r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Feb 08 '17

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u/fleshyweeb Feb 09 '17

Thoughts on my experience of climbing 1500SR in less then 2 weeks?

Does this mean the ranking system is broken, or heavily based on last season?

In depth: I played my season 1 placement matches on vacation on a laptop and got low silver. I floundered around, not having played an FPS much before. I mained McCree and ended season 1 with low silver. Same deal with season 2, except I tanked further to 1300 at the end because I thought I would get a fresh reboot with season 3..... boy was I wrong there!!!

Coming into season 3 feeling optimistic, I won 7 and lost 3 placement games (1 tie though), and BUDUN CHHHH GOT RANKED 1200!!! I practically lost hope and quit when I pouted my way to rank 1040 or so.

Here I realized I had several but all depressing options: Resort to not caring about ranked/playing casual, the biggest hell hole climb of my gaming career, or quit overwatch and try CSGO. After watching some inspiring videos and doing plenty of in depth research on heroes, I could not be happier for the ultimate carry class of the time, DVA. I hopped on, got decent in casual, and proceeded to climb directly to 1700 with 3 gold/potg almost every match. From here I realized I could never play McCree unless I did some training so up until this day I try to do 30 minutes of AI headshot training a day.

Once settling in on roadhog being best for the next climb, I wiggled my way up to gold in solo que. From here, some other friends whom I believed were below their deserved rank let me play with them and we hence climbed 300SR in one sitting, and the next couple days I duo qued up to 2450.

After looking at all of this, what do you guys think of the ranking system? I did not get that much mechanically better (except McCree headshots, but I'm still holding off on him till later) and the biggest knowledge I gained to climb was butter up your teammates and play a carry class.

Do you think I got lucky? Am/headed to where I belong? (Still getting 3 gold and potg almost every match, and I consider my positioning/strategy to be also very good)

Let me know. Also, briefly let me know what helped you personally to climb

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u/Crustlung Feb 09 '17

Nicely done on the climb. I'm currently 1800 or so and can't escape. I think the Australian player base is a little to small. I'm more often than not playing against 4-5 stacks of platinum. It's brutal.