I’ve been playing, a lot, lot of ranked games lately.
I ended my season 14 in gold 2, but I managed to get in diamond 4, I was so proud, and wanted to go higher of course !
But for some reason … EVERYTHING IS GOING TERRIBLY WRONG !!
I’m a support main, I play mainly Lifeweaver, Ana, Lucio, I’m clearly not the best, but I’m also far from being the worst you’ve seen. I only play in solo as I got no one to play with anymore … I got anxiety from talking to strangers so I never use voice chat, but I do listen to calls that can be made.
Lately, I’ve been having THE WORST OF THE WORST team mates you could ever have, having a ~15 loses streak (btw, the one who said that lose streak modifier was a good thing, should be fired).
Between players discovering their hero for the 1st time, tank or dps having such an ego they don’t want to switch even if they keep getting destroyed, and then blame the rest of the team for not helping, AND THEN THROWS, games where your team gets STEAMROLLED into shadow realm, not 1 time, not 2 time BUT 4 TIMES IN A ROW, in 4 different games !
You might think something like “Don’t blame your team” or even “Just get good” … I know stats means somewhat nothing, but when I have almost 10k heals with LW on the 1st round and the tank going 2-10 because he keeps going in ALONE, and then BLAMES THE HEAL FOR NOT FOLLOWING, while HIS backline is also getting DESTROYED !!
I guess I just needed to vent, somehow, going from diamond 4 to nearly plat 5 in 2 days hit me pretty hard.
Not sure if the matchmaking is broken, if PEOPLE are broken or if it’s my fault entirely, I just wanted to let everything out.
If you got any advice too, I’ll take it.
Take some break and watch the replays, try to figure out what you could do better. You can also try to look for game company for ow discords servers, I have a same problem that I don’t feel comfortable to talk to strangers, so if you have even one player who you get to know and can talk with, that’s good
we have been saying about how bad the matchmaker is and the throwers/trolls/cheaters players don’t get banned at all. (Please do your part and report under performing dps/trolls/feeders)
i am glad you are feeling it now, No there is nothing you can do to win.
The Matchmaker is really really bad rn , this season has been the worst it ever has been
I’m already working really hard on myself, I’ve never thrown a game, never trolled, never left even if team mates were blaming each others.
Playing only heroes I 100% know how to play and that can be beneficial to the team, litterally doing everything I can to climb up, but if THAT isn’t enough, I don’t know what to do anymore
don’t respond to him, he is a known troll. whenever someone starts a thread about the Matchmaker or Match quality . he comes in and gaslight you into thinking it’s your fault
I’ve been trying to get in touch with some people to play, the first time, it was fine but they quit playing the game some time after …
And yesterday, I fought my anxiety to get in a discord call with complete random people … and it was the WORST choice as we kept losing and we had an otp genji who was so delusional, and kept getting diffed every single game
As for the replays, I kinda did something like that, I had a higher ranked player watching me play as LW, bro litteraly said “Hey, your LW is Diamond like level, that’s great !” and when I told him I was platinum he said “WHAT ??” and then he watched other games, and couldn’t believe all the teams I had were catastrophic lmao
Trolling post to call someone a troll… Interesting tactic.
Either way. I totally agree, too often match quality is poor.
This isnt the responsibility of or due to the actions of the match maker. Being able to separate the 2, identify the issues and focus on what you can control and change are key.
Overwatch is a game where you can win and lose in your head. Go in with the wrong mentality, the wrong ideas, playing the blame game… You’ll never succeed.
No legitimate coach worth their salt, with your best intentions at heart will ever tell you something like that. They might say you can get to diamond if you focus on X Y Z but never that, because it just isn’t helpful or true.
They are just telling you what they think you want to hear, rather than actually helping you. That is gaslighting you.
This game manipulates u and messes with your mental health. Delete it and go have a happy life mate, life is too short to waste it playing something that makes you angry most of the time. Sit down, take a deep breath and think about it…how often do you actualy run into a decent match that is balanced and fun? Go play something else and stop giving these scummy devs money and ur time.
He wasn’t even a coach, just a random guy I happen to talk to on a Discord server, he just wanted to see me play, and saw my gameplay, then he even came to play with me, trying to help me but even he couldn’t do anything because of the team we had.
Maybe one day people will understand that online F2P/PVP games with microtransactions are all biased and manipulative. They’re not there to help you win or have fun matches, but to keep you in the game as long as possible, because the longer you stay in the game, the more likely you are to spend money on microtransactions.
But no, they prefer to stick to their illusions of fair and balanced matches, which don’t exist in this world, and come and complain about this situation in a forum that the developers never read, and even if they did, they wouldn’t do anything because they work for shareholders, not gamers.
Finally, let’s not forget that unless you’re a streamer who earns enough money from this job to live off it, or a professional player, your rank doesn’t matter and the majority of humanity doesn’t care if you’re bronze or GM in Overwatch 2 (or any similar game).
As long as you have fun in this game I don’t see any problem in playing it, as long as it remains fun, as soon as it turns into continual suffering, despair and disillusionment, what is the point of persevering? An accomplishment? There are much more important accomplishments IRL that will have a concrete impact, not just a virtual rank.
Pisslow suppprt player gets boosted by rank reset to an elo twice as high as their peak then goes to the forums to whine and moan that they can’t win games. Many such cases.
Of those three only Ana is S tier and then only against certain comps. You are at a disadvantage from the start. Since perks came in people are dying faster than ever before because of power creep. If as a support you are not laser focused on killing the enemy you will be dropping in rank this season. It is extremely difficult to try and keep people alive to win games. Have a look at your last few games and see if you have more final blows than deaths. If not, you probably have the reason you are dropping in rank.