Ive been high diamond for the past 8 seasons, ive hit masters once, got to around 3600 and then dropped out, i cant seem to climb up, i main Rein, Winston, and Pharah,but often fill to suit the team, does anyone have any tips?
You can do what I did when I wanted just to get Masters - select overpowered meta hero that you like and 1-trick it. In my case it was pre-nerf D.Va and I barely touched Masters (3527 or so) before the nerfs hit. Lost it afterwards.
Id rather improve at the game, than pick Brigitte and not enjoy the game but still win.
I get your point. That’s why I specified “that you like”. Current best meta heroes are: Brigitte, Rein, Zarya, Zen, Mercy, Hanzo. First 3 are essentially “must pick” status.
As an example I could pick Zen instead of D.Va but I don’t like his playstyle.
all i can say is try to improve what champs you play and learn the meta
I’ve been in Plat for 10 seasons.
Currently 49 SR away from Diamond. LETS GO!
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Play Zarya. She’s pretty valuable in this new meta and you can carry with her. Other than that just work on your essentials, mainly game sense. The higher up you go the more improving becomes about refining rather than making drastic changes to how you play. You’ve made it high enough already to know what to do to get there. You just need to be consistent.
“I’ve only been in the top 15% for 8 seasons”
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dont leave me in the dust my dude 
, my mouse broke. i will be able to play again Saturday.
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I’m not hitting diamond without you good sir!!!
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lol better than silver
WE WORK AS ONE!
(seriously, thanks though)
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How does one improve on game sense? I feel its pretty alright at the moment, but theres always room to improve it.
I wish I could say I’ve been diamond for that long, I’ve been plat the whole time, barely touched diamond in season 7 (hit 3000) and I’ve since dropped to 2600. We hard stuck bois les go
Good luck! 
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rein and winston are more about gamesense
so you probably make diamond mistakes when playing them, maybe watch gm’s playing those heroes and see what they are doing different
I’ve been in platinum for 6 so be thankful
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Same, feelsplatman
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Well to give you a specific example, the big thing that got me over the hump was ult management. I learned to conserve my ults when fights were already won or my team had man advantage. You also learn to keep track of your opponents’ ults and predict how they’ll use them. If I had to pick out any one key difference between the way low-Diamonds and high-Diamonds/Masters play it’s the higher you get the better people are at utilizing ults and making big plays.
It’s something you learn over time and you get conditioned to process the game in a different way accordingly. It’s funny because now that I’m at a lower SR whenever I play with Plats or lower tiers they actually catch me off guard in team fights because they’ll use everything they’ve got at once, so it throws me off.