Is Overwatch the most toxic game?

Golly me.

I just spent 3 hours playing Overwatch - started on a ranking of 2034 and ended up finishing 2032.

Overwatch has been one of my favourite games to be released, I love the art style, the different heroes abilities and absolutely love that blizzard are consistently putting out Events, new skins & heroes and maps plus it's not a Pay to Win game, which is sort of rare these days.

I have been a Mercy main for majority of my time on Overwatch but since the new changes + the newly announced changes, I am trying to branch out to different heroes like Dva & Reinhart as well as Moira. So the first game I decided to play Dva, but someone else wanted to play her so I gave it up and chose Mercy.

Source

It was one of the easiest wins I have ever had and I was feeling good about making some progress on my SR.

My issue with this game was that, even though we won, the Zenyata was salty at me for getting Play Of The Game.
These days it's really hard to get Mercy POTG so I was happy and honestly thought I deserved it as it won the game with 2x Rez and triple kill. What more could I have done to deserve it??

Onward I go into the next game, where I meet yet another salty support player wanting to play Mercy because she has 50 hours on her (I have 200 but didnt want to burst her bubble). Usually I would be happy to give up if someone asks nicely like in my first game. But she was just rude and arrogant that I pretended I wasnt in Comms.

We lost that game due to our DPS literally doing nothing and not changing to counter the other team's composition.
I could feel my blood beginning to boil and I knew I was on a downward spiral but I couldnt help but continue to press play.

Finally another win, and I was feeling sort of better about life again, so of course I continued playing.
And this is what I bloody see:

The roadhog was initially another DPS until he saw the other teams picks, so thank god he changed.
But it took until the other team capped the point 75% for someone to change to a second healer.
It was absolute torture solo healing 4 squishies. "I need healing", "I could use some healing" I'm going to have nightmares tonight.

We actually went on to win this map, but by the end of it, I had absolutely had it. I ended up finishing on 2 SR less than what I started with.
I get it, we can't always win. But it's so not satisfying playing a game and making absolutely no progress.

Its also frustrating that people insist on playing ranked but don't choose to play as a team. They're in it for themselves and you can't win games like that.

Overwatch is so team orientated, and I love that about the game, but when you're in a team with a toxic person, or someone insists they're the world's best widow (but somehow still in silver) - it just makes the game so hard to love.
And I'm not saying people's hero preferences are bad, but if it's not working, you have to know when to change & what to change to. There's no point sticking to widow if you're not getting any picks, don't you want to win games? I don't get the logic.

In other news I bought Call of Duty: WW2 on PS4 a few weeks ago and it's honestly been the best change. There's definetly not as much comms/shit talking, plus you don't always have to be reliant on your team. I havent tried the ranked season on COD yet, but so far I have been doing pretty well, and not getting salty at toxic players, so thats a huge bonus! :)

Thanks for reading my rant on Overwatch, I truly do love the game but it's just fucking frustrating haha.

Stay excellent!
Natt