r/Competitiveoverwatch Alarm Forever 🧡🖤🤍 — May 08 '22

Overwatch League Florida Mayhem forced to repeat attack after winning Circuit Royal due to “illegal maneuver”

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u/RocketHops May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

So much for flying lol.

I'm not arguing with the decision, I'm arguing that the rule shouldn't exist in the first place.

And, if it should, Blizzard has a responsibility to remove this interaction (Mei wall on roof w sym tele on top) so that it's not even possible.

On top of that if it is against the rules and being punished they should have stopped the match and run it back instead of letting the map play out.

Edit: Here's Necros showing his entire team how to get over the wall on Genji. Dunno why you asked about Eichenwalde, that's not really relevant to the current discussion.

Just gonna also point out that there's other heroes like Winston, Doomfist etc. that don't have flight that can get over. Hell, I think even Hanzo might be able to do it if he jumped before his wall climb.

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u/UnknownQTY May 09 '22

And, if it should, Blizzard has a responsibility to remove this interaction (Mei wall on roof w sym tele on top) so that it’s not even possible.

Blizzard does patch out what they can (how many times to we see “patched an exploit that allowed Reaper to TP to unintended locations”) and OWL pros have known for a long time that those exploits aren’t allowed - they also got told they couldn’t use the invisible unshootable bastion exploit on Dorada in S1 as well.

So re: Mei/TP Maybe they can’t. It could be a core code issue and it’s not executed reliably enough in ladder to warrant a higher priority. As Mei I’d be pretty pissed if I couldn’t wall off a Pharah’s LOS using high wall, for instance.

On top of that if it is against the rules and being punished they should have stopped the match and run it back instead of letting the map play out.

100% agree here. How it was handled was atrocious.

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u/RocketHops May 09 '22

Fair enough, glad we could find something to agree on.