zzzzzzzzzzz wtf is this 61Q6GY pharah
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Ya the other day had a dva who seemed very good like 36 -0 but we somehow won, the next game she was in my team and i found out why.
The turdball was throwing so smartly that unless you were on her team and intent on noticing her patterns were she was smartly losing the important fights by letting people die and falling back.
This game she got 50 elims I think and again zero deaths turdball was throwing and having a laugh
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just report anyone who seems suspicious and the system will figure out who is actually cheating. blizzard is normally pretty good at actioning players that cheat their way into prestige based rewards. they have access to all their stats even if their accounts are private and it’s blatantly obvious when people intentionally derank.
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while yes reporting is all we can do, but it offers little solace to the players they have messed with as the damage is done, a p!ssed off playerbase punished with down ranks while they “might” get banned.
but there are those here that believe this is a conspiracy and that any loss is your own fault only.
for sure, at the end of the day though it’ll all work out. people who cheated their way into rewards will get their accounts actioned, people who didn’t will not.
it’s also important when grinding comp to not focus on wins and losses but rather your own performance metrics. that’s what determines your rank in the grand scheme. you will win and lose games at a roughly 50% rate by design. your own gameplay determines what games you are put in and this determines your ranking.
if you’re actually improving, it will put you in games that are biased toward your loss for your forced loss often. then it will put you in games that are free wins for your wins. it’s not that simple obviously, but if you are actually improving it doesn’t matter whether you win games or lose games. you will rank up as long as you keep playing.
Think I had this exact D.va player too.
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Like I said this “drive” event sounds like a Smurfs paradise
i can soft throw by not playing my main.
then I can hard carry by playing my main.
will blizzard ban me for not one tricking? 
ofc can’t carry past my limits and dropping below a certain level becomes difficult to reach.
sounds like a lot of effort to RP as someone who deserves prestige.
its just playing normal. replaced qp with comp a while ago. see no difference besides playing real overwatch (attack and defense)
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if you’re actually improving, it will put you in games that are biased toward your loss for your forced loss often. then it will put you in games that are free wins for your wins. it’s not that simple obviously, but if you are actually improving it doesn’t matter whether you win games or lose games. you will rank up as long as you keep playing.
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problem lies in where you have grown faster than the game promotes you, creating a negative feedback loop. so using myself as an example, started in OW2 at B5 at season 2
finished S3-4 depending on role last season and placed there also, so steady climb, so been playing with some bonze friends. I’m clearly carry, yet not enough to win as im silver not GM, but your stats and impact are noticeable but the constant string of losses for various reasons (including your own mistakes or getting tilted) sees that growth gone, is frustrating enough, being stuck back in a rank where you just want 3 games in a row to not have a Smurf, leaver. or solo v stack. Ie situations where a loss is all but guaranteed is not healthy.
I know they have systems in place, that are different for placement matches, as ive noticed only in placement matches that performance seems to affect rank, where I would lose a match but hit personal bests with a hero. I would not go down as much sometimes even still moved forward a little, which takes the sting out of a loss. encouraging to keep up the effort despite being stomped.
whereas now the only thought is whether the 15min leaver ban worth leaving the sh!tshow match for.
I’d suggest against this if you care about your own SR very much for one.
But also, when you’re bronze/silver you have so much room to improve that you literally just have to get good enough at the game to hard carry consistently if you want to reach gold. At that level, and even in gold really, your individual impact can be strong enough when you raise your skill level to hard carry yourself out.
You’re going to be put in unreasonable games when you play with bronze friends though, so just focus on your own stats mostly and do your best. You won’t get as much credit for the games and will have to play much more. It’s more likely that your friends catch up in rank to you before you get out of silver.
Just keep grinding and improving at the game, don’t worry about where you are at any given point. It can take a lot of time to rank up. The best thing you can do is enjoy the fact that you’re playing a competitive game mode and trying your best to get better at the game. If you’re not already trying your best to improve, that’s all you should be doing. It doesn’t take long to rank up once your personal metrics are ranked up. The system doesn’t want high level players in lower skill tiers. It’s not good for engagement to have bronze and silver players being stomped.