Ryuu Ga Waga Teki Wo Kurau
“You make me sick!” shouted Rainbow Dash, the righteous fury in her heart almost impossible to put into words. She stared at her supposed friend with a mix of confusion, loathing, and visceral disgust. Sunset pulled her headset off, then turned to Rainbow.
“What?” asked Sunset, genuinely confused. She couldn’t really guess why Rainbow was suddenly so annoyed with her. Up until then, they were having a great time during their weekly Geeky Gamer Girl Friday. It was Rainbow’s idea to start with, a way for them both to blow off steam after a long, hard week of school/saving the world from extradimensional threats. Every Friday, the two would head over to Sunset’s house, Rainbow with her gaming laptop, and the two would spend all of Friday playing games, watching nerdy sci-fi movies, and just generally enjoying a subculture that, based on their appearances, they just didn’t fit with.
On this particular GGGF, their schedule was a stacked card of secret, nerdy pleasure. After missing the last two weeks, due to a combination of excessive schoolwork, owed favors, and Rainbow being grounded for staying out past curfew, the two had decided to set aside Saturday and Sunday to have a special Geeky Gamer Girl Weekend. A movie marathon including the original Star Wars trilogy, Godzilla (the original Japanese film from 1954, as well as the 1985 and 2014 American films), and the Christopher Nolan trilogy of Batman films (none of which being worth watching except for The Dark Knight, as Rainbow would say to anyone who bothered to listen) was planned for Saturday. Sunday was dedicated to to anime; Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, Keijo!!!, Gurren Lagann, and One Punch Man were all on the menu.
But Friday was all about video games. Street Fighters III and IV, Mortal Kombat X, Smash Brothers, Rocket League, and, most importantly, Overwatch. Rainbow had only introduced Sunset to the futuristic team-based shooter during their last GGGF, and Sunset had fallen in love immediately. In the short two weeks since getting the game, Sunset had climbed to and far past the required level 25 to unlock the game’s Competitive Mode, completed the ten games required to place her in a rank (Gold, with a Skill Rating of 2200), and climbed her way to an SR of 2444 (she was so close to Platinum, she could taste it). Sunset loved every single character in the game, their designs and abilities so diverse and unique, though there was one Hero in particular that Sunset just resonated with.
“You are literally the worst person I’ve ever met,” said Rainbow. She scooped up a handful of popcorn and chucked it at Sunset. “What the hell is wrong with you?”
“What? The game didn’t even start yet!” Sunset looked back at her screen to confirm what she already knew; She had a full twenty seconds before the match began. She quickly turned back to her game, getting in position with the rest of her team. “How could I have possibly done something wrong before we’ve started playing.”
“Look at this team! I see Lucio, Reinhardt, Winston, and Soldier. I locked Tracer, and you, you subhuman trash, you play Hanzo!”
Sunset sat with bated breath, waiting for Rainbow to get to the part of the story that made her the worst person ever. Yet, after a considerable pause, Rainbow didn’t say anything else. As the countdown came dangerously close to completion, Sunset was still confused as to what was so bad about that.
“Uh… So?” asked Sunset, immediately running from her team’s spawn point and scaling a nearby wall to gain a vantage point over the enemy team.
“What do you mean, ‘so’?! You picked Hanzo!”
“I like Hanzo!”
“You should’ve picked Ana!”
“But we already have a Healer,” said Sunset. She went silent for a moment, entirely focused on Hanamura’s Defense Point A. She pulled back an arrow in her bow, tracking a Mercy as she floated from her Reinhardt to her Soldier, then let off a shot. The arrow flew through the air, catching the Mercy in the head and killing her immediately with a satisfying Ding! “And, besides, I’m a trash Ana. I like Hanzo.”
“Hanzo is useless!” complained Rainbow. Unlike Sunset, she didn’t need to stop speaking to play at her best; In that short sentence, she Blinked behind the enemy Reinhardt, sprayed his back with her Pulse Pistols, then recalled back to her previous positions to aid her team in finishing off the now-distracted Tank.
“If he’s so useless, how come I’ve killed off their Mercy?” asked Sunset. She went into a silent focus again, then fired two arrows which killed the enemy team’s Symmetra. “And their Symmetra?”
“Luck, luck, it’s all luck! Playing Hanzo is 100% chance!”
“You’re telling me he has no skill involved whatsoever?” Sunset dropped down from her position, flanking around the left to avoid a pesky Soldier who had decided she was too big of a threat to be left alone. “And this is coming from the biggest Pharah apologist I’ve ever met.”
“Pharah is a total skill-based character, and anyone who says otherwise should be burned at the stake,” said Rainbow. She zipped forward, past the enemy team’s defenses and fired at them from the point. “I’m on the objective, by the way, if anyone wants to join me!”
“So you’re telling me that, just because I played a character you don’t like, I’m subhuman garbage?” asked Sunset.
“Yes.”
“I think you’re getting a bit tilted.”
“Look, six consecutive losses due to the enemy team having a goddamn Bastion-Rein-Mercy combo doesn’t change the facts, Shim,” said Rainbow. “And the fact is you are what’s wrong with the Overwatch community!”
“Me?”
“Yes!”
“Not the people who say others with differing opinions should be burned at the stake?” asked Sunset. She noticed a sneaky McCree approaching Rainbow on the objective. “Dash, watch—” It was too late; a quick Flashbang-Fan the Hammer combo later, and Rainbow was dead. What’s worse, Sunset let herself get distracted, and that Soldier that was pestering her earlier sprinted up to her and ended her life with a short spray from his Heavy Pulse Rifle. “Damn. I shouldn’t have let that happen…”
“Sunny, you’re new to the game, so I understand if you don’t get it quite yet,” said Rainbow. “But playing Hanzo is basically throwing the match. It’s the reason you never see one in Comp.”
“But I do see them in Comp. All the time. And they’re no better or worse than any Soldiers or Reapers or Roadhogs I see. So, if I’m good enough—”
“Which you’re not.”
“Then why should it matter who I play? I like Hanzo, so let me play Hanzo!”
The girls had respawned, and quickly ran to rejoin their team at the objective. Sunset wasn’t really bothered by Rainbow’s almost psychotic amount of unjustified anger, knowing this to be a staple of her gaming personality. Still, it was kind of hard for her to wrap her head around that sort of thinking. Sure, nobody likes to lose, but, at the end of the day, it was just a game. A loss every now and then really shouldn’t be such a big deal, not to mention the fact that Sunset thought herself a perfectly competent Hanzo.
“I’ll tell you why it matters, doofus, and I can do it with one word,” said Rainbow. “And that word is ‘team comp’.” Rainbow stopped in her tracks, thinking over what she just said. “Uh… Two words. Whatever, shut up, the point is you suck for playing Hanzo.”
Sunset rolled her eyes, but made no effort to switch Heroes. As far as she was concerned, she was doing just fine as Hanzo. Within a few moments, she racked up three more kills, and helped to capture the objective. She moved on to Point B, ignoring Rainbow’s boos and jeers the whole way. She climbed to another vantage point and immediately found herself locked in a long-range battle with an enemy Widowmaker. After emerging victorious, she had earned her Ultimate Ability. She quickly unmuted her mic to speak with her teammates.
“Hey, Rein, I’ve got a Dragonstrike if you wanna Ult,” said Sunset. “We should be able to take the point fairly easily.”
“Sure,” replied the friendly Reinhardt. “I’m coming back from spawn, give me a minute.”
“Oh, answer me this real quick.” Sunset dropped down and scurried around, looking for a decent place to fire her Dragonstrike arrow. “Am I a scumbag for playing Hanzo?”
“Well, I don’t normally like getting a team with a Hanzo, but you seem to be doing fine,” said Reinhardt. “So I guess it depends on if they’re good. If they’re bad and don’t switch when asked, then I’d call them a scumbag, I guess.”
“Ha! Bite my ass, Rainbow!” shouted Sunset. “You’re the only person who has a problem with it!”
“Asking one random douchebag on the team then assuming that everyone agrees with him is a pretty big assumption,” said Rainbow. “And you know what they say about assuming. It makes a… Wait, I fucked that up…”
“Alright, Hanzo, I’m ready,” said the Reinhardt. He ran up to the point, waiting to get as many enemies together as possible, then used his Ultimate Ability. With a mighty shout of “Hammer down!”, Reinhardt smashed the ground with his massive hammer, sending forward a shockwave that toppled three of the enemies. Sunset quickly aimed and fired her Ultimate.
“Bam, triple kill, Dash!” cheered Sunset. “Play of the Game is as good as mine, baby!”
“Whatever,” said Rainbow, rolling her eyes. “Three kills, and they were luck, luck, and more luck.”
“But luck had us take the point.”
“So you admit it is luck!”
Sunset shook her head, joining her team on the objective to capture the second point and win the first round. There just wasn’t winning where RD was concerned. Sunset muted her mic, then turned to face her friend during the transition from round one to round two.
“Alright, if you’re gonna piss all over my Hero choice, will you at least let me explain why I like Hanzo?” asked Sunset.
“Knock yourself out, Shimmy.”
“Alright, so, I dug into the lore of the game, and I read about Hanzo and his brother. How Hanzo killed Genji and then regretted it. How he fights to restore honor to him and his family.” Sunset sighed, locking in on Hanzo again. “And, you know, even before the fratricide, his family was the yakuza. He wasn’t exactly a great dude to start with. But he’s trying to be better, and he’s doing his best the only way he knows how. I guess I kinda feel like the two of us are kindred spirits. Both bad people who hurt people and want to be better because of it.”
It got quiet for a bit after that. Rainbow stared at her friend, slowly lifting up her can of soda and sipping it awkwardly. She said nothing while she selected her Hero, this time going for the Pharah that Sunset earlier accused her of apologizing for.
“Wow, Shim,” said Rainbow. “I never thought about it like that.”
“Yeah, well, now you know,” said Sunset. She didn’t mind having to explain herself like this, so long as Rainbow understood. “I like all the things I like for a reason.”
“Can I just say something?”
“Sure thing.”
“You’re still an asshole for playing Hanzo.”
There was a long, pregnant, uncomfortable pause as Sunset contemplated her friendship with Rainbow Dash. She recalled how they had become friends, and how close they’ve grown over the course of their GGGFs. She also considered how much she valued that friendship, and if it would be able to survive her punching Rainbow in the face.
“Fuck it,” groaned Sunset. “I’ll just play Widowmaker.”
“Noooo! That’s even worse!”
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Haven't played enough to do competitive, but my mains are Winston, Reinhardt and, if all else fails, Bastion. When the game first started I was Bastion only, but then everyone went and learned his back ended weakness so he became pretty useless. Although since I played last apparently he has been buffed slightly. I need to get back into the game.
Is this a MLP fanfiction or a recounting of finding out that your best friend plays Hanzo?
Also nitpicking here, you say there's 21 heroes in the description, which was the number at launch, but you mention Ana later on, who was the first hero released post-launch. I like Overwatch and all, but this feels super forced. Like this isn't even MLP fanfiction, this is Overwatch fanfiction but with EqG characters playing the game so that you can sneak it onto the website.
Aside from that it felt pretty meh. Even as a fan of Overwatch I got bored a quarter of the way through, as nothing really interesting or funny happens. At least for me, results may vary, everyone's a critic and you're completely entitled to your own tastes.
8146105 Team Fortress 2 is a Paladins ripoff.
I saw the title.
I hate Hanzo so much you don't even...He's like the huntsman sniper except HE CAN ACTUALLY JUST SPAM AND SUCCEED EVEN MORE BECAUSE RYUU GA WAGA TEKI GO BUCK YOURSELF.
And I GUESS I'm an Ana main, even though I tend to play flex.
The fact Rainbow and Sunset watch One Punch Man makes me happy
Hahaha, this was great, I don't fully understand it as I don't play myself, but this was funny.
Goodshow!
8146126 Thanks, boss, and you really should play it yourself if you have any love for gaming and the ability to do so.
8146121 A little of both, except I knew my friend mained Hanzo for a while.
Sorry for the lack of content, I really only put this out to break a rut I found myself in. This may not be my best work, but it's something, and that's more than I could say three days ago. And, as for your nitpick...
I said "over 21" because that will always be true, whereas if I put "24", that sentence would be false as soon as Doomfist dropped.
Maining Hanzo is like admitting you hate fun. Widowmaker all day every day bae you know it chill u bae
At least she isn't an attack torb main.
I never played Overwatch, so I don't know which Hero is good and which isn't. But I play a lot of HotS and many other players said I do a good job as Lúcio. Is that good? Translating to Overwatch, I mean.
Also, if the person knows the character, and is playing very well and not dragging the team down... Isn't that enough?
8146280 I love you, Sev, but the fact that you play Widow makes me want to drown a bucket of puppies with a larger bucket of kittens.
Just kidding, but not really, but just kidding.
8146283 I have a friend, and friend is a very generous term, who plays Torb on attack and it's the most infuriating shit in life. Fucking hell, man.
8146287 There are no such thing as a not-good Hero. Some are better in some circumstances than others, but none are bad.
I didn't know Lucio was in HotS, but, if you do good with Lucio, good on you. The world could always use more Heroes!
Finally, yes, that is enough. It's the entirety of Sunset's philosophy. RD is just a fucking psychopath, and very much so based on me.
8146283 I play attack torb
(not in competitive, I'm not suicidal)
I like Junkrat. Sure, it's hard to play, but bouncing grenades are fun.
8146263
I lack the ability, but I do love gaming, maybe in the future, hehe.
Keep up the good work.
8146295 Thanks!
Lúcio, Tracer, Zarya and Genji from Overwatch are in HotS. And D.Va will be the next character to arrive in the Nexus.
8146332 I find JR gets pissed on far more than he deserves. People seem to think his kit is garbage and he's never a good pick, but I don't think that's the case. Part of me wants to tell people to play whoever they like, whatever makes them happy, and just do your absolute best.
But, the part of me that's been battling to get into Platinum for the last few weeks wants to tell people to pick on the fucking meta and play Soldier/Lucio/Ana/Rein.
8146332 Junkrat's purpose is area denial. He works best on maps that have narrow doors and corridors, essentially maps that cater for spam. Hanamura, King's Row, Eichenwalde, etcetera. You always want your bear trap out, and play around it. Use concussion mine to jostle enemies airborne and knock people off cliffs. What I like to do is, at the start of the round during setup on defense, put the bear trap and mine at the spawn door entrance. Ive gotten early picks by doing that, and if you lob some grenades at the spawn door, you can get massive damage done. Done right, you can get your ulti in thirty seconds.
I'm with RD on this one, if you main Hanzo we're not friends anymore
This was great. Absolutely beautiful.
Now all I want is a follow up on how someone thinks TF2 is the best game in the world and just yells at everyone else who thinks Overwatch is even remotely good. (do note, I love both games a lot. TF2 just a little bit more though.)
Congrats on the feature BTW. That was quick.
Ha! I can't aim for sh!#, so I play all the cancer characters: Mei, Symmetra, Junkrat.
I've recently taken great joy in headshotting a couple of widows with Mei's ice bolt, and have discovered via the madness of mystery heroes that the same goes for Zenyatta. Winston is fun in small doses, if you have a competent main tank to retreat behind. Baby steps people, I'll get to the snipers eventually.
8146428 Junkrat is also really useful for breaking those chokepoints that don't allow direct line of sight, what with the rebounding explosives and all. I love playing him, and will do it to spite anybody who hates on him and end up with either POTG or max dmg Gold. He is brilliant for suppression in tight spots.
Pinkie Pie is a Junkrat main.
Applejack plays Reinhardt, no question.
Fluttershy plays the healers unless Twilight or Rarity take pity on her and give her a break, then she plays Mei ("Sorry, sorry, sorry, Sorry!" and "Ouch, are you alright?" are on high rotation for voice play).
I personally have the most fun as Reaper (OW THE EDGE) He's easy to pick up but maaan if you're bad with him you're just ult bait.
But if your team works with you....mmm. Delicious, delicious crackly headshotgun doom all the way. Trickiest part is learning how to best deploy Wraithform since its his only escape, blegh.
8146520 I see AJ as more of a Soldier: 76 or Roadhog, really. But Fluttershy on Healer/Mei, I definitely can see that (Bastion as well, no matter how much that makes me wanna vomit). I can imagine her playing with Tree Hugger in Quickplay ("competitive play gives off way harsh vibes, maaaan"), who, of course, plays Zenyatta exclusively ("he, like, totally resonates with my aura").
Rarity plays Symmetra, Widow and Ana, for sure.
And I personally see Twilight as maining Mercy, Winston, and Tracer.
I approve of this fic. It had me LMAO. For real.
Also, I main Soldier. Sometimes Genji. I don't play much Overwatch, but when I do, I play soldier. Stay shooty my friends.
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8146539 Applejack on Roadhog? I could see Soldier 76, but the only thing that would commend Roadhog to her would be the hook. Honesty wouldn't be able to overlook that Hog and Junk are a pair of no good anarchist thieves who couldn't do an honest days' work in their lives. McCree on the other hand has the accent and the whole 'honorable outlaw" thing going for him, so that's who she'd play if not maining Reinhardt.
Rarity: nailed it.
Twilight wouldn't be able to wrest Tracer away from Rainbow Dash, but since Sombra was introduced to the game... WELL! It's on! Purple Teleporters would just feel RIGHT. I agree she'd off-main Winston and Mercy.
Grey Fox ripoff vs. Mitsurugi ripoff are both equally lame.
(Also, why the hell doesn't Reinhardt speak Norman french or Low Saxon?)
I finally reached level 25 yesterday and my rank is twelve hundred something after placement. Does it mean I suck if I'm placed that low? Also, since I've been dying less as Mercy, I decided to have her be my default main and I cycle between Reaper, Junkrat, Bastion and Lucio.
8146428 I did NOT know I can do that with Junkrat.
Lol, I'm a Mercy main.
CAUSE I CAN'T AIM FOR SHAAAAT!
8146913 that's actually why I played her so much at first.
As Someone who voices Hanzo in comic dubs I must say....WHY ALL THE HANZO HATE!
I'm a D.va main, though I also like Junkrat and Orisa.
Tracer/Genji main here (I need healing), can confirm, Hanzo is the worse than Bastion because at least his damage and weapon hitbox can be consistently calculated, unlike Hanzo who is always either useless or an insane god of killstreaks. He's less annoying when I'm playing my other mains (Junkrat, McCree, Bastion, Reinhardt, D.Va, and Mercy) but seriously, please delete him from the game.
8146613 Here's what I like doing with Junkrat.
Using your concussion mine to jump. Almost like using Demoman's sticky bombs to jump (in TF2). Put the mine down, run over it, then detonate and jump at the same time. If there's a Lucio on your team, the speed boost gives you extra distance. Angle and distance comes with practice.
Using concussion mine to double jump. Place mine down. Wait until cooldown resets. Jump and detonate, immediately toss out another mine and detonate that one immediately too.
If you're surrounded by enemies that rely on close-range combat (Reaper, D.Va, Tracer etc), toss out mine and detonate, using it to push yourself and the enemy away from each other for space. It's hard to land hits on Tracer, but she's squishy as hell.
Again, put mine and bear trap on enemy spawn door. Do not let them see you do it, and spam out the entrance for bonus damage and ulti charge, and maybe one or two picks. (Keep in mind that the mine does 120 damage, and the bear trap does 80, so can kill and full health 200hp hero with that combo.)
The range on throwing out the mine is insane, something like twenty metres if you do it right. Throw it far ahead of you and wait for people to walk over it. Using it to knock people airborne momentarily confuses them, but allows your team to get some damage on the enemy. Lets say you use it to knock rein away from his team mates so your Rein can Earthshatter the rest.
Rip Tyre is a difficult ultimate to use properly since it can be destroyed quite easily. You'll want to combo it with Graviton or Earthshatter, but your main advantage is using it to catch enemies by surprise. On Hanamura, there's that platform above and to the right of the gate you can get through. Once I jumped up there and used my tyre and got a fucking quadruple kill.
That's all the tips I have, and that's mostly from experience. Play around and find what works best for you.
I believe this is both relevant and hilarious.
I have 100 QuickPlay hours on Symmetra.
MELT ALL THE THINGSSSSSSS.
Somebody help me.
to be fair, rainbow has a point. While the dps can self heal, the Winston is really going to suffer from having a lucio solo healer. While lucio is a great healer, he is not a solo healer like ana or mercy.
not to mention being the 3rd dps is usually a big no-no unless the meta changed again
8147432 please don't ever compare demo's sticky jump to junk rat's mine jump
I know they seem very close but as someone who spent countless hours learning to perfect the art of sticky jumping , JR's mine jump was the most disappointing thing I've notice the first time I played junkrat, it was just so limiting.
also, there is no practice with the mine jump, the game has a maximum distance that you can go with junk rat no matter which angle you went (with the exception of directly on top), as long as the angle is more than around 90, you will always land around the same spot unless you slow yourself down. though I never tried the lucio thing
I feel this video needs to be somewhere in this comment section.
8148107 No third DPS? Fight the Meta! What they REALLY needed was a ninja.
My most played heroes are, in this order, Widowmaker, Hanzo, and Ana.
Let the hate roll in, folks.
D.Va and Mercy main here (though also plays Tracer, Sombra, Pharah and Bastion). I guess it depends on the Hanzo player, seen them perform at both extremes.
As for Junk Rat, he is annoying to dight against and just seems like the character of choice for noobs. I also hate Mei, both on my team and on the enemy team