First comp placement!

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Ok, so I just played my first placement matches for competitive and ended up in silver. Barely. 10 more games later and I’m down to bronze after losing 300 sr. So I now have proof. I am trash. That is all.

Update: Lost another 300 sr since I made this post.

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:rofl:

At least you’re honest with yourself and it leaves a ton of room for improvement/learning which is a great part of OW.

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I was maining Mercy. I tried using Mei but I got accused of trolling within seconds lol. Same with Sombra and Tracer. I was just … not very good lol.

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Dont worry about people calling you a troll in bronze, just play whatever you like. After you get into high gold or platinum it starts to matter a bit but not that much

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You’re assuming I’ll get to high gold/platinum. Sr is only going down so far. Eventually I’ll reach others of my skill level and can maybe start learning some stuff.

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My first placement was 2.2k season 1 and season 2 I was alrdy a master. Season 10 i got gm first time. If i could do it, you can too(y)

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You wanna bet? Since I posted this I lost another 130 sr. I clearly don’t know how to improve.

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well, sombra and tracer are dificult to use and if you are bronce… ^^’

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Yeah, I know. I just picked heroes whose skill set I liked the look of. Didn’t say I was clever lol

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The problem with Mercy is that she has a rather weak impact and isn’t that great these days. Moira or Lucio might be better picks at that rank. Lucio has the added benefit of encouraging your team mates to stick together.

Or just swap to DPS, they are a lot easier to play.

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Hey, the amount of effort you need to put in to mercy is the problem, people assume she is a primary only healing. If you want to get to diamond all you need to do is to que up with a hit scan main or a Zarya main. Hit scan main will help you to get to off angles and with your damage boost they can wipe a team that does not possess awareness of the map. If you find a Zarya main all you need to to is keep Zarya alive and she can kill anything with damage boost she has the highest damaging out potential is the game.

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I can’t play dps. I can’t hit anything. Sure, it’s fun to play dps but what’s the point if I can do precisely nothing? Hell, i cant even get more than a silver medal in healing even with Mercy. And trying to damage boost gets me accused of being ‘bad healer’.

Also, Lucio encouraging teams to stay together? This is bronze, the lowest of the low. Keeping a team together at this tier is like herding cats.

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I can help you learn to play mercy if you want ?

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Exactly. But remember:
a) You’re as bad as your team mates and your team mates are as bad as you.
b) Your opponent is as bad as your team and your team is as bad as the opponent.

Grouping up even a bit already gives you an advantage over an enemy that doesn’t group up at all. And if you add voice chat to that (or at least a line at the start like “Stay in range so you get healed”) and it’s not looking that bad. I used Lucio (and a bit of Zen) to climb from low silver to low gold. I only switched to off tank from low gold to low plat (when I wanted to make better use of my strongest skill sets).

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I would like that a great deal.

Myrion, I know how bad I am. I got placed at low silver by mistake it seems. And my sr is still to high for my ability as it’s still dropping like a stone. I’m still struggling to find settings that feel comfortable to play with even after 3 months.

How is sr worked out anyway? Its based purely on win/loss right?

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Feel free to add me on these accounts and just message me when you see me online so I can help you
WiseCloud#2523
WiseCloudB#2403
Yaaaas#2290
I’m excited to help!

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I’m not sure there would be a lot of point now that I think about it. I’ve dropped all the way to 900 sr now. I figure sr doesn’t go up for any reason?

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It does go up, you just need to know how to win games :slight_smile:

And i could help you learn mercy, which in the end would also help you climb. Its up to you however, wheter or not you want my help.

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I’ll add you later today. I’m slightly better with Mercy than anyone else.

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6 days later, how’s the climb going Chinchillax?