Yeah, but the problem is, if you sink low enough, people stop playing as a team. Suddenly you are completely trapped and it is nearly impossible to escape back to where people play as a team again. Bronze is hell, man. I never want to go back. I don’t even want to go back to silver, but here I am. My current loss streak has gone on for 4 days now.
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Junkertown (will edit to add more later)
At around 6 minutes in you ran into the enemy doing a lost push, giving them free ult charge.
Sometimes accepting that a point is lost is better than it is running blindly in alone trying to hold.
On attack I think you’d have been better off going Zen for solo heal, your team was heavily dps/mobility, so as Lucio you’d get no value. (Zen has discord to help getting pick+ranged heals)
You chose to ult when your teammates were critical, instead of when the enemy Soldier ulted. You could’ve used Sound Barrier doing enemy Tac Visor and possibly gotten point in/outstalled it.
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Sometimes accepting that a point is lost is better than it is running blindly in alone trying to hold.
Good point. Need to wait for the group rather than “stall” for time pointlessly when the stalling doesn’t do any good.
On attack I think you’d have been better off going Zen for solo heal, your team was heavily dps/mobility, so as Lucio you’d get no value. (Zen has discord to help getting pick+ranged heals)
That’s actually really interesting. ZEN would have provided less healing, but would have made the DPS even more effective. We would have outkilled their spawn rate. Good comment on lucio as well. I’ll remember it.
You chose to ult when your teammates were critical, instead of when the enemy Soldier ulted.
Countering enemy ults is more important than preserving momentum by keeping multiple teammates alive?
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My only advice is don’t worry about wins/losses, they are mostly random and out of your control. People fluctuate by 500+ SR going on winning and losing streaks, while playing in more or less the same manner on the same heroes.
To rank up you just need the odds to eventually align in your favor.
I do agree with the question, however when soldier tac visor’d your team was very close to the gates, perhaps a sound barrier there would’ve gotten you to the point?
I do agree with keeping momentum, I worded my comment as if the Tac visor happened after the critical teammates, my bad 
edit: As for Zen vs Lucio, start with Zen for many dps, if your team ends up needing healing a lot then try Lucio.
Thats usually what I do (Well usually I’d Zen / Mercy for a lot of DPS, but Mercy is terrible for solo healing now)
Zen is esp good if your dps have some kind of self heal/mobility to get to healing (Tracer, Reaper, Soldier, Mei. I believe your tank was Hog so he’s basically fine without big heals due to Take a Breather)
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Curious, as someone who would like to do more comp, why is this, is it the number of “non-serious” players during those times?
In the weekends students/kids often play. That and casual players relaxing in their weekend c:
I just made grandmaster today and if it helps my best advice if you’re anything in platinum or below?
One trick a hero of your choice to get that pbsr. Cause people in those levels don’t start understanding positions and ultimates until mid diamond. If reaper is your favorite go on twitch or YouTube and start looking at vod videos from the number 1 or 2 for those heroes. I did that with zenyatta and then I started learning other roles later.
Well nobody should be taking this game seriously, considering how much it revolves around randomness and chance.
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Okay ill watch the video and see how many issues/corrections i can spot.
Round 1-
1: your team only has one tank on defence.
2: you could have ice walled the entrance instead of shooting cans at the start, the ice walled entrance will delay the enemies approach helping you win the game.
3: you faught the enemy head on when you could have flanked and picked off their supports.
4: On the first death you could have chosen orisa against the enemy team to be more impactful.
5: You dont focus for the headshots when you freeze the enemy.
6: need to work on your aim and you need to lower your mouse Sens, your mouse movement pulses in speed it doesnt feel smooth.
7: Save your ult for when the enemy is in a group not just dropped on the payload.
8: Your team was mostly dead and you went in there as lucio and got insta killed.
9: Since changing to Lucio you have even less weight against the enemy, Mei can be used as a shield tank if done correctly.
10: if you were still mei you could have ice wall blocked the D.va bomb from killing your team.
Round 2-
1: With this team comp a shield would have been useful, again probably Orisa as she can shoot pharah, use halt and more importantly block 3x of the enemies ults.
2: Lucio has more value if there are more immobile hero’s, we only have one and thats hog.
3: If your team are dead, dont engage.
Match end and final notes:
You need to think on whats going to be effective against the enemy team, if you need someone to be a tank or medic just ask in chat.
Try practice being a tank, having experience in unpopular roles can win you the game in scenario’s like this.
Good points are:
you know how to communicate in V chat.
you know how to counter ults with lucio which is great.
you check the tab. . . i hope its not the look at your medals tho ;o
Minor note: you sound far away from your mic, try tweaking settings and moving it closer.
Match 2
Round 1:
1:There was not discussion or planning for the match and you just jumped straight in the fight.
2:Orisa or rein would have been good here, if you want counter DPS then McCree.
3: dont . . . why are you shooting pharah as a reaper? 100% of the time reaper should be flanking. you cant close the gap attacking head on.
4: hold your shots for when you get close to the enemy or they will know your there.
Round 2:
1: D.va can do a good job of countering pharah.
2: Shields yay!
3: you need better flanking routes, use the enemies blind spot to your advantage.
4: you dont have to keep shooting while D.va is getting out of her mech it does nothing but waste your ammo, you could have used this time to reload.
5:Again your ult would have been more effective in the enemies blind spot or while they are reoccupied.
6: Group up
Round 3:
1: Save your biotic fields for 1v1’s like with that pharah.
2: Save your biotic field for when you actually get hit not on a whim or it will be wasted.
3: When shooting tanks as reaper focus the headshots to multiply your damage especially if your that close.
4: Here: https://i.imgur.com/MlyTdkg.jpg you could have shadow stepped to the enemy side and flanked, with the percentage left you could have made a bigger impact shooting in the enemies blindspot instead of staggering.
5: If they are too far away to shoot as reaper why are you shooting? if your on the point shoot the enemy thats on the point not the enemy you cant reach.
Match end.
Work on fixing these and you should be good. 
Just watched the start of the game. Lets start with that. Without a proper tank you shouldnt be playing this aggressive because it really dosent do you any favors. Even if you managed to kill someone they spawn so fast it dosent even matter. You run out in the open while mei has the right click. If you stayed somewhere around cover and flank routes you can pick of targets or provide front line damage. I knew instantly that you are going to die in a few seconds and it happened. Sure you can say that you wore helping the doomfist but you can help him from cover and range as well. Not to mention a half decent widow would have sniped you instantly.
Alright, I’m still terrible. New video. I am noticing that the games I win, are games I call out who needs to die. Games I lose, people are firing randomly and no one is finishing off any of the enemies.
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Hiya,
You’re doing totally the right thing putting some vids up for review.
I am currently lower Sr than you, but have still spotted some errors (A lot easier to do sitting watching a recording than in heat of the game…)
Hopefully some better players will pipe up.
- I’d have stayed behind Rein. Applies to the whole team. Suffice to say that if they had a good Widow you’d be dead in front of his shield.
- Wasted healing orb at 02.33. Even with a pathetic 50 hps, Mercy has McCree covered.
- Nice idea trying to get their Mercy. Some better players may utterly disagree with me, but I’ll let them comment. At 02.42 you could have clawed her in the face to finish her off. Melee is something that I am looking to add more of in my my dueling.
- 02.50, not quite sure why heading away from the fight for a few seconds?
- 03.30, team mates massively over extended, not using Rein shield. McCree died. Maybe you could have helped them out a bit and maybe keep them alive? Hard to support at lower ELO for sure.
- 03.52, another wasted orb. Surprised it wasn’t at least a damage one.
- 08.50 - not an error on your part. Just amazed that the enemy team attacked as a group and stuck together. You sure this is gold? Looks like some kind of advanced diamond+ tactics here…
- 09.10 - how’d they do that? They used advanced group up and attack together tech, whilst your team was hopelessly split. They’re also ulitising uber advanced 2-2-2 team comp.
- Those Moira damage orbs sure can sneak up on you. You had fade available to escape until your own orb was ready. These things happen.
- Not sure about Lucio pick here. Team needed to group up anyway.
- 10.25. Wow, I thought that you were a goner here. Remember that your gun has no fall off. If you are getting behind their shield, unless you can secure a squishy kill you’re just feeding enemy support ult and putting yourself at incredible risk.
- 10.31 - oh, you did die…
- Oh dear. I don’t think that Lucio is working. Also you need to be with your team and using your shield. “Eskay” can do mad flanks and solo kill enemy squishies, but he’s got GM aim and game sense.
- 11.28 - easy to feel this way during a game. Looking at it with a fresh pair of eyes, you’ve just fed 3 times in about a minute and contributed very little value. Rein is your lynchpin. i’d have stayed Moira to keep him up.
- 12.00 - not a Mei expert by any means. But I’d suggest that you place walls to split their front line off to give your team a quick 6v3 fight. IMO you’re wasting that wall just using it on their entire team each time.
- 12.09 - better. You’ve isolated the Zarya for your team to focus down.
- 12.06 - you’re squirting that gun like dry ice at a concert. I think you need to think more about effective weapon range.
- 15.03 - you need to practice head shotting frozen targets. I recommend death match (I like 4v4) for most efficient way to practice mechanics. My Lucio accuracy climbed from 22% to 27% after just 20 death matches, each less than 5 minutes. Vast and fast improvement.
- 20 minutes on. So painful to watch this. Nobody in low ELO seems to have heard of a reset. I remember when I was at my height of 2350 and we had full comms and when we lost a fight, the survivors would die quickly or escape and all 6 of us would group up and attack again. This is just constant feeding, dps in front of the shield, etc.
- 22.30. Not sure why you went on a flank. It’s not like you’re going to surprise them with a tac visor or death blossom. You lost several seconds out of the fight.
You’ve got the same issues that I’ve identified in my own play, which I am working on:
You’re not active at the right times. You’re MIA going on mad flanks when your team needs healing.
You’re wasting healing due to wasting resource/ orbs.
Also,
You die far too often. Didn’t see a screen at the end, but I’m guessing your kd was worse than 3-1. This is what I aim for as Lucio and Moira as they are both very survivable heroes. You get isolated far too often in bad positions and ganked by 2+ of the enemy.
Your Mei mechanics need improvement. Both wall placements and projectile aiming.
Anyway, glad to be of, hopefully, some help.
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Weekends in ranked games are something like weekend drivers. Pain to deal with.
Same goes for any multiplayer game.
Weekends also mean a lot of free time for certain groups of people. Considering these groups are usually hungover/drunk or after 3rd energy drink for a day it’s not going well.
If not this, then they just waste more time because they have more free time and no idea what to do with themselves.
One little app that might help you is Oversumo. If only in terms of tracking your deaths per 10 minutes. It’s a mobile app you can download for free.
Unfortunately it rates performance based on deaths per 10 minutes and then stats per life. This means that you can be far too passive, contribute very little and still get an amazing high %. I’d just use it as a quick guide to survivability per 10 minutes.
Just got results back for tonight’s games. 3.21 death per 10 minutes over 3 games.
Dorado died twice to enemy Widow as not strafing by default. Gave her easy shots.
Died twice on Volskaya. One to a flanking Mei that I was too dozy to fade from (Playing late at night). Second death to a Zen charge shot to the face as just slightly at wrong angle behind the Rein shield.
Died twice on Anubis. Once over extending to support a DVa 1v6 enemy team and again when trying to delay first point capture. Each death was avoidable in hindsight, but tiredness had set in and mistakes occured.
Look at every single death you suffer and work out what you could have done 3-4 seconds earlier to avoid it (I say 3-4 seconds as that is often when the positioning error occurs that leads to your demise).
Caveat, you can survive like a cockroach after the apocalypse, but if your dps can’t get kills you’re still in trouble. If your team are real bad, games are pretty much unwinnable unless you’re a top 500 dps god. But if you at least stay alive you’ll not be throwing winnable games.
Another thing that helps is duo queuing. Won 5 on the trot in comp. First two I had a Dva and Moira main. I went Lucio and we covered all the support duties. Had solid teams both games.
Latest 3 wins duoed with a Rein main. He was able to initiate and make space as he could be confident that I’d back him up with a yellow orb or coalescence beam. Again we were lucky in that we had a solid 4 stack (All dps instalock) with us in all 3 games, (even though we didn’t group with them), that followed up and got the kills.
Not sure about the whole “weekend” thing. I can understand the game being more unpredictable, but as it’s a zero sum game, surely your odds of winning shouldn’t change?
Just play characters that you’re good at. Win or lose. Sooner or later you’ll climb up. Have fun
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Just thought I’d share that I typically get 6-7 k:d as Moira. If you want to take it to the next level you should strive much higher than 3:1 on her.
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No idea your SR. That’s 3-1 on average, including bad games where you’re utterly outclassed and have no chance. I’ve had a run of good games, so closer to 4-1 now.
But 3-1 is a good first step. Same as you’d consider good for a dps.
And sometimes when your Rein is a pussy and backs away from the payload all game and your pro Widow and pro Hanzo team mates are miles away and the other dps are on mad flanks, sometimes you’ve just got to obstruct the payload yourself. Note, this may impact your survivability…
Yes average. I’m in master. If I play down in lower tier that easily shoots up to 10, 15, 20+. Your teammates don’t really matter. Just adjust your play accordingly but don’t do anything stupid.
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Rather than not learning Zen… The absolute best way to get value out of him in lower Elo is discord a target that they are already going after rather than expecting them to follow yours
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