I didn’t. I have placed 3 accounts (1 on PS4, 2 on PC) and the lowest one I placed was mid Gold.
First time lots of pharah with a pocket. Was diamond a long time. When i fell back in recently it’s been alot of mercying and praying until something happened right now i’m out so that’s a thing
once i got to 2000 i decided to play Moira the right way. Since moira can be an amazing dps and second healer in low ranks (as bronze and silver players struggle to kill her) once you hit 2000 at least there’s better coordination and teamwork so you must rely on the heals mostly and not play her to offensively. not much dps as you had in low ranks
I’m not out yet, but I’m confident in my climb. My win rate on Ashe is good enough, and would be better if I hadn’t done my placements in a single all-nighter session (bad plan).
I’m doing practice daily with PMAJellies Aim Trainer v3 (XHHRR), getting a good chunk of Deathmatch in (although I prefer 4v4 which has been missing for a bit now), and then in Competitive I’m insta-locking Ashe. (also switch to Widow if and only if the enemy has a Widow that I can’t counter as Ashe. I shouldn’t be able to counter them as Ashe, but, well, usually I can because they are Bronze Widows after all.)
If it looks like we’re going to be 5-6dps or if someone beats me to Ashe, I’ll go Moira. But honestly, in Bronze, at least, it’s true that the DPS can’t do any damage, so… yeah. If I’m not on DPS the enemy won’t die and we won’t be able to get on the point.
For someone who can’t aim and doesn’t want to put the time into aim trainers and deathmatch to learn how to aim it’ll be harder; you’ll have to learn to identify who on your team is being effective and enable them. It’s honestly going to be a lot harder and require a lot better game sense than clicking heads, IMO.
Oh, also everybody hates you for being a selfish DPS and thinks you’re ruining their chances to win (which is clearly not true - if my win rate is best on Ashe, then the best chance of winning I can give my team is… to play Ashe) so, I dunno.
Pick your poison. It’s not like the life of other roles is a bed of roses either, they are just less likely to be told to switch off to a different role, in exchange for demands for ‘where’s my healing’ and ‘where’s my shield’.
Stop playing on a crappy laptop with a 75 Hz monitor and horrible stuttering and moved to a PC with a 144Hz monitor and climbed from mid Silver to high Plat in less than a month.
Pharah, Mercy is optional when you can Pharah gud.
I got to GM by playing mercy…I promise I wasn’t carried by her broken state.
I just solo q’d and carried my team as a broken hero and now I am for some reason able to keep playing there without her being broken. Maybe I belong, or maybe I am being carried idk. My winrate is like 60%+
i am still in bronze and i do my god_damn job but there is throwers everywhere. tank players who suck, supports who cant heal and DPS not doing 1 hp damage.
I was talking to one of my friends about it and I really 100% believe 222 will have an amazing effect down there since he has to choose if the team has a tank or a support.
But it rarely matters if you have a tank cause they don’t stand behind the shield and the support doesn’t matter cause they go to the enemy spawn
I never placed silver…
First placements on my main was 2200, and it only went up from there.
I believe that 2100 is probably the lowest i’ve ever been. (if i’ve been i don’t member)
And this is the first ever online fps game i’ve played. (portal 2 and borderlands are the only other fps games i’ve touched)
But I used to play wow, so I had a good idea of team synergy and cooperation and the concept of tanks-support-dps, even if it’s completly different, there are a lot of similarities.
When you come from mythic raiding and raiding in wow in general you know that cd managment, team synergy and positioning are key
I placed silver on a computer with 30 frames despite being on all low settings, due to me having a GT545 at the time (which was super weak)
My 2000 hours in TF2 helped me out.
I could never get into TF2. I really wanted to though. I just never really found a place
it’s a game that i got into early in its lifetime, like when hats were just coming out, but it was still free
it’s certainly changed over time, their competitive gamemode you have to pay for, and it has like 100 players
it’s charm has changed a lot.
I started trying it out 2 years ago, but took a tiny break. I came back after playing overwatch and just preferred overwatch.
But the charm changing I can understand because my favorite hero’s are almost unrecognizable besides their design. I still love them, but it’s different and I do miss the old versions
by winning games and not losing.
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As stupid as it sounds: Git gud
Acknowledged my mistakes and shifted my expectations from “I expect teamwork and play this way” to “I don’t expect teamwork and play as I would be on my own”
Lowest SR 1600 to highest 2850SR
I played pharah. Then after climbing i swapped back to support, the role I actually wanted to play.
Never placed in bronze/silver so I don’t have much info on that. My first placement was 63 (around diamond) and then season 2 continued into diamond. By the end of season 3 I had climbed up to t500/midGM. What I had done to climb was the following.
- Find 2 heroes in a role I preferred (I went with Ana and Lucio).
- Play a lot of matches (seriously season 3 was the most games I had ever played, since then i’ve dropped to low gm/high masters depending on how much i’ve been playing)
- Self VOD review, record your gameplay, and watch it back in your free time, on lunch breaks at work, on the toilet etc… any time you get to review your play and logically think about only your decisions.
- Learned to shotcall properly. Learned what calls were useful, and what calls cluttered the mic. Learned to not make any passive aggressive or toxic statements while playing frustrated.
I’d imagine aside from the vod reviewing, the steps to climb out of any lower rank would be the same. But unless you are an exceptional talent (i’m not) you may need an extra boost to make it into higher GM.
Vod reviews are incredibly helpful. Maybe not to the extent that you did them, but a large problem that low Elo players have is not recognizing their own mistakes. It’s always someone else’s fault.
Watching back your own play can be painful, but you’ll see your own mistakes much better (as long as it’s at least a few hours, or better yet a day later… a little distance helps to be more objective).
The replay system also lets you do things like watch the match from the viewpoint of the opponent who gave you the most trouble. Then you can see things that you normally can’t, like how your head or your arm was sticking out when you thought you were under cover, as well as things that are just easier to notice from an outside perspective like standing still or moving in a straight line, through lines of enemy fire.
If you can’t recognize your own mistakes from self-review, get a recording (you can record a run of the replay system if your computer can’t handle playing and recording concurrently). There are plenty of people on these forums who will help out with a vod review if you ask.
I played main healer hero never come close to silver ( dps was always 1vs6 and rain charge to enemy team and died) I have 20h on ana on all modes.
i started playing zarya I reached silver in 7h.