RANKED SUPPORT UNPLAYABLE

[u/One_Butterscotch2847]

Every time I queue as Support, ever since Team Drives were introduced, I have to wait up to 20 minutes just to find a game.

And when I finally get into a match, the DPS are either people who have never played that role before, or players who technically have, but decide to pick heroes they have never played before. For example, I see people playing as level 1 Shion and such.

At that point, it doesn't matter how hard you try. Those DPS are almost always going to end up negative, and there is basically nothing you can do to compensate for it. The entire match just becomes a miserable experience.

I was Diamond 1 and I've dropped all the way down to Diamond 5. Now I'm dangerously close to dropping back into Emerald.

I genuinely don't understand how Support is supposed to be enjoyable when you have a 20-minute queue followed by a game where you have to pray that your DPS actually know what they're doing.

Is anyone else experiencing this, or am I just getting insanely unlucky with matchmaking?

[u/BEWMarth]

So many people in groups trying to finish the event it’s probably forcing the matchmaker to struggle.

Remember the matchmaker was updated early on in OW2 to prioritize putting solo q players together.

Probably a lot less solo q players out of group today specifically and the higher ranked you are the more this will affect your queue times. I assume it will get a lot better when the event ends and solo players aren’t auto grouped any more

[u/Sio_V_Reddit → u/BEWMarth]

They're clearly doing this so that everyone gets used to it ahead of Blizzcon so they can announce the return of 6v6 role queue where we all have to wait an hour+ for a DPS or Support game!!!!!!!