I've never been the best at OW, but I've always consistently place around mid plat and high gold for most of my time playing the game. The big issue I'm currently facing is the ramdom difficulty spikes in ranked matches. Around the end of season 10, the difficulty in matches seemed to spike out of nowhere. I'd typically win about 6 out of every 10 matches I played to going on these long 8 game loss streaks. I don't want to blame matchmaking, but it would seem like the people I was grouped with didn't care to hold points or push objectives. I wasn't the mvp by any stretch, but I consistently had a good k/d. The matches I'm playing in silver are way harder than the ones in plat. I got an alt account to test this. I got it to plat 2 and the matches were no where near as hard. It's like the lower you go, the more you have to clutch in order to rank up, because the ranking system doesn't calculate your stats it only calculates your win and losses. I've literally lost more SR in games where I went 41/5 than in gsmes where I lost 8/7. And vice-versa I've gain little to no SR in games I won 39/3 and a lot in games I won with 8/0. The game is really unrewarding. I feel like I have to cluth every game in low elo in order to rank up and even then if your team is just filled with a bunch of buffoons who can't even win a 4v2, then all that hard work goes down the drain. I've clutched so many games to almost victories that have literally snowballed into a loss after I was eliminated. It really sucks how much we are penalized over a loss with great stats. Maybe I'm wrong or am missing something. Any advice or criticism would be welcomed.
Dropped from Plat 4 to Silver 2 in a single season and can't rank back up.
DiscussionWhat role? My advice for dps any way is pick only 2-3 characters, and work on fundamentals. 5 minutes of vaxta everyday before play, then jump straight into ranked. Don’t let comp anxiety stop you. Focus on one thing at a time, positioning, space, target priority, cooldown usage, and there’s many other things, but only work on one thing a day. Keep doing this and you’ll improve over time. If you lose the game that’s fine as long as you e succeeded in that thing your focusing on, you’ll notice your win rate go up as you become good at these skills, and they become apart of your natural decision making
2k hours on dps here. My advice is not picking only 2-3 characters. It's all about counter picking. For example. If the enemy pick Widowmaker, then pick Sombra. Or if the enemy pick Wrecking Ball, then pick Sombra/Mei. Or if the enemy pick Junkrat, then pick Pharah as counter. And so on. It doesn't make sense to stick to 2-3 characters when the game allows you to switch heroes whenever you want. You can find counter heroes charts online which can help. I agree with everything else you said though.