Call out flanks and off angles in voice chat and warn your team about incoming ults (especially Shatter, because 9/10 times your Rein won’t block it at plat and below, unless you remind him). And always play Brig if they have a Winston or dive in general.
Same as any role, you perform better than others at your rank. Everyone deals with the same things for the most part.
When I was in Diamond, I basically ran lucio nonstop and climbed to 3400 from 2900
Your experience will vary.
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It’s a joke about Lucio being able to ascend a wall, no need to get upset.
This, unfortunately. The best way to victory is eliminations so you can be a godly support, but if your team can’t score kills you will stay where you are forever so you need to bring your own great dps with you.
I regularly see myself outperforming high level Mercy players, I watch vids and there is even a diamond who quits against me regularly in arcade bec I’m better. Yet I am hardstuck in low gold because every comp match I the dps just can’t carry themselves comparably. Nothing worse than giving some pocket to a dps who can’t aim.
i said it was funny, who’s upset?
Hey, i can tell you a thing or two about climbing on support. I got coached by one of the best support players ever on eu ladder called ‘‘Awkward_ow’’. After the coaching I went from 3.4 straight to 4k. Okay so becuase i haven’t seen your gameplay i can only give you some general tips. The BEST tip i can give you is deal damage, I’m so tired of supports saying ‘‘I got 30k healing I carried’’. No u didn’t its about how much damage you deal. I would advice you to play ana/bap/zen. Tip number two is value ur life above anyone’s life on the team. As a support you are the most important on the team. For more tips or free coaching add my discord, timovh#4881. If you don’t have time or don’t want me to coach you you could go to Awkard_ow on yt and watch his unranked to gms.
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Usually playing well makes you climb
Zen is low-key a huge carry hero, discord will obliterate enemy tanks and marking their key players who would otherwise carry for them is pretty big. Discord can turn even feeder reins into useful teammates.
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I’ve carried a lower skilled game in open queue doing this, just kept jumping along the wall on point and slowly booping people to their deaths, unfortunately this gets a bit difficult when you’re not on a map you can get environmental kills
But at the same time it was how I peaked Masters on Support so it’s not bad advice 
As a main support, your best way to climb is to just find who the best player on your team is and pocket them. Go Lucio for tanks or Reaper/Mei, go Mercy for ranged hitscan or Junkrat/Pharah, go Brig (or Zen) if you have a flanker who needs support or go Brig if your other support is doing some heavy lifting.
For Flex support, if your tanks aren’t making good use of your healing, just go for kills. There’s more than enough in Ana, Bap or Zen’s kits to do this, even Moira can get away with a lot in most ranks.
These are just general rules I’d give, enemy comps & some maps may force you to swap now and again, but climbing on support really isn’t as hard as some make it out to be.