Dropped from high plat/low diamond to a solid gold over last season and I don’t see a way out. Consistently high plat range since launch and I don’t know what has changed.
No real discussion, just getting my vent out on bad picks, trolls, quitters, and seemingly one sided matches. I have had a few decent games, win or loss they felt balanced, but overall feels bad, GL on all your games guys.
Legend has it if you play a ton and focus on improving you’ll rank up
Apparently I’m focusing on getting worse ![:wink:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/wink.png?v=5" ":wink:")
Doing it wrong.
Last couple of games I have had people saying “I’m a really good (this) and a real good (that), you should let me play (favorite hero)”
While I ALSO am gold with them so this makes me sound conceited, I’m thinking “you are not real good at anything, we are in gold buddy”
…sorry I’m salty. I’ll get over it tomorrow when I pick it up again with a fresh head.
Lol, way to keep that spirit up 
Oh god, stop me, I went back for another game…4 losses later here I am…
Im an Elo atheist…
I think its a Karma thing because I have almost only positive experiences in comp.
Change your outlook and the bad stuff is less likely to come to you. stop playing when youre tilted and come back later.
Learn good heroes like Zarya, Genji, Tracer and Soldier. Also learn a solid support that isnt Symmetra or Mercy and be ready to switch at any time and go past your own ego.
I feel your pain. I went from 2700 last season to 1970 ![:slight_smile:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=5" ":slight_smile:")
I don’t know what happened! I am still the same player!
I have been mid plat on average since I started played in season 3. Last season I lost 30 games in a row. I only had 2 leavers which is good! However they were sadly back to back, to make it worse I lost 88sr that game… I left ‘after’ the timer when it was safe but still lost 88sr… Ouch! I thought loss streaks were removed? I didn’t leave early as I queued right back up. Side note: You get no XP if you leave after a leaver, I didn’t know this. The message says you get a loss and that’s it, however that’s a lie as you get 0 XP also. I wanted CNY loot boxes! Oh well.
Generally the issue with the games was everyone wanting to play DPS, not working as a team, or getting salty for losing a point on the first fight and then they seemed to stop trying… Happened so often!
I know your feelings, I was Plat or close to Plat, now gold HELL.
I’ve had the same. I was on a losing streak and thought instead of stopping seeing to where it could take me 
It took me from high plat to silver and back to mid gold. There I was stuck.
There is nothing much you can do… However I have a smurf account now for when I start having a bad time and this really helped in a way.
Relax. Just relax. You will get back to Diamond again. I am sure.
I was 2850-3100 solid all season in season 8, then the last week of the season I dropped to 2495 (GOLD) … I haven’t been in gold like… ever lol !! always been atleast plat.
I know when I am not playing well, I am honest with myself, but I was playing well and still losing. The games were horrendous.
It happend to me too. the same thing. i eventually got back to plat after 200+ games
Elo Hell is time consuming, frustrating and unpleasant.
However, if you cant escape it is because you are in the rank you belong.
I believe in elo hell as well, though I don’t think I suffer from this, is just that in OW you can’t do much for yourself (my opinion) and as you rely so much on your team, if you get a bad team, you’ll probably lose, unless you’re like playing in gold when you have the skills of a diamond player, then if your team works as a team and you do well, you’ll probably win. It’s basically almost impossible to carry a match by yourself (my opinion²).
Plat is HELL. Gold is 400x better.
Play in my other account (3200 sr) ? Triple golds play of the game, win 75% of my games as dps.
Play in this account? Diamond half season until a bad Streak, fall to 2.8, spent the rest of the season to get back. Dropped to frigging 2.6, can barely hold a 55% wr.
Once i hit 2.9 went up 3.1 without losing a single game. Plat is the most toxic cesspool Ive seen in a video game.
Explain to me how can i play diamond and get above 3 elims/life and 25kills + 8k+ damage over 10 mins and in plat i can’t do ANYTHING.
(2nd account is CheersLuv#1585 can’t post because it’s permaban here, top 13% tracer quickplay in overbuff, comp rating is better)
Edit: i have duoed with a GM smurf in plat games and we lost. Trio with another Master friend. We lost matches too (we win more than we lose but still…) When we duo or trio in diamond our winrate is 100%.
Smurfs create elo hell for people.
On PS4 it’s easy to create new user/account and be able to play mp. You don’t need to buy a new ps+.
There should be some way for Blizz to figure out if a person have more than one account on console too.
I’m sure they make a deal with Sony and MS.
Legend says hes still complaining about everyone else and still in gold.
Question is, how much are you willing to pay for stronger monitoring? Say would you pay a monthly 60 usd fee to get them to get rid of throwers/quitters faster. (cant really ban one tricks but its a start).
I don’t get tilted in the sense that I rage at people…too old for that. I do expect less from them though, but I never give up on the match.
Karma would imply that I was bad somewhere so I get bad things back. You don’t know me or ever interacted with me so you can’t judge if I’m nice or mean, but my own self perception is generally level headed.
Still I can defend myself all I want, your translation and perception is unique to you and your own.