So how exactly are you supposed to climb from Bronze?

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I am… stuck. Worse than that, I keep falling in SR every game.
I started at 687, went down to 608, then managed to get up to 697 but now down t 565.

And for all of you who say “Brigs always climb”… sure. Whatever.

I can’t climb, because every game is full of idiots. Either throwers, smurfs or just people who don’t play in any coherent form but just derping.

And as I understand it, there is no way to reset your ranking other than to buy a new game. I mean my first season I was 1800+. Not good, but nothing like this. But then second season I played (season 8) I had a string of quitters, so I lost 8 games and was put in bronze, and since I am “in bronze” the game puts me in bronze even when I had a win ratio of 60% on my qualification games this time. Seems I am forever stuck in bronze.

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Buy a new account then if you think that’s the only way to “climb.” Don’t go to Starbucks for a day.

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I just want the match maker to judge me me fairly at the start of a season. The fact that I was put in Bronze last time makes me forever be “assumed” to be Bronze when starting a new season.

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People that are Bronze are Bronze for an entire host of reasons other than the things you listed.

Have you considered introspection? Considered looking at your own gameplay to understand what you could be doing better?

Reason I bring this up is because I’ve been in Bronze and climbed back to gold extremely fast because the skill difference was very large.

Bronze players, rarely communicate, they have very little understanding of team composition, they waste their ult economy with no synergy, have poor positioning, neglect the objective, refuse to switch to appropriate counters during a fight, refuse to learn a range of heroes to best adjust to the unexpected, they trickle in, rarely regroup fully as a team, and tilt easily.

If you are at all good, you won’t do the things above, and you will find yourself 1 good healer to group with as you both climb climb climb. I climbed out of Bronze in a day just playing Zarya. Because on my main I’m a diamond tank main. All I needed to do was find 1 healer in Bronze and we skyrocketed out.

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Some bronze players are held back by something. Whether this is bad internet, hardware, physical issues, or any other handicap. Think, is anything (other than your teammates) holding you back? Is it something you can fix?

Find someone slightly higher ranked than you to duo with. It’s no good finding someone who’s lower or the exact same rating as you because you’re both going to be making severe mistakes. If you have someone slightly higher than you, you can have an idea of what it takes to get to their rank by looking at what they do differently. Finding someone who plays heroes that synergise with your hero picks can help, and make sure you’re not duoing with someone toxic

Going off the last point, take a look at gameplay from tiers above yours. Notice what they do that you don’t. For example, look at their positioning. Why do you think they are positioned there? Are they succeeding in those positions? Perhaps look at your own positioning and think about how you can change to better succeed.

Identify your strengths and abuse them. Think, are you really good at a certain hero? Are you really good at hitscan? Are you really good at ultimate economy? Do some research on the aspect of play you think you’re good at and build upon that strength. Being really good at just one thing will help you out of bronze.

Watch some basic tutorials. Things like hero counters, ultimate economy, hero mechanics, anything that you might need a refresher on. You’ll find that just setting aside a few hours or the time you’d usually spend playing Overwatch for research will further your awareness of higher concepts and strategies and will help you in the long-run. You may even identify some severe issues you have.

If I think of something else I’ll be sure to come back and add it.

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You were judged fairly. You end the season in bronze, off season is like 3 days long, there is no reason to believe you gained tiers worth of skill in that time.

So you won 6/10 games, you probably placed a little bit higher than where you ended, which is still bronze. That’s the way it should be. You barely broke even against other bronze players, there is no reason to put you any higher. Placement’s aren’t for climbing anyway; they’re basically just to qualify you for end-of-season rewards.

You want matchmaker to put you with higher tier players, prove you’re a higher skilled player by doing better than 46% WR over 70+ games against bronze players.

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First step of getting better is to realise you are bad. Do you not group up with your team? Do you not care if the DPS and/or healers are being dived behind you if they just dont touch you? Do you not heal your fellow support? Do you push the same choke 5 times in a roll to no avail yet you’re going for 6th? Are you breaking off to 1v1 a Reaper/ Brig/ Hog? Have you ever considered swapping heroes to counter the enemy? Are you holding ramen shop on Hanamura? 1st turn on Numbani? Maybe you try to hold arch on Kings’ Row street? Do you push with 1 teammate picked early? Do you run straight back on point no matter who is alive or dead?
If you have experienced one or all of these symptoms, then you have “Bad at the video game” syndrome. Please seek professional help, take a daily dose of humility and never, under any circumstances, blame your team for your shortcomings and poor decisions.

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The first step to getting out of any rank is realizing that it’s not always the fault of your team. Learn from your mistakes and capitalize on them the next match

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You aren’t unless you are an eSports candidate.

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Mechanical skill. You don’t even really need to have great awareness because bronze teams are so disorganized. Basically just improve your aim and you should easily be able to steamroll your way through bronze. Especially if you play a character like Pharah who they’ll probably be unable/unwilling to counter.

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if you are successfully working with other people then continue to group with them. Otherwise get better

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Literally play Brigette lol it’s a win button

Or just become mechanically better or gain better game sense (git gud)

Play Pharah and learn LOS to avoid hitscan

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Do you let family members or friends play on your account? Your MMR is a big factor in where you place when doing placements. If you let a little brother or something play on your account (even quickplay), it could result in your MMR getting tanked, which means even a winning series of placement matches will place you very low.

If you won 60% of your placements and went into bronze, your MMR is almost certainly very low.

If not you may want to assess what has changed in your playstyle, etc. since then. Maybe you’ve gone into a new role or playstyle that feels good, but you are actually not performing well in. If you were truly a 1800 player you could carry pretty hard in bronze, and would consistently win nearly any match unless you had multiple leavers or something.

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Use a hero like
Pharah
Widow
Tracer
(improve your mechanical aim, and focus on what things you do that result in your own death and stop doing these things)
Whether or not your team is at fault, does not matter, because you will need to do more than your share to get out of hell.

Try not to die as much.
Group even if your teammates seem ridiculous, sometimes having other targets helps get kills.
Try to get 2+ kills per teamfight.
Run away when your team is at a disadvantage (I mean as a team don’t just leave them :stuck_out_tongue: ). Don’t feed the enemy ults.
Use ults when you can win a team fight.

record your games and watch them and see why you died.

also oddly enough
Torb is really good in bronze silver.

You can add me as friend if you would like, I help my other friends in bronze and silver in qp, just with general game sense things and strategy.

Also for comp find 2 other people that you at least trust to get to silver and play in a 3 stack. This way you can always have 1h, 1 tank, 1dps.
Stop after 2 losses for at least an hour.
Don’t get into silly arguments during matches.

Most importantly don’t lose hope.

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Tip #1 for Bronze: Pratice your aim!
Set up a custom game. Have the enemy team as Ana only, set it to headshots only (Ana can’t get headshots, so setting it to headshots only ensures that you take no damage) and pratice with someone like McCree.
Alternatively, you can make yourself have very high health and very limited damage received to pratice with other heroes like Winston or Ana.

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I would stay far away from ‘high skill’ heroes like Widow and Tracer in bronze. Even if you play them decently, your team will likely tilt at the sight of them, and they won’t know how to support you properly. It almost certainly won’t go well unless you are extremely good at them.

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I named those specifically because if his mechanics are good or can be improved, he does not need to rely on anyone else to win.

He alone can get enough kills to tilt every team fight to his team’s favor.

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You’re so right, Kermit. You have to find just one guy to synergize with, and both of you need to skyrocket out of that shadow realm known as bronze.

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Widow and Tracer absolutely need team support to win. Widow needs someone to keep the enemy team from simply diving her with Winston or Dva, and Tracer needs someone to take down high health targets she isn’t good at. Genji would be a better choice for a lone wolf hero than either, but honestly I wouldn’t pick him in bronze.

Junkrat, Reaper, and Pharah are excellent options for DPS, but you might do better not playing DPS. Just playing tank or healer halfway competently is a huge advantage as people will be more likely to play stupid team compositions down there. Healers that are self-sufficient like Moira and Brigitte are awesome… a decent Moira is amazing in Bronze, able to be a full healer and at least half of a DPS. Nobody has more survivability than Moira.

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None of this actually happens in bronze, especially sub 1000.
There is little to no team coordination. The word counter does not exist.
I do agree with Brig and Moira being good choices…

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