Okay so hear me out. I understand that yes I’m here because of my play I understand that, but my games are always so inconsistent. Sometimes I get great teammates Ann’s we all do great and win, sometimes I do my best and it doesn’t pay off. Anyways I’ve been in Bronze for years, it got to a point where I used to climb but doing my placement matches and not touch the game for 2 months just to climb. I don’t do that anymore. I don’t get how to really get out of Bronze after being in it for years. Is it even possible to get out??
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the main thing people forget is that in order to climb, you have to be better than the average for that rank. focus on easy things, taking high ground, confirming kills on enemy support, playing with the advantage a map gives either on offence or defense. listen to the sounds your enemies make, hit tab and take advantage seeing who are you playing against after your first death, if you need to swap, do it then.
remember, you can only control yourself, sometimes things are out of your control, in that case, make a sacrifice to ODIN it usually helps
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It is possible. I haven’t played the game in years, but i did have a Discord where many people were able to get out of Bronze.
Some of the advice probably isn’t relevant anymore, but some is:
Bronzers are inconsistent and fatigue easily, though it’s hard to see this in yourself. Quit after a couple of lost games because that’s an indication that you’re not doing your best. Don’t play late or tired.
Try to focus on one hero. You can do more in Bronze on your best hero than you can on the “correct” pick. I played Zen, but this was a long time ago.
Play to your strengths. Don’t just focus on improving your flaws, learn what you’re good at and do more of that.
Be positive. You’ll be surprised how few trolls you find when you stop being a troll yourself. Negativity breeds negativity.
Finally, don’t worry do much about it. There’s really nothing wrong with being bad at a video game. Just be glad that the system gives you opponents that are your same level rather than just random people near you that are going to one shot you.
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particularly in the lower metal ranks, every player in the lobby is inconsistent in how they will perform… It is for that reason that it is hard to judge progress. It feels very frustrating because you dont see the results of incremental improvement. At least not when you look at your sr. You played well but your teammate played worse → probably a loss, and vice versa to reinforce bad habits.
Its a bit of a mental trap to judge your progress based on the outcome. Judge it instead on what you put in, the concrete things that are independent of the outcome. some of the usual ones: “Did I control highground well” “Did I take smart duels” “Did I get value with my ult” “Did I waste cooldowns” etc…
Keeps you motivated but more importantly it is a measurable way to tell if you are improving at the things that you know matter. Not things that are only loosely correlated through the scope of a match.
but really its specific to you and your situation. if it were easy people probably wouldn’t get stuck as often. if you arent sure what objective metrics you can work on to improve, thats the first step - find the answers. could be from a yt channel, could be from a high rank friend, could be a literal paid coach. doesn’t matter 
you can do it!
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Position yourself not to die. Think before you do something don’t auto pilot
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Like 10 seasons ago, a player in my fl asked me the same, even thought I was never below gold.
He got out of bronze by just playing around natural cover, and letting the enemies push in 1 by 1. I showed him some easy strategies for 2cp too, so he can start a fight alone and his team could push, even without further communication.
But he was ~1350sr, but I do not know how players below this rank play, since bronze has such a big sr range.
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I cannot stand this rank anymore honestly. Trying to solo climb is impossible. I’ve been in here for years and I just can’t keep playing, but I wanna get out of Bronze. I’d like to be silver at least! This is so frustrating, I hate this. I’m not bad, but I’m not the world’s best. Everybody who has an opinion just expects me to be this SUPER GOD, who can carry and always win a 1V6 with the entire enemy team shooting at me. This hurts my self esteem by a lot.
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Why do you want out? Do you think games will be better? They aren’t. Teammates are the same no matter what rank you are.
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Good advice for OP. 
At lower ranks certain heroes perform much better due to their easy aim, high damage and/or defensive/life-saving abilities:
Tank: Roadhog
DPS: Reaper, Junk, Soldier
Supp: Zen, Bap
I notice you’re playing a lot of Widow, Tracer & Pharah and these heroes can be hard to get value out of if your accuracy is low…
A great way to get better at 1v1 duels is to play tons of Deathmatch.
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Those are my top 3 and I do pretty well actually,well. If I don’t play them then I’ll be rusty. I feel severely misunderstood I don’t know how to play Junkrat or Roadhog, so I’m not gonna go into a competitive game where I don’t know how to play a character. It doesn’t really matter who I play because most games, I’m usually in a 1V4 situation, which I’m not obviously not gonna win. I don’t wanna blame it on “bad teammates”, but I’m tired of taking all the crap and bad things said about me and accepting it. All I’m trying to do is climb. .
There’s an expression ‘lead a horse to water…’ you’d do well to look it up… 
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I’d also add Torbjorn to that list.
I’m a pretty bad player, but dps (Torb) is by far my highest role (high gold) and when I occasionally play him in comp or qp, I always do well with him.
Back in the day I climbed circa 700 sr with him in 2 seasons with 70% wr.
The turret is better than a lot of dps. And the projectile size on the rivet gun is significant.
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So, you’ve had two people talk to you about your hero choice. I was a bit surprised about Pharah, but maybe things have changed.
You need 3 things out of your hero.
- General effectiveness
- Teammate acceptance
- Personal skill
I happened to also be ok at Widow, but in lower ranks I only played her if there was some reason, and that reason was almost always getting my Zen shut down by a pocketed Pharah. And in that instance I told my team what I was doing and why.
To do anything else was to signal to my team, via actions, that I was throwing. This leads to a situation where you and your teammates are probably pointing fingers at each other, and you’re both right!
I can’t tell you who to play. I don’t see a problem with Pharah myself, but certainly both Tracer and Widow fail at point 2. You could likely overcome that with a high enough skill, but if you could dominate a game as Widow then you wouldn’t be Bronze.
no. unless you get boosted.
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Short answer: you don’t.
I’ve given up, especially since the smurf epidemic is now terminal. Dropped into bronze today on tank after consistently managing to keep it Silver for like 5 seasons after clawing my way out, and I just do not care anymore.
I’m just basically going to half-@ss my way through my gold guns now. I’ll either lose, in which case, gg, go next, or get carried, and get my points that way.
It doesn’t matter. There’s no competitive integrity, Blizzard can’t even clean their own house’s toxicity let alone the in-game toxicity. The regional server-locking only made things worse, and all they care about is their esport money or the potential audience they’ll bring in with the sequel we’ve been promised for years now.
Give up. That’s the best advice. Anyone saying otherwise has a bridge to sell you.
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Worst advice ever, terrible mindset, never expect good advice from someone who accepts failure and gives up
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You can’t. The only way out is to be carried or to magically, somehow, become better than the enemy team more than 50% of the time.
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Its called improvement =]
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Yeah, “improvement” by which most advice is to “just hard carry” your games and “you’ll be out in no time”.
Which doesn’t really matter since you don’t really contribute much to a sub-par team on your own if you’re sub-par yourself.
There’s also the fact that bronze is a 1500 SR range which takes an absolute eternity to grind out of and teaches you no good gameplay/teamplay habits.
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Oh look, if it isn’t another one of the usual smurf defense brigade.
Lemme guess, your account got banned/silenced for trolling so now you’re on a new one?
Yeah nah I don’t listen to you, or any of your friends.