I have about given up on Competitive. Came with-in 6 points of getting into gold, and found a team that had zero communication. Still, was doing fine, till someone spazed out and just randomly switched to Soldier off of Winston.
Tuns out, he didn’t think others was doing enough damage, which left the rest of us about completely at mercy of Genji and a few of the other characters he was countering.
Now I am at 1867 with multiple losses with the last two being dreadful.
First, I asked the rather redundant Doomfist to switch to something more effective as he kept getting killed and didn’t have gold or silver on damage dealt or eliminations, as my friend and myself had those. He then preceeded to chose Torborn with 30 seconds on the clock and just feed.
Get stuck with him next round, and we did alright up till the last few seconds of both rounds he would just switch back to Doomfist and feed again.
To get so close to ranking up to fall so fast due to such toxicity, I just can’t bring myself to care about competitive any more.
I hadn’t for a while, but decided to actually really try this season, and I am now reminded why I stopped in the first place.
F#%k Competitive.
It happens man. I’m down 300 points in the last few days. Some times you win, some times you lose.
If you notice your tilting, step away from the game for a while.
I’ve noticed that every time I hit a new tier it takes me a lot of tries to win the final game. Happened for dia, happened for masters, and finally this season after coming within 1 game of GM 8 or 9 times, I got GM.
Gotta learn to roll with the punches.
I’ve dropped 250 SR last weekend, climbing back slowly now.
Just take a break man, I once went from 3800 to 3200 and just stopped playing comp for a bit. Now I’m starting to miss it again and have the motivation to practice again, improve myself and climb back to mid master like I first did a few a seasons ago. If you don’t bash your head trying to “regain” your lost SR, you’ll bounce back stronger eventually.
Here’s what you need to do:
Take
Breaks
If you lost 100 SR, that means you kept playing after the 2nd lost and kept playing into the 3rd, 4th, or even 5th, depending on your performance.
Believe it or not, people are not perfect. We get tired. Upset. Jaded. It may feel like we’re doing alright, but our eyes and hands get tired, and our performance steadily declines the longer we play. As we start to get tilted by losses, we take unnecessary risks and make stupid mistakes, tilting us even further.
What I do is play games in pairs. Two games, then take a break, get some water, a snack, rest my eyes without looking at a screen.
If both were wins, awesome, I got a nice chunk of SR and I’ll come back “reset” and ready to win some more.
One win and one loss, cool, game working as intended, and I also get the opportunity to analyze my performance. If it was a net gain in SR, that means I’m climbing, and I’m doing things right. If I leveled out or I lost some, it means there were things I could have improved on.
Two losses, that’s rough. Time for a break to make sure I’m not falling into a slump. After a breather, I’ll play better. Can’t win them all.
Keeping yourself positive and well-rested is the key to climbing. I once lost 300 SR over the course of a single weekend, and I’ve bounced back.
As a side note, I often see games plagued with “The DPS aren’t doing enough damage”. If it feels like the enemy DPS are simply doing more damage and getting more kills than yours, it’s not because they’re better players. You’re all in the same rank, after all. Sometimes, a support or tank player is in a role they’re not comfortable with, or the enemy tanks and supports are better fits for their DPS to work with. A team where everybody is playing their best heroes is better off than a 2/2/2 meta comp where nobody has a lot of practice with those heroes. If you’re filling or flexing, don’t just pick a random hero that fills the slot. Pick a hero that works with what your team wants to play.
Bad streaks happen. I was at 2600 and I’m at 2280 right now.
If you belong higher, you’ll recover. Stick with it.
Why does everybody care so much about their rank? Having a high rank doesn’t really get you anything. You can be a low rank and still unlock the gold weapons.
I just don’t really understand.
People wanna progress and be better than they are now. It’s literally human nature.
Sorry you’re content with being complacent
Lol, I lost 700 SR this season at the beginning of Season 9 from 2200 SR. Got myself back to Gold twice but now dropped to high silver again. Probably gonna end the season in Gold like last season.
My advice is just have fun and not be too hard on yourself.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, the never-ending cycle. You let people pick what they want and realize, “hey, my team isn’t doing enough damage or getting enough frags.”
You ask them to kindly switch.
They don’t switch.
You take your gold elim, non-DPS hero, and switch to DPS only to lose anyways.
You cannot win. People that favor DPS, but are no good at it, will never stop instalocking said heroes, which later will get someone to get on DPS. It happens ALL THE TIME. We all know them players, you know, the ones on the wrong end of the killfeed time after time. The ones that run head on into a 1v6. The ones that have no idea what “trickling in” means. Yup. That’s the problem with the game. The coolest heroes are the most important, the hardest to play, and attract the biggest noobs on the planet.
As a flex player, we are pretty much forced to deal with it and lose, or switch off for damage and still…lose. Then when we complain, “play around them.”
Yeah, because playing around an incompetent DPS is possible. Sarcasm of course. Doesn’t matter what you do, they’re dead weight and you’re ice skating uphill. That’s usually how all bad games are. We have to play around them, support them even though we know their decisions are beyond ridiculous, we’re supposed to contest points because we were left in a disadvantage because they went in and died right away as they did not wait for their teammates, etc etc etc.
The moment we call them out though, we’re the bad people. SMH
I am starting to think of rank like gambling but with sr instead of money.
(at least in terms of solo que)
You get dealt a good team that knows their heroes enough to do good and they perform at their best till the end then you got real lucky.
(even more so if you get back to back games like this)
But commonly you will have some bad luck where you are teamed with players who loose hope at the first sign of losing or they pic heroes that may not help the team. I do this sometimes and it feels bad in hindsight when I realize I was part blame.
Right now I am doing ok mostly because I pick a tank or healer when needed. But even then I get games where things go wrong.
The moment the system alone puts dps mains in one team and support mains in one team you know you cannot take it seriously. No possible way to take ranked mode seriously.
Literally this, and if I can’t climb/make progress/improve (which I can’t) then it’s just a huge waste of time for me. And the sad thing is I thought I was getting somewhere when I climbed from gold to low diamond but here we are a few seasons later and I’m right back where I started… 
so now I’ve given up and rarely play comp
The biggest issue here is how close I came to ranking up, just to fall so much, and in such a way to boot. Disheartening.
Let’s just say, comp need work. It’s extremely punishing, but not nearly as rewarding.
I feel for you my dude. On one of my alts, I ended last season just over 3500. Like 3516 I think. I was 5 wins 4 losses on my placements and the last one I had 3 plats on my team and 2 diamonds. The enemy team had diamonds and masters. I lost miserably and placed 3475. Won my next game and 3498. From there I lost over 100 SR straight, and my last loss I dropped 30+ SR despite being in mid diamond running 2-2-2 and having 5 gold medals as Moira. I out damaged our Junkrat and out healed our Mercy. Sometimes comp is absolutely stupid.
Just remember that skill rating isn’t necessarily accurate. There’s many issues with competitive play that are beyond our control. All you can do is take a break and keep practicing, try your best to take less notice of skill rating. Competitive play is simply quick play with an extended rule set and a somewhat arbitrary skill rating depending on what matchmaker gives you.
For real. I really don’t care what my rank is, but I’m amazed at how much it can fluctuate and I’ve been debating (in my own head) how much fluctuation over the course of a week is realistic versus indicative of a flaw in the system. Given how often matches are steamrolls and the completely braindead nature of some people I run in to, I have very mixed feelings.
Everyone I know is down in rank, some quite severely. I’m at least 200 shy of my season high, another friend dropped 400 if not 500 from his, and another of mine was in medium plat but she’s now in medium to high gold I think. And on and on.
If you can play well and lose and lose almost as much as when you play poorly and lose, well, ugh. There’s only so much you as one player can do to make up for a deficient team. Same when you win and barely contribute, you shouldn’t be earning within 20% of the same SR gain as a win where you all but carried your team.
I am curious how having SR gain or loss being entirely based on whether the team wins or loses, as I understand it does at higher ranks. I’d honestly prefer that in theory, but with all the other matchmaking problems and the amount it moves around by, I’m not sure how well it helps.
I agree.
If I’m playing well and still losing just as many rounds when playing very poorly, something is up.
Same with winning.
Problem is, I’m losing a hec of lot more then I win, some because I wasn’t doing that well, most because we got steamrolled do to the matchmaking😂
I don’t even understand how you went 5-5 n were (diamond or master) or whatever, I went 9-1 in my placements and had basically gold elims and dmage in every game and placed 2060, how do you bat .500 and make the all star game doesn’t make any sense