for a game with 90% of players in gold and below, i certainly don’t hear anything about the metas in gold and below
in fact i would go so far as to say that the metas that gold and below talk about is the meta in gm
talk about what you see in your games, there’s no shame in that no matter how much gm’s talk down to us
Exactly! And that dang Chupacabra is absolutely meta irregardless of her winrate! I am not crazy, she’s everywhere. I can hear her in my nightmares…
That being said, I have no clue what the meta actually is because if you one trick a tank, the “meta” becomes 3-5 of your counters and not much else. No clue what the kids are running today OUTSIDE of Sombra because it is THAT FREAKING OBVIOUS! YOU ARE ALL BLIND!
Ahem, sorry about that. I am just trying to say that people sure do pick a lot of Sombra, huh?
Blizz even released some interesting win rate info, like how Rein is the best tank in most ranks, and Sojourn and Kiriko both have bad win rates.
Propaganda is useless. Who wants to buy me a present? I need a drink.
That’s because there is no meta to speak of in gold. You can win with almost whatever, as long as you have the right mindset. My last game featured a Mercy + LW support team on my side for the defense on King’s. Although it was a miserable experience since combined they had less than a thousand damage on the scoreboard, we did stop them taking C.
People do not realise that playing Meta heroes is not the same as playing Meta. If you play Winston as an anchor tank, or in a team full of low mobility low range heroes you are not playing meta.
Man, it’s like people aren’t allowed to learn in your world.
Yes lets not care about the full skill ceiling of any hero, lets abide by how gold players run around and get themselves killed. They know whats up.
And yeah, you don’t hear about gold or or below metas cuz there isnt one. Its more or less a free-for-all of who is the least incompetent.
Ggs tho. The only real meta that matters is the lobby youre playing in for low elo.
What about KingZilla? I heared that one was meta back in 2017
Well, on the forums at least, I’ve had people get super toxic over who I (as a gold player) thought about what’s strong/weak in my elo.
You won’t hear about it because of the toxic high ranked people here that talk trash for not being on Thier level.
GM meta is not an end goal because nobody cares, just because they’ve sorted the hero’s into pretty colours doesn’t mean everybody has to adhere to it.
Why do GM’s always come into low rank spaces, and try to make everything about them.
Gold meta is for gold, GM meta is for GM.
The game is not homogeneous, what works for you is not what works for me.
You don’t speak for others.
High skill heroes are the Prisoner’s Dilemma. If you want to play them you have to be looking at your long term goals. For that teammate who only plays a few games per season they may think today is the most important day of their OW career. But for you, it is Tuesday. (Literally, as it is Tuesday).
People really dislike being told that they’re wrong.
Well in that case - you’re wrong!!
Bronze, Silver and Gold players don’t know how good they have it. This game is at its best when everyone is trying to have fun with the heroes they love and don’t give a damn about metas or counters.
The fun decreases exponentially as you climb the ranks imo. Around Diamond everyone seems to have a massive ego and toxicity ramps up. Nobody should care about metas until high Masters-GM. I’m tired of meta slaves.
Thats the highest compliment i’ve ever received here on the forums. And I got a like once from thicbuddah. Much obliged mate 
Gold has no meta. My answer to your response is the next paragraph that you didnt quote in my comment above.
Its fair to say, in any individual lobby, gold players can play like gm’s, and vice-versa.
But in the long haul average of things… naw mate. High elo players got there for a reason.
And yeah, what works for GM’s certainly won’t work for low elo players (Tracer’s winrate in low elo vs gm kinda says it all), but.
But. Who would you rather look at to try and study to get better? A gold dps or a GM? This is just hypothetical.
We’re a good team, who wants to buy me a present.
You’re not alone in here…
La oscuridad te espera
I still remember the post on the OW subreddit talking about some “My Silver friend is VOD reviewing all of my games, so why am I not ranking up?”
You’d think this is common sense but no…
The problem with this is GM players won’t teach you what to do when someone on your team is… Just bad.
“If you’re getting no value as mercy, swap to Kiri and do the damage yourself.”
Is an extremely tedious response I’ve been given a lot on here. The problem is, I get one kill, by that time the event has killed 2 of my team.
The matchmaker is the issue with low elo. What people don’t like to talk about is how dense the player population is in metal ranks. The skill discrepancy between teammates in metal ranks is just ridiculous.
Other than that, I agree with everything else you said 