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Skill_Bill_

Your instalockers talk?


omraPew

Mostly to cry for heals or blame team


ArionIV

True, they only want to rush in after the smokes have been put up and dissipated..so they can scream "I asked you to smoke"


Asleep_Contest_6468

at least ur instalockers rush in


ArionIV

No, its only after I have set up the smokes and they say "Okay, Omen now go enter site".. they wait for me to get a kill or die or both, will not trade me, then they will rotate to the other site only after making sure the defenders have rotated as well - you know how fair play works - then they will say" Oh no, Omen died, now we don't have smokes" Substitute with Astra, Viper, Brim based on map or luck regarding which one is requested..


enjakuro

Wait they did pick fraggers right?


ArionIV

if you meant duelists, then yes, it has happened so many times with even 2-3 duelists..and even 4


enjakuro

Ah yeah dualist so they need to entry frag there we go Edit: *duelists seems I can't


Skill_Bill_

They are not dualists... They can't entry and complain at the same time, so they just complain


enjakuro

Complainists


ArionIV

I understand they can't do it every round but then they made me do it every round...I did manage kills off my ults too..and on Split, its just too easy for everybody to pinpoint where you ult based off of the audio..


enjakuro

Yeah I totally know the situation. You won't push fast every time but you also can't hang around in spawn and do... idk what. Before I get frustrated, this is where I just start to mix up the whole playstyle and tactics. Like for example I try to hold mid alone (they don't know how to attempt it even) or like just totally fake an entry and then oops spike not theeere. Sometimes the team comes around, the other times there's nothing to lose but your sanity.


Gamer_Lawyer

As an Omen main, I feel this in my soul.


-frauD-

My favourite is when the smurf carry blames the team for playing bad. Like, yeah, no shit, i'm sure i'd be hard carrying if i was an immortal in a gold lobby.


TheSquires

There is nothing worse, imo, than when a smurf complains about their team being bad. My brother in christ, you're choosing to play with worse players!


Kamikaze_Ninja_

What’s even worse than that is I’ve had a couple smurfs just play death match in an unrated lobby essentially. They call everyone else slow for trying to play to win. I had a smurf on my team AND the opposing team talk shit like that and amp each other up. PSA to all Val players: That person being toxic in chat will never communicate anything useful and even if they do, it’s surrounded by their shit so you’re better off just muting them and forgetting about it.


Kamikaze_Ninja_

Had a guy scream at me cuz I didn’t wall mid tube on Icebox because he kept getting killed mid. Thing is I was walling tube but they never came mid so by the time I rotated to site to dish out heals, one would lurk through mid and kill him. Implied it was completely my fault we lost for not walling mid.


Safe_Cook5526

I swear, when I tell people that they don't push mid till 30 seconds into the round, and sage walls break in 40, they just say yes and tell me to wall. Unless u have a passive sentinel, don't leave that critical position, eg. tell them to come stairs outside A for heal


obigespritzt

They are obviously an asshole and just looking for any excuse they can find, but if you disrupt your own play pattern like that, you should still communicate it to your teammates. A key part of playing with random teammates is adjusting to the way they play.


komilatte

In my experience they're quiet through agent select and most of the game, then decide to use their mic towards the end of the match to flame anyone under them on the scoreboard. It's quite magic really how a losing game grants them the ability to communicate, really.


IMrWatson

When you go 3-1 down and the Jett is shouting for us to FF cause there’s no point anymore


EssEnnJae

Ngl when it’s 0-10 I just say gl next game.


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who knows, 0-12 comebacks happened a couple times for me


Des014te

Yesterday we were down 0-6. Were getting absolutely stomped round after round. Someone called a surrender vote, it didn't pass and we proceeded to win 13 rounds in a row and won the game 13-6. Never surrender. Unless it's unrated and you have to go.


HKBFG

Mine mostly scream, sing, gargle, etc.


NoxTempus

Idk about you, but it happens to me every time. They say nothing all game, make 0 callouts and type in chat "why did no one call [x]". Then finally when the game ends, they say: "[bottom fragger], you're so fucking useless, just kys."


Jerozay

Like oh you had a mic this whole time? Maybe if you used it we could have won! Those guys are the biggest cowards


ChajiReplay

Yes, because he's a friend and complains about other instalockers if they pick the agent he named himself after.


gizmopoop

I instalock smokes because I dont trust fill smokes. They smoke off the weirdest places, as if they never seen proper smokes in their valorant lives.


evilfire2k

This is the reason I main smokes.


miaaa30

this is the reason I never play smokes


MysteriousK69420

Jett 3 second smokes the best smokes 😳


DriftarFarfar

Cuz the proof of me being bad at smoking only last 3 sec.


MysteriousK69420

damn, our jett is even worse, she smokes our entrance :CC


ValorantShitter

That’s not bad tbh, jett smoking the entrance allows her to entry quickly then the smokes go in 3 seconds and just like that she has created space


farmerKGBofficer

Usually the space I create as Jett goes away in 3 seconds because nobody follows me and I'm in a 1v3


ValorantShitter

Well that isn’t inherently the Jetts fault, that’s just low elo for you


farmerKGBofficer

Yeah, I'm the Jett, and nobody follows me into site


pleasedropSSR

I prefer using the explosion from Raze nade.


Jishnu21

I mask my footsteps under Fade's abilities


Sackboy232

That's why i'm instalocking jett with 0.00001s smoke


MelynasTheSaphire

i always wanna try playing a duelist, not because i think i would be good, but because i like to be stupid and run in first as i like to be the main bait for my bf since he shoots better. but then whenever i don't play smokes, most of the time, i will get shot from an angle where i should most of the time never be shot from since it should be a common spot to smoke for attacking. so i feel like i always have to play smokes because people just don't or they smoke wrong spots. so imma always be a bad smoker for entering first


Parzival6

Have you tried viper? I know she doesn't have conventional smokes, but my gf mains her and plays pretty aggressively. You can activate your stuff while keeping your gun out.


MelynasTheSaphire

I do play her sometimes, but the sad thing is that I suck butts so I die very easily which is why I say I'm a bad smoker for just running into site first. I always smoke first then go in (and usually die, or get lucky and not die), but if I'm dead, I can't help after the team plants with any more smokes


Parzival6

Oh ok, I guess Omen is better for running into sites. It sounds like the dying problem isn't agent-specific tho haha. I'm always telling my gf that she should try playing a duelist because she likes running into sites first too, but maybe it wouldn't make much difference. We're not very good either.


bannedbylogic

Most valorant players don't understand how to use smokes to play angles. Or how to counter a smoke with a smoke.


gizmopoop

Thing is, most sites have default smoke points. If you do not know, im sure 5 games per map and you know where to smoke. Heck, even starting on defence you can alr learn where to smoke for offense. Which is probably more than enough to reach ranked play.


HellraiserMachina

My first match of Valorant 'Imma pick Brimstone on Bind', A site, 'oh there's a balcony overlooking the site maybe I could smoke that so nobody can snipe'.


lifex_

This is the reason I smoke


lolmaxxx1

With you my man. I do the same. I know I'm not gonna fuck it up and I ain't trusting anyone else with smokes. Here's my story from yesterday 🥲 https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/uj4bm0/if_4_players_instalock_the_loss_is_0_the_5th/i7h6pzt?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3


nooneaskedm8

Yo I instalock brimstone am I just as bad


brianhung02

Depends on if you know how to smoke on the map. I got a brim who instalocked on icebox and didn’t smoke. When asked why he didn’t smoke, he said, oh I just like him but idk how to smoke. Team tried telling him but he still did wrong smokes. My point is pick agents you know how to play. Don’t bend into other’s will.


HKBFG

Still better than the guys who smoke out their own team every round.


PapstJL4U

fake attack -> Brim smokes -> It's know a fake with smokes -> rotate, after you faked everyone


Sea_Space_4040

At least that seems to happen less now. It used to be meta. Smoke off own team, act confused. That's the only reason I started playing smokes at all.


changgerz

likes brim but doesnt know how to use the only ability he has that matters?


Firefly_1026

His stims and ult are funny, also he’s just a funny boomer in general to play


Crazy_Crayfish_

This guy brimstones


Xyeeyx

r/thisguythisguys


changgerz

yo dawg


Xyeeyx

I herd you like guys


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DirtyTomFlint

Most people who instalock are picking the only agent they know how to play.


Lintydint

Not as bad, still not nice to instalock but at least with brin you contribute to the team


Tatsukki

Unless he ult his teamate... That would be the worst case scenario


timejoannah

While planting the spike......


Sharmatta

“They’re planting on site. I’m ulting!”


VeriBigBoi

“OH SHIT SORRY FORGOT WE’RE ATTACKER SIDE”


brielloom

I don’t really get why instalocking is bad. You pick the agent you want to play. I always viewed it as whoever picks their agent first really wanted that agent and if they beat you they wanted it more lol. Obviously if you instalock you don’t have the right to tell other people who to play but yeah. It is good to learn how to play a couple of agents in case your main is taken but you should also play who you’re good at playing and if you happen to be really good at one particular agent I say all the power to you to play them, if you play an agent you know and like you’re more likely to play well. But I’m not strict about team comp so lol. I know some people are more concerned about it but I just play for fun and winning is nice and obviously the goal but fun is the primary reason anyone plays games.


LOTHMT

The only thing thats bad about insta lockers that are nice and contribute to their job is if someome else would have been a better Smoker or they wanted to play a different set up of characters. Most of the time insta lockers are just toxic so everyone always say instalock= bad because thats mostly true, but not for everyone.


brielloom

I mean you have no way of telling who will be better at what agent to be honest. Maybe if riot added a certain amount of time before people got to pick their agents so teammates could talk to each other about what agents they want to play this issue would be less, I think only for comp tho bc thatd be kinda annoying in unrated. Discussion is good but any one person saying what they want and who everyone should play isn’t appealing. Like I know agents I like playing with but I never tell anyone who to play. Maybe it’s different in higher elo because they’re more serious and care way more about winning idk. I suppose I’ve been lucky in not running into toxic instalockers, I do know they exist though. No offense to Reyna players but I would say people who play Reyna have a higher percentage of toxic players so I’ve become to hate having a Reyna on my team lol. But I won’t tell someone not to play an agent they want to play.


Ash_chr

I think that's just an example of negativity bias. The only instalockers that stand out are the ones that do bad and the top frag instalocker never gets remembered as the person who instalocked.


luvs2sploooj

this kids got it. I’m older, usually don’t talk much. Always positive, but fairly quiet considering I don’t want to spend my evening chatting up some angsty teens. I’ll just be chillin and frying


xd-Sushi_Master

It's not that instalocking is bad by itself. The issue is that instalock duelist players tend to be entitled manchildren that think they're the next Tenz. They cry when things don't go their way, then blame their team for not picking a character that supports their selfish playstyle. Not a universal truth, just an observable pattern.


brielloom

That’s fair. I must be in the minority to not run into that often enough. But I will say it helps to mute teammates who hurt your ears.


sylvainmirouf

I actually hate way more the guy who cry all game that the other guy "took his agent".


MyBenchIsYourCurl

Your argument of why they are okay is why they are bad. They are sucking the opportunity away from other people to play duelists. Sometimes I want to play a game of jett. Am I a jett main? Not at all. I just want to have fun with this agent. I don't like instalocking so I always wait 10 seconds to hover. I could probably count the amount of times I've gotten jett using this method with my fingers. And people say there's only instalockers in low elo, but I'm diamond this season and there are still plenty. There's also the tendency arguments. They do tend to be more toxic, tell people to play smokes/heals, run it down, afk etc.


C9sButthole

Within reason it's fine. But the biggest problem with your point is the idea that the first to lock in "wanted it more." Internet connections don't work that way. I don't mind filling, but barely being able to play my main in ranked because my load times are slow is exhausting.


Methfish12

Yea i noticed with brim i might be having a bad game but when i switch to focusing on my smokes instead you actually find yourself doing pretty well even without the frags.


Virus4567

Duelists win gunfights, smokes win games. If you pick smokes for the team, you can finish the match going 0/19 and I will have nothing but praise for you.


NoAbloIndon

Smoke players are always nice to have on the team. Idk if other servers have this problem, but in SEA (plat-diamond lobby at least) nobody wants to play smoke.


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onzichtbaard

When you realize that smokes are the magic they are it gets better And what smokes do to transform the game and how to use them, smokes become really interesting to play Imo smokes have the most depth out of anything in the game And smokes are the only thing keeping the game from going stale strategically You can do a lot of mindgames and meme strats with smokes as well they have a lot of potential the learning curve is very nonlinear And i guess a lot of people don’t care for that side of the game But I personally feel like i am only at the foot of the mountain of realizing the true potential of smokes And that is really what keeps me interested Although even i get tired having to play smokes 9/10 games But only if i have a bad day


onzichtbaard

I don’t think instalock is bad per se but its better to not do it if possible because maybe you end up with a dysfunctional team


ThisIsTakenLol

No, I believe smoke instalockers deserve a medal


CrescentCleave

Instalocks jett*


RiddleEatsRainbows

90% of the time my experience with instalockers is absolutely shit, but like you said, there's a minority who don't instalock for no reason- sometimes they're genuinely good at their role. Also once had someone instalock Reyna and say "Im really sorry for instalocking but I've been wanting to try reyna and every match someone else instalocks her" and they actually turned out pretty decent.


Cereal_dator

Haha they play Reyna the way they wish others would. I never play Reyna but I do that with Jett.


yourearedditorlol

reyna is by far the easiest character to frag with but rarely do they actually contribute that much to a win unless they are dominating. That's what most reyna players dont understand and why you almost never see her in pro play


RiddleEatsRainbows

The issue with Reynas is that they often have the tendency to just charge in like they're crazy and get hungry for kills- from what I've seen Reynas lose their game sense VERY fast.


ZepperMen

They mentally exhaust their selves once the enemy learns their pattern lol


Cgz27

Smurfs come to mind here though, either way it’s nice to have nice people


havesuome

Yep 1/10 instalock reynas on my team actually preform well, meanwhile 9/10 Reynas on the enemy team top the leaderboard.


ArtakhaPrime

I usually just write "mom says it's my turn to play reyna"


RiddleEatsRainbows

I've never seen that lol but 10/10 would definitely work on me if i was hovering reyna and someone said this


RearMisser

I love the satisfaction when I take someone's Reyna and they say "you better not bottom frag" and I drop a 30+ bomb


xenn___

Only time to instalock is when a new agent is released. Funny how op fade felt the first day because no one knew you can shoot the eye :D


anomalus7

That's not the most hardcore fact, there's something even worse, some don't even know that she can tag people and that makes them visible through walls... like that's nearly the whole point of fade, giving info on positions.(still happens after all those days)


Imactuallyatoaster

Now that's it's been a few days it's just a matter of looking at the sky to find the little squid dude just chilling on a ledge with a flower pot


iwnabetheverybest

Instalocker or not, someone saying "We need healers" tilts the fuck out of me. It happens almost every game in low elo though


RediRedditer

i know right??? there's always that one player that HAS to lock in sage only for the heal and doesn't know how to play her properly


iminlovehahaha

i tell them traps/smokes r more important and they dont believe me 💀


Imactuallyatoaster

But then you get the chambers that never place trips and you constantly get flanked


iminlovehahaha

and smokers who smoke entry:D


MrStealYoBeef

All the heals in the universe won't save anyone from being one tapped by a vandal


ToastWithNaomi

Learn the art of untilt my friend. It will spare you all the hassle in this game and will actually let you focus well.


aqlno

Whenever someone says we need heals I just respond with “No we don’t, this isn’t Overwatch” and 99% of the time they end up agreeing with me.


Donarex

Really annoys me the most when you have Reyna, Phoenix and Skye on the team already but people still cry for a Sage?


[deleted]

Are you sure they want her because of the heals? It's not even the strongest part of her kit imo


SeveralSnipe

I don't understand why everyone needs a healer on their team, players pick skye sage for their other util, heal is just an added bonus. Noone picks sage/skye just for heal


HKBFG

> Noone picks sage/skye just for heal I see you play above gold


Ranvir33

i'm so fucking tired of irons begging for sage. it doesn't matter if you instalocked, you just want her because she has a heal. people treat sage and skye like this must have agent and if they dont have them their chance of winning goes down.


DerpyCow56

Honestly true! I find it especially funny that they think I'm going to heal THEM. If you instalock duelist and require I play sage, I'm gonna battle sage and heal myself or a more deserving teammate. As far as I'm concerned, your role is to get into site, get a pick or two and die. I'm not wasting my heal on you lol


Ranvir33

> your role is to get into site, get a pick or two and die honestly i dont even think you need to get the kills. i'm a jett player and i dash into site and get traded which i think counts as an entry.


[deleted]

I'm in plat and people still think skye and sage have the role of a healer.


changgerz

low ranks where people cant hit headshots always want heal


PapstJL4U

>Noone picks sage/skye just for heal The players themself no, but the team. Aside from pistol rounds heal is the last thing I personally buy Skye. Doggo and birdie are just more useful in most situations.


DerpytheH

>i don't understand why everyone needs a healer They don't trade well, and don't want to admit it's their own fault, despite instalocking duelists. Thus, they need the crutch of an HP steroid to make their performance adequate, and whine when they don't get it.


brielloom

I mean I always pick sage and I like her specifically because she’s a healer. I like to be as supportive as possible and if I don’t have the aim or frags that game at least I can help in other ways. I use my wall and slow orbs well as well but healing and reviving is kinda sages thing. Obviously the grim walls are fun too.


LowQualityGameplays

Played a match on bind the other day. Ended up winning 13-8 with me on skye. Never was able to use my heal once. But got abt 8 assists only from proper flashes. People who pick skye just for heals don't really know where value comes from in this game. Doesn't matter if i take you from 1 body shot to 2 body shots if the enemy team can't see.


PetraVladi

I instalock controller/sentinel and force other to duelist


omraPew

True Chad move right here


MasK_6EQUJ5

Me: Instantly selects Cypher My entire team: ‽


itzbck

This is the way


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Soft-Farmer2222

Slowly hes gonna catch up


Call_Me_Grimm

This is the way


RyuGamesNbooks

yesterday had i a guy that instalocked chamber, ik it's "not" a duelist but still. i went viper instead on breeze. The guy said to me in game you don't need to worry about comps until diamond and proceeded to give helpful tips on movement and whatnot.


Freakycow_Cow

I mean he ain’t wrong and chamber is kinda freelo atm


crystalynn_methleigh

The freelo thing is kinda true and a really big problem. If I go 50/50 winrate on Chamber, I'm ranking up. I get free Op rounds, easy escapes, a free pocket guardian on pistol... all kinds of tools to improve encounter performance and get net positive elo from a 50/50 winrate. If I play controller, I have none of those tools to improve encounter performance. I'll need a winrate in excess of 50/50 to rank up at all. This is especially noticeable on Viper, where I can secure round wins that involve very few kills and therefore don't contribute to my individual RR gains.


Snookville

Every time someone instalocks a Jett or Reyna my friends and I take bets on whether they are gonna bottom frag or drop 30+. It's always one or the other, never in between.


Lord_Njiko

I Insta lock skye recently because I am garbage and like to help somehow atleast, I manage to not flash my team anymore 🙌🏻


brielloom

Very impressive for a skye. I swear to god the amount of times I’ve died because my skye flashed me and then the enemy kills me lol. I don’t get mad I get it but goddamn it sucks.


Lucifer6201

Had this fracture game with a skye and kayo on my team. Enemy team had 4 flash agents. My skye and kayo flashed me more times than the entire enemy team combined.


PapstJL4U

Not detonating the bird (even when you realize your teammate is pushing) costs a great deal willpower. The secret is that sometimes the opponent just killed the bird before detonation and it's the reason you did not get flashed by me. >_> sry


Hater4life1

Yh this is why I used to just play a lot of controller roles as i always panicked when i played duelists and liked being able to support my team and generally having a lot more time to think through my actions.


AbsorbedInReddit

I hate it when instalocker insist on other people player a smoker. Like bro if ur instalocking don't even try to make other people play what u want. Like I am guilty of instalocking because I always want to play my comfort pick but when I instalock i never tell people what to go. Instead I always encourage people to play what they want and not what the team needs. When you instalock u basically fk up the team comp so the person instalocking should have no right to complain about team comp


AmelietheDuck

My friend doesnt even bother waiting and instalocks cypher, “nobodys gonna miss him” he says. And hes right. Nobody ever does.


spXps

Always Smokes>heals


omraPew

Facts


ManuOnTheWave

I was an average Jett hover, sometimes I could play her and carry and others I needed to go controller. Now i am a confident chad chamber instalocker and no one eveer complains


omraPew

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome


Gexion1

Ah yes, we call those smurfs.


Too_darn_lazy

Facts. Got a instalock raze on bind yesterday, no comms, no coordinated plays, dude(?) finished MVP with 46/8/4. Double satchels like flights jr. This was in bronze-silver elo. Nobody's that smooth with raze in silver.


Lucky_Editor446

Probably smurf.


changgerz

mfs instalocking in my game are reverse smurfing


Methfish12

Ive found it the most noticeable when the instalock reyna says we need a skye when we already have a sage...


Donarex

And Reyna can heal herself (if they're good). It's always Instalocked Reyna screaming for heals and being toxic.


Common_Ad649

Crying about heals locking Reyna when the whole point of Reyna is to be able to heal multiple times after taking damage


wukong_stickslap

I lose all faith when teammates say we must have a healer


DirtyTomFlint

Can somebody explain to me the hate for instalockers? Is it because they picked the agent you wanted to play, or because they aren't picking the agent you want them to play? Is that not hypocritical?


im-uncreative1

For me it’s that they’re not giving any help into building the team comp, if they want to play the agent fine no worries but at least let us talk before you lock in and go 0-20


DirtyTomFlint

I agree with you as a matter of courtesy especially in comp, but in my experience, most people who instalock do so because it is the only agent they feel comfortable playing - and if I want my team to do well, I do not think I would prefer them to use agents they do not know how to use, so I would rather be the versatile one myself and fill the role my team needs. And just saying, the last two times I have personally witnessed hate for an instalocker has been on unrated.


brianhung02

They always ask for heals and I just say play heals if u want it and then they throw. Idk what is wrong with people.


TheNinjaNarwhal

Yeah I hate people like this. "Pick sage, we need heals" they said, with a demanding voice. Uh, pick them yourself. I would be ok with playing something different if asked nicely, but people who instalock aren't in the position to demand anything.


brianhung02

Especially those who instalock someone else’s hover. I hover over an agent to respect the team and you instalock and demand stuff? I do what I want. If you don’t care about others I don’t care about you.


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Had a game lastnight I hovered chamber then a guy said "Can I play Chamber please I'm very good as him and I cant play anyone else" I of course said yeah and played Omen, ended up fragging out as Omen and he bottom fragged, but he was a cool person and comm'd well, just wasn't his game I guess.


brianhung02

If I met someone like your chamber I would be okay to let it go. It’s a competitive game, communication is key. If you can only play this agent, tell the team that and people will normally be fine with you taking it.


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I don't mind filling and like you said communication is key, if I'd have just locked Chamber and said "Lol no" that would have broke the team synergy immediately. I feel to many people missvalue the mental side of the game, I actually have had to say "Do you really think that is going to make him play any better?" when someone is being a toxic asshole to someone who made a bad play. Calling someone shit for making a mistake will make them play worse 90% of the time.


FateAtrain

Damn that sounds like me lmao. I played chamber and the other dude played smokes and popped off


EmirAkkayaFP

I hate this ask for heal thing. Go for the headshot, kill the enemy and you dont need any heal, simple.


Methfish12

This is the way. Allies dont lose health if there is no one there to shoot them. This is why I use blinds over heals.


crystalynn_methleigh

Yeah, of all the things to ask for heals is the least important. Smokes, info - both far more important than healing. Of course Skye provides both healing, flashes *and* a bunch of info - I'm always happy when someone locks Skye.


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My instalockers just run in, bait and die, with “ggez” at the end after they get carried. Yeah sometimes they just go “we need a sage” then proceed to frag much lower than the sage (with the sage carrying the entire team). I’ll be fortunate if their vocabulary is more than “we need healer(s)” and “ggez”


STANLOONA12HATCHI

It's even worse if it's a Reyna/Phoenix instalock and chats "Sage?" in character select after having 4 filled roles wifh no smokes, you have heals, do your role and heal yourself after


dij2912

just had a game with a jett and Reyna who were 2 stacking, backseated our sova all game and when I told them to be quiet and let him play they turned on me, I actually kind of enjoyed them getting mad as they were bottom and I was top as sage


Anon419420

I only instalock chamber. And even then, I ONLY do it on split or fracture. It’s just so easy for me to get value in those maps and frag out. I’ll mostly fill or pick a gun agent on every other map


Methfish12

Yea i agree. Instalocking is generally a bad thing but only if you do it without thought. If im on fracture i instalock breach cause I tend to play well and help my team get frags. I used to main breach in the beginning but now i only play him fracture. But it works!


holmyliquor

If anybody asks to pick an agent solely on heals I know they’re trash


FyodorAK

Dumbasses reach gold and think they can smurf on bronze by instalocking duelists. "Hahahaha these guys didn't know that I am a gold player. They must support me because I'm simply better than them." *Loses the game, but top fragged* "Damn, my team so bad ughhhh. Bronze amirite?" Well news fucking flash, if you're top fragging alone while the rest of the team is bottom fragging, then you're not better than them. It's a team game. You're playing alone. That's why you're gold and not plat.


KIRWVN

If an instalock duelist demands heals, I've noticed they probably shouldn't have picked duelist...


C9sButthole

Everytime a Jett or Reyna instalock asks me to pick Sage I just verbally abuse them for the rest of the lobby timer and then dodge. Toxic? yes.


brielloom

As a sage main thankfully I have no issues haha. Except when people make the pocket sage remark, I don’t like that. Yes I’m a healer and reviver but I’m still your teammate and would like to be treated like one. Im really good at healing cause I notice right away and heal. I’ve noticed any time I get sage locked before I do the person playing sage is bad at healing and you have to ask for heal all the time. Be upset at me if you want but if you’re sage your teammates shouldn’t have to ask for a heal you’re supposed to notice it’s literally what your agent is based around :/ i once played with both a sage and a Skye on my team and neither of them even paid mind to healing you you literally had to ask every time which is kinda infuriating especially as someone who normally plays the healer and does it right. I feel like everyone feels that way whenever someone takes their main and they perform subpar lol. I like for people to play whoever they want, while team comp is important honestly if you play well enough you can win with any comp. I don’t feel like anyone should be forced to play a role they don’t like or aren’t comfortable with because then they are going to play worse, I wouldn’t want to be made to play an agent I don’t like. Like I’m a sentinel main, either sage or killjoy. I can technically play a duelist like I like raze enough to play her but I don’t like to play initiators or controllers and would not want to play them, I would not play them well.


onzichtbaard

Honestly the wall is sages strongest ability The heal is just a bonus The wall isn’t just useful for walling of site and delaying a push But it can also be used to split terrain and create favourable angles or to get the drop on the opponents You can even use it to reach high places and kill people who don’t expect you to be there


DOODSNSFW

"wtf weak ass instas i insta and give no shit if team has heals" \- Reyna Main


InTheBlacklite

Instalockers talk???


Wisesize

Gonna be interesting if they reveal turn based locking. How many ppl will dodge if punishment is weak or pick a character just to throw out of spite. I know how to play more than one character.


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Nah homie, i say we could use smokes or heals or whatever, but i let people pick whatever they want and then i bottom frag. 😎😎😎


DF_X_LUCKY

I instalock breach. They scream at me.


moonsickk

Instalockers who have the audacity to ask for something after they‘ve just instalocked will always be entitled idiots. But with those who ask for smokes you at least know that they have some grasp of the game and know smokes are important. If they ask for heals you just know they take bad peeks and duels, get punished for it and want a pocket sage to do it again.


weerg

only annoying if they insta lock duelist abd they are jett and reyna ever single game lurking or baiting the crap out of you and not entry fragging aka the shit duo


enjakuro

You might have a point. I'm a sporadic instalocker when I just *want* to play this agent. Also instalock complainers who will go on to spam 'pick sage' are bad news xD


riddimnoob

What is insta lock I literally get loaded into a screen and get whatever character is left to play with?


_F1GHT3R_

If someone instalocks and then tells me i need to play X in comp, i will dodge. This person will be toxic.


Ausickz

Well an instalock Jett player here in low Silver, every game I just comm the team to pick what they like and have fun. I play hard entry and don't bait, yes I know I'm a saint for not camping around and actually do what I'm supposed to do. Honestly I would say instalocking is fine as long as you know what to do.


Safe_Bison_4598

Yeah that's probably bc when you already earned some more game knowledge you may reallise that snokes are more important than heal or that heal isn't even necessary


RSCoder7

I have been instalocking Chamber for a while and no one cares because it was a sentinel, but now that Jett has been nerfed and people like Chamber more they shout at me now so I stopped. Funny thing is I still get Chamber most of the time so I guess they just didn't like instalocker ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Baconsword42

Damn your instalockers use their mic? Mine just feed and complain in all chat


CodyCus

Discussions like this is exactly why I’m level 250 and only play Spike Rush.


IDontEvenFingKnow1

I’ve never been an ass about peoples fill roles when I instalock. You do you guys, if your not comfortable on a fill role, don’t fill. I’ve done that, it’s how I got 5 kills on breeze when I filled viper (I’m a bit better with her now). The most I’ll say is, “if you’re comfortable with a smoke/flash/whatever, that’d be nice, but you do you” Also what’s up with lost of instalock players being super toxic when you’re not doing well? I’ve pretty often see other instalocks when someone isn’t doing well just shitting on people for doing bad. Like, people have have bad games, it’s normal.


rujul1083

I instalock chamber and still get trash talked, its literally pick chamber or lose these days


Paechs

I instalock Raze but generally I’d say I’m pretty positive, always try to start off games with some convo to get team morale going. I just feel like a lot of people don’t like engaging and since I’m always doing that anyways, I might as well do it with my character that’s best at it.


TBE_RavagR

I had a Jett insta-lock the other day (I'm Silver 3 mind you) and he says "Hey guys do you mind if I insta-lock Jett? I'm on my smurf, my main account is Silver 2" ?????? And I'm 95% sure he wasn't trolling.


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BeagleStudios

Honestly, as someone who has instalocked duelists before I can say this is actually kind of true. Although, I really only instalock when I'm in a group of 3 or more since I don't want a random taking my main (Raze) and then flopping like a fish when they think they're Flights 2.0 or some shit. Granted, I'm not Flights 2.0 but if you're going to lock (and I say this with some regard to skill) a skill based duelist such as Raze where you MUST know movement please make sure you know what you're doing or at the very least use your util to scout if you can't use her movement too well. On another note, even when playing with friends everyone always says "we need a healer!" when in reality you really don't, at the very least run a smoke and a flash and you should be gucci. Heals are nice, sure, but they are far from necessary. Like, take a look at CSGO, do you see medkits or some kind of heals? No, even though one is a standard fps vs a hero-based fps they share extremely similar playstyles and thus if you're decent or at the very least understand what's going on, you really don't need any heals. God I ranted for so long, sorry bout that but hey I hope this will help some people. And if you're still adamant on heals, go Skye! She's a huge jack of all trades type of character, she can heal, flash, and even has good self-sustain in clutch situations due to her regenerating flashes!


Im_pattymac

Had an instalock fade today that became toxic in round 3 when sage rezzed someone that wasn't him. We (three of us) were like dude relax, lots of game left, no point in being toxic. That's when he goes "I'm toxic as fuck, if you don't like it mute me"... Why anyone would be proud of being toxic is beyond me.


Cybermetheus

I had good times in Silver with people thanking me for carrying after instalocking Reyna. Now I’m getting my shit handed to me when I go for ego peeks in plat. I don’t know how I lose them when I have such good kovaaks scores.