Hardstuck In Gold

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Ive been stuck in gold since season 10 (my first season)
im crying. (not really)

I personally think I am performing well, but the main problem is that some of my team mates just go in and die…
and another problem is… bastion.
no one can deal with him.

the enemies pretty much always run bastion orisa and have a smurf widow on their team, I tried my hardest to leave gold but its not working.

I will be placed in gold next season as well.

I communicate quite a lot.
im not toxic.
I play all roles but not all heroes from each role.

I mainly play:
zarya
dva
symmetra
moira
Brigitte
mercy
mei

in competitive.
its so hard to get your team to cooperate, anything I saw in the voice chat gets ignored completely.

I also can’t find a good group to play comp with.
any tips? please?

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At the risk of sounding Abusive (#2018) You simply need to git gud in order to compensate for the bad players on your team. Or at the very least use LFG.

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not really helpful.

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They just said they’re trying and that the groupfinder isn’t working. “Git gud” isnt an answer, its just blowing them off.

@op im not exactly sure what the solution would be other than keep trying and hopefully you’ll eventually run into players you can form a solid team with. Other than that my best advice to you is to try to learn ways of dealing with Bastion/Orisa comps in particular since they seem to be your weak spot :+1:

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I win more than I lose but when the enemies have a bastion or a pharmercy combo, nothing can break it.

my team mates switching to hitscan have no impact.

btw I mostly play support and I can get around 15k healing each game.

I pick what we need, but my team mates still pick a McCree or genji and tickle the enemies all game.

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can you maybe make a VOD of one of your games? it is pretty hard to say anything without a reference point of your gameplay

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How much SR do you gain or lose win you win/lose? Your SR gains and losses are based on how you statistically perform with each hero you play compared to other players of the same rank playing the same hero.

So basically if you’re regularly gaining and losing about 25 SR per match, then you’re doing average compared to other players around your rank and are probably at the rank you should be at.

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idk how to record, and I would prefer not to…

I have 30fps, roblox graphics and I get some ping spikes once in a while.

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I kept playing until I found THE team. The team that no one could beat. Then we started climbing together and gained 600 sr in two days. (2900-3500) Just keep playing until you find cooperative teammates, then friend them and play with them in stacks.

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okay, but just know that it will be harder for us to help you without seeing your games

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the problem is that its too hard for me to find a group like that.

not really sure, I will check when I play comp.

and do gold medals matter?
I can be hard carrying with symmetra but I still get trashed on for it…

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unfortunatly, yes gold medals matter to how much sr you win or lose

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Actually, I think they base it off your performance compared to other people’s performance on the same hero at the same SR. Not the medals.

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Find a hero that you are really confident with and stick to it. It helped me get out of silver to plat once. Flexing too much its not very helpfull to gain sr. I could be wrong tho, feel free to correct me. Good luck im sure you can do it.

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HEH, I wouldn’t feel bad. This season has been TERRIBLE for all of us. Most people are talking about losing 500-800 SR this season because of Smurff/Alt account team-mates that tilt, leave the game or just rage for no reason. Listen, until Blizzard decides to FIX the system and STOP placing new accounts into matches. I wouldn’t even consider YOUR SR to be something to take personal anymore.

Quit frankly Youtube is the root cause of this. Diamond players are buying ALT accounts and playing AWFUL in the golds, Silvers, Platinums and bronze just to profit off of exploiting us. They laugh in the face of us and our community as well as Blizzard. Because it makes them money trolling people. Plenty of videos on youtube of people doing this.

Quit frankly it hurts blizzard MORE to sell alt accounts because if players aren’t inspired to play, they do NOT buy the Merch or the lootboxes. The Smurffs aren’t going to buy lootboxes either, because their alt accounts just get the skins anyway.

To me, until they fix it. They wont see positive Stock prices again. As selling smurff accounts were NOT making nearly as much as money as the main accounts which run out and buy cosmetics from lootboxes.

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Not saying this is the root cause but having 30fps gives you pretty bad input lag in Overwatch and in general is harder to react to stuff.
I know people who have ‘improved’
after going from a potato PC to a good one. It won’t make you Grandmaster ofc but helps.

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one trick sym!
I wanna be a one trick symmetra I believe I can slayyyyyy with her but when I see my team without a healer or tank I have to swap.
I cant.

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I think that the system takes the medals into consideration atleast a bit.

really? this season has been great for me.

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Wait till you hit the 2400’s if you haven’t already. Bottom of the barrel my friend.

Bunch of mechanically better silver’s with little game sense (plats that fell, as plats and golds are relatively the same besides better aim).

DPS 5-6 stacks as far as the eye’s can see with the occasional decent comp to keep you in that bracket.

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Medals only affect how you compare to your team for that game, as well as a little bit of exp.

You can easily get a gold medal by playing Ana with let’s say 8k healing, but if the average Ana players of your rank are averaging 10k healing per game, that will cause you to gain less SR because you’re doing less than most Anas of your rank. Of course it factors in all stats however.

Once you get in high ranks, I think either diamond or Master, the SR mechanism changes to only care about whether you win or lose to lessen the possible rank penalties of changing metas not favoring your best heroes.

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