I’m so confused. I just started playing ranked overwatch. I was placed gold 2100. Ever since then I’ve fallen to 1500. I have absolutely no idea how to stay steady, or rank up. I win 15 sp, then lose 30. I win 30 sp, then lose 50. I feel like winning 50% of your matches should keep me from dropping. Why is this? If I was just bad I wouldn’t feel so upset, but I was placed gold. I’ve dropped 600 in one day. what’s going on and what do I do?
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Watch your own gameplay, and see where you can improve. If you can’t see anything make a youtube video, and have someone couch you on how to play effectively.
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1.22 elims per life Moira. You are dying way too much, those are low bronze stats.
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New accounts have more movement, because they are uncertain of where you should actually be ranked. I was brand new to OW in Season 8, placed at 1974 at level 25, and fell to 1340 within a couple of days.
After playing tons of competitive Halo 2/3 and CoD: MW 2/3, I was honestly shocked to be ranked so low. However, OW is just a different game with a different skill set. Work on improving your position, ult usage, regrouping, not trickling, etc, and you can climb back up. Good luck.
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Thank you! That’s a lot more useful than just saying I’m bad lmao. I suppose it makes sense there’s a lot of moment since I’m new!
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To be brutally honest. You were carried in placements to an artificially high SR. You have no idea how to position properly in this game or how to use your ults. Your mechanical aptitude is good, but your understanding of this game and game sense that goes with it is nil.
Consider this your trash account to get good on. When you manage to climb to silver, get a new account, place and you’ll probably be close to plat with the skills to maintain it.
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That is horrible advice. There is a very noticeable difference between Silver and Plat players. Someone struggling to get out of Silver might place Plat with some luck, but they will not maintain it. That is wasted money.
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Honestly, that’s normal, you’re new and you have no game sense , and probably poor awareness and ability usage and management, but that’s okay we all started there. We all placed and fell a lot ( except the dps players from other games, but dps sucks )
I’d advise you to play more, because ethats how you got good.
And when you’re ready , join us here
discord.gg/7e7f59Z
We’re a free coaching server with a bunch of high ranked players, we’ll answer any question, and if you want to you can record your gameplay and send it, and well tell you how to improve.
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I’m in your boat. My last 3 games, they weren’t even a contest. Just got steamrolled. Every time I play with randoms, the team ends up throwing and treating the game as a normal QP game. Gotta play in a group, a group of at least 3.
He’s not though. He’s falling cause new. You’re falling cause dumb throwers are a thing
Not true at all. If you climb to silver keep at it. I started in bronze as a support, still support to this day. I am now mid to high silver and have touched gold the last two seasons.
Positional awareness and knowing who to heal and when is key. Never stay at the front lines and always watch your flanks. You have the unique ability to see the entire battle from your position as a support.
Since you play Moira use phase to get away from the flankers, damage to get healing back, don’t worry about getting medals. Always throw you heal orbs out to bounce off the walls getting max heals when possible.
If your team is healed and good to go throw out damage orbs.
You have been placed into gold by the generous matchmaker of OW.
Judging by your SR gains and losses, the matchmaker does not think, you belong at whatever rank you are. It happens with new accounts, and it will balance after 50-100 matches.
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The sucky part of that is while they fall they hurt others who are at that rank and trying to climb (not their fault) as well as it makes the player feel bad, angry or confused as to why they are falling. This breeds toxic behavior.
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Yeah, new accounts is a major issue for Gold rank. Funny thing is - I considered all teammates and enemies below level 100 smurf accounts, took 3 seasons and post from Kaawumba to figure it out.
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The problem is that apparently the system places you higher after the first placement of the account.
Sadly you got over-placed. Not your fault. Might explain why I end up with team mates that don’t belong in gold/ silver in my games (On either team).
I’m a pretty bad Moira, making loads of errors, but suspect that I might be miles better than you. I got loads of good advice after posting up my game play vid.
I’ve worked on everything that the forum guys told me and already improved a lot in terms of damage output and resource levels.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/moira-vod-for-review-request-1982-sr-now-linked/96548/36
Here’s a good website for stat tracking. Shows you how active you are per minute. More indicative than Oversumo app, which just shows how good you are at not dying.
https://masteroverwatch.com/profile/psn/global/Pie_Eater_Gaz/heroes/27
As you can see, my kd ratio is fairly good, but my stats per minute are really very poor as I hide too much and don’t get enough done. Only had one awful game in comp since the guys gave me their advice, but am still seeking to improve.
Your stats are all very low and so far it seems you are at the rank you are supposed to be. The best way for you to improve is to record your gameplay and let higher ranked people take a look at it and give you some tips. You seem to be dying way too much right now
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When i got ow in s8. I was placed 2000 sr then dtopped to 600 sr
I thought the same when I was given this same advice by a buddy in masters. It played out exactly the way he described. My son used this same practice and jumped from silver to plat easy.
The differences between silver and plat aren’t as great as you think. The MMR history of a bronze account is like an anchor. If you get good enough to bully your way out of bronze on an account with significant MMR history, you can easily climb a new account to high gold. I’ve seen this work 6 times already, flawlessly.
Play a 1000+ hours before you argue.
What does playing 1000+ hours have to do with anything? Time played doesn’t linearly equate to skill or understanding of the matchmaker. I’ve “only” played 164 hours of comp from S8-S10, and there’s a noticeable difference in tactics/teamwork/game sense from mid-silver, low gold, and gold/plat border.
I was told after finishing S8 at 1551 SR and 100 games played that I would never climb into gold. I did and hit plat this season with almost 900 games of history. Look for opportunities to improve, and you will climb. Neither improving nor climbing will happen overnight.
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