I am climbing just as the developers intended. I placed in Plat 5 and slowly but surely, through lots of sweat, tears, and hard work, I have climbed all the way up to Gold 2. You can also achieve this, you just have to believe in yourself and try hard enough.
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have you tried carrying more? i hear that helps
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No, I haven’t tried that, I will keep it in mind. Thank you.
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You’ve given me hope. Thank you.
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As hilarious as sad as true
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i don’t need any efforts to do that!
even a simple patch (just like the one yesterday) does that for me! A perfect 15 game loss streak right after the patch. Even though i was winning just right before the patch. haha
For how many hours a day you play the game to not be able to handle plat5 guys?
TimTheTatman came back to Overwatch 2 and even he was getting diffed in Plat, despite being a former Top 500. He said his Plat - Diamond games were harder than his Top 500 games were in Overwatch 1.
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Probably because he’s not only washed, past T500s will never be better than current T500s.
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In fairness tim the platman is well known to have been heavily boosted in ow1.
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You can’t really compare OW1 ranks to OW2 ranks. Sure the names are the same but not only is it a completely different game, but everyone has been progressively getting better.
Maybe he should just play bastion. :^)
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If everyone has been progressively getting better shouldn’t there be more Grandmasters than ever? Shouldn’t they adjust the ranks to reflect that? If you get placed in Plat, but Plat is the new GM, shouldn’t there be some indication of that?
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Ranks aren’t absolute, theyre relative. If everyone gets better, the relative differences between ranks stay the same.
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So what is Bronze now? Gold? Shouldn’t there be Wood rank below Bronze if everyone in Bronze plays like a Gold?
Bronze is Bronze. It’s the worst x% of players. And Silver is x% of a bit less bad players.
What part of “relative” do you not understand?
If everyone gets better, doesn’t that include Bronze?
Yes, but getting better doesn’t make a bronze become a silver.
He needs to get as good as a silver, but the silver is getting better as well.
So if everyone gets better, you need to become “more better” then everyone else.
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NightKnight answered it pretty succinctly.
But, I think you misunderstood me from the get-go. Just because everyone is progressively getting better doesn’t mean that there are more GM’s than ever. You can get better at the game, and your cohorts in the same rank can get better at the game.
But if you’re hardstuck you’re still going to be hardstuck because you’re only getting better at the game at the same rate that everyone else is. That is if you’re passively getting better rather than analyzing your own gameplay.
TL;DR Gold and Plat from OW1 are different in terms of skill compared with OW2. Even though they have the same name, it doesn’t mean the skill level is the same.
This ^.
So what I’m getting at is that if you stopped playing the game and everyone else got better, wouldn’t that mean you should belong in a lower rank due to rank inflation? So if you placed Gold, but everyone in Gold plays the way that Diamond used to play, you now need to play like a Diamond to be in Gold, and if you play like a Gold you should be in Bronze? If so, where should Bronze players go, since there is no Rank below Bronze?
Depends honestly. Since placements are a thing, if you stopped playing and came back and lost a bunch of games, then you’ll get placed lower. If you win all of your matches and you’re doing fine in the lobbies that you were placed in, regardless of them being the same rank as they were previously or not, that is where you belong. If you are excelling and winning games then you probably belong in a higher rank. In theory you should be placed where you belong. Sometimes people’s ranks can become inflated, but if that’s the case they’ll lose a bunch of games and end up where they belong.
I think you’re reading too much into this and just confusing yourself.