If you need healing, ask for it

[Fartin' Futa King]

Oh, look at you, Mr. Iron Man soaring above my head or Mr. Sneaky Pants hiding behind me! Newsflash: you won't get a single drop of healing unless you hold down that middle mouse button and ask for it.
Seriously, I can't wait for them to slap a mandatory tutorial on us explaining the fancy radial menu before we can even touch competitive play.
I mean, come on! You can even bind that thing to a key if you’re not too busy flying around like a superhero.
Asking for healing should be a hand reflex for anyone who can’t be bothered to stay in a healer’s line of sight.
Hope this helps!

[Millertyme]

Originally posted by Fartin' Futa King:

Oh, look at you, Mr. Iron Man soaring above my head or Mr. Sneaky Pants hiding behind me! Newsflash: you won't get a single drop of healing unless you hold down that middle mouse button and ask for it.
Seriously, I can't wait for them to slap a mandatory tutorial on us explaining the fancy radial menu before we can even touch competitive play.
I mean, come on! You can even bind that thing to a key if you’re not too busy flying around like a superhero.
Asking for healing should be a hand reflex for anyone who can’t be bothered to stay in a healer’s line of sight.
Hope this helps!

As a healer it's your job to know where your team is, nothing else you really need to keep track of. Are you blind or something and you can't look up? Do you ever look around or are you just brain dead locked on to what's in front of you all the time.

[EmperorVolo]

Ya awareness is your #1 skilil.

[ɸ It That Dwells ɸ]

When I fill heal I appreciate when characters like Storm and Spider-Man come by for a drive-by to get healed. Makes my job a lot easier. Though I do try to look out from my tunnel a bit. I can't keep you -all- alive, but I will certainly try! And I never mind when someone spams the heal request radial option. Just don't be mad if I'm reloading.

I also like to try and leave Sue shields around corners or up in the air for characters I can't easily heal, so that they have an option for themselves, and I'll try to replace it when we push up in a map.

[76561198134094406]

Tell me u are low elo without say u are low elo: if u main heal and u cant check around dont play heal.

Same for dps on Diamond: heal heal with both healers dead. Idk how dps can climb with 0 vision.

[Simply Booba]

Well see, OP, this implies that the average person listens to pings. They really don't.. lol

[Krazy Wallet]

Originally posted by Millertyme:

Originally posted by Fartin' Futa King:

Oh, look at you, Mr. Iron Man soaring above my head or Mr. Sneaky Pants hiding behind me! Newsflash: you won't get a single drop of healing unless you hold down that middle mouse button and ask for it.
Seriously, I can't wait for them to slap a mandatory tutorial on us explaining the fancy radial menu before we can even touch competitive play.
I mean, come on! You can even bind that thing to a key if you’re not too busy flying around like a superhero.
Asking for healing should be a hand reflex for anyone who can’t be bothered to stay in a healer’s line of sight.
Hope this helps!

As a healer it's your job to know where your team is, nothing else you really need to keep track of. Are you blind or something and you can't look up? Do you ever look around or are you just brain dead locked on to what's in front of you all the time.

You don't play strategist, do you?

Good strategists are doing a lot of things. We are assessing the health of our teammates (vanguard and strategist get priority, then duelists assuming low health situations), we are also watching for flanks as the enemy team loves to ruin our day. Many times, we can fight off flankers IF we see them coming first. It's when they get the jump on us that it goes south fast. So we are constantly looking for possible threats.

Most strategists are also decent ult trackers as we typically have the counter-ult. We might be tabbing our screen to see where our Strange is in ult charge to estimate the enemy strange. In those settings, we will typically play farther back if we don't have our ult, or be ready to pop ours in an instant if we play Luna or C&D. On top of all that, we are looking for opportunities to contribute damage when the team is healthy and doesn't need our immediate support.

Long story short, a good strategist is balancing a whole lot more than just the team's health. If you're in need, either ping yourself or get on the mic and (nicely) ask for healing.

[Kogan]

You're gonna get cooked for this one. Talk about self-entitled.

You're really trying to justify being a lazy healer with tunnel vision, the very worst type of healer which these hero shooters are plagued by.

You have the easiest role in the game and you still refuse to look up in the air to help your ironman and do your job?

You should have your head on swivel at all times as a healer, if you don't want people to see you as a trash healer at least.

That's your job, that's what separates a great healer and a mediocre one and if you aren't doing that you are a liability on every single team you play with and the weakest link because you are the backbone of the team. And you're choosing to exert as little effort as possible and don't even want to look up in the air???

When I see bad healers complaining about "oh I got 50K heals and we still lost!" this is precisely the reason why. Because they want to be as lazy as humanly possible and get an easy ride up the ladder, only looking forward at the tank and whoever is in front of them while people die all around them and they never even notice.

Then they want to pretend they're the best healers in the world who make no mistakes and are ready to lie on anyone who calls them out (yes people feed in this game but I've had terrible healers blatantly lie on me claiming I was feeding when I regularly have the fewest deaths on teams with good game sense to protect their own fragile ego when you call them out for being so lazy), blame everyone but themselves and all, almost every time, it's disgusting.

This is one of the biggest problems with hero shooters, healers and their egos who think everyone else should bust their ass and not them, they think they should be allowed to just stand around in the back only looking forward like a bot while everyone else works a thousand times harder than they are. And no one ever calls them out on it because people aren't noticing these things and don't watch healers as much as other roles, it isn't as obvious when they're playing badly and 'big' healing numbers mean nothing, anyone can get a large amount of healing standing still healing the tank all game while dps and the other healer get little to no heals.

This is not meant to bash but contructive criticism from an extremely competitive player for that small group of healers who don't have fragile egos and actually take accountability.

[Terotrous]

It always makes me laugh when people will type "need heal" instead of just using the radial menu, which also alerts me to your location.

[Saffy]

"I'm not gonna play the role I picked proper because you didn't ask nice enough"
- some redditor on steam.

Stfu and just play the role you picked well instead of sitting here ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ because you dont know how to aim your camera upwards.
Tunelvision is a thing and you seem to have a severe case

[VoiD]

OP is right, bronze instalock DPS players are mad.

Here's another tip, if you think you can do a better job healing, instalock healer instead. Have fun.

[Saffy]

Originally posted by VoiD:

OP is right, bronze instalock DPS players are mad.

Here's another tip, if you think you can do a better job healing, instalock healer instead. Have fun.

I'm healer main and the entitlement from every main is just ass.
"If you don't do X I won't do X"

How about just play the role you chose and get better at it instead of farming asspats on the internet? Like, you chose to do this, why would you actively sabotage your team just because "tHeY DiDnT piNg Me"?

[Kinoghoul]

Its funny when people cry that they aren't being healed when they are running out around a corner or to the other side of the map from the team, Or up above or behind the healer. plant your ass between the healer and the enemy if you want heals. They can only get so many people juggled up at a time and most of the time they are prime target for attacks and most players can't protect them. period. Add to that most people are playing healer begrudgingly. Crying about not having your personal pocket healer is just laughable in any game. Yes even when the player is a vangaurd.

[Archonis]

Last time I asked a support for a heal. I got yelled at. Called a N*gger (I'm white). Told that I suck at the game.... Everything else you can think of. So no... I don't think I will ask for a heal in a solo queue from a healer. Also... By the way. I was tanking.

If I am in a group and one of my people are a healer. Then I ask. Outside of being in a premade. I would rather keep my sanity not asking for a heal.

[HighLanderPony]

The tutorial already explains pings. It's just that 99% people don't read or look at what's on the screen and ignore most info thrown at them.

[Millertyme]

Originally posted by Krazy Wallet:

Originally posted by Millertyme:

As a healer it's your job to know where your team is, nothing else you really need to keep track of. Are you blind or something and you can't look up? Do you ever look around or are you just brain dead locked on to what's in front of you all the time.

You don't play strategist, do you?

Good strategists are doing a lot of things. We are assessing the health of our teammates (vanguard and strategist get priority, then duelists assuming low health situations), we are also watching for flanks as the enemy team loves to ruin our day. Many times, we can fight off flankers IF we see them coming first. It's when they get the jump on us that it goes south fast. So we are constantly looking for possible threats.

Most strategists are also decent ult trackers as we typically have the counter-ult. We might be tabbing our screen to see where our Strange is in ult charge to estimate the enemy strange. In those settings, we will typically play farther back if we don't have our ult, or be ready to pop ours in an instant if we play Luna or C&D. On top of all that, we are looking for opportunities to contribute damage when the team is healthy and doesn't need our immediate support.

Long story short, a good strategist is balancing a whole lot more than just the team's health. If you're in need, either ping yourself or get on the mic and (nicely) ask for healing.

I do play strategist. Not even going to read the rest.
Rocket Main here. 23.5k/10min I die roughly 1 time per game. 95+% of the time I'm top heals top assist.Bronze 3 to Plat 2. Easy game. No problems with flankers. Ping. I'm an escape god so if the enemy team wants to send a dps on an expedition around the map to try and get me they are just wasting their time. I'm in the back line so I see everything.
I'm only getting better, played a match today 20 minutes I did 62k healing. (31k/10min) 1 death