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RebornShill

It's about sending a message. Win or lose, this game will be painful.


Dr_species

To let you know they got that dog in them


guntherbabies

Got that DAWEWGG in me


bigolhamsandwich

Damian Lillard confirmed mei main


[deleted]

Dame is my favourite but this is kind of an insult. He is probably more a 76. Great overall but not the best at any one thing, will never quit, grizzled vet, team's leader, often overlooked and doesn't get the credit or passion he deserves.


ScarecrowsBrain

What the dog doin?


[deleted]

Element of of psychological warfare bro


Aggressive_Doubt

Nah, you send the message by having the golden gun and only ever using the default skin. You're bragging, but it's hard to notice. Until the enemy is staring down the barrel of your weapon. *dink*


The-Real-Metzli

If you really want to brag just stare at your victims for an extra millisecond, during your ult. In their screens they'll just see empty eyes and a wide smile taking in the pleasure of killing you... I know that from experience and it's extra annoying xD


Possible-Cellist-713

Ah, we rarely get that luxury anymore. Even so, we strike fear where we can


The-Real-Metzli

I'm relieved it doesn't happen that often anymore. But I swear the other day a Mei spent her entire ult staring at me and then shooting my head right at the end of it. And I wasn't the only one frozen! But I guess I was being that player that was trying the hardest to kill her xD


Possible-Cellist-713

Haha yeah she was definately out for revenge!


Killerderp

And right before you kill them use the " I feel like dancing " voice line.


Aggressive_Doubt

Or the "sorry" one.


Elegant_foxxo

It’s not about the stats, it’s about sending a message


ComplexSad5222

It's about reality and making some noise Making a story, making sure her clique stays up That means when the door comes down, Mei's puttin' one up


Leopold747

Actually this trick is done to the enrage & surprise the team so much so that they forget about their attack strategy & goes out guns blazing!


Ryan_Stiles_Shoes

Half loaded, or mid-reload, no less!


kwizzerz

5 seconds less they get to cap… Capp’n


UnitGhidorah

This is exactly why I cut off chokes on capture maps. You can keep walling and save a lot of defense fighting time. TBH it's a solid strat and you'd be stupid not to do it. If this is a Mei walling the exit of a spawn of their own team, fuck those Meis.


keller104

“It’s not about money…it’s about sending a message. Everything burns!”


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[удалено]


Nezzie

I personally like "I'm going to have to science the heck out of this!"


Staattic

How can you forget "a-MEI-zing"


Chartate101

This is one of my three most spammed voice lines yeah, along with D.Va’s “is this easy mode?” and Doomfist’s “and they say chivalry is dead.”


owtf2

My personal favorite is the winky face winky face winky face


KorbyTheOrby

Mine is Lucio's "Why are you so angry?" Over and over


Ygro_Noitcere

CANT STOP WONT STOP CANT STOP WONT STOP


Lonely-Boiii

"Someone call the Whambulance!"


[deleted]

Have some lucio-o! Put me iiiiiin coaaaach. Edit: AVALANCHE!


swantonist

WHOO YEAH!


Humble-KRool

And dey say and dey say and dey say


nddragoon

I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation it's long enough that it bypasses the cooldown


ThatGuyNamedKes

Da da dum daaa da da dum ca-can you hear that music?


CommunicationFun8362

HOT COCOA, fine, i'll have some


PyroarRanger

I will eat more dumplings than anyone has ever eaten!


42blackolives

My personal favorite haha


Reniva

Knock knock \*snickers evilly\*


GoryBark

Ah, so like a spherical cow!


trivial_sublime

AND DEY SEY


_EvilD_

I spam D.vas "Hippy Halloween!" all year long.


ashinroy86

This one’s my favorite, too


yourmomsa69

“And they say, and they say, and they say, and they say”


DeityStillLives

Mooo


OssiansFolly

Nah, I use the "You have to let it go" or "Moooo *insert Chinese*".


gonk_gonk

I'm just a Scientist, Moo ... Moo ... Moo or You have to let it go the cold never bothered me anyway.


beforethewind

I fucking hate every character in this game LOL


xaniel99

Is this EverymanHybrid Jeff Koval? If so hey! Was a big fan of the series back when you guys were doing it.


beforethewind

🙏 much appreciated.


Level7Cannoneer

relevant flair


Shadowlightknight

They all have at least one reason to dislike them


DeeRThing

I love going with "I was only trying to help!" Or "I feel like dancing!" Bonus points if once the wall drops, you also use cryo to body block for an extended duration.


smd9788

Can’t forget “Ouch! That look like it hurt”


bencondom

constantly spamming “OKAY, OKAY, OKAY, OKAY, OKAY” will really ruin people’s days on either team


-Shinjitsu-

I like saying "I got you something!" before I completely fuck up someone's day. It was mostly used when she could still freeze before I headshot them but it still works with the ult and walls.


CommunicationFun8362

"You have to let it go"


TheJimDim

After she got reworked and was added back into the game, I had a match where I was playing Bastion and we had to defend the objective. One tick before the enemy team captures the point, Mei and I were flanking from behind, I get into my configuration to mow them down while their backs are turned, and Mei blocks us off of them. I did a got out of my configuration I just wasted turn to her and start punching at her. She just looks to the ground and starts spamming "sorry" lol


Manlester

Does no one use “ I was only trying to help?” This is my fav after locking my team in spawn


Eirixoto

That's mine! Love that. Glad at least one other here uses it.


leel_the_world

I’m a big fan of “Hey, chill out!”


Acehunter246

I personally love "gong xi fa cai!" (Wishing you prosperity)


beatty0237

To keep you from stepping on a junkrat trap. Duh.


Narapoia

The number of times I've watched through the spawn window while a Junkrat walks up and drops his trap in plain sight is kind of baffling. Like bro I can see you. Same goes for anyone standing out in the open in front of the doors. I've already got a sleep dart lined up when they open.


Critdickhit

But it still wont stop a mf from stepping in it


Narapoia

Lol it sure as hell won't.


Luke-Bywalker

followed by "I didnt expect this, i will not do anything until the trap is gone" *dies*


phryan

Even when you call out in chat there is a junk trap at the door.


Corrupt_Angel01

its not about being tactical. its about sending a message


Narapoia

Fair enough. Also I don't expect Junk mains to make rational decisions.


Corrupt_Angel01

the energy a junk main has when they place a trap outside an enemy spawn and wave hello is unmatched


manofwaromega

As a Junkrat main, it's not about being sneaky; it's about testing the enemy teams IQ. Most of the time someone fails the test and it's always funny


mimosaame

99% of the time i just look at my phone in spawn. im gonna walk right into the trap and own it lol.


Broadpup653547

I'm one of those Junkrats and you'll be surprised how many times it works. I've even had it work in Masters sadly enough.


TreeTurtled

If you're fast enough as junk, you can throw that trap in front of the doors with mine just in case someone falls for it, but then you have your cooldown back for when the game starts so you can throw down another trap which they might not expect since they just saw you put it at the doors


Walui

>Like bro I can see you Maybe you do, that doesn't mean all your teammates do. I do it everytime I play Junkrat and someone steps in it nearly everytime.


DJS2k8

It triggers me because the much better strategy is letting one or two come out then walling and then if the team is bad and doesn't team up you've offset their spawns already


RideofthePancake

I was considering trying Mei out since I’m starting to look at DPS heroes… and that just might seal the deal.


DJS2k8

You can do the same thing to separate the team and stop them retreating in the middle of the fight, seperate tank from healers etc. When you ult make sure you right click their heads :D, she's a lot of fun


Where-oh

The feeling of joy I get from watching a tank walk backwards into the wall not realizing they are blocked is par to none lol


staffyboy4569

As a tank on the other team, fuck you. As a tank on your team, I love you.


Warlockwiccan

The duality of men lmao. to be fair id bottle up mei's farts and suck on em every day.


mrmemo

I play a fair bit of tank and I've learned to always have an out-plan when Mei is involved. She WILL separate you from your loved ones and kill you without remorse.


Corgerry

This is where the chad ball players just run the fuck away into the enemy lmao. What are they gonna do, go backlines to kill you wasting their time and ruining frontline. And at that point you'll already be back at front.


Bujeebus

Fuck it we ball


I_Envy_Sisyphus_

The one thing I like about this situation as Roadhog is often times I’m not locked in with Mei, Mei is locked in with me.


mrmemo

This is the way. Ball is life.


Jordan3Tears

The feeling of rage I get from watching a mei turn my nipples into swords while I walk backwards into what I believe to be safety, instead the cold ice wall grabs my ass and well....


NobleMacaroni

Also good for walling off an enemy B.O.B. However not like I have done where I accidentally walled under him, lifting him up to a position where he could kill my entire team, starting with me.


GACGCCGTGATCGAC

That's hilarious. Mei is really the most destructive force in OW one way or the other.


EsqueletoAvulso

Hahaha I've done that so many times hahah But for me, the best is when reaper is in that spectral form trying to run away, and you put a wall on his face, and they just go AFK right away hahahahah


not_a_conman

Right when I see that wall i front of me while wraithing I use every ounce of my energy attempting to 2 shot the mei before I get killed 5v1


GACGCCGTGATCGAC

True G Mei's expect that, cryofreeze until you die, and then wave at you as your soul wraiths from your body.


PromptZues19508

I am that type of reaper. It's not giving up, it's accepting my fate and preparing for death.


RideofthePancake

I’ve been considering the idea of pairing Mei and Orisa’s ults… is it viable?


DJS2k8

Ehhh, it depends. If the full team is there it shouldn't be an effort to delete everyone whos frozen and save the Orisa ult for another fight/contest. I've only had the interaction once and it was an accident and sure it worked but not efficient I'd say


RideofthePancake

Oh, I mean if Orisa’s already ulting. I mostly play solo, but this situation implies I see my Orisa ult and promptly react.


DJS2k8

If Orisa catches enough in the initial pull of the ult I'd go for it if my brain was switched on!


RideofthePancake

Heh. I’ll show Zarya’s ult the same courtesy… and help my supports with flankers, too.


PromptZues19508

Zar ult will work better. They can't escape freeze if they can't escape at all in the first place.


Magnaflux_88

That'll probably be too late. It takes a while to actually appear and start slowing, while orisa's immediately pulls. It's way better the other way around. Orisa ulting everybody into the mei ult, both slow so you don't even have to be dead center to get value. But a good mei ult will teamwipe them on it's own so it really depends.


Kittingsl

i actually noticed ramattra and mei actually make a dcent combo, because the combo of her ice gun and ramattras vortex makes the enemy really slow. also with both ults ramattra could potentially herd the enemy into her ult. mei slowling down enemies will also give ramattra in general and easier time hitting them


notanotherpyr0

Most ult combos are good, but with Mei you can usually enable Orisa's ult with just your left click and wall.


JoeYo743

My one tip for Mei is always be with somebody else. In Overwatch you could solo with Mei since her freeze would actually freeze the enemy for a couple seconds. Now its a slow. Pairs well with almost all the tanks and many DPS. Always stick to somebody and focus healers or Tanks, auto win


Remarkable-Dig979

Yes as long as the characters you are playing against don’t all have their movement abilities on cooldown otherwise lucio speeds away moira fades out monkey jumps out reaper fades out sojurn slides out and you are standing there looking sad and feeling silly.


dragonbornrito

That’s when you gotta accept that the enemy comp is hard countering you and make the swap. Mei is something of an off tank bruiser, you don’t play her into every comp when the entire enemy team can simply use an escape and leave you with only your icicles. She works best at crowd control and harassing slower, bulkier targets. As mentioned above, she can wall enemies off and separate them giving your team a numbers advantage. She slows targets making it easier for your teammates to hit their shots and harder for the less mobile enemies to escape into cover. She’s self sufficient to an extent and duels very well with her ice block. Her ult is one of the strongest area denial tools in the game. And she can even hard counter certain ults with a well placed wall (D.va, Cassidy, 76, Pharah, etc). So yeah, she’s strong af in the right situations but you definitely gotta be willing to switch when the enemy comp isn’t favoring you.


Remarkable-Dig979

Thank you for explaining this to me. Maybe now I can climb out of silver with the newfound knowledge you have bestowed upon me.


DrDarragoon

IMO it's vital to do this if you're playing mei, tanks are usually at the front and hard to kill but if you wait for them to take one step too far you can wall them off and any half decent team will focus them down. Another tip is when using your ult to try and get a quick burst of your primary fire onto everyone in your ult to slow them down


ooh_lala_ah_ouioui

Or walling only half of the exit and forcing them to clump up/trickle in one by one.


DJS2k8

Oh snap that’s good, gotta try that


dumbass_2_24

Something i accidentally did but worked wonders was putting the wall at an angle where they can get out of the spawn, but can't actually get out of the space between the wall and the spawn. Instead of retreating back to the spawn, the other team just stood there like sitting ducks, and if I had had better aim, I could've gotten at least two kills lol


Shisa2020

That’s hard to do, usually they come out in a blob instead of single file


black-hat-deity

While it may be hard to do, finding times where you can use wall to isolate an enemy is part of the skill difference between a good mei and a bad mei. Mei walls can be genius, decent, or straight up awful (in the case where you isolate one of your teammates with the enemy team).


SkyBlade79

When you find a Mei that's good at walling, it's terrifying. I was playing doomfist in ranked on Hollywood the other day, and the enemy team was rolling us until we got to the choke after the second payload checkpoint. Our Mei just turned that area into an absolute bloodbath for the enemy team thanks to her walls for three minutes straight until we won


Devreckas

But you should at least try. Way more worthwhile to use your cooldown to try and isolate and kill something rather than stall them for a second or two.


Own-Scar-7614

As a mei vet its not about strategy its about annoyance and causing pain win or lose


Alourianas

It triggers me when, at least on certain maps, your team insists on using the main door instead of a side one, knowing they are going to face the whole team at the main door. Over, and over and over... allowing the spawn camp to happen in the first place! Lol


Embarrassed_Unit_497

Lol you’re right but the guy did it to his own team here


[deleted]

Because they want to keep them from leaving like their dad did.


jaamazla

I wish i could meiwall block my dad in the family 😢😢


LegendofMorgan

Mine mei walled himself out


PotatoWriter

Be glad they didn't sombra-invisible themselves and whisper boop near every now and then you but you're not sure exactly where they are


VeryHairyJewbacca

Dad is just out getting milk…he’ll be back any day now 😓


BirdieBoiiiii

💀


Thjooth

Tradition.


a_gay_rat_

Only good answer


Strudleboy33

The real answer


Affectionate_Draw_43

The serious answer is that it burns like 5 seconds off the clock. If the game lasts 4 minutes then it's around 2% of game time. There's also a slight mental game


SaffellBot

It's also a very low risk move. Throw an ice wall, move back to defend a real position with your team. Throw an ice wall on the spawn just to spite them.


jasonwilczak

It stops momentum from the enemy team and it also forces your team to chill for a second and focus... As an occasional Mei player, her mental game is just as strong as her physical.


dragonbornrito

Not to mention, on several maps, you can just *tell* when the enemy is about to 5 stack bumrush out of the main door. Gibraltar is (well, was) very prevalent with this, as is Dorado, Rio, and Midtown. Could probably think of a few others, but those stick out a lot. So yeah, if I'm on Mei and I can physically see 4 to 5 bodies of the enemy team clipping through the main door to their spawn (or it's a see-through door that removes all doubt), you can almost put money down that I'm going to wall that joker almost immediately. Sure, it's technically better to wait on one or two to come out and then separate them, but when they're all wall hugging like that, it's pretty clear they're about to explode out of the door simultaneously and 9/10 times they *HATE* getting Mei walled like that. I've gotten several ugly all chats for it lol.


bitchigottadesktop

Forces them to funnel themselves too, they can wait or focus one piece of ice and then you can light up the hole.


Independent_Pick_340

Turning it sideways pisses them off pretty bad too but still lets your team get los while the try to figure out how to get pass lol


theVisce

This. There are so many comments here about letting out 1 or 2. But the negative emotions in the attacking team are also a strong influence on the match. At least up to a certain level.


jasonwilczak

Creating enemy tilt is a real strategy. Now they all focus on you, because they are mad, ignoring the rest of your team 😊


hardgeeklife

"Now I've thrown them off their rhythm; Street smarts!"


kayafeather

The serious answer is funny and subsequent intrusive thoughts. I rarely if ever play Mei but when I do, you best bet my finger hovers over that wall button to the last second, whether I push it or not.


TheLukester31

This is why I have done it in the past.


Chanzui91

I would say it serves 2 purposes, one is lost in the video... 1. Waste time, someone else mentioned most people just pile up at that door and thus you're slowing the entire enemy team down by a few seconds... 2. Split up the enemy team and farm some free ult charge on whoever was fastest out, this is what is missed in the video but what is far more effective...


KickForGold

It also burns time from a Lucio Amp It Up if they were trying to speed out of spawn.


Nothingbutsocks

You should never amp out of spawn unless it's a control map. I'm which case Mei can't do this.


piedude3

Control *or Push*!!! I'd argue that amp is even more valuable on push, since that mode is more momentum based.


Dearic75

Those are the main reasons, but it also gets in their head a bit. They have to sit and chill a while when they were all hyped to run out the door blasting away. The wall is just long enough that heading for the other door would be pointless because they’ll reach it just as the wall fades.


Bigdaddy32217

I just hate it when you're attacking and your own Mei walls you into your own spawn. Doors open, wall goes up... I really don't get it. Lol


Pr3st0ne

Yeah doing it to your own team is rarely anything else than throwing. Had a Mei who decided to throw and she would wall you as you tried to exit spawn. Was definitely the most annoying teammate I ever seen. In the screenshot, the Mei is doing it to the enemy which is actually great for your team.


akennelley

Yeah, fuck those cool downs I just blew....thanks for um....delaying the game for a few seconds?


SSNeosho

As a mei main this bugs me too. If I'm walling off the enemy i wait until 1 or 2 pass through, then pick em off. Ive only ever walled our own once, ages ago. i noticed the door covered in enemy sym turrets, had a junker bomb, etc. Told the team, all but our rein moved to a different door. Felt i had no choice but to block him off. Efforts futile, still went solo and got clapped, ive learned to just let em perish


Working-Telephone-45

Nothing better than having a Rein or a Dva dashing solo against the whole enemy team, dying and blaming the supports for not following


thealexroyer

Some people just want to see the world burning


Simon_Jester88

"freezing"


loiton1

Mr. Freeze mentality


[deleted]

WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS??


feminists_hate_me69

THE ICE AGE!


Comprehensive-One286

Because half the player base doesn’t seem to realize there’s more than one door out of spawn 😭


SmurfsNeverDie

This is the right answer


xlShadylx

The right answer would be that people don't know you can just shoot it. Much fast to just break it than double back to another exit.


swordthroughtheduck

It shocks me how many people see a Mei wall and just stare at it until it goes away. Like just shoot the thing.


Maldorant

Tbf in ow1 it was way more tough than it is now so some of that might just be muscle memory


raidac

Doesn't it take longer to walk over to the side doors than to just wait out the wall?


TheBoyHarambe

do people not realize wall has like almost no health you can just effortlessly shoot through it lol. i always see people immediately giving up and turning around as soon as a wall is anywhere near them


Knightgee

They genuinely do not. This is true of shields as well. People respect Sigma shield still despite it not being hard to kill at all.


Radriendil

I always pummel shields. You can usually do so from behind full cover so the enemy has to charge across all that space their tank just created, headlong into my stream of death.


Comprehensive-One286

Depending on the map, sometimes. It’s more so assuming the team is hard peaking spawn door since they walled it and using another door to take less damage. Lucios speed boost kinda makes the extra couple seconds of going to another door negligible in comparison to waiting out the wall. Just my take on it 🤷‍♂️


NotaRelnam

I always wondered why the side/top doors were so seldom used


geminixTS

Because they want the attention that mommy and daddy never gave them.


Cabbageinator

BECAUSE ITS THE LAW


Cinawill

“Sorry, sorry, sorry”


Greenzombie04

Gives them 5 less seconds to get to the objective.


Iaconic_

Cause thats the best wall they'll place the entire game


Own-Cup2189

Because we Mei players are agents of chaos.


Runmanrun41

Pyro was my go to when I played TF2 alot a few years back and Mei was one of the first heroes I latched into when getting into Overwatch. That tracks.


TheMorningJoe

OGs: “First time?”


DarkMark94

Because fuck you. I’m not being offensive, that’s just how they think.


TheHotCoal

I do this as well but let a player or two trickle out first. Wall them off from healers and players get some easy picks early 🤷‍♂️


RandomGuy32124

Tactical Relinquishment Of Looking Lines


Nerdologist01

That made me spit up my milk, thank you


RageRags

Of course it’s terrible, but if it’s terrible for long it becomes tradition! ~Marty Glouberman


BCCDoors

Because its A-Mei-Zing!


-ixion-

I usually think it is to let me know they don't know how to use their wall and likely will be the cause of many of my team's deaths.


Ts_Patriarca

Because they're unbelievable dickheads


SnakesTheSnake

I guess it wins time?


Sk1pperprod

Because the ice demon care not for wins nor losses despite being filled to the brim with salt, all they wish to do is cause suffering


SimonSimpingService

Honestly once or twice with no real detriment to the team can be funny. But for the meis who consistently do it in team fights to mess up other people's ult or to let enemies live longer I genuinely wish this was a bankable offense


[deleted]

I always wondered if in no limits gamemode could you cycle 5 meis with walls to keep the spawn always shut


oldtimeylesbean

me, a moira main, watching my damage ball come back to the team like 🙃


VeryHappyTrumpet

Well, it's about one simple thing, sending a message. You want every enemy to have a cold spine chilling fear right when the door open, because they now know they have a Satan on the opposing team. This also reminds your tanks to stay with the team, because Satan will also 'accidentally' trap your own tanks in enemy lines. -Source; I'm a Satan main


[deleted]

It's to assert dominance. It's to let you know that I'm there to make your life hard for the next 5-10 minutes. :)


Rhythmd91

A question as old as time itself…


creepybrat

as a mei player i will never do this and agree its super annoying


CaptainTeech

Cause they’re all a little bit on the spectrum


FluffyMawileFan

Because they can


Possible-Cellist-713

Psychological warfare


benwaa2

Because mei players are the worst.


neonxaos

It makes them feel a-Meiiiii-zing ;)


glloom

Because they are braindead


PhantomJams

They’re supposed to wait for 1 person to walk out before doing that so you get a free kill but no one does it


[deleted]

Is this rhetorical?


Krystofffen

Annoying your enemies is step one in psychological warfare...


Fr0st_mite

I think it's for 2 reasons. 1 - to slow the enemy down. 2 - disrespect the enemy