It’s all relative. My SR fluctuates between 2600-2800 normally. So I mostly play with other plats and sometimes golds in comp. Sometimes it dips below that, but pretty rare. In QP however I play with mostly diamonds and sometimes masters. And if I’m on a winstreak and just killing it out there, I even start to get the rare GM. I can count the number of top 500s I’ve seen (like 6?) but still…to be doing well enough to see them ever still makes me happy.
Even when those people aren’t trying they are better than the people in my comp games.
I wish I could consistently produce the results I do in QP in comp so I could have a better SR. IDK why I cannot do it. But I just can’t.
Yeah, I’ve run into Mangachu (Team Canada/Mayhem University player), Architect (SF Shock), J3sus (steamer), and j00mla (streamer) in random QP and arcade games.
It’s pretty terrifying when you see a 4500+ SR player… and it’s really cool to see just how differently they play the game. It feels like everything they do is just faster somehow, and of course much more precise and much less prone to make even the smallest mistakes. That said, it’s also cool to realize that they’re not literally unkillable. I still got stomped pretty hard in the games I saw them, but still got a kill or two throughout the matches.
I feel like this when I’m watching OWL or a pro streamer from their PoV. I’m like… how the hell is their game going so fast? When I’m sitting here it doesn’t look like things are moving that fast, but on these pro’s screens everything is going at like Mach 10.
Maybe it looks slower when you’re playing it but not when you’re watching it for some reason. There might be some psychological effect when you’re actually IN the action since you’re actually using your situational awareness and can hear everything through your own headset or something.
I used to play SC2, and me and my friends maxed out at like… high gold, which isn’t terrible, but it definitely isn’t anything to write home about.
When you watch a SC2 pro’s PoV, it’s absolutely insane. They’re moving so fast, multitasking a million things at once, maintaining complex build orders, strategizing on the fly, setting up flanks, setting up drops… it’s just insane.
One of my proudest OW moment is killing a much higher rank Genji with Mercy and then getting a mass Rez. Never felt more awesome than that moment. He’d been farming me all game. Then he started getting very cocky. And one time, somehow, I managed to just keep dinging his head while using GA on dead bodies to keep him away.
It was glorious.
I mean we still lost the game ultimately, but still…
Kinda agree, but still the quality can change dramatically from the to another it’s crazy. One day literally 5 dps insta lock almost every time and the other everybody fill.
But yeah the few most memorable game i had was with 5 stack of Masters up to GM, against 6 stack of Masters up to GM. We all went 2-2-2 and everybody did a decent job together.
There’s absolutely nothing better than getting revenge on that one cocky enemy.
I still remember this one game I had months ago on Zen (surprise surprise) and there was a Tracer who I killed once at the start of the match and literally spent all three maps of Ilios out for blood. I dunno what happened, but I swear I entered a higher plane of existence for that game. I had that Tracer’s number and I must have won like 95% of 1v1’s. They were doing everything to come for me, too. Spawncamping, hard diving… it was so glorious to repeatedly shut them down.
yeah I’m mid diamond when I actually do comp but I have GMs in most of my QP games. see top 500 people pretty often too. most of my guns are fun, usually only one or two stomps either way per night. and most games have decent team comps
Decided to try the mirror FFA arcade mode. Did horribly throughout most of the game. Well, not horribly, but I was in sixth place and the top guy was 3 kills away from winning. Suddenly, we all shift into Zenyatta.
And then, I was one with the Iris.
I have no idea how I did it but I’m ducking and weaving behind pillars and walls (Dorado) and just landing head dink after head dink and hearing that sweet sweet elim sound. Next thing I know the game is over and I went from sixth place to first without a single death lol.
It was glorious. One might say it was transcendent.
When everything clicks, it feels absolutely incredible. Landing left click headshots on a double-jumping Genji way out in the distance, predicting a Tracer blink, deleting a tank with a volley of headshots… I love how much of a glass cannon he is.
It’s always fun to just completely shutdown someone who is tilted quite that hard.
This was just capture the flag…
But there was a Soldier that I just kept shutting down as Widow. He became obsessed with trying to kill me after I shutdown both his ult and tire and then killed their support. They definitely would have had that flag if I had not.
It was just sheer dumb luck on my end, but it didn’t stop him from becoming very aggro the entire rest of the match. Often abandoning his team and objectives to try to kill me.
He finally got me at the end of the match when I was going for a health pack, and then proceeded to teabag me even though the match ended in his defeat.
The next round he was my opponent again. And I decided to get revenge by just choosing to counter whoever he played. He went Genji and I went Winston. Unlike him, I wasn’t a moron and didn’t go out of the way to kill him. But I did keep him off my support constantly and teabagged him each time.
Once again I went inside a small room for a health pack. And he tries to solo ult me. So I go primal rage and just toss him into the corner of the room and kill him. Then I teabagged him again.
He rage quit the match after that.
I don’t even teabag people but that guy deserved all the salt lol.
I love how people always seem surprised when you volley them out of existence too. wtf Zen?!
Sadly though people don’t comment on Zen play as much as they will say, Hanzo or something. They just get all silent ragey and swap to Doomfist and try to punch me into a wall.
Yeah, that’s another reason I really like playing Zen. I think people started to wise up to his true potential after players like JJonak pushed the boundaries with him, but he still feels like an underdog and DPS mains in particular either tilt off the face of the planet or develop respect for you the more you show you’re not just an easy pick.
To get higher quality games I will typically find a 6-stack in LFG so that way both teams have players that are trying to coordinate instead of screwing about
On my main account I’m a QP Mercy Lord and I have a lot of really great games. I think it’s why I’m always on the arguing side when people talk about forcing 2-2-2 in QP. A lot of times the comps for me are just fine… and even when they aren’t it’s usually fine too.
I personally prefer QP to comp for the very reasons stated by OP. On this account my comp is hard stuck in gold - none of the teams will listen, they don’t understand stalling payload and they don’t understand not charging CP’s solo, etc. But when I’m in QP more than half the time the teams actually play together as a coordinated team.
Even more interesting is that I am hard locked gold in comp, but in QP I regularly see diamonds and above and have an into dozens of T500 icon people. Either QP matchmaking is bad or comp matchmaking is.
i find if you go on a big win streak it will keep putting you in stupid 1 sided forced loss matches and backfills but you can just leave and it wont affect your mmr (as you would do by trying to play in a complete 1 sided game) and then after a bunch it will go back to normal ‘balanced’ games (i use the term loosely for qp, i.e not complete 1 sided roflstomp). the shenanigans of the matchmaker is really obvious but they try and gaslight you that it doesn’t exist. i dont mind loosing or people playing what they want, but im not wasting my time in a obviously 1 sided rickroll game.
