Maybe switch to less aim intensive heroes while you learn to hit your shots!
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Forgot to add: try picking up s76. I found him to be intuitive and, frankly, easy to play after spending so much time on Sombra. He really helps me hone my aim, as well. If you really get good with him, he can punish the disorganization often seen in lower ELO too, imo.
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You say you sent in vods and tried to improve, but you aren’t demonstrating the mindset of an eager learner. I started to climb when I hunkered down and focused solely on my gameplay and setting milestones; not worried about my rank. I climbed with Tracer seasons like 4-8 from Silver to Plat. I focused on thing like improving my tracking. I did drills and calibrated my sensitivity until I could circle strafe while shooting and jumping so that it felt second nature. Going into a match i set milestones for things like least amount of deaths and pulse bomb sticks. Yes! I stuck 4/7 pulse bombs this match! Last match It was only 2/5. Yes! I only died 5 times this match! Last time it was 11! Hmm, I only had Bronze damage though, I should probably focus on crits next match. Hmm, I die a lot trying to go after Hanzo. I should probably just save my pulse bomb for him or flank him.
Overtime, without realizing it, I had climbed. People were accusing me of being a smurf in Gold because nobody plays Tracer in Gold. Improvement is measurable and quantifiable. Step back and think about what character you want to play better with, not what will get you out of Bronze. In time, it will happen naturally if you actually improve.
Since i joined to Competitive i have been Silver, I ranked sometimes gold, and sometimes i went down to Bronze, most of time i am silver.
So i am someone who goes in and out, then i can guarantee you are doing something wrong, if you excel your team then you are suppose to be the one who finds a way to get out… changed heroes, solve situations, make the game winnable for your team. It is very hard to get out of bronze, ppl down there are SPECIAL… GL with those Special. One thing, practice with either hanzo or Widow for 30 days, then go as below as 500 SR, then you will eventually climb up.
I’d get outta bronze pretty easily these days, but it would have been hard when I was that level.
I play a lot of Roadhog and I just like to muarude around the map looking for people to kill, I just wonder around where I feel that the enemy would never expect to find a tank, I’d imagine you’d be able to play dps like that and get outta bronze.
Focus on improving your mechanics and you can really get away with some very risky plays.
I’m a platinum hanzo player. I made a account to play heroes other than hanzo in competitive, because im kinda a one trick. I placed it in bronze playing mostly hog/zarya and reaper. I know i know, im probabaly boosted. but from that point, i just started playing widow, who i know i have a lot of hours on, but i am terrible at her and cant play her in comp. I managed to place 1800 from borderline bronze, 1500, so yes, it is possible with the mechanics. If i played only tanks i still could have done it i bet too, but i was just impatient and instalocked dps. I am now around 2300 on it, but it was a hard climb for sure. Elo hell is most definitley a thing, dont let people tell you it isnt. I was at 1900 or ages, and i even resorted to a couple matches of hanzo just to get out of it, its god awful, just seeing your team walk into the enemy and dying. Just get better mechanics, play hanzo/widow/hog/soldier, anything that is independent and can self sustain.
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It always been that way but they realise the Season 1 bracket wasn’t wide enough
But at the same time, these people are the same people who make comments like “like you belong where you belong”
Like you, I have made improvements but High Rank individuals will always come along and throw insulting comments trying to put people down by looking down on them.
Well it depends on what you are doing and to what to what level of MMR you are playing at, at bronze.
Bare in mind there are derankers and smurf players down there… as long as you play to win, you can climb so long as you win your matches.
I spoke too soon… here comes the rude commentary… whilst I agree with the comment ‘Get good’, you are also forgetting the fact that the Match maker system is also matching people of similar Skill Level/Value so they should be balance in terms of aim and other statistical value.
At best he should be winning 50/50 of his matches. The problem is actually getting a positive win rate to climb
Play your main… play something you are good at and I never been in Bronze but just play to win.
This is a better way of commenting… like you aren’t coming off as a rude jerk and yes I agree, the matchmaker is doing its job, regardless of Rank it will still find someone of your skill level. (MMR and SR are two different things) even with his terrible stats, he can still climb if he gets lucky and win matches
You know… there is a better way of putting it… I mean Team Work won’t exist in Bronze (never been there so I don’t know…)
but what he could do is play to win, if his personal skill is above the team he should be able to beat them so long as he plays a hero he is experienced and good at, alternatively he can play as a team but each mistake and selfish that is taken by himself or his team mates will cost him the match.
Also it is knowing when to stop, I stopped bothering chasing Sr, if I do climb, I will stop at a value I am happy with
This is true <3
I want to point out that over on EU, Gold Level there means no mics, no communication, do what you have to do and then shout heavy thick accent comments and insults and be sexist and racist to others.
The Gold over here is at a plat level where they are and your matches are a lot higher quality. Likewise Korea is a whole league/tier above the rest of the world.
Also artificially dropping your rank to play hard isn’t helpful since it just creates this false ego that climbing is really easy then in fact people have been losing matches on purpose playing like a fraction of their full abilities then playing to max capability and stomping people because they are 100x better than those at those rank.
You can artificially drop to Bronze because it means by time you do get there match maker is finding people who are naturally weaker than you as oppose to losing your matches whilst still doing your best to drop down to bronze.
(hope that made sense)
You can still screw up with brig so… probs not a good advice
This is true and people don’t realise it. Like I climbed with Widowmaker but to avoid people throwing I have to play other rules and since people are unwilling to support, I end up on the support role which works and doesn’t work because of team mates.
(sorry I can’t shoot through a wall and hit you Genji… you are miles ahead)
In psychoanalyzing everyone’s comments, you missed my overall point. It doesn’t matter if this player is bronze or not. He is complaining that he cannot win, and when given constructive criticism he shuts it out and says he is being rank shamed. This player has done this in thread after thread, check the post history. The problem isn’t that he is bronze, the problem is that he believes he is entitled to climb just because he has sunk several hours into the game.
The point is, if he wants to climb, he needs to focus on improving his own mechanics first before blaming the matchmaker.
You know how he can get a positive win rate? By improving his accuracy. 18% on Ana, 15% on doom, 26% on Sombra (his main)? Rather than looking for excuses, aim train, and he will at least be able to get out of 1000sr.
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Only if you choose to see the negative rather than just being happy about your accomplishment.
Seeing the struggles of one less accomplished and seeing that as a personal insult is something you might want to take a look at.
Kind of like every time a Moira or a Reinhardt gets mad that they are the top DPS in a game THEY ARE WINNING.
If he can’t get out, fine. Those are his struggles. But don’t you dare say nobody can get out of that elo -
The second someone decides to blame the matchmaker and not accept their ineptitude, there no longer exists any struggles to be seen. This person is entitled and is straight up whining. That, is the insult. An insult to anyone who was capable of a gut check and realizing their mistakes and putting in the work and improving.
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This “Don’t you dare”, language is exactly what I’m talking about.
It’s silly vanity to get worked up when someone is frustrated by something you’ve accomplished.
Nothing worse than a sore winner.
See it all over Overwatch.
I will agree because at best the system will balance his wins and his losses, stuff like player mistake from team mates is beyond his control and yeah I get the sense that there is trolling.
18% on Ana is too suspiciously low… even for a Bronze rank… as well as Doomfist, Sombra is ok… considering her wide spread…
But look at his statistic… and nature of his comments. I don’t think he is serious nor really trying to win… like if this is his stats for playing seriously… then he really is bad but other than that… it is likely he is just purposely throwing shots and stuff and not really playing you know… mechanically on purpose
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Nothing worse than a sore loser who does nothing but whine. Coddle him more why don’t you, but you aren’t doing his SR any favors by babying him.
And way to totally ignore my point about him blaming the matchmaker and failing to own up to his mistakes.
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I will start by trying to be helpful.
You have decent play time on S76 and your win percentage is a little below 50%.
So if you one trick 76 and get your win % over 50% you should be able to climb for as long as you can maintain a 50%+ win rate.
Now let’s address the rest of the post.
The only people in bronze are those that are throwing or truly suck at the game.
If you are not throwing, you have to work on not dying. Getting to silver does not require having any mechanical skill it just requires you to stay alive more than the average bronze player.
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Dude, if you’re angry because you’re doing well…
Seek help.
You’re an inspiration to anyone with bad vision. My vision is very bad as well, I just don’t like to advertise it. I prefer the process of overcoming my bad vision.
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No one is angry. You’re just cherry picking for any way to deflate my points without actually addressing them. Bless your heart.
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Best of luck to you. If you need any advice feel free to add me. You can overcome it.
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I’m sure you can overcome it too just keep your head up and do what you can.
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I would love to be able to jump into a time machine and see where I could climb to during say season 3 when everyone and their grandmother was TERRIBLE at this game.
I recently rewatched a vod I posted for review like 18 months ago. It was like 2200 SR. I am pretty sure that bronze players today would laugh at how bad everyone was playing there.
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