As a support player playing competetive is horrible. I heavily rely on my dps and tank being good for me to win and when they’re insanely bad which is almost every game theres no way i can rank up. The 5 win 15 losses thing is stupid. I have no good dps players to queue with so im hardstuck in this elo because my teammates. My stats are always good but i legit cant do anything to rank up. The comp system sucks, either i dont belong in this rank or the people i play with belong in bronze
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Play enough games and you’ll be in the rank you belong. I only play ranked solo, only support.
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played over 50 games this season. ive had dps go 5 19 multiple times. i cant
Find a duo. I joined teams.gg and there are tons of people looking for groups
I’d recommend playing a character like Bap who can cover for teams with weaker DPS and/or a weaker co-support. You can even help cover for a weaker tank to an extent.
Bap got me out of silver and gold, I’m sure he can get you out of wherever you might be right now.
ive used everyone but going bap wont help me win with 2 dps going 4 20
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I have a limited hero pool. I don’t expect my team to have any wider a hero pool than me. I know my limitations and how that affects my team and my games. I can’t get mad at a tank who is getting diffed and not switching. Maybe they play two tanks and our rank and neither do well versus the enemy team. If they swap to what we (the team) decides we want and gets rolled, it’s not their fault. I know, personally, based on my stats, if I want to win, I lock Lucio or Brig and ignore everything else.
Maybe a teammate is playing a hero they’re not as good with, but they think our team needs/wants and is trying to make it work? Sometimes I go Mercy because my team has double hitscan, even though last season after 12hrs I had a 41% win rate with her. Once you start looking more at your own mistakes rather than your team’s, you might improve.
Since 2017, I never blamed my teams for my losses. I steadily climbed from Plat to GM.
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All of my gm friends even top500 have said im doing good, even when we play qp they say i play as good or even better than supports on their elo. If my dps is going 4 20 im not supposed to blame them?? xD
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If you want to stay frustrated, keep doing that
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Could you tell me how im supposed to improve when i go 0 11 3 on mercy with 70% offensive beam but my dps still go 4 20? lol
If you play well enough, you will win more than you lose. If you’re good, your team can only have 4 bad players. Enemy team can have 5.
What rank are you currently?
If your dps are dying that much, you probably shouldn’t have 70% offensive beam and should actually heal them.
But the real answer is don’t play Mercy. Play Ana, Bap, Kiriko, Illari and get kills. If you get a juicy anti-nade or two tap someone you can single handedly win the fight for your team. Even if your dps die they will be buying time for you to get kills.
was your initial rank Bronze 5? because if you say yes I will not believe you.
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Was Plat in 2017 so never bronze
and there you have it folks…
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What do we have, folks?
yeah, people talk about supports being powerful (and they are) but you are so much more reliant on your team to get anything done. Like sure I could get a 5 man anti as ana, but if my team refuses to capitalize off it, it doesn’t really make a difference. I can nanoblade but if genji messes it up then I’m out of luck and an ultimate. it sucks
Hit enough 5 man anti’s and you’ll win enough games to climb at least a little. Play in the proper position as Ana enough and you’ll die fewer times leading to more wins and - climbing
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Especially when you get team mates who are so afraid of dying that they are afraid to push in. We can’t sit at choke all day, we gotta push at some point if we’re on attack. But game after game I sit and watch as my Tank refuses to push onto the point. And I get falling back a bit to help get ahead on Defense, even if it means giving up a tick or two for the point, but full on retreating when we’re fully regrouped?
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