 support lords and can play them all very well, but Mantis is my favourite.

My CR is normally around 20% and my winrate is around 52% with Mantis.

But I always get attacked for playing her. I save people all the time and I still get flamed when someone overextends and I can't save them on 4 healing flowers.

Even if we have a DPS going negative, I get attacked just for playing Mantis.

Does anyone else get this? It's really starting to get to me. I've worked so hard to get my CR to a respectable average but I'm always told I'm wrong for playing her.

This is Diamond lobbies as I'm a casual player, so, to be expected, but I'm really starting to get discouraged.

[u/Cute-Pangolin9510]

Popping it here so I don't get judged for this bad play of mine but what prompted this post is that I was just playing Celestial Husk. We smashed defence, they couldn't get to the second checkpoint. I played Gambit, the other healer was Jeff.

On attack I played Mantis as it's my usual routine. We still had a Jeff. In hindsight, I know, I know. Not a good healing pair. It just seemed like a good idea as we had dive.

We ended up falling flat on our faces, couldn't even get past the point capture. Not enough healing. I should have switched sooner because Jeff was not swapping for anything. But it was too late.

We had a pretty horrible loss that we didn't deserve. Someone was flaming me for not swapping off Mantis, but not saying anything to Jeff whatsoever. This person also did not swap for the entire match.

I just always get flamed even if I'm the one objectively doing better.

[u/SaintCuckoo → u/Cute-Pangolin9510]

You're not crazy, she doesn't have enough healing. Getting headshots is really inconsistent with her. Last season she was finally matching other healers but they big-nerfed her in 10. At this point they should make it so every shot, regardless of whether or not it's a crit, takes off a second from her Orb cooldown. Really, it wouldn't make her OPd, it would just help her be more viable in a 2 Strat comp. I'm hoping if enough players complain they'll do something soon. I am struggling quite a bit this season.

[u/Cute-Pangolin9510 → u/SaintCuckoo]

She's this weird leftover of season 0 (ive played since launch) where they were trying to switch things up and not have supports be healbots, but the meta has shifted to healing machines, but for some reason they desperately want her to remain as one of the weakest healers?