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nine16s

I wish competitive and casual matches were more differentiated so normal 5v5 and 6v6 wasn't the main way for Drives and competitive players to warm up.

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It's kind of annoying as a non-competitive player how the game inevitably gets sweatier even outside of ranked once Drives start. Why are the casual game modes the ones that have to be where the entire pool of comp players, fair weather and hardcore, practice and warm up when looking to play a full match?

I'm not expecting to go into casual and find lobbies of a bunch of people messing around and not trying, but if I'm trying to learn a new character in casual with the more relaxed SBMM system, it's kind of annoying when all of a sudden there's a Masters 3 DPS switching to their main after I kill them and instantly hard-countering me, while the SBMM gave me a Silver 1 Doomfist as a tank. Where are the casual playlists when ranked players warming up treat casual games like pseudo-ranked lobbies and everybody has to try their hardest?

Posted Apr 10, 2026, 12:58 AM UTC

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