Why medic mains are so rare?

[Birby]

As i'm saying this i'm a medic main myself but when i play casual and not pick medic and out of 12 players i see 1 or 0 people playing as medic but why?

[Oggy246]

because in a game where you could kill people with countless weapons why choose to heal

[uptothewolves]

I like playing as medic but yeah natcyka is right, sometimes it’s more fun to go heavy or demoman and steamroll your enemies, rather then just staying behind and clicking at people who press E.

[Stellifera]

“I NEED HEALING.” - Oh wait. Wrong game.

[111306]

I am a medic main, Medic is fun actually. Most people just want to see large satisfying numbers on their screen and they basically want to be on the frontlines. While medic players tend to support their team in teamfights and heal people.

[Heatmaker]

Because nobody likes to be that guy who gets frustrated when the whole team spams E as well as getting yelled at and targeted by every enemy player

[Brucecat]

*Coughs in heavy*

[Birby]

Originally posted by ☭「Natcyka」☭:

because in a game where you could kill people with countless weapons why choose to heal

because seeing people thanking me for healing and supporting them makes me smile

[General Butt Naked]

Because standing behind some random Jamal69 is unsatisfying

[Keir Starmer]

Medic is boring, he presses m1 on teammates. He gets his ass kicked by every class, especially the 3 most annoying ones- spy, sniper and scout. He isn't a good character, he's a gateway. Everyone mains medic for a little while, but almost no one does it for a long time. Say, rocket jumping as soldier is so rewarding to learn and every jump is like orgasming a million times. Getting meatshots as scout literally feels like you're transcending into a multiverse of pure bliss. Trickstabbing a pyro who is meant to counter you as spy feels like god himself is talking to you. Almost every class has these feel good moments.
Heavy jumping round a corner and mowing down an unprepared team feels great.
Sniper headshotting a medic and seeing everyone move around in panic as you pick the team off one by one.
Pyro running into a room with full phlog and melting everyone.
Engineer putting a level 2 sentry behind the enemy team before they notice and killing 5-6 of them.
Demoman sticky spamming into a crowd of people.
And medic.... Well... as someone who's played medic for 200+ hours, there is no feel good moment. You ubercharge someone and they get kills... But you get no credit. You just watch them do it.
In overwatch, mercy has feel good moments when zarya bubbles you and you get a huge rez, and when you damage boost people you can hear the damage sounds ticking gently into your ears like a delicate kiss...
Medic gets none of that.
So, no one plays him. He's boring.

[Keir Starmer]

Originally posted by Snow Birb:

Originally posted by ☭「Natcyka」☭:

because in a game where you could kill people with countless weapons why choose to heal

because seeing people thanking me for healing and supporting them makes me smile

played for 200+ hours as medic, and the most thanks I've ever gotten was a sniper who tried to votekick me because I didn't heal him and he burned to death.

[The Impractical Engineer]

Because for most players it's boring.

Is it really that hard to figure out?

[Birby]

Originally posted by Dan The Sauce Man:

Originally posted by Snow Birb:

because seeing people thanking me for healing and supporting them makes me smile

played for 200+ hours as medic, and the most thanks I've ever gotten was a sniper who tried to votekick me because I didn't heal him and he burned to death.

i feel sorry for you and yeah people could get mad by not healing them and i hope people should appreciate medic mains more even if they are new :)

[Vorzky]

Originally posted by Dɪᴏʀɴᴏ Dɪᴏᴠᴀɴɴa:

I am a medic main, Medic is fun actually. Most people just want to see large satisfying numbers on their screen and they basically want to be on the frontlines. While medic players tend to support their team in teamfights and heal people.

Same

[WojciechWojski]

I was a Medic main since the uber update and I stopped playing him almost compleatly 3-4 years ago, from my understanding it goes like this: 90% of people who even play Medic are allready Medic mains, the rest are random people who pick Medic when the situation really requiers it, many Medic mains stop playing Medic with time usualy for good, nowadays most people look for quick fun and action in FPS games, so this made theat small group even smaller.

It takes a special person to main the Medic, he's not the harders class to play but it surely takes a lot of dedication, Medic player is someone who doesn't rage easily and gets pleasure from helping teammates and being the silent hero rather then the person with most kills -- oooor someone who's an masochist.
My expirience may not be the same for everyone who stopped maining Medic, big portion probably just stped playing him because he can get repetative and boring quicker then all the other classes because he doesn't really have alternative playstyles.

Situation of support players is similar in all the multiplayer games, It's usualy ungreatful role to fullfil, people expect a lot from you and after all is done very often you're the only one who appriciates your work, essentialy you have to thank yourself. In situations when you make smallest mistake and someone doesn't get heals or buffs you get bombarded with waves of humiliation and anger.
This was more or less reason why I stopped playing Medic, the enjoyment of helping newbies and occasional nice words in chat couldn't outweight the ridicilous amount of verbal/written abuse every time I made tiniest mistake imaginable or even when I wasn't able to do anything(some tryhard dies at the other end of the map and starts votekick against me coz I didn't heal him), all of that makes allready unatractive role even worse, there comes a point where instead of having fun while playing a computer game you're stressed, angry and frustrated.
In short, it's really hard to have fun while playing Medic.

[Digihuman]

Playing medic makes you want to rip your hair out half the time (and that half is usually when the team is bad). So being a medic is either super satisfying or super unsatisfying.