Anytime someone in high ranks makes a youtube video they always seem to push the narrative that being in low ranks is some sort of choice or that something is wrong with the player.
It’s extremely disheartening to see coaches put someone down just because they are below Master.
It is a little odd but also, depending how it’s presented in coaching/educational content, right
First step to improving is accepting you’re not very good, and probably don’t know a lot. Then, you can start learning.
Low master is top 500 now with the accidental breaking since the reset. Diamond is now flooded with GMs, at least in EU.
Not sure what other regions look like but to say anyone outside of t500 is bad is a silly take.
Masters to Gold play the same in most cases.
Rank in OW isn’t skill based in most cases and explains the complaints of massive gaps in performance of teams. It’s a joke, I’ve played t500 GM, to Silver for friends.
A lot of people can hit shots really well in lower elo. A lot of lower elo people are really good.
It’s also the same people who all cried like the world was ending if their elo got reset, so we “soft reset” elo which did nothing. Did absolutely nothing.
This is kind of true, Masters-Gold do have the same “playstyle” (no need for comms, good team comps, etc.) but I would say that as the ranks go higher till GM, players will become generally slightly better at everything overall.
I will say that some lower ranked players have the capability to play amazing, but often it isn’t consistent for them to climb.
The rank reset was one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard of because it threw the entire reason why we work for our ranks. Imagine if chess elo was “reset” because people were hardstuck, that’s just dumb. If anything combined with hitbox/hp changes I think a lot of competitive players (at least in high ranks) left (including me, but not really entirely sure if this is true).
To OP though, I would say it depends on the context because like someone else said, you do have to accept that you are bad at the game before you can become better, heck even players in top 500 have room to improve. Noticing that you could have done things better in a game allows room for growth. That being said belittling someone and saying things like “you’re gold/plat/dia/masters (etc.) shut up” is definitely rude especially if the person is trying to get better and acknowledges that.
The pieces in chess do not change the way they move and the game is consistent. The only factor that changes is player knowledge and strategy. Overwatch changes every few months. The rating you were at in OW1 season 3 is most certainly not a good representation of how you’d be playing in OW2 season 11.
Not only what you said but… Your rating in chess is a 1v1 game. Imagine chess as a 5V5 and talk about ratings.
It’s not a narrative, if you’re in the lower ranks you’re doing something wrong.
However, Overwatch is unique in that it has so MUCH cheating at higher ranks the person saying it is probably a jerk who cheats and that’s the only reason they’re at the high ranks.
I don’t think this comes as a big shocker like most high rankers pretend it is. Most players in low ranks know they deserve to be there. GM’s get confused when we blame our teammates just as much as they do in their games.
Because to them we are all the same trash. The same way a plat player might not tell the difference between a bronze and a silver. We would probably give them the same advice; just shut up and carry them.
But we expect the same level of fairness in our games as GM’s do. We know we aren’t the best but we still want competitive games with teammates and opponents who are somewhere near our same level of skill. It’s disappointing when the matchmaker fails to provide that.
whos gonna tell em…
Impossible. Elitism is integral part of this game, OP.
Especially because game doesn’t actually become better, as player improves…unless one smurfs, of course. One could argue that it becomes worse, as metas get ever stricter with rank.
My own take is that high rank players basically have to put down low rank players to justify all efforts they did put in game, as nobody likes to be in position of a moron, who tried so hard and got so far, but in the end, it didn’t even matter.
DAMN YOU
it’s now in my head for the rest of the day
as someone who has been to mid diamond all the way down to silver its worse the lower you get due to lack of comms and poor choices of your teammates. so its really difficult to go higher and its not your fault. It is 100% your teams fault and this games designers fault