… and realizing that Comp is completely random and useless. People often say, “you are the only constant between your games!” and that’s true, I can only affect how I play and how well I do.
The trouble is, there are four other random people on my team. When three of them in a group and one is clearly boosted, it’s a problem. When three of them are in a group and it’s the two supports and the other DPS, they frequently only pocket their group member and prioritize them for healing regardless of performance. When…
You get the point. And if I call it out and ask for help, I get labelled as toxic and get reported by all three.
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Yes. Comp is completely random and useless. Welcome to true enlightenment.
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I think it would be better for people to say ‘you’re the only factor you can control in all your games’ rather than this ‘you’re the only constant’ business.
The latter makes it seem like you’re 100% to blame for every bad game you get, and that simply isn’t true. There are so many factors outside of your control in this game, to try and keep track of them all will drive you to madness.
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Just had a masters widow smurf in a plat game because they were “playing with a friend” on their other account. They didn’t see any issue with that.
If you only play a few games, sure, your team could be an issue. Play 20-50 games every season for multiple years, then you can’t blame them any longer.
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this game is just bad
accept it and keep playing or move on
A lot of the time you’ll have games that you’re doomed to lose. Just ignore those.
Focus on comms and pinging everything.
I was hard stuck Gold as Support. Just got to Diamond 5 today.
You’ll always be put with morons or people who are just having a bad day. Sometimes you’re the weakest link as well.
Just keep trying and you’ll improve.
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Worry not friend, the matchmaker is also a constant in every one of your games.
Blame that instead! (It is quite doo doo.)
I definitely do better when I call out targets, ask someone to stay on cart while the tank holds space ahead, etc. Sometimes you get groups that only want to stay in their group channel which stinks.
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May I ask how? I say the latter, though both of those seem entirely interchangeable to me. I’m not meaning to blame people for every loss they have.
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They say very similar things, that is true.
When someone is trying to stay positive in a competitive game (or any competition) the focus should not be ‘I’m the only constant and therefore every loss is my fault’ and instead should be ‘I am the only factor I can control so I should focus on improving my own skills and not fret over the other four people on my team.’
In my mind it shifts the focus from blame (an absolute rabbit hole) to positive action and a clear focus on improving.
But if you use the latter and it works for you? That’s cool, different people respond to different forms of encouragement. World wouldn’t be interesting if we all worked the same way.
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stop trying to use logic in this game
just uninstall it, trust me bro
I only tolerate and play competitive when I want a golden weapon skin. Even then I keep chat muted and don’t join voice chat.
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There’s just no substitute for good comms, which is unfortunate for people who are uncomfortable using voice. The pinging system is really good though.
And yeah, sometimes you’ll just get awful people in voice or no one in voice at all. It happens. Honestly I just mute the music in game, put on my own playlist which helps me relax a bit especially when you have toxic people in voice.
The mindset has mostly been better but man, I just really really hate smurf accounts. A 200 hour player with only 10 hours in Genji just absolutely rolled. He started off the game going 7/0 after one fight, then continued to headshot everyone on my team. Big triple or quadruple kill blades. Smoked us.
Says he isn’t a smurf, and he definitely isn’t boosting his duo partner who performed significantly worse.
But nobody with 10 hours of Genji picks him up and does that well in a diamond lobby. I wish all smurfs would just get permabanned.