Hello
i am not sure if the overwatch fanbase is as toxic as it was when i as here or wether this post will just get a load of nobody cares comments or kys comments but i’m gonna post this anyway.
Back when overwatch first came out i was super exited i had never seen a game like this and i was around 15 at the time and had never really played an fps before (played a lot of tank games and retro/pixel game stuff) and i enjoyed just playing the game for the sake of moving around and firing at stuff wether i actually hit anything or not.
Then ranked came along.
the moment i went into ranked i got taste of gaming for real and came to the realisation that i was bad at the game i liked so much and this obviously led to anger and toxic issues for me and the other players in lower elo until i went to just outside gold all the way down the bronze. What made things worse for me is that no matter what i did no matter how many videos i watched on how to improve nothing happened i just kept decaying until one day a particularly bad loss streak and a barrage of racist comments aimed at me and a few of the friends i had made i ultimately ragequit and left the game in a fury and broke my laptop in a sheer fit of bronze noob rage (i got a new one thank god not that i think i deserved it). after i calmed down and took a break from gaming for 2-3 months college started and i needed something to do while i was not working, but i decided that overwatch was not going to be it so i started fresh and chose to try something new.
despite the protests from my friends i chose a game i had admired that artwork of for a while but never played.
league of legends.
long story short it started the same as overwatch did i thought it would be a breeze and less toxic and it wasn’t and within a month i was bronze 5 0lp and back into sad gamer no life play 100 games a day and still not rank up loss streak noob purgatory. This continued for a while util the next month something happened, the character i was playing got a rework. now to add some context the character i was playing was warwick, a braindead bread and butter champion who is as basic and you can get and happened to also be a derpy looking wolf with very limited dialogue due to lack of lore. After the rework he became a kind of odd looking lore rich wolf, bat, fox thing with a metal hand and some new mechanics i had to learn in order to actually play him again. With this new doggo i actually started climbing a bit but not enough to get out of bronze so I practiced and practiced some more learnt combos both other and ones i invented myself and focused less and less on other people and what instead i should be doing.
To give more context of what this is like i’m going to make a few comparisons, similarities and differences between these two games. overwatch is an fps so it’s pretty much impossible to see whats behind you e.g if reaper sneaks up on a widow she is probably dead. In lol you have a birds eye view so you can see 360 degrees around you which is handy however more than half the time this does not matter especially you are not playing a tank who is usually ok in bad situation due to lol tanks being more tanky than overwatch tanks (a 8000 hp chogath is harder to kill than a 600hp roadhog). you see the way lol works is that if your not a tank your basically an assassins or free kill on a plate e.g if caitlyn notices a master yi is chasing after her from behind regardless if she can turn around in time to fight or not she is basically dead and she knows it wether she likes it or not.
one thing about lol is that like overwatch it is a teamgame however in overwatch a good player could with some practice constantly 1v6/5 (depending on mode also not sure how many your allowed now) the entire team and with some acceptions you could probs do this with a lot over overwatch heroes. in lol this is a mere pipe dream that only happens in lower elo. if you tried to 1v5 in lol you would just be deleted in an instant regardless if your a tank or not and provided that the enemy team is in position and is not completely lacking in teamwork but it’s not impossible, champions like yi or akali or some other champs if they get fed enough can pretty much kill and entire team with seconds or instantly (lategame karthus) if they get far enough ahead.
Thing is i was not playing one of those characters i was playing a tank whose dmg falls off lategame and this when i was in bronze so could not rely on anyone but myself and maybe the odd duo buddy do do thier job and whats worse was being a jungler every loss or lost teamfight was always my fault automatically even if it wasn’t i would always take the blame and i would just accept regardless because it was pointless arguing with these people. so i had to try extra hard to make sure i was doing everything i could to be the backbone of the team even if they were not even trying or just being downright toxic i would keep playing regardless and fight through the flaming ,loss after loss i would keep my cool and continue and try my best to motivate those in midlane who had given up on being one shot by a zed or veigar over and over until we actually turned the game around and won. I would frequently try my best to do the most damage i could usually would end up with the most kda on the team though sheer effort despite my role until eventually after a few months i hit gold (and i intend to keep climbing) and got the sweet sweet victorious skin thats says to other players “hey… i’m good, look at me i’m good” probs never gonna use that skin since i am a warwick main (lvl 7 200,000 mastery points not that that means anything to you guys) .
Before i off onto too much of a tangent and piss you all off by talking about another game on an overwatch forum i’m gonna sum up this post and what i am trying to convey. What i’m saying is to all those low elo guys in bronze don’t give up and acknowledge that if you in bronze you are bronze but when you hit rock bottom the only way is up and no matter what situation your in with focus, hard work, and a relentless attitude you can turn around any situation. As long as you recognise that you have a problem you can overcome it with hard work. and practice, rome was not built in a day, you don’t get good at a game overnight.
Another thing i would like to say is that if you one of those low elo overwatch players who feels like giving up because it can’t get much worse just be aware that only a google search and a download away is a game where you can playe to your very best and carry your team to a final battle to decide the games outcome only to be removed from the game from a lategame veigar ult, there is a game where tank exists that can scale to the point there they can kill you just by you attacking them and having the damage reflected back to you by a thornmail, there is a game that is so unbalanced at times where there have been bugs that caused you to auto leave the game if you looked at a champion at a certain angle (this really happened), there is a game where teemo exists (i play teemo too and trust me i have seen some toxic stuff) .
just know it can be worse. much much worse… still kda skins were lit.
I probs won’t quit lol since i have grown attached to it and i enjoy playing it now even if it can be hard as hell at times but i think it’s time to come back to this game and use what i have learnt to have some fun here again. It gonna be hard to relearn everything but i’m determined with more practice and a mature outlook on things i can come to enjoy this game again.
thanks for reaching this far down this post and dealing with my horrible spelling errors.![:neutral_face:](https://d1kzxbyyijk9k6.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/neutral_face.png?v=6" ":neutral_face:")
PS: one more thing is junkrat still frowned upon to use cus of zarya? and is mercy still a thing?
“[looks at Farquaad’s very large castle] Gee, you think he’s compensating for something?”
Shrek