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been playing for 1100 hours and still haven’t touched diamond. i don’t really care about staying in diamond because I plan on just quitting after. i just want to get there once and have the satisfaction of reaching it. (DPS player primarily)
also this replay was ridiculous, that genji deflected like 4 ults that game.
I cheesed my way into diamond on dps a few seasons ago playing mostly junk and torb. If your aim isn’t good I recommend that. Torb is very boring but junk is pretty fun.
Let me give you a spoiler alert, you get close to diamond and/or cross into diamond and then go on a 10+ loss streak. I encourage you to turn on your mic during this time and try to talk to your teammates, they literally have no idea how to do even fundamentals of the match. They don’t know what peeling is, they don’t combo ults, they will literally ask “what should I do?” as you can hear the desperation in their voice as they lose rank from the account they just paid to be boosted.
The game is a sham, and they’ve given us no communication on what’s going on with the new matchmaker so we have every reason to believe it’s going to be just as bad.
You seem to be under the impression that this game is an MMO or RPG or some other type of game that gives you progression based largely on time spent.
This, my friend, is not that kind of game.
It is perfectly reasonable and entirely possible and even most likely that the rank that you are at will remain the rank you have into perpetuity. That’s just how the game is designed. You’re not intended to gain ranks, really.
In order to gain ranks, you need to put a lot of focused effort into the game. It’s worthwhile for some to do so, but whether it is worthwhile for you is your decision.
The fastest way to rank up is to cheat. The 2nd fastest way is to group up with a smurf.
Those are the 2 quickest ways im aware of to get to diamond.
Grind your mechanics for like 2 to 3 months. Go back and collect free SR.
Worst advice I’ve ever seen on the forums.
OP read the above comment. The competitive mode works nothing like competition in real life, it’s designed to keep you at the rank you are currently at, even if you are playing far better than everyone in the matches you are in. I’ve seen gold tier caliber players in Masters, I’ve seen Masters caliber players in gold tier and ask them “what’s your main rank?” and they say “gold.”
When we say the matchmaker is broken, we aren’t using a metaphor, it’s broken like a car that has an engine that can turn on but can’t go anywhere. You being in diamond at this point probably has NOTHING to do with your skill, because if you were to buy a new account and play your best through ranking to 25 and continue to do so into competitive you would land in diamond in the first two weeks. If you were to continue to play at that level you would then get stuck in diamond. Then go back to your old account and try to get it to diamond, nope, not gonna happen.
Blizzard: okay, try more, you will never quit tho xD
ill take a look at your replay
starting off with soldier:
hes a good pick, he can work well in just about every team comp or vs every team comp. the main issue people have when playing soldier is not abusing angles and highground enough, so that will be something to watch for closely. especially given that your teamcomp has a mercy pocket, bap and cassidy (all fantastic for surrounding and taking angles). doubly so because you have a ball, and if you aren’t on an angle, you won’t be able to easily follow up when he piledrives.
tldr: in general you should be aware that your goal is to take and control angles and highground, not putting yourself afk behind a shield and not finding yourself in the middle of the enemy team like most plat soldiers
first point there are a couple things to note:
i would have still gone for it, but animation cancel rocket into healpad and then shoot her afterwards, maybe it keeps you alive. either way, it was enough work and they didn’t have much of a chance from there.second point:
SERIOUSLY go third person in the replay here, pan up to the bridge, and imagine if you hit Q. luckily your cass had some initiative and did it instead, getting a kill on genji… if you were there with him, and believe me mercy would be with you too, you three probably could have killed the sigma too instead of letting him bully cassidy off the bridge.third point:
i would just go hanzo or junk here and turn my brain off for a bit, but your team has a lot of ults so you probably just win anyway.
i can’t really comment on mei on defence. i’m not a mei player. 
tldr:
Weird. Every time I use an alt account, or I make a smurf, or anything like that, I cross into diamond with no struggle at all. Because, I’m better than plat players.
Ummm…this is exactly how competition works in real life.
Unless you see a lot of 90 year old men playing professional sports, it’s based on actual skill, not time played. If you’re not being scouted for a better league, you’re not actually “playing far better than everyone in [your league]”. You’re just not recognizing your own mistakes.
In absolutely zero real life cases are people ranked up in without effort in the way many video games do. OW is not one of those games, at least not in competitive mode.
It sorts you by skill (handicapping, if you must, but not in the disabling sense) and then lets you play in your league. You thinking you’re better than your league is your problem, not a design problem.
Yup I thought the same thing, until I came across a truly broken account that is 5x harder to rank up than all my other accounts.
Nobody is wanting to be ranked up based on time played, you are the only person who has mentioned that in this entire thread.
Your Dunning Kruger is showing.
It´s incredible how you manage to ignore all his important points while simultaneously using the Term “Dunning Kruger” wrong.
The irony here is pure comedy gold.
Let me get your discord and I’d love to play on that.
That is meaningless. What’s easier is buying an account in diamond. But why would you do that? The whole point is earning the achievement. That’s like the equivalence of playing Minecraft with cheats on and giving yourself full netherite armor.
I don’t think it means what you think it means 
What’s lol is that I know exactly what it means and I’m tired of seeing your tiny group use it incorrectly so I’ve decided to start pointing it out.
Lol…. It’s not used incorrectly. It perfectly highlights the majority of players mentality when they go around blaming other people and inanimate objects for their personal failures.
YOU and your few buddies are the Dunning Kruger effect (which is mostly not understood by the people who quote it, which is insanely ironic). Dunning Kruger describes people who know just a surface level amount of information about a topic so they don’t even know enough about the topic to realize how complex it is and so they think they know exactly how it works when they’ve only brushed the surface. Now if they continued to learn about the topic they would realize how complex it actually is and then realize they know nothing. If they still continued to learn more and more they would eventually understand almost everything about the topic and become confident in their knowledge, but this time for the right reasons.
YOU know so little about how the matchmaker actually works that you don’t realize how wrong you are. I’ve put in the time and experimentation to know how the matchmaker works and that’s why I’m confident in this topic.
So we’re both convinced we have it correct but out of the two of us I’m the only one who has put in the time to experiment and truly understand it, you and your buddies are the Dunning Kruger.
no one knows how it works, everyone has theories, but since none of us (im assuming) work in that department for blizz and since thats part of their IP (intangible assets) none of us will ever know.