I ran into a few, what I would consider cheesy comps in ranked last night. That is, one match of 5 engis and one match of 5 mesmers. I know I can play those comps as well if I wanted, but I had always figured that it doesn’t necessarily dictate success and sometimes your team falls apart anyway…but other times I feel so helpless vs them.
But I know they lose matches too, so I’m trying to figure out the best ways to handle them. Lots of times it depends on the map, and of course, your own comp. But what are your tips for handling these types of matchups? The main issues with the engis were us being unable to take and hold our points well enough, and overall just fighting a lot of tough guys who were hard to take down and all helped each other a lot, and basically had enough spec variety between them that no one strategy worked. I definitely despise accelerant packed turrets now. (When I’m not on my engi).
The problem with the mesmers was their insane ability to move their whole team from any point of interest with ease, and continue to do so again and again, and the sheer number of shatters available. Its one thing to dodge one, two or even three shatters. But when it just keeps coming, what are you supposed to do when you straight up have no more evades? I would have loved to have been able to focus them down but oftentimes I didn’t even get an opportunity to go on the offensive.
Do you still get losses for class swapping in ranked? Does it pull down people in your party too? Cause that’s the only way I can see countering some of these comps is by playing teams made to hose them. Otherwise you’re stuck with whatever your class has.
It’s just frustrating to play 5x comps of any class.