Hey everyone,
I’m asking for advice because I don’t know what to do anymore. I’ve tried to take breaks from competitive and simply playing quickplay or stuff in the arcade. I’ve also started replaying Horizon Forbidden West to do something else. However, in Overwatch I am unable to win any games in competitive, I’ve played so many games and every single one of them are defeats, I have only two victories and one tie/draw.
I’ve tried looking at my replays, looking up advice, trying to see what I could do better but nothing is helping. I queue support alone because I don’t have any friends to play with, they all left Overwatch for other games. I’m also unable to find people to play with, no luck on Discord or anything. If I do find someone, they just ghost me after a couple of games or make up some last-minute excuse.
I don’t want to blame my team, as I’m obviously not the best player myself. But I’ve gone all the way from diamond 2 and I’m technically gold now, the only thing preventing me from actually being gold right now is that the demotion protection kicked in. It’s not just that I lose every game, but it’s the fact every game is a constant one-sided slaughter. The damage players on the opposite team will have like 30/40 eliminations each while our damage players have 5/10.
The pattern these last few weeks have been that my team has most healing, but its mostly our damage players that are overwhelmed. I don’t want to use the word diffed but yeah, its horrible. I also struggle with dealing with flankers from the enemy, meaning I die constantly and have to swap heroes just to survive. The tank in the games I’ve had has usually been more evenly matched with the enemy tank, having similar statistics in game. But they often have a tendency to be on a solo-mission alone while everyone else are respawning.
I do a lot of mistakes myself, I play mostly Mercy, Kiriko, Brigitte and I’ve fleshed out into the world of Ana and Moira. I would appreciate more tips to improve myself, as queuing solo is just brutal. I miss having friends or a group to play with, anyway. Sorry for the rant, I guess. It’s just really disheartening to fall all the way from diamond back to gold, every match being a quick one-sided steam roll.
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Well that was just shockingly dark, lol.
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Ah yes, I totally understand.
I would suggest that you find a group of people, which will take a lot of games to do…
They’re out there, and there are some really chill people. I would try to readily group up with people who show positivity and willingness just not to be a total butthead.
That’s not to say you gotta add them, get to know them, test the waters.
However, that won’t solve your winning/losing streak all entirely. Last night I grouped up with my friends and we had almost every single game with a 76 with seeming cheats.
Reported them, moved on, but we had to really win our games with these players who were supposedly our rank and their aim is just almost 100%
Agree or disagree with me however you like about the cheating, however knowing that perspective is not an unpopular one, people are going to get tilted. You’re doing the right thing though, reaching out looking for advice. Unfortunately I wish my advice could help you win more matches. All I am hoping is you feel a bit less discouraged. It’s a shared problem, and there are others out there looking to solve it, not be toxic.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had my share of toxic times, even when trying not to… so give grace to those you actively see trying not to be that way.
Good luck, I hope you get some better games. And people.
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The devs keep trying to reinvent the matchmaking and ranked systems, and do nothing about smurfing and cheating in the game. Well, they announce big numbers every year or so to give the impression they did some great service to legit players…
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I was about to make my own post about this. Typically I float around in diamond and occasionally dip into masters but now I am about to be gold lol. Especially with this drive now I’m getting all kinds of players in my games. Running about 2-12 today so far. So fun!
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I think a rank reset needs to be done at this point because I know some people are at higher ranks than they are (like bought accounts and such) which basically can ruin the team composition, team fights, etc. and some people end up lower than they should be by like a category which ends up making stomps.
There is also something about boosting, deranking, etc. this season.
Also, the current system tends to penalize veterans rank wise and the matchmaking is overall pretty bad in my queues too. Either my team stomps or get stomped. Very rarely do I get a truly balanced (and fun) match.
Rather than fully blaming teammates, I blame the bad ranking system and matchmaking because I get bronzes in plat games and, although they lowkey ruin the teamfights often, unless they bought the account it is not their fault that they got put in a rank way higher than they can deal with.
Imo it is a system/game issue rather than a simple team/teammates issue.
it’s not ur fault, there is nothing you can do.
blame those bad players on your team along side with the horrible matchmaker
its not just you, alot of players are having lose streaks
the rank reset also caused the ranks to be all over the place
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Here is the issue. You pick mercy with randoms on your team. Drop her and only do Kiriko and Brig and it will be a night and day difference
Edit: And the Ana to be used.
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i just got deranked, from plat to silver 3, im solo player, playing since 2016 since game came out, and game keeps putting me against 2000+ sr above our team, over and over, this week, i lost 2000 sr + , from plat 3 to silver 3. and 3 win 43 losses
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Yes. that’s true but, at diamond. your DPS should be atleast somewhat competent and not get single digit elims…
Blame the MM, and the horrible ranking system
OP also, said they played other heros besides Mercy.
It comes down to you just have to play better. Sure, you can have a loss streak but it evens out over time.
This weekend is a good time to play. The casual players are out and ranking up is much easier. Even on heals.
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I feel you went from GM to masters 5 in 3 days lololol
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If a top 500 player can get stuck in high diamond low masters that says a lot about how broken the matchmaking and ranked systems really are. You’d think that in 8 years Blizzard would be able to at least make some progress but every time they announce a milestone or a rework it’s one step forward and five steps back.
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I’m assuming that you got to diamond without grouping/getting boosted.
It’s time to get real. I know you have read a lot of stuff on the internet about how when you’re losing you should take a break, never blame your teammates, focus on your own matches, you hear all this advice yet you ignore the advice your gut instinct is giving you which is this:
Your teammates DO suck, many of your losses are literally because of your teammates. Also you’re not tilted and just need to “take a break,” people get irritated and usually try even harder and play better so that’s a stupid idea. You’re saying that every game is a “one sided slaughter,” tell me, what else could it possibly be other than a broken matchmaker? Could you get better and start ranking back up? Of course, but that’s an absurd solution seeing how you’re saying you’ve been in diamond 2 and now are almost gold. Why were you able to even win a match in diamond 5-2 yet now you are getting slaughtered in plat?
If you want to remain positive just for the sake of remaining positive then go for it, but in order to do that you’ll need to lie to yourself and people around you. I prefer the truth, even if it’s negative (but without acting completely awful about it like wishing people would get sick and die), and that truth is that you are losing matches because your teammates are awful and your teammates are awful only because the matchmaker is completely broken and creating completely unfair matches.
Again, only you know if you were grouped or boosted to diamond, if you were then nothing I said above applies, if you weren’t then it does.
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This is the legit worse weekend to play. The matchmaker is pulling in people who haven’t touched the game in months and asking you to carry them. Skip and come back later.
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Im curious.
What percentage of your total games in a day are GOOD/BALANCED matches?
For me, its very low…maybe 2%.
the other 98% is un-winnable.
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They just did a rank reset. How do you get Bronzes in a Plat game? As a Bronze player (I have been as high as High Silver but that is it) we tend to get placed in bronze/low silver.
I had a 13 minute match with an ana on my team that had 2k healing and 1k dps at the end. It is really frustrating.
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Not a lot.
I would say 35-45%