So i play with all my friends in a six stack. They are all either gold almost plat or plat almost diamond. I main Zarya and go crazy almost every round. Before started playing with them I solo qued myself into silver and now cannot get out. I get close to gold but then we lose 2 games and I lose all the progress. I play like at least a high gold or low plat, at least that’s what I think and they do as well. Does anyone know what I can do to get out of silver?
Post a replay code of a loss and let people tell you a bunch of stuff you did wrong.
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Is this your main account? Cuz It’s not weird being a lvl 100 in silver you just need more experience to learn from
I think that you need to play the game more 
post replay code and we might help you
“And go crazy almost every round” you probably don’t realise when you’re making a mistake. It will take time to improve and rank up, keep playing and try to get rid of any nervous energy. If you’re having a bad overwatch day (aka if your aim or gamesense is off) then don’t play, this will help you climb and stop you from losing Sr. Watch YouTube videos on the heroes that you play to become more familiar with their playstyle, I find that watching higher ranked players also helps me to improve my own gameplay and copy some of the stuff they do. You are not at a plat level if you can’t get out of silver, stop feeling cheated by the system and just try and improve on your own gameplay. I basically one trick Zarya in masters right now and I still don’t know everything about the hero and I still have room for improvement.
Get good? If you lose all progress when you lose 2 games near gold then that’s literally the Performance Based MatchMaking Rating or PBMMR kicking in and keeping you where you should be based on your performance. If you’re stuck in lower tiers, you’re stuck there because you aren’t that good at the game. It’s as simple as that
Since you are stuck in silver there’s most likely something wrong aside from the gameplay like having a bad monitor, slow computer, small mousepad, using high sensitivity for mouse, not having headphones, having bad internet and so on. Having a proper setup is a very important step at improving at the game
Aside from that you should just watch guides and then review your own gameplay. Especially look at when you die and then think how you could’ve not died at that moment. If the answer is something as simple as “We’ll if I was behind the corner behind me” then now you learned where you should’ve been and that you died to mispositioning and now know where you should be the next time that happens
As a Zarya player the 4 most important core things you should focus on are:
- Your positioning, since you have no mobility you can’t reposition in a teamfight. If you overextend, you die. If you don’t go in when you should, you miss out on the kill. It’s very punishing for her to stand in the wrong spot
- Your priorities. You should know who to bubble and when to bubble them. Randomly bubbling targets is like throwing on Zarya. You should never do that and always know when to bubble who. Also you should have priorities on who you focus with your beam. Focusing on the enemy Rein is bad when there’s a flanker hopping on your healers behind you, but it’s also bad to try and chase a Tracer if you need to pressure the enemy Rein so they can’t just have all the space and walk in
- Your reaction times. If you have bad reaction times, you’re not going to do well on Zarya at all. You need to be able to bubble someone behind you after they get stuck. If you can’t do that, you’ll miss a lot of your saves with bubbles and that’ll cost you dearly. Also if you have bad reaction times your non-mobile booty gets punished every time you don’t react to the opponents trying to run on you and you’ll miss your tracking and projectiles more than often
- Tracking/Projectile accuracy. This is the most obvious one, but not even in the top 3 important ones. Simply put if you can’t track a jumping Genji then you’re going to not do good. If you can’t land her projectiles on opponents slightly further away, same thing. You will have to be able to do ADAD spam with crouching and still beam small flankers down
And that’s just general stuff. Watch guides and review your own gameplay for the best way to improve
thanks for the responses. By going crazy I meant getting silver or gold every round
Elo hell is actually real, I trapped myself lower one tricking Genji and some games are unwinnable even if decide to go Widow. I feel like an Overwatch league Widow with how I can wipe teams, but that doesn’t win games… McCree is my only hope once I am done playing limbo, but some of those games I doubt I could have won even with McCree.
Anyways, I digress, if you want an ez climb, make an alt. Skip this torment.
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Play roadhog until 2500.
No other tank has carry potential as roadhog.
Play safe, get hooks and learn how to combo kill with it, and you are on your way to plat.
When I started I was silver. I rocketed up to gold and although I didnt reach plat on this account, I did on both my other accounts.
Once day I decided that I would only play Tracer (love the hero, but am really bad with her). I tanked my SR in glorious fashion and fell to high bronze. This was like 10 seasons ago.
Since then, I have not been able to climb out of silver again. Idk what changed but I do regret that decision. Since then I have given up even caring but I digress.
conspiracy theory here - forced losses by matchmaking
When solo queueing, if I start out with a run of wins (including me having great stats, I’m not being carried or anything), the algos will then give me progressively worse teammates to even it out, instead of matching me against better enemies at a higher skill tier.
Conversely, if I start my session with a bad streak, then suddenly I start getting competent teammates and end up right back at the same rank I started the session with. I almost always begin/end with the same rating, every session, every season, for YEARS.
Win 4, Lose 1… Win 1, Lose 4
Lose 2, Win 5… Lose 5, Win 2
Also, I start each season in the same place (low 2000s), regardless if I turn up a near sweep of placement matches with outstanding stats, or nearly lose every one with nary a medal. Solo queueing = hardstuck.
Not trying to blame them here, but they could possibly be holding you back.
Their ranks might not be telling the full story, and just because they are in gold/plat doesn’t mean they are better than you at the game.
I feel you should play the game by yourself for a while, see how it goes, I always find that when I play in a duo/alone that I always climb more than when I’m in a 6 stack.