Players Say Support Is “The Hardest Role” In Overwatch 2 – Share Valuable Tips For More Wins

With the release of Overwatch 2’s Free2Play multiplayer, tens of thousands of players have found themselves in the hero shooter. However, the changes make one task particularly tricky: healing. Fans explain why they now have a harder time as a healer and what you can do as teammates to ensure victory.

This is different now:

• Overwatch 2, the sequel to Blizzard’s hero shooter, was released on October 4th. One of the biggest changes was reducing the team size from 6 to 5.
• The adjustment eliminated one tank per team – a reason why Overwatch 2 MeinMMO editor Benedict Grothaus was so enthusiastic.
• The change provides more action in the rounds, but also means that healers now have an even harder time than before.

What exactly makes healing so difficult? With each team only having one tank, there is no protection for the group. Healers become the target of enemy DPS players more quickly, after all they are the reason why nobody dies at best.

In a big one thread on reddit players respond to this. They say healing is now the hardest role in the whole game. There’s a lot of praise for Overwatch 2’s gameplay, but hardly anyone wants to play support anymore.

Supports, i.e. heroes like Mercy or the new Kiriko, provide healing, bring defensive abilities with them or strengthen the attack of their fellow players. So you support the entire team to be victorious.

However, the players now note: “I see myself constantly calling for help or having problems healing because everyone is scattered everywhere.” This applies not only to opponents who affect them, but also to

Check out our Tier List for Overwatch 2 for the best healers, DPS heroes, and tanks. You can see the new supporter Kiriko here in the gameplay trailer:

“If you overdo it, you will die”

These are the tips: The thread received over 9,300 upvotes and over 2,800 comments within a few hours. There the players talk about ways to make it easier for healers and a victory more likely.

The biggest criticism that many users agree: DPS players are wrong. It’s called. “It really bothers me that the DPS keep jumping in with no line of sight to the healer and then complaining about not getting a heal.”

You have to get used to the new, faster way of playing and remember that healers can’t heal you everywhere or there are tanks that protect you. In another thread the user TallAfternoon2 goes deeper into the topic:

Your healers aren’t shit. You have bad positioning and attention. This game is not an MMO. Even if you’re a Tang and both supports heal you perfectly, you can still die. If you overdo it and lose sight of the healers, you will die.

You can have two top 500 suppots that play perfectly and you can still die. Stop being whiny losers and take responsibility for your deaths – or stay in gold/platinum forever.

In the “new Overwatch” you die much faster than before. You have to pay attention to that and even if the tips may sound obvious, it should help to simply pay more attention to your own team.

We noticed something similar in our rounds in Overwatch 2. MeinMMO editor Benedict Grothaus is mainly support himself and often gets into situations where DPS players with low life points tend to hide behind edges instead of showing themselves to the healer.

Another big change from Overwatch 2 is the elimination of an entire game mode. Cards on which there were 2 points to capture have disappeared completely – but may come back:

Many maps are missing in Overwatch 2 – where did Hanamura and Volskaya go?