What is YOUR optimal group setup?

[xChurch]

Offense would have to be: Reinhardt, Roadhog, S76, Tracer/Genji, Lucio, Pharah.

For Defense: Reinhardt, Mei, Junkrat, Lucio, Tracer/Genji, WM/Hanzo.

[FurryRedVixen]

I enjoy Roadhog alot more then i should, with 70+ hook accuracy, its super fun to be that annoying slab of bacon. I tend to play him as a flanker/pressure then a tank, as he folds hard. As a flanker he can disrupt hard on some good duck and dive maps like kings row and hanamura post objective A, and ilios hes just fun as hell to play, though problematic on ruins as its kind of open. Phara is also a go to i do when they like to bunker using peakaboo missles and splash dmg to hurt those who are in hardened positions.

Road hog works best when you have a reign hard and a 76 to have a good hard pressure point so he can flank and yank. I so enjoy on temple pulling reins out of shield from the sides there.

[Kalmakk]

Pre McCree nerf

Defense:
Reinhardt
Mercy
McCreex2 (or 1 Junkrat)
Lucio
WM

Offense:
Reinhardt
Mercy
Lucio
McCree
Genji
WM


Post McCree nerf

Defense:
Reinhardt
Mercy
Lucio (or Symmetra)
Junkrat
WM
McCree

Offense:
Junkrat
Mercy (mostly for res)
Genjix2
WM
Reinhardt

Throw in a scientist whenever you need to contest a point or remove a superior WM

[Drunkenfinn]

Not sure how optimal it is, but I really like this one:

Zenyatta
Lucio
Reinhardt or Winston
Zarya, D.Va or Roadhog
Widowmaker or Hanzo

+ Whichever DPS you want (McCree/Genji/Tracer/76)

Works really great on most maps, but especially on offence while taking points since you can use Lucio + Zenyatta ultis back-to-back to stay pretty much unkillable for quite a while.

And while you have two healers, they both do some damage (Zeny actually does really good damage if you're good at him). Lucio gives the AoE heals while Zenyatta has the targeted heals covered.

One main-tank (Winston or Reinhardt) with one off-tank that does decent damage (Zarya does incredible damage if you're good at juggling her shields).

[Cairhiin]

Depends a lot on the map, but in general:

Defense
Reinhardt
Lucio
Junkrat
Symmetra
Widowmaker
McCree

Offense
Reinhardt
Zarya/Winston/Roadhog
Lucio
Mercy
Phara
Genji

[Naxere]

Mercy, Reinhardt, Pharah, Lucio, Tracer, Widowmaker

[Varaben]

hellu

I was wondering what you guys feel is the best setup for any situation?

Mine is 1 sniper, 2 tanks, 2 offence and 1 support.

Sniper is widow, hanzo is just too weak compared to her (good vs good)
tanks are 1 reinhardt and 1 random one , I prefer roadhog for def and d.va for att but all tanks are pretty good.
offence at least 1 genji and 1 random, I prefer reaper for att and mccree for def.
support - mercy for def and lucio for att

Thats my optimal team at least and I'm fairly sure everybody has their own preference and reasoning for it

It certainly depends on the map of course, but I'm finding Widowmaker to be less than great on attack games. You can help push by clearing a path, but in a lot of cases, I simply have to get too close to make a difference and when you're close, you're dead. I think on Anubis it's good for sure, but I'm trying to stick with one hero at a time to practice and it's hard when half the games are attack games and I don't feel super useful as WM.

I haven't played enough to know what my optimal group is. Clearly having a mix of offense, tanking, and support is important, but I don't even know all the heroes names lol.

[Speedlance]

It certainly depends on the map of course, but I'm finding Widowmaker to be less than great on attack games. You can help push by clearing a path, but in a lot of cases, I simply have to get too close to make a difference and when you're close, you're dead. I think on Anubis it's good for sure, but I'm trying to stick with one hero at a time to practice and it's hard when half the games are attack games and I don't feel super useful as WM.

I haven't played enough to know what my optimal group is. Clearly having a mix of offense, tanking, and support is important, but I don't even know all the heroes names lol.

Most people will camp as a widow, but that will only satisfy a high KPD nothing else. I play aggressive, you will see me near payload, ahead of the group sniping incomings, my main goal is to kill supports and other snipers.

[Adam Jensen]

Five Torbjorns for maximum trolling

[zephid]

There is no such thing as an optimal setup for any situation. What's best depends on the map (and it can change based on what part of the map you are currently pushing/defending) and what your opposing team is playing.

[Speedlance]

There is no such thing as an optimal setup for any situation. What's best depends on the map (and it can change based on what part of the map you are currently pushing/defending) and what your opposing team is playing.

Currently, you can pretty much switch chars everytime you want, so if both teams would repick to counter the enemies you'd be switching out chars everytime you die. So you're better of playing something you know how to play.

In ranked when it comes, most likely this will matter more, where you won't be able to stack classes, you will see what the enemy team picked and there will be a certain amount of bans.

[Trollfat]

I've played several games with 5 or 6 torbjorns on capture Defense. Won every game.

[Mormolyce]

There isn't one. Comp should be an evolving and situational thing, and it also depends on what the players on your team are good at.

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Currently, you can pretty much switch chars everytime you want, so if both teams would repick to counter the enemies you'd be switching out chars everytime you die. So you're better of playing something you know how to play.

In ranked when it comes, most likely this will matter more, where you won't be able to stack classes, you will see what the enemy team picked and there will be a certain amount of bans.

I haven't heard anything about bans. Do you mean tournament specific rules?

[Darththeo]

There is no ideal for me ... some maps favor different set up. For example, I don't really like tanks on defense against a payload .. I prefer defense characters. Each map feels there is no ideal standard make up for.

[Justin-Sane]

Soldier 76
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We're all soldiers now!

[Varaben]

Most people will camp as a widow, but that will only satisfy a high KPD nothing else. I play aggressive, you will see me near payload, ahead of the group sniping incomings, my main goal is to kill supports and other snipers.

I try to play aggressive too, but I always tend to get killed like that. One thing I've learned is you have to keep moving around. If you camp for more than a minute or two, some tracer or another sniper will get annoyed and come get you. I think I'm typically more successful if I find a spot where I have a narrow field of view and can just pop people as they show up, like pointing at an entryway or a staircase that people use a lot.

Aggressive as WM is interesting though; as a sniper, it seems like thematically you would want to camp out somewhere high, but with the bullet trails, you give yourself away, not to mention the kill cam.

[Deleted]

6 Torbjorns.

My man.

/10 char

[Woobels]

Depends on map.

Payload offense I always like having atleast Mercy/Lucio/Reinhardt/some form of control for Widowmaker/good offense.

I've posted earlier I love 2x Winston/2x Lucio/2x Tracer/McCree or one of each on koth.

Control I'm not sure, Zarya and heroes with strong ultimates are good for attacking because you an snowball a win really quickly if you catch point A with ults up.

Also I've never heard anything about bans, current unofficial tournaments are messing with rules to see what they like so things like one hero limit pop up, this wasn't a thing in the beta when they tested ranked.

Certain maps are basically always banned in those tournaments too (Control, Illios, etc) but I think those are in ranked too but I could see a veto-system for maps happen, but it's unlikely.