Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I count all the potgs that features my team getting boosted as my PotG.
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I count all the potgs that features my team getting boosted as my PotG.
There's a lot that goes into playing around your DPS. You could have Taimou on your team and he could deal no damage if his team doesn't set him up for it. There are a lot of shit DPS players, but if they're in their skill bracket then you have to try and enable the carry best you can.
wild wild rice
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Pretty much gonna do this and hope for the best.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
As someone who often gets grouped with 5 stacks when I solo Q lemme tell you.
Just because they're in a group doesn't necessarily mean they're co-ordinated.
LucidMomentum
Member
OH MY FUCKING GOD
ONE MORE WIN TO PLAT
ONE FUCKING WIN
ATTACK WIDOW, BASTION, AND SOMEONE WHO CAN'T SUPPORT.
Fuck me.
ONE MORE WIN TO PLAT
ONE FUCKING WIN
ATTACK WIDOW, BASTION, AND SOMEONE WHO CAN'T SUPPORT.
Fuck me.
optimus8936
Banned
This. I had a team of 4 on my team and their team.
My team of 4 were all scattered and died instantly.
Their team of 4 were always together and wrecked our faces.
Not every team is going to be good. There are plenty of teams of 6s who will lose to 6 randoms.
Did my 5th placement match with Reaper and it was just beautiful. It was on Hanumura and our Mercy was just an absolute star. She actually understood how DPS engage/disengage and enabled me to completely ruin everyone on the first point. The team actually understood that we had a massive advantage after I took out Reinhardt. It felt so good. We rush second point almost immediately and I don't even need to use death blossom the entire push.
Defence was just beautiful as well. The Mercy again just understood what I was trying to do. I'd peep out of the choke point if 4 people died to get the extra kill and stagger the approach. I'd get heavily damaged of course but she'd be there to heal me as I retreated with wraith form. I basically rinsed and repeated giving me a 20 kill streak on defence and we held the first point with no problems.
Man I'll never have such a beautiful game in solo queue ever again.
Defence was just beautiful as well. The Mercy again just understood what I was trying to do. I'd peep out of the choke point if 4 people died to get the extra kill and stagger the approach. I'd get heavily damaged of course but she'd be there to heal me as I retreated with wraith form. I basically rinsed and repeated giving me a 20 kill streak on defence and we held the first point with no problems.
Man I'll never have such a beautiful game in solo queue ever again.
Yeah, of course, but generally it's still stacked against you. I can count how many of those I won.
BlueLiquid
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I just picked up the game a week and a half ago on PC. I saw an ad for it at a movie trailer (Star Wars maybe?) and it caught my eye but having played multiplayer shooters for so long now and seeing how disrespectful others can get playing these kinds of games I didn't really want to get back into that. I'd had enough of people complaining about the class I was playing in TF2. I never switched classes to troll people but to try something new and try to get better at it. Mann vs. Machine mode got really bad with randoms after a while and I swore it off.
I'd been sticking to Splatoon for the same reasons you mentioned. After putting up with so much abuse from communities of so many games, it was nice to be able to hop on a game and just play with almost no harassment. Well, except for some squidkidders but they're usually just making themselves a target by making all that racket and it's certainly not as bad as text/mic harassment.
But hearing how Blizzard was being aggressive with cheaters and putting in filters for profanity and stuff like "gg ez" made me reconsider and I bought it. So far in Overwatch (I'm only level 18) I've mostly just seen people just try to get by the "easy" filters in text chat and occasional "you all suck" and I've never even heard anybody on mic. But if this is how it is at the upper levels then yeah, that's really disappointing.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I mean you get a range. There was this match where a hanzo player was being a sexist dipshit on voice chat to a female player in our group but the rest of us gave him shit for it.
Very nice!
I had a Dorado Quick Play with Zarya earlier that went really well on attack also. We had a Roadhog and I really like that combo with Zarya. I didn't get nearly as many elims as you did (18? maybe?) but only died 4 times and we pushed the cart really quickly. Finished with 41% avg energy and 10 high energy kills so things went well.
Kayo Police
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True, but at my mmr there's only so much you can do if your DPS is dead set on just flanking and feeding all the time.
Bumbletron
Member
I'll admit I was kind of waiting for it to happen
Home now, anyone wanna dick around on PC?
I'll add you, even if we disagree on Zarya v Hog
Bumbletron#1178
Kayo Police
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I feel the same way at times when I hop into solo q quick play.
I sit there and just wonder..."I know I kinda suck but am I really that bad?" "I mean really bruh?"
LucidMomentum
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I'll add you, even if we disagree on Zarya v Hog
Bumbletron#1178
Zarya Vs. Hog is a game of chicken.
If you hook before she bubbles, you lose.
If she bubbles before you hook, she loses.
MarioHead3
Banned
I'll add you, even if we disagree on Zarya v Hog
Bumbletron#1178
Which reminds me, my bnet is MarioHead3#1498 if anyone wants to add me.
Terareflection
Member
lol, I can't carry at all. I just end being the last one alive, and die.
I feel the same way at times when I hop into solo q quick play.
I sit there and just wonder..."I know I kinda suck but am I really that bad?" "I mean really bruh?"
i'm pretty sure i'm not that bad because i consistently do more work than anyone else on the team
my pattern for the last week is initially getting stomped, solo teamwiping into a comeback, and barely losing while getting 3-4 golds
it's actually the worst way to lose i can think of
Take a break. Let the bads tank their ratings and hopefully when you come back they'll be below your ranking.
Unless you're talking about quick play then I guess your screwed.
this is actually good advice for next time but i think i've lost too much rank to make s2 at all worthwhile
Kayo Police
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I would kill a tree to know what my hidden MMR value is.
Vault Dweller 111
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All you solo queue complainers should watch this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdhqAgwi8vY
One game, fine. But over time you'll end up where you're meant to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdhqAgwi8vY
One game, fine. But over time you'll end up where you're meant to be.
I'll add you
MarioHead3
Banned
Great timing for my modem to shit itself.
finalflame
Banned
I'll add you, even if we disagree on Zarya v Hog
Bumbletron#1178
Haha, added! I'm grouped with a SK friend and another GAFfer. I'll invite you after this game
Kayo Police
Member
That doesn't make the journey there any easier to swallow though, and Stylosa himself has been getting tilted by solo q. He even posted a vid about it.
Shake Appeal
Member
I'm done.
the idea that you'll eventually end up at a rank representative of your true skill is predicated on the assumption that the matchmaking and ranking systems are doing their jobs
i'm not sure i believe that's true for this game
Kayo Police
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Bumbletron
Member
Even if we have to carry your Hanzo <3
(You still carry us with him though, let's be real)
I climbed from the mid 50s to the 70s solo queue in S1 no problem at all running DPS/Tank. I think there are problems where the middle areas are too dense and a bit random, but you can beat the odds. The system is doing a pretty decent job. The only thing really worth complaining about this density near the middle, but that's not something thats gonna keep a good player locked down.
Gimme a week and that'll actually be true. I might be on in a bit btw.
xaosslug
Member
how does watching this help anything?
optimus8936
Banned
Is there something else here that I'm missing, or is this just about you losing? I feel like there's something else here, but I can't see it.
Vault Dweller 111
Member
Ideally it lessens the amount of solo queue whining posts in this thread which is more than half at this point. But yea that probably won't happen because obviously everyone is at least 1000 levels better than their level indicates and it's the games fault they are ranked where they are.
Back to complaining I guess. I don't think anyone actually cares to find out why they aren't winning when they feel like they should be.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
By solo q do people mean actual solo Q or 2-3 stack solo Q?
optimus8936
Banned
I mean, I don't solo queue, but I got top 500 last season by only duo queueing, and this season I can't even get to Diamond rank. I definitely don't feel that this is where I should be, I definitely feel like I'm waaaay better than Platinum rank :/
But I agree, some people just need to accept that they are where they are supposed to be, although some people do end up getting screwed over.
Wyndstryker
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There are many people who are pure Solo Q and still end up going up the ranks quite well, yet others don't.
Can it be luck? Sure. But there's obviously something the successful players are doing right that others aren't.
Can it be luck? Sure. But there's obviously something the successful players are doing right that others aren't.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I do think being a good DPS does increase your chances, because that's a clear difference at the lower levels.
Though I don't even know anymore, because on Overbuff I see that my DPS stats seem pretty good, but I only have like a 20% WR as DPS. Only 4 games as a sample size, but still.
Though I don't even know anymore, because on Overbuff I see that my DPS stats seem pretty good, but I only have like a 20% WR as DPS. Only 4 games as a sample size, but still.
Vault Dweller 111
Member
2936. You're so close!
It's been rough but the season also just started. Whereas Blizzard was kind to people who started in the 2700's or so and then tanked to below 2500 and still got to keep their platinum rank. You've done the opposite, and what I'm sure has felt like forever has only been a couple weeks and youre pretty much there. And maybe you'll do better in the diamond bracket and get top 500 again.
I think your example proves my point more than it disproves it.
optimus8936
Banned
20% win rate with only 4 games played 🤔
S1 I mostly queued by myself only. I sometimes queued with friends but that was actually more of a liability than solo q so I decided to climb by myself.
Shake Appeal
Member
I mean, I did it in S1. Went from 43 at one point to 57 with a lot of solo queue and some duo/trio. I only played 29 hours in S1, but I always felt I could go higher even with occasional bad games or bad beats.
This season it was more or less the same deal. Was placed at around 49, climbed to near 57 (SR2825?) again with little trouble. And then, in the last three days, I've just got pummeled, no matter how well I do individually.
I am usually an extremely positive, non-toxic player, and I quit after two or three defeats to avoid tilting, but matchmaking is just punishing right now, and it was so tempting to just bitch in chat tonight. I fell like 300+ SR in a couple of days playing almost no solo queue, and now I can't get above 2600. And it doesn't help that the community is horrible down here. Just mean and angry all the time.
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