@@nailinthefashion they would never do that as it would actually force them to make quick balance changes. Since a few characters would litteraly never be in games
I stand with Fitzy. HERO BANS NOW! One-shots and Mercy pocket are ruining the game. Force open the profiles and let each team ban one hero per role. Game fixed.
Just to note on 10:26 - It doesn't matter if you use Life Grip before or after the pulse bomb sticks, it can still explode other targets while it's active. Life grip only prevents damage for the target, and doesn't act like a Zarya bubble like many people think.The life grip also ended before the pulse went off, so the Brigitte also died
it was an unlucky timing. If tracer would place the bomb before Eskay pulled the torb, the bomb would blow up in the air, not killing anyone, bc Brigitte would be out of the range.
Honestly as a tank player lifeweaver is cool. It allows me to do REALLY stupid shit that would 100% kill me without lifeweaver such as pressing shift as rein into enemy team pinning someone and getting pulled out.
Wasting a grip on “stupid shit” when it doesn’t even always have a chance to pay off. Then the enemy wifeleaver grips ur pin and you get Ana slept into a solo death blossom
@@stygian9381 and you get pulled out consequence-free, and the enemy team is malding. Because that's why lifeweaver is awesome. did you not read your own comment?
No I’d rather pull my teammate out of a certain death after the enemy spends cooldowns and not my teammate. Also not going to have pull every time for the rein too perfect of a scenario
I have always said as an anna main... i cant heal bad positioning... Now i just swap to lifeweaver and play a new game called herding cats. It rarely works as cats tend to run away the moment i look away. BTW the platform should come back down if no one is on it.
it not auto breaking could be used to your advantage. Theres been times where im in a hallway or place with a door nearby and theres someone whos chasing me and i can set it down in the doorway, walk over it to trigger it and than it'll be stuck floating halfway in the doorway blocking the person from chasing me. Pretty helpful to use as a bit of an obstacle if in tight corridors sometimes 👍
@@G03LIN fitzy showed this hysterically on havana first week, and eskay was already doing it in the preview matches on eichenwalde. Its hysterical tech
From my experience as a dps, I get killed by grip waaay more often than saved by it. It's incredibly common for lifeweaver who screwed up _their_ position and ended up with a tank in their face to pull you in a "cOmE hElP yOUr SuPpOrT" way. So we both die. It's not even low ELO. Bottom Masters rank. I hate the fact that there isn't a prompt on the screen that would let you cancel being gripped In the meantime, they should rename it into Deathgrip
@@chewyschannel2429 idk about that. Even if they tunnel vision he has big heal output at range and can protect himself from dive, particularly in lower ranks where people have trouble hitting a genji. Plus he's not a scoped in ana or a zen or bap hard focusing damage. Its harder to not see the crit health markers pop up when he's probably incredibly low maintenance in the metal ranks. I mean even if you only use petal for yourself, spam heal your tank, and pull your tank out of getting ulted down, you'll probably have more impact than an ana that can't hit an anti nade or a sleep and never prioritizes damage. People are just still learning him, even still unlocking him i'd imagine.
@@chewyschannel2429 as a silver-gold support, i’m definitely not going to play lifeweaver in comp. i main mercy, and i’d say i do pretty well but of course i have a lot of time to improve. hope i don’t get lifeweaver throwers in my ranked games… i may need to duo with a second support just to ensure i don’t get that
He is like Lucio, if your team doesn't use your utility then he feels gross so in lower ranks you have to know how to use your own utility selfishly, like DPS Lucio for example
This is true, but he is also like Lucio in terms of you actually have to be quite good at the game to play him even decently. Lucio and Lifeweaver in the wrong hands are 100% troll picks.
Hero looks like a ton of fun to play on the conditions that your teammates are rational and you have the positioning sense of one of the top players in the game! Sadly my experience in overwatch was that I had neither of those lol
why do you guys overthink your positioning? you dont need to be a top 500 player to realize where you should be during your team fights, especially if you’re lifeweaver.
I just quit lol. Dont care how much of a god youre with lifeweaver, any other support is far superior and yields way more value than LW . He just has the ally suck going for him.
The amount of kills I've gotten as Ana cause Lifeweaver game me a sniper perch somewhere ridiculous Ana shouldn't be is insane. I don't think he's too strong right now but when you coordinate with someone and it works, it works. Also, how are you already so good at him, Eskay?! It's unfair but we love a multitalented queen! ❤
I'm calling it now, once Lifeweaver gets some adjustments, he's going to cause some big changes to team comps. The fact that he can pull friendlies out of a fight makes it possible to play far more aggressive on heros that normally wouldn't be able to due to their lack of mobility. I think Rein is going to be a good combo with him. Rein can win up close against just about anyone but he doesn't have any escape if he ends up in too deep. Lifeweaver fills that niche. Melee loving Brigs as well. I also think Mei will be a good choice with the changes coming to her spray fire mode incentivizing close range play.
I literally had a Doomfist straight up walk in to the enemy frontline using ZERO abilities every fight because I chose lifeweaver. They said they throw every game they get a lifeweaver in. There was a lifeweaver on the other team too so it's extra stupid.
hey eskay dont know if youve already seen or heard about this, and idk if ull read this comment, but you can curve lifeweaver's heals around barriers! xD! ex. at 7:46 if you flicked to the right at the last second while healing sigma, it would've gone around the monkey bubble! again, dont know who will see this but if you dont know now u do! :)
What’s the benefit of the old controls, by the way? Being able to dash without jumping is one I can see, but outside of that the weapon switching is clunky and it’s a bit confusing having platform on m2, so…
Platform quality of life buff: platform goes down if there’s nothing on it and it turns into an elevator for 10 seconds once first touched. That way people aren’t wasting platforms by barely walking over them which seems to happen all the time
tank asked my friend to switch off lifeweaver and said he was throwing so "he would too" and stood still as doomfist just shooting at the enemy with knuckle gun
Just want to ask. Does anyone understand why Soldiers stay on high ground for ages, then as soon as they pop visor, they instantly just jump off high ground?
Unrelated but the rank system still frustrates me, I want SR to come back. I recently won 5 games, lost 12, tied 1, and left 2 games and yet I ranked up one rank. On the other hand RIGHT AFTER THAT I won and lost 5 games each and I DERANKED 2 TIERS 😓
I was so happy the other day, I'm a hardstuck bronze who loves playing lifeweaver and i get constantly called "the best lifeweaver" because of my gamesense. I think lifeweavers kit is so interesting and fun to use.
@@The0nlyy yeah i love playing overwatch, i enjoy the characters, the gameplay, the community, but i just wish i was rewarded in comp for the work i put in LOL.
Lifeweaver isn't bad. He's not perfect but he's usable if you have good game sense and if you don't panic grip people. So many times I've had lifeweavers when I'm on DPS panic grip me as echo when I go in for the beam kill on a nearly dead squishy or about to drop my ult and they think I'm in some mortal danger at full health and no chip damage whatsoever.
The legit clutch grips are almost too jarring sometimes, haha. I'll be in a life and death situation knowing I'm pretty much done for but frantically trying to get a kill or maybe escape, and then suddenly everything turns pink and I'm rapidly flying away from my would-be end.
one thing folks dont talk about as much with LW is the hand fatigue with hold to charge. I dont like the alternative option either though It feels clunky. not sure how to fix though, maybe make it automatically charge blossom at all times? I dunno.
@@The0nlyy not really, folks shouldn't really be holding it anyways right? and if no one needs heals, they should be firing thorns so button press to charge is a little pointless. the slow would still kick in 1 second after the charge if you hold it but thats the same as it is now.
i really wished there was an option to keep old dash without having to keep manual switching on as a pc player i have loads of buttons to make the abilities so locking a better version of the dash behind manual switching just because controllers dont have many buttons seems really annoying to me
@@ReaveIdono the new control scheme for lifeweaver is way better now dont get me wrong, i just hope we get the option in the future to turn on old dash with automatic switching instead of having to use old dash with manual switching
@@bloom2586 It's not though. You can't dash inside of Ravenous Vortex because he can'tjump off the ground. You can't gain extra distance on dash by holding jump either. It overall hampers your ability to play LifeWeaver.
@@ReaveIdono yeah thats what im saying?? thats why i want the option to keep that version of the dash while keeping automatic switching which is more comfortable in my opinion, because currently you can only use the old version of dash when you use the old controls and cant use it with the new primary and secondary fire system they added
The people who will be whining at me to switch lw are the same people that whine at me to switch ball. ball is life and lifeweavers balls are 2? idk where im going with this I just play a hamster in an fps
A "top 500 on my other acc" tank in plat would not stop crying about me swapping off Lifeweaver even though my heal stats were > any other support in the lobby + I had the least deaths. At the same time the "top 500 on my other acc" did not push point once the entire round 😢
im only gold bu i was playing life weaver and some guy on my team was like "swap off life weaver please" and i didnt and then second round he was like "nevermind stay as life weaver" since i was doing so good 😭might not matter much since im literally gold but thought of it when i saw the intro
Life weaver can not dash while in Ravenous vortex with the new control scheme :( Maybe they should add another dash input that works when pressed regardless. Or an option go not have dash as double jump without manual control scheme
