To start off, I am posting on my alt account rn because I can’t post on my main one for some reason. My main is level 110, and in silver, 1891 SR (tank) to be exact. I won I believe 3 placements out of 5, and got placed at around 1880. Cool, that is a little higher than where I ended in role queue beta. I hop into my first game outside of placements, we won, I get a gold medal, and 2 silver medals as d.va, and lo and behold, I gain a whopping 11 SR. Now, last season I focused on healer, and I got a similar 15 SR for each win, but lost 50SR for each loss. I had maintained well above 50% win rate for healer in role queue (not including placements). Why am I gaining so little when I do decent and win, but losing so much when I do decent and lose. Please help, I am scared to play competitive, I am afraid 2 losses will slingshot me into bronze.
Look there is so many ins and outs of why the system does and doesn’t reward you so I am just gonna skip all that.
What I am going to tell you is, just work on yourself and play the game. Forget about your SR, forget about what your teammates are playing just play and kill the other team, it isn’t as simple as it sounds but it is a good way to improve. I feel your pain I was bronze and now I am diamond, I believe anyone can climb and so should you.
Comp is just a joke mode at the moment.
Who wins is determined by whether your team mates are throwing or not.
Just lost four in a row as tank.
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Playing barrier tank. Team mates all running around and going on mad flanks as I’m somehow focused all the time.
Switch to Zarya, but I’m terrible with her. Still have more success as a psuedo dps than trying to main tank. Nearly win it, but enemy pulls Bastion on us which bamboozles us. Maybe Brigitte wasn’t the best support to play into Bastion… -
Lijiang. Team throws third round despite 99-0 lead. Just constant feeding all game. Funniest moment was McCree dead eyes and gets picked. I was literally five seconds behind him ready to barrier him.
Seriously? He couldn’t wait five damn seconds? -
Kings Row. Enemy tanks are Zarya and Rein.
I’m Orisa, with a team mate on DVA. Strangely enough it doesn’t go very well as the enemy steam roll us as DVA demechs every two seconds Vs the lit up Zarya.
To top it off, our dps are Soldier and McCree whilst enemy dps are Symmeyra and Mei. We didn’t even get a tick on attack as dps just uselessly flanking and doing nothing. -
Route 66. Two rancid dps. Widow and another crap dps. Switched to Sigma, who I need to learn. But still lost.
Basically, if you’re a barrier tank, expect your team mates to do their very best to run past you and die.
Learn Zarya and Hog and Hammond. Then if your dps are Morons you can do their jobs for them.
I’m sticking with tanking for now. Playing support is even more miserable right now.
To Climb out of Gold, you have to play as Masters. To get out of Platinum, you have to play like a GM.
“But Mox!” the say, “I’m so and so rank, and something something I did it.”
Yes. You did. And the moon isn’t always Blue, is it?
There’s too many factors that most just ignore, in order to pull the company line that all is well, because X GM climbed.
In short? Yes. You can climb. It’s just highly unlikely and very improbable, due to the system (the 1 of a kind system that no other FPS game uses, as it’s garbage) Overwatch Devs thought up, that you’re going anywhere. No matter what your stats say. 
Not at all true.
Still not true.
CSGO uses a similar system.
I get that you’re mad that you can’t climb and feel as if you’re being held back, but I can tell you if you deserve a certain rank then you will climb. Bronze, Silver, Gold are easy ranks to climb out of but you need to put in time to become better than everyone at said rank so you can climb, do you follow me? You do not need to be a Masters player to get out of Silver, a 2200 Gold player can climb out of Silver with minor issues, do you know why? Better aim, better positioning, better game sense.
There’s our brave defender of the norm now! Atta boy.
I specifically said, people can climb. I didn’t say they couldn’t. I did say it’s highly unlikely and improbable.
Play better all you like. Better aim, better positioning, better game sense. Have it in spades. That doesn’t automatically mean you’re going to climb, just because you’ve those 3 things.
You’re leaving out far too many variables that some come across, and others do not.
Not true your sr is a pretty accurate representation of your skill provided you play enough games
Which is why virtually no other FPS on the entire planet abides by such a system. I see.
How many is enough games?
Lost five in a row on tank, then tried a sixth game.
Won it.
I noticed that our Symmetra had ult at least twice per round in the 2-0 on Tibet.
Hmmm.
Saw the cards at the end.
Our “silver” Symmetra had 93% kill participation.
Yup, 93%.
Either that’s a smurf, or that Symmeyra ain’t going to be silver for long…
Also helped that we had a Mei as well. Enemy dps were basically throwing by not playing those two dps on a koth map.
Calling overwatch an fps at this point is beyond a stretch it’s a moba and nearly all mobas use such a system. Even then plenty of fps do as well. There is no conspiracy just get better
Oh. It’s a stretch calling it a First Person Shooter.
It’s a moba.
So you say it’s a Moba. NoBanjoHanjo seems to be saying it’s a shooter.
Got it. Thanks.
About 100 hours if you want a truely stable idea 50 to get a general idea
Calling it a shooter is outdated prehaps it used to be it certainly isn’t now. The meta is Orisa Sigma Doom Reaper Moria +other supp
At this point nothing even really shoots anymore
Overwatch is a colorful team-based shooter game starring a diverse cast of powerful heroes. Travel the world, build a team, and contest objectives in exhilarating 6v6 combat.
They must have meant moba.
I don’t care what it’s calling itself it doesn’t play like a shooter at all it plays like a moba
I troll so much just like most players. You can’t realistically climb since this games so boring only fun parts are to troll…
You may gain 200SR but we will troll you back down.
Btw i have like 18 accounts so DW.
EASY! Easy. Relax. You can ‘not care’ all you like. No problem from me. I agree with you. It must be a Moba. Like DotA2. League. Etc.
Because when I pick up DotA2 and Rikimaru it up? I think 'This is just like when I play 76.
Go home, Alayla. You’re drunk.
You mean the same 76 that has been out of meta and unless for over a year?
EASY! Easy. Relax. You can ‘not care’ all you like. No problem from me. I agree with you. It must be a Moba. Like DotA2. League. Etc.
Because when I pick up DotA2 and Rikimaru it up? I think 'This is just like when I play Reaper/Mei/Junk/Hanzo/Widow/Genji/Sym/Fist.
Go home, Alayla. You’re drunk.
Better?
Though I don’t think the gap is gold to masters, a player must perform significantly higher than his or her skill level to climb. 2400s must beat 2800+ to get to plat. 2600s must beat 3000+ to get to diamond.