This explains enough for me. GL in your games.
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Exactly. Everything is just like gambling. Sometimes is easy as walk in the park, other times, can’t even win no matter how hard you try.
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True true. I haven’t played much Rainbow Six: Siege, but I imagine that game might make you more aware of stuff like playing corners, holding angles and crosshair placement. I mean, ya would pick up these traits from OW too after a while, but it might be more obvious in R6S.
Do you do any sort of warm-ups before you hop in comp? Also, do your picks help suit the comp?
You may have to send us your recordings.
Other than that, here’s what I followed having been bronze myself:
- Group up. If everyone is trickling and your requests are falling on deaf ears, find someone in your team and be his or her group buddy. 2 is better than 1.
- Do callouts. If you have team members doing callouts, group up with them for the next match (if you win or have a close loss)
I was able to do it mainly as Pharah Soldier and Mercy.
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Probably because they placed in that rank when they first started playing. A coach told me the system tries to keep you in the rank you started at. The game is rigged. Why does every widow in 950 sr bronze have 50-70% aimed accuracy. Why does every hanzo never miss his headshots. I’m tired of feeling like I’m fighting against owl teams in bronze.
Try to play on a Top of the line PC. 200 FPS and up 240hz monitor. If you play on slow end PC you fight the Game and the PC. I just change from low to high end and it’s like night and day. I’m not saying you will win all the time, and you still need game sense and all that but it will make it much easier.
Don’t fight your PC, fight the game. 
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More likely your ability has stayed the same or only slightly improved it’s just everyone else has improved more than you.
This may be precisely the problem, you shouldn’t be trying “hard” you’re not lifting weights here, you’re not sprinting. This is a game that requires quick thinking and finesse, you may need to just relax and let your brain do the work.
I’ve noticed myself when I “try hard” to aim better, I get worse. And when I get tilted from a loss my “try hard” gets me fragged even more and my aim gets worse. If I can just relax, get my cool, focus… then it all comes back.
Or maybe this is the problem. If you’re so unable to take criticism that you imply something will “happen” if face to face, then that’s standing in your way.
Because so many bronze players don’t do a good enough job of dodging when unshielded in the open. Plenty of easy shots on lol-soldiers standing in their biotic fields.
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False, I wouldn’t climb from silver to masters. The system works pretty good.
How?
So you’re tired of fighting against equally skilled players. There may be some smurfs - as they’re everywhere, yet it’s still possible to climb. Don’t play the game then I guess…
I think you’ll just have to make another account.
If you place in plat/gold this time, then it’s the game.
If you’re still in bronze, then maybe it’s you.
3 days ago I took my tank smurf from silver to plat in one day. I’m sure the agitation of being in silver was a bit of a catalyst, but my skill is actually what carried me. The game also had no idea who I am based on my IP address, as I ran a proxy the entire time I played this smurf, so the game isn’t rigging games based on my highest/current rank on any of my other accounts using this IP address. I just dug my way out of silver with little effort, and proceeded to cut my way through gold. Ended exactly 2500 before I stopped.
Many of the games were very very close. All it took was a little nudge to end a game in our favor.
Many games were totally one sided where it wasn’t possible for the team I was paired with to win, or the enemy team’s capabilities were just as low as described.
Many games were total blowouts, even with nearly evenly matched players, where I had little to no role in this victory.
ONE game with ONE leaver. Literally every game had no leavers except the game that put me into plat.
The system is ruthless. The system is unforgiving. Data doesn’t lie though.
Or maybe, the rest of the playerbase is improving faster than you are
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I would start by, imagining where your enemies are when out of sight. (I am gonna assume that most bronze level players have the same problems.)
To do this you have to consciously think 100% of the time instead of acting on reaction.
Go into a match, think when I leave spawn I am gonna go X, then repeat it in your head until you are there.
When you get near the choke I want you to imagine where the enemies are, start with 1, the one your hero is most effective against, visualize them through the walls, imagine them moving, use your ears.
eg; Rien is going to hold his shield up at the choke, but where is he now? Well they are normally of the X side, then imagine him there.
The hard part is going to be maintaining that (we all lose track of enemies), I want you to keep yourself constantly thinking consciously, ask yourself questions non stop to keep this happening.
“is he wiggling, then gonna jump out and firestrike?”
“Is he just gonna wait, charge his shield and go for a pin when we walk through?”
Just don’t let yourself get caught in the moment and stop thinking consciously.
It will be hard at first, it will take a LOT of time to retrain yourself, but when you do you will see a difference.
If you don’t do this constantly, enemies will always have an advantage against you by taking you off guard.
You have to be diligent and not let bad habits take hold.
If I drop even 300SR, I can hard carry my way back up to my true SR, 2700-ish, this statement isn’t true.
I dropped to 2400 a few seasons back when I stopped caring but liked the structure. No I wasn’t throwing, just a bunch of bad games in a row.
A bit later I just buckled up and stomped back up.
I have 2 crappy arms and am exhausted after work and can do it, there is a guy who plays with his feet “fragsbythefoot” and is in silver/gold.
Believe me if we can do this you can.
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Play something else don’t lose sleep on this game.
I’d like to point out that it becomes vastly different the higher up you go.
Getting into Diamond, and the dropping out and reclimbing is a terrible experience. You’re more than likely to drop back down into Plat and stay there until the end of the season, only to place right back into Diamond next season… Rinse repeat ad nauseum.
Your SR is not your MMR, and when the game has unintentionally caused a desync of the two, being hardstuck and Elo hell evolve from a myth to very plausible realities.
At least Masters/GMs have safety in knowing that there are guaranteed Master/GMs who have decayed, that the game will auto sort you with… Diamond dropouts with Plat end up getting stuck with new blood Plat greenhorns.
It’s a video game. You’re supposed to have fun. 
Buy an alt account and redo placements.
Try hard the first 25 levels in QP, since that’s your initial SR calibration.
If you still get placed in Bronze, then it’s you.
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Maybe you belong in bronze, just a thought
I don’t know if I agree, but get your point.
High plat and low diamond are horrible, everyone in diamond is desperate not to fall back you plat, and the plats are desperate to climb and that alone causes losses.
I normally do all of my placements against Masters, season after season, even when I do great and go 8-2 given the circumstances, that doesn’t mean I am suddenly a Masters. No, I make to many mistakes. Those poor fools get stuck with me haha.
You must’ve picked up really bad habits that you just can’t shake or something. Otherwise, I don’t see how you’re not climbing just by carrying your games at this point.