Entirely Impossible To Rank Up As DPS

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I’m 3 divisions lower on DPS than where I am on Tank, simply because of the RNG of solo queuing. Even games where there’s a total DPS diff in your favor, it can still be a loss, simply because of a Support or Tank diff.

DPS is the only role that’s entirely reliant on the other two roles to perform well, so that they can perform well.
If Supports are bad, you can’t do anything as DPS, including damage, simply because you can’t do consistent dives, and you can’t stay out and fight.
If your Tank is bad, you can’t do anything as DPS either, as you will never have any space to work with, and so you can’t make anything happen. And in some miracle that you do land a pick or two, unless you are a Tank buster, you will never get through the enemy Tank.

Like, I just had a game where both DPS on our team had 30-40 kills, and 12k and 15k damage, whereas the opposing DPS 20-25 kills and had 9k and 11k damage. And we still lost, lol. Just because their Tank was better than ours. The Supports were about even, but their Tank had like 7k more damage than ours did, was the only one on their team that could rival our DPS’s kill counts, and as Zarya consistently denied our dives with bubbles.

Please make DPS impactful.

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You aren’t a next rank player if you can’t, the game is telling you unless you change something and get better that you’re meant for your current rank.

Adapt or stagnate.

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I think not. Given that my Tank has gone up a division this season, my Support has gone up a division this season, yet somehow my DPS dropped two divisions this season. Your logic is incorrect and does not apply. I didn’t suddenly forget how to play DPS. I’m just being constantly paired with people that make it impossible to win with.

I’ve ranked up on both roles that have agency and down ranked on the only role that doesn’t have agency. That’s not a coincidence.

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That’s a single datapoint. Your arguments don’t make mathematical sense.

You’re basically saying that there’s no difference between a Gold DPS and a Grand Master DPS.

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I agree DPS is currently(and if we’re being honest, almost always is) the least impactful role towards to overall match outcome.

That said any class and hero can make plays, you do it enough and you’ll impact enough swingable games to climb.

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People always say this and it’s always not true.

Tank depends on dps and supports just as much as dps rely on tank and supports.

And wouldn’t ya know it, supports also depend on tanks and dps.

If my DPS is going hard negative, there is no winning that game unless the enemy team just sucks THAT bad.

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Simply untrue. Supports can easily cover for bad DPS. Have you seen how much damage characters like Illari, Zen, or Bap do?

And Tanks can easily cover for bad DPS. Have you see how much damage characters like Doomfist, Zarya, or Roadhog can do?

DPSes and Supports can sort of cover for Tanks, with Reaper/Mei/Bastion/Brig.

But DPS and Tanks cannot cover for Support. Except Soldier, kind of, I guess, lol.

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My ranks have always been consistent. In Overwatch Uno I was diamond on all four roles. In Overwatch Dos, I am gold on all three roles. It still lets me be platinum in open queue (probably because I do not play it enough to derank). :skull:

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if it was impossible, then it would be impossible to rank up as other roles as well
Because well…they all need to win to rank up, and they have to win together

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Guess what, just lost another game. Only person on my team above 10 kills, I had 18. We couldn’t even cap first point. I was the only one who managed to kill the Tank round 2, by Duplicating him and Hooking him off. Aside from that, he never died.

Fun game.

I also funny enough had the highest deaths on my team by quite a bit. But that’s because I had to constantly risk myself to land any kills because our Tank didn’t make any space, and of course whenever I dived my Supports were just pocketing the Tank.

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I cannot relate to this. I get twice their damage and elims without dying, son. Albeit… I also lose. A lot. :cry:

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What’s wrong with your current rank?
:thinking:

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If you plan on climbing as dps often you need to put your entire team on your back despite playing the objectively weaker role. It’s not impossible but unarguably more difficult than the other roles. It’s not impossible and every dps higher ranked than you managed to do it. Stop making excuses.

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I’d say it was more because you are better on tank than you are on DPS. But I guess blaming RNG works too?

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Then you have fun arguing your case to a mathematical construct that slapped a G4, P3, and P5 on your profile chief.

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There we go, another loss. Both Supports on my team did less than half of both of the enemy’s Supports in healing. Both of our DPS over doubled theirs in damage, and had the same amount of kills. Yet our Supports completely failed, both doing 5k healing, so scared of a Sombra that didn’t even know how to Translocate.

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You could have played closer to your supports and killed the Sombra then.

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I did. But they died every time. I killed the Sombra like 7 times that game. Literally just pocketing my Supports, yet somehow they managed to die every single time, lol.

Btw, that’s another loss. Guess how it went. One of our DPS was eh, I was doing highest damage in the whole game, highest elims again, still lost because our Tank was just an Orisa bot.

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You need to stop playing tilted, and stop blaming those around you. Just focus on what you could have done better.

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The only thing I could have improved in my games was my teammates. Because, just like this last one, four now since I’ve made this thread, I, once again, did the best of all the DPS in the lobby, by quite a long shot, though not quite doubling this time, only doing about 60% more than the second highest, which was their Genji, and hey guess what, one of our Supports was getting doubled in healing, neither were doing damage, whereas theirs were both #1 and #2 healers and doing medium damage. Oh and their Tank was just farming ours all game. Gotta love them Hog v Hog + Anas.