I Spent 7 Days Learning Lucio To See If DPS Lucio Is Still a Thing

My friend got flamed for having low healing on Mercy when their team was already winning handily. It's bizarre to me that people will still be toxic when they're not even struggling or losing, but especially frustrating when it involves them just utterly failing to understand what Lucio and Mercy bring to the table when they're choosing not to heal.

Plat lucio main here and all of what you said is so true, people are super toxic if you pick lucio. Even some Rein players get mad about low healing when I pick it, even though all their plays are supported by my speedboosts. I feel like it would help if people had a better indicator of when they receive (especially non-amped) speed boost because a lot of players don't notice the huge difference it makes. If your reaper hits a 5 man deathblossem with amped speed people will type "dps diff", and no one in the swrver even notices that without lucios speedboost it would be a 1v5 suicide mission.

As a Lucio main, I'm proud of you edit: As a Lucio main, I'm NOT proud of you

I love the storytelling you put into these videos, keep it up!

It's so unfortunate that sometimes in some metagames Lucio can go from the most fun hero to play to meh. I wish the devs leaned into the reddit Lucio playstyle more and try to keep it viable. It's absolutely the most fun way to play Overwatch imo, I've been a Lucio main for years. Recently though, I've been picking up Ball and WOW that has been so much fun too. Whenever reddit Lucio is falling out of style, I know I can play Ball and have a great time.

The combination of: -Tank passive nullifying boop -Worse maps -Nerfed self heal -One less tank to support and one less tank to deny -Genji/Tracer/Reaper etc falling out of favour. -Game slowing down after Brig and Bap were added Is why Lucio has gradually gone from the most fun highest impact character in the game to a fraction of that. He used to be best played as a frontliner who sometimes dives - now he can’t frontline and isn’t even as good at diving either.

i am currently a grandmaster lucio main and i agree with what you said at the end. Lucio just isn't as much fun as he used to be, but i still try and play as a reddit lucio and even though i may lose a lot of games doing it i still have a lot of fun bullying the enemy supports and dps

I can't upvote this series enough. Genuinely I think its the best OW2 content on youtube. Thank you so much for all of these. Its an inspiring and inviting idea. keep up the good work!

A tracer video(after the lifeweaver) would be probably be good because its hard to get free value from her A doomfist video would also be interesting

Voting for Sym as the next to learn! Doom is also really tempting, but I feel like there's a ton of nuance with Sym that would be a lot of fun to watch you go through (and tbh it might even be hard to do all that in just one week). Also a comment on the video's end, how Lucio currently is feeling... boring. It's a real bummer to hear that, but also a perfect match for what Eskay said in one of her own recent videos. Her and Frogger are two of the biggest names in Lucio gameplay, the crazy plays and the rollouts and all that, but Eskay herself said that right now, Lucio just... isn't fun to play for her. Hopefully in the future the devs can figure out some way to give Lucio some of his fun-ness back, though it's tough since it's not like he's been reworked or heavily nerfed; it's just that with the way OW2 and its meta works, he's lost his niche in that, I feel.

Interesting point of view. It's crazy once you really get to know the hero, it changes your perspective. If I feel bored of healing, I go on Lucio and have a bit of fun before changing back, but thats because I'm not godlike with him

Great content! I love your story telling and podcasts. I'm fairly new to Overwatch, got into it within the last year and a half of Overwatch 1 and I genuinely appreciate how in the podcasts you keep a level headed mentality. Not afraid to play devils advocate to keep many fresh perspectives. Amazing content man, love it!

As a plat/diamond tank, i love to see a lucio running around. Dont care if it sucks or not chaos is always good in my opinon.. and im ALWAYS pushing with the speed boost. Might be my fav support to play next to

I love this series and I hope you’re able to enjoy it despite all the crazy people in your games :) you’re really motivating me to try learning the heroes I‘m still unfamiliar with after all these years

The Lucio play style from ow1 to ow2 has changed so much. When ow2 first went live my Lucio dropped so much because I was used to running more of a reddit style dps Lucio but that style has just gotten so much harder in ow2. It's still doable but if the enemy team has a few counters to you you just have to be more of a heal and speed bot and run the game with good communication. As soon as I adjusted my play style I jumped right back to masters.

Top tier content as always. This is probably my favourite series you've ever done!

Great content SVB! Keep up the hard work my guy!

love these, I've liked and watched all these video types, pease keep em coming

Hey svb! I was in a twitch raid today, I hadn’t subscribed yet, but have seen your videos beforehand. I enjoyed this video, can’t wait to see more!

I would love to see you play Mercy solo queue and then you will know what true pain is (Suffer as I have) People always bitch about damage boost and Rez being "broken" but if you ever played the character you will realise it's impossible to carry 90% of games with Mercy.