i never really learned or played hammond before but i think if i was seriously going to try i should do it with A.I first, especially learning the layout of the map and stuff. i might do that soon lol since at least you dont feel the pressure of trying since letting teammates down
Definitely a good idea to practice vs AI before you feed against real players 
no.
ye , then they try to do a slam dunk , fail and broke their back.
hey I peeked a corner… HEADSHOT IN MY FACE … what a great learning experience
wich I will never able to reply.
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Try playing comp you should be gaining like 35 sr plus per game if your MMR is that high
I’ve yet to see it. I see Bronze/Sliver/low gold players just leave after dying to a GM Tracer couple times. Because they get frustrated because they literally can’t do anything and it’s not their fault at all. This game is probably the worst game to actually get better at also than other games. People want fair matches but going against Masters and GM doesn’t make fair matches for Plats and below. No wonder why QP has mostly stomp matches lately.
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But it’s a non-ranked, casual mode. Where else are you gonna learn new heroes…
Arcade? 
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Yes.
But they’ll learn that they can’t slam dunk & try other methods of scoring.
I bet you learned not to peek that corner the same way again 
that’s learning.
What do you mean?
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well that’s not how you learn. They should try to counter pick if their hero isn’t working. Brig, Cassidy, Sombra etc.
dude they learn NOTHING, they just get frustrated they cannot play.
coooool, such a coool learning experience, ‘‘I cannot do that’’ then utterly demotivated
I learned to leave, if I cannot even go out from spawn no need to stay, I need to play.
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Three characters they are hard to learn for lower rank players. S76 is way more effective than Cassidy.
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If you can’t secure kills vs bronzies, you’re bronze.
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Who are “they”? Are these adults, teenagers?
I’m just going based on my own experience. Maybe when I was like 13 years old I would just get frustrated and leave, but otherwise I would like to think most people wouldn’t just give up, they’d try to find a solution instead.
Depends on the person… I grew up playing sports & being competitive. I wouldn’t just give up if I couldn’t do something, I’d keep trying or try something else. Different strokes for different folks I suppose
I guess that’s what you learned to do. That’s not what I learned to do 
Don’t you think it would feel good to beat them, or at least win a couple fights instead?
Not against Tracer. It’s not difficult to hack Tracer as Sombra unless you’re doing it as she’s shooting you. Cassidy just has to land his flashbang and headshot her, which is the harder part for lower rank players, and Brig just has to shield against Tracer, try to land whipshot every 4 seconds, and stun her if she gets close.
You can counter pick all day, if tracer is the Gam’s main then theyhave Zero change no matter who they pick, that tracer id going to be killing them non stop the whole game and there is nothing they can do about it but leave, if they stay they are going to be running back from spawn the whole match, and that is just sooooooo much fun, video games are meant for fun so if you are not having fun in that match why stay
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I find a solution when THERE IS a solution,
me too and I played long jump (don’t know the eng name of that discipline), I was never NEVER matched vs people in higher grades, or if we follow the sport example you don’t put someone who do martial arts into another weight category.
not that I learned that, it was the only thing to do, instead of wasting time where I cannot even move.
sure, not hard. she can just recall , tp away, or EVERYONE else from her team or a random peanut can hit her .
wich a smart tracer destroy before goin close
wich on tracer is like grabbing a mosquito with chopsticks (seen this only in karate kid movie lol)
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Leaving might be your best option if you’re only having fun when winning. Personally I find the challenge of overcoming the obstacle fun. The reward of improving/learning is what’s fun for me. I congratulate myself for doing a good or even just a better job than last time. I don’t necessarily need to win to enjoy myself, that’s just a bonus.
I dont mind if i lose if the match was fair, when there is a 50/50 chance of either team winning, but with 1 or 2 Masters or GMs on one team the chance is like 95/ 5 chance of winning, it is no longer fun when you know you list before walking out of spawn
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I’m pretty sure there is minor MMR with Quickplay.
is not about having fun only when winning, is having fun by having some second to PLAY the game.
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Yeeeeeah this is not how things work. If you want studies, you can get studies on this, but you can look at any teaching method in existence and see they don’t start you off with the highest difficulty and tell you to figure it out. You learn best from being slightly challenged, not destroyed.
As someone who has taken lessons from, and also played pros in strategy games, you aren’t going to pick up a single thing correct from them playing you all out. You are simply losing from the beginning. That’s why handicapped games exist. There are no notes to take when they can see further than you can possibly read, and this invites bad habits, not good.
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the match maker doesnt know who you are going to pick. its a fundamental problem wtih the game rather than the MM
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