I’ve slowly trying to get back into comp and climb the ladder again after realizing my failures and i went in tonight with my head held high and determined to improve and win. but all 3 matches that i’ve played were awful.
My first match was literally just a slow QP+ match that i lost despite trying to get everyone to coordinate and trying my hardest.
the second match we had some guy be super toxic and throw.
And the last match made me realize it was pointless. i severely underperformed at every level. this last match on DPS. i watched my replay footage and it made me just give up. every match regardless of others I failed. i haven’t improved at all. despite hours, days, weeks of training my mentality, skill, aim, watching guides and stuff from eAthlete.
I had the dedication now all i feel is failure because no matter what i do i can’t improve myself. i don’t know what to do anymore and i think i should have never even tried to become a high skilled player, let alone a pro.
You think 3 games is all you need to tell you you can’t rank up?
Nonsense.
I did the grind from Bronze to Plat before I went on hiatus from comp. You know when my biggest improvements showed?
When I played between 160 and 180 games in a season.
If you win 60% of your games in Plat with no SR adjustment from where you are now looking at your profile, it’ll take you 45 games.
It’s called a grind for a reason. Heck, even the matchmaker can’t figure out where you belong after 3 games. Ignore the number and focus on improving your decision making and gamesense and just play.
Your absolutely right. I was tilted when i posted this because of how bad things had went that last match. I spiraled as a result instead of clearing my head and getting back into it.
Next season (or in this case after i get home tomorrow evening) i’m going to get back into it and play more matches and get better.
Maybe look to hire a coach? I’m coached by a former OWL player, last season I was 900Sr tank at one point and climbed from there all the way To plat after coaching. You can do it man.
haha, I promise you no matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, the matchmaker will not allow you to rank up unless you literally play around 3000SR beyond your current tier. The matchmaker is broken. If you clean up your major mistakes you can climb around 500 SR, from there it’s not possible unless you either play 3000SR above your current rank or you buy a new copy of overwatch (that’s what they want you to do)
so it‘s intentional to play hundrets of hours of horrible, rigged, unfair and lopsided matches, just for a chance to git gut along the way? enduring endless pain and frustration because the game just. doesn‘t. work. in metal ranks with all the smurfs, cheaters, throwers and trolls. especially as a solo player?
how mentally deranged do you have to be, to put yourself through all of this, in a game with zero relevance on the market?
Ever play a team sport at any level beyond classroom or intramural?
Yes.
There’s a reason why even players at collegiate levels play for years, practicing fundamentals, enduring blowouts and injuries, time sitting on benches, playing against teams both much weaker and much stronger. You know what that reason is?
They enjoy it. Even the bad parts.
There’s nothing wrong with just never playing comp. But, if comp isn’t your cup of tea…Don’t play it.
Games like soccer, football or tennis are timeless and exert a huge cultural influence. This is where it really pays to put in the effort.
Do you really want to compare these sports to a puny joke of an entertainment product like Overwatch, which after 5 years doesn’t even have any form of relevance in its own market?
do you really think these “nobodies” who play OWL are interesting to anyone in the real world? it’s an artificial cult in a niche industry for nerds. get over it. no one cares.
ok so i can understand the frustration but honestly this logic is so dumb
especially if three games is enough to make you quit
i main support, and i started off at 1600 sr. silver. you know what i did to climb? i played more, i watched my vods and corrected my errors. and i climbed from silver to gold. gold to plat. plat to diamond. diamond to masters, and masters to gm, being a top 300 support player. so i certainly believe anyone can get themselves out of a rank, if they try hard enough. and sure you may watch all your vods and get coaching, and that likely works wonders to your game sense. however while overwatch is so much about game sense, it’s also just as much abt mechanical ability, and considering you seem to be asking for a lot of help from others, the one thing that only you can mainly work on, is your mechanics.
Except it really doesn’t, unless you get to the top of the top of the top.
You DO realize that those leagues in their early years weren’t paying like they are now, right? This is why most baseball and football players in the formative years of those leagues routinely had off-season jobs because the sport didn’t pay much. Go check out how much baseball players made in the 1870s or football players made in 1925.
It’s important to OP. Why are you even in this thread acting like someone put a turd on your rug, anyways?
Not sure if you’re trolling or purposely ignoring what I said. I said You have never, and will never, be at a Masters level or above with dps solo queue without cheating. Ever, nothing you posted proves any of that at all. You can’t prove it because it didn’t happen.
I on the other hand have accomplished the above, and I’m among the relatively small number of people who have ever done that.