I hope I’m not asking a dumb question or something, long story coming just to give everybody an idea of what we’re working with:
I recently got a new computer. This is pretty cool, since my last computer ran so terribly that I was lucky to even be running on 5 FPS. I know that sounds pretty insane, I guess I didn’t realize how terrible it was until I got a new computer, it feels great!
My performance has gone up exceptionally! Compared to where I was two seasons ago, I had only won two games out of my ten placement games. My FPS was so bad I couldn’t aim because I didn’t know where anybody was, sometimes character models didn’t even load in. I often played Lucio or Moira and played based off of sound to determine where I was, and if I was doing my job as a healer, and other things of the sort! Sometimes I’d have a few seconds of playing solely based off of sound, but I still managed to do my job and get gold healing. I got silver, better than I thought!
Since then, I’ve improved exponentially. It’s kind of insane, actually! I didn’t expect I’d be doing well at all, having not exactly grown up with first person shooter games. My FPS is smooth and it’s like playing a different game entirely. Of course, that alone won’t be enough to improve my rank. Although, my potential has gone up exceptionally! I always have an exceptional amount of damage for a support, while carrying a very efficient amount with gold healing always, and almost always gold eliminations and gold objective kills, and depending on the hero, gold to silver objective time! I’ve even been getting POTGs, something I never got to achieve previously. My accuracy, inevitably, has gone up nicely. I’ve been getting kills like I hadn’t been able to before, I can save my teammates, I can shut down and cc the enemy team with ease and it’s been a smooth ride no matter how much the ranked games I played were trying to give me another loss! I won seven out of ten… and I got the same rank I had before, on that old computer, where I couldn’t do a single thing but heal.
It tore me apart to come to the end of my placements and see myself exactly where I was before. I’m doing so much more than I could do before, and I’m in the exact same place with my SSR. Of course, during placements, the wins and losses don’t count as much as the performance, but my performance is nowhere near where it was before. Of course, it isn’t some amazing newfound skill or anything, I can just finally perform in-game like a normal person, but I’m kind of amazed that I can get the same rank in two completely different places.
I was wondering if I did something wrong. Maybe there’s something I’m forgetting or don’t know about placements, competitive, ect.
TL;DR I got silver with 5 FPS where I couldn’t perform at all. I now have 60 FPS and I’m doing notably exceptional compared to how I was doing before and I got silver again. Did I mess up?
