The vast vast majority of DPS players in low ELO seem terrified of taking duels
Now, I myself as a majorly DPS player am not ranked that high (currently hovering around Diamond 3-4), but I've been doing my support placements this week and since the game seems to enjoy messing with me, it's decided to put me in silver lobbies.
And the thing I see the most is the pure refusal for my dps to take duels. Not losing them, cus that'd be fine, but simply not taking them. Put them in a 1v1 and they don't even try to win it, they either just huddle with their tank in main and pray that someone else deals with the problem, or cycle through the entire cast to try and luck into a solution.
I had this game right, where me and my Soldier were on an angle together. We get jumped by their Vendetta and Moira, and I nano him to win the 2v2. Instead of.. fighting, he just.. ran away, literally sprinted away.
I think when people whine about counterswapping this is an aspect of it. I'll have Genjis who play him like Cass, Reapers who just play Soldier 76. Torb is probably among the better dps I see just cus of the turret.
As someone who has played dps for like 90% of my playtime, duels ARE the sh*t. While OW is not a deathmatch, a lot can be impacted by getting a pick in a fair 50/50 1v1, but it seems that some just refuse to even try.