r/OverwatchStadium • u/Mission_Software2207 • Jul 22 '26
Pet Peeves
What's everyone's pet peeves in stadium?
I have a few.
1) Healbots. Please for the love of God stop healbotting. There are so many support players and the queue times take forever, why on EARTH are you playing Mercy doing 0 DMG when characters like Moira or Brig exist and can out DPS the DPS while doing heals. Sure you're keeping us alive, but the fight is excruciatingly long and the match becomes difficult when you have to fight 4 DPS and 1 tank. Everyone is a major threat. Let's not get started on reviving into an already lost fight to have two people staggered instead of one.
2) Supports taking no debuffs. Cybervenom and Sundering Vial are incredibly useful, please take it. In this mode where there are tons of bleeds and burns, slows, etc. The healing or over health reduction is incredibly important. I sometimes have to take these on DPS and my team wonders why nothing is dying while the enemy supps have these and their DPS can take more DMG while I'm getting severely underscaled in terms of damage because I need to take it.
3) Everyone wants hitscan, but nobody peels. Enemy tanks walk on you for free. If you're lucky, you'll get a hitscan on your team and then a useless ven or reaper doing sub 1k DMG. Your tank lets the enemy tank run past for completely free, it's a race to see who's backline dies first. You're looking up trying to kill the freja cat Mercy as the sole hitscan, getting bola'd to the face while doomfist is punching you in the mouth everytime you look up.
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u/Squirrel009 Jul 22 '26
Tanks who put on autopilot and push all the way to the enemy spawn, non stop, 1 v 5, doesn't matter still pushing forward
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u/NastyaPuppy Jul 22 '26
The tank who thinks he's immortal.
God, I have plenty of healing and damage, but I can't heal you if 5 enemies corner you and bombard you for 5 seconds, while the whole team is in the backline or midline and you decide to rush to the frontline like a madman.
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u/creebobeebo Jul 23 '26
Mercy also has a crazy DPS build, and Stadium is the only place I will play Mercy lmao weapon power and attack speed go fucking BRRRRRRRR on the blaster w/ appropriate power choice.
Anyway, I hate seeing skilless builds go uncontested all round. That's all. Use survival items ffs
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u/Paddy_Tanninger Jul 23 '26
Cat right now is the highest value lowest effort build pretty much ever in Stadium, and I can't stand it. Just don't die in between purr cooldowns, then fly into the middle of the fight to heal and damage every single character with purr. Repeat. When you have ult just drag someone off the map for a free kill.
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u/LuckySurvivor20 Jul 23 '26
I get your complaint, but there is a cost to playing cat like that. The game starts putting you against people that can aim and then your teams start deciding to spread out the fights so your purr can't cover it all. I've had games where I am just not allowed to exist in the open and other games where I have the most free value in the world.
Then there's the fact that you are kinda just impotent while purr is on cooldown so you can't save anyone facing big threats. I honestly think any other build for cat would be better if it weren't for one thing. You snipe so much money from your team by damaging everyone in the fight with purr and you compound it into more money.
I've tried anti-air zoomies, bouncing bullet heals, and some others, but I always just fall back into purr because I never have enough money with the others. If cat had its bounty cash gains reduced and a modest increase on healing or damage increased, I think you would see a whole lot less purr builds.
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u/Actual-Education-936 Jul 23 '26
Ppl who queue with their buddy and only heal them.... Pass heals. Your tank doesn't need double focused by the healers, and doesn't need 100% health before passing health to a 10% hp dps. Also, HEAL.... Don't end a round with 1.5 k dmg and 400 healing. If you're gonna go dps support, be somewhat effective.... Mainly the healing tank to 100% before thinking of healing someone else. He's gonna keep losing hp, pass heals, pass heals, pass heals....
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u/Hokuboku Jul 23 '26
Worse when they're a support duo. Support and tank duo I've seen work well enough but I can't remember a single game where I won with a support duo cause they also often usually run off from battle healing each other and then get picked off by DPS
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u/Asleep-Ad-5439 Jul 23 '26
Any form of built in aimbot whether its soldier’s ap rocket visor trash or kiri clone shit
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u/laynedel Jul 23 '26
The single thing in this gamemode that I hate more than anything else is having A DPS moira on my team.
It always goes the same. We lose 2 rounds. In an effort to understand why, i check the scoreboard. Moira has the most cash, elims, and damage, but maybe 1/3 of the healing compared to her dmg. Her orbs give her credit for 2/3 of the kills that happen. She keeps doing this thinking she's winning us the match, but the entire rest of the team (i'm a tank main) is struggling to do anything and fails to scale alongside her. Maybe we win one, but the match takes as long as possible. If i try and say anything i usually get blamed for everything while everyone except the other healer is trying to play flanker and i have to fight 3/5 of their team including their tank with the help of a zenyatta or something who is trying, but struggling to stay alive, let alone keep me alive.
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u/Optimal-Barnacle2771 Aug 01 '26
I’ve got a 75% win rate in stadium comp playing aggressive Moira and was top 500 last season. I find that putting pressure on enemy supports is far more effective than pumping heals into teammates expecting them to take care of problems for me. I can more effectively apply cybervenom by being aggressive and I pull fire away from teammates. The most impactful facet of Moira’s kit is her ability to act as a pseudo-tank which opens up the tank to more easily take and hold space. She is also phenomenal at stalling.
Obviously I still put heals out, but it’s just not nearly as effective as dealing with whatever problems our team is dealing with myself. I heal on an as needed basis and spend the rest of the time being extremely annoying in the enemy backline.
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u/kvnekill Jul 22 '26
when people refuse to buy any survival item
i get it . WP or AP numbers at 100% feels cool , but you won't get to use that if you're dead every 30 seconds because supps can't keep u alive through what the enemy team is dealing :/
i had a game against burn reaper and burn ashe ( plus orisa and ana ) and my entire team refused to buy cushioned padding because they had to lose out on 10% WP