As a Silver player, the last two seasons, my matches are always 1 of 4 different ways:
- The rare actual fun match. An actual good match. A match where my team actually has a shot at winning and sometimes my team wins. A normal, actual, comp match like they are supposed to be. The way matches were in Season 1 of OW2 before the matching system underwent changes.
- A mix of Gold, Plats, Diamonds and for some reason, just me. Just the solo or maybe 1 of 2 Silver players in the match out of 10 players. These matches are miserable. My team usually tells me to kill myself over and over. Very toxic environment and everyone in my match is higher ranked than me.
- A match that can SEEM like a #1 (above) kind of match to start, but then whichever team goes Mei wins. That’s Silver right now. Mei just doesn’t die. Whoever goes Mei dictates who wins, even if it’s the team that looks like is gonna lose 70% into the match. Doesn’t matter, Mei wins.
- Just an outright STOMP. And I’m never on the stomping team. I mean never, ever, ever. If it’s a stomp, then it’s the other team stomping. Idk why the matching system will do this, but every single time, it’ll put 5 players like me, Silver, on one team. We are all using our main accounts, we all have “titles” which means we use this account to grind the entire BP, we are all typical Silver players. And the other team will be 5 alt accounts. No titles, profiles show they are usually just placing in comp still and are in their first 5 matches, no season history, new account, still not officially ranked yet. These are ALWAYS, ALL higher ranked players using alt accounts, aka smurfs. The matching system ALWAYS lines all of them up on the other team together to just obliterate a team of Silver players ready to just be abused relentlessly, humiliated, laughed at, toyed with, destroyed.
This is why I just hate comp. The matching system does everything it can to make it unbearable. Yep, I know, “yeah, it’s the matching’s fault, not yours LOL, get gud, cope, L” I know, I know, trust me, I know. And for sure, I’m not good at OW, clearly, I get that. But I wanna have fun too. I wanna be able to play comp against the 100’s of 1000’s of other Silver players out there at my level. Just bc I’m bad, doesn’t mean the matching shouldn’t allow me to play against my own level, it does for all the other eloes. Is OW ONLY supposed to be fun for higher ranks and miserable for lower ranks?
And here’s my last match, I’ve lost like 5 in a row, I’m done for the day.
Watch it. Tell me what I’m supposed to do. This match falls in to category #4 above. These matches happen about 1 every 4 matches… all 4 categories above happen evenly. I’m totally open to any VOD advice anyone has. Keep in mind, the last few minutes of this match were so deflating, I know I started playing horrible. I was just done by that time. You can only take so much abuse in a day.
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Any helpful advice is most welcome and sincerely appreciated. I main Ashe, as you’ll see.