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Hi everyone!
I'm usually a Mercy main and dropped from Gold 4 to Silver 2 (almost Silver 3) with 270h.
I started practicing other support heroes as soon as I de-ranked to Silver 1 as playing Mercy is not always an option or possible (also bc of hero bans next season) but it's going terribly, I'm ranking down even more and always bottom-frag.
The de-ranking is totally fine, the game is just putting me where I belong and I'll propably de-rank even more, no one to blame but myself. I'm currently trying to play Juno, Ana and Kiri to support my team better if I see no value in Mercy and I'm losing every single game.
While my Mercy might be silver/gold, the other sups are definitely more like low bronze skill-wise. I've watched serval guides for them, I'm aware of taking high-ground/off-angles yet I find it hard to actually be able to do all of these things without the team or me dying and I'm often overwhelmed, tunnel-visioning and not sure what to do or how to handle certain situations and quickly panick. I do have terrible aim as well as bad positioning and decisionmaking but when I'm watching a replay I'm often unsure what a better approach/play would've been. I don't really feel comfortable like I do on Mercy with these characters yet, I have no gamesense or feel for their playstyle I think.
I tend to healbot quite a bit as well, I think I might be too passive on Juno/Kiri, often not seeing opportunities to do more dmg - I also don't really trust my aim (especially on Kiri) and I'm always afraid my team will die when I'm finally trying to put some pressure on the enemy team as they often take a lot of damage so I'm not really taking any off-angles and prefer to stay with the team.
I often see my other support having way more kills but also the exact amounts of death and healing as me so I must be doing something terribly wrong, my stats are terrible.
My practice with these heroes in qp usually goes very well but as soon as I start comp I just lose and perform like an idiot. I feel like I'm not helping my team at all.
Anyways, thx for reading this long text and I'd love some honest feedback (text/dm if possible) on what to keep in mind and improve as well as general tips or anything else that comes to your mind so I can support my teams better in the future! I know I'm feeding and I'd like to change that!
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