I official give up on trying to climb

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Even boosters duo and tripple queue.

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Necro! It wasn’t that low 13 days ago, but I concede that it could’ve been a fluke.

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So I made a thread showing my 4 day experiment streaming a friends account where I climbed him from silver to gold. I then went back to streaming my account and am unable to climb it out of bronze. I made a thread explaining the process with my stream + face cam to prove it. There is something holding me back. I don’t know if its MMR or something. While yes, some people have lots of room for improvement, there are lots of people stuck in a rank they truly don’t belong in because of something out of their control. I am going to have to grind really hard on this account but I find it strange that it only took me 4 days of streaming borrowing his account for the experiment for me to climb him from silver to gold yet when I did 4 days after on my account I using my mains (which I used on his account as well) I can’t climb out of bronze 0_o

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Let’s just forget your objective. It could be stressful if you always say that “I’m gonna win this time.” Just have fun and you will see what to improve.

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A bunch of people in this thread have said the same thing: stop focusing on winning and focus on your mechanics. Also, look up what the word “tilt” means in gaming.

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I suddenly thought…what if you don’t know HOW to focus on mechanics instead of winning? How do you know if you’re successfully focusing on mechanics rather than distractions?

For me, I show special attention to the physical/emotional changes in my body (before, during, & after a game). If I lose a match and I feel angry or frustrated about it, then I can guess that my focus was tilted. My personally goal is to feel zero physical/emotional reactions by the end of of a match. It hard to not feel excited, though, when hard work pays off :slight_smile:

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I’m just going to play for fun from now on. Your SR is so dependent on team mates anyway, doesn’t make much odds how good you are unless you’re a GM smurf or some such.

Just played Roadhog tonight in QP. Really bad kd of circa 1.8, damage less than my healing, 35% hook accuracy and only about 2-3 kills per minute. But, thing is that I still won about half my games, similar to if I was try harding as a support and fully trying to win.

I’m tempted to start a Roadhog only account (Free on PS4), maybe with a name such as “BigPhatPhuqa” or somesuch. So I’ll try hard to win on my main account and just play Roadhog really badly on my alt, and still likely place mid gold…

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I had 2 good games before the mm decided to f with my SR and place me in games where I had absolutely no chance of winning. It’s really no fun. Having 4 or 5 golds…as Lucio? Thanks…

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If you’re not enjoying the game, then you shouldn’t play it. However I would say you’re a very good D.Va and that may be your ticket out of bronze. You’re high enough that you’re with some mechanically skilled players, so try to find some players to work with you, i.e. someone who knows how to heal and I think you’ll start to get out of bronze. If you run into a string of losses, take a break. There aren’t a lot of people at your rank playing so those people will most likely keep showing up.