There is very little material out there. No blogs and no videos actually shed a light on the mistery of how ranking up working in this game. It is not as intuitive as it used to be.
I started this season plat 1 and I slipped to gold 2 because I was not really studying the game and giving a good effort. I am still in the process of learning but I noticed that my winrate has improved. I expected the last streak of 5 wins vs 3 losses to bring me at least to gold 1. But it has been the third time in a row that I have been slapped with gold 2. Now it is entirely possible that I didn’t improve a single bit, but my winrate and K/D ratio definitely improved, so I expected this to translate in the climb rate as well.
Is your performance compared to other players in the same skill bracket? Does it count other stats like Objective time if you are a tank and so on?
Does it take a while to readjust after you had a long streak of defeats?
I wanna improve still and everyday I learn, but I expected this effort to translate faster in results for my climb.
You can do whatever you want to improve, get coaching, practice your aim, study the game, pray to your god, you aren’t gonna rank up with a hard stuck account unless you group or you cheat. I have accounts in Masters that are more difficult to win at than in GM. The matchmaker is completely broken and the best decision you could make is every time you feel like playing instead do something else that you enjoy and is fulfilling, cause this aint it.
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If you win more than you lose, you will rank up. Performance is not counted as it would encourage stat farming. Performance is only “counted” in the fact that if you perform better than your counterpart and everyone else is roughly equal, you should win the game. I would think it takes some time to readjust if you’ve lost a lot as your mmr has probably sunk down very far.
Longer answer: (my fault, I tend to overexplain.)
I checked your profile and your winrate on Reinhardt and Zarya are much lower than your winrate on Dva which are probably impacting your mmr. If you keep playing and you have improved, you should win more games and therefore rank up.
Did you check the percentage you were at in the rank? 5 wins and 3 losses is only a net gain of 2 wins, which in overwatch 1 would take you about 40-50 sr higher. Translated to overwatch 2, that would be about halfway through a division. It also depends on mmr and average rank of the match. If you won all of your gold 5 average ranked matches, but lost all of your gold 1 average ranked matches, you should stay in gold 2. And if you lost a gold 5 match, it would probably negate far more sr.
On my alt I was master 2 and instantly hit gm 5 69% after a single 5-2 update. But, on my main, it took 3 rank updates to go from master 3 to gm 5, with the records being 5-1, 5-0, and 5-2. My mmr was higher on my alt than my main- my season 3 winrate was 60% on my alt, and 50% on my main. Also, on my alt I solo queued and on my main I queued with my friends who were lower ranked than me, which gave me lower mmr average games. Consequently I probably gained less mmr/sr per game on my main. It was frustrating having an 80-90% winrate and not ranking up as fast as on my alt but it makes sense due to my previous mmr + lower average lobbies.
I understand too that it’s frustrating for you to feel like you are winning more games than you are losing and not ranking up. The reality is you probably have a lower mmr from your previous defeats. Just keep playing, just keep improving, good luck!
It’s nice to have this understanding of the matchmaking and rank system in a clear and concise manner.
Yeah my Rein and Zarya are pretty bad, but I play them mostly when the match up for DvA are not favorable. Probably at my rank I dont even need to swap since I can have an impact no matter if I am playing against Mei Zarya and Sombra at once, because we tend to waste a ton of cooldowns in our rank. Most of the times I do some crap in the game and then I am like ewww why the hell did I do this. Sometimes I have the occasional pop off, but I must be humble and say that most of the times this happens when people throw the fight by positioning themselves in silly places. Like the other day my POTG was literally a bomb kill while I was trying to remech, a dva pistol kill and then some useless cleanup, nothing to make ur eyes roll.
One thing I struggle a bit is that when I dive a target I get past them and then I spend those crucial 2-3 seconds finding them back. How can I get rid of that? How can I improve my spacial awareness? Is it a focus deficit thing? Is that lack of sleep or something?
I’ll stop right there on the premise that I’ve had numerous moments where I’ve finished 5-0/5-1/5-2 and gone down from masters to diamond or D1 to D2 or stayed the same. I’ve had friends go up after a 5-8/5-9 with a DC in there. The system doesn’t seem to know what it’s doing and strangely a Disconnect/ leave actually seems to benefit your rating.
That sounds weird, I’m sorry that happened to you. What is your overall record? In my opinion the overall record matters more than the rank updates- if you’ve played 200 games and have a 60% winrate but aren’t getting bumped up in rank, then you’re right, something is probably wrong. But if you are at a <50% winrate but your last rank update was 5-1, it makes sense that it would bring you down.
I don’t know how it works well enough but to defend it I would assume that the game maybe didn’t lower your rank enough in a previous derank with many losses and “made up for it” in the next one. Vice versa for your friends who ranked up with more losses. It could also just be your mmr. I also went from m1 to m1 with a 5-0 record (the percentage did go up though).
NGL couldn’t tell you how to tell you my overall winrate never been something I’ve looked into, I was always masters then it stuck me in plat 5 in S2 I climbed to high diamond with a huge winrate then my queue times tripled-quadrupled and I got horrid matches all the time and when I did eventually go 5-1 / 5-2 I stayed the same rank, instances I did get the rare rub of the MM I’d go 5-0 go up then 5-0 and go back down it was obscure.
My three fresh accounts are chilling in GM and I’m getting easier games there than d1-varyinf masters games on main
You seem to have a great understanding of your faults, but don’t undermine your accomplishments! A good bomb in gold is still a good bomb, and it’s always nice to get a pistol kill while you’re at it. And you also seem to understand when people are out of position and punish that, one of dvas greatest strengths. Nice job 
You’re right that you can still play dva against her counters and pop off, it will just be harder. People have one tricked every hero to top 500 (except lifeweaver…) and you could too if you really wanted to. In my opinion, just play who you like to play- if you enjoy rein and zarya it doesn’t hurt to get better at them, but if you don’t, don’t force yourself to switch.
There is a could be many factors that affect why you dive past a target, like general mechanics, muscle memory, lack of sleep/focus like you said, or understanding of the game. You could just not be comfortable with your sens or boosters- maybe you don’t react fast enough to stop your boosters before your target? For those, if you want to mess around with your settings or just keep playing at the one you have it should eventually feel better.
A more micro reason could be that it’s hard for you to predict where the enemy will want to go, which comes with game knowledge. For example, if you’re diving onto an ana near a building she might want to run away around the corner. If diving a hanzo, he might wall climb.
Of course good sleep, good focus, good practice always helps.
In my experience, as I played more to improve and not just to play on autopilot, actively thinking about where everyone is and where everyone will want to be helped me with my spatial awareness, as well as just learning more about the game as I kept playing.
It sounds like maybe your mmr was lower probably from previous seasons and maybe you even got some unlucky streaks of games. Those previous losses and mmr are probably what is dragging down your ranks. Sorry to hear that!
I’m glad to hear your alts are in higher ranks though. Maybe you can keep playing on those to get the enjoyment from winning games and ranking up
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The fact that you want to improve as a fps player is good.
However, looking at your numbers with a microscope and analizing everything in Overwatch will not help you much.
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Because this game’s matchmaker is absolutely broken. It has silvers in masters lobbies and masters in silver lobbies.
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The way you are ranked is not based on actual skill and knowledge of the game, it’s mainly based on numbers. So, bad day bad numbers. Good days good numbers ALL THIS whithin a matchmaking system that can’t really rank you precisely.
So, focus on one hero’s ability or 2 and when to use them properly, your positioning and if you are being countered. This will get you to plat lobbies if you one trick one hero.
After that, come back here for more tips. glhf
Yeah, I got deranked in 5-4 evaluations. I think it’s not working correctly.
That could be a possibility, even I the old system depending how badly you get destroyed in your losses you could lose more base rating than you gain from your wins.