Um, I never saw anyone carry a team in Dust. Overwatch, however, there's Pharmercy.

You seem to make a good point. But just to remind you that team composition isn't always needed. A few players from the Overwatch community said (though it's extremely rare) they were in a match where their team was so off-meta with a team composition that looked pre-destined to fail from the start but they managed to stomp the opposing team because they knew what they were doing and were coordinating effectively. It's one of those things that are often ignored because there are just way too many players who are not like them and thus people tend to assume that any random player they solo-queue with in competitive doesn't know what they are doing even if they invested over 40 hours with that particular hero.

This is very similar to how we generally looked at blueberries in Dust 514 and, in some indirect way, made it feel like Overwatch had a character leveling system. That leveling system was your actual experience-based skill. From the very beginning you are a blueberry in Overwatch and you will go through a lot of rough times trying to get a handle on your hero. But over time you get better and better at using that hero and start developing strategies around it. From play to counter-play which is something the Overwatch community doesn't seem to fully understand.

The vast majority of the community thinks teamwork, adapting or countering strictly means "switch your hero." When in reality it's much more than that. When you look at Junkrat vs Pharah you think Pharah wins hands down but people ignore the fact that Pharah is absolute crap inside confined spaces which is where Junkrat thrives. A skilled Junkrat can lure Pharah into those situations. To make this more effective, Junkrat can pair up with other heroes to cover each other's weakness. For example: Winston can hard counter Symmetra and Hanzo. But when Symmetra and Hanzo work together, Winston is as dead as Harambe especially when taking advantage of the limitations of Winston's Tesla Canon and bubble shield.

All of this is called counter-play. Where you use the environment and using what the rest of your team has to offer to overcome the disadvantages that you have. Overwatch players in Grandmaster understand this. I have seen godly Genjis and Hanzos (Seagull), Widowmakers so skilled you'd think Deadshot was playing her, Attack Torbjorns and Junkrats that can get under your skin so much you go full tilt, Bastion players can make the Terminator proud.

Unfortunately, such skilled players are only welcomed in Grandmaster. Drop below that and you become accused of throwing just for picking a specific hero (actual skills be damned). And believe me I have encountered players online who just didn't give a **** how many hours I invested in my main. He was just bad mouthing me from the beginning of the match and to the end. We could have won that match has he focused all that energy on actually trying to win and working with what's available in the team. But no. He just wasted his time and energy telling me how much I sucked and how I will be reported to Blizzard for throwing which brings me to the biggest irony in Competitive Overwatch.

People accuse mains or one-tricks of throwing the match in competitive just for picking a specific hero even though most mains and one-tricks try to win, but then those same people go on comms and say "That's it! If that Widowmaker doesn't switch, I'm going to switch to Junkrat and jump off the cliff the rest of this match! Screw you! We all lost anyways!"

<.<

There I am.

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/career/pc/us/GrumpyKitten-115526

SR 1158

Ranked in Overwatch PC become more serious around plat/diamond, don't expect too much about your team before that.

This.

https://www.overbuff.com/players/psn/DeadlyAztec11?mode=competitive

Yo, SR 4182 right here.

Things won't get much better the higher you go. There will be more people that understand how to play, but cooperation never really becomes standard.

Good joke, the only reason why teamplay is better at GM is that we usually know how to play. Except fo the one trick ponys which i despite. Espacially mercy mains are basically SR leechers.

Oh btw:
https://www.overbuff.com/players/psn/Dark-Cloud666?mode=competitive