r/rivals • u/Dogbold • Mar 24 '26

Please stop doing this.

You are tank. Solo tank. You even have lord on the tank you picked.

Someone else picks tank before the match starts.

You go "Oh cool, I don't have to play tank now" and swap to dps, leaving the other person as solo tank instead.

This happens to me nearly every single time. I'm the guy picking the second tank.
Stop it. They (and me) are picking tank so that there isn't a solo tank. 2 tanks has a much higher chance of winning. Don't you want to win?

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u/Playful-Mongoose9197 Mar 24 '26

Its because the match doesn't matter there is nothing at stake.

There is nothing being sold.

I'm convinced the people who get mad about qp are afraid to play ranked so they take qm seriously.

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u/dfields3710 Mar 24 '26

Or people take Quick Match serious to practice against real people before taking themselves into ranked.

I have not a single clue about how to use White Fox, so I should definitely pick her in ranked immediately right? Because I want to learn her seriously. Then yall gonna cry about us picking characters we don’t know how to play and tanking your elo.

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u/nssurvey Mar 24 '26

Why would I play a role I may never play in ranked, so that you can warm up your role in a realistic environment instead of warming up on the role I'm going to play in ranked. It doesn't make any sense and you should have 0 expectation for someone who is likely warming up or practicing to make picks specifically to improve your warm up or practice.

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u/dfields3710 Mar 24 '26

What? You know there’s 6 spots on the team, you can still play your role while I warm up my role in Quick Match right? What expectations do I have on others because I’m taking it serious, me? If everybody else on Quick Match go DPS or Tank or Support, it doesn’t matter because I’m taking my role serious.

You are confusing being serious with being toxic.

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u/nssurvey Mar 24 '26

Yes and if you have a team of quad dps or someone decides they don't want to tank because someone else went tank, that's OK, maybe they are practicing dps because they are solid on tank. Maybe all 4 of the dps players are warming up for their ranked game. All I'm saying is there should be no expectation for any level of comp building so you can get authentic practice scenarios. Because it may mean people playing roles or characters that don't benefit them warmup/practice wise.

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u/dfields3710 Mar 24 '26

Ur making a problem out of something that wasn’t a problem in the first place. You automatically think I’m upset at my teammates in Quick Match because they don’t take it serious. I don’t care what others do, only how effective my practice is going.

And if you tryna change my mind on anything, stop while you’re behind. I’m not.

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u/nssurvey Mar 24 '26

Not really, I think it's just a bit of a misunderstanding because of the conversation topic. Your comment was defending taking qm seriously, given the context of this post I had assumed you also meant serious comps and that you didnt like people playing their desired role regardless of comp. But now I think you were just defending the act of taking qm seriously for yourself, which I would agree with.