About two weeks ago, I was on a pretty solid win streak. I went from 1485 up to 1700something. Last season (99% sure) I ended at 1925. I have less than 400 hours played, and a lot of that is now in ranked play. Six seasons, but only the last three did I take ranked serious. The first three I did placements, but did not have much time for ranked play. ANYWAY.
The past week has been basically all losses, and I noticed one pretty obvious common piece of that. Now, note that I am not blaming these people. I am not saying they are the reason we lost. NOT AT ALL!
What I am saying is that virtually every single match I was in, there was a person on either team, that had OVER 850 hours played, and almost all of it was played in ranked. But one common factor of them all? They are ultra one tricks. One guy had almost 1,400 hours played as Dva and 800 hours as Mei. NEVER BEEN HIGHER THAN SILVER. How do you have 2200ish hours played in ranked and you still have not gotten higher than 1800?
I noticed these people a long time ago, but I never knew what the borders were. I thought the border was just what rank they ended with from the previous season. I was wrong, but yeah. I figured out that it was an indication of how many hours they have played, or about how many hours. Almost every match I lost, these players with over 800 hours and never higher than silver…were on my team. I would say maybe 12 matches did not have that. And that is not a lot out of all the matches I played.
My motto? And I have had this for a while…If you are level 500+ and have never been out of silver even once? Just uninstall. You are either unskilled, or are intentionally throwing.
Why do I say that? Because they are actually ruining games. Not that other people can not do that, trust me I know that anybody can ruin it. But that would weed out a good portion of the problem.
Why is it a problem? Your bad habbits are rubbing off on new or learning players in QP, giving them the impression of “hey, this guy has played for 800 hours? He/She must know a lot about the game, let me learn from them”.
Your bad habbits are actually making the game a more toxic place by default, because people keep that mentality through their ranked experience.
Your bs talking about “I have gold damage, im carrying” rubs off on them and they go into ranked thinking that all that matters is their fancy medals. Then they never learn or grow or change. They just stagnate , and create a perpetual series of losses and salt for everybody else.
Your 1000 hours played, and having never gotten out of Silver, is just making the game worse for you and for everybody else.
Either play seriously, or uninstall. I will be doing that, because I do not want to be a permanent detriment to the game for everybody else. If I reach level 500+, and i have never ever been out of Silver? Bye Overwatch, I will not be messing it up for everybody else.