So you're on strike? Good. Just know the rules.

[Shamalamadingdang]

Support main here. I'm not playing the game anymore for a variety of reasons all related to the recent happenings which you're all more than familiar with. I just want to touch base with my fellow support strikers real quick.

Netease is giving a little. This is THE vital phase of any strike. Do not go running back. Do not celebrate. Do not boot lick. In the last 24 hours, several big outlets have publicized the strike (Kotaku, IGN, Sports Illustrated). That means it's real now. Netease cares. The game is becoming incredibly toxic as people who don't want to heal are being forced to or teams are just rolling with no heals at all. Good.

This is the moment you hold out for more. I'm talking Spiderman mobility nerfs. I'm talking longer cool downs for Black Panther. I'm talking removing Ironfists shields entirely. I'm talking significant healer buffs. I main Invis Woman. Buff my shield the way you buffed Caps at the beginning of the season and let me pop a shield on myself for f*** sake. That's right. I want a 400 hp shield that I can use on myself. Will we get these things? Probably not. But if you people have a little DISCIPLINE then we might get half of what I just described. Just go play something else for awhile. You can literally win by doing nothing.

[METALORD]

lol just uninstall like I did.

[Basarab Laiota]

i pretty much have just been playing Vs AI to do my battlepass missions. even playing support on quickplay is toxic right now. recently had a scarlet witch player add me to friendslist so he could flame me in PMs. wtf.

[Revenant]

They legit nerfed damage range and not the damage it self.... and they also are buffing healers DPS LMAO which we dont need more dps.

[mozzarxlla]

yeah i get why supps are 'striking' as a supp main myself but im not striking a video game, i still enjoy playing supp so im just gonna keep playing it.

[Caitiff]

What is this ff14 lmao. We all know you guys ♥♥♥♥♥ and moan like everyone else but you will always come back to play. Gamers nowadays are sure retarded you guys treat this game like its a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ job. Back in the 90's videogames were a hobby. Go out and touch grass or talk to real girls not the gender confused ones in america.

[Lunar Fang]

They need to tone down the damage of spiderman and BP. They both have insane damage and high mobility, the only caveat being "Oh well they have to be good at it to be useful."

But as the player numbers thin, you're more likely to go up against a one trick and it's a miserable time.

Some supports don't have any CC and using crowd control on them means nothing if you can't kill them. So your options are to hope your teammates turn around to get them or you run away and they just come back.

[Spencer]

Invisible Woman is fine. She's pretty great at healing and blocking damage / preventing pushes with her ult and vortex. Her damage is a bit lacking compared to supports like Luna Snow and she doesn't have a disable so Scarlet Witch ults will be your bane unless you do a good push, she's balanced.

[fgoodmanabc]

OMG this game sucks on a whole new level. The holder of the scorce code sold it to the china bot farms.All you see in this game is aim botters...botts...alllot of botts...some games all bots. and 1v1 pvp...nope doom matches let you go in as a team. 5 people sitting in a corner killing each other is just bleep bleep bleep bleep mfer bleep. Gamers beware of this fake game.

[Gratch]

I still play Strat, Biggest change? the second someone opens their mouth i stop healing them, and only heal myself while i damage. i also proceed to report them for Toxic chat abuse. Better to Ban the trash than ruin the game.

[b0nehead]

Yep i quit support and go 6-12 as dps with all the bad healing. TOO BAD SUCKERS

[XalonMG]

Don't let the scumbags ruin the game for you. When they piss you off, go play a few free-for-all Doom mode matches and get your frustration out. There will ALWAYS be a scumbag on your team most of the time when in solo que. Always. There are too many of them for there not to be. It sucks. But unless you run full premade teams, you will eventually get one on your team.

Some will play just to have someone to blame. They will stop healing out of nowhere. Run off and disappear. Just stand in spawn for minutes. Quit match like a child. Refuse to heal at all. Refuse to work as a team. And so many other ways they can ruin the match. The worst is when the whole team is working together beautifully, yet one of the Strategists refuses to heal.

You have to get Ranks, Stats, and Win/Loss records off your mind. They do not mean anything as long as there is always going to be an idiot on your team every match or two. Don't get bummed by losses.

Every match you play, try to friend at least ONE teammate. There will always be one that is willing to work together of the rest are not. Then the next match add someone else as friend. Eventually you will have dozens of friends to play with that will play all roles and work together. Then you can join or create a faction together and run premades or just group with the friends you want whenever.

[doofus0510]

bp already kinda sucks man, stop giving them an even harder time(especially when people like hela or bucky can do the exact same thing as a bp but safer and with less effort)

[Gratch]

Originally posted by XalonMG:

Some will play just to have someone to blame. They will stop healing out of nowhere. Run off and disappear. Just stand in spawn for minutes. Quit match like a child. Refuse to heal at all. Refuse to work as a team. And so many other ways they can ruin the match. The worst is when the whole team is working together beautifully, yet one of the Strategists refuses to heal.

Take your Damage brain and walk away. you talk about trash needing someone to blame and then you come and just blame strategists... you are the problem.

[You'reJustBad]

Hold strong fellows, Refuse to play Support untill the menace of Spider man, and black panther are trash canned!!!

[Mewsha]

It is really funny that this is coinciding with a Spiderman nerf (really, a love tap).

Unfortunately Netease is expecting the team to be responsible for a strategist's survival, and that just will never work. It hasn't worked in any other game.

The community cannot fix this issue because not only do they have no guidance to do so, the effects of not protecting your strategist are not apparent enough for the majority of the playerbase to realize. Just the other day I saw a couple posts here about how strategists need to be responsible for their own survival, despite having very few things at their disposal to do so.

The result is they can't push up, they need to waste abilities and heals meant for the team on saving themselves, and the result is a loss. That's not clearly communicated either. This is actually the first time I've ever seen them recognize in dev diary that yes, the team needs to protect strategists as much as they can.

They either need to clearly communicate this to vanguards and duelists or simply give strategists more survivability.

Right now they're choosing to weakly emphasize that the team needs to help their strategists, but they're doing it very weakly which changes nothing.