I grinded my way to a silver 4. Why is it that all of a sudden im back in bronze and i went on a losong streak where every game after game was like playing against a brick wall? What gives? I grinded to silver 4 thats my skill. Why dont i stay there?
you can have some lucky games enough to climb a rank or 2, just like you can have some unlucky games and drop a rank or 2ā¦
If everyone just got to keep their highest rank all the time it wouldnāt make any sense right?
Next, and I mean no offense with this but āI grinded my way to silver 4ā means you are JUST BARELY out of the lowest possible ranks you can have in OW. The ranks with people who literally donāt know how to play the game, donāt know the maps, donāt know the objectives, donāt know the heroās, could be playing the game on terrible hardware, people who only play OW while drunk/high or just when they get off work to blow steam and have every intention of throwing the match for fun.
Itās very easy to have games be outside your control in those ranks man. If you want some real advice spend a few hours playing some aim training custom scenarios for OW, if youāre in bronze trust me you need it (again no offense). There are custom game scenarios for OW that players make to train you for all kinds of situations like testing your reaction times to a reaper appearing behind you or a reinhart popping up with a shatter the the objective of these scenarios is you being like ana and timing your sleep on them, or diffing a widow, or scenarios to practice your āroll outsā and movement on certain heros.
I promise you if you (depending on which heroās/role you like playing) practice these scenarios so that you are proficient with your hero and have good aim you will get AT LEAST gold within a week, perhaps plat.
If you have the skills you should have NP getting into those ranks even without being much of an expert in OW (things like understanding the objective / being aware of ult economy / team coms and planning or value trading etc). ā those skills come with time playing OW and those are how you get out of gold/plat.
Thatās my advice. gl
EDIT: to find good custom game codes just look around on youtubeā¦ The first ones I used back in the day were made by a guy named PMAJellies - I really liked his stuff but thereās lots of others. KarQ has great video guides.
Watch this so you can see what i mean. QMWGZ3. I went 0 and 4 in first 2 min but move past that. My first game of the evening. We lost but see how lopsided this matchup is? All comments welcone im just playing on a switch lounging on the couch with my kids.
If you want to stay in silver you need to play like gold, thatās how the game works if I oversimplify this to not put you into various variables that take place there including your own consistency and game/playerās behavior.
Play 1ā2 ranks above your skill to maintain your actual peak. The game forces you to improve and be consistent. Competitive games are not to chill and say, āI got there, now what?ā - now you go further or backwards, thatās it, here is your answer. Learn how to carry your silver lobbies. This is not an RPG game. This is not a sandbox to play in because you āgot a permissionā. You have touched that rank, doesnāt mean you are this rank.
Until you reach GM5 at least, you never ask what is happening. The only question that is supposed to be in your head is āWhat couldāve/shouldāve I done betterā every time you die or lose a game. This is how you improve. Never think about anything else besides your own performance, and if you are silver4 now, this means you play the game on like 10-15% potential and the rest 85-90% is to reach to.
And if you donāt want to improve or just want to āplay in silverā then you never ask questions, because this is pointless - you are casual player that thinks that a competitive game provides something for free. Fun is not free, improvement is pain, and the higher you go the more pain you get.
All right first Iāll start with thisā¦ If youāre playing on switch itās like 30 FPS right? Plus thereās things like auto aim and people are playing this game with ā¦ nunshcuks? The little controllers the size of my pinkies in each hand right? On like a 5 inch screen?
I donāt mean to be insulting here but I honestly canāt even fathomā¦ when I started playing OW in like 2016 or w/e year it was I had just bought a roku 4k TV and what ever graphics card I was using was like pre RTX generation off brandā¦
I knew nothing about āFPSā and this was my first shooter so I played in 4k quality everything set to max on a giant 4k TV and I played in bed with my fiance at the time lol. I imagine this is the exact same level youāre playing atā¦ playing at <30 frames is SOOOOOO horrible once you experience playing on optimal settings. I literally overnight went from like 600 SR bronze to high silver just by swapping to low settings and a 165 hz monitorā¦ If you want to play OW with more competent players and at a higher level IMO you really need to switch to PC and play at at least 120+ HZ on low settings just as a minimum baseline.
I would totally expect simply by virtue of the platform (that being the nintendo switch) the people you will be playing with will be very casual about comp regardless of your rank - nothing wrong with that unless you are actually expecting more āseriousā competitive gameplay.
With that said and out of the wayā¦ the first thing Iām seeing in your actual gameplay is firstly you are playing open que. The devs do not in ANY WAY support open que balancing. They make all their changes and patches based around role que. what that means is because thereās supposed to only be one tank they make balance based around that. Regardless of anyones opinion if we are just talking about numbers on paper the best possible heroās for open que is always going to be 4 tanks 1 support or MAYBE 3 tanks 2 supports. Open que is honestly more of an arcade mode and a good portion of the people who play it treat it that way.
Ok now down to actual adviceā¦ right off the bat I can instantly see you donāt know your hero at all. You used your defence matrix on literally nothing first - not using it to block anything but justā¦ for the sake of using itā¦ The 2nd time you tried using it you tried to use it to eat an orisa spear chuck which you canāt use it on which got you stunned and demeched. You also wasted your missles.
You gotta really practice your heroās and their interactions so you arenāt wasting abilities. first and foremost. learning āthe gameā as a whole will come with time so I wont try to coach you through that but just to let you know you instantly took an off angle where your 1 support couldnāt really help you (since you only had 1 support in this open que) and you died for that.
Iām gonna assume you just like dva and main her - You should look up videos on specifically dva. Thereās a ton of videos that are like ā1 dva trick vrs every heroā - basically the format is from the POV of dva it will do a 10 second clip of DVA in a 1v1 vrs every single hero so you will learn exactly how you should counter each and every hero - they will usually tell you what you can and cannot use DM on, and which heroās you should/shouldnāt use your missles on (example - if vrs mei your DM will not stop her freeze spray, and donāt use your rockets on her till after she ice blocks - keep in mind she can wall off your escape - then the video should show an example of you losing/winning against said hero).
After watching a couple vids like that - go into a custom game mode scenario for dva where you can practice what ever techs dvaās haveā¦ Iām sure thereās a scenario out there that will teach you how to place a bomb on a ledge and drop it down by pushing it, or sending your mech through a TP to bomb, or how to set up a bait play to make people run from your bomb only to be crushed by your remech etc. probably scenarios where it will test your reaction time to eating enemy ultimates or stopping abilities with your DM or boosting out of the way of the things you canāt eat.
Sorry I wonāt be watching the whole videoā¦ the gameplay in open que just isnāt really something I play personally and wouldnāt be able to give great advice there aside from all this - you really really need to learn the bare basics before you worry about anything else.
GLGL 
Qtxf05 or qtxfo5 watch that now
It sounds like youāre really inconsistent, I watched the game you put in a reply and that was a perfectly winnable game if you had at least 1 functioning hand. Focus on actually playing better instead of your rank, it is so easy to get out of low rank if you just play with your brain turned on. If you think you āgrindedā to silver 4, you didnāt. Not compared to how much the average player plays.
Someone in one of the replies said to aim train, donāt do that unless you actually find it fun. I hit Master without aim training once, if you just play more and learn the maps and characters it is so easy to get to gold at minimum. If you are a long time player and have no idea what you could be doing better, add me on discord and ill tell you exactly what youāre doing wrong. Iām not very nice when I coach - Asuchri
People will tell you āgit gud, its silverā
But regardless of your rank, the game creates unfair matchups at every rank.
How thats excuseable? I dont know.
Thats like going into 4th grade and saying āpff, you need to know geometry before you can learn your times-tablesā
Its likeā¦noā¦let them do multiplication and division first. But instead of multiplication and division on the Test, they give you a random Calculus problem, and then ābalance it outā with a few addition dnd subtraction problemsā¦then they say "you should be able to at least scrape by if you play perfect.
And if you DO get a high score, they give the 4th grader a test entirely of calculus problems, then give you a bad grade when that kid fails because he doesnt know the material.
After continous calculus fails, they say āthis kid should be remedialā and they give you a whole freebie test of entirely addition and subtractions problems.
And it cyclesā¦
They literally set people up to pass and fail.
If you turn your monitor on you can get out of silver, I donāt see how anything can be an unfair matchup when your opponents all donāt have thumbs. My first ever placement was 1800, silver. I got to diamond in less than a month. If you struggle to get out of low ranks its just a major skill issue
Unfortunately once you reach your predicted peak (by matchmaking) games become extremely difficult for some reason that I cannot understand. Its like: āLast game I was doing great, now I canāt do anything. There is only 1 game difference???āā¦and then the losing streak begins.
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MMR squish for the populated ranks to throttle progress and allow the matchmaker more leeway in creating games. AKA allowing more skill variance while the variables stay the same. See coz 1000 MMR is now 200 MMR. The matchmaker can not match 1000 MMR apart but 200 is fine. The skill difference between the players will still be 1000 MMR but blizzard pretend this is a non issue. Turns out queue times are bad for business. They need you playing and seeing new skins so you can go shopping their full whale package for 79.99 for one mythic with gold outfit.
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