I have two Overwatch accounts. My main one I’m bronze I lose every game, I won 51 games because I played comp in s3,4 and 5… On this account I’m mid silver and winning games. Where am I going wrong
I mean, I only get matched into low-silver at best, but I’m going to guess that you’re being a team player. Which is a good thing for the most part, but in Bronze, you really have to take things into your own hands a lot.
You won’t get healed, so it’s important to memorize all the health pack locations, and to avoid unnecessary chip damage as much as possible.
It helps to be on voice comms, not to strategize (that won’t work) but to call out flankers and such, so they don’t just stand there getting shot in the back of the head. Asking for a group-up between assaults helps too … no guarantees, but it tips the odds.
Self-reliant heroes are easier. Soldier, Reaper, Hog, Hamster, Moira, Lucio.
Also, well, it’s the last week of the season. Variance is going to be extremely high between people trying to do last-minute placements and people deliberately throwing down rank.
My thought process on (some) alt accounts is this:
Players see themselves as better than their rank, so they get a second account. They grind to 25 and immediately do their placements. At least on the forums, the results are typical what you described. However, the system is simply placing you at a possible rank based on very little information.
Players want the higher SR (myself included), so they treat the alt account with a 25 rank and 10 placement matches as a “correct” representation of their SR and skill, instead of a an account with hundreds of hours, comp matches, and placements played.
If this is the case, play your alt exactly like you would your mains for an entire season. Taking into account that you should improve, I’d say you will be within 500 SR or your main at the end of the season, which is essentially the same rank.
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Well the thing is I recently got back playing. Like I said I stopped playing after the early seasons. Now with the news hero’s I feel like my main account is worse then my alt. I’m more successful on alt than the main… On main I’m a roadhog main and get good elims and team play. But on alt I’m a tank buster main and accomplish more on the side that I get yelled at for doing “nothing”
This isn’t significant at all to be honest…As you climb up the ranks there is more and more skill difference between SR.
Honestly there’s little to no difference between people in bronze and people in gold except the ability to aim a little better and a little better decision making.
There is bigger skill difference between low and top plat then there is bronze to gold.
So in short, it doesn’t matter. Your performance isn’t consistent enough to climb, but just enough to hold your ranks at the bottom
Report back in 100 games on the alt. Curious if it’s still higher or attempt number 1000 where folks buy an alt which defaults to Gold then claim barely touching it they deserve the now higher rank when MM just has yet to place you correctly.
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I’m still fairly new to Overwatch even with a 100 leveled account. My win percent is doomfist with 100. I don’t know what that means for how to play doomfist
The longer you play, the less likely the game thinks that you belong higher, even if you improve.
That’s because you have to improve faster than the community of players playing. So if the community gets 10% better, and you get 10% better, your SR will be the same. You have to improve faster than the community.
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you are experiencing 2 things
1 you did not learn the game on the new account so a lot of bad mmr is stacked against the original, it’s not impossible to climb original account but it is definatley more difficult
2 you have been partially carried, and need to play more games to see your “new” accounts mmr get weighted down to the original accounts
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Your number 1 is complete incorrect. You move up or down ~24 SR per win or loss. And they people you play with are at or near your SR. If you cannot move up, that is 100% on you.
If you start a new account as a bronze player, and the new account ends up in silver, you are most definitely going to be in bronze again after your games settle. Your first 25 games will swing your SR quite a bit more, but you’re still a bronze level player.
I have a friend in Silver closing in on Bronze. I have played with her. I see exactly what she does wrong and I call it out so she can improve. Over a 5 game session, she did night and day better and gained 200 SR after those games (in 1 day too).
If you’re in bronze, coaching goes a LONG ways. Get vod reviews, listen, and improve.
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