Smallpackage I’m not giving you replay codes.
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They prefer to be called “WeeWeewee”
Might change my name to that if it’s still free.
But to the op, I don’t really care about smurfing. Not something I see as much of an issue.
I had an experience last night in bronze 4 against a Smurf I faced three times in a row for some god forsaken reason. Multiple games where my team was getting farmed and I was the only one getting kills as tracer.
People meme on bronze but they were the toughest and sweatiest games I’ve had and I’ve been playing since OW1. Bronze is hell.
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Just on this bit. Bronze 4 & 5 have some of the lowest numbers of players. So you will have an increase chance of playing the same people occasionally.
Games like that sound fun… but maybe that’s just me.
It would be fun if both teams had players as good as that one person in particular but most lobbies end up with the matchmaker saying “carry your team against this smurf.” I’m a decent player on tracer. I need to increase my mechanical skill like aim, positioning, timing of dives/etc, but when I watch Flats reviewing bronze games on YouTube they’re NOTHING like my games at all.
The bronze games I’ve seen on YouTube look like weenie hut jr whereas mine feel like I’m having to hard carry new players since my account is ancient against a team of one or more eldritch horrors. I’m thinking about making a new account to see what my placements end up being.
Maybe. But if you are the type that is wanting to learn and improve… these are the games you will learn the most from.
Bronze is a VERY wide spectrum. But if you are open to learning from people and are as “good” as you claim, then it is going to come down to being more consistantly at your peak performance.
I’d wait for season 10, with the new group rules (ie being removed). You might be able to stack with some better players and learn from them as you play.
But I will say, it is refreshing to see this attitude. It will serve you well.
I’m just decent at DPS. Not “good.” I see a “good” DPS as someone basically in masters who knows how to capitalize on every situation, has great game mechanics, positioning and aim, can track cooldowns/ults well, instinctively knows how to adapt with the team they’re given.
I’ve always seen bronze as basically the training room of the game. I probably still deserve to be there as I still have things to learn but it lowkey feels bad since I’ve been playing this game since the beginning of OW1 and somehow don’t put enough of the skills mentioned above into practice to get out of the bowels of bronze.
Like what skills does a bronze player need to have to get out because for me it feels like I need to play as if I’m a GM player to get out of this hell.
Having watched someone climb from Bronze to Plat. The answer to do you need GM skill… no, not even close (although it would help lol).
It is purely about playing more consistently. That game where you popped off and hard carried. Instead of doing that once in every 10 games. it needs to be every 2/3 games.
It is rough, and it is a long journey. I’ve gone from sub 500sr to masters. It has takes AGES. Like years. But I focused on just learning the play the roles, and specific heroes better. I didn’t focus on what rank I was, just how can I play this to give me the cleanest path to win the game.
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